Telescope night Professor holds viewing night at the CFS building

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Pierce students and those interested in seeing close up versions of celestial objects showed up Monday night at the Center for Sciences to get an out of this world experience, viewing stars and planets through telescopes.

Astronomy Professor Dale Fields has hosted nights such as Monday’s for over six years. Viewing nights only officially became a routine once he got into the Center for Sciences building. He now hosts viewing nights twice a semester for students interested in seeing heavenly bodies through high powered telescopes with his guidance and expertise.

Fields said that on these viewing nights there is a chance to see something that not everyone has seen before.

“You can't really trust something that you see on the T.V. or on the computer screen because it might be CG,” Fields said. “If you get a chance to see something with your own eyes, then you know it is real. You can see that right there, that is Venus. That is the moon, with all of its craters, that it really does have all of these shapes, curves, circles and different colors. That's

Cafe update

MADELINE MARTINEZ Reporter @madisaysso

A year after losing the Freudian Sip copyright, customers still haven’t experienced the promised changes to the cafe.

Last April, the Pierce College Student Store decided to end its partnership with Cal. State University, Northridge’s Freudian Sip

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the main thing that I wanted people to see. To get a chance to actually realize, ‘Hey this is actually real stuff.’”

Psychology major sophomore Michael Ortiz, 20, is currently a student of Fields. Ortiz came to the viewing hoping to see things closer such as the moon or jupiter.

“I am currently taking astronomy one and it is a pretty fascinating class. I wanted to see through a telescope to see what it looks like for my own eyes. Bigger images, in real time, in real life.” Fields set up two telescopes for the attendees to see through and answered any of the questions that were asked. Each time he moved on to a new celestial body, he made franchise when its contract expired.

Pierce College Bookstore Supervisor Grigor Hogikyan said that two main reasons for ending the partnership with the Freudian Sip were: having to continually pay royalties to the franchise and having limited distributors to choose from.

“We used to pay licensing fees and consultancy fees,” Hogikyan said.

“Also, based on our agreement, we had to get certain coffee items from the same stores that they purchased from. Since we’ve rebranded, we have more open options now. We can sure to notify the audience of what was significant about it spewing out facts left and right. do things differently and we can offer different products, which helps us in purchasing.”

Freshman Maya Lev brought a group of friends with her to view the stars. Each one of them had wanted to see something different.

According to Assistant Bookstore Manager Candy Van, those fees could come out to about $22,000 or more a year. Hogikyan said the money they save goes back into the budget, but he did not specify if that was solely for the cafe.

Head student aide worker Francisco Arambula said nothing has changed since the rebranding.

“Operations are still the same. Our suppliers are still the same. The only