Share: Hackers have been using artificial intelligence (AI) bots to pose as college students in online classes for years, in an attempt to scam colleges out of financial aid money. Schemes like these have been tracked as far back as even the early 2000s. Kim Rich, a former deputy sheriff and professor of criminal justice at Los Angeles Pierce College, has been investigating these online bots since 2006. “If a given student received $3,000 in financial aid, and 40,000 bots have infiltrated a given district, …
From The Archives: ‘Special! Another Letter from War Zone’
Share: [Editor’s Desk, 2024: This story is reprinted from the oldest archived edition of the Courier we have: our third edition from back when we were still the Pasadena High School Chronicle. There are a few interesting anecdotes in the edition—a track meet held between faculty, a speech celebrating a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln who lived in Pasadena—but it’s hard to beat the importance of the Great War. As a part of the Courier’s past, we also found it interesting at how different …
Lancers blowout win eases the heat in season opener
Share: Sophomore wideout Flip Fox brought the heat in the season opener, going for 125 yards and 3 touchdowns in the Lancers 46-28 victory over the Santa Ana Dons last Saturday night. “I’m 100 percent confident in us dominating this game,” freshman defensive back Cedric Allen II said before kickoff. “We can win by 3, 4, or 5 touchdowns even.” Kickoff was delayed an hour due to intense heat, but the Lancers wasted no time showing just how confident they were. Before the first quarter …
‘It’s a little lonely in the STEM community for women.’ This club aims to change that
Share: Even through a Zoom call, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE)’s cabinet radiates excitement as they share their visions and aspirations for the club. President Blanca Navas and vice president Sherlin Hakopian eagerly detail the club’s importance in providing a space for women in engineering to develop a system of mutual support and understanding. “It’s a little lonely in the STEM community for women,” Hakopian said. “It’s a very male-dominated field, so sometimes it might feel difficult to feel like you belong and to …
Police search for suspect who attacked woman sleeping on campus
Share: A violent assault on the Pasadena City College campus in the early hours of Aug. 11 has left a woman hospitalized and prompted a joint investigation by campus and city police. In the early hours of Aug. 11, campus police responded to an incident involving a violent attack on the main campus. The police said that at approximately 2:30 a.m., officers were called to the east side of the E building exterior, where the female victim, who does not attend PCC, reported being violently …
Lancers stay unbeaten following late game heroics
Share: Last Friday night the audience attending the Lancers match versus the Moorpark Raiders was treated to a neck-and-neck stalemate capped off by a game-winner from sophomore midfielder Delilah Vazquez. Pasadena’s struggles to find the back of the net were apparent from the beginning and continued until the halftime whistle rang, with the Lancers exiting the pitch having not found a goal, but ensuring their opponent didn’t either. As halftime began, an opportunity suddenly opened up as the Lancers were rewarded with a penalty kick …
Feel empowered by the roots of Black music this June
Share: Black music, black joy, black love, black excellence, what is it? What does it look like, feel like, sound like? How is it portrayed, thought of, and looked upon? Without any intention or purposeful action, success while being black has been limited to certain jobs and genres by everyone but black people. But when taking a dive into the underground utopia of black music the mind is taken to places that are vaguely familiar but aren’t often visited. June is “Black Music Month,” and …
Next student president opens up about family, AI, and the saxophone
Share: In middle school, Alfredo Martinez Sandoval had a dream that he was playing the saxophone. In high school, the saxophone became his connection to the city of Pasadena through the Tournament of Roses parade, which set his path in motion to become the incoming president of the Associated Students of Pasadena City College. “I fell in love with saxophone,” he says, sitting on a shady bench in front of the Shatford Library. “I had a dream about playing it one time, and due to …
Wi-Fi Lounge looks radiant as ASPCC hosts ‘Valorant’ tournament
Share: The student lounge was transformed on Monday. The normally bright lights were dim, accompanied by a pulsing RGB glow. The furniture was completely rearranged, with tables clustered in the center surrounded by ten students, staring intensely at laptops, barking brief, cryptic messages at each other. Another dozen students sit in chairs in front of a projector screen, laughing in excitement as the screen cycles through the action from each laptop, watching as digital avatars duck in and out of smoke clouds and dodge virtual …
PCC to change sign-in page to Microsoft redirect starting in June
Share: The Pasadena City College Information Technology Services Team (ITS) has begun changing several login redirects to Microsoft in order to strengthen PCC technological security and direct all of PCC’s resources to a singular login portal. In mid-May the PCC Information Technology Services Team (ITS) announced in an email that several PCC applications such as Google, Canvas, and Rave Alerts would be changing their login system redirects starting on June 18, 2024. When logging into these PCC applications, users will be redirected to a Microsoft …