PAC Student Media

By Jessica Hurtado Pulse Staff Reporter Palo Alto students have concerns about what awaits their future. During presidential elections, candidates promise positive change for our nation, but will they deliver? Students have diverse opinions about healthcare’s affordability, college/university affordability, the right to bear arms, immigration and climate change, yet everyone wants what is best for…

By Adrienne Serbin Pulse Staff Reporter  The phones are ringing in the office, and advice can be heard throughout the room. Workers are waiting to assist students with their technology problems, one student at a time. For some students, help does not come fast enough. One major difference between this year’s and last year’s Canvas…

By Joshua Porterie Pulse Staff Reporter Palo Alto is home to a lot of employees, many of whom are faculty, staff and administrators, but student employees, or work-studies, are also part of this campus. “PAC currently has a total of 72 work-studies hired,” said Lucy Rodriguez, Financial Aid advisor. “Sixty-one on-campus work-studies, 11 off-campus community-based…

By Victoria Martinez Pulse Staff Reporter It’s that time of year to throw bathing suits, shorts, tank tops and flip flops into the back of the closet and to find your scarves, coats, gloves and warm boots. Students at Palo Alto College are getting ready for this change in climate, so finding out where and…

By Justin Guerrero Pulse Staff Reporter Are your selfies more important than Finals Week, or is that tweet just too good to not retweet? I see, it’s the like on Facebook you want; have we become too absorbed with social media? When you’re walking down the street or at lunch, most people are looking down…

By Gabriel Obaya Pulse Staff Reporter San Antonio is filled with activities and events for everyone to enjoy during the holidays. “I don’t understand how some people say they can’t find nothing to do in SA during the season. They must not get out much ’cause we have so many things happening during the winter…

By Yajaira Santillan Pulse Staff Reporter Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, signed the Campus Carry Bill on June 13, 2015. Texas is one of eight states that will soon allow concealed handguns on college campuses. The other seven states are Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Mississippi, Oregon, Utah and Wisconsin. This proposal has been discussed since…

By Angelica Avila Pulse Staff Reporter Palo Alto’s students recall the life-changing events caused by Hurricane Katrina in their hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana, in 2005, that forced them to seek refuge and begin a new life in San Antonio. “We walked 30 minutes to the Super Dome and stood for three days waiting to…

By Jessica Martinez Pulse Staff Reporter Children of all ages are invited to check out Palo Alto College’s newly renovated Children’s Library located in Room 119 of the Ozuna Learning and Academic Center. “Our main thing is it’s all about family,” said Melissa Moya, Library Assistant III. Moya and the rest of the staff are…

By Adrienne Serbin Pulse Staff Reporter  San Antonio has the second worst air quality in the state behind Dallas-Fort Worth, according to a recent report by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Yes, San Antonio’s air quality is now worse than Houston’s. According to the National Institutes of Health, ground-level ozone occurs when sunlight reacts…

By Stephen Ratliff Pulse Staff Reporter San Antonio is a growing city in more ways than one. In 2012, San Antonio’s population had a 29 percent obesity rate, which is roughly 400,000 people who were overweight. San Antonio had the second-highest obesity rate in major U.S. cities, according to a Gallup report. Memphis is number…

By Victoria Uribe Pulse Staff Reporter A national survey by the American Psychological Association in 2013 found that the stress levels teens experience during the school year was higher than adult stress levels. These teens also admitted that they believed their stress levels to be unhealthy. So what is stress exactly? “Stress is a response…

By Justin Guerrero Pulse Staff Reporter Palo Alto College is proud of all its graduates, but there are some who have gone above and beyond what even they themselves thought possible. These success stories are our PAC Stars. Anthony D. Alvarado, Sr., is an adjunct faculty here at Palo Alto in the Oil & Gas…

By Katharina Guttenberg Pulse Staff Reporter The Eleven Rivers Review debuted last spring semester as a way to give the students of Palo Alto College a chance to showcase their talents. So far students have submitted sketches, photographs, poems, short stories, colored drawings and an interview. Even if students are not interested in writing and…

By Joshua Porterie Pulse Staff Reporter After more than three years of absence, Palo Alto College has extramural sports programs, both basketball and volleyball, back and in full force. Student athletes are some of the busiest students on campus. While trying to focus on school, work and sports, they have a lot on their plate.…

By Gabriel Obaya Pulse Staff Reporter A lump in your throat, sweaty hands, an aching stomach, and a pounding heart. These are symptoms that are common in a person with communication apprehension or fear of public speaking. Eric Flores, a freshman Business major, said, “Every time I try going up to read, either an essay…

By Monica Reuter Pulse Staff Reporter Many colleges around the country are relying on Open Educational Resources to cut down on costs for their students.  Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or available through an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone…

By Victoria Martinez Pulse Staff Reporter According to the college’s most recent Fact Book, 18.3 percent of Palo Alto’s students are enrolled full-time and 81.7 percent are part-time. Many students work full-time and attend school part-time. Toni Rizo, a sophomore Teaching Early Childhood major, works as a Pharmacy Care Representative at HEB and helps customers…