Kristen Bailey Published: October 12, 2005 Complimenting their glazed doughnuts and hot coffee with jazz music and blue skies, students and faculty of PJC gathered Oct. 5 in the gazebo at a small reception celebrating the Literary Roundtable’s newly published literary magazine, Issue. Former writers and artists for the magazine, as well as newcomers to the Literary Roundtable assisted in...
The Corsair is the student press at Pensacola State College.
SGA sponsors benefit concert
Matt Foster Published: October 12, 2005 PJC’s Student Govern-ment Association will play host to Rock for Relief, a benefit for Hurricane Katrina victims, from 5 p.m. to midnight on Friday, Oct. 14, in the student center on Pensacola campus. The show is for all ages and free to the public. A Red Cross table will be set up at the...
Friday Night Swing Dancing at the American Legion
Sam Published: October 12, 2005 Every Friday night from 8:30 to midnight, the American Legion takes a step back in time to the days of flappers and speakeasies for a night of swing dancing. Friday’s swing nights serve as an introductory to the dance that has been around since the 1920s for all ages and skill levels. “There are very...
The Names Behind the Buildings
Lindsay Spencer and Matt Brown Published: October 12, 2005 Quick quiz: If you were asked to meet at the Baars Building on the PJC Pensacola campus, would you know what building that was? If you said it was building 1, you would know exactly where to go. Most of the buildings on campus have names written alongside those numbers. But...
Alumni and friends celebrate 60’s style
Ashley Carter Published: October 12, 2005 Want to party retro style? The PJC Foundation is throwing an alumni and friends celebration party to commemorate past alumni, and to bring together current students with past students. It’s from 7 to 10 p.m. on Oct. 22 in the Lou Ross gymnasium on the Pensacola campus. The celebration party, two years in the...
Gymnastics program sports
Trenton Willnecker Published: October 12, 2005 The PJC Gymnastics Program is back on its feet after almost a year long hiatus because of Hurricane Ivan. Last September when the storm hit PJC, the gymnasium on Pensacola campus was hit just as hard as the gymnastics program that was housed inside. “$120,000 of equipment was damaged due to the storm and...
FLY Dance sells out Ashmore
Matt Foster