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After less than two full days of deliberating, a Pasadena Superior Court jury found former PCC student George Wood Pigman IV guilty of first degree murder on Monday.
Over four months after Head Football Coach Kenny Lawler was put on administrative leave, PCC administrators are still unsure of his fate. According to school officials, the third-party investigation into his "policies and procedures" has concluded, but further action regarding Lawler's status at the college is unknown.
Those caught in violation of the recently publicized campus' smoking policy will not be fined. Instead, they will be warned to obey the policy which stems from state law.
The spring semester will be a busy term for Associated Students with the priority of preparing for PCC's accreditation, set to take place in March.
The atmosphere at PCC was one of joy in recognizable change after the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, was sworn into office on Tuesday. "I feel America has finally gotten past its intense racial divides. It is a new day and age, not only for this country, but for the world," reflected 22-year-old business major Charles Holmes.
Starting this winter term, newly designed parking permits have been issued to students in order to combat forgery.
With the sagging economy and California's state budget cuts, community colleges are struggling to keep their doors open. PCC is trying to avoid the same outcome. Santa Ana College and Santiago Canyon College have already canceled their intersession classes.
Just as the state has decided to suspend some student aid, jobs are growing scarce.
The defense rested its case Tuesday in the murder trial of George Wood Pigman IV, former PCC student charged with murdering his girlfriend, Japanese native Eimi Yamada in May 2005.
The bone-chilling, single-digit degree temperatures were not enough to dissuade members of the PCC community as they participated in the historic swearing-in ceremony of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday in Washington, DC.
A journal kept nearly four years ago by former PCC student George Pigman while he was incarcerated at Twin Towers Correctional Facility was revealed in the second day of his trial in Pasadena on Thursday. Pigman is charged with murdering his girlfriend Eimi Yamada in May 2005.