Share: As the Courier celebrates 100 years of service to the community, it is a time to look back upon the many moments that have shaped the lives of the campus community. Some of those many moments showcase the best things about journalism. But this story isn’t about the best moments. This story is about some of the worst. Follow:
Universities; the new ‘Hunting Ground’ for sexual assault
Share: It should be one of the proudest moments of any parent’s life to send a child off to their dream school. College should be a safe place for them to learn, grow, and come into their own. However, there is a secret elite four-year universities have kept. One they have silenced and bought themselves out of for years. But no more. The new documentary “The Hunting Ground” puts a face to a small group of women and men who have been raped and ignored …
Live, Learn and Work Overseas
Share: Since 1961, the Peace Corps has promised the adventure of a lifetime while making an impact on a third world country of your choice. Tiffany Tai knows the benefits of being a Peace Corps volunteer first hand and says there is no better time to join than now. Follow:
Saving the history of the city, one photo at a time.
Share: PCC is in its third year of a program that provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to digitally preserve historic materials. Digitalization Skills for Libraries and Cultural Institutions is an occupational skills certificate program that comprises four courses that prepare students to work in digital repositories for cultural heritage institutions such as museums, libraries and archives. The class meets each Tuesday night from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. during the fall and spring semesters. Linda Stewart is a librarian on campus as …
Campus set to begin hiring process
Share: With faculty and senate officials agreeing to hire 35 new full-time faculty for the college by September, the long process to attaining that number has begun. A Faculty Hiring Priorities Committee is formed by the Academic Senate to assess all requests for new positions, and the process is supposed to be put into motion during the beginning of the fall semester, according to the Pasadena Area Community College District Policy. “We try to make the decision by late fall because January is a big …
Oscars snub minorities in nominations
Share: The amount of ethnically diverse Academy Award winners and nominees can probably be counted on one hand. Last year alone the film, “12 Years A Slave”, a low-budget film directed by an almost unknown African-American director, Steve McQueen, made history by winning Best Picture. Some critics agreed and others believed it won due to its almost controversial issue on slavery. This critic, believes without a doubt, it was the rightful winner. Yet once again, Academy Awards season is here and so are the nominees. …
OPINION: Honoring MLK the right way.
Share: Those who protested during the celebration of Martin Luther King’s birthday honored the late civil rights leader in the best way imaginable. This year’s celebration of the holiday was marked by a series of protests around the nation. Protestors were upset over the deaths or Michael Brown, Eric Garner and others at the hands of police. Activists were encouraged to use the day to participate in public service and peaceful demonstration of social issues, two of the things that King was known for in …
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 …
Editorial: Cairo must sign agreement
Share: PCC students stand to lose nearly $3 million in grant money if Academic Senate President Eduardo Cairo doesn’t sign a document authorizing it. The money would go toward the Student Success and Support Program (SSSP) plan, which is a plan that would allow for many improvements in Student Services, the most important being the hiring of more counselors. As of right now the student to counselor ratio is 885 to one. The money would go to improving PCC’s atrocious counseling situation by hiring at …