Category: <span>Features</span>

The Pensacola Junior College Lyceum series presents “The Night of the Iguana” Feb. 20-22 and Feb. 27-March 1 at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Distinguished American playwright Tennessee Williams won his fourth New York Drama Critics Award for...

Published: February 8, 2006 Transferring to a four year college can be confusing for students who don’t understand the process.  Collegeboard.com has advice for students that will hopefully make the transfer process easier. Step 1: Learn about the transfer program. Transfer programs at community colleges prepare you to enter a university as a junior. They...

Moria Dailey Published: February 8, 2006 It’s Valentine’s Day soon; some of you may want to do something nice for a significant other.  Others of you may be required to.  Either way, here are some tips for the poor and kind. As I am not horribly romantically inclined, I asked a friend who happens to...

Ayla Brooks Published: February 8, 2006 “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” -Dr. Seuss in the Lorax Why do students volunteer? ÿThere is no money in it. It adds more stress to an already busy schedule. Why would anyone want to do that?ÿWell, they...

Ayla Brooks PUblished: February 8, 2006 When you’re 6 years old, the promise of mango ice cream is convincing enough to send you halfway around the world.  Or at least that’s what Sarah Randall said. Originally born and raised in Pensacola, Randall’s father found his calling as a missionary when she was a little girl....

Michael Rutschky Published: February 8, 2006 While most PJC students have to wait until after graduation to work in the field of their major, certain departments are giving students the opportunity to work as they learn.  This, of course, benefits students who are gaining the experience required to move into the field, but it also...

Katie Coseo Published: February 11, 2009 Student Leadership and Activities at Warrington Campus are going to be hosting the “Better Budgeting Lecture” on Wednesday, March 4 at 11:30-12:30. The Lecture will be held in the student center, building 3600. Free lunch will be provided for those who attend.   The lecture will be covering topics...

Katie Coseo Published: February 11, 2009 On February 18at the Warrington Student Center, SGA will be hosting a Mardi Gras for students and staff from 12 to 1:30. Everyone is invited to enjoy free jambalaya and drinks. If you stick around you may get to win a free cake for you to take home.

by Troy Lambert Dr. John Wayne Wooten, chief astronomy professor at Pensacola Junior College, has had an extraordinary career peering at the heavens and sharing his knowledge with those of us on Earth. From a young age, Wooten knew what he was going to do with his life. Back in mid-August 1957, after a long...

by Terry Strickland This month, after 17 consecutive years of service, science professor Jeff Wooters of Pensacola Junior College will get a much-needed vacation – a paid vacation in fact — to the sunny coast of the Land Down Under. This vacation is referred to in the academic community as a “sabbatical,” in which a...