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Volume 96, Issue 14
“The Independent Student Voice of PCC, Serving Pasadena Since 1915.
Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007
What's Inside
Victor Jiang
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Courier
Entertainment
Spotlight: Local PCC
bands get’s up on the
big stage. Page 9
Rocky Wu
/
Courier
Arts
Holiday Cheer: Get
into the Christmas
spirit with the holiday
recital, pcccourier.com
What's Going
Down
This is the last issue
for fall, but the news
won’t stop here.
Stay tuned at pcc-
courier.com and look
out for the next print
issue on stands
Thursday, Jan. 17.
Killing Suspect, Former
Student Returned to L.A.
Franco Sui Yuan
Sports Editor
One-time PCC nursing program
student Isaac Campbell, suspected
in the slaying of former PCC stu¬
dent Liya Jessie Lu, was extradited
from Minneapolis, Minn, to Los
Angeles on Tuesday.
Officials at the Hennepin County
Sheriffs jail released custody of
Campbell to local sheriffs authori¬
ties at 11:10 a.m. Central standard
time (9:10 a.m. PST). Almost 12
hours later, he was booked in the
L.A. Sheriffs department West Hol¬
lywood station, where he spent the
night, according to LASD records.
Campbell was moved to the
Inmate Reception Center in down¬
town L.A. on Wednesday, where he
is being held on bail of $1,275,000.
Lu was found dead in Arcadia on
Sept. 15, where her body was in
decomposition and covered by kitty
litter to avoid any strange odors,
according to
L.A. Sheriffs
Homicide
Bureau Lieu¬
tenant Gil Car¬
rillo.
“Campbell
was meant to be
_ here. There is
Isaac Campbell no reason why he
should be held in
Minneapolis,” said Jeremy Zhou,
Lu’s cousin.
"Campbell's case will take [sever¬
al] months to have an ending," said
Detective James Charles. "He will
have a preliminary hearing, and
later on, he will face the jury trial."
Campbell’s court appearance for
the preliminary hearing is set for
Dec. 18 at the Alhambra Court¬
house.
Lu’s parents are still mystified
about the reason for the killing of
See ‘Suspect’ - on Page 2
Hamlet in a Whole New Light
Rafael Delgado
/
Courier
Lamont Webb (left) and Patrick Ian Moore perform in 'All's Well, That's All/ a PCC production continuing to Dec. 8 in the Little Theatre (C106).
See The Scene, Page 6
President Considers Returning Cadillac
Allan Santiago
Copy Editor
PCC President Paulette Perfumo is
considering returning her college-pro¬
vided vehicle after a controversy
erupted around the Cadillac Deville.
At Monday’s Academic Senate
board meeting Perfumo also clarified
to what degree the Board of Trustees
has assisted her and her husband in
their transition.
“I certainly regret the amount of
time and energy that has gone on this
particular issue,” said Perfumo about
her car.
“What I am considering is, it looks
like it may be possible to return the
car and rotate it back through our
pool without it harming the district,
and then if the Board would reconsid¬
er, in my contract, switching out the
vehicle to the auto allowance that
other CEO’s have,” she said.
“The car will go away and we can
just ah start on a fresh page. Because I
really want us to work cohaborative-
ly,” she said.
The Cadillac had stirred up con¬
cerns about the kind of image it gives
to the PCC community, especially
because of its $54,244.46 price tag
and 14-mpg efficiency in the city.
This was largely due to the Pasade¬
na Star-News’ front-page story on the
car, in which it speculated and com¬
pared this particular item to other col¬
lege presidents’ situations.
“I think there was some faculty that
never realized that presidents in the
past have had a college vehicle provid¬
ed for them. So I think that created
some of the confusion ... initially,”
she said.
“I would actually prefer to have
just a monthly auto allowance. I
would be taxed on that amount of
money, but it would be my responsi¬
bility to take care of the car ... and
make sure it’s maintained,” she said,
adding, “I am ... exploring some
options to be able to do that.”
In the last Board of Trustees meet¬
ing, talk of assisting the president in
moving closer to the campus contin¬
ued. It was mentioned that the cur¬
rent state of the housing market is
preventing the president from selling
her home.
“Our home ... started on the mar¬
ket at $620,000, we just received an
offer for $530,000,” Perfumo said.
“We’ll be lucky to break even when
See ‘President’ - on Page 2
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