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Veterans of the past and present at PCC were honored with a memorial service in front of the Veterans Memorial Wall on Nov. 10.
President Mark Rocha, Veterans Club President Cameron White and special guest speaker Lt. Colonel Richard Bianchino, USMC (retired) spoke in honor of veterans.
World Boxing Association lightweight champion Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini showed support for PCC’s veteran students last week when he visited the Veterans Resource Center.
The process of realigning teaching divisions is a thinly veiled effort by PCC’s administration to destroy shared governance, faculty members and staff claimed at a Board of Trustees meeting last week.
All three incumbents were re-elected by a substantial majority in the election on Oct. 9 for Pasadena Area Community College Board of Trustees.
Opening arguments in the case against Isaac Campbell, who has been in jail since 2007 for allegedly killing his girlfriend, Liya “Jessie” Lu, and sealing her body in a trashcan in a plastic bag filled with cat litter, began on Oct. 7. The trial had been continued and postponed for four years.
A group of veterans from PCC sought out and distributed donations from a clothing and food drive to help homeless vets in Los Angeles County on Nov. 5.
Veterans teamed up with The National Veterans Foundation, a Los Angeles-based organization centered on helping veterans any way they can.
A trial date has been requested for PCC student Bowen Du, 19, who has been charged with vehicular manslaughter after a fatal accident, according to his attorney.
Ron Robinson, a legendary figure in PCC athletics who coached the school to its last baseball state championship in 1967, has died after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 84.
Though the division realignment process is moving along through committees, some faculty members at the Academic Senate meeting on Nov. 7, believe it is already a done deal.