Share: This semester, Pasadena City College is hosting their first-ever virtual Club Rush. Due to the pandemic, Club Rush is different this year, and with just one-click students can join a club. Visiting the online Club Rush, found on PCC’s website, students will find videos of clubs, separated by different categories. The club leaders introduce themselves, and there is easy access to joining and contacting them. It’s very different from the usual scene of tables spread throughout PCC’s campus, and a lot of work went …
Blotter: False assault report, mirror pool anxiety, and screaming in the Quad
Share: Monday, August 31 An officer was flagged down by a facilities member, reporting a female loitering near the U building. Police escorted the loiterer off campus. Tuesday, September 1 A caller stated he was suffering from an anxiety attack near the mirror pools. An officer made contact with the person, who was fine and was not requesting paramedics. The subject was escorted off campus. A male subject was reported screaming in the quad. Police escorted him off campus. Facilities requested an officer at the …
PCC campus closed due to Bobcat Fire
Share: The Bobcat fire that is currently sweeping through Angeles National Forest, blanketing the foothill communities in smoke and ash, has caused Pasadena City College to fully shut down its facilities until Monday, Sept. 14, campus officials announced today in an email. Follow:
Student Health Fee required despite campus closure
Share: Despite not being allowed on campus to access in person health services, the estimated 30,250 students registered at Pasadena City College this fall are still required to pay the Student Health Fee. Follow:
Blotter: Burglary in the U building
Share: Monday August 24 Someone called the Pasadena PD with an anonymous tip of a suspicious vehicle in one of the Pasadena City College parking lots parked with their doors open. A PPD officer investigated the parking lots and all of the video surveillance cameras were checked. No vehicles were found parked in any of the parking spaces by the officer or found on video. Around 9 pm, two transients were found to be bathing in the 2nd floor hallway of the IT Building. Facilities …
Bobcat Fire: Santa Ana winds put city of Pasadena on high alert
Share: The newest addition to the ring of Southern California fires, the Bobcat fire, broke out in Angeles National Forest Sunday night. Follow:
Athletic association and PCC delay the return of sports
Share: Erika Endrijonas, superintendent-president of Pasadena City College has postponed the return of sports to PCC until spring 2021. Follow:
Blotter: Battery, suspicious people, and an arrest on campus
Share: Monday, August 17 An officer responded to an elevator call. A person was stuck in an elevator in Lot 5 on the north side of campus. The officer requested the Pasadena Fire Department to assist with getting the man out of there. The subject was released from the elevator without further incidents. Tuesday, August 18 No activity was reported. Wednesday, August 19 An officer escorted two transients off campus from the Boone sculpture garden. Thursday, August 20 A pedestrian contacted an officer and reported …
Racism and rebuke: An email reveals ‘all lives matter’ faculty
Share: This story has been updated to include a statement from Marc Angelucci on his status as an honoree from the Southern Poverty Law Center. PCC found a moment of unity in the midst of troubling times when college leadership unanimously passed the resolution denouncing the killing of unarmed Black individuals, but responses to an internal email quickly drew outrage at two professors for their views, according to a partial thread obtained by the Courier. Follow:
Pasadena protesters stand with Black lives
Share: Thousands of demonstrators caravaned through the streets of Pasadena Tuesday, June 2 to protest and hold a vigil after the unjust murder of George Floyd by Minneappolis police officers, forming a united call for justice and demanding actions of change from the inner city government. The peaceful protest was organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Pasadena Branch, alongside with the National Day Laborers Organizing Network, faith leaders from the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, and the Community Clergy Coalition. The …