Published: March 8, 2006 Gas prices are not going to get any better any time soon. Here are some tips from wiki.ehow.com you can take to save money with that gas guzzling car of yours. 1. Don’t Drive: If you are only traveling a short distance, then walk or ride your bike. Also, try taking the bus or carpooling. It...
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Moria’s guide to cheap drinking; enjoy!
Moria Dailey Published: March 8, 2006 Hello, drunken readers or soon-to-be drunken readers! St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner and there’s no better way to celebrate your (or someone else’s) Irish heritage better than having a pint at your favorite local (and cheap!) pub. First of all, because I am talking about Irish-ness, I must mention McGuire’s Irish...
V-Hive provides students with useful resources
Jamie Dickerson March 8, 2006 Many students at PJC might have some trouble getting the right information for research, study guides, and career decisions. The CTE Student Resources department has found an easy, yet incredibly useful and helpful way to make these important tasks become less of a threat and more of an enlightened success. The department is designed to...
Advisors and career counseling benefit students
Sahara Locke Published: March 8, 2006 As a freshman in college one of the first priorities that is executed is to get the semester’s schedule and classes lined up and prepared. And more likely than not, an advisor is the one responsible for helping with the process. But once the schedule is made and all the classes are lined up,...
Excess hours bill detrimental to college students
Published: March 8, 2006 Florida senator Lee Constantine (R – Altamonte Springs) has submitted his “excess credit hours” bill again. The bill proposes to charge students 75 percent more than in-state tuition per credit hour after taking more than 120 percent of credits required by their institution to graduate. At PJC, this would mean students who have more than 12...
Morning-after pill spotlighted in abortion controversy
Yonit Shames Published: March 8, 2006 It seems to be the trend nowadays to reduce extremely complex issues to black-and-white terms- to widespread public applause. Most notably, President Bush received a great boost in public approval when he said, “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists,” after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade...
Letter to the Editor
Published: March 8, 2006 Things That Piss Me Off: You’ll find them in almost any class. Perfectly primped hair, make-up that took forty-five minutes to apply, brand name clothes, high heels, and no books or backpacks. They don’t pay attention in class. They never turn their cell off, and they text message in class. Now I ask you, why are...
All-American Armchair Coalition strikes at port deal
Erika Wilhite Published: March 8, 2006 Several days ago I was informed by an acquaintance that “the U.S. is selling terminals in port cities to Saudi Arabia” and assured that this was a “terrorist threat” of extreme nature. So, my initial reaction was a mixture of bewilderment and outrage – bewilderment because such a move seems like political suicide, outrage...
SGA addresses excess credit hour bill at rally
Moria Dailey Published: March 8, 2006 Senate Bill 246, sponsored by Senator Lee Constantine (R – Altamonte Springs), if passed, would require students to pay 75 percent more than the in-state tuition price after taking 120 percent of the required credits for their program of study. At PJC, this would mean students who have more than 72 credit hours would...
Coffee shop, comfy furniture and new computers on horizen
Melissa Brown Published: March 8, 2006 “Four walls!” Jake Haynie, a television production major at PJC, exclaimed. Haynie would like to see the LRC’s quiet areas enclosed in the new addition scheduled for construction in 2007. Haynie complained that the existing two-walled glass partitions don’t keep nearby conversations from seeping out into the surrounding area. While the LRC currently offers...