Aubrey QuezadaFeatures Editor

With works of art scattered throughout soft green lawns and a small pool that cascades into a swiftly flowing channel of water, the Boone Sculpture Garden provides an escape for students

who need a quiet place to study or take a break between classes.

“The Boone Sculpture Garden offers a pleasant outdoor envi-ronment for everyone on cam-pus,” said Brian Tucker, director of the art galleries at PCC. “For the larger community, it signals the college’s commitment to the visual arts and its contribution

to the cultural center that is Pasadena.”

Designed by Jodi Pinto, a New York-based artist and landscape designer, the area that was once a mundane parking lot was trans-formed into a space to display contemporary sculptures as well as provide a forum for perfor-mances and art installations.

Named in memory of George and Fern Boone, the Boone Sculpture Garden was complet-ed in 1999 and comprises three major components—the garden itself, the Galloway Plaza and the Jameson Amphitheater.

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Barney Soto/CourierRay Hernandez, 20, straddles the “Red Pine” by Deborah Butterfield in the Boone Sculpture Garden on March 6. The garden was completed in 1999.

Committee considers ‘release time’ reductionJessica ArceoStaff Writer

A spike in the amount of money paid to fac-ulty for duties performed outside the classroom got the attention of the Budget Resource and Allocation Committee, which may look into ways of reducing the millions of dollars spent on so-called “release time.”

The paid time, known as release time or reas-signed time, involves assigned duties for faculty that is performed out of the classroom or is not part of an instructor’s traditional role, according to Robert Miller.

“Reassigned faculty are performing instruc-tional activities deemed important to the attain-ment of aspects of the college’s Educational Master Plan and student success,” Miller ex-plained in an email.

City board OKs new Chick-fil-A, college admin still opposedPhilip McCormickManaging Editor

The Pasadena Board of Zoning voted 3-2 Wednesday to allow a Chick-fil-A to open across the street from PCC, a plan strongly opposed by college administra-tors because of the fried chicken compa-ny’s financial support of anti-gay groups.

“I’m exceptionally disappointed,” Student Trustee Simon Fraser said. “I’m deeply concerned that every concern that I raised and every PCC student that was here raised fell completely on deaf ears.”

Although the Board of Trustees doesn’t have an official position on the Chick-fil-A yet, Senior Vice President Robert Miller said at the public hearing that he, President Mark Rocha and other administration members had a respon-sibility to work within the scope of the college community, which includes many LGBT students.

“For me, Chick-fil-A is more than a corporation expressing their opinion,” PCC student Bernard Noi said. “For me, it is a symbol that has supported orga-nization that tell me that I should not be happy with who I am. I fear for my friends. They already live stressful lives…This could push them over the edge.”

The restaurant was originally approved by Pasadena to start up in December last year before Pasadena City Councilman Terry Tornek appealed the approval.

Chick-fil-A development supervisor Jennifer Daw said Wednesday that the Chick-fil-A would help the community

by providing 50 to 60 new full-time and part-time jobs in the area and would improve the aesthetics of the location.

She said that it would be more inviting than the dilapidated building at the loca-tion formerly occupied by Burger King.

The Zoning Board was mainly con-cerned with the removal of two trees on the property and expanding the current drive-thru. Zoning laws in Pasadena cur-rently prohibit any new drive-thru being built for restaurants.

Chick-fil-A applied for a permit for the expansion of the drive-thru, which was approved by the Board.

Fraser said he isn’t finished fighting the restaurant.

“I plan to contact the councilman for the area in which PCC resides and re-quest that it be pulled again,” Fraser said.

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In general, reassigned time costs the district roughly $3 million dollars a year, according to Miller. Senior Vice President of Academic & Student Affairs Robert Bell and Executive Di-rector of Business Services Joe Simoneschi and Miller provided members with some data to present a better picture of how that may be able to save some money by reducing the amount of faculty on reassign time at PCC.

By making some adjust-ments to the amount of time some faculty members spend out of the classroom, such as having only 21 full-time faculty members on reassigned time instead of 33, the school could

see savings of $522,716 in total funding, according to Simone-schi.

Faculty member Mary-Erin Crook was shocked at the 48.9 percent increase in release time spending between the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 school year and wondered why the school increased the amount of time set aside for faculty reassigned time.

