Year: 2011

The state may allocate $7 million to PCC this year – or, community colleges may suffer additional cuts and the per-unit fee could be raised beyond the proposed 38 percent increase to $36, said Dan Troy, the Vice Chancellor for Fiscal Policy at the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges.

Ashley Jackson will be the Associated Students President for 2011-12. Over 400 students voted in the student government elections and the results were announced on Friday.

Campus police are conducting an arson investigation after a burning Quran was reportedly thrown from the R Building into a crowd of people on May 17.

In an effort to give students more options and save money on textbooks, the Campus Bookstore is planning to begin a rental program as early as fall semester.Leslie Thompson, manager of bookstore services at PCC, has been working to arrange a profit-sharing partnership with a wholesale company.

The PCC Community Business Center (CBC) celebrated and promoted its passport application acceptance program with a lunch and mixer on May 19.”We’ve just been overwhelmed by the passion and enthusiasm PCC has been bringing to this program,” said Howard Josephs, customer service manager of the Los Angeles Passport Agency.

The Classified Senate held a fundraiser on May 18 at the local Panda Express on Colorado and Bonnie Avenue during which 20 percent of each customer purchase with a flyer was donated to student scholarships. According to Classified Senate president Gary Potts, the money from the fundraiser is intended for for deserving students.

According to award winning English Instructor Dr. Dootsdeemalachanok Thongthiraj, Lady Gaga’s free-spirited attitude is admired by many individuals who consider themselves different.On Thursday, Thongthiraj presented the faculty and staff her award winning lecture “Gaga, Garnett, and Gucci in the classroom.

After nearly ten years of national anguish and over a trillion dollars spent on a retaliatory war, the international manhunt for America’s most wanted fugitive has finally come to an end. “The world is safer,” said President Barack Obama at the White House on May 2.

PCC is offerings students the chance to travel to Ashland, Oregon to take part in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Some of the most well-known artists of the 21st century will be featured in this years Spring Dance Concert “Brilliant Corners.