From Staff Reports PENSACOLA, Fla. – The Pensacola State College Music and Theatre Department presents the third annual “Celebration of the Arts Performance.” The free event is 7:30 p.m. April 15 at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus. The production combines the talents of Pensacola State faculty members and students in music, dance, theatre and...
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CONCERT FEATURES MUSIC BY JAZZ GREATS: BASIE, NESTICO & OTHERS
From Staff Reports PENSACOLA, Fla. – Pensacola State College’s Jazz Ensemble performs a free concert 7:30 p.m. April 14 at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus. Under the direction of Roger Villines, the 17-member ensemble will perform works by Count Basie, Sammy Nestico and Gordon Goodwin – plus perform Stan Kenton’s version of “Malaguena” that...
Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars Review
WADE MANNS By LucasArts and Traveler’s Tales Games Genre: Third-person Lego-crossover action Star Wars has long been great fodder for video games, from the epic RPG Knights of the Old Republic (taking place 4,000 years before the first-released movie), to the RTS Empire at War (exploring rebel-versus-Empire skirmishes in detail from the movies and beyond), to the FPS Republic Commando...
New baseball coach combines hard work, fun
NATHAN HICKS – The Corsair Whether it’s the smell of freshly cut grass, grilled hotdogs, or the sound of a homerun crashing off the end of a bat, baseball season is here at Pensacola State. “We are looking to win this year, but we have fun too. One thing I like about this team is that they give 100 percent without...
Will Ricketts: local developer and entrepreneur
WILLIAM BEARD – The Corsair You don’t have to live in Silicon Valley to start and grow a successful tech startup. Boston, New York, Austin, and even our neighbors over in Tallahasse, at Silicon Tally, are all trying to incubate the latest and greatest ideas in technology. Recently, I sat down with a local developer and entrepreneur, Will Ricketts. I...
March madness
The months between January and August are terrible for the majority of us sports fans. We rely on football, either pro or college, to give us our entertainment on the weekends, after a long week from work or school. We miss the thrills of week to week drama (and joke) that is the BCS in college football. We miss the...
Guns allowed on campuses? Laughable…
TIM AJMANI – The Corsair Florida state senators made a critical decision this past Wednesday to kill the proposal for firearms on college campuses. That is definitely good and all. But the bigger issue is this – why was this even necessary in the first place? Common sense should have prevailed here. To the normal person, guns and college campuses...
Japan quake affects everyone
TIM AJMANI – The Corsair The earthquake was bad enough – a 9.0, one of the strongest in Japanese history. But the tsunami and the 7.1 quake in aftershock that followed were even worse. Now, Japan is dealing with potential problems in the future with nuclear meltdowns, and radiation following a couple of explosions at its nuclear plants. With more...
‘Disability’ removed from name of college service agency
LAUREN MABRIE – The Corsair Pensacola State College’s Disability Support Services is no longer. The name was recently changed to the Student Resource Center for ADA Services. “We are trying to make the name more user friendly,” said Shelly Lawson, coordinator of the center. ADA is the Americans with Disabilities Act. Created by Congress in 1990, the law prohibits discrimination...
Online Speech courses offer chance to use video
MEGAN DESBIENS – The Corsair Pensacola State College began offering online courses almost a decade ago when the Internet and World Wide Web were on its road to fame, yet the speech courses did not gain vast student interest until recently. Thanks to social media outlets such as YouTube, faculty and staff have been able to simplify the speech courses...