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September 24, 2015
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LBCC volunteers clean coast U.C.
Irvine hosts Regents
Students spend time to keep Long Beach shores clear of trash. By Omar Reyes Staff Writer Twitter: @salar0895
Buckets, bags and gloves were in volunteers’ hands as they walked along the shoreline of Long Beach and Belmont Shore to partake in a coastal clean-up on Saturday, September 19. The clean-up occurred at Belmont Pier in Belmont Shore at the intersection of Termino Avenue and Ocean Boulevard. The LBCC clean-up team started at 9:00 a.m. and ended at noon. Student Carolina Rodriguez, 18, a biology major, was one of the volunteers who was given a bucket and gloves to pick up litter and help save the beach. She said the clean-up was “nice. It’s like we come and we clean and we make the beach better. It just feels good and I don’t like seeing the trash.” The LBCC coastal clean-up group was headed by Teila Robertson, the coordinator of the Student Life Program and the Viking volunteer program. Robertson described the clean-up as “awesome, it was a great turnout. We had close to about 50+ students there from different clubs.” The event was established by organizations including the El Dorado Nature Center. It is part
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Omar Reyes/Viking COASTAL CLEANUP: Biology major Carolina Rodriguez, 18, cleaning the Long Beach coast, in front of White Island.
of the California coastal cleanup, a commission made to clean up beaches all across California. LBCC collaborated with El Dorado to help clean up the beach as well as help students gain volunteer hours. Volunteers brought their own buckets or reusable bags and gloves for the event but were given these items by the El Dorado Nature Center if they didn’t. The LBCC tent was set up so volunteers who wanted to check knew where to go. Volunteers were also
provided with fresh water, fruits, and pastries. Volunteers searched the coastline to find various discarded objects and remove things like pieces of plastic foam, bottles, plastic shards and other items potentially harmful to the environment. Omar Mandozia, 18, a business major, commented on the trash found at the beach, saying there was “a lot more cigarettes than I expected.” Jacqueline Samson, 18, an environmental engineer, also
helped. “It’s really fulfilling and it’s like I’m helping my community and also helping myself. This is where we live and we should be doing this more often” she said. The clean-up is the first of several volunteer opportunities for students to gain community service hours. Robertson said, “We want to make sure that students want to get the opportunity to put some of those hours that they give back to the community onto their transcripts so they could transfer.”
pus,” Williams said. “We have a an academic counselor, a financial symposium every semester to aid adviser and EOPS and Calcultivate leadership within the WORKs advisers. The club memcommunity.” bers who attend the meeting can Williams also highlighted the ask any adviser present anything growing membership of DAAP. the attendees want to know. “Our meetings can get pretty Williams encouraged all stubig,” Williams dents to said. “We can “We have a symposium every seek acget up to 40 ademic students in our semester to cultivate leadership c o u n within the community.” meetings.” seling The meetat least -Zainab Williams ing featured a once a President of DAAP photo montage semester. of past DAAP events, as well as “Counseling is a big deal,” pictures from Join-A-Club Day Williams said. “It is fundamental which was at the LAC on Tuesday, to making sure you’re taking the Sept. 3. right classes.” Vice President Kierra Colone Colone said, “Bring in your spoke to the group about club transcripts. Come ask questions. membership, including their up- DAAP is a resource for students.” coming Plan Up event. During the meeting, the room Plan Up is scheduled for became so full that no chairs were Wednesday, Sept. 30 and provides empty and the men offered their
seats to any woman standing. Colone then broke the meeting up into groups for a mock scavenger hunt in which the winning group would eat first. At the conclusion of the meeting, the group moved to the Main Quad and shared a potluck of salad and snacks, including a vegan option. DAAP meetings and resources are not limited to current LBCC students. Prospective, past and non-members can attend meetings and even request to be sent minutes to meetings they miss. Meetings will be Wednesdays from 3:15-4:30 p.m., however, the organization is in the process of relocating the meetings to another room, as it has outgrown its current location. For more information, people may contact Williams at zainabincharge@yahoo. com or attend a weekly meeting.
DAAP kicks off Fall with potluck
Club encourages participation from students and community. By Quiaira Terrell Staff Writer
The Development of Afro -American Professionals (DAAP) organization sponsored a potluck in celebration of its first meeting of the semester on Wednesday, Sept. 16. DAAP, a student-run club, organized the meeting in M204 on the LAC. The gathering began with music and mingling of attendees. President Zainab Williams began the meeting with the DAAP State of Address. “DAAP is academic, social and utilizing resources on cam-
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In a recent statewide study measuring colleges’ efforts on economic diversity based off the share of students who receive Pell grants, the graduation rate of those students, and the price that colleges charge both lowand middle-income students, the U.C.s had six schools place in the top seven among 179 schools listed in the study. In the study, U.C. Irvine placed first. Irvine hosted the U.C. Regents meeting from Tuesday-Thursday, Sept. 15-17. In the meeting, regents talked about the improvements for the newest U.C. campus in Merced. They mainly focused on mitigating project risks. The objective of the 2020 project for Merced is to grow to 10,000 students. The term of the project agreement is 39 years beginning on the date of the contract execution. It has a 4-year construction period and a 35-year operating period. LBCC President Eloy Oakley, the first Community College executive to be appointed to the Board of Regents, was recently confirmed to the regents by a state Senate committee. Oakley was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown last November. Oakley said to the Long Beach Press-Telegram, “I’m a lifelong Californian and I believe the U.C. system is a big part of why we are the great state that we are and I hope to be able to continue to support that.”
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