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If a student were to listen carefully in the classroom, he might hear buttons clicking faintly, the murmurs of texting all around him. Many students text constantly throughout the day, and those habits bleed into the classroom. When asked whether or not said students consider their habitual texting to be a distraction, many said something along the lines of, "It's called multitasking.
Pierce student Nadia Willett died on Jan. 11. The 31-year-old contracted a staph infection and died in the hospital shortly after. Willett earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington and worked for the City of Tacoma's sidewalk department while she continued her education at Pierce.
Students are still having to use the sky bridge as access to the Cascade Building from north campus. Phase two construction began with the demolition of the ramp outside level four of Cascade. A temporary ramp was put in its place for $50,000, but it was never used and it was torn down before the start of winter quarter.
Around the world in a week is what Young Chae La, the International Ambassador at Pierce, said he is trying to do. On Feb. 4 in the cafeteria, Pierce's international students are hosting the International Fair. "We are going to bring cool and awesome cultures from each country," La said.
The Cascade Regional Blood Services has their quarterly two-day blood drive coming up on Feb. 1 and 2 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. At last quarter's two-day blood drive, there were 56 donors. Those are good numbers, according to Patricia Hernandez, a coordinator at CRBS, but not as good as the Puyallup campus turnout.
Guest speaker Dr. Terrence Roberts spoke to Pierce College students on Jan. 20 in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He reflected on his involvement in the Little Rock Nine, a group of black students chosen in 1957 to be the first to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.
What courses do you teach at Pierce? I teach a documentary class where students will get different perspectives of the world and be introduced to things they might have never come across. I also teach news writing. Students learn how to discipline their writing in this class, and I think there are a lot of writers out there who need more discipline and need to understand how the market reads.