Morgan Gates Published: November 23, 2005 The Lady Pirates hosted the World Ford Classic tournament Nov. 18-19 where they competed against the defending national champs of the NJCAA division II, the South Monroe Community College Tribunes, and South Georgia Technical College Jets. In Friday night’s game the Lady Pirates went to halftime on a 10-point…
Morgan Gates Published: November 23, 2005 Two of PJC’s intramural flag football teams participated in the 26th Annual West Florida Flag Football Regional Championships on Nov.12-13 where a total of 15 teams played at Ashton Brosnaham Park. According to intramural coordinator and Team A quarterback Doug Rogers, the Team B club team for PJC, lost…
Joshua Kinser Published: November 23, 2005 On July 13, 2000, PJC student Chris Lynch fell 2 « stories during a combat training exercise in France with the U.S. 82nd Airborne division and suffered a massive brain injury. He lay in a coma for 45 days and doctors believed he would never talk or move again.…
Janson Thomas Published: November 23, 2005 On Oct. 29, France’s Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin stated, “In our country, law and order will have the last word.” This statement was issued the day after two young men were electrocuted in France while evading police. Maybe Villepin spoke too soon. France is now in uproar as…
Yonit Shames Published: November 23, 2005 At a news conference in Panama on Nov. 7, President Bush responded to rumors of secret CIA prisons by proclaiming, “We do not torture.” These rumors were only the latest in a long line regarding the administration’s post-Sept. 11 detainee treatment policies. Although the U.S. officially outlaws torture, the…
Published: November 23, 2005 In the last installment of Lily, we examined the world of PIRATES (do you think they are great yet?). Today, we will talk about whatever crap falls out of my head and call it a column! On my mind AT THIS VERY MOMENT is the delicate matter of cooking. I was…
Corey Reese Published: November 23, 2005 The PJC men’s basketball team rebounded from Thursday’s loss, defeating an undermanned Shorter College team 91-53 Saturday Nov. 26. Four players scored in double figures and all 10 dressed players scored at least 2 points. PJC’s scoring leader was Tyrone Evans with 16. Yarrish Hammons and Julian Allen had…
Corey Reese Published: November 23, 2005 PJC matched up against Columbia State in men’s basketball on Thanksgiving Day, losing 84-68. Yarrish Hammons led the Pirates in scoring with 20 points. Durrell Baker also chipped in with 14 points, but it was not enough to get past Columbia State. “We played solid early but their zone…
Moria Dailey Published: November 23, 2005 Many women who have been sexually assaulted don’t know they are victims, said Dr. Teion Wells Harrison, licensed clinical psychologist, who spoke to students at the Pensacola campus Nov. 10. Harrison, who is director of the Department of Children and Families’ Sexually Violent Predator Program, said she gave the…
Erika Wilhite Published: November 23, 2005 There are many ways to express this year’s rollercoaster ride of fluctuating gas prices. But there is only one way to express the fact that oil companies were raking in record profits while many Americans could barely afford the gas it took make it to and from work, and…