Author: Alumni Staff

For those who are passionate about college sports, the month of March is synonymous with March Madness, the college equivalent of the NBA playoffs. March Madness provides a stage for peer athletes to showcase their talent on.”Students and professors should care.

A YouTube video rant posted by UCLA student Alexandra Wallace about Asian students has sparked outrage and even garnered death threats from viewers. “If you’re going to come to UCLA,” Wallace said as a preface to her video, “then use American manners”.

The Science Technology Engineering Mathematics program at PCC enlisted guest speaker Dr. Priya Venkatesan on March 17 to motivate and pass on several tips to ensure student success. Her best advice: take advantage of technology and network. The government-funded STEM program aims to assist students in accomplishing their goal of transferring to a four-year university and ultimately, achieve a graduate’s degree.

The Students Unlimited club presented a check for $390 to the Disabled Students Program and Services (DSPS) on Thursday. Students Unlimited is a club for disabled students and others who support equal access to education. The club strives to promote disability awareness and it started in the fall of 2009.

Board of Trustees member Dr. Anthony Fellow believes that PCC is a great university with a wonderful staff, a fantastic president, and promising students with lots of potential and who are capable doing great things.Fellow, who was elected to the Board in 2009, is proud to represent PCC.

The President’s Latino Advisory Committee is offering several $1,000 scholarships to students, through the Latino Scholarships Fund.PLAC started in 2005 and consists of committee members from the community and PCC faculty and staff, as well as local businesses and friends of the college.

A dual swim meet was held at Cerritos College on Friday with Los Angeles Trade Tech College, PCC, and Cerritos College. It was a bittersweet meet when the men’s swim team swept the competition, but the women’s swim team that didn’t do so well.The men’s team scored, 142 points against Cerritos’ 117, and 176 points against LA Trade Tech with a score of 70 points.

In a near unanimous vote recently, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Westboro Baptist Church in a case involving their picketing at a Marine’s funeral. While disappointing, this was the right decision. The case, Snyder v. Phelps, involved the father of a deceased marine suing for damages after the church picketed his son’s funeral in 2006.

The growing concern over global warming has initiated a race for clean energy sources and nuclear energy has become a prominent frontrunner. But after the recent natural disaster in Japan, we must, again, consider the dangers and shortfalls of nuclear power.