After spending at least 15 hours a week in the water, swimming is practically a part-time job for Sophomore Courtney Jensen. With the best GPA of all Lancer athletes, Jensen said she must balance between school and sport.
Freshmen runner looks back at only season at PCC
To first-year distance runner Thelma Cruz, trying out for track team was a choice she made late in her college life as she is finishing her last semester before transferring.
Senate vote effectively nixes major realignment plan
In what amounts to a complete undoing of a major realignment plan proposed last fall, the Academic Senate voted Monday that academic division deans should be permanently reinstated. Coming after its May 14 votes on two other elements of the original plan, the Senate’s action would leave the division structure largely unchanged from what it was before the plan to replace some deans with faculty chairs was put forward.
Student advocacy on a larger level
Fierce, dedicated, independent, and passionate are some of the words used to describe the new Student Trustee Hanna Israel.
State should do more to aid homless vets
The second ever Road Home symposium at PCC in April shone much needed attention on veterans’ needs, most especially for those stricken with post traumatic stress disorder. But with Los Angeles county reporting a large number of homeless individuals and a high percentage of those being veterans, California’s Veterans Affairs Department needs to modify its tactics.
Protest disrupts Board meeting
Repeated interruptions during the Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday night prompted the entire board to relocate to an adjacent room, where the proceedings continued behind closed doors.
Protesters take over in Board’s absence
There was an unusually large audience at the start of the Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday, with one UCLA student holding a sign that read “Long live the Guillotine.”
VOICES: Do you agree with President Obama’s support of same-sex marriage?
Courier journalists capture Pasadena City College students response to President Obama’s recent announcement that he supports the legalization of same-sex marriages.
Produced by PCC Courier journalists Antonio Gandara and Karla Sosa.
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Obama’s lgbt marriage stance is a political ploy
President Barack Obama’s endorsement of same sex marriage is a strategic maneuver in the game called reelection. It was all just a matter of when the announcement would come.
Senate vote effectively nixes major realignment plan
In what amounts to a complete undoing of a major realignment plan proposed last fall, the Academic Senate voted Monday that academic division deans should be permanently reinstated. Coming after its May 14 votes on two other elements of the original plan, the Senate’s action would leave the division structure largely unchanged from what it was before the plan to replace some deans with faculty chairs was put forward.