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PCC community, our reader survey ends tomorrow! Upon completing the survey you'll be entered to win a $50 GrubHub gift card and you'll have the chance to give us input on what you would like to see from The Bridge.
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2020/04/01/the-bridge-is-going-online-and-we-want-your-feedback/
Our reader survey is still open! Fill out the survey to tell us what you would like to see covered in The Bridge and share your experience during the school closure. All you need is a PCC email, and when completed you’ll be entered to win a $50 GrubHub gift card. Survey ends on 5/15!
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2020/04/01/the-bridge-is-going-online-and-we-want-your-feedback/
PCC community: We want to hear from you! Take our survey, so we can see how to better engage with you. Read a message from our team and find the survey link on our site: https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2020/04/01/the-bridge-is-going-online-and-we-want-your-feedback/
In the final days before the campus closure, staff at PCC Panther Pantries were working hard to ensure students had food and supplies they needed for the coming break. With their future uncertain, one employee shared their perspective on the importance of student resources and their thoughts on how the closure is affecting them.
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2020/03/25/final-days-for-panther-pantry-student-workers/
PCC's production of Thorton Wilder's Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning play 'Our Town' premieres tonight at Sylvania's theatre. Check out our preview featuring interviews with the cast and crew before enjoying the classic show, running this weekend and next!
by Lex Rule PCC Sylvania’s Winter production, Our Town, opens this month. On the surface, this award-winning classic by Thornton Wilder is about the everyday lives of two families, the Gibbs and the Webbs, living in a small American town…
Issue 2 of The Bridge’s 2020 run is on stands across PCC campuses now and in the coming days! Our cover story takes a peek at some of the amazing art that comes to PCC at the annual African Film Festival, and we’ve got news stories covering the details of PCC’s new 10 year Coca-Cola vending contract, important community legal aid workshops, your creative corner submissions, and much more!
PCC's 2020 Winter term is well underway and while you've all been hard at work in class, your new team at The Bridge has been putting together our first issue and getting it out into the world! Hopefully, you've already picked up your copy and are catching up on what we've been up to.
Our cover story features the 21st annual Wacipi Powwow at PCC, we've got articles from our new writing team on PCC's basketball teams, what your board of directors has been up to so far this year, and more.
In the coming days, we'll have lots of new content online for you to catch up with, more info on your new team of editors and writers, our plans for the future, and all the ways you can contribute your ideas, writing, and creativity to your student newspaper!
Don't forget to check out The Bridge's Art Issue which is also our LAST Issue of the term!
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/05/31/the-bridges-art-issue/
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ATTENTION!!!
The Bridge's Art Issue is OFFICIALLY LIVE on the web!
If you haven't picked up a copy in a blue box on campus, click below and check it out!
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/05/31/the-bridges-art-issue/
Don't forget to join us to celebrate the issue release at the end-of-year fundraiser at Xhurch, TONIGHT from 7-10 pm!
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PCC Announced New Barista Studies !!!
Check it out below!
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/05/21/pcc-announces-new-barista-studies-program/
Last March, a surprising study came out, showing that 98% of college grads ultimately decide to pursue careers in purveying espresso. Students with advanced degrees focusing on anything from architectural design to office administration have found that their real passion…
The Bridge, is putting out their annual art issue, featuring student art, poetry, and wingnut ramblings.
Join us to celebrate the issue release and end-of-year fundraiser at Xhurch, on Friday May 31st!
The event will include live music performances from bands;
Call Boy & Car Blinker Satellite, multi-media art created by PCC students, and fresh-off-the press Art Issues!
The event will be on Friday, May 31st from 7 PM to 10 PM at Xhurch on 4550 NE 20th Ave, Portland, OR 97211.
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/05/24/the-bridges-art-issue-release-show/
The Bridge, is putting out their annual art issue, featuring student art, poetry, and wingnut ramblings. Join us to celebrate the issue release and end-of-year fundraiser at Xhurch, on Friday May 31st! The event will include live music performances from…
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: ANTS!!!
Click below to find out more
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/05/20/public-service-announcement/
Don’t forget to wipe the Jelly globs from your counter this month, be wary of the grains of sugar that spill from somewhere between your spoon and the coffee mug. Be sure to sweep your cabinets and stovetop of excess…
ALSO, if you still want to submit, the submission date is open til Sunday the 26th!
Please send to [email protected]
Have you ever wondered what the key to perfect health looks like? The fountain of eternal youth? Look no further!!!
Click below to find out the secret to eternal youth
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/05/20/all-juice-is-brain-juice/
Have you ever wondered what the key to perfect health looks like? The fountain of eternal youth? Perhaps you imagined a mystical object un-described and unforeseen, or an amorphous glimmer of light. But really, it’s been sitting right in front…
Our annual SATIRE Issue is OFFICIALLY OUT!
Check us out online or in a blue box at a campus near you!
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Clarisa Lolmbaugh has found a home for her art in PCC’s multimedia department. Inspired by all the technology around her, she engages in production design, visual effects, & graphic motion to work on projects she once literally dreamed of.
Click below to read more
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/05/01/carisa-lolmaugh-brings-her-art-to-life-through-pccs-multimedia-program/
On Monday, April 22nd for Earth Day,11 Portlanders connected with The Extinction Rebellion, were getting arrested for protesting Zenith Energy’s “Oil by Rail” terminal.
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https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/05/01/extinction-rebellion-zenith-victory-garden-blockade/
Two of our Bridge team members went around Portland to check out Futel phones.
Click below to check it out
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/05/01/futel-phones-free-calling-for-all-is-reshaping-the-vehicle-for-reaching-out/
The Bridge's 4th Issue of the Term is official out! Pick up one in a blue box or check us out online!
https://pccbridge.com/
Portland Community College Paragon Arts Gallery on N Killingsworth is hosting an interactive installation. HERE // Humboldt, centers the voices of black artists and community members located in the rapidly gentrifying, and historically black neighborhood of North/Northeast Portland.
Click below to read more
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/04/23/here-humboldt-more-than-an-instillation-more-than-interactive/
What’s It About? Until April 25th, PCC’s Paragon Art Gallery on N Killingsworth is hosting an interactive installation. HERE // Humboldt, centers the voices of black artists and community members located in the rapidly gentrifying, and historically black neighborhood of…
Paul Marshall talked to the Bridge last term about being the sports announcer for PCC, how he got into sports broadcasting, and why PCC's Athletics is so special.
Click below to check it out
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/04/24/panthers-p-a-announcer-paul-marshall-on-pcc-athletics-sports-journalism/
Paul Marshall has been the public address announcer for PCC Athletics for the past four years. He has played basketball, football, track and soccer but knew he wanted to get involved in sports journalism. He got his undergrad from Morehouse…
Around one hundred staff, faculty, and administrators of Portland Community College participated in a training entitled Creating Inclusive, Socially Just Campus Environments. The event was facilitated by Jamie Washington, Ph.D., of Washington Consulting Group and Kathy Obear, Ed.D., from the Center for Transformation and Change. The purpose of this training was to outline a variety of direct actions and behavior changes that PCC staff can practice as a means to create a more socially just, equitable, and diverse college setting.
Click below to read more
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/04/23/creating-inclusive-socially-just-campus-environments-at-pcc/
Employees of Little Big Burger announced last month they will be unionizing in affiliation with Portland IWW the same organization backing the Burgerville Workers Union
Click below to read more
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/04/23/little-big-union-employees-of-local-fast-food-chain-announce-unionization-gain-community-support/
Employees of local Portland chain, Little Big Burger, announced in March that they would be unionizing in affiliation with the Industrial Workers of the World, the same organization backing the Burgerville union. Little Big Burger was founded in Portland in…
This spring, The Bridge is compiling an arts issue, in which we will publish a variety of creative content produced by PCC students! In the printed version of the paper, we will include prose, poetry, photos, drawings, etc.
Click below to find out more
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/04/17/submit-to-the-bridges-spring-art-issue/
Second Issue of the Term is officially out!
Check it out online or in a blue box at a campus near you!
https://pccbridge.com/
The PCC Sylvania Multicultural Center is hiring! Click below to check it out!
https://www.facebook.com/PCCSylvaniaMC/photos/rpp.27294081165/10156963056531166/?type=3&eid=ARAIZmjcnROVp3genDQmJBYme3Qwr9wWxl97fFJ8UnAJCEvUZigNGDCkLONPVuTGH4-qp-nFw39IdzsS
If you would love to be part of the Multicultural Center visit www.pcc.edu/resources/culture/sylvania
or come to the center!
Start Spring cleaning today by bringing your old hard drive to the Upper CC Mall from 12-2 pm today and have it smashed!
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/04/17/earth-week-hard-drive-smashing-event/
Are you starting your spring cleaning early and don’t know what to do with your outdated, no longer functioning computer hardware? Worried that your identity will be in jeopardy if you eCycle? Bring your drive to the Upper CC Mall…
Click below to read how the next generation are leading the way in a massive climate strike.
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/04/04/the-youth-take-charge-worlds-largest-environmental-strike/
In the event that global efforts to combat climate change finally come to fruition, one might expect that historians will point to Friday, March 15th, 2019 as a catalyst for such success. This day is significant in that it marks…
Last month, the PCC's Cascade Campus held the Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network (GPSEN) hosted its signature event, The GPSEN Sustainability Symposium: “Building Bridges to Sustainability.”
Click below to read the recap
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/04/04/recap-of-2019-gpsen-sustainability-symposium/
Friday March 8th, the Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network (GPSEN) hosted its signature event, The GPSEN Sustainability Symposium: “Building Bridges to Sustainability.” The event was held at Portland Community College’s Cascade Campus. The day was filled with so many valuable…
Check out the Bridge's spotlight on Northest Portland artist KayelaJ
http://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/04/04/dont-yield-keep-enduring-kayelaj
ATTENTION!!!
The 1st Issue of the Spring Term is in a blue box near you or check us out online now!
https://pccbridge.com/
ATTENTION!
If you're concerned about budget cuts, there is another chance to make your voice heard. The Oregon Legislature's Ways and Means Roadshow is an important opportunity to communicate with our Legislators about the importance of funding community colleges.
Please join us on March 21st for the Ways and Means Roadshow, hosted at PCC Cascade. Also, please spread the word about this event to faculty, staff and students!
If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to [email protected] or 971-722-4378.
March 21 | Cascade Campus, Terrell Hall 100
Meet at 4:30 p.m. for snacks and testimony sign-up.
Ways and Means Roadshow starts at 5:30 p.m. in the Moriarty Auditorium.
Wear PCC gear or Red for Ed!
With community college basketball season coming to a close, let's recap one of PCC's Panthers most intense and exhilarating games to watch.
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/03/06/panther-basketball-game-recap-february-20th/
On Wednesday February 20th, your PCC Panthers played against the Mt. Hood Community College Saints in probably the most exhilarating basketball game I’ve seen in awhile. The women’s team started off the night, Latasha Villeda (10), scored the most points…
Click below to read a PCC student submitted story about the attacks from what is thought of to be from alt-right groups, with the intent on targeting q***r people.
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/03/06/out-of-hate-q***r-portlanders-come-together-in-the-face-of-violence/
PCC's QRCs has wonderful resources for all q***r students on all campuses, including drop in counseling, mentor ship programs, volunteer opportunities, & more.
For a full list the QRCs, log into “my pcc”, look under the “pcc life” tab; or stop by, eat a snack, & talk to some of their friendly staff. Q***r Resource Center- PCC SE Campus , Q***r Resource Center, PCC:Cascade , PCC Sylvania Q***r Resource Center , PCC Rock Creek QRC
By Student Writer, Rose V. On February 10th 2019, Individuals who are thought to be members of Portland and Vancouver based alt right groups embarked on a string of attacks intent on targeting q***r people. These attacks appear to stem…
Click below to read about The Bridge's highlingt on PCC's Multicultural Centers
PCC Sylvania Multicultural Center , Multicultural Center, Rock Creek , Cascade Multicultural-Center
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/03/06/pccs-multicultural-center/
The last week of February, Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference had their 2nd annual conference at The University of Washington. With over 600 students, staff & faculty all over the Pacific Northwest in attendance.
Click below to hear the highlights as well as why you should go to the Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference 3rd annual conference in 2020.
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/03/06/intersections-of-sustainability-2019-washington-oregon-higher-education-sustainability-conference-recap/
When picking up the most recent issue of the Bridge, don't forget to pick up any of our older issues of this term in the lower section in the blue boxes across campus!
The last edition of the Bridge is officially out!
Check us out online or in a blue box near you!
https://pccbridge.com/
Don't forget that the Sustainability Symposium: “Building Bridges to Sustainability” is THIS FRIDAY @ Cascade from 10 am-6 pm.
Click below to go to the page about the Symposium
https://gpsen.org/programs/sustainability-symposium/
OR
check out Joe Culhane's story below
https://pccbridge.com/index.php/2019/02/19/building-bridges-to-sustainability-march-8th-symposium-at-pcc-cascade/
News of the planet’s impending climate catastrophe is impossible to ignore, and many of us are seeking out ways to respond to this global crisis in our everyday lives. Whether you’re involved in a sustainable pursuit already or you’re simply curious about sustainability and environmental justi...
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