Ansley Zecckine – The Corsair With all the recent natural disasters occurring all around us, some people begin to question what God has been doing, and others quickly proclaim these disasters as being nothing other than God’s judgment on sinful nations that deserved what they had coming. The time has come, however, that we should quit pointing the finger and...
Iraq’s first metal band comes to the U.S.
Only the Dead See the End of War Vice Records, 2010 Rating: 8 out of 10 Connor Lukkar – The Corsair “Only the Dead See the End of War” is an apt name for Acrassicauda’s debut EP; coming from Baghdad, they know a thing or two about war. Formed in 2001, Acrassicauda (from the Latin taxonomical name for the black...
The Corsair is covering NASA
The Corsair’s mission is to offer the panhandle the ability to follow NASA’s fourth-to-last shuttle launch, with details about PJC’s alumni, now astronaut commander, Alan G. Poindexter. This will be the second time the Corsair has covered Poindexter in his shuttle flights to space. The shuttle missions are soon to pull to a close at NASA, with only three left...
PJC students will debate global warming
PENSACOLA, Fla. – Pensacola Junior College students tackle heated topic of global warming Monday, March 22. In conjunction with PJC’s project “Environmental and Economic Sustainability,” professor Jeff Wooters and Introduction to Environmental Science students present “The PJC Great Global Warming Debate” 6 to 8 p.m. at the Hagler Auditorium, Building 2, room 252, on the Pensacola campus. The event is free...
‘Final Fantasy’ adds number 13 to its series
Wade Manns – The Corsair Final Fantasy XIII By Square Enix Genre: Role-playing Rating: Teen for mild language, suggestive themes and violence. Release: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 The epic (and epically long) “Final Fantasy” series now has 13 games under its belt. All of these games feature a band of disparate adventurers banding together to save the world from an...
‘Dante’s Inferno’ falls short
Wade Manns – The Corsair Dante’s Inferno by Electronic Arts and Visceral Games Genre: Third-person action/exploration Rating: Mature, for blood and gore, intense violence, sexual content and nudity. Between 1308 and 1321, the Italian poet Dante Alighieri wrote his epic poem, which would come to be known as “The Divine Comedy.” This was a three-part epic, which covered a fictionalized...
‘Star Trek’ joins the online gaming world
by Wade Manns – The Corsair Star Trek OnlineBy Cryptic StudiosGenre: Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Gamerating: Teen (fantasy violence, mild suggestive themes) I was recently given the opportunity to try out a 10-day free trial of “Star Trek Online,” the new massively multiplayer online RPG set in the Star Trek universe. As first MMO’s go, it’s not bad at all....
Milton hosts St. Patrick’s Day blood drive
Cole Simmons – The Corsair The Student Government Association will be hosting a blood drive on St. Patrick’s Day between 9 AM and 1 PM by Milton Campus’ building 4200. All blood types are sorely needed, with emphasis on O – Negative. T-shirts and refreshments will be given to donors, furnished by Northwest Florida Blood Services. At 12:10,...
Lumberjack festival continues despite program cut
Nick Alford–The Corsair PJC held the 22nd annual Northwest Florida Forestry Conclave and Lumberjack Festival March 6 on its Milton campus. The festival hosted an assortment of events, including the Axe Throw and the Pulpwood Toss. The festivities started out at 8 a.m. with a Pole Fell contest, in which competitors guess which direction a tree will fall before chopping...