Year: 2011

Considering the amount of tears that were shed in the lobby of Hutto-Patterson Gym on the afternoon of April 16, one may never have guessed that they were surrounded by some of PCC’s greatest and toughest athletes.Ten Lancers of the past were inducted into PCC’s Hall of Fame in a ceremony that took place beneath the wall of photos of players who were inducted before them.

Assistant men’s and women’s soccer team Coach Warren Altounian, 62, died on Friday from cancer. Altounian worked on campus for 12 years, guiding the Lancers’ men’s team to the 2002 State Final Four and was part of three South Coast Conference championship squads in concert with Head Coach Cerif Zein, according to the PCC website.

It was a victory day for Lancer track and field athletes as they advanced to the South Coast Conference Championship finals in Tuesday’s prelims held at Mt. San Antonio College.”Peek all the way through,” said Track and Field Head Coach Larry Wade to his Lancer runners.

As part of the American Library Association’s Preservation Week the foyer of the Shatford Library is filled with relics of PCC’s past. The school’s first yearbook, marching band apparel, photographs of what the campus once was and a line-up of mascots are all up for viewing.

Students gathered in the Quad on the evening of April 6 to meet with representatives from various universities to obtain information about transferring. Admissions representatives from 30 different CSUs, UCs, private, and out of state universities waited in the quad to answer questions from eager and excited students, said Dina Chase, director of outreach, degree and transfer service.

Computers were allegedly stolen from the PCC Faculty Association office as well as from the office of its President, Roger Marheine over spring break.Marheine was upset to learn about the theft. “In both cases a ‘master key’ was used, as there was no sign of forced entry.

The PCC Forensics team had another successful run at the annual Phi Rho Pi National Speech and Debate Championship earlier this month, bringing home a silver medal in the mid-school division and placing twelfth in the nation.Eleven speech and debate team members journeyed across the country by plane, train and van to get to the annual four-day competition that was held at the Hyatt Regency in Greenwich, Conn.

PCC’s student-produced publications, the weekly Courier newspaper and annual Spotlight magazine, were both honored with the sought-after General Excellence award at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges’ state convention in Sacramento earlier this month.

Whether you’re rushing to find a space in the parking structure or you’re alone in the dark after a night class, security cameras would be reassuring.Let’s face it, PCC is no stranger to parking lot mayhem.Fourteen car accidents within the first two weeks of March were reported to police.

Spectators grew frustrated at Brookside Park’s Jackie Robinson Memorial Field on Saturday during the 13-1 loss to Los Angeles Harbor College.”Just terrible . when you can’t hit, can’t pitch, it pretty much spells disaster,” Men’s Baseball Coach Evan O’Meara said Saturday.