Protest
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disrupts Board meeting
Repeated interruptions during the Board of
Trustees meeting last night prompted the entire
board to relocate to an adjacent room.
Board of Trustee President Geoffrey Baum
allowed only two minutes for public comment.
Because of the vehement student protest, the
board went to a ten-minute recess.
As the board attempted to re-enter the main
meeting room, students began chanting in
protest. Because of this, the entire board relo¬
cated to a smaller room adjacent to the
Creveling Lounge where students and faculty
awaited.
"We are unable to conduct the business of
the district," said Baum. "They were not allow¬
ing us to speak and carry out the items of the
meeting."
Two Courier videographers and reporters
were allowed in to observe the meeting despite
repeated requests that they represented the
public and that the public should also be
allowed in.
Board
President
Geoffrey
Baum leaves
the meeting
chamber
Wednesday
evening
after the
protest.
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Volume 105, Issue 13
The independent student voice of PCC. Serving Pasadena Since 1915.
June 7, 2012
Tears shed at slaying trial
Homicide case against
ex-student goes to the
jury for deliberation.
Nicholas Zebrowski and
Nicholas Saul
Staff Writers
The mother of a slain former
PCC student was escorted sob¬
bing from the court Wednesday
as the homicide case against the
victim's boyfriend was sent to
the jury for deliberations.
Emotions ran high as final
arguments were presented trial
of former PCC student Isaac
Campbell, accused in the killing
his girlfriend, Liya "Jessie" Lu,
and concealing her body in a
trash can covered in kitty Utter.
Lu's parents both broke out in
tears when pictures of the trash
can were presented in Alhambra
Superior Court during closing
arguments by District Attorney
Steve Ipson. Lu's mother had to
be escorted out of the court. Lu's
father was cautioned by Judge
Stan Blumenfeld for pointing his
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finger and saying something
audible in a foreign language.
Ipson's final argument empha¬
sized Campbell's previous drug
offenses and his actions after
Lu's death. "What we do not
need to prove to you is the cause
of death. . . we need to prove the
defendant committed an act that
cause the death of another,"
Ipson argued.
Public Defender James Duffy
claimed that the prosecution had
not proven that a crime had
occurred. Duffy argued that the
prosecution's witnesses were
unreliable, and had been
coached and coaxed to give the
answers that fit their case. Duffy
also argued that the medical
examiner's explanation of the
manner of death was based on
the packaging and condition of
Continued on page 10
Photo illustration
by Gabriela Castillo
Defendant Isaac Campbell.
Model students
Natalie Sehn Weber
Local high schoolers participate in a Model United Nations meeting in the C Building in Pasadena, Calif, on Friday. Almost 300
students, aged 15 to 18, emulated different nations' positions in the discussion of whether or not to go to war.
Teens talk global issues at Model UN
Natalie Sehn Weber
Multimedia Editor
Teenage voices engaged in animated
discussion, interspersed with solemn
diplomatic speeches, reverberated in
the hallways of the C Building on May
25.
Almost 300 local high school stu¬
dents were participating in the fourth
annual Model United Nations high
school conference hosted by the Lancer
MUN club, said the club's president
and English literature major Jimmy
Recinos.
"[The purpose of the event was] to
challenge and inform the participants
about some of the most pressing inter¬
national issues of our generation's
time," he said.
The students, aged 15 to 18, came
from nine local high schools:
Pasadena, Blair, Alhambra, Arcadia,
Marshall Fundamental, Mark Keppel
and John Marshall (Los Angeles),
Flintridge Preparatory and New Hope
Academy, Recinos said.
The attendees were divided into
groups of 30 to 40 and assigned to
committees that focused on past and
Continued on page 10
Plan for
deans dealt
setback
Senate vote effectively nixes
plan for major realignment
Christine Michaels
Staff Writer
In what amounts to a complete undoing of a
major realignment plan proposed last fall, the
Academic Senate voted Monday that academic
division deans should be permanently reinstated.
Coming after its May 14 votes on two other ele¬
ments of the original plan, the Senate's action
would leave the division structure largely
unchanged from what it was before the plan to
replace some deans with faculty chairs was put
forward.
The Senate's realignment proposal now goes to
the College Council and the Board of Trustees.
After an uproar at Monday's meeting, the
Senate unanimously voted to reinstate division
deans for the Business division and Engineering
and Technology division, despite a surprise new
recommendation from the administration.
Vice President of Education Services Robert
Miller explained he, President Mark Rocha, and
Vice President of Instruction Robert Bell had dis¬
cussed the previous proposal and came up with
the administration's recommendation for the
Senate's consideration.
The recommendation included a dean for the
Career and Technical Education division with the
E & T division reporting to CTE, along with the
Business division to continue with a faculty coor¬
dinator reporting to the vice president of instruc¬
tion.
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