Published: February 22, 2006 Writing a resume can be a painstaking process if you don’t prepare yourself along the way. Employers want you to sum up your life experiences and objectives into one page (in most cases). You can prepare for this early by gathering information on yourself along the way. Creating a list that is almost like a timeline...
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Even students need health insurance
Melissa Brown Published: February 22, 2006 Are you covered? By health insurance, that is. A study by the Heinz Family Philanthropies and The Chickering Group found that about 30 percent of college students in 2002 were uninsured. And according to a 2004 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation and eHealthInsurance, “43.3 million non-elderly Americans lacked health insurance for the entire...
Non-verbal cues can make or break relationships
David LaRock Published: February 22, 2006 Valentine’s Day is over which means two things: A) Hallmark and local flower shops are counting their income and B) many couples celebrated the ‘Holiday for Relationships’ together or some couples just started relationships themselves. Either way, the most important factor in starting a relationship is not the dozen roses, the perfect pick-up line,...
Making time takes time for college students
Pam Griswold Published: February 22, 2006 In the world of a college student, time seems as if it is moving at warp speed. In addition, having a job shrinks that timetable to an indiscernible size. Keeping up with the rapid pace can become stressful, especially around midterms. Sophomore Haley Satterfield is no stranger to this stress. She is currently enrolled...
Gulf Coast Pirates make a splash in Auburn
Dawn Baird Published: February 22, 2006 Pensacola Junior College’s Gulf Coast Pirate Swimmers brought home a trophy after winning first place in the 2006 Auburn Masters Invitational Swim Meet Feb. 11-12. Swimmers, separated into age groups, competed in freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and IM categories, winning by a whopping 500 points and outdoing last year’s win by 493 points. The...
Public’s hopes encourage steroid use
Published: February 22, 2006 The Winter Olympic Games in Turin have been accompanied by the usual controversy over athlete steroid use. Officials say that the Turin games have the most rigorous performance enhancer testing of any Winter Olympics to date. About 1,200 samples are being tested, a 72 percent increase over the number tested at the Salt Lake City games...
Readers are the losers in magazine advertising game
Yonit Shames Published: February 22, 2006 Women’s magazines cater to a growing consumer base, one that publishers are more than happy to sell to. What they have discovered in the process is the winning formula, and boy, are they sticking to it. As the rest of the magazine market expands and specializes, many women’s magazines contain the same sort of...
MySpace is not to blame for Internet predation
Yonit Shames Published: February 22, 2006 The headline says it all: “Teens at Risk on Web Sites, Experts Say.” The dangerous, predator-magnet that the Internet has allegedly become takes the heat for murders and other heinous crimes. The top Associated Press story hit a few days ago, citing various experts who offer networking websites such as MySpace.com as the cause...
Ask Joi…
Published: February 22, 2006 Hello again folks! Before I get to the questions I have a few things I would like to say. Because I am not actually allowed in the Corsair office unescorted (due to an incident involving feathers and jumper cables) I email in my column. I do not see most of my fellow Corsair writers often so...
Reenactors show both sides of the Civil War
Erika Wilhite Published: February 22, 2006 “The Great Civil War Exposition Theater Company” came to PJC’s Pensacola Campus Student Center on Thursday, Feb 23. The “Exposition” consists of living historians Steve Gipson and Michael Pleasant, who are touring the U.S. giving presentations about the Civil War. “We’ve been from Gettysburg in Pennsylvania to Vicksburg in Mississippi,” said Pleasant, who describes...