Student Media Team at Palo Alto College

PAC-CAST: PAC Student Media has a podcast! Our PAC-CAST explores topics across campus with exclusive interviews with the movers and the shakers at Palo Alto College.
AFTER HOURS: The newest edition to the PAC-Cast Lineup is the show, AFTER HOURS. Students share their thoughts, struggles, triumphs and burning questions with life that happens outside the classroom.

The PAC-Cast helped me learn about Hope Gen and the services offered to first generation students on our campus. What a great listen!
— Sam
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— Robert
By Alexandria Gallardo Pulse Staff Reporter Tejano music stars and Latin Grammy Awards nominees Ram Herrera and Jay Perez will close out the live entertainment at PACfest 2018. Fiesta San Antonio is a city-wide celebration that is held every April for 10 days. This year, the party will kick off on Thursday, April 19, 2018, Read more
By Lauren Cortez Pulse Staff Reporter 1865 was the year America ratified the Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery, but more than 150 years later, Americans still support slavery. Over 200 million children in the world are child laborers, most of whom work in dangerous conditions for little to no pay. Twenty-eight companies that we Read more
By Juan Alberto Ponce Jr. Pulse Staff Reporter In January, approximately 20 Palo Alto College students qualified for childcare assistance at the Ray Ellison Family Center for the 2018 Spring Semester. A $500,000 grant was awarded to PAC by the U.S. Department of Education’s Child Care Access Means Parents in School program. Over the next Read more
By Alexander Valdez Pulse Staff Reporter Close to one million young immigrants, including 87 recorded Palo Alto College students, face the threat of deportation as the debate over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals continues. Former President Barack Obama created DACA through Executive Order in 2012 to help people who came into the U.S. illegally Read more
By Alyssa Ytuarte Pulse Staff Reporter Bae B Safe is a sex education program at Palo Alto College that not all students know about. For example, Arthur Rangel Jr., 21, a sophomore Criminal Justice major at Palo Alto, said he thought Bae B Safe, “It’s about the Earth and helping taking care of it.” Sex Read more
By Samuel Gomez Pulse Staff Reporter In an effort to keep students on track, Alamo Colleges will increase tuition for students who are taking longer than expected to complete their coursework. The long-standing three-peat tuition policy and the newly-implemented 18-hour rule for developmental courses will add hundreds of dollars to a student’s tuition if they Read more