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Volume 103, Issue 13
“The Independent Student Voice of PCC, Serving Pasadena Since 191 5."
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Retirement
incentive
tempts many
Soldiers remembered
Anthony Richetts/Courier
Arthur Neil Borgquist, a Vietnam War veteran, tells stories of other Pasadena soldiers he has served with
to a crowd of student veterans in front of PCC s Veteran's Memorial Wall at a Memorial Day event on May
26.
Memorial Day marked
Natalie Sehn Weber
Web Editor
About 60 people gathered at the
Memorial Wall to remember fallen
soldiers from wars past and pres¬
ent on May 26. Sun sparkled
through leafy branches above the
somber event, attended by sur¬
vivors of most if not all conflicts
between the Vietnam War and
today's Iraq and Afghanistan
wars.
Amongst the guest speakers was
Board of Trustees President
William Thomson and PCC alum¬
nus and Vietnam War veteran
Arthur Borgquist.
More than 20 veteran students,
their counselor, Patricia D'Orange-
Martin, Veterans Resource Center
manager, Carol Calandra and
dozens of respectful civilians were
in attendance.
PCC's Veterans Club hosted the
event. Ricardo Martinez, the club's
president, invited Chaplin Captain
Ernesto Reyes to lead the opening
prayer.
"These honored dead gave the
most precious gift they have," said
Reyes. "[Let] us honor their mem¬
ory by caring for the family mem¬
bers they left behind."
Army veteran student Bill
McCarthy, who served 24 years in
the military, shared his take on
Memorial Day.
"Three hundred and sixty-four
days a year are my Memorial
Days," he said. "This [day] is for
the civilian population. Every day,
I remember all my soldiers who
were killed in action." McCarthy
had been right in the thick of the
early years of the Iraq war when
he lost 13 fellow soldiers in action,
four of them right in front of him.
"But I also remember the ones
that died when they got back
home," said McCarthy. Although
most of the soldiers had died
together in operations, he said two
Continued on page 7
Chenin Burnett-Doering
Staff Writer
PCC will lose 87 members of its
faculty, staff, and administration at
the end of this semester due to the
early retirement incentive offered
by the college in an effort to save
money and cut costs.
A vice president, deans, man¬
agers and teachers who have
together spent more than a thou¬
sand years with PCC are retiring at
the end of June.
Those leaving PCC include Lisa
Sugimoto, vice president of college
advancement, Carl Main, dean of
mathematics, Alex Kritselis, dean
of visual arts and media studies,
James B. Bickley, professor of psy¬
chology, Irene Aguilera, resource
development specialist, Shirley L.
Schmid, publications services,
assistant, Sherry Hassan, director
of business services, and Lola
Proano-Gomez, professor of
Spanish, literature, writing, and
culture.
Also leaving PCC are Pat Rees,
web producer, Vicki Martin, pho¬
tography instructor, Sue Brown,
sketching and rendering instruc¬
tor, Judy Holmes, VAMS secretary,
and Ed Pottorff, photo lab techni¬
cian.
Lisa Sugimoto who previously
served as college president is tak¬
ing advantage of the retirement
incentive. (See related story this
page).
Mathematics Dean Carl Main
sees retirement as a positive
change and wants to travel the
country. (See related story page 7).
Continued on page 7
Daniel Nerio/Courier
Lisa Sugimoto
Vice President
Sugimoto to end
35-year career
Chenin Burnett-Doering
Staff Writer
Lisa Sugimoto, vice president of
college advancement, is retiring
after a nearly 35-year long career
in community colleges.
She began at PCC in 1976 as a
part-time classified staff member
in the counseling office while she
finished off her masters degree.
She was then hired full time by the
counseling department and
worked at PCC for eight years.
After working at Long Beach
City College for 14 years,
Sugimoto came back to PCC again
Continued on page 7
Parolee in jail after arrest
Campus suffers network outage
Chenin Burnett-Doering
Staff Writer
PCC police arrested a parolee on
May 26 after a cadet saw the sus¬
pect attempting to gain access to
cars in parking lot 5.
PCC police would not release
the suspect's name.
"It is currently under investiga¬
tion," said Officer Michael
Despain. However, the Pasadena
Police Department confirmed the
suspect as 34-year old Ulises
Magallon.
According to PCC Police Officer
Ronald Insalaco, campus police
approached Magallon around 8
a.m. between parking lots 5 and
5A after a student reported that a
man entered her parked vehicle
while she slept inside. The cadet
reportedly saw him attempting to
gain access to other cars in level 3
of Lot 5.
"We have taken a lot of vehicle
on campus
theft reports on campus," Insalaco
said. "We are very fortunate to
have made contact with this indi¬
vidual who may or may not have
been involved with the recent
vehicle thefts that have taken place
[here]."
Despain said police are trying to
determine if Magallon is somehow
involved in the prior vehicle thefts.
"Some of the same keys were
used in these thefts," said Despain.
Continued on page 7
Staff Writers
Computer systems across the
campus came to an abrupt crash
yesterday afternoon.
The interruption, according
to Computer Teclmical Support
specialist Ben Wilkes, began
between 1 and 1:30 p.m.
"It was a campus wide net¬
work interruption," said
Wilkes, "and it took the phones
down with it."
Most of the network connec¬
tions were restored by 3 p.m.,
however the CC Building was¬
n't restored until 6 p.m. when
Wilkes rebooted its servers.
The Computer Services
Department, said Wilkes, sus¬
pected a computer virus issue,
but didn't know for sure. In
order to check, computer servic¬
es had to segment parts of the
network.
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