by Brenda Savage Published on October 10, 2007 Last year, PJC began offering students personal e-mail accounts. This semester, Pirate Mail has become the primary method PJC uses to communicate with students. Pirate mail is an email account automatically created for each PJC student enrolled in college credit courses. Pirate mail is a fast, efficient...
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December 6, 2008August 13, 2025Archived News
Look to Pensapedia for Pensacola history
by Joshua Encinias Published on October 10, 2007 Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that gives users access to edit various pages of information ranging from Mark Twain to boxing gloves. The Web site’s html is composed of open source software, giving everyone the right to create sub-wiki sites. But when it comes to information regarding...
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December 6, 2008August 13, 2025Archived Opinion
When right to write is wrong
Published on October 10, 2007 The brouhaha over a recent editorial in the Colorado State University’s student newspaper begs all of us to examine the question “When is the right to write, wrong?” The editorial that appeared in CSU’s Rocky Mountain Collegian responded in part to the recent tasering of a student at a University...
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December 6, 2008August 13, 2025Archived Opinion
Hope to Harvest
by Ansley Zecckine Published October 10, 2007 Construction may not be an easy line of work, but it’s the only way to truly live life. In every trial and circumstance there’s a nugget or two of wisdom worth taking; we need to take these situations and count them for good. Despite everyone else’s intentions, God...
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December 5, 2008August 13, 2025Archived Opinion
What happened to ‘separation of church and state’
Erika Wilhite Published: September 28, 2005 The Kansas State Board of Education recently eliminated the theory of evolution from the required curriculum in state-funded schools. Teachers will no longer be obligated to teach students about macroevolution, which is still the foremost scientific theory on the origin and diversity of life on Earth. As the rest...
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December 5, 2008August 13, 2025Archived Opinion
It began with intelligent design
Rachel Strehlow Published: September 28, 2005 On August 10, the Kansas State Board of Education made a bold, controversial move to eliminate the theory of evolution from the mandatory school curriculum, causing conflict across the country. Despite their protests, evolutionists had refused to testify before any Kansas committee, refusing to “dignify non-scientific theories” by making...
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December 5, 2008August 13, 2025Archived Opinion
Blame game does nothing
Yonit Shames & Daniel Cecil Published: September 28, 2005 Inevitably, in the wake of any major tragic occurrence, such as the tsunami in Southeast Asia or Sept. 11, our media and leaders insist upon playing the “blame game.” So it is that we have had to endure the usual finger pointing, name calling and mud...
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December 5, 2008August 13, 2025Features
Literary Roundtable unveils Literary Magazine
Kristen Bailey Published: September 28, 2005 Complimenting their glazed doughnuts and hot coffee with jazz music and blue skies, students and faculty of PJC gathered yesterday 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 the...
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December 5, 2008August 13, 2025Features
Decked Out: Fall Fashion Must-Haves
Monica Moody Published: September 28, 2005 Dressing for a night out is nothing like it used to be. The ever-changing rules that dictate fashion trends could easily leave you passed-out on your bedroom floor with a spinning headache and nothing to wear. So, after hours of careful research and countless sleepless nights spent hunched over...
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December 5, 2008August 13, 2025Archived Opinion
The Benefits of Night Classes: Endless Parking and Romance
Matt Foster Published: september 28, 2005 Aside from the obvious benefits of furthering one’s education and being able to work a full time job in the daytime, night classes not only offer an easy alternative for a heavy schedule but they also have many other pleasing benefits most people won’t even consider when signing up....