Heather Adams Published: October 12, 2005 Dr. James Callaway, PJC Registrar, is retiring at the end of the month, and everyone is sad to see him go. “Everybody likes James Callaway. I’ve never met a soul who didn’t like him, and I’ve never heard a negative word about him,” said Keith Prendergast, of the English…
Moria Dailey Published: October 12, 2005 Students who have lost belongings on any PJC campus need only to go to the PJC police department to claim them. However, if students don’t do so soon, their belongings will be auctioned off to benefit student scholarships. The police have to keep items for 30 days, and after…
Trenton Willnecker Published: October 12, 2005 There is probably no one in the area more knowledgeable about our solar system than PJC’s Dr. Wayne Wooten. Wooten has taught astronomy at PJC and the University of West Florida for 31 years and is the only instructor to win Teacher of the Year awards at both schools.…
Kristen Bailey Published: October 12, 2005 Complimenting their glazed doughnuts and hot coffee with jazz music and blue skies, students and faculty of PJC gathered Oct. 5 in the gazebo at a small reception celebrating the Literary Roundtable’s newly published literary magazine, Issue. Former writers and artists for the magazine, as well as newcomers to…
Matt Foster Published: October 12, 2005 PJC’s Student Govern-ment Association will play host to Rock for Relief, a benefit for Hurricane Katrina victims, from 5 p.m. to midnight on Friday, Oct. 14, in the student center on Pensacola campus. The show is for all ages and free to the public. A Red Cross table will…
Sam Published: October 12, 2005 Every Friday night from 8:30 to midnight, the American Legion takes a step back in time to the days of flappers and speakeasies for a night of swing dancing. Friday’s swing nights serve as an introductory to the dance that has been around since the 1920s for all ages and…
Lindsay Spencer and Matt Brown Published: October 12, 2005 Quick quiz: If you were asked to meet at the Baars Building on the PJC Pensacola campus, would you know what building that was? If you said it was building 1, you would know exactly where to go. Most of the buildings on campus have names…
Ashley Carter Published: October 12, 2005 Want to party retro style? The PJC Foundation is throwing an alumni and friends celebration party to commemorate past alumni, and to bring together current students with past students. It’s from 7 to 10 p.m. on Oct. 22 in the Lou Ross gymnasium on the Pensacola campus. The celebration…
Trenton Willnecker Published: October 12, 2005 The PJC Gymnastics Program is back on its feet after almost a year long hiatus because of Hurricane Ivan. Last September when the storm hit PJC, the gymnasium on Pensacola campus was hit just as hard as the gymnastics program that was housed inside. “$120,000 of equipment was damaged…
Matt Foster Published: October 12, 2005 The cheering, sold-out, Ashmore auditorium on the Pensacola campus played host to the “FLY Dance Company” which performed on Saturday, Oct. 8th. FLY, listed on their website as an “all-male group of street dancers,” is an innovative contemporary dance troupe that merges everything from hip-hop to classical music with…