There is no denying that cellphones, in particular smart phones, have made people’s lives easier. If you need to call someone, no need to stop at a payphone when you have a phone in your pocket. Need to look up directions? That same phone probably contains GPS. However, there is one place where cellphones have not always been welcomed with open arms: the classroom.
Larry the lanceless lancer…
A knight has his shining armor, a Trojan has his sword, and a Lancer has a lance – or so that’s what history has taught us.
Faculty exhibition premiers in ‘Two Places at Once’
A towering structure of wooden beams put together to resemble boxes stacked upon boxes looms over you as you walk into the Boone Family Art Gallery in the newly constructed Center for the Arts building. Painted in red on a little white box are words proclaiming it to be a “cave of lamentation.”
Netflix wins “Game of Thrones”
A clear victor is emerging in the oversaturated home entertainment market in the form of on-demand Internet applications.
Instructor Michelle Ireland-Galman made PCC her second home
Michelle Ireland-Galman, psychology and sociology instructor, sits at her desk reminiscing on her experience when she was a student at PCC when the campus for vastly different than it is today.
Decorated veteran shares story of life-saving canine
Decorated Army veteran discusses his award-winning book “Until Tuesday.”
All talk and no game
“You guys are a bunch of stupid, pussy, ballsacky… (insert racist and homophobic slurs here.)” is not something one usually hears someone say. That is, unless you have ever set foot in the virtual world that is online gaming, where such language is an everyday thing.
Students to build nano particles with new scanning electron microscope
This semester PCC chemistry students will be building particles so small that they change color.
Gold, on the nano scale, ceases to have its signature color, but turns red.
Universal Horror Nights to give scares with new maze
Entering the front door of a two-story house, hair stands on end as a baby walker next to the stairs starts to come alive and moves across the floor. A woman screams for her son to run as strobe lights send visitors running for the exit. This is just the first room in the newly added “Insidious: Into the Further” maze at Universal Studio’s Hollywood’s “Halloween Horror Nights.”
The Great Gatsby takes to the stage
A tale of love, loss, society, class, wealth, morality, marriage, memory and the past. The Great Gatsby is about the collapse of the American dream in an era of prosperity and material excess, a theme that carries meaning in today’s world.