MADELAIN TIGANO The Corsair Mixed Martial Arts is taking charge in popularity all over the world, and Desiree Cicale believes “Pensacola is going to produce fighters like nowhere else.” Cicale and her partner, Alex Silva Ruas, own a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, MMA, and Muay Thai training camp on West Gregory Street in downtown Pensacola. As of now, their 1,500 square...
Simmons found competent to stand trail
ASHLEY THOMPSON The Corsair After spending the last three months in Florida State Hospital, Jaworski Lee Simmons was found competent to stand trial during a hearing yesterday in Pensacola. Simmons faces charges of battery, sexual assault and kidnapping/false imprisonment after he allegedly forced a female student into PJC’s Pensacola campus restroom stall and strained sexual contact last April. Judge Terry...
Suspect in PJC sexual assault faces competency hearing
ASHLEY TOMPSON The Corsair The suspect in a sexual assault on the Pensacola campus last spring will go before a judge on Nov. 30 to determine whether he is mentally competent to stand trial, according to the state attorney’s office. Jaworski Lee Simmons, 28, was charged with forcible sexual battery, battery and kidnapping/false imprisonment following the April 22 incident...
Ft. Hood tragedy ‘terrorism’ debate is irrelevant
by Paul Smith The recent tragedy at Ft. Hood in Texas where Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Palestinian-American and Army psychiatrist, senselessly killed 13 people and wounded 30 others has inspired a ridiculous national debate of over the definition of terrorism. Fox News (of course) recently ran a poll on its website asking whether the Ft. Hood tragedy was the...
Whatever happened to manners?
by Justin Otto As I live my life day to day, I am faced with this question. This is an especially perplexing question as I am from Pensacola, FL – which, in case you aren’t up to date on your geography, is in the Southeastern United States. The reason I bring this up is because of a phrase that is...
What am I doing at Sluggo’s?
by Timm Schowalter I was trapped in a room full of 50 or so other kids that would look like aliens compared to the button-down oxford-type so typically exemplifying our species. I could find no way to escape, which was incredibly ironic because the only thing I could focus on was the filthy half-glowing “exit” sign precariously perched at a...
PJC plans to build in Gulf Breeze
ASHLEY THOMPSON The Corsair PJC, in conjunction with the Santa Rosa School District is set to begin building a new facility in the Midway area of Gulf Breeze. This facility, called PJC South Santa Rosa Center, will house multiple areas of study and will include labs and classrooms, as well as an administrative area, and will house different types of...
Women ranked No.2 in the state
DAVID CLARK The Pensacola Junior College Women’s basketball team has high hopes coming into the 2009-2010 season. Judging by the way they have been playing pre-conference (5-1), PJC fans have reason to be excited too. The Lady Pirates beat the fifth-ranked junior college team in the nation, Trinity Valley Community College (Texas), Nov. 13, by a score of...
Warrington builds Green, “Thanks to Lowes”
KATIE COSEO The Corsair On Tuesday at Warrington Campus, faculty, staff, students and administration gathered together for the ribbon cutting of the Green Education Module. For the past several months students passing the old fire truck garage on Warrington campus have been hearing the drills and saws of construction. When passing the garage students could see the making of a...
Elisabeth von Trapp uses family history of song to inspire the audience
ANDREA MCMILLIAN The Corsair “Gesang ist dasein – To sing is to be,” quoted Elisabeth Von Trapp after she had finished her performance in the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium. Elisabeth Von Trapp is the granddaughter of Maria and Baron Von Trapp, whose story inspired the play The Sound of Music. Throughout her life, she sang and played music. Trapp began...