Miller speculated it might be the result of the district setting aside a $1 million a year for the Student Access and Success Initiative (SASI) that funds “in-house” innovative projects like Pathways or Stats and Liberal Arts Math (SLAM), which are supported by faculty who are given the time to assist these programs.

“We provide release time and

stipends to faculty to do work that many other districts say are within the scope of their contracts,” Miller said.

Bell wanted members to un-derstand that the data was just for consideration and that these figures are not suggestions of what they will do. The data that was provided was just a way to show the committee how much could potentially be saved.

He also emphasized how important the issue was because the work those faculty members do, instructional or non-in-structional, serve a purpose to student achievement.

“All of these engagements...underpin student success, “said Bell.

Crook and committee Co-Chair Danny Hamman were interested in receiving data from

previous years to get a compar-ison of the amount of release time that had previously been provided to faculty.

Simoneschi said that he did not see how comparing data from the past would help dictate what the committee would do in the future and that the lack of a centralized system needed to retrieve data makes it difficult to put those numbers together.

Crook felt that having that data from previous years would help the committee create a more workable policy on reas-signed time that would come from faculty perpective. Miller also did not see what compara-tive data would do for inform-ing members about the future.

Hamman compared looking at past data to studying history to get a better understanding of the past to help plan for the future.

“Understanding where we were before...and what the

reassign (was then) would help you looking in the middle of it,” Hamman said.

Miller directed Simoneschi to put together data showing release time costs over the last few years.

Justin ClayOnine Editor

After months of talking about a faculty-led evaluation of Presi-dent Mark Rocha, the Academic Senate finally has the results. Now they’re trying to decide what to do with those results.

However, no matter what the results of the survey turn out to be, the Board of Trustees won’t bother considering them. Board President Anthony Fellow stated in a letter to the Senate earlier this month that the senate has no authority to evaluate the

president and the board won’t acknowledge its survey results.

“[Board policy] does not rec-ognize any purported evaluation of the Superintendent/Presi-dent by the Academic Senate or any ad hoc committee formed for that purpose,” Fellow wrote on Mar. 4. “We decline to give any consideration to any evalua-tion or survey not conducted in accordance with the process set forth…”

Last October, the Board approved to extend President Rocha’s contract through June 30, 2017 after conducting their

own close session evaluation process.

The Senate survey was ap-proved in February and distrib-uted to all full-time faculty. An email sent this week by Senator Stephanie Fleming to adminis-tration officials stated that some of the options being discussed include widely publishing the results, making the results public with President Rocha’s consent, or keeping the results between the senate, Rocha and the Board of Trustees.

“Releasing the survey would confirm or not the faculty’s

opinion of the president,” said Academic Senate President Eduardo Cairo. “It is one thing to assume, but if you have a survey and you see that other people have the same feelings then there is a reaffirmation of your feelings.”

The administration’s initial response to the survey, back when it was first introduced, was that it was unnecessary. The survey was originally sent out in February after Senate members expressed concern about being left out of the formal evaluation process by the Board.

“Publication of the results of the evaluation of the president involves the basic right of the senate to speak freely on issues concerning the college,” said Senate Treasurer Dan Haley, in an email.

With the survey, and other is-sues still to be resolved, the Sen-ate has voted to have a special meeting this coming Monday, even though the meetings are usually held bi-weekly.

“We have so much work that the senators graciously voted to add additional meeting to those already scheduled,” Cairo said.

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VOICES:

“More full time faculty members. The best practices show that student success is

higher when teachers feel more connected to the campus.”

Matthew Henes, Math Instrutor

“More music programs. The college could work with

the high schools around to get everyone involved in music

programs.” Diana Greer, Counselor

Reporting by: Christine Michaels, Photos by: Concepcion Gonzalez

“A tutoring program for higher division English courses. They don’t really offer as many tutors for higher divisions like

they do for English 100.” Luis Ibarra, English

“I think dance should have something for itself. It would be right for them to have a place to perform for

themselves.” Justin Abril, music education

“We need to either demolish the U Building or

refurbish it. People complain we don’t have enough classrooms, but we have this huge building

that we could use.” Chris Langstaff, construction

“Newer desks. The classroom environment

could be improved upon.”Vincent Liao, business

“They should help edu-cate students about how to get

financial aid. A lot of people come from out of state and they aren’t familiar with the process

to get financial aid.” Joshua Hayden, psychology

“The library could be renovated. Maybe we could make it more comfortable

and add a lounge.” Rosa Vargas, Undecided

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Assembly sexual assault bill long overdue

Emma Koffroth and Raymond BernalStaff Writers

We as a society must find a better way to reach out to our transgender citizens.

