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United Day of Caring helps community and children
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United Day of Caring helps community and children

by William Patterson The United Way held a United Day of Caring day on Oct. 11 from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Osceola Municipal Golf Course off Mobile Highway. “United Day of Caring is one of the most exciting events of the year for me,” said Ken Davis. “This was my second year...

Movie Review: Captain Phillips
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Movie Review: Captain Phillips

A Tragedy at Sea by J. Scott Southworth Watch it… if you’ve ever wondered what it might feel like to be captured and turned into an unwilling hostage in a situation torturously outside of your control, because Captain Phillips should give you a good approximation of what that might be like. Avoid it… if you...

PSC Alumni Game Saturday Oct. 19
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PSC Alumni Game Saturday Oct. 19

By Ally Doty Pensacola State College hosted the 2004 state champs alumni anniversary baseball game Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013 at Pensacola State in the early afternoon of a slightly rainy day. “We want to continue to include our alumni in this organization,” Head Coach Keith Little said after the game. Eleven players returned to face...

Health Fair Raises Health Awareness through Free Information and Screenings
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Health Fair Raises Health Awareness through Free Information and Screenings

By Rebecca Juntunen  On Tuesday, October 15, 2013, nearly 100 PSC students, employees and community members filled the Lou Rous Gym for a health fair on the Pensacola Campus, to receive health information and various free screenings.  Booths from different organizations offered information on weight loss, stroke prevention, height and BMI, healthcare services, and healthy...

The Academy of Teaching Excellence Award is Open for Teacher Nominations
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The Academy of Teaching Excellence Award is Open for Teacher Nominations

By Rebecca Juntunen   Nominations have opened up for the 28th annual Academy of Teaching Excellence Award, allowing students to nominate a great professor for this year’s award. Now is the time to use the definition of the school’s greatest teacher to help recognize your favorite professors for their excellence, enthusiasm, and dedication. What is your...

PSC student gets on registry in spring, donates bone marrow last week
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PSC student gets on registry in spring, donates bone marrow last week

by Ben Sheffler During one of several WEAR-TV and “Be the Match” Foundation Bone Marrow Registry drives earlier this year, Pensacola State College student Aaron Heintzelman signed up. Last week, he followed through on his commitment with a donation to someone with leukemia. Heintzelman hadn’t been thinking about getting on the registry, but the drive...

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Advice of the Day

There is no nice way to put this, so I am just going to come right out and say it.   Ladies and gentlemen, if you are going somewhere to be interviewed please do not be dressed like you are going to a party or a club.   Ladies, do not have your knockers out and...

Astronomer Clay Sherrod talks comets, predicts good show for ISON
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Astronomer Clay Sherrod talks comets, predicts good show for ISON

by Ben Sheffler Dr. Clay Sherrod of Arkansas Sky Observatories gave a lecture at Pensacola State College to educate people on the approaching Comet ISON, as well as the history and science of comets, on Saturday, Oct. 12, highlighting a few days that the comet could best be viewed. Comet ISON, an acronym for the...

Movie Review: Gravity
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Movie Review: Gravity

Round and Round and Round She Goes… by J. Scott Southworth Watch it… to experience a roller-coaster of a movie, a disaster film in space that introduces fascinatingly detailed models of some of the most famous objects in earth orbit, and then gleefully destroys them. Avoid it… if you are hoping for a spacefaring drama...