VOLUME 111 ISSUE 7
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Spring is on Scene and in the air
Shaunee Edwards/Courier
The city of Huntington Beach hosts "Kite Party," a kiting event that was open to the general public to watch on
Sunday.
Winter gets
voted down
again
Keeiy Damara
Staff Writer
The Board of Trustees approved the adop¬
tion of a 2015-2016 academic calendar without
a winter intersession on Wednesday night, rub¬
ber-stamping the recommendation of interim
superintendent Bob Miller.
Miller submitted his calendar recommenda¬
tion — markedly similar to the current calendar
— for the 2015-2016 school year to the Board
of Trustees along with the winter calendar rec¬
ommended by the College Calendar Committee
and College Council.
During public comment, PCC professor
Kristin Pilon argued that there is an ongoing
lack of mutual cooperation in shared gover¬
nance decisions.
“All major campus constituent bodies have
approved the return of this college to a calen¬
dar with winter intersession,” Pilon said to
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Commencement speaker chosen
Kristen Luna
Managing Editor
After last year’s controversial
and prolonged commencement
speaker search, the Board of
Trustees quickly and unanimous
ly voted Wednesday to approve
Chad Crittenden, a cancer sur¬
vivor, triathlete and amputee, as
this year’s speaker.
“The committee was moved
by this and felt that he would in
fact be an excellent commence¬
ment speaker for our 2014-2015
graduates,” said Interim Presi¬
dent Robert Miller, who recom¬
mended Crittenden.
Crittenden, 46, is best known
as one of the competitors’
on season nine of the CBS
show “Survivor.” Appearing
on the show was a dream of
Crittenden’s. He was the ninth
contestant voted off, and the
second member of the jury after
surviving 27 days.
Even though Crittenden did
not make it to the end of the
show as the last survivor, he
certainly has overcome a number
of life’s obstacles.
In 2002, Crittenden was diag¬
nosed with Synovial Sarcoma, a
rare and deadly form of cancer,
which forced him to amputate
his leg just below the knee. Nine
months after his surgery, Crit¬
tenden successfully completed a
triathlon and in 2009 completed
the New York City marathon.
In an effort to raise money for
the Challenged Athletes Foun¬
dation (CAF), which provides
opportunities and support to
people with physical challenges
so they can pursue an active life
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Trustee Linda Wah, left, Board President Berlinda Brown and
Interim President Robert Miller discuss the 201 5
commencement speaker at the Board meeting on Wednesday.
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Clery report breaks down campus crime
Matthew Kiewiet
News Editor
Drug related arrests are on
the decline, while robberies and
burglaries have become more
frequent on PCC’s campus,
according to the statistics docu¬
mented in the recently released
Clery Security Report.
The Clery Act, formally
known as the “Crime Awareness
and Campus Security Act of
1990,” was passed after a fresh¬
man at Lehigh University named
Jeanne Ann Clery was raped and
murdered in her dorm room on
April 5, 1986. Clery, her fami¬
ly, and the rest of the student
population did not know about
Lehigh’s history of violent crime
because campus security was not
required to alert the public.
Along with explanations
and definitions of what certain
crimes are, the report demon¬
strates trends in campus crime
on the PCC main campus, the
community education center,
and our satellite campus in
Rosemead.
Besides robbery and bur¬
glary, which have increased by
three arrests and four arrests
respectively, crime has dropped
substantially. Most notably, drug
violations are down from 25 in
2011 to just two in 2013.
“We’ve got a highly visible
and proactive campus security
presence that is patrolling the
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