The Board of Trustees’ rushed vote to eliminate winter session despite the urgent protestations of multiple groups makes us wonder whether shared governance is still part of the college’s decision making process.
Is anyone taking care of college business?
With six vital senior management positions at PCC vacant, students, faculty and staff can only wonder how business is being properly and efficiently conducted on campus. The recent bribery investigation led to a vice president and facilities manager being put on administrative leave. A week later, Vice President of Administrative Services Rick van Pelt was terminated.
Public voice squelched by Board at meetings
Public comment is the most important aspect of meetings of governing boards. But, the policies the Board of Trustees has established concerning public comment limit concerned citizens’ ability to be heard.
Is anyone taking care of campus business?
With six vital senior management positions at PCC vacant, students, faculty and staff can only wonder how business is being properly and efficiently conducted on campus. Having the college lawyer taking over Human Resources, having the Vice President of Information Technology overseeing the Facilities Department for a still undetermined amount of time, is not a wise, progressive, or safe way to run the college.
FROM THE EDITOR: A very special edition
The bribery scandal and the response to it by journalism students producing a special edition of the paper during finals week, has been a learning experience in so many facets of reporting, writing, editing and publishing that no amount of classroom instruction could ever equal. It has also become a memory all of us will take with us throughout the rest of our lives.
NOTEBOOK: Eyewitness to history
A Courier reporter was watching as two officials from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office arrived on campus to begin the corruption investigation. He followed them to the Facilities Department where they began removing files and computers.
EDITORIAL: A dark chapter dawns
Spring 2012 has been the most volatile semester in the recent history of PCC. The semester that began with protests has ended with more protests and the criminal investigation of two administrators.
Same-sex marriage should be allowed everywhere
Same-sex marriage continues to be the subject of heated debate. California, for example, has recently moved Proposition 8 to the hands of the Supreme Court after judges of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals voted against reconsidering the overturning of the measure, saying that it served no purpose and instead was meant to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California.
State should do more to aid homless vets
The second ever Road Home symposium at PCC in April shone much needed attention on veterans’ needs, most especially for those stricken with post traumatic stress disorder. But with Los Angeles county reporting a large number of homeless individuals and a high percentage of those being veterans, California’s Veterans Affairs Department needs to modify its tactics.
Obama’s lgbt marriage stance is a political ploy
President Barack Obama’s endorsement of same sex marriage is a strategic maneuver in the game called reelection. It was all just a matter of when the announcement would come.