METRO EVENT! this sunday

Hello fellow Psych Club Members,

With the month of February behind us, we are rapidly reaching the end of the semester. But there is still so much in store for the club for everyone to enjoy.

On Tuesday, we had a very informative and interesting presentation by Dr. Kirk Hartley from Metropolitan State Hospital on aggressive behavior. He explained the various types of aggressive behavior, their characteristics, their functions and how he deals with the people who exhibit these behaviors everyday at Metro. He not only discussed aggressive behavior but also gave background information on the hospital (one of the buildings has been set as a permanent movie set.. do you remember the hospital scenes in The Ring?) and how it works, which was great considering that we are having a community service event at the hospital this Sunday. For those of you who weren't able to make it, you missed out on a presentation full of great information and stories ranging from frightening, hopeful, shocking and moving. Hopefully you will have the chance to attend a presentation by Dr. Hartley in the future, as I am sure he is someone the Psychology Club would love to invite back.

Speaking of Metro State Hospital, we are having our traditional volunteer event at Metro this Sunday, March 5th. We will be working with unit 106, an adolescent unit at the hospital who is having a special event that day. The director of the program has asked for us to help serve as an audience during a scheduled talent show, help serve lunch, and finally help in two of the booths that are set up which feature arts and crafts for the adolescents. We may also help by decorating some of the sweets they will be having and bringing icing, sprinkles etc. that can be used to decorate the sweets. If anyone would like to donate their own cookies or brownies that would be greatly appreciated as well. If you are interested in going you can contact Cynthia at (562)276-5589 or Mario, (562)964-3451 or you can meet us on SUNDAY AT 9:45AM SHARP BY CAMPUS POLICE. We will be leaving to Metro from school. The event is scheduled from 10:30am-2:00 pm. You do not have to stay the entire time, we do however, ask that you leave to the hospital with the group.
Please wear closed toe shoes.

And in liaison with Women's History Month, on Tuesday March 7th we have Dr. Monica Bellas who will be speaking to us about The Ritual Role of Women Among Ancient Cultures in Mesoamerica...
-->( she will be giving extra credit to those who attend and are enrolled in one of her classes).

Don't forget, the deadline for Psi Beta applications is next week, so get them in!

See you soon,

Cynthia Gomez
Secretary, Cerritos College Psychology Club