Petting Pierce's problems away

Rows of carnations, birds of paradise and roses line the gate on the farm, while one student plants a strawberry seed in anticipation for when the fruit is ripe and ready to eat and another pets a jubilant pig. Wait. Pierce doesn’t have a place on our entire campus that people can do this.

Placing a care farm in the empty, unused space on the farm near the Equestrian Center can benefit both the students on campus and the community. A care farm has a therapeutic method of connecting with the earth that benefits humans and animals, according to Kindred Spirits Care Farm website.

Care farming is a practice that uses agricultural resources to provide social or educational care services for vulnerable groups of people, according to fao.org.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations website also wrote “Care farming experiences from European countries have shown that economic participation helps vulnerable persons, people with intellectual or physical disabilities, ex-combatants, convicts, etc., integrate back into society.”

Students and people of the community such as at risk youth and adults can profit mentally and emotionally from working in the soil and helping with the animals on the farm.

Karen Snook, a worker at Kindred Spirits Care Farm, said that connecting with the earth reunites all creatures together harmoniously. “There’s no need to raise animals with such love and care, have them think of you as a friend then turn them away to slaughter,” Snook said. “We should care about the earth and these animals more than that.”

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Kindred Spirits Care Farm is a home for rescued farm animals, according to their brochure. It also said the rescued animals help people learn patience, compassion and a renewed wonder with the miracles of other living beings.

Snook emphasized that act of participating in care farming, being included and being one with nature with a meaningful purpose is healing to both people and animals equally.

The farm can sustain itself by selling fruits and vegetables both

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on campus and to the community as it has done in the past. The eggs from the chickens on the farm are being sold in the Bookstore now. What is preventing us from planting and harvesting fruits and vegetables to also sell and aid the campus and community?

The ability to farm and plant vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers can help people learn more than just being one with nature, it also teaches science and mathematics.

Science is implemented in

Pro: Why can't we be friends?

a man” or not be “prude”, we are creating a society where young people feel this overwhelming pressure to have sex and by any means necessary.

how the plants grow and mature. Mathematics comes into play with how long the garden takes to grow various flowers, vegetables and fruits.

Snook said she is in contact with the Vegan Society on campus and is trying to find a way to set up a care farm at Pierce. Also she said she has a donor who is ready to give her more than half of whatever it may cost for start up.

Care farms are more prominent in the United Kingdom, but California and Oregon are two of

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The animals on campus deserve a safe environment, care and nurturing as well as the students and community.

As Michael Jackson said in Heal the World,”There are ways to get there. If you care enough for the living, make a little space, make a better place.”

“Lookthroughallthechaptersthat will be on the test and read all the previousnotesthatIʼvetakenin class.”

-BenjaminSchnitzer,21,Undecided

As a certified feminist, the notion that men and women can’t be best fiends is absurd. In a society where division between the genders creates problems such as sexism, objectification and even violence, I cannot stress the importance of uniting men and women in all possible endeavors enough.

What we need more than anything are strong bonds between genders to break down the barriers that have divided us for so long.

While thinking of potential counter arguments to this point, the only real “problem” I can come up with would be the inherent sexual tension between friends of opposite genders but, really? Are we seriously going to belittle ourselves as sex-driven animals, unable to maintain healthy relationships devoid of tension? I certainly hope that we aren’t because that very notion is what fuels issues such as rape and sexual harassment.

If we tell ourselves that we cannot be close or best friends with people of the opposite gender because of sexual tension, that just turns us all into sex objects. And by being turned into a sex object, we are going to exploit and be exploited accordingly. Needless to say, by exploiting people for sex and reiterating the concept that you need to have it in order to “be zparker.roundupnews@gmail.com

That’s why we see problems like rape on such a large scale, especially with college-aged kids. We all grow up divided because of sex, and at a certain age, we are expected to be having it. Pair that with peer pressure and consuming alcohol at parties, and you get rape and ruined lives.

