Monica Carling Published: January 25, 2006 What goes on in Building 5? What exactly is the Student Center? These are the questions of numerous students around campus, be it freshmen or veterans. The answer is expansive, but then again so is what the Student Center has to offer. The Student Center includes everything from the bookstore to the Career Center....
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Education department studies exit testing
Moria Dailey Published: January 25, 2006 There is a form of grade 14 assessment in place already, the College Level Skills Assessment Test (CLAST). To graduate, community college students are required to either take the test or meet one of the exemptions as outlined in PJC’s course catalogue. “The CLAST was originally placed as an exam to predict the performance...
Is there a place for students in the Student Center?
Erika Wilhite Published: January 25, 2006 The Student Center offers a Career Center, a computer lab, a cafeteria, the campus book store, and several dozen tables at which students can eat and study. Therein lays the problem; that’s all it offers. Where’s the activity? Dennis Reynolds, the coordinator for student leadership and activities, acknowledges that “every student pays a student...
The overstressed can find relief on campus
Reagan Hicks Published: January 25, 2006 With classes back in session, college students are more stressed and working harder with the demands of classes, jobs, and personal lives. However, with the help and resources that can be found on campus, this undue stress can be alleviated. LaRita Carter, coordinator of L.I.F.E. Center, dance and cheer, athletics, and employee wellness program,...
Leaving on a jet plane…
Moria Dailey Published: January 25, 2006 Tour of Italy Dr. Charlie Schuler, head of the History, Languages and Philosophy department at PJC, has been taking groups of students to Italy and various other countries for the past 15 years. His next trip is planned for summer 2007, and will be a 20-day excursion to southern Italy as well as Greece,...
Spotlight
Dawn Baird Published: January 25, 2006 Laid back and easy-going, Nick Jones looks forward to returning to Pensacola Junior College after winning the battle against arteriovenous malformation (AVM), a congenital neurological and spinal cord disorder, undetected until three years ago. According to the National Institutes of Health, AVM affects more than 300,000 Americans. Many don’t recover. Twice Jones’ studies at...
The community celebrates Black History Month
From Staff Reports Published: January 25, 2006 Local Events UWF Concert The University of West Florida is hosting a free concert featuring the UWF Madrigals, the UWF Singers, and the UWF Gospel Choir at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13 in the Center for Fine and Performing Arts (Building 82). The Pensacola Opera The opera has guest artists performing at 7 p.m....
There are a lot of things you could say about “The New World”
Erika Wilhite Published: January 25, 2006 It’s beautiful, like a full-motion painting. It’s abstract and meditative, like a picture poem. It’s a romantic re-telling of the life and loves of Pocahontas, like a historical novel more concerned with feelings than with facts. But the most important thing viewers need to know going into it is this: “The New World” is...
Art thrives at “The Anna”
Drew Lovelace & Jamie Dickerson Published: January 25, 2006 For the past few weeks, The Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts at Pensacola Junior College has been hosting an art exhibition featuring the work of Mitch Lyons and Greg Saunders. The exhibit opened Jan. 19 with noted success as Lyons gave two public demonstrations and a slide show. “I’m...
Who I Am
by Jessica Woods Throughout my months at PJC, I have been asked many questions about my blindness and other aspects of my life. Part of my goal for this blog is to answer many of those questions. I thought I would start out by telling you a little about me. I decided to attend PJC about two years ago. At...