Nicholas Alford – The Corsair Marty Donovan has been tirelessly walking the neighborhoods of rural Pensacola for almost three months now. He knocks on doors, makes phone calls and visits local businesses, rain or shine, to circulate his petition among the people of Pensacola. If he doesn’t get 3,805 voters to sign his petition by Aug. 20, the stadium that...
The Corsair is the student press at Pensacola State College.
Castlevania: A Retrospective
Wade Manns – The Corsair If you’re an old school gamer like me, you’ve no doubt heard of Castlevania, the storied vampire and monster slaying game series. That’s an odd title, no doubt, but those who have enjoyed video games since the beginning know what it means: solid action, great music and (even since the beginning, to a much...
Good-bye PJC Hello Pensacola State
Nicholas Alford – The Corsair Maps. Signs. Stationary headings. Decals. Bumper stickers. Business cards. Diplomas. Bookmarks… The list goes on and on. There seems to be no end to the things that must be changed in PJC’s final transition to the Pensacola State College brand. These changes affect every department, from marketing to the president’s office to facilities maintenance. “It’s...
Pensacola State College Receives Grant for Recycling Receptacles
Pensacola State College will soon be replacing some of its dumpsters with recycling containers thanks to a grant provided by a partnership between Keep America Beautiful and Coca-Cola. The containers will be material specific, each container having different bins for placing paper, plastic and glass. Recycling bin grant recipients were chosen by Keep America Beautiful based on a number of...
Beautiful vs. Sexy Part 2 — I choose beauty
Adriana Dueck – The Corsair So with all this reading and musing on sexuality that I’ve been doing, I’ve decided that beautiful is a word I’d rather be called by, because sexy can come under the umbrella of beauty. To me sexuality is very much a part of being beautiful. If someone, be it a man or a woman, tells...
I don’t really know anything
Paul Smith – The Corsair Orson Welles once said, “If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” Well, after several semesters spent writing for the Corsair, this is where my story stops. This will be my last ever piece written for this wonderful ol’ rag – and I consider this ending a...
Smoking shouldn’t be banned campus wide
The Corsair staff has recently learned that the administration at PJC is considering implementing a ban on smoking anywhere on the Pensacola campus – a rule which is already in effect on the Warrington campus. We at the Corsair feel this proposed campus-wide smoking ban would be far too overreaching and unnecessary. While we understand and empathize with why such...
Just Cause 2 brings players to new heights
Wade Manns – The Corsair Just Cause 2 by Square ENIX Genre: third person freeroaming, action-adventure Rating: Mature for Blood, Drug Reference, Language, Sexual Themes, Violence. If you’ve read my articles for a while, you’ll know that I really like the Grand Theft Auto series. Not for the actions of crime, or its extreme violence, but rather for the...
Students participate in Mock Murder
Kyra Wood – The Corsair The Criminal Justice program set the stage April 22 with mock murder scenes on PJC’s Pensacola campus. Assembled by the program’s all-star faculty, with a little help from the Collegiate High School’s Art department, the scene provided the vocational training needed by the Criminal Justice students as well as shined some light on the program’s...
Bookstore offers books to prisoners
Nick Alford – The Corsair Sandy Welch was hitchhiking down Kingfield Road in Cantonment when she was picked up by a passing motorist. When asked where she was going, she said she was on her way to a gas station. The driver told her that wasn’t a problem and signaled for her to hop in. She smiled, said “thank you”...