The Roundup News

The Roundup News is Los Angeles Pierce College's weekly student-run newspaper. As a staff writer, opinion editor and editorial board member, I covered news, feature, opinion and editorials.

Pierce Faculty Decides to No Show to Work

Pierce College’s plant facility faculty members failed to show up to work on Monday, adding another stressor to the school’s faculty and staff hiring process.

During the Academic Senate meeting on Sept. 27, Pierce Vice President Rolf Schleicher announced that faculty members from all the plant facilities, except a few who showed up to care for the farm animals, did not come to campus to work on Monday, Sept. 25.

Con: Trick-or-treaters beware

With Halloween just around the corner, many children are looking forward to dressing up in fun costumes and going trick-or-treating.

However, according to the National Public Radio, children below the age of 12 are ineligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. It is unlikely that the vaccine for this age group will be approved before Oct. 31, as the FDA independent advisory committee meeting is scheduled Oct. 26 and the CDC’s independent advisory committee meeting is scheduled Nov. 2 and Nov. 3.