Category: <span>Archived News</span>

Moria Dailey Published: November 23, 2005 Emily Mahood has taken Angel Hill’s place as the head of PJC’s Rape Risk Reduction Education Program (RRRE).  The program, which is funded by a 40-month grant, received in 2003, is really meant to focus on education, Mahood said. The presentations are 50 minutes long and deal with subjects...

Joshua Wilks Published: August 23 2004 For someone who thinks the only way to volunteer in his or her community is working in a soup kitchen, Emily Mahood could prove otherwise.  Mahood, the new volunteer coordinator and activities specialist at PJC, is working carefully to link students to volunteer opportunities that suit their interests and...

Jim Ellis Published: August 23 2004 Students who have a love for nature and conservation are finding other students who share their passion in the Outdoor Club on the Milton campus. ÿ The Outdoor Club is not just for those students with a strong science background. Club president Joe Elder, an English major, decided to...

Joshua Wilks Published: August 23 2004 For more than 35 years, Professor Randall Broxton has been doing what he believes he was meant to do, teaching history.  For Broxton, a history teacher on the Pensacola campus, history is not only a profession, it’s an obsession.  It is this obsession that led him to pursue a...

Sarah Bahari Published August 23 2004 FORT WORTH, Texas — On a busy weeknight, Travis the bouncer stood protectively at the doorway of The Library, a popular bar in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. His job sounds simple enough: Keep underage drinkers out. But it’s not always easy. On a busy night, about 10 fake identification...

Joshua Wilks Published August 23 2004 Although hurricanes are among the most destructive and deadly of all natural disasters, they always provide the most amount of warning before striking.  As the storm swirls and residents crowd to the grocery stores, you can be prepared in advanced.  The following information, collected from the American Red Cross...

Staff Reporters Published August 23 2004 The burden of rebuilding after a hurricane always has a high price tag.  This is no exception for victims of Hurricane Charley in Central and South Florida.  As Charley cut his path of destruction through Central and South Florida in mid-August, employees at other state community colleges, including Edison,...

Karalee Miller Published: August 23 2004 The first real test for most college students isn’t in the classroom. It’s figuring out how to turn those cramped dorm rooms into something they can call home. Sure, schools throw in a couple of desks and bunk beds, but students are left to their own devices to create...

Staff Reporters Published: August 23 2004 Gerald McKenzie, an attorney at the law firm of McKenzie & Allen, has been elected chairman of the Pensacola Junior College district board of trustees for the 2004-2005 school year. McKenzie replaces Carol Carlan, who served as the PJC board chairwoman for two years. Dona Usry, a homemaker and...

Lisa Green Published: Auguest 23 2004 There are some people who equate success with winning, and there are those who do not. This past summer, Samuel Bearman, a local attorney in Pensacola and former PJC Booster Club member, along with Booster Club member Clyde Anderson, asked the Board of Trustees to adopt a policy that...