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Are students voting?

Tabatha Fields The Corsair   The Escambia County Elections staff visited Pensacola State College Monday, Sept. 17, to encourage students to vote. There was a table outside the student center with pamphlets containing information on voting, and there was a small book adorned with the United States flag on the cover entitled, The U.S. Constitution-...

Bright future scholarship ice cream social
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Bright future scholarship ice cream social

Tabatha Fields The Corsair A crowd of 200- 250 Pensacola State College students attended the “Bright Future Scholarship Ice Cream Social.” There were only three lucky winners: Montel Michael, John Slay, and Shani Walker.  John Slay, one of the scholarship winners said, “I was shocked when my name was called. I won a $100 gas...

Pensacola State College announces new job opportunity
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Pensacola State College announces new job opportunity

  Tabatha Fields The Corsair “Marshall’s. Now hiring for over 90 Retail Positions” is the message Pensacola State College students received via Pirate Mail Sept. 9, 2012. Hundreds of Pensacola State College students, and people that were not students waited patiently to be interviewed with hopes of being hired for one of the 90 positions...

Pensacola State College awarded $23,365
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Pensacola State College awarded $23,365

Kan Zhang The Corsair Pensacola State College was awarded $23,365 in scholarship grants from three groups Wednesday, Sept. 5. One of the groups, Florida Blue, presented the college with a check for $10,600 to fund student scholarships in the areas of Nursing and Allied Health. The Dream Maker Scholarship, established by Bank of America, awarded $3,887...

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Issac closes college

Brownen Gerber  The Corsair Due to Hurricane Isaac, Pensacola State College will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday. The college plans to re-open Thursday, but it depends on the weather if it stays closed. As long as there’s electricity at the college, Spyglass will remain running for students to register and adjust their schedules. Also, deadlines...

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Film comes to the classroom

Rebecca Byers The Corsair Movies are a great pastime to go see, but imagine getting to watch movies and review them in the classroom. Stacey Albaugh, instructor in the English and Communication department will teach the new film course, Special Topics in Communication, diversity in film, offered in the fall semester. The course examines the...

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College escapes damage from June flood

Danielle Provau The Corsair Pensacola State College escaped with only cosmetic damage from the flood June 10. Pensacola received 13 inches of rain on the Pensacola Campus and a record 23 inches at Warrington Campus. The other campuses had little to no damage at all from the freak flood. Warrington Campus was hardest hit.  A footbridge that...

Time is short to register to vote
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Time is short to register to vote

If you aren’t registered to vote yet, you only have a couple of weeks to do so before the primary. The registration deadline falls 29 days before the election: July 16 for the August primary, and Oct. 9 for the November election.

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Money Does Matter

Rebecca Byers The Corsair The Financial Literacy Committee introduced the 2012 Pensacola State College theme Money Matters. Money Matters means that money is important. Rachelle Burns, the director of Student Support Services, is also the chair of the financial literacy committee at Pensacola State College. “I was one of the first people along with a...