Share: In a nationwide cyberattack on Canvas, the learning management system used by many educational institutions, Pasadena City College (PCC) has also been targeted, with the college alerting users the platform is indefinitely offline as they monitor the situation. At about 1:37 p.m. PCC Alert issued a warning to avoid logging into Canvas. Providing further updates, PCC advised against responding to any messages or authorizing unfamiliar Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) requests. For those already logged into the platform or who signed in after the hack, they …
Gov. Gavin Newsom visits PCC for Apprenticeship Week
Share: Today during Apprenticeship Week, Gov. Gavin Newsom visited Pasadena City College (PCC) to see the development of its Construction Trades Lab and to learn more about PCC’s career technical programs. As a program funded by the Walter Family Foundation via LA Rises, a recovery initiative addressing the Eaton Fire, the lab is part of this recovery effort. The program not only intends to create a needed workforce to rebuild after the fires, but also to teach trade skills and to increase apprenticeship opportunities. “Most …
BLOTTER: ‘It’s five o’clock somewhere’—morning drinkers make a drunk getaway from Lot 4
Share: Monday, Mar 30, 2026 2:56 a.m. – An officer found a homeless person at the IT Building and escorted him off campus. 8:31 a.m. – A man was found digging in a dumpster by kitchen staff and an officer advised him to leave and he did. 10:59 a.m.– A homeless man was found sleeping on the ground of the second floor men’s restroom in the C Building by staff and escorted off campus. 11:09 a.m.– A student fell and injured her knee during class …
Soul Care: Calming craft event helps make scents of incense
Share: 1,400 years ago during Japan’s Asuka period, a man’s simple act of burning aromatic wood created panic as such valued wood was never to be burned. Yet, his innocent blunder revealed that doing so creates pleasant scents, inspiring the art of Kodo— the way of fragrance, an esteemed practice that attendees at Pasadena City College’s (PCC) Soul Care Spring: Incensing Making event partook in on Thursday, April 2, all thanks to a happy accident. The incense making event was hosted by Rebecca Roy, founder …
People BAFTA learn about intersectionality
Share: “Bro, I can say the word. I have the pass.” Many of us Black people have heard some variation of this phrase when people try to justify their use of the n-word. If not that, non-Black people will claim they’re Black when they use the word. Other common deceptions include masking the n-word as the Chinese nèi ge/nà ge or the Korean you. These examples don’t even account for the blatant use of Black slurs. Unsurprisingly, experiences like these have fostered distrust in Black …
‘Red Bike’ takes viewers for a nostalgic ride through adolescence and its musings
Share: What do you want to be? Most people have been asked this question at some point in time. Maybe it was by their parents, for a school assignment, or maybe they’ve asked themselves this. When asked, some may give the common answer of firefighter or police officer while the more eccentric kids might’ve dreamed about being a superhero or a unicorn. The premise of Caridad Svich’s play “Red Bike” is about dreams. The story follows a group of kids who want to dream in …
Multi-factor authentication expels fake student bots
Share: At educational institutions bots have been an issue plaguing schools for many years and Pasadena City College is no different. Yet, recent information from PCC administration and staff have revealed that the problem has practically been solved. This is mostly thanks to multi-factor authentication (MFA) which will become mandatory at PCC after fall 2025. Students at PCC may have noticed a banner displayed on LancerPoint titled “MFA” as shown below as well as posters around the school with the same title and more information. …
‘The Paper’ is not ‘garbage clickbait nonsense’
Share: In recent years mockumentary sitcoms have been on the rise, with shows like “Abbott Elementary” gaining profound success and Peacock’s new mockumentary series “The Paper” appears to be on the same path. “The Office” spin-off follows The Toledo Truth Teller (TTT), a virtually dead newspaper that new Editor-in-Chief Ned Sampson is tasked with reinvigorating. Overall, “The Paper” succeeds in its comedy, characters, and sitcom mockumentary humor, however, it leaves more wanting in its journalistic representation. One thing that makes “The Paper” stand apart from …
Charlie Kirk’s legacy should concern us more than those who aren’t mourning him
Share: On September 10th, headlines were filled with news of political commentator Charlie Kirk’s demise at the hands of a shooter while on the first stop of his American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley University (UVU). In the wake of Kirk’s killing, the issue of political violence has been raised as right-wing conservatives hailed Kirk as an “American Martyr” and immediately blamed the left for his assassination. Yet, the biggest controversy regarding Kirk’s death has been conservatives’ condemnation of people celebrating Kirk’s death or feeling …
PCC students hopeful about divestment after Trustees meeting
Share: On May 14, at a Board of Trustees Committee meeting, PCC students approached the Board to encourage them to divest from companies with ties to military contractors and major polluters in protest against Israel’s war on Palestine. Around this time last year, PCC’s Associated Students (ASPCC) unanimously passed a resolution in support of the PCC Foundation divesting, giving the Foundation a deadline of July 2025, less than a month away now. During the meeting, the Board shared their progress in accordance with the PCC …