The Courier Newsletter: Week of April 8th

Welcome to week seven of the Courier newsletter! The newsroom covered the heck out of on-campus news, some interesting opinions, deeply reported features and several others stories to read. Changing things up again as we head into our spring break (woot!), we will no longer be listing each story put out, but just this little introduction paragraph with a little review of our week and maybe something else, if you have a suggestion, drop it in our form below! (some weeks it will be really limited, so you don’t have to scroll far for our top stories of the week.)

Like last week and until the newsletter is being produced by other Courier writers, we will be continually asking for feedback and you to fill out our form here. As always see everything we’ve published on Wednesday’s at pcccourier.com (or Tuesday next week, because of spring break!)

Enjoy your break and we hope its restful.

News

In News, News Editor Seamus Bozeman wrote a story on Monday (with the help of Assistant News Editor Sabrina Farooq) about the four finalists in the college’s Superintendent search. He got initial reactions from the Student Trustee and shared governance. He also went over what the remainder of the process will look like for the campus and participation. (Most of which is over at this point.) In a second story, that is set to be published soon it will debrief the forums and the remainder of the process and what the community can expect in the coming weeks.

Opinion

In Opinion, Staff Writer Gabriel Novoa wrote about Shen Yun and asked the age old question: Is it a cult? What’s their background? The writer also looks and give their opinion about The Epoch Times and their supposed connections to Falun Gong and Shen Yun. Read the article below.

Features

In Features, Managing Editor David Sosa and Co-Video Editor Dante Estrada on the play: ‘The Book Club Play’ and one of their recent performances. It also includes a video element with interviews directly from stage. (Not while the performance is going on of course, but it give a behind the scene’s look at what when into the play.) They have performances of this play coming tonight at 7:30 p.m. and tomorrow April 13 at 2:00 p.m and 7:30 p.m.

PCC Sports

In Sports, Assistant Features Editor Fern Rojas covered one of Lancer’s Softball and one of their recent games, where they get their second win. In total they scored 11 runs, and took advantage of Glendale’s miscues and issues to head towards a resounding the win. Read the full story below.

Lifestyle

In Lifestyle, Sports Editor Le’Raun Peron wrote about the debate on whether or not to tip. He argues that this conversation has evolved beyond just a basic conversation, into a full sit down conversation that’s meant to be had over a basket of breadsticks from Olive Garden. He also has a unique perspective on this issue, because he works at a [redacted] restaurant. Read the full story below.

Podcast

No podcast this week, hopefully we’ll be back to our usual weekly schedule following spring break.

Social Media

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