At a recent meeting in his Long Beach office, Assemblymember Warren Furutani of California’s 55th District is clean-shaven, rubbing his chin where a goatee used to reside.

The Pasadena Young Musicians Orchestra presented four international symphonies by various composers on Saturday in Sexson Auditorium.

Smoking marijuana on campus is illegal, even if you have a medical marijuana identification card, officials say.

Displaying feature films condensed into five cohesive minutes, four students demonstrated their talent with film editing in the Art Gallery.

Despite what PCC’s bustling campus might suggest, the number of students enrolled for the Spring 2010 semester is lower than last year.

At noon today, PCC students and workers plan to rally together at PCC’s mirror pools on the north side of campus to kick off a day of protest in downtown L.A. against public education budget cuts. At 1:30 p.m., they plan to march to the Metro Gold Line’s Lake Station and take the train downtown to join a planned mass rally at 3 p.m.

A former PCC student has been arrested in connection with a string of thefts on campuses. Jose De Jesus Macias is accused of stealing music equipment from the PCC campus as well as the campus of CSU Dominguez Hills, between 2006 and 2007.

In an effort to bring transparency to the Board of Trustees proceedings, a proposal for televising of meetings was scheduled to be discussed on Wednesday. The proposal outlines a plan to use the video recording equipment that is provided free of charge to the college by the Pasadena Community Access Corporation or PCAC.

Though waiting in a long line is hardly avoidable during the beginning of the semester, Counseling Services comes close by offering Quick Question Counseling.

The PCC softball team was outplayed by East Los Angeles College throughout the game on Tuesday as it lost with the final score of 11-2.