Hundreds of students mobilized at the Mirror Pools on the very first day of the semester, protesting against last-minute section cuts and the release of some adjunct faculty members.

The cutting of as many as 96 class sections and the refusal to renew the contracts of some adjunct faculty members has upset many on campus.

     The Board of Trustees supported the statewide Student Success Task Force Recommendations with Alexander Soto, student trustee, voting in favor of the recommendations. The vote was six yes and one abstention.

Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed temporary increase in taxes will have a major impact on PCC if they are approved by voters in November, officials said.

Following the Santa Ana windstorm that ravaged Los Angeles County in December causing around $34 million worth of damage, a Southern California Edison spokersperson told a roundtable panel that they didn't do a good a job in communicating with their customers.

"We didn't do a very good job of letting our customers know [when power would be back on]," spokesperson Scott Anderson said. "We could've improved our communication channels."

Maintaining a minimum of a 2.0 GPA is one of the requirements to play a college sport, however some student athletes find sports to be the push needed to excel above the minimum. Softball player Alexandra Oddenino holds a 3.5 GPA and while she says it requires a lot of self-discipline to maintain, her coach pushes them the extra step.

Vice President of Student Services Robert Bell has been appointed as Interim Vice President of Instruction for the spring semester after Jackie Jacobs retired from that position last month.

Vice President of Student Services Robert Bell has been appointed as Interim Vice President of Instruction for the spring semester after Jackie Jacobs retired from the position last month. A decision will be made later this spring on a permanent appointment to this position.

Marching down Colorado Blvd. in their white and cardinal band clothing, the Pasadena City College Marching Band held their heads high as they played proudly for about one million people, for the five and a half miles of the Rose Parade. "There are so many people who come from everywhere for this parade.

Former PCC student Isaac Campbell was back in court last Thursday for a pretrial hearing in the killing of his girlfriend Liya "Jessie Lu." The hearing was delayed, however, and was moved to Feb. 15.

By Neil Protacio

A new trial was ordered in the killing of a PCC alumna when a jury could not reach a verdict after nine days of deliberation in the dramatic case of an ex-PCC student accused of murder.

A pre-trial hearing for Isaac Campbell is scheduled in January after the jury voted 10 guilty and two not guilty on a second-degree murder charge, officials said. Campbell, a former student, is charged in the 2007 killing of Liya "Jessie"Lu, who also attended the college. Her decomposed body was found covered with kitty litter in a trash can in Arcadia a month after she was reported missing.

The mood was light when Trustee Geoffrey Baum, Area 1, was elected president by the Pasadena Area Community College Board of Trustees in a unanimous vote, in the Creveling Lounge on Dec. 14.

Students need to stand up and take the first step in water conservation said filmmaker Jim Thebaut during a Running Dry Trilogy screening and panel discussion on Tuesday in the Wi-Fi lounge.