Mountain Views News          Saturday, March 30, 2013

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Mountain Views-News Saturday, March 30, 2013 


Journalism Instructor 
Placed On Leave

Body Found 
Under 
Colorado 
Street Bridge 

 Pasadena City College 
newspaper adviser and 
journalism instructor 
Warren Swil has been put 
on administrative leave, 
effective immediately, 
according to the Courier 
—the very newspaper he 
oversaw.

 In an article on the 
Courier’s website, Editor-in-
Chief Nicholas Saul said Swil 
was not at liberty to speak 
about the matter pending 
an investigation related to 
a complaint. Numerous 
reports also suggest Swil 
was escorted off campus by 
security Thursday. 

 In a video posted online 
Friday, Swil can be seen 
escorted on the campus to 
pickup personal belongings. 

 He has been a fulltime 
faculty member since 2007 
taking over the adviser roll 
from, longtime journalism 
professor, Mikki Bollinger. 

 In recent weeks, the 
Courier has been critical of 
the schools administration 
including reporting on votes 
of no confidence for current 
President/Superintendent 
Mark Rocha at a March 13 
Board of Trustees meeting.

 “What is going on?” 
Wrote PCC instructor 
Melissa Michelson on the 
newspaper’s blog. “That is 
on the lips of many of the 
faculty here at PCC. We 
are very concerned for our 
colleague, given what seems 
an uncanny and timely 
dismissal, immediately 
following the Courier’s 
valiant and comprehensive 
press coverage on the votes 
of no confidence, Senate 
meeting from last week and 
PCC’s candid voices across 
campus that things are just 
not right here at PCC.”

 The Courier also published 
Thursday an unflattering 
chart of Rocha’s career at 
PCC titled “The Rocha 
Years.” 

 The Courier is a print 
newspaper published weekly, 
by students, Thursdays. The 
newspaper touts itself as the 
independent student voice of 
PCC.

 A link on the school’s 
website pasadena.edu 
homepage to the Courier 
had been removed as of 
Friday morning.

 Also according to Saul, 
the Dean of Visual Arts and 
Media Studies, Joe Futtner, 
said they hope to have an 
adviser in place to continue 
publication of the newspaper. 

Police say a local resident 
found the body of a man 
Thursday afternoon thought 
to have jumped to his death 
from the Colorado Street 
Bridge.

Police said they suspect 
suicide.

Officers said they responded 
to a call around 2 p.m. 
finding a 50 year old white 
male deceased. 

At press time, police were 
still investigating. The man’s 
name was not released prior 
to notification of next of kin 
by the coroner’s office.

Also at press time, reports 
say there were no witnesses. 

Teen Killed Hiking in Eaton Canyon 

By Dean Lee

 After the death of a 
17-year-old woman last 
Friday, emergency officials 
are again cautioning that 
there is no safe trail to a 
second waterfall in Eaton 
Canyon —made popular by 
numerous YouTube videos 
and Facebook posts.

According to Sheriff Officials 
Esther Suen of Alhambra 
was killed after falling 200 
feet while hiking to a second 
waterfall in Eaton Canyon. 
Reports say Suen suffered a 
fatal head injury. 

 This is the fifth death to 
occur at the location in two 
years.

At 11:26 a.m. March 22, 
Los Angeles County Fire 
Department firefighters and 
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s 
Department - Altadena 
Search and Rescue Team 
responded to Eaton Canyon 
north of Altadena regarding 
hikers falling down the side 
of the mountain. 

 Three people were rescued 
by firefighters, assisted by 
deputies. One of the three 
was injured and a fourth, 
Suen lost her life according 
to a stamen from the Sheriff’s 
Department.

 Another 18-year-old young 
man also fell and survived. He 
was airlifted to Huntington 
Memorial Hospital with 
nonlife threatening shoulder 
injuries. 

 Hikers familiar with the area 
have said that signs should be 
posted on the trail warning of 
the danger. 

 Officials held a press 
conference last year saying 
the second waterfall had 
become popular after videos 
of it started appearing on 
YouTube. 

Doo Dah 
Queen to 
be Crowned

 Doo Dah Parade organizers 
announced that Royal 
mayhem is set to take place 
at the American Legion Bar 
Sunday, April 7, as they look to 
crown their next Queen. 

 Each Queen Hopeful will 
have a few minutes to wow 
the Judges. Microphone and 
boom box, even drumroll, 
provided according to Parade 
Organizer Patricia Hurley.

 “Be ready to show us and 
tell us why you should be 
Queen,” she said. “Bring 
Loyal Followers and humor 
Tell them to buy the judges a 
beer to get a chance to vote. 
Hecklers encouraged.”

 Tryouts are open to everyone 
she added.

 The first 20 Queen Hopefuls 
to arrive get in free. 

 Doors Open at 2:00 pm, 4:30 
– 7:00 pm – Doo Dah Queen 
Tryouts, 7:30 pm – New Doo 
Dah Queen is Crowned.

 Cost to get in, $5.

 American Legion Bar, is 
at 179 N. Vinedo St., in east 
Pasadena. 

