Some PCC and LAC, students said they still feel unsafe walking to class at night.
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Generally, most students said they seem to be satisfied with the college experience that LBCC offers. However some feel as if the campuses are missing something important: school pride and enthusiasm.
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Superintendant-President Eloy Oakley welcomed Gaither Loewenstein to LBCC as the new Vice President of Academic Affairs following a vote by the Board of Trustees confirming Loewenstein's appointment on January 24.
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Tyler Parker-Hawkins
Seth’s Law (AB 9) was passed by Governor Brown on April 13, 2011, which requires schools to establish policies to prevent bullying, and make resources available to victims.
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Omar Mejia
Former track and field coach Baruch Elias died Wednesday, Dec 6., at age 90 and leaves behind a long legacy at LBCC.
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Vann Mosier
First lady Michelle Obama teamed up with Dr. Jill Biden’s Joining Forces initiative, American Association of Colleges and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine on Jan 11th in an attempt to combat post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic-brain injury, the first lady hopes to generate more doctors, medical facilities and schools. With the war now over in Iraq, many veterans return home, some with potentially debilitating disorders to fight.
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Cynthia Montes
Anti-terrorist security management, supply-chain logistics and hybrid car engine diagnostic sound like subjects for experts outside of LBCC ground, but that was before, now these courses are here and tuition-free.
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Jesus Hernandez
Los Angeles artist Suzanne Lacy started a performance art project in 1977 entitled “Three weeks in May,” and revisited the project that broke down the dialogue barriers around the then-taboo subject of rape.
Lacy has now reinvented the project and has now renamed it “ Three Weeks in January: End RAPE in Los Angeles.” The goal of the project is to see how much things have changed in the last 40 years.
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Tanner Ruegg
As of Jan 1, Senate Bill 48 (SB48) is officially in effect in California and amends California’s current education code to include lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender (LGBT), as well as disabled contributions in social studies curriculum for California schools.
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Ruby Campos
Goldman Sachs is a financial institution cornerstone despite various economic struggles it and the economy have faced recently. The company has it’s eyes on the next possible goliath in the private business sector or at the very least a solid business investment.
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Amanda Rodriguez
LBCC students are learning about or starting to get used many new state laws starting Jan. 1 that affect them.
The D.R.E.A.M Act, said to be one of the most controversial newly passed laws, allows qualifying illegal immigrants access to in-state tuition aid at public universities and colleges.
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Arnold James
From January to December 2011, these were the people and events that LBCC experienced, both good and bad.
Sarita Mantravadi, a former student at our LBCC earned her bachelor’s degree at age 13 from Cal State Dominguez Hills in biology. LBCC experienced petty theft with valuables stolen and lockers broken into, police reported. The Vikings men’s basketball team ran its record to 3-0 in conference games.
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Rebekah Hosman
The section of the California D.R.E.A.M. Act allowing colleges to make private scholarships available for undocumented students (AB 130) is in effect as of Jan. 1, but Pell Grants and other California financial aid will not be accessible until next year (AB 131).
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Eloy Oakley
I have made the decision to hire Dr. Gaither Loewenstein as our next Vice President of Academic Affairs and will present my recommendation to the Board of Trustees at their next meeting January 24, 2012.
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Michelle Bond
Award-winning author Aimee Bender will visit LBCC on Friday, Jan. 27 at 2 p.m. to read and sign her latest novel “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake.”
The Baughn Center for Literary Arts will host the event in P104. The event is free to LBCC students with valid I.D but other guests need to pay $15. Students are strongly encouraged to RSVP for the event due to limited capacity.
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Jessica De Soto
Laura, 22, a student at LBCC had fallen victim to Anorexia Nervosa.
Laura personally believed that it was a combination of genetics, her type of personality, and childhood. She grew up in a very chaotic household
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Liz Daniels
A shift in priorities will soon be implemented at California’s Community Colleges.
Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 1143, Chapter 409, which relates to community colleges on September 28, 2010. The Bill, authored by State Senator Carol Liu, was a result of reports showing bleak completion rate at community college levels and that only 24 percent of degree seeking students completes a certificate or associate degree or transfer to a four-year college or university within six years and the low rate of degree completion threatens California’s economic future. There were other reasons also, but those were the two main reasons.
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Arnold James
E-readers provide a fresh new approach to literature, but the students who are enrolled in college still ask when the textbooks for their classes will be available.
Since e-readers provide a digital version of the book, the book itself is cheaper to produce, which makes the price of the textbook cheaper.
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Carina Cano
Jeff Pouncil, 19, was shot and killed on Jan. 5, was just north of the PCC.
Investigators report Pouncil was walking with a male friend heading north on Orange Avenue near 21st Street around noon when the two were suddenly approached by a gunman who fired several gun shots at both men, Pouncil was struck and mortally wounded, while the other man had time to run away, and escape with no injuries, said, Nancy Pratt, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman.
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Tyler Parker-Hawkins
Modernization is under way at the PCC Fitness Center in Building CC, giving the facility not only a new look, but also a better workout experience for students.
The existing center contains a single story facility located in Building CC, originally built in the 1930’s to serve as a food center, but was remodeled in the 1980’s to serve as the campus fitness center.
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Tanner Ruegg
President Obama delivered his fourth State of the Union address on Tuesday, Jan. 24.
Although education only took up 6 ½ minutes of the address, with 3 ½ minutes focused on colleges, Obama’s speech on Friday at the University of Michigan, which ran simultaneously with a Twitter chat on education, showed that college spending is a larger issue on his mind.
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The two most common complaints students have about the Student Health Services at LAC, are they are hardly ever open and they are not seen in a timely manner. On Feb. 1, thirteen out of twenty students never went to the health center. Seven out of ten students said they would rather wait to go to their own doctor than make an appointment with the Student Health Services center.
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