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The independent student voice of PCC. Serving Pasadena Since 1915.
December 1, 2011
'Kitty Litter' trial bombshell
Ex-student charged in
killing testifies victim
q died in his apartment.
NEIL PROTACIO
Staff Writer
The ex-student charged with
murder in the 2007 slaying of his
girlfriend testified to an Alhambra
Court on Wednesday that she did,
in fact, die at his apartment.
In his testimony, Isaac Campbell
said he and Liya "Jessie" Lu, a
PCC alumna, had an argument, he
left the room and when he
returned, she was on the floor.
"She was lifeless," Campbell
said. "She wasn't responding to
anything."
He did not summon emergency
personnel, but later stuffed the
body in a trash can.
Campbell's friend Michael
Darby previously told investiga¬
tors he found Lu's body in the
trash can Campbell had asked him
to store at his Arcadia house.
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Darby opened it and found Lu's
mummified body buried under
kitty litter. Because of its mummi¬
fied state, an autopsy to find her
cause of death remained inconclu¬
sive.
In testimony Wednesday,
Campbell detail the events of the
day. He said the two had
arranged to meet after
Campbell's nursing clinical exam
to discuss their relationship, but
because of the intensity of the
accelerated class he was enrolled
in, Campbell decided to meet with
his study partner instead. It wasn't
until midnight that Campbell
returned to his apartment to meet
an angry Lu when the argument
erupted.
"The talk at home was calm at
first, and then it got heated,"
Campbell testified. "And then it
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Louis C. Cheung
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Courier
Isaac Campbell testifies during
his trial on a murder charge in
Alhambra on Wednesday.
Megan Carrillo
/
Courier
Candace Parra, 20, biology, had a winning ticket and received a prize at the Got Cash raffle held in the
Quad on Wednesday.
Money saving tips offered in Quad
Jessi Alva
Staff Writer
A three-day education event to
inform students about school
financial awareness and stability
is scheduled to culminate today
with a teach-in about the Occupy
movement in the Quad.
The Got Cash campaign, spon¬
sored by the Associated Students
with participation by the Speech 9
Group Communications class, is
aimed to inform students how to
handle money. The events were
held this week mostly in the
Quad.
Tuesday's event advised stu¬
dents on how to pay for college.
Students from the speech class put
out tables with information about
scholarships and financial aid.
Speech major Alex Dejan said
the event aimed to, "reach stu¬
dents and teach them about col¬
lege costs and how it affects col¬
lege students." Dejan is in the
Speech 9 class who has helped
run and organize the event.
Continued on page 2
Realignment plan
takes shape •, public
airing underway
Sara Medina
Editor-in-Chief
A plan for the realignment of
PCC's teaching divisions has taken
concrete form and is being pre¬
sented to various campus groups
The plan has been a subject of
controversy with many faculty
and students saying they felt left
out of the process, the biggest
opposition shown with a record-
high attendance at a recent Board
of Trustees meeting.
"[Realignment] is moving for¬
ward," David Douglass, dean of
natural sciences, said in an inter¬
view. "I think iT s going to happen
one way or another and I think
people need to decide [whether]
they want to have a voice in it or
do they want to just let it happen."
Douglass and the other deans on
campus developed the proposed
model based on some suggestions
given by the vice presidents and
president of the college. It was pre¬
sented at last week's Academic
Senate meeting.
According to Douglass, the
model, which is now in the hands
of the Planning and Priorities
Committee, will face faculty
scrutiny and will make its way to
the College Council. From there,
some version of the plan will be
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meeting on Dec. 14, the point at
which
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President Mark Rocha
has asked for a progress report.
Before the Board meeting
though, a campus Town Hall to
discuss the plan is scheduled for
Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the
Creveling Lounge.
"Sometimes [individuals] don't
like how things are being done or
who is driving the change,"
Douglass said. "[But] if we can
focus on how we can make our¬
selves better for students, then we
should be willing to examine and
to think about doing it in a better
way."
The plan creates four schools
(humanities, STEM, career and
continuing education and arts,
design and communication), a
change from PCC's current 15
Continued on page 7
New exhibition showcases deep space
Megan Carrillo
/
Courier
Raul Quintero, fire science, Rosyseia Flores, nurs¬
ing, and Ray Shui, college assistant, help set up for
the exhibit "The Shape of the Universe" at the Art
Gallery on Tuesday.
JUDY LlM
Staff Writer
A compilation of photographs of deep
space taken by telescopes of NASA and
by independent photographers will be
on display at the Art Gallery to showcase
the beauty and grandeur of the universe.
David Em, computer assisted drawing
instructor, is the curator of "The Shape of
the Universe: Recent Deep Space
Photography," and has an obvious dedi¬
cation to and enthusiasm for the subject
matter.
"These pictures have all been taken
within the decade, some even as new as
the past weeks," he said. "Even special¬
ists haven't seen some of these pictures."
Em said the universe is surrounded by
energy, and there's a lot out there, con¬
stantly exploding. "This room is about
star birth, from the stars on up instead of
the Earth down low. [This exhibit] is
unique in that the photographs are pre¬
sented in more of an art context," Em
said.
Many of the photographs in the exhib¬
it were also taken by independent pho¬
tographers who invested in telescopes
and cameras to take pictures. What7 s spe¬
cial about the exhibit, he said, is that this
is the first time they will be credited by
name, and is thrilled that some of them
were scheduled to appear at the exhibit
Wednesday night.
Brian Tucker, director of the art gallery,
said in an email, "The show has been
assembled with the cooperation of
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Chinese concert
Annual performance
spotlights
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Percussion
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