UPDATE 21 Aug 2010: Nicholas Alford – The Corsair Marty Donovan and his associates with the Park Yes Stadium No succeeded in collecting 3,916 signatures for their petition to put the Community Maritime Park decision back to a referendum. However, city officials refused to take the petitions, saying that they cannot accept them after close of business. “It was always...
The Corsair is the student press at Pensacola State College.
New Textbooks, Really?
John Curtis – The Corsair As many a student will attest, financial excess and attending college seldom co-exist. There is no doubt that a college education is expensive, but this point is only exacerbated by our current textbook system. I considered taking a Pre-Calculus course this fall as an elective, but eventually passed on the notion. What I found interesting was...
Fiction Writing Course Returns in the Fall
Administrative decision allows English department to offer creative writing occasionally John Curtis – The Corsair Creative writing courses have been reinstated at Pensacola State College, but with restrictions to ensure cost-effectiveness. Creative Writing-Fiction (CRW 2100, section 0430) is being offered at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays this fall, and Creative Writing-Poetry (CRW 2300) may be offered in the spring...
Maritime Park Faces Opposition by Petitioners
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...
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...