So why can we not all be friends? Why can we not throw away this ridiculous sex-craved nonsense that is creating division and violence? Why can we not live in a world where becoming close with someone of a different gender without picturing them naked is rare?

I truly believe that these relationships are vital to changing the world. And it doesn’t stop there. Whether it be uniting people of different genders, nationalities, sexual orientations or political views, what we need to make change is unity and conversations and relationships: platonic, caring, HEALTHY relationships.

Division doesn’t work. Flip through a history book and you can see over and over and over again, the core of most discourse is division and close-mindedness.

It might sound cheesy and cliche, but I think that most of the best advice is.

Why can’t we be friends?

Having a bestfriend of the opposite sex can come with a lot of challenges. They can secretly like you as more than a friend. They can cause jealousy with your partner if you’re in a relationship and they can become too attached to you.

If you have a bestfriend of the opposite sex, over time they will most likely start to develop feelings for you as more than just a friend. Men and women both can end up stuck in the “friend zone”. The friend zone can often times destroy longtime friendships. This usually happens when friends spend large amounts of time together and the male friend for example, starts to grow more intimate feelings for his female friend. However, the feeling isn’t mutual with the other person because they don’t want to be anything more than just friends. Often times that person feels rejected and embarrassed for trying to remove themselves from the friend zone and the two can no longer continue their friendship.

Friends of the opposite sex can also cause trouble for you if you’re in a relationship with someone. Often time’s partners become jealous of how close you and your bestfriend are, because they too want that bond with you. If you’re bestfriend is of the opposite sex, this can cause insecurities within your partner. Your partner may feel if your bestfriend is of the opposite sex and you have such a great bond

Cartoonist: with that person, you may be more likely to develop romantic feelings for your friend and possibly cheat. Your partner may feel that you’re spending more time with your bestfriend than them. This can also be bad because you can be manipulated by your bestfriend. They may listen to your relationship problems and give you advice, but it could be to their benefit to end your relationship. Your friend can listen to your relationship problems and suggest to you that you can do so much better, while planning to break the two of you up so that they can be in a relationship with you themselves. dkimble.roundupnews@gmail.com

Being single can also be inconvenient having a friend of the opposite sex. It can be misconstrued with others that the two of you are dating. This can potentially be a big problem if you’re interested in someone but they always see you and your bestfriend together. The person you are interested in may not feel the same way because they will automatically assume the two of you are involved.

My advice to protect yourself from all of the above would be to set limits with your bestfriend. If you feel that things are getting too personal, make more time for yourself and set aside time for your relationship, if you’re in one. Even though that’s your bestfriend, they don’t need to know your every move.

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Cafeteria flux

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According to Bass, it is unlikely that Pierce will be able to honor the contract for the full five years. Additionally, it is uncertain whether Falafelicious will be able to continue its operations on campus during the year that it will take a vendor to situate itself at Pierce.

“We are very concerned for the future of the Food Court,” Bass said.

“They are obviously not going to be ready to open the cafeteria in time. It’s probably going to be a period of time that the cafeteria will be empty, and it took three years for us to open the doors, and we really don’t want to see it close again.”

Pierce invested about $5 million to construct a cafeteria that has so far been more vacant than in operation. The Lovebirds Cafe occupied the Food Court until December 2014, when its lease expired without renewal. And until Bass took over, the cafeteria remained empty as Pierce sought food vendor bids independently of the district.

Because Los Angeles TradeTechnical College, Los Angeles Harbor College and Los Angeles Mission College have culinary programs that provide cafeteria services to its community as a part of curriculum, they are exempt from the process. A vendor at these colleges would only need to provide mobile and vending food operations.

These exceptions have Bass and other members of the Pierce community questioning why it can't be an autonomous decision to choose what vendors provide food services on a campus that has provided itself with the proper facilities and that has independently contracted food vendors to compensate for the district’s delay.