Category: <span>Features</span>

From Staff Reports Published: January 25, 2006 Local Events UWF Concert The University of West Florida is hosting a free concert featuring the UWF Madrigals, the UWF Singers, and the UWF Gospel Choir at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 in the Center for Fine and Performing Arts (Building 82). The Pensacola Opera The opera has guest...

Corsair Staff Writers Published: January 9, 2006 Here are several steps you can take to protect yourself from identity theft. Don’t carry around more than one credit card. Carry a debit card instead of a check book as debit cards have pin numbers; this makes it more difficult to gain access to your checking account....

Erika Wilhite Published: January 9, 2006 The semi-mythical Freshman 15 – the number of pounds supposedly gained during the freshman year of college- may be a real concern for incoming students. While it’s not true that everyone experiences such a drastic weight gain, studies have shown that most students do gain weight within their first...

From Staff Reports PENSACOLA, Fla. – Pensacola Junior College invites the community to learn about solar power, wind power, biofuels and other energy resources at the Renewable Energy Forum. The free event is 6 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Hagler Auditorium, Building 2A, on the Pensacola campus. As a part of PJC’s “Environmental and Economic...

Staff Reports PENSACOLA, Fla. – Pensacola Junior College invites the community to its 14th annual Multicultural Job Fair 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio, Building 23, on the Pensacola campus. Sponsors are the PJC Black History Committee, PJC Student Job Services and WSRE-TV. Each year,...

Pensacola Junior College invites the community to watch the historic swearing in of President-Elect Barack Obama as WSRE-TV presents a live feed of the inaugural ceremonies. The live feed airs 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20, at the Hagler Auditorium, Building 2A, on the Pensacola campus. The event is free and open to...

By: Katie Coseo Published: January 8, 2009 Robinson Honors Scholar Lorraine Ogan won first place in the Outstanding Undergraduate Philosophy Paper in a Two Year College and presented it in Daytona at the Florida Philosophical Association’s annual conference. Ogan’s paper was an argumentative essay concerning whether an argument can come from just using a visual...

By: Terry Strickland Published: January 8, 2009 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...

By: Troy Lambert Published: January 8, 2009 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...

Kristen Bailey Published: December 7, 2005 This is the face of a woman who knows the dirt on Pensacola Junior College, and not just the physical dirt. Spending hours every day cleaning Building 4, custodian Angie White gets PJC’s dirt- everything from which professors to take to the scoundrels of the building. Arriving at 4...