Kidspace 
Events, 
Includes 
Easter Egg 
Hunt


Quirky Collegiate Field 
Tournament at Rose Bowl

Egg Hunt

 Hundreds of candy-filled eggs 
will be hidden throughout the 
Kidspace Gardens just waiting 
to be found this Easter Sucday! 
Egg Hunts are $4.00 per child, 
plus museum admission and 
includes a basket to hold the 
eggs. The Kidspace Egg Hunt 
is sponsored by Nestle and 
the National Charity League, 
Pasadena Chapter. Thank you 
for your support!

10:00 am hunt - Member’s 
only, all-ages.

11:00 am hunt - 4 years and 
younger. (SOLD OUT)

12:30 pm hunt - 5 to 10 years 
old.

2:00 pm hunt - All-ages.

 Free Family Night

 Tuesday, April 2, 4:00 to 8:00 
pm - Enjoy Free admission to 
the Museum and celebrate the 
history of classical Chinese 
Music. At 6:00 pm in the 
Stone Hollow Amphitheater, 
Zhiming Han and Cynthia 
Xiang will perform and share 
the history behind the culture 
and music.Free Family Night 
is made possible by gifts from 
the Pasadena Arts & Cultural 
Commission, and the City 
of Pasadena Cultural Affairs 
Division. Learn More.

 17th Annual Grand 
Butterfly Release

 Saturday, April 27, and 
Sunday, April 28, 10:00 am to 
5:00 pm - Join Kidspace for its 
17th Annual Grand Butterfly 
Release. During this two-day 
event, over 1000 Painted Lady 
Butterflies will be released into 
the Kidspace Gardens. Each 
day will also be filled with 
fun and engaging, butterfly-
themed activities including: 
face painting, the “Eat like 
a Butterfly” activity, story 
time featuring books by Eric 
Carle (author of The Hungry 
Caterpillar), antenna and wing 
making, and butterfly art. 
Guests are invited to bring the 
butterfly they adopted during 
the Kidspace Caterpillar 
Adoption Days, March 16 to 
April 28, to release along with 
the others.


Center spread in Thursday’s issue of the PCC Courier

 Pacific Asia Museum presents 
the new exhibition Focus on the 
Subject: The Art of the Harari 
Collection from April 5, 2013 
to March 30, 2014 in the Frank 
and Toshie Mosher Gallery of 
Japanese Art. The exhibition 
includes a full object rotation in 
October 2013 to accommodate 
a greater number of objects and 
protect them from extended 
exposure to light.

 The renowned Harari 
Collection of Japanese Edo 
(1603-1868) and Meiji (1868-
1912) era paintings and 
drawings is one of the most 
significant groups of works on 
paper at Pacific Asia Museum. 
Amassed in London during 
the 1950s and 60s by Ralph 
Harari, the collection includes 
ukiyo-e (“pictures of the 
floating world”); important 
prints, paintings and sketches 
by Hokusai, Hiroshige and their 
schools; paintings by Kano, 
Tosa, Nanga, and Shijo schools; 
and decorative paintings 
including fans. In the 1980s, 
Pacific Asia Museum acquired 
the majority of this collection 
with the support of several 
generous donors.

Museum 
Presents 
Renowned 
Harari 
Collection

Pet of the 
Week

 Come see and cheer—and 
chuckle—as students from 
Pasadena’s premier institutions 
of higher education duke 
it out in kooky contests for 
bragging rights and the 
coveted Championship Trophy 
at the 2013 Collegiate Field 
Tournament, 6:30 p.m. to 10:00 
p.m., Friday, April 5 at the Rose 
Bowl Stadium. Admission via 
Gate C and parking in Lot B are 
free!

 The good-natured college 
field tournament pits student 
teams from Art Center College 
of Design, Caltech, Fuller 
Theological Seminary, Le 
Cordon Bleu College of Culinary 
Arts, Pasadena City College and 
Pacific Oaks College against each 
other in spirited competitions 
that are anything but academic!

 The techies, theologians, artists, 
chefs and other star collegians 
will take the field to compete in 
such crowd-pleasing events as 
the 100-yard Croquet Dash, the 
Lego Car Building Competition; 
Human-sized Hamster Ball 
Relay and Pasadena’s very own 
twist of the “Hunger Games.” 
Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard 
will help open the games.

 College students with a school-
issued photo ID who attend and 
who also complete a survey will 
be eligible to win a pair of tickets 
to the “Legends of the Summer 
Concert Tour” featuring Justin 
Timberlake and Jay Z later 
this summer at the Rose Bowl 
Stadium. The winning student 
must be present for the drawing, 
with ID, when the tickets are 
awarded prior to presentation of 
the Championship Trophy.

 The Pasadena Collegiate 
Field Tournament began in 
2010 to celebrate Pasadena’s 
international stature as a 
renowned college town. With 
six world-class institutions, 
Pasadena is proud to host the 
inter-collegiate games to foster 
pride in the City’s extraordinary 
academic environment and 
diverse student population.

