2008 Woodie Awards
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Ironically, the loss of someone's life sometimes comes as a rude awakening for many. Yet, on campus, the death of Brian M. Wood, a soldier from Torrance, late last week, and the fact that the death toll in the past three weeks has reached more than 200 triggered varied reactions and emotions among students.
Every EC competitor at last week's national community college forensics tournament came home with hardware in hand. The tournament, called the Phi Rho Pi National Community College Tournament, took place April 11-17 at the Woodland Hills Marriott, and was run by Phi Rho Pi national honors society for community college forensic teams.
There are only five computer technicians at work at EC and there are more than 2,800 computers on campus. Problem? No, crisis. This means that for every technician at work, there are 560 computers he or she must tend to on any given day. Budget cuts and an 18-month hiring freeze have kept the computer technicians busy, to say the least, as they try to keep up with problems here and at distance campuses in Inglewood and Hawthorne.
A fair to remember Students will have the opportunity to talk with instructors at the "Career and Major Fair" Wednesday on the Schauerman Library lawn from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Instructors will be available to share expert information and to answer questions for students who are puzzled about their majors and careers.
Fumie Iida was not prepared when she went to the Journalism Association of Community Colleges conference (JACC). The conference taught her how to be a better photographer and what it was like working under pressure. However, the conference did not teach her was how to react when judges selected her as a first-place winner.
"Think pink!" This is the motto behind the liberal feminist activist group Code Pink, which spoke at a recent news conference at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) conference in L.A. on April 1-3. Code Pink was founded in October 2002 by Jodie Evans and three of her friends.
They are leaders, mentors, activists, role models and visionaries. They are the women of the EC Women's Hall of Fame Awards. Ten distinguished women have their photographs and biographies mounted on the Women's Wall of Fame this year, said Donna Manno, staff development coordinator.
Students who attend night classes are being denied student services which daytime students do not have trouble accessing. With almost everything closed by 5 p.m. night students feel at a disadvantage from their daytime student colleagues. "A lot of services at EC are closed at night," Marco Sandoval, business administration major, said.
Student overdoses A female student was transported to Gardena Memorial Hospital Tuesday morning for high blood pressure induced by a methamphetemine drug overdose. The student claimed that she had been smoking marijuana, crystal methamphetamine and drinking alcohol since midnight.