Share: The Trump administration, through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), announced a temporary freeze on all asylum applications and renewals, as well as a pause on all immigration from 19 countries that previously had travel visas frozen. Affected countries include: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. The USCIS memorandum announcing the policy included a clause that applicants from the countries accepted after January 1, …
The Courier vocalizes their favorite music of 2025
Share: It’s safe to say 2025 has been an interesting year for music. Shortform social platforms continue to dominate discovery, pop girlies have stayed in the mainstream, and British underground rap has dominated worldwide. Here at the Courier, we’re ready to go over some of our favorite albums released in 2025. Geese – “Getting Killed” 2025 is the year Geese finally made their breakout into the mainstream. After 2023’s “3D Country,” Geese have reinvented themselves as Brooklyn’s new Strokes: vaguely experimental crooning indie-pop. “Getting Killed” …
Asynchronous training proves inconvenient for ICC members
Share: At the beginning of Fall semester, PCC’s Inter-Club Council moved its mandatory club training to an asynchronous online Canvas course, confusing some clubs and exciting others. Historically, the ICC held its training in person, where it covered necessary information on running a club and keeping it chartered, such as the locations of mandatory forms and reports. Club leaders have mixed feelings on the training changes. Some refer to the online training as a hassle, while others find it convenient to those unable to make …
‘Red Bike’ takes a heartfelt ride through childhood worries
Share: When I sat down to see Nicole Javier’s production of “Red Bike” performed in the Center for the Arts theater, I had no idea what I was in for. All I knew about it was the line on the poster. “Remember when you were eleven years old and you had a bike, one that made you dream about a world bigger than the one in which you live?” The lights were dim, and all strung up around the stage were artifacts – stuffed animals, …
Oneohtrix Point Never brings life to lost media on ‘Tranquilizer’
Share: In 2025, Daniel Lopatin watched a collection of early nineties sample CDs he wanted to use on his next project vanish from the Internet Archive due to a DMCA takedown. Many months later, it mysteriously returned. This experience led him to create an album drawing on the ephemeral nature of both physical and digital media, a theme that has remained omnipresent even in his earliest work. Despite how thoroughly he’s covered this theme, “Tranquilizer” feels fresh, unique, and feels like a beautiful evolution of …
The algorithm consumes: RIP to MTV
Share: In a sad (but unsurprising) move, Paramount is pulling the plug on all but one of the MTV channels at the end of the year. After December 31, only MTV HD, which primarily airs reality shows, will stay on the airwaves. But for younger music fans, who are most familiar with the letters “MTV” from their appearance on the coolest Nirvana shirt, does this mean anything? On the surface, the story is the same: MTV is yet another example of a brand that just …
Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterpiece guides us through the culture war, one battle after another
Share: “Permanent revolution”, as coined by Friedrich Engels, is generally a concept far divorced from American action blockbusters, but Paul Thomas Anderson marries the two beautifully. ICE agents are threatened at gunpoint by a Black woman within the first ten minutes. Immigrants rally against swarming police in military fatigues and win. A cartoonishly evil Peter Thiel-like stand-in is shot by a teenager’s newfound love for her dad. And, it turns out, Anderson’s been hiding that he’s a great action director for decades, too! Anderson has …
Lancers women’s volleyball give no peace to Warriors in 3-0 defeat
Share: The Lancer women’s volleyball team defeated El Camino, winning all three sets on Wednesday, September 24, keeping Pasadena on a four match win streak. Within fifteen seconds of the buzzer starting the match, Delaney Blied put Pasadena on the scoreboard with an impressive kill. This was only the beginning of Pasadena’s dominance in the first set, determined largely by excellent defensive play as the Lancers took a commanding 11-5 lead before El Camino took their first time out. Following the timeout, El Camino slowly …
‘You just stay here and die’: Burmese students speak out on travel ban
Share: The Trump administration’s June decision to halt travel from a war-torn Myanmar due to a higher rate of visa overstays has already begun to impact Burmese international students at Pasadena City College. On June 4, 2025, President Trump issued Proclamation 10949, which restricted travel from citizens of several countries, including Myanmar. The proclamation, which was based on a report from the Secretary of State, bars all travel from Myanmar by immigrants and nonimmigrants due to an above average visa overstay rate, and comes after …