Professor Kathryn Dabelow was First to Teach Women’s History at PCC

Jose Panuco, Arts & Entertainment Editor

A gesture of emotion kept her from fully expressing her feelings towards her students and colleagues. Since 1967, students and faculty at PCC have known her.

She was the first to teach a women’s history course, which is still taught today, and now, Professor Kathryn Wiler Dabelow has 52 days left of teaching before she retires. [Read more →]

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Chinese Language Skills to be Assessed

Franco Sui Yan, Staff Writer

The languages division will host the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK), or Standardized Chinese Proficiency Test on May 17, with nearly 100 people enrolled for the test. PCC is the only community college in the nation that offers the once-a-year exam. [Read more →]

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Rodrigo Mejia, Staff Member

Seeds of Change hosted a day of awareness seeking to inform the campus of the mounting ailments afflicting the world around us.

“We are trying to raise awareness of people and their waste. We want people to be more conscious of their waste,” said 22-year-old geology major Yuliana Parada, who is also the president of the club. [Read more →]

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Jeremy Balan, Sports Editor

The three remaining sophomores from this season’s women’s basketball team have all yet to sign letters of intent to four-year universities, but all have Division I aspirations.

Lynette Jacobs has already verbally committed to Texas Southern, a Division I program in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), but still has visits to Robert Morris (Moon Township, PA) and Xavier of Louisiana.

“I’m still going on visits to see my options,” Jacobs said. “But I’m [probably going] to Texas Southern.” [Read more →]

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Stacey Wang, Editor-in-Chief

Even with a less than normal performance from members of the men’s and women’s track and field teams, five athletes will be advancing to the Southern California Preliminaries Meet on Saturday. [Read more →]

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Reporting by Jose Panuco  

“I got it because it is my mom’s name.” Mario Jones, 19, Fashion  “I had a thing for tribals I designed it to add some value, being my initial.” Erik Bernardo, 19, Radiology   “I come from Echo Park and lotus flowers grow there. They don’t grow everywhere so that’s why I got it.” Nidia Granados, 19, Psychology   “It is a chrysanthemum flower it  was my grandma’s favorite flower.” Johanna Deeb, 17, English 

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Christina Demirchyan, Managing Editor

Though often seen as a mark of rebellion, body art has served as a fundamental form of expressing culture for years. Using the body as a canvas, tattoos and piercings can transform into the intricate ties that bind culture and self.

Throughout PCC, there are some students who view tattoos as a part of American culture, standing as symbols that present individuality.  [Read more →]

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Local Shops To Get Inked 

Kathleen Aharonian, Staff Writer

Getting a tattoo isn’t a decision people take lightly. They not only have to live with it for the rest of their lives, but they have to be sure the place they get it is safe and reliable.  [Read more →]

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Christina Demirchyan, Managing Editor

Playing for an audience ready to delve into the classic masterpieces of composers such as Beethoven and Sebastian Bach, Maiko Yamagami captured the audience’s attention as her fingers glided through the each elegant yet electrifying musical drama.

Beginning the recital with Johann Bach’s Prelude and Fugue no. 21, Yamagami’s command of the piano became apparent as she entwined Bach’s musical notes with her own artistic interpretation. [Read more →]

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The Jazz Rock Big Band performs a rocking show at PCC on Saturday.

Rodrigo Mejia, Staff Writer

Beneath the vestiges of a quiet Saturday campus, a pulse of jazz echoes the halls and fills the soul.

Within the decadent confines of Sexson Auditorium, PCC’s own jazz combo and big band ensemble treat the few but privileged to a night of rhythmic genesis and rapture.

“The spirit is telling me to play some ‘Mammacita’ and it’s always good to listen to the spirit,” began Bobby Bradford, the musically aged and instinctual director of PCC’s Jazz Combo as the stage grew smaller and the sound climbed higher. [Read more →]

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