See Update No. 2 at the bottom of page 2 on the recovered body being identified as Maribel Ramos' and her roommate being arrested for her murder. Update No. 1 on page 2 was about a woman's body being found Thursday in Modjeska Canyon, and police and Ramos' family fearing it was the missing Cal State Fullerton student's.

ORIGINAL POST, MAY 7, 1:21 P.M.: People at Cal State Fullerton are hoping someone has seen Maribel Manriquez Ramos, a 36-year-old student and University Outreach Office worker who was reported missing on Friday. "The circumstances surrounding Ramos' disappearance are suspicious," reads an Orange Police Department advisory issued Monday.

"She is a very bright, up and coming student and literally just disappeared," a friend of Ramos writes in an email asking the Weekly to publicize the case to draw more attention to it.

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Scary vato...

Early on during the six-hour long Anaheim city council meeting last night, retiring police chief John Welter received a formal recognition from the dais. His nine-year career as head of the force effectively ends tomorrow; deputy chief Raul Quezada--surprise, surprise: a Mexi!--will take his place on a interim basis.

Meanwhile, somewhere behind the OC Register's paywall last week dropped an article about plans by councilwoman Lucille Kring to have the Orange County Family Justice Center--formerly known by its Anaheim identifier--christened in Welter's honor.

But all the adulation doesn't stop there. Jose Moreno--Los Amigos President, Anaheim City School District (ACSD) board member, and a member of the Weekly's 2012 Scariest People issue--wants in on the action, too!

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See Update No. 2 at the end of this post on Angel Rojas Jr. being sentenced to 270 days in jail and the other punishment he received. See Update No. 1 on the next page on the Corona man being convicted of locking the doors of several elementary school restrooms to direct girls to use one where he had set up a small hidden camera so he could collect pornographic images.

ORIGINAL POST, MAY 7, 9:11 A.M.: A Santa Ana Unified School District janitor faces trial today for allegedly hiding a camera in the bathroom stall of a women's restroom at Glenn L. Martin Elementary School.

Baby-faced Angel Rojas Jr., 25, of Corona, could get more than a year in jail, a $6,000 fine and a lifetime of registering as a sex offender with a conviction.

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Wagner: off to a rocky start...

Dozens of parents marched down Sunkist Street early this morning in front of Anaheim's Benito Juarez Elementary School. They were angered that current principal Roberto Baeza is being transferred out at the end of the year in a move made by Linda Wagner, the brand-spanking new Superintendent of the Anaheim City School District (ACSD). The parents carried protest signs and leaflets with a photo of Wagner crossed out saying "Shame on You" as they were mostly greeted by honking horns from cars passing by.

"I have seen the difference in the principals," says Jesus Ramirez, a father of three, including a 6th grader at Juarez. "Dr. Baeza has been the best principal that this school has had. We need him to stay here." Other parents echoed similar sentiments before a meeting with Wagner began at the school library.

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See the update at the end of this post with an image of the note stating "Go Back 2 Africa Slave" and the university disclosing it was left in the freshman student's backpack in a lab.

ORIGINAL POST, MAY 9, 2:59 P.M.: A UC Irvine freshman received a note slipped under her dorm-room door* Tuesday night that read, "Go back 2 Africa slave," her mother has told a San Diego television station. (*The note was actually left in her backpack in a campus lab; see update.) A university spokeswoman later told ABC 10News the incident is now being investigated alongside the continuing probe into an Asian fraternity that posted a video online of students in blackface.

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Here's an important tip to you taggers and graffiti artists: Take "trophy shots" of your illegal work at night. Mitchell Lee, 22, of Cypress, learned the hard way that not only is it not smart to take such a photo in broad daylight at a school he'd allegedly marked up that same morning but that he should have chosen a different design than the identical marks left on a Cypress Police SWAT vehicle parked in a secure lot.

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The chief justice of the California Supreme Court will deliver the commencement address at UC Irvine School of Law on May 11. Fortunately, the UCI School of Law has informed the Weekly who that is: Tani Cantil-Sakauye. Truth be told, Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye was sworn in on Jan. 3, 2011, becoming the first Asian-Filipina American and the second woman to serve as the state's chief justice.

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The new supe

The Anaheim City School District (ACSD) finally selected a new superintendent after an interim merry-go-round, but the honeymoon is already over for some parents. Linda Wagner, who only started her new position last month, has already made a move to transfer Benito Juarez Elementary School principal Roberto Baeza, angering parents to the point of even organizing a protest march set for Friday morning!

Wagner was appointed by the ACSD in early March by a unanimous vote, coming from a stint as superintendent at Monrovia Unified School District. She brings to Anaheim with her a background loaded with experience in bilingual education.

Sounds good for a school district with a heavily Mexi student body and a lot of English learners, ¿que no?

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Jason Troia layin' down the law

"Oh man, you're not going to believe this," Jason Troia says into the receiver. Troia is the student trustee at Long Beach City College who hasn't made waves, but launched a tsunami against the school's Board of Trustees last week by calling for their resignation in the wake of them cutting 11 of the school's vocational programs.

"They've totally underestimated me," the 32-year-old trustee says. "They're not going to get away with this." And the timing could not be more perfect; just a few days after Troia bitch slapped the administration, the Academic Senate released a report that shows the LBCC faculty ain't happy with dem trustees, either.

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Lambda Theta Delta, the Asian-American fraternity under fire for a music video featuring a member in blackface, has announced it will suspend its status as a UC Irvine organization for one year, until fall 2014. The suspension is self-imposed, and the group may face additional consequences from the university as an investigation continues.

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