Share: A new parking permit system was implemented at PCC this semester, causing a major increase in parking tickets for both students and staff. The previous system, PayByPhone, was an app students and visitors could download on their phones for daily parking permits. The new system for daily parking permits is simply a QR code you can scan, which is located in the parking lots. The parking machines are also still available in each lot if people are unable to pay online. However, another issue …
Another conservative busted for being a hypocrite
Share: The link between Anti-LGBTQ+ ideologies and internalized queerphobia gets connected even tighter as Kristi Noem’s husband’s bimbo fetish cross-dressing pictures were leaked. Despite actively working towards taking away queer and trans rights, he hid a double life behind plastic, not just from years of his wife’s cosmetic surgery. “As the governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem was a prominent proponent of legislation restricting transgender rights, including bans on transgender girls taking part in school sports and on gender-affirming care for minors. She signed the …
Lancers clip Seahawks wings in walkoff victory
Share: After suffering 3 straight losses, PCC’s baseball team reclaimed their glory with a comeback win at home against LA Harbor thanks to a walkoff single from Joaquin Salcedo. Coming into their game against the La Harbor Seahawks, the Lancers were in desperate need of not just a win, but a strong showing on the pitching mound. The game started strongly on the mound for the Lancers with a 1-2-3 inning. The second inning wasn’t as quick and easy as the first for pitcher AJ …
Sax legend brings soul and stardom to PCC
Share: As a college student, the chance to meet someone who’s reached legendary status in their field is a dream. Some of the music majors of PCC were able to live that dream on April 3 in the Westerbeck Recital Hall, when legendary saxophonist Ernie Watts came to PCC and performed with the PCC Jazz Faculty (Gary Fukushima, piano, Steve Cotter, guitar, Zac Matthews, bass, Brian Carmody, drums) to play the sounds of John Coltrane and Miles Davis. “It was like being able to step …
Facilities master plan leaves no space for parking
Share: PCC has a remodeling plan called the Facilities Master Plan, which reveals all of the new buildings and renovations for the upcoming years. However, this so-called master plan neglected the parking issues that may arise with the many remodeling plans. The plan includes a new cafe, student services, annex, health and sciences, and academic/CTE buildings as well as renovations to multiple other structures. Along with these new buildings, expanded and new programs will be added, such as an expansion to the dental program, a …
Trump’s Easter ‘truths’ make him older but never wiser
Share: This year on Easter morning, President Donald Trump proceeded to open Truth Social, his social media platform, from which he posts multiple times a day, and shared a nonsensical tirade including a threat to Iran if they didn’t open up the Strait of Hormuz. The post was insane, just like the rest of his posts have been, and left a question on whether this is just the level Trump has always been or if he is deteriorating. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and …
Criminals don’t deserve the spotlight, their exposers do
Share: Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown published a book called “Perversion of Justice” in 2021, recounting her difficult and ruthless investigation in 2018 that finally brought sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s operation to light and exposed the power of corruption that had sheltered his crimes. Now Brown’s book is being adapted into a limited television series by Sony Pictures that follows Brown, played by Laura Dern, and explores her journey in investigative reporting and how she managed to take down the financier. With the amount …
Close stores and give workers a holiday too
Share: When I was a kid, stores weren’t open on holidays. When preparing for a holiday, people would buy everything before the holiday, or they would go without. I remember a time in particular at my aunt’s house. She and my mom were getting dinner ready, but they realized they were missing an ingredient. We went out in search of any store that might be open, but came back empty-handed. They substituted it and moved on. Dinner was just as good without it proving stores …
How one student became a voice for others and found her own
Share: Darya Derakhshani was walking into a restaurant just off of the Pasadena campus last year when suddenly she encountered a man inside who noticed her race and spoke to her inappropriately. As a Muslim immigrant from Iran, stares were not something Derakhshani was unused to. But in a situation like this in a country where people who look like her are hated on sight, she was unsure of what she could do to escape and not have the encounter end in a violent way. …
NARCAN training teaches students the cookie method to drug testing
Share: Greeted with a big basket of chocolate chip cookies, a table filled with Naloxone, a generic brand for Narcan, Fentanyl test strips, and drink covers, make sure to grab a cookie to commence your Narcan training. This training session is for students and staff who want to be prepared and take advantage of the free opportunity to learn to use the emergency treatment of opioid overdose provided by the Student Health Services at Pasadena City College. Few drug users know it is important to …