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Oct 19, 2024 | 
lbccviking.com | Neil Gagna |Ryenne Joliff
Discussion board posts are often assigned as a convenient way for students to share ideas about in-class materials; however, they are lazy, thoughtless, and add nothing insightful to classes or for students. Professors who teach in-person classes should consider holding in person discussions instead, so that students can directly communicate with one another.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
lbccviking.com | Cain Carbajal |Neil Gagna
An incident at a domestic violence awareness workshop has recently highlighted LBCC’s disregard for student press rights. A reporter for the Viking News attended this workshop and after a few minutes, with students in attendance, a speaker from Planned Parenthood canceled the event, saying she was “not in a good mood.”While it was not an LBCC employee this time, the behavior exhibited by this speaker has been an ongoing issue for The Viking.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
lbccviking.com | Neil Gagna |Ryenne Jolliff
Despite college protests being a major focus of national headlines, many students are still unaware of what exactly is going on in the Israel/Gaza conflict. Many protests broke out at colleges across the nation this past spring semester, with protestors calling for schools to divest from companies that they claim fund Israel and their war in Palestine.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
lbccviking.com | Destiny Garcia |Neil Gagna |Bella Schultz |Ryenne Jolliff
Students at LBCC’s Liberal Arts Campus have recently struggled to find basic needs resources after the Viking Vault was relocated from the E Building to the B Building earlier this year. LBCC student Tina De LaCruz, who uses the Vault consistently, was inconvenienced because of how difficult it was to navigate this move. “I couldn’t find the Vault when I really needed to use it and when I asked staff members they kept making me go around the building,” De LaCruz said.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
lbccviking.com | Emma Lloyd |Neil Gagna
A break-in at Dunkin’ Donuts caused pieces of plywood and cardboard to cover the front entrance on Lakewood Boulevard near LBCC’s Liberal Arts Campus on Aug. 25. The break-in occurred at approximately 5:13 a.m., when the drive through was open but the inside was closed to the public.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
lbccviking.com | Samantha Hernández Navarro |Darla Perez |Neil Gagna |Kiomi Valdez
Students got the chance to give plants a new home by attending the Horticulture department’s welcome week event where free succulents were gifted to both new and returning students this fall semester at PCC(Trade Tech and Community Learning Campus). Professor Jorge Ochoa was running the event and explained how all of the succulents were actually grown by students who were in the Plant propagation class during the Spring 2024 semester.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
lbccviking.com | Neil Gagna |Cain Carbajal
Filthy, gross elevators and unreliable maintenance on them have recently plagued Long Beach City College’s Liberal Arts Campus (LAC). The student parking structure elevators are regularly filthy with trash, dirty floors and in the spring semester, even the packaging for a sex toy sat unmoved for weeks.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
lbccviking.com | Neil Gagna |Cain Carbajal
Grammy nominated trumpet player Wayne Bergeron, best known for his work on Disney’s The Incredibles, headlined the Long Beach City College Spring Big Band Bonanza on Friday. The show was the final on-campus concert of the semester for the big band and also the final performance for many graduating musicians in the band. Wayne was introduced to the thunderous applause and cheers from the family and friends that filled the courtyard.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
lbccviking.com | Neil Gagna |Cain Carbajal
A school newspaper’s main job is to fairly report on the happenings at the school and that job is impeded when reporters are denied entry or interviews with school staff. The issue of reporters getting pushback for trying to report on school events has persisted through the spring semester.
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May 29, 2024 | 
lbccviking.com | Cain Carbajal |Izzy Juarez |Neil Gagna
A few professors are raising concerns over difficulties they have faced in trying to use one of their three contractual days off to miss graduation. According to Vice President of Academic Affairs Lee Douglas a handful of professors requested to have graduation day off, but he could not state the number of requests he processed off the top of his head.
