The Courier and Audrey Allen are to be commended for their excellent coverage of the horrendous tragedy that befell Maria Isabel Fernandez. I hope that we can all take to heart Isabel's generosity of spirit and use it as a model for her scholarship's fundraising activities. Further, these comments would make Isabel mad as hell at the way their pointless insensitivity has hurt her Dad for no reason. At Orange Coast College, which has one of the best flamenco programs of any college in the country, we would have been honored to have Isabel among us. In fact, I can't think of anyone at PCC who has done anything more than pontificate.
Talk is cheap.
There is more to an education than filling a seat and getting grades. One can only hope that those who mutter meaningless asides about bounty hunters and other, unspecified student tragedies manage to squeeze a little compassion into their work load. Somewhere down the line, in the real world, they are going to need it.