by Ben Sheffler During one of several WEAR-TV and “Be the Match” Foundation Bone Marrow Registry drives earlier this year, Pensacola State College student Aaron Heintzelman signed up. Last week, he followed through on his commitment with a donation to someone with leukemia. Heintzelman hadn’t been thinking about getting on the registry, but the drive...
by Ben Sheffler Dr. Clay Sherrod of Arkansas Sky Observatories gave a lecture at Pensacola State College to educate people on the approaching Comet ISON, as well as the history and science of comets, on Saturday, Oct. 12, highlighting a few days that the comet could best be viewed. Comet ISON, an acronym for the...
by Ben Sheffler Free condoms and HIV tests were offered by the Aids Healthcare Foundation on the Pensacola campus on Tuesday, Oct. 8. “We make it a priority to come to college campuses to provide condoms and to educate and increase HIV awareness,” said Rose Marshall, an HIV testing counselor for the AHF. The testing...
By Ally Doty An elderly man suffered from a diabetic seizure while swimming laps in the Pensacola State College swimming pool around 1 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. Paul Flores is a regular at the PSC pool and swims almost every day to stay in good shape and stay healthy, but his condition got...
by Ben Sheffler The Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, building 15 on Pensacola State College’s main campus, will exhibit artwork by the prolific Native-American artist Neal Ambrose-Smith from August 19 to October 4. Ambrose-Smith is a painter, printmaker, and sculptor who is an outspoken proponent of using non-toxic printmaking techniques. By using these...
by Ally Doty The Blue Angels may be grounded for 2013 due to budget cuts, but that didn’t stop three members of the flight crew from spreading a positive message of working hard to achieve your goals to students from Pensacola State College’s Kid’s College program on June 20, 2013. Lieutenant Katie Kelly, the squad’s...
The level of punishment for minor sex-related crimes will be the focus of a panel discussion, presented by the Pensacola State Philosophy Club, on Friday, April 19, at 6 p.m. in the Hagler Auditorium, Building 2, Room 252 on the Pensacola campus. The event is free and open to the public. Panel members Nicholas Power,...
by Danielle Storley [youtube id=”P0pze9X0QxE” width=”600″ height=”350″] Pensacola State College’s Performing Arts Department will present the Pulitzer Prize winning play “Rabbit Hole” by David Lindsay-Blaire as this year’s spring production. The play centers on a couple’s struggle with grief after losing their four-year-old child. “Why do bad things happen to good people and how do...
by Danielle Provau WSRE’s Studio Amped returns for its fifth season of the free live songwriters’ concert series on Monday, Feb. 18, 2013. The concerts will be held at the Jean and Paul Amos Performance Studio. Doors open at 6 p.m. nightly and the concerts start at 7 p.m. The eight-night event kicks off with...
by Rebecca Byers Students from Pensacola State College’s Student Veterans Association recently spent four days at the Fifth National Student Veterans of America Conference in Orlando, Fla. The January conference included colleges and universities from across the country, including the University of Arizona, Florida State University, the University of Florida, Auburn University, Yale, Harvard and...