Category: News

On a quest to find the perfect cup of coffee? Consider your journey’s end at Jones Coffee Roasters on Raymond and California Avenues in Pasadena.

An initiative to add a student activities fee of $6 to registration was received with wide approval from the Board of Trustees, following an Associated Students presentation on May 7.

Walter Tyrrel Shatford II, the man whom the library is named after, died at his Pasadena home on May 5 at the age of 94.”He was an incredible man of high standards who valued educational excellence,” said Mary Ann Laun, dean of library services.

Bathrooms: The great equalizer. When nature calls, none of us is exempt from paying our respects to the porcelain god. But not all toilets are created equally. To assist readers in their search for the potty par excellence, the Courier has drummed up a little guide.

To many PCC students, math has been a pain in the neck, and in some other unmentionable places. PCC’s Math Resource Center, however, has aided teachers and students along their sometimes frustrating journey through the world of polynomials, word problems, square roots and much more.

Famous jazz pianist Jon Mayer, not to be confused with pop singer John Mayer, led a class and played alongside students at PCC on April 30. “It was just crazy that it was actually happening. He is such a big name,” said Joel Zobrist who accompanied Mayer on drums during his visit.

The road winds over bends and curves as hours trickle out the window of the car. It’s a family vacation and the people weighing down the seats are eagerly waiting to stretch their legs and breathe in their destination.To Noah Sheets, a 20-year-old undeclared major, the journey is but a peripheral blur.

PCC badminton’s top player, Priscilla Lun, will be absent from the California Community College Athletic Association’s State Individual Championships on Friday at Irvine Valley College, due to a prior obligation with the US Olympic Development program.Lun will be in Boston playing in the Wilson MIT Boston Open, which is sponsored by USA Badminton.

Three hits are all that did it. Three small hits that, if measured out end to end, would barely stretch from home to first base. Yet for the Lancer baseball team, three small hits was just another instance where they were unable to patch the leak as they watched one game, and one season, become awash in bitter frustration and unyielding disbelief.

The premier outside hitter for the PCC volleyball team for the past two seasons, Ashley Marshman, will transfer to Cal Poly Pomona after signing a letter of intent on Thursday. The team’s setter, Vanessa Amran, is accepting a scholarship to play at Whittier College next season.