Transgender people already deal with societal discrimina-tion and dismissal from family members based on their gender identities.

But apparently they must also deal with suicide attempts.

The largest study of transgen-der people to date was recently released with shocking numbers.

The study from the American

Foundation for Suicide Preven-tion and the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law shows a link between discrimination of transgender people and the exceptionally high suicide attempt rate among the population. One of the most staggering percent-ages is the percent of suicide attempts of transgender individu-als at the college level.

“Seventy-eight percent of survey respondents who suffered physical or sexual violence at school reported suicide attempts, as did 65 percent of respondents who experienced violence at work,” according to the Williams Institute survey findings.

Different factors influenced the numbers as well, including a higher rate for those whose fam-ilies rejected them, members of a minority race, and those who had doctors refused to help them.

Being refused medical treat-ment by so-called professionals simply for being transgender, that alone should be unacceptable to every one of us.

The recent California law that allows transgender students to choose the public restroom, sex-segregated sports teams and programs based on their self-identification regardless of birth gender may help, but these numbers must give us all pause.

If more laws have to be passed to help protect our fellow trans-gender citizens, then let’s pass them.

On the PCC website, Health Services offers links to the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center and PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) for those who suffer from difficulty due to their gender orientation. We should always remember that transgender peo-ple are members of our family as a whole. They are our parents, our children, our neighbors, our co-workers, our friends and they should be treated with the same respect as we treat our families.

Tiffany HerreraAsst. Opinion Editor

If a student on campus is raped and reports, the college has a responsibility to do everything it can to help. The college should be acting in the victim’s best interest, not in the best interests of the college’s image.

Colleges shouldn’t be able to wait a year or hide it all together. When a student reports a rape or any kind of sexual assault, the college should immediately report

it, if that is what the victim wants.Assemblyman Mike Gatto

introduced Bill AB1433, “would provide that the written agree-ment shall also require any report of a Part 1 violent crime or hate crime received by a campus law enforcement agency to be imme-diately reported to the appropri-ate local law enforcement agency if the victim consents, and forbid such a report absent that con-sent,” according to leginfo.ca.gov.

This is a bill that is long over-due, considering the statistics of rape reporting.

The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) reports that one of the most under-reported crimes is sexual assault, at 60 percent unreported.

Of the 40 percent of rapes that do get reported to the police, 10 percent lead to an arrest, eight percent get prosecuted, and four percent lead to a felony convic-tion, according to RAINN.

According to a survey complet-ed by the National Institute of Justice, there is a lot of confusion for colleges trying to comply with the existing legislation, the

Clery Act. The study confirmed that only 37 percent of colleges that participated in the study fully comply in reporting crime statistics.

The study stated that many of the schools that participated in the study did not have a sexual assault response policy.

Student safety should be a top priority at colleges. If a college does not have a clear policy to follow for reporting incidents of sexual assault, then student safety isn’t one of their top priorities.

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Daniel Valencia/CourierThree proteins stacked up together that compliment one another: mozzarela cheese, pastrami, and italian sausage are all held together with Hawaiian bread known as “The Fonz.” Accompanied are tater tots and a drink.

Daniel Valencia/Courier (Top) Billy Beans Skelly/CourierMelt It! makes various sandwiches, such as the original grilled cheese. Variations of this sandwich can be made by adding various toppings, such as bacon and avocado.

Barney Soto/CourierZ Pizza’s pepperoni and Casablanca pizza with organic English ale to wash it down rest on a table across the street from PCC’s campus on Colorado Boulevard.Billy Beans Skelly/Courier

Angel Hernandez, top, and Jose Botello, right, both order a veggie burrito and Gabriel Diaz, left, ordered carne asada tacos at Alberto’s Mexican Food. Botello and Hernandez are both business majors at PCC and Diaz is a graphics communication major.

Concepcion Gonzalez/CourierLucky Baldwins is a local PCC student favorite. Traditional British food like fish and chips—their most popular dish—is served along with a large assortment of beers on tap.

