Share: On Monday, April 8, at Pasadena City College, as many students are contemplating what their plans are during their spring break, other students, specifically trans and non-binary, have plans that are beyond spring break and more personal in nature. It is day one for them to change their name and also their gender marker. Trans and Nonbinary students are at the Pride Center to take the first steps of participating in a workshop to go over just how laboring the process is in changing …
PCC’s Associated Students seeks candidates for upcoming election
Share: The student governing body, the Associated Students of Pasadena City College (ASPCC), is currently accepting applications from students who intend to run in the upcoming election that will select the members of ASPCC’s Executive Board for the 2024-2025 school year. “Personally [ASPCC] has been one of my most valuable experiences at PCC,” Yurika Espinosa, current Vice President of Communications on the Executive Board said. “There’s also a stigma of people not wanting to run because they feel they aren’t qualified, but I genuinely believe …
Softball hunts for sport, finds second win instead
Share: Lancers softball was hungry for a win this week. In the players’ minds, they deserved it. During their recent string of losses, head coach Audriana Gutierrez has been focused on teaching the team to keep a strong mindset. The results were on full display this Tuesday when the Lancers blazed past local rival Glendale College, smashing their way to a convincing 11-3 victory. “Today felt 100% better,” Breanna Negrete said. Negrete was the first Lancer to score during the game, erasing Glendale’s initial lead …
‘The First Omen’ delivers damn-good body horror
Share: Winter is over, and it’s time for Hollywood’s tortured and undying horror franchises to shamble their way into theaters one by one. Studios could have stuffed the spring schedule with series filler, but “The First Omen” brings a screaming start to the year, revitalizing the franchise with an experience that is visceral and shocking. Released last Friday, the feature-length debut from director Arkasha Stevenson is both a prequel and reboot. It knows when to foreshadow the Richard Donner original and when to ignore it …
Lancers improve defense, but can’t fly higher than Hawks
Share: Before the April 2 game against the LA Harbor Seahawks, pitching coach Austyn Helmuth was feeling confident. “Oh yeah. We got here super early,” she said. “We’re ready to roll.” Since their victory last Monday at Citrus, the Lancers hadn’t won a game all week. But then, neither had the Seahawks. One way or another, a losing streak was ending that afternoon. For five innings, both teams struggled to put together an offense. But a late rally by Hawks in the eighth and final …
Antisemites must not be allowed to co-opt Gaza conversation
Share: As the movement for Palestinian liberation gains popular support around the globe, it becomes ever more imperative to keep that movement focused on peace and not retaliation. A complaint from the Anti-Defamation League against Berkeley Unified School District made news at the beginning of March, accusing district teachers of building an atmosphere of antisemitic bullying. Last week, the Courier reported on efforts by PCC clubs to support the BDS movement against Israel’s apartheid. In that story, we wrote that the ADL — which opposes …
The Supreme Court justices are wrong, even when they’re right
Share: “SCOTUS.” Just the sound of it makes skin crawl, doesn’t it? The abbreviation may look fine on paper, but saying it out loud feels brutish and vulgar. But then, “brutish and vulgar” is an apt description of the Court in the last few years. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, SCOTUS has felt increasingly out of touch with the desires of the American people. Multiple surveys in 2023, including Gallup and the Pew Research Center, showed public trust in the Supreme Court to …
Lucha Libre moonsaults its way into Old Pasadena
Share: As the rain drizzles down on a Chestnut Street parking lot, a man dressed only in spandex trunks and a mask bursts into a sprint and launches himself feet first at a psychotic clown. The clown takes the kick to the head and crashes from his platform to the pavement below. As the clown picks himself up, he turns to the hundred-odd crowd of onlookers and shouts to them in Spanish: “¡No se puede!”, you can’t do it. The crowd, laughing, chants back at …