The Associated Students of Cerritos College, with the help of clubs and faculty, will be fundraising this semester to provide students with money for scholarships.

The ASCC is trying to provide a means of financial aid to those students that have been affected by the budget cuts.

ASCC President Michael Barrita said, “We will be fundraising throughout the semester to collect money to offer to students hopefully by May 2009.”

He said there are plenty of members of the faculty and about 10 clubs that want to get involved. Their goal is to have 10 to 15 clubs helping out to raise $2,000 or more.

Many fundraising events will be occurring throughout this semester. The funds will be raised by holding car washes, concerts, and date auctions among other events.

Some of the upcoming fundraising events will be car washes.

They will not be held on campus. Instead, they will be held at businesses surrounding areas of Cerritos College.

The car wash prices, so far, will be:

• $10 for faculty cars,
• $12 for faculty vans,
• $5 for student cars and
• $7 for student vans.

Nothing is definite at this time, but the ASCC would like to start with some activities to raise money during the month of February.

There will be about two activities per month during the semester.

Comissioner of Student Outreach Oscar Franco said, “The earnings of the fundraising will be available to any Cerritos College student, regardless of their immigration status.”

A committee will be created to decide what students will benefits from these scholarship funds.

The process to award the funds may be on an application basis along with an essay written by the student that would like to receive benefits.

Tickets for the car washes will be sold in advance to guarantee some money coming on the date of the event.