Year: 2008

With an eclectic taste in music and a passion for film, 20-year-old film major, Nick Scarpa, enjoys a variety of activities to escape from his classes. A supporter of Ralph Nader, Scarpa worked for his 2008 campaign. Scarpa believes that “any good idea is a ‘green-idea’.

Have you ever thought to yourself that your weight was keeping you away from what you always wanted? For one PCC student, his dream of becoming a police officer was at a standstill because he weighed 270 pounds. Nevertheless, he didn’t give up. Rather he motivated himself to lose 100 pounds.

Now is the time the transfer center gets just a little more attention than usual. With Nov. 30 being the deadline to turn in transfer applications to the UC and Cal State schools, L110 can be seen bustling with diligently stressed students pondering their way into oblivion.

As you’re sitting in class listening to yet another boring lecture, you feel a sudden vibration coming from your front pocket. You hesitate to answer it. It goes off once again. Once you exit class, you pull your phone out of your pocket only to see that it never vibrated at all.

The United Rainbow Alliance marched down Colorado Boulevard on Tuesday in opposition to Proposition 8, the ballot measure that eliminates the right for same-sex couples to marry. Participants held up “Vote No On Prop 8” signs and waved a large rainbow flag to demonstrate pride and support of same-sex marriage.

The AS is currently making plans to promote campus safety and awareness through the annual “Campus Safety Walk” sometime in the first week of November. Members of AS, and a few cadets will, be walking through the entire campus for one night to check which areas require more surveillance and patrol.

Measure P, the project aimed at renovating and refurbishing the campus with modern facilities, looks to be completed on time, despite economic strife that has marred both infrastructure and industry in recent months. “There have been no negative changes to the project brought about by the economy,” said Jack Schulman, Director of Measure P Projects.

Children from the Child Development Center will be trick-or-treating in their costumes around PCC’s offices during the annual Halloween Festival on Oct. 31 from 8 a.m to 1 p.m.

Thirty-one students showed up for the President’s Forum at the Vosloh Forum Tuesday afternoon where president Paulette Perfumo and the Associated Students board answered students’ questions about PCC.The Vosloh Forum’s 10 rows of seats can accommodate 296 patrons; Tuesday’s forum brought capacity to about 10 percent.