The Board of Trustees voted Wednesday morning to fire Richard Van Pelt, vice president of administrative services. President Mark Rocha has also recommended the termination of Alfred Huthchings, supervisor for Facilities Services.
Board meeting relocated due to limited space
The Board of Trustee meeting that was to be the start of the ‘Community Listening Tour’ has been moved back to PCC due to limited space.
NOTEBOOK: Eyewitness to history
A Courier reporter was watching as two officials from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office arrived on campus to begin the corruption investigation. He followed them to the Facilities Department where they began removing files and computers.
Moving forward
PCC President Mark Rocha asserted on Tuesday that he will be moving forward in finding replacements for two high-ranking school officials.
VIDEO: Moving forward
PCC President Mark Rocha tells the Courier that he will be moving forward in finding replacements for two high-ranking school officials in an on-camera interview in his office on Tuesday, June 12, 2012.
Credit: Anthony Richetts/Courier
Five Board members unavailable for comment
Only two of six elected Board of Trustees members agreed to make a public comment about the bribery scandal involving two campus officials despite repeated attempts by the Courier to contact them.
Van Pelts paid $279,000 for home in tony neighborhood
Early on June 9, a squad of apparently unmarked law enforcement cars descended on the home owned by “Richard P. and Carol J. Van Pelt.â€
Initial report on U Building questioned by new evaluation
A new report on the safety of the U Building questions the initial evaluations that the school had done in previous years, which became the basis of determining to abandon the building.
BULLETIN: Power cut to parts of campus
Students with final exams scheduled this morning found themselves taking them outside of their classrooms, as power is cut off to half of the campus.
FROM THE EDITOR: A very Special Edition
The two Journalism classes (writers and photographers) that make up the staff of the Courier had just wrapped their last meeting of the semester June 7 when news began breaking of a criminal investigation of two senior college officials.
As staffers were preparing for finals and summer vacation, their journalistic instincts took over.
Twenty minutes before President Mark Rocha began his hastily arranged news conference downstairs from the newsroom, the Courier published its first breaking news alert to its online readers.