Share: Football has emerged as one of the most popular sports in America. And for many sports lovers, the love for a sport is developed by not only playing the game itself but by also watching the pros. We marvel at their skill level and ability to play against the world’s elite. Follow:
Mass shooters must be identified
Share: To name or not to name—this is the dilemma that has sent people into a frenzy in the days since the cold-blooded mass shooting at Umpqua Community College on Oct. 1. Since the crime’s lead investigator John Hanlin publicly announced his refusal to speak of the gunman’s name and urged the media to do the same, the thin fabric that is the media-audience relationship has not been the same. “Let me be very clear: I will not name the shooter,” Hanlin announced at a …
Too lazy to register, you’re not alone
Share: Voter apathy has been at an all-time high for years. To be frank, nobody feels as if their votes actually matter. Follow:
50,000 descend on JPL for annual open house
Share: If you look through the “Eyes on Exoplanets” software invented and provided for free by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, you’ll discover that not only is our planet just a speck—a “pale blue dot” in a sea of galaxies, each with thousands of stars of their own, each star with usually at least one planet orbiting around it—but that the already unimaginable expanse of the universe is actually still growing, and growing faster and faster apart. Follow:
Campus safety revealed in Clery report
Share: With weekly mass shootings becoming the norm and sexual assault on campuses consistently in the news, students can take comfort knowing that there is at least some relative safety in attending Pasadena City College. Late last month PCC released its annual Clery Crime Report, which compiles statistics for specific crimes and arrests that happened on and around campus over the last three years. The report, which has been federally mandated since 1990 by the Jeanne Clery Act, includes offenses such burglary, assault, arson, and …
College campus shootings: How prepared are we at PCC?
Share: The ongoing wave of gun violence at college campuses raises the question of how well prepared students and staff really are locally in regards to this nation-wide issue. Follow:
Women entrepreneur panel compass for successful start-ups
Share: Julia Akman said that her parents, small business owners, instilled in her a good work ethic and she used her job as a corporate buyer to learn every facet of the business, from accounting to quality control. One day, while ironing, she was distracted by her cat and burned straight through her husband’s pants. She was so frustrated, that she purchased a steamer and fell in love with it. But she knew she could do better. She created SALAV, which now produces a number …
English professor discusses literature in the Anthropocene
Share: For hundreds of years, our perception of nature as a momentous, constant force was exemplified in literature by cascading waterfalls, snow-tipped mountains and dependability of the seasons. But as the planet warms and the climate changes, professor Robert Oventile told PCC students Tuesday that the way we interpret literature from the past and write new literature is also changing. Follow: