Share: In response to concerns about rampant racial injustices during recent years, the Academic Senate’s Social Justice Committee is working with on-campus groups to implement the policies of the antiracism document published at the April 10 Academic Senate meeting. The document, which was drafted after the Students’ Call to Action plan was presented during PCC’s Our Black Lives Matter Listening Forum in 2020, directly acknowledges the growing trend in hate crimes and a plan of action for PCC to follow in the coming years. “Institutional …
Peacocks run afoul of the law in South Pas
Share: Local cities in Southern California, especially the city of South Pasadena, have dealt with growing complaints of peafowl in their cities and have now decided to take action and create ordinances and laws to ban the birds from their city. In October 2022, South Pasadena City Council agreed to a peafowl management plan to trap and remove the peacocks from the city and send them to other locations, a majority of which would be transported to undisclosed locations. “Once peafowl are trapped by the …
BLOTTER: Domestic violence and people sleeping in their cars
Share: Monday April 03, 2023: 12:41 a.m. Patrol officers found someone asleep in their car in front of the CEC on the west side and were told to leave and they did. 12:06 p.m.: Staff reported they were a victim of a hate crime that occurred off campus. A courtesy report was taken and forwarded to the police agency with jurisdiction. 10:51 p.m.: A boyfriend reported that his girlfriend had not come home and her car was found in lot 5 where she explained she …
PCC Library closes briefly due to police investigation
Share: Early Monday morning, PCC released an email to the campus community stating there was police activity at the library concerning a threat. “The PCC library on the Colorado Campus is closed this morning due to police activity,” the email read. In a statement from PCC, spokesperson Alex Boekelheide said that there had been an anonymous threat received against the library, with PCC police and the LA County Sheriff’s investigating the threat this morning. “The Sheriffs and PCC PD investigated the library today and determined …
PCC athletics dean on leave during ongoing investigation
Share: PCC Kinesiology, Health, and Athletics (KHA) Dean Dyan Miller was placed on administrative leave in January after a leaked email allegedly exposed a violation of the school’s hiring policies. On Dec. 14, 2022 eight KHA faculty members presented a vote of no confidence for Miller in a public comment delivered during the Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting by KHA professor and coach William Moore. “Dean Miller facilitates divisiveness and disunity in the division where good, productive and close relations used to exist,” Moore said …
Fentanyl crisis continues as PCC plays catch up
Share: Since 2019, the United States has seen a massive influx in fentanyl overdoses resulting in rapid death rates with over 71,000 people dying from a synthetic opioid-related drug overdose in 2021, leaving questions about what PCC is doing to enforce harm reduction. Illicitly manufactured fentanyl has become popular in the illegal drug market in the last half a decade due to its incredibly high potency and low cost, as well as its heroin-like effect. Fentanyl is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and …
Is time up for TikTok in the U.S.?
Share: As developments continue to arise in the potential ban of TikTok in the United States, PCC students and professors have a lot to say about the issue. “I don’t want TikTok to go away, it’s a creative outlet for many people,” student Rosie Martinez said. The threat to ban TikTok is not entirely news to Americans. In 2020, the Trump administration also threatened to ban the app. The Biden administration is demanding that Chinese shareholders sell their shares of TikTok or else ByteDance, the …
BLOTTER: Staff member harassed by man in Lot 7
Share: Monday, March 13, 2023 An unhoused man was reported to be sleeping under a tree with his possessions scattered in the grass near the LL Building. He was escorted off campus. Tuesday, March 14, 2023 An officer encountered a man on campus during routine patrol. He was advised that the campus was closed. 2 citations were issued for cars parked in Lots 4 & 5 overnight without a permit. A student reported that a laptop they’d borrowed from the district was stolen from them …
Academic Senate president fires back at ‘unauthorized’ faculty newsletter
Share: The Academic Senate (AS) at Pasadena City College rebuked a group of faculty members for sharing an “unauthorized” newsletter that was not approved by the AS Executive Board, in what they called a newsletter full of myths, lies, and opinions that lacked “collegiality.” “Please be advised that this newsletter does not represent, nor has it been authorized by the 40+ members of the Academic Senate board,” the email said. “The ‘newsletter’ in question is full of misinformation, untruths and the opinion of one (or …