Lindsey Chavers Published: October 25, 2006 The PJC baseball team made a strong, but failed, attempt to overcome UWF with a 5-2 loss, Wed., Oct. 18. With a less than average crowd and sporadic weather conditions, the Pirates were unable to surmount the Argos’ early lead. All five of UWF’s points came in the first…
Sahara Locke Published: October 25, 2006 Flu season is once again upon us and whether or not people will take the recommended but often dreaded flu shot remains to be seen. For years doctors have pushed the flu shot as a way to prevent one of the most irritating and in some cases, even fatally…
Published: October 25, 2006 PJC is like a small community. We all belong to this community, filling roles as students, faculty, administration, and other personnel. We all contribute to making PJC what it is. Though it seems like we should be a unified front for campus pride, we are not. The morale on PJC campuses…
Jennifer Rich-Neal Published: October 25, 2006 Halloween at PJC provided a different type of experience for thrill seekers. On Tuesday, Student Leadership and Activities presented us with a virtual NASCAR racing experience. The NASCAR simulator was an actual Jeff Gordon, # 24 DuPont race car. The car was revamped after it was purchased by Kramer…
Heather Madden Published: October 25, 2006 This is the first installment in a series of articles in which The Corsair staff examines morale and campus pride at PJC. Students, staff and faculty, please visit ecorsair.com to voice your opinions – positive and negative – about campus issues.</i> Walking from class to class, one may notice…
Ability and desire Published: October 25, 2006 To make the PJC cheerleading team, students must have cheerleading and tumbling skills and a desire to compete the rigorous training they encounter at every practice. “Skills that are required to be a PJC cheerleader are strong motion techniques, a standing backhand spring, tumbling ability, jumps, good energy,…
Michael Rutschky Published: October 25, 2006 Over the weekend I went to the movies and saw Man of the Year, starring Robin Williams as the host of a Daily Show style television show who is urged by his audience to run for President of the United States. The movie itself was terrific, although it had…
Melissa Brown Published: October 25, 2006 While carving our Halloween pumpkin this year – one side with a scary face, the other smiling – my three-and-a-half-year-old son wondered what we would do with “all those seeds and slimy stuff.” Unfortunately, the meat from a large carving pumpkin – the “slimy stuff” – is dry and…
Daniel Lovett Published: October 25, 2006 The NFL Competition Committee spends the first part of the NFL off-season reviewing rules and amending the ones they think have flaws. This past off-season the NFL Competition Committee added their usual amendments to the NFL rulebook, which included many rules that would help to protect the players that…
Ricky Di and Chris Sapp Published: October 25, 2006 Nintendo’s latest masterpiece, simply called “Wii,” is shaping up to be the top contender in the next generation of video gaming. The system runs an impressive 512 MB flash drive in a sleek case that’s roughly the size of three DVD cases stacked on top of…