Joe Adajar/CourierPCC student Neomi Sano eating a bowl of ramen, right, at local ramen resturant Shinsengumi. Above, a closer view of a ramen bowl at Shinsengumi is shown.

works by renowned artists Debo-rah Butterfield, Stephan Balken-hol and Jack Zajac and another sculpture by Ken Price will soon be added to the collection.

The plaza and amphitheater have ample seating and several trees provide shade for people to sit or lay in the grass.

“The sound of the water creates such a tranquil environ-ment,” said Elaine Kwak, so-ciology, who is drawn outside by the small waterfall that begins at the plaza and flows through the garden past the amphitheater.

Musicians especially embrace the amphitheater and it is not uncommon to walk by and hear someone singing or practicing an instrument.

“I like the open space and the fresh air. When it’s sunny, I’d

rather be outside than inside,” said Andrew Velazquez, liberal studies, who retreats to the sculp-ture garden to play his guitar.

At night, the Boone Sculp-ture Garden becomes a whole different animal. With lighting that outlines the path system and trellises and seating strategically placed in the plaza and amphi-theater, which are both circular in shape, Pinto’s landscape design reveals a galaxy surrounded by buildings dedicated to the arts and higher learning.

“I got out of class late one night and when I stepped out of the C Building to walk to my car I thought this place was magical,” said Julianne Ramos, psychology. “The way the lights hit the sculp-tures and the shadows they cast were so beautiful to me it was almost surreal. It’s my favorite place on campus.”

Paul OchoaStaff Writer

The internet’s impact on the way we consume music is something that goes beyond album sales.

Things associated with old technology like liner notes and mixtapes have lost their importance in music discov-ery. With websites like Spotify and Pandora now suggest-ing new artists to listen to and Wikipedia available to read up on the artist and their influences, who needs to ever touch music?

Gabriel Perez, a former musician and PCC student, noticed that while the internet does make it easier to dis-cover new artists similar to the ones you like, it is a little harder to discover artists that differ from your usual taste.

“I was trying to find a way to listen to songs outside the genres I listen to [and] discovering new music is kind of difficult nowadays,” said Perez. “I’m getting old and I don’t want to waste my time listening to bad music. Just give me the good music.”

It was with this in mind that Perez got the idea to cre-ate his Lancer Radio program “The Mixtape.”And while the concept of the show went through many stages in Perez’s mind, the one thing he knew he wanted to do was interviews with musicians from PCC.

“I wanted to do something challenging and also to do something that was relevant to PCC and spotlighted the students,” said Perez.

A musician himself, Perez decided he wanted to ask his guests questions he would want to be asked. “What shaped you as a musician?” said Perez. “[Then] you get to see what’s important to them in terms of music.”

Interviews aside, Perez also knew he wanted to give guests the opportunity to tell their story with a playlist, having them not only play songs that have influenced them but explain why.

“Everybody has a song that they love or has influenced them in some way,” said Perez. “But this also shows you what to listen for in a song and why it’s good.”

Even though it is broadcast online, Perez decided to name the program “The Mixtape” because it gives listen-ers the opportunity to discover music in a more personal way that differs from websites like Spotify and is more like a mixtape.

“I thought it was a generic name but it makes sense,” said Perez.

Hector Lozano, a soundboard engineer, feels that Pe-rez’s program really gives the guest an opportunity to tell their story in detail.

“It’s more of the guest telling their story than I’ve seen on other shows,” he said.

Though the goal of the show is to showcase PCC’s tal-ented students and expose listeners to new music. Perez said his main goal is out helping Lancer Radio.

“In a larger sense I was trying to help the station,” he said. “I figure if I can help Lancer Radio in some way it’s by having [PCC] students on.”

Sarah Barker, who not only decides who gets a pro-gram on Lancer Radio but also teaches TVR 14A, the class required in order to even audition for a program, said that what makes the show unique is the host.

“Once a student pitches a show, what makes the show unique is the DJs,” Barker said.

As for what he hopes for his listeners, Perez wants to

be able to introduce them into new genres of music.“If some people can listen to it and expand their library

of music exposure I’d be happy with that,” Perez said.So tune into the “The Mixtape” Thursdays at 8 p.m.

and let Perez, as he says in his intro to the program, “take you back to a time when playlists weren’t drag and drop.”

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The most barbaric instrumentJohn Peter IIStaff Writer

Scott Campbell played the bagpipes by the Mirror Pools on a recent Wednesday afternoon, filling the air with their unmis-takable sound.

