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Entries from October 2007

(Indy)scribable Lovefest

October 31, 2007 · 3 Comments

Jeremy Balan, Asst. Sports Editor
Reporters covering the Patriots and the Colts need to stop asking the head coaches and players any more questions; they are accomplishing nothing.
Each team seems to be so enamored with the other, bursting with compliments every chance they have that on Sunday the teams might just go on a group date […]

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Tags: Opinion · Sports · The Sports Shark's Blog

Hard to Root Against Favre

October 30, 2007 · 4 Comments

Jeremy Balan, Asst. Sports Editor
I’m not going to pick against Brett Favre on Monday nights any more, he performs on that stage better than anyone. Favre is becoming my favorite player to watch in the NFL. He is having so much fun, that you can’t help but pull for him.
He is the closest […]

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Tags: Opinion · Sports · The Sports Shark's Blog

PCC Athletic Results

October 29, 2007 · No Comments

Football
PCC - Santa Ana
Game canceled (poor air quality due to Southern California wildfires)
Men’s Soccer
PCC 0 - Mt. SAC 5
Friday, Mt. SAC
Women’s Soccer
PCC 1 - Mt. SAC 5
Friday, Mt. SAC
Women’s Volleyball
PCC 0 - El Camino College 3 (23-30, 19-30, 19-30)
Friday, El Camino
Men’s and Women’s Cross Country
South Coast Conference Championships canceled (poor air quality due to Southern […]

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Tags: Sports

Family Seeks Public Help

October 29, 2007 · No Comments

CHP Looking For Witnesses in PCC Athlete Shapiro’s Hit-and-Run Death
Karoline Steavenson, Staff Writer
The family of PCC student Reia Shapiro, killed in a car accident Sept. 29, has appealed for help in the investigation.
The California Highway Patrol originally informed the family they thought Shapiro had been killed accidentally after she was ejected from her vehicle. […]

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Tags: News

The New Empire

October 29, 2007 · No Comments

Jeremy Balan, Asst. Sports Editor
Congratulations to the Boston Red Sox for putting me out of my misery. I don’t have to listen to Tim McCarver anymore. Listening to his lack of insight and affinity for saying practically nothing was beginning to drive me insane.
The one intelligent thing McCarver said all night, about a […]

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Tags: Opinion · Sports · The Sports Shark's Blog

NFL Picks

October 28, 2007 · 1 Comment

Jeremy Balan, Asst. Sports Editor
Only food poisoning could keep me from you yesterday. I apologize that I wasn’t able to make a post yesterday on that account. No worries though, as I am here early Sunday morning to provide my NFL picks.

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Tags: Opinion · Sports · The Sports Shark's Blog

Trustee Encourages Environmental Change

October 26, 2007 · No Comments

Dr. Hilary Bradbury-Huang Advocates for PCC to Become Green
Jason Lowder, Staff Writer
A member of the PCC Board of Trustees challenged students to change their behavior – even if slightly – to combat the growing global warming crisis, and to turn PCC into a sustainable ‘green’ campus.
“Hi guys,” said trustee Hilary Bradbury-Huang to a group of […]

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Tags: News

Gun Issue Reopened With Election

October 26, 2007 · 9 Comments

One out of Two Candidates Challenges Current Policy
John Avery, Staff Writer
The November election could spur the Board of Trustees to revisit a policy that currently forbids campus police from carrying firearms. Of two candidates for the Board’s sole contested seat, neither is committed to our existing policy, and one has argued it’s time for […]

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Tags: News

Newsletter with a Global Perspective

October 26, 2007 · 2 Comments

ESL Students Use journalism to Improve Communication Skills
Allan Santiago, Copy Editor
A monthly student newsletter entitled “The Globe” was introduced into the syllabus of an ESL 33B class this semester, with the hopes of bettering communication skills of students who speak English as a second language.
The content of the newsletter is composed of […]

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Tags: News

PCC Clubs Join in National March

October 26, 2007 · 4 Comments

Students Aid in Demonstration Against Police Brutality
Jason Lowder, Staff Writer
Demonstrators marched through the streets of Los Angeles on Monday in the first march against police brutality since PCC students were among those beaten and arrested at the MacArthur Park immigrant rights demonstration on May 1.
Thousands of marchers dressed in black walked from Parker Center downtown […]

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Tags: News