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Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness
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Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness

by Hope Hall “Star Trek Into the Darkness” is a sci-fi action/adventure movie loosely based on Gene Rodenberry’s classic original series. The film follows Captain James T. Kirk, his first officer Spock, and the other familiar characters through a journey involving genetically enhanced humans, a renegade Star Fleet officer, and a startling discovery of a...

Hangout Music Fest 2013
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Hangout Music Fest 2013

Corsair Photographer Chelsea Zachary captured all the action at this years Hangout Music Fest, which was held May 16-18, 2013 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Headliners for the beachside festival included Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Kings of Leon, veteran bands such as Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, The Shins and The Black Crowes, as...

service project influences entire campus
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service project influences entire campus

  Most of the time people throw away their soda cans or cereal boxes, but what they don’t realize is those items can make a big difference if they are recycled. SkillsUSA, one of many programs at Pensacola State College where students and teachers work together for a better workforce, is doing its part to...

AHF provides free HIV testing to PSC students
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AHF provides free HIV testing to PSC students

by Ben Sheffler Free condoms and HIV tests were offered by the Aids Healthcare Foundation on the Pensacola campus on Tuesday, April 9. “It’s nothing to be ashamed of,” said Christina Hayes, lead counselor at AHF.  “You have to know your status.” The testing process takes just a few minutes, and involves a simple prick...

Edgy poet Addonizio to present reading, workshop Thursday, April 11
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Edgy poet Addonizio to present reading, workshop Thursday, April 11

by Ben Sheffler This Thursday, April 11, 2013, Pensacola State College Library is presenting a workshop and poetry reading by Kim Addonizio, a “super edgy, really contemporary poet,” according to Mike Will, an English professor at PSC. For students who think they aren’t into poetry, Will has something to say. “When people say ‘I hate...

Learning Lab, Imagination Station open at Wahoos Stadium
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Learning Lab, Imagination Station open at Wahoos Stadium

by Ben Sheffler A recent WSRE historical documentary, “Baseball in Pensacola,” led to the opening of the Pensacola State College Learning Lab and WSRE Imagination Station at the Pensacola Bayfront Stadium. “We uncovered such a rich history of baseball in Pensacola, and the documentary was so well received, this was a way to take it...

The Hurricane Review showcases fiction, poetry
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The Hurricane Review showcases fiction, poetry

by Ben Sheffler On a perfect spring evening, Pensacola State College English Professor Todd Neuman delivered a short but powerful speech on continuity, which he tied into the current issue of The Hurricane Review, a regional literary magazine produced at PSC that receives poem and short story submissions from around the world. “All these little...