Moving up the ranks

the NBA for several teams, which included the Lakers and Bucks. He would go on to play also in Argentina and France.

Henderson started playing basketball as a hobby when she was a child. She felt like it was in her blood, since her father was a professional player.

Despite her father being a professional basketball player, Henderson was never pressured into playing the sport.

“Both of my parents were very supportive of what my sister and my goals were,” Henderson said.

Henderson’s family will be attending her hall of fame induction this year.

“Playing basketball was instilled in me since we are a basketball family,” Henderson said.

Henderson played in the 20062007 season for the Brahmas, along with her sister Tiffany Clay.

Clay will be presenting the hall of fame award to her sister at the ceremony.

Playing in the point guard position, Henderson became a

Students Organization, was announced Tuesday as the winner of the election held last week and will be the new face of the ASO as their next president. Lombrano defeated Chris Ruiz 91-33.

Student Engagement Coordinator Lara Conrady Wong said Lombrano has worked very hard to reach this point.

“I know that she number one, is a great student, number two, is a great leader,” Wong said. “I know she has the students interest at her heart and that is what is motivating her to take this on.” leader of the team and guided them to a 28-5 record for the season.

Nobody ran for vice president.

Mher Mkrtchian won treasurer unopposed, and Andre Necochea Barnett was victorious over George Amparan for club council president 62-57. All student elected officials will hold office from July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017.

Despite their record the Brahma’s were unable to make the nationals championship due to Santa Barbara

The Faculty Advisory Committee voted to recommend defunding the proposed $32 million Digital Arts and Media Building, planned to be built where the old library stands, due to it being the lowest priority construction project, according to Project Manager Ed Cadena.

Director of Facilities Paul Nieman said at Pierce College Council on April 28 that due to unforeseen escalation and unstable pleasantry of the construction, the amount of funds that are available to build a Digital Media Arts project would greatly reduce the amount of square footage. Therefore, the recommendation is that the project be defunded.

Nieman said that it’s important to remember that if the Board of Trustees decides to vote to move forward that the Digital Media Arts project will be one of the projects from this college on their minds.

Connelly said students working on computers in the lab complained about flashes from the cameras distracting them, so they hung curtains to divide the room.

Sean McDonald, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Photography, said the department needs a sound proof photo studio with 14-18 foot ceilings that is full functioning for both video and photography.

“We are just beyond frustrated with where we have gotten to with what is going on,” McDonald said. There is not adequate space to store all of the equipment, according to Mcdonald.

“It’s as neatly organized as possible given the space constraints,” McDonald said.

Los Angeles Valley College and Los Angeles Mission College are both getting new Media Arts buildings, according to Connelly.

After 13 years in the Navy, one business management major hopes to make a big impact on campus in the year to come.

Barbara Lombrano, current vice president of the Associated

Students casted 129 ballots in the elections that were held on the Mall on April 27 and April 28.

Last year 509 students voted using survey monkey where any student with a laptop and the link was able to submit a ballot. Juan Astorga, using political moves to not allow Pierce to advance.

“We were supposed to move forward in our season, but Santa Barbara didn’t allow us to turn in our paperwork in time to continue our season,” Clay said.

Pierce’s Athletic Director

Bob Lofrano was pleased with Henderson’s leadership of the team and her aggressiveness on the court.

“She directed and lead the team well,” Lofrano said. “She played hard and lead in rebounds, and placed third in steals statewide.”

In her time at Pierce, Henderson directed her studies toward Media Arts. She was a reporter for the Roundup, and also had a show on KPCRadio.com.

After she finished college, Henderson attempted to enter the WNBA and tried out for the Los Angeles Sparks. She made it to the final five of hopefuls to make the team, but due to contract negotiations with the current players of the team, she was cut.

Henderson became a coach for the Reseda High School girls basketball team, and lead them to several state championships.

Henderson is now looking forward to her future, as she is working on receiving her Master’s Degree in Communications.

Cadena said the project is $5 million over budget at PCC on Feb. 25. At PCC April 28 Cadena made a general statement that money for construction is not going as far as it used to and it costs more to do projects with rising costs.

The FAC recommended allocating $4 million dollars to make improvements to the Art and Media Arts departments, according to Media Arts Department Chair Jill Connelly.

Media Arts is currently scattered across campus. Most of their facilities are in trailers in The Village. The digital darkroom, a lab used for the production and editing of visual content has been located in a trailer in The Village for the past 9 years.

Media Arts Department Chair Jill Connelly said priorities for her department include improving the photography studio and having the radio station in the same room as the lab. With the current setup, it is challenging for professors to supervise and instruct students in the radio because it is in a separate building from where the class is dean of student engagement, would support a two week window including online voting next year to improve voter turnout.

“Individuals can log on anytime and gives our students a greater opportunity to vote,” Astorga said.

There are 49 clubs on campus this semester, all of which are a part of ASO, and funded by the $7 fee students pay each semester to be a member, according to Wong. ASO also funds events such as movie screenings and lecture series in The Great Hall, transfer events and scholarships.

Wong and Astorga are looking forward to working with Lombrano. Astorga hopes to increase the number of events in the coming semesters.

“We have great ideas on how to continue and increase student engagement,” Astorga said. “Idealy I’d like to see us to be able to fill up the Mall with activities and events on a more consistent basis.”

Lombrano said an early priority in her administration is getting everybody prepared and she wants anyone applying for ASO positions

“We are at the point where a lot of our high schools have gotten grants and upgraded their facilities, so students are going to have better facilities at their high schools,” Connelly said.

McDonald said ideally Media Arts will be able to build their building. Plan B would be to renovate the old library. Plan C is to move into building 8200 after North of Mall is complete.

At PCC April 28 Cadena said that North of Mall will be substantially completed in the middle of May.

“If you have been peering over the fence, you can see things are looking a lot better,” Cadena said. “The Insides of the buildings are moving along as well.” in the fall to get their paperwork done and do training in the summer.

Construction on building 800 was halted due to led and mercury contamination. Cadena said the amount of contaminants is “smaller than larger.” “We will know where we are at once the contractor initiates that remediation removal of those contaminants,” Cadena said.

Instead of Building 800 being opened for the fall of 2016 it looks like spring of 2017 is a more likely date to shoot for, according to Cadena.

“So we have a group of people ready to hit the ground running when fall starts,” Lombrano said.

Lombrano said she would like to update the constitution for the first time since March 2012, because it is supposed to be broad and bylaw specific, which “our constitution does not currently fall into,” according to Lombrano.

Up to two student senators represent departments, but often departments are not represented at all, according to Lombrano. She would like to end this and

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