Month: <span>March 2010</span>

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Pete Pena is PJC’s new basketball coach
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Pete Pena is PJC’s new basketball coach

Pensacola Junior College selects one of its own, Pete Pena, to head the men’s basketball program. He replaces head coach Paul Swanson, who stepped down March 11. “We are glad to announce the hiring of Pete Pena as the new men’s basketball coach,” said PJC Athletic Director Bill Hamilton. “Although Pete is not really ‘new,’...

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Glenn Beck is a dangerous unhinged moron

Paul Smith – The Corsair Conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck has quickly become a rising a star on the Fox News channel. And it’s not hard to see why: he’s a very skilled entertainer. He knows how to rile up a crowd with an act that’s equal parts carnival clown as well as dopey, red-faced...

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Hope to Harvest: Consuming Compassion

Ansley Zecckine – The Corsair With all the recent natural disasters occurring all around us, some people begin to question what God has been doing, and others quickly proclaim these disasters as being nothing other than God’s judgment on sinful nations that deserved what they had coming. The time has come, however, that we should...

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Iraq’s first metal band comes to the U.S.

Only the Dead See the End of War Vice Records, 2010 Rating: 8 out of 10 Connor Lukkar – The Corsair “Only the Dead See the End of War” is an apt name for Acrassicauda’s debut EP; coming from Baghdad, they know a thing or two about war. Formed in 2001, Acrassicauda (from the Latin...

The Corsair is covering NASA
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The Corsair is covering NASA

The Corsair’s mission is to offer the panhandle the ability to follow NASA’s fourth-to-last shuttle launch, with details about PJC’s alumni, now astronaut commander, Alan G. Poindexter. This will be the second time the Corsair has covered Poindexter in his shuttle flights to space. The shuttle missions are soon to pull to a close at...

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PJC students will debate global warming

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Pensacola Junior College students tackle heated topic of global warming Monday, March 22. In conjunction with PJC’s project “Environmental and Economic Sustainability,” professor Jeff Wooters and Introduction to Environmental Science students present “The PJC Great Global Warming Debate” 6 to 8 p.m. at the Hagler Auditorium, Building 2, room 252, on the Pensacola...

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‘Final Fantasy’ adds number 13 to its series

Wade Manns – The Corsair Final Fantasy XIII By Square Enix Genre: Role-playing Rating: Teen for mild language, suggestive themes and violence. Release: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 The epic (and epically long) “Final Fantasy” series now has 13 games under its belt. All of these games feature a band of disparate adventurers banding together to...

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‘Dante’s Inferno’ falls short

Wade Manns – The Corsair Dante’s Inferno by Electronic Arts and Visceral Games Genre: Third-person action/exploration Rating: Mature, for blood and gore, intense violence, sexual content and nudity. Between 1308 and 1321, the Italian poet Dante Alighieri wrote his epic poem, which would come to be known as “The Divine Comedy.” This was a three-part...

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‘Star Trek’ joins the online gaming world

by Wade Manns – The Corsair Star Trek OnlineBy Cryptic StudiosGenre: Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Gamerating: Teen (fantasy violence, mild suggestive themes) I was recently given the opportunity to try out a 10-day free trial of “Star Trek Online,” the new massively multiplayer online RPG set in the Star Trek universe. As first MMO’s go,...