“Bagpipes are by far the most barbaric of instruments, because they are so loud,” Campbell said.

Campbell, mechanical engi-neering, is known as Scott the Bardbarian on Facebook.

“I do a role-playing show called Dungeon Master and I decided that I would give my character the class bardbarian,” he said. “It’s like a bard, but loud.”

Campbell has recently formed a pipe band and routinely prac-tices by the Mirror Pools.

Steven Shin, undeclared, said it was cool that Campbell was able to just be himself and play the bagpipes on campus.

“I like it,” said Hanif Payan-deh, engineering. “I grew up in Canada and they always had bagpipes at official functions.”

This semester, Campbell brought his bagpipes to his mu-sic appreciation class.

“It worked out perfectly,” said music appreciation professor Dr. Alison Bjorkedal. “We were dis-cussing the Middle Ages that day

and the bagpipe is an important musical instrument from that era of European history. It was a great opportunity for the class to see a bagpipe up close and to hear the strength of the sound.”

Campbell began playing bagpipes in the sixth grade at Al-tadena’s Foothill Middle School and has taken private lessons ever since. It takes two years of dedicated practice to start play-ing well, he said.

“The biggest challenge to playing bagpipes is starting out because it takes so much air,” Campbell said. “But once you are able to play, learning new songs is not much of a chal-lenge.”

Now he performs at funerals, weddings and golf tournaments.

He books his gigs by word of mouth and on his Facebook page, scottthebardbarian. The gigs help pay for his classes at PCC.

Campbell said he was a little nervous when he first started playing in public, fearing that people would be critical of it. But as of yet, he has never heard any negative comments about his bagpiping. Instead, it seems to draw favorable attention.

Between sets that afternoon, there were isolated bouts of applause and two people stopped

and spoke with him.“People frequently approach

me asking questions about [the bagpipes] and I’ll talk to them for a bit and continue playing,” he said.

A bagpipe consists of four main parts, a blowstick, a bag, a chanter and one or more drones (pipes). The bag can be made of animal skin or synthetic material.

Campbell chose to play the bagpipes because of his Scottish heritage.

According to Scotland’s offi-cial website,www.scotland.com, they are the national instrument of Scotland.

“I play bagpipes for fun,” he said, then placed the bag under his arm, blew air into the blow-pipe and began to play “Amazing Grace” in the final rays of the setting sun.

Concepcion Gonzalez/CourierScott Campbell plays bagpipes by the Mirror Pools on Feb. 19.

Billy Beans Skelly/CourierGabriel Perez hosts “The Mixtape” from inside the Lancer Radio studio on Feb. 28.

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Coffee house showcases student artMonique LeBleuStaff writer

A literal accident brought a group of PCC students together for a gallery showing of their art at the Zephyr Coffee House and Art Gallery.

While at their favorite study spot, students Matt Brugger, an art major looking to transfer, and Chris Dillinger, who attends Santa Monica City College, formed the idea for the installa-tion at the popular café, gallery and hookah bar.

“I have five pieces up [in the showing],” Dillinger said. “There wasn’t really a set theme for it. It’s really just for expo-sure. It’s something that Matt and I were originally going to do together.”

But fate would have a differ-ent idea. A car accident delayed Dillinger during the installation, which prompted the call for art and there the baby grew.

Although unsure of exactly how many pieces are installed al-together, Brugger spoke openly on his work.

Using acrylic and watercol-or, his pieces are interspersed among three rooms in the gal-lery. He highlighted one called “Spirit Meat Suit and Sunspots.”

“This piece was an attempt at collage/decollage,” said Brug-ger. “I like re-purposing old paper mementos, love notes and photographs, recycled trash and media, tearing and reapplying at

a whim. Sometimes I don’t feel a connection or goal for a piece, it’s just therapeutic to work impromptu and watch purpose come and go.”

Erika Bijeljic, a former PCC

student and working artist has two portraits installed in the lipstick-red parlor-like room of the Zephyr.

“One is of artist Mark Brad-ford and the other is an actor in costume: Ariel from ‘The Tempest,’” said Bijeljic.

“The pieces are of artists that glorify other artists. I am glori-fying other people I find worthy of idolizing,” he said.

PCC art major Krystal Her-rera, known as “Tree” by her friends and as an artist, feels that art gives her a voice.

