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Veterans Voice of America will make its debut streaming live online at lancerradio.org on Thursday at noon, according to the show’s host John Samuel.Samuel and student veteran Magdalena Sanchez Curiel will introduce the new student veterans-specific program with an interview of Army veteran, business owner and TV personality Rudy Martinez.

For the first time ever, the PCC Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition will be held at the Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art on Union Street in Pasadena. Submissions -in any medium- are due the first week of the spring semester, Feb. 22- 25. The show, titled “Tomorrow Today”, will open March 11 and will offer cash awards.

The Community Education Center has received a grant of $150,000 from the U.S. Small Business Administration to give business students more educational opportunities.

Faculty members are heartbroken over a recent theft of a cactus bud from the Rock and Cactus Garden on the eastern side of the campus.Sometime during the weekend of January 15 and 16, someone meandering through the Rock and Cactus Garden severed the bud of a growing cactus, according to faculty involved.

The Associated Students Executive Board has voted to turn both the second and fourth meetings of the month into study sessions while the first and third meetings will be moved to the Circadian Lounge during the winter intersession as a test run.Modeled after the Board of Trustees’ study session meetings at the Community Education Center, the meetings were turned into study sessions in order to encourage interaction.

A team of students and faculty banded together to produce their first live broadcast of the Tournament of Roses Parade on Jan. 1, marking a milestone in Lancer Radio history,With a remote site set up on the outskirts of campus, across the street from Carl’s Jr.

After the governor’s recent budget proposal to cut $400 million from California community colleges, one of newly elected Board of Trustees President William Thomson’s critical goals is to work with the PCC Foundation to raise money for the college.

With proposed state budget cuts in sight atop the numerous cuts already enacted, PCC Foundation has launched a new approach to raising money. Earlier this month the school commenced its’ “Raise Your Hand for PCC” campaign, which seeks donations from the school’s community, faculty and alumni in accordance with the Educational Master Plan.

Using the new 9/11 G.I. Bill, Stephan Soto enrolled at PCC with a lucrative career in electrical engineering in mind, until his ambition took a dramatic turn. “That’s when I learned about how veterans are being treated,” said Soto. “I decided to change my major to political science. I want to make an impact [on veterans’ issues].

One look at “the shop,” as those familiar with the place refer to it, and anybody would agree that PCC’s Automotive Lab is not an ordinary classroom.