Share: Coaches vs. Cancer is an event that has been going on for over 20 years and was a success on Wednesday night during the men and women’s basketball games at Pasadena City College. Follow:
Women’s basketball loses 2nd consecutive game
The Lancers women’s basketball team lost to Long Beach City College at home in blowout fashion, 78-43, on Wednesday night.
Men’s basketball can’t contain No.10 LBCC
Despite a valiant second half comeback, the Lancers men’s basketball team was unable to pull off the upset, losing to the state’s No. 10 ranked Long Beach Vikings, 74-65, Wednesday evening at the Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.
Lighting the competitive fuse
Share: Alexis Arredondo has a lot on her mind: six classes, daily speech and debate practices, an upcoming One-Acts play, a string of competitions this semester, and lines on top of lines that she recites in her head when she wakes up, showers, puts on her makeup, and even when she’s on break. But unlike most energy drink-fueled college students, Arredondo looks as though she’s had a full eight hours of sleep. If there’s one thing a performing arts academy has taught her in the …
Pasadena Mayoral Candidates Address Concerns in Community Forum
Share: All six Mayoral candidates vying to fill Mayor Bill Bogaard’s seat following his announcement that he will not be seeking reelection answered questions from the community Thursday evening on how to deal with escalating violent crime in northwest Pasadena, how to bring jobs and businesses back to the city while keeping its historical character and how to make City Hall more transparent and communicative with the public. Follow:
Track and field teams pumped for a competitive season
Share: On an overcast afternoon, the men’s and women’s track and field teams broke a sweat preparing for their first meet of the 2015 season. Once again headed by Armand Crespo, who’s served as head track coach in the 2008-2010 seasons, the teams consists primarily of new talent. Staying on the safe side of his prediction, Crespo has his eye on a few diamonds in the rough that may be contenders at the state championships. “It’s really hard to say. There’s some particular athletes out …
Lancers squeeze out victory over Citrus
Head coach Monica Tantlinger, in what will be her second full season as head coach, has her team off to an 8-0 start after a thrilling come from behind victory against defending state champion Citrus College on Wednesday afternoon.
Monsters, mad scientists and musicals? Oh my!
Share: As a child, he would dance and sing Weird Al Yankovic songs on top of the coffee table for his family. In middle school he tried out for his first musical ‘The Music Man’. He just got back from a sold out house Off-Broadway in New York with his comedy group. And now he’s back one last time for PCC’s production of Mel Brooks’ ‘Young Frankenstein’. PCC doesn’t have Gene Wilder or Mel Brooks, but it does have Alexander Mashikian leading what is said …
Students honored: tasked with 3D tactile map for visually impaired
Share: When the Fab Lab students came to the tech table last year, little did they know the difference one summer’s work would make. PCC student workers Sandra Perez, Chi Yeung “Bennie” Chiu, Bryce Van Ross, Carlos Andrade, Joseph de Alba and Peter Ngo were presented a unique opportunity and task through PCC’s Design Technology department. Follow:
Campus set to begin hiring process
Share: With faculty and senate officials agreeing to hire 35 new full-time faculty for the college by September, the long process to attaining that number has begun. A Faculty Hiring Priorities Committee is formed by the Academic Senate to assess all requests for new positions, and the process is supposed to be put into motion during the beginning of the fall semester, according to the Pasadena Area Community College District Policy. “We try to make the decision by late fall because January is a big …