Share: The Creveling Lounge was unrecognizable on May 31, as the 61 PCC graduates walked through the center of the room to the sound of beating drums played by other students among them. Two women performed a Koko West African dance in colorful costumes, dancing around friends and families and all of the students who successfully completed their academic achievements this Spring. Follow:
Police Blotter
Share: Monday, May 20, 2019 Report of a student who suffered a leg injury inside GM-220. The student was transported to the Health Center for further treatment. Library staff reported a subject is being loud and disruptive in the library. Officers responded to the area and escorted the subject off campus. Officer calls of a subject in Lot 4 going in and out of consciousness. Paramedics responded and assisted the subject, he was suffering from low blood sugar. Subject was later treated and released. Student …
Police Blotter
Share: Monday, May 13, 2019 There were reports of two transients and later, one disruptive, non-student attempting to access the GM building. All parties were escorted off campus. Library staff reported a subject watching inappropriate content on a library computer. Subject was escorted off campus. Tuesday, May 14, 2019 A male subject was escorted off campus after facilities staff reported him wandering through the Science Village. A staff member reported a subject using vulgar language toward her at the Mirror Pools. The report was taken …
AS election tampering forces re-election
Share: Election tampering from the mid-May Associated Student (AS) elections have forced AS leadership to call for a re-election. Follow:
Veterans center honors fallen service members
Share: This year, Memorial Day was commemorated at PCC on Thursday May 23, at the school’s Memorial Wall. The sound of a bagpipe accompanied the event, as five speakers honored the memories of those who lost their lives in war. Follow:
PCC’s symphony orchestra: Music is ‘like the air we breathe’
Share: The night started out quiet. Well, relatively quiet. As quiet as a trumpet and piccolo practicing in a literal echo chamber could be. The fluttering runs of the piccolo combined with the triumphant impacts of the trumpet created a disorienting atmosphere. Even a music aficionado would have had trouble picking out individual works. But then the trumpet rang out with a classic piece of musical literature — the kind that any passerby would recognize: the “William Tell Overture.” The trumpet part — built off …
Defined by the Grind
Share: Growing up with dyslexia, being bullied throughout his entire educational career, battling isolationism and low self esteem, Pasadena City College student Jacob Yanez turned to music for solace. Yanez found not only music, but also a community in one of music’s most underground genres- grindcore. Follow:
From a tough youth to infinite possibilities
Share: In spite of her challenging past in the middle of the poverty and the violence of South Central Los Angeles, Olympia LePoint is the first person to go to college in her family. Presently, she is an inspiring figure for a lot of people, including her students at Pasadena City College. Follow:
From warfare to healthcare: The many career options for vets
Share: As it turns out, getting into a program to become a registered nurse (RN), a nurse anesthetist, or a dental hygienist is a very competitive business. As the four speakers at the Health Science Career Panel analyzed career options, they shared not only their personal work experiences and choices, but they also offered suggestions in the nursing, anesthesiologist, technical, and dental hygiene fields to PCC students and veterans last Thursday afternoon in room W-206. Follow:
ArtCenter grad invents Martian ‘dump truck’
Share: Composed of three separate modules and 12 wheels, ArtCenter College of Design senior Omar Rehman’s segmented Mars land train was shown off at ArtCenter’s annual grad show. The three separate modules all had their own purpose — the front module for the astronauts and collecting geological samples, the middle to process the samples and the remaining module gathers the remains of obsolete rovers to retrieve them. Follow: