PCC’s District Student Council Recap of Monthly Meeting: Dom Belcastro PCC’s District Student Council (DSC) conducted their monthly business meeting in Room 102 of the PCC CLIMB center this past Friday, February 2nd. Twelve of the fourteen members of
The Bridge to Nowhere
The Bridge to Nowhere Juan Lacayo The Bridge was set to solicit articles from students and staff, which the campus editors would edit for accuracy and grammar before posting them to the website. Complications arose with the immediate resignation of
PCC Student Killed in Hit and Run
Tragedy rippled through the PCC community after the announcement of the untimely death of a twenty-five-year-old student. After an early morning 911 call, on November 8 emergency responders discovered fatally injured Madison Ries in the southbound lane of Interstate 5
Blanchet House and Farm Support the Homeless
Embedded in the wine country of Yamhill county is a farm where the animals are responsible for healing and re-socializing men recovering from addiction and houseless-ness. The counterpart to this recovery farm is a dining hall in the heart of
How Work Study Works
“Work-Study” is a program of the Federal Government that has three purposes: To give needy college students a chance to make some money, provide work experience, and to provide colleges with a source of labor. The maximum award for work-study
Blast From the Past: Cascade College, 1969.
Here we have an excellent aerial of what is now Portland Community College’s Cascade Campus located on N Killingsworth Street. The school began as a small Christian College which transferred its holdings to the entity that created PCC. The campus
Vagina Monologues Returns with Cheryl Strayed in the Cast
This year, the Women Resource Center at PCC will be putting on Eve Ensler’s play “The Vagina Monologues” for the annual V-Day production. Though these annual plays have been taking places for nearly 20 years at PCC, this year’s will
Can You ID These People?
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Text of 2012 Internal Audit of Hazardous Waste in HT Building at Sylvania Campus
The Bridge does not have a complete copy of the Internal Audit into the health problems in the HT Building. It is providing pages 1, 6, 7, 9 and 11.
PCC Misleads the Public About the Mercury Spill
The Bridge recently reported on an incident that occurred last year at Sylvania’s HT building that PCC representatives described as a “small spill” of a fluid that contained mercury. Former Facilities Management Services (FMS) Maintenance Project Manager Steven Borcherding calls
PDX East of 82d Av is Poorer than West Virginia: The story in Graphics
Jessica Howard, the President of the Southeast Campus shared this information at the SE Campus Inservice. The data was compiled with the assistance of PCC’s department of Institutional Effectiveness and drawing from research available from Multnomah County.The map to the left
Rock Creek Artist Wins LOCAL 14 Scholarship
This year, PCC art student Anshula Tayal, from the Rock Creek campus, entered the LOCAL 14 scholarship competition and was awarded top prize! She submitted a combination of prints and a handbuilt ceramic art piece. Anshula has been creating art
Manifest for Hazardous Waste Removal from Sylvania’s HT Building
Below are the five pages of the EPA required manifest for shipping hazardous materials. The manifest was signed on February 17, 2017. The first page lists the types of material that was removed from the HT Building. Quantities are given
Apex Lab Report on Mercury Spill
Apex Lab Analysis
Did the Newberg Center Roof Fail Again?
PCC’s Newberg Center was built using money from the 2008 bond. It opened in 2011, and is ranked LEED Platinum for sustainable design. Unfortunately, it has also been plagued by problems with the roof. The original roof failed a few