TRAVIS NOONAN – The Corsair Pensacola State’s cosmetology department has students, instructors, as well as high quality products and facilities. The only thing that it lacks is what Sue Halfhill, head of the cosmetology department, calls “young heads.” “We have a lot of loyal customers, but they’re old,” Halfhill said. “Our kids want experience at what they call edgy, cutting...
‘Nomad’ heads new program to give homelessness a voice
SHANNON SILCOX – The Corsair A man who considers himself homeless is now heading a new speakers’ bureau on homelessness. Matthew Paul Maes, a self-described “transient by choice due to a wanderlust for travel,” is recruiting homeless people to speak to classrooms, churches, and other area organizations with the help of the Escarosa Coalition on the Homeless (ECOH). Maes has...
People of Pensacola picket Publix for farmworker poverty
DUSTIN TONEY – The Corsair November 24, 2010 The Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA) and the Progressive Student Alliance (PSA), a political group based at the University of West Florida, staged a picket Nov. 14 at the Publix Supermarket on 9th Avenue. The picket was organized in conjunction with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and their Fair Food Campaign. The...
Safety grants fund flatscreens on campus
SEAN BLACKWELL – The Corsair Pensacola State College recently received two public safety grants that funded the new flat screens seen across the three campuses. The flat screens’ primary purpose is to provide campus safety alerts for all students and faculty, although they will serve a secondary purpose: advertising campus, student club, and sporting events. According to Debbie Douma, institutional...
Pirate mail prepares a new port
KYRA WOOD – The Corsair Out with the old, in with the new! No later than spring 2011, the Novell version of Pirate Mail will be replaced with Microsoft Office Outlook Express Web Access. Outlook Express will give Pensacola State students not only a more efficient e-mailing system for the school to pass along important information, it will also give...
Veterans Upward Bound boasts a bountiful venture
DUSTIN TONEY – The Corsair Brian Hayword was a high school drop-out. He took the GED, went into the military, came home injured and couldn’t find work; he tried for 6 years to do odd jobs. “It wasn’t working, so I went back to school,” said Hayword, a Pensacola State College student and member of Veterans Upward Bound (VUB). What...
Men celebrate 50 years of basketball at Classic
JASON BASS – The Corsair The Pensacola State Men’s Basketball program wrapped up the Famous Dave’s Tip-Off Classic Nov. 6, losing 64-58 against the Faulkner State Community College Sun Chiefs. Halftime featured the 50th anniversary of men’s basketball at the college. Members of the original team and cheerleaders were introduced. The Pirates entered the game 1-0 for the tournament defeating...
Fabien Cousteau wants you to plant a fish
MATTHEW LEIGHT – The Corsair November 24, 2010 On November 16, Fabien Cousteau, grandson of famed diver Jacques Cousteau, visited the University of West Florida to give a speech. This stop was part of a series of presentations that the diver is giving in commemoration of the year his grandfather would have celebrated his 100th birthday. Fabien Cousteau began the...
StoryCorps returns to the Gulf Coast
ALEXA REED – The Corsair November 24, 2010 StoryCorps, in connection with public radio station WUWF, will be returning to Pensacola for a week in mid December to record more stories from local residents. The project organizers are specifically looking for interviews on how the Deep Water Horizon oil spill has affected lives around the region. StoryCorps is an independent, nonprofit...