 The Pasadena Collegiate Field 
Tournament is organized and 
sponsored by the participating 
colleges and the City of Pasadena’s 
Economic Development 
Division, City Manager’s Office. 
For more information call 
(626) 744-7355 or go online 
to www.cityofpasadena.net/
EconomicDevelopment.


Writer-In-Residence Program 
Receives Large Donation

 The Pasadena Festival of 
Women Authors has donated 
$5,000 to Pasadena City 
College’s Writer-in-Residence 
program, more than double the 
donation from last year. 

 “We’re very excited that the 
Writer-in-Residence Program 
is going to continue,” said Amy 
Ulmer said. “We’ve committed 
to doing more, because of the 
money.”

 First launched in 2009, the 
PFWA aims to recognize the 
literary accomplishments of 
diverse women authors, to 
advance community awareness 
of locally authored literature, 
and to raise money for a 
community non-profit.

 “The festival is a really nice 
event,” Ulmer said. “They 
encourage emerging writers, 
which is great.”

 The PCC Writer-in-Residence 
visits classes, holds writing 
workshops and does a public 
reading at PCC. Last October, 
the college hosted its first 
Writer-in-Residence, alumna 
Reyna Grande.

 For more information please 
call the English Division office 
at (626) 585-7371.

 Sevannah is a three-year-
old white and tan Siberian 
Husky. She has a lot of 
energy and loves to play with 
toys. She went out on our 
Mobile Outreach Unit and 
did extremely well around 
other dogs and people. She 
even knows her sit, down, 
stay and shake commands! 
An active family would be 
great for her. 

 Sevannah’s regular 
adoption fee is $125, which 
includes her spay surgery, 
a microchip, the first set 
of vaccinations, as well 
as a free follow-up health 
check at a participating vet. 
New adopters will receive 
complimentary health and 
wellness exam from VCA 
Animal Hospitals, as well 
as a goody bag filled with 
information on how to 
care for your pet. Ask an 
adoptions counselor for 
more information during 
your visit 

 Call the Pasadena 
Humane Society & SPCA at 
626.792.7151 to ask about 
A322570, or visit at 361 S. 
Raymond Ave. in Pasadena. 
Adoption hours are 11-4 
Sunday, 9-5 Tuesday –
Friday, 9-4 Saturday. Pets 
may not be available for 
adoption and cannot be 
held for potential adopters 
from phone calls or email. 
Directions and photos of all 
pets can be found at www.
pasadenahumane.org. 

Learn How to Produce 
Your Own TV Show

Scientists Find Moon and 
Asteroids Share History

 
Pasadena Media offers 
a free television-training 
program for volunteers. 
Various Areas of training 
are available to Pasadena 
residents. Plan to attend 
an orientation to discover 
the right classes for you. 
Producers’ Training teaches 
citizens how to produce their 
own show for The Arroyo 
Channel. Studio Production/
Equipment training is 
also offered for volunteer 
crewmembers. In addition, 
on-going training and 
memberships are available in 
our citizen journalism and 
digital film groups. Call the 
office (626) 794-8585 or go 
to PASADENAMEDIA.ORG 
explore all that Pasadena 
Media has to offer.

 Officials announced this week 
that NASA and international 
researchers have discovered 
that Earth’s moon has more 
in common than previously 
thought with large asteroids 
roaming our solar system.

 Scientists from NASA’s Lunar 
Science Institute (NLSI) in 
Moffett Field, Calif., discovered 
that the same population of 
high-speed projectiles that 
impacted our lunar neighbor 
four billion years ago, also hit 
the giant asteroid Vesta and 
perhaps other large asteroids.

 The research unveils an 
unexpected link between Vesta 
and the moon, and provides 
new means for studying the 
early bombardment history of 
terrestrial planets. The findings 
are published in the March 
issue of Nature Geoscience.

 “It’s always intriguing when 
interdisciplinary research 
changes the way we understand 
the history of our solar system,” 
said Yvonne Pendleton, NLSI 
director. “Although the moon 
is located far from Vesta, which 
is in the main asteroid belt 
between the orbits of Mars and 
Jupiter, they seem to share some 
of the same bombardment 
history.”

 The findings support the 
theory that the repositioning 
of gas giant planets like 
Jupiter and Saturn from their 
original orbits to their current 
location destabilized portions 
of the asteroid belt and 
triggered a solar system-wide 
bombardment of asteroids 
billions of years ago, called the 
lunar cataclysm. 

 The research provides new 
constraints on the start and 
duration of the lunar cataclysm, 
and demonstrates that the 
cataclysm was an event that 
affected not only the inner solar 
system planets, but the asteroid 
belt as well.

 To learn more about NLSI, 
visit: http://lunarscience.nasa.
gov .

The Passing 
of Ophelia 
Mcfadden

 Supervisor Michael D. 
Antonovich released the 
following statement on 
the passing of Ophelia 
McFadden:

 “One of Los Angeles 
County’s most influential 
labor leaders, Ophelia 
McFadden was successful 
because she attacked 
problems -- not people -- 
and worked for employee 
equity with a keen 
awareness of the county’s 
fiscal responsibility,” said 
Antonovich.

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Character Generator 2nd & 4th Tuesday

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