Fashion donation stitches new creativity

Share: It was just the first week, but the fashion design students already had hands on deck. Eyes were fixated upon laptops with illustrations. Designs on paper filled tables, adorned with swatches of fabrics that students were constantly mixing and matching. Amongst the puncturing noises of sewing and the occasional typing, the room is almost devoid of social butterfly chatter, instead replaced with the type of murmur typical in office cubicles. In other words, it was crunch time. Follow:

Upcoming Events

Share: Currently running: The Juried Student Exhibition, continuing now through January 30. Writer and artist Bernard Cooper is guest juror and the exhibition is open to the public Tuesdays through Fridays from 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM, in the Boone Family Art Gallery, PCC Center for the Arts. Friday, January 23: CSU “What’s Next Workshop” at 3:00 PM in L110 and again Wednesday, January 28 Wednesday at 10:00 AM. Learn what to expect next in the transferring process after you submit your CSU Application Transfer …

Activism celebrated on MLK Day

Share: The All Saints Episcopal Church of Pasadena held an open space for expression to commemorate Martin Luther King Day Celebration on Saturday before a musical procession led to a picnic back on Euclid Street in memory of two activists. The event was primarily intended for youth and marked the start of a few services and events held by the All Saints Church this past weekend. Follow:

Media needs to do a better job at covering tragedies

Share: Major media outlets are more likely to cover tragedies in first-world Western countries than in underdeveloped nations. This is no more evident in the coverage of last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris as opposed to the coverage of terrorist attacks in northern Nigeria. The attacks on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and another attack on a kosher grocery store in the French capital generated global outcry in the hours after they took place. The attacks left a total of 17 people …

President Obama proposes free community college tuition

Share: President Obama proposed making two years of community college free for students in a video statement posted Thursday on the White House Facebook page that comes ahead of his pending State of the Union address scheduled for January 20. If all 50 states participate the proposal could save a full-time community college student approximately $3,800 in tuition per year, according to the White House website. The proposal would allow students who attend community college at least half-time and maintain a 2.5 GPA to be eligible …