“Since I was born mute, I have difficulties communicating and talking to people, where-as through art I can show my abilities on canvas, paper, wood, etcetera, to express unlimit-ed possibilities,” she said. “I express being mute where I feel I can use art to be a strong medium.”

Tree uses both bought and recycled materials with oil and watercolor to create pieces such as “Christine” and “Bewil-dered,” which are featured in the installation.

Julia Fouser, art major, who works in all mediums and is fond of using found items from estate sales in her art, was invited by Brugger to partici-pate with work that met specific criteria.

“[Brugger] said as long as it wasn’t something super-morbid

or super-political,” Fouser said. “I started drawing when I was seven or eight because I liked to make up stories and I wanted to draw the characters for my stories.”

Kelsey Cox, a photographer and art major at PCC, had been preparing a portfolio for her transfer to either MassArt in Boston or Cal State Long Beach when she was asked by Brugger, a fellow 3-D art classmate, to join the installation for her first- ever showing.

With prior schooling in make-up, she used her skills in the portraits of friends and captured images during her participation in the study abroad program at PCC in 2012.

“I didn’t really have any expectations my first show,” she said “So I was just excited to have my art up somewhere. But so far it’s just been nice being able to share the event with our friends and have people come and check out our stuff.”

For this collection of PCC students and artists, the unifying goal in this event was mutual support and exposure, as being seen is part of what it means to be an artist.

The Zephyr Coffee House and Gallery is at 2419 East Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena and the student art showing is scheduled until April 7.

Billy Beans Skelly/Courier From left to right, Kelsey Cox, Julia Fouser and Krystal “Tree” Herrera sit inside of the Zephyr Lounge, sketching and communi-cating with each other on March 6.

SPORTSCOURIER March 20, 2014

Dynamic swimmer dominatesDaron GrandberrySports Editor

Focused and ready to improve upon her successful 2013 freshman perfor-mance, Lancers’ sophomore swimmer Shannon Cheung possess a rare ability to excel in both the classroom and the swimming pool.

“Shannon’s a hard worker and she is very focused and goal oriented,” 15-year swimming head coach Terry Stoddard said. “She has a bigger picture. She wants to compete at a 4-year university so she’s not just training for this season.”

The versatile and dedicated political science major plans on attending law school in her near future, but not be-fore she returns to the pool in hopes of improving her second place finish at last year’s CCCAA State Championships.

“Shannon has improved a great deal from last year,” Stoddard said. “She came to our school thinking she was a sprinter, but now she’s dabbling in the distance freestyle events.”

Last year Cheung advanced all the way to the State Champi-onships where she finished second in the Individual Medley against California’s elite junior col-lege swimmers. This year, Cheung has already shown improvements from last year, with first place finishes in each of the Lancers’ first five meets.

“Shannon is an amazing athlete and student. She trains all four strokes,” Stoddard added. “It’s like a coach’s heaven to have an athlete who is

goal oriented, competitive, and driven like Shannon is. She’s a joy to coach.”

On Friday, Cheung was instrumental in the Lancers’ South Coast Confer-ence-opening victories over Chaffey and host Long Beach City College. The Lancers (2-1 in overall dual meets)

dominated with individual event wins in 12 of the 15 events, including three individual wins from Cheung.

“Swimming with a swimmer of Shannon’s caliber moti-vates yourself to perform at your best and try to keep with her at prac-tice.” Freshman swimmer Tiffa-ny Wong said.

Cheung cap-tured first place in the 200-yard freestyle (2:02.65), the 100-freestyle (58.29), the500-

free (5:24.27) and also anchored an exciting 400 freestyle relay team in which

Cheung is the only returning sophomore. “I just try to do my best in the pool

and hopefully everyone else will follow and put in 110 percent as well,” Cheung said. “I find leading by example to be most effective.”

In February, Cheung was more than effective for the Lancers with nine first place victories in only two meets.

“Shannon is really talented swimmer,” Wong added. “She works hard and she has earned all of the awards and acco-lades she has received and will receive in the future.”

Although Cheung is poised to become one of the Lancers most decorated swim-mers, as a young freshman, the versatile swimmer only expected to participate in a few events.

“I had my mind set on one or two events last year,” Cheung admitted. “As I started training more with coach I was able to expand a little bit more and improve my strokes. I basically try to help wherever I’m needed.”

