Category: <span>Archived News</span>

Veronica Walker Published: Auguest 23 2004 PJC enrollment of African-Americans, especially black men, has shown little growth for more than 13 years, reflecting nationwide trends, but PJC leaders are vowing to reverse the trend here. African-American men accounted for only 13.7 percent of 11,534 male enrollees last year. The head count of black males was...

Steve Kuchera Published: April 28 2004 Scalping a press pass to the Frozen Four cost a University of Minnesota Duluth senior his positions as a college newspaper reporter and Duluth News Tribune intern. The UMD Statesman fired Chris Voigt on Thursday after learning that he had sold his press credential to the NCAA Division I...

Staff Reporters Published: April 28 2004 The April 13 issue of The Corsair incorrectly identified the locations of two events on the Calendar page. The PJC Music Showcase on April 22 was featured in the Saenger Auditorium, and the PJC Student Recital on April 29 will be in the Ashmore Auditorium. Also in that issue,...

Veronica Walker Published: April 28 2004 In-state students starting college 10 years ago paid no more than $60 per credit hour at state institutions. Five years later, students paid about $80 per credit hour. Start of the 2003-2004 school year, they are paying up to $100 per credit hour at these four major state universities....

Meg Murphy Published: April 28 2004 It has been almost a year since the construction of WSRE’s new performing arts studio first began. Although members of the critically acclaimed television station have long been anticipating the completion of the arena, many PJC students are just beginning to take notice. WSRE-TV is a public television station...

Lisa Cobb Published: April 28 2004 The artwork is detailed, imaginative, and compelling. According to Brenda Bischoff, director of Pensacola Earth Day, that is exactly what the 10-member Pensacola Earth Day Committee was looking for when they approached PJC’s Graphic Design Instructor Mark Hopkins for a student ad campaign for Earth Day. “We wanted the...

Joshua Wilks Published: April 28 2004 Always on the go and traveling from place to place for work, an adjunct college professor’s life sometimes might seem like that of a migrant farm worker — demanding, low-paying and ceaselessly insecure. Teaching everything from how to write a five-paragraph essay to understanding the writings of Plato, adjunct...

James Hagan Published: April 13 2004 The Milton Student Government Association (SGA) was awarded second place for community colleges in “Florida Leader” magazine’s annual “Best Student Government” competition. Finishing behind Miami Dade College-Wolfson, the SGA was praised by the magazine for not only boosting membership by 500 percent over the past year, but also for...

Jim Ellis Published: April 13 2004 PJC is accepting applications from students to serve as official college ambassadors next year. Everyone who applies must fill out an application, submit an essay and have a letter of recommendation from a faculty or staff member. Possible candidates are selected for an interview. Once a student is chosen...

Lisa Cobb Published: April 13 2004 More than 100 PJC students will be honored at the annual Student Excellence Awards Ceremony at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 13, in the Pensacola campus Student Center. PJC’s vice president of academic affairs, Dr. David Sam, will be the guest speaker. The ceremony is “a very positive culmination of...