Already an amazing student-athlete, Cheung continues to work hard on improving her first place stroke and expressed her goals for the Lancers’ this season.

“This year we want to place higher at our conference meets and win more dual meets,” Cheung said. “I want to improve and build on last year and see if I can improve my times at the state champion-

ships as well.”Although the 2014 season remains

young, Cheung hasn’t had any problems as she has already recorded 18 first place victories on the season.

“The main difference this year is our depth,” Stoddard said. “We have more people at the top and our second-tier of swimmers are the strongest we’ve had probably since our 2003 championship team.”

Cheung credited her swimming success to hard work and training that the experi-enced Stoddard has implemented.

“We just have to continue to work hard,” Cheung said. “We’ve sort of beefed up our training and that allows us to help each other out a lot more this year.”

The standout swimmer who is pas-sionate about government and politics is already considering her options after her Lancer career is over.

“I hope to get into law school,” Cheung said. “I don’t know where I’m transferring yet, but my dream colleges are Claremont, Georgetown University and UCLA.”

Cheung will look to continue her amaz-ing 2014 season as the Lancers travel to East Los Angeles College to participate in an SCC double dual meet against Mt. SAC and ELAC on Friday.

The first race is scheduled for 12:30 p.m.

Losing streak continues for Lancers baseball

Rocio Vera/CourierThis season Cheung has recorded 18 first place victories in only five meets.

Rocio Vera/CourierSophomore swimmer Shannon Cheung, the 2013 South Coast Conference Swimmer of the year, practices at the PCC Aquatic Center on Tuesday during swim practice.

Andrew SalmiAsst. Sports Editor

The struggle continued for the Lancers Tuesday when they played host to the Vikings of Long Beach City College and lost their dismal 11th game in a row by a score of 9-1.

The woes began on March 4 with a 15-1 loss to East Los Angeles College and an 11-run seventh inning. The Lancers have gone 0-7 in South Coast Conference play and have failed to score more than two runs in any of the games they’ve played so far in conference.

After a three-game sweep last week to El Camino College, this was not a great start to a series against Long Beach.

“We need to not let our pitchers give up that many hits,” head coach Evan O’Meara said. “If you have pitchers that aren’t hitting their zones, balls are going to be hit over fielders’ heads.”

The game in a nutshell for the Lancers occurred in the bottom of the fourth inning, where PCC managed to get some-thing going on offense with three consec-

utive singles to start off the inning. After singles by sophomore catcher Jason Clark, freshman first baseman John Sevil-la and freshman center fielder PJ DeZo-tell, the Lancers bad luck came back to them to halt any chance of good fortune.

Sophomore second baseman Kai Na-kamura lined out into a double play, then freshman designated hitter Nick Perez fouled out to end the inning without any runs crossing the plate.

Against LBCC, the Lancers were hit hard for 15 hits, six of which were doubles past PCC outfielders. Bad angles with routes to fly balls kept the Lancers from getting several key outs.

Clark provided the only RBI for PCC in the bottom of the fifth inning to drive in freshman third baseman Eric Grajeda. Clark and Grajeda combined for four of the Lancers’ eight total hits, with Graje-da having the team’s only double in the bottom of the seventh.

“As I’ve said before, we need to find momentum and keep it going,” Clark said. “We also must play consistently solid defense.”

The Vikings offense did most of their

damage in only three innings, scoring three runs in the top of the first inning, two runs in the top of the third inning and three runs in the top of the fifth inning.

A bright spot for the Lancers was the relief effort of freshman pitcher John Flores, who pitched two scoreless innings in the eighth and ninth innings without giving up any hits or walks. He also man-aged to strike out the side in the top of the ninth inning.

“He did a great job out there today,” said O’Meara on Flores’ efforts. “How-ever, we’re struggling in all facets of the game and we’re in a losing state of mind right now.”

After losing their 11th straight game, the Lancers are now last in the SCC with a 3-15 record.

The Lancers will look to bounce back and end their losing streak on Thursday, March 20 as they travel to play Long Beach at 2:30 p.m. The closing game of the series will be held at Jackie Robinson Memorial Field on Saturday, March 22 with the first pitch slated for noon.

PCC Sports InformationCatcher Jason Clark throws out a runner at first base during PCC’s loss to LBCC Tuesday at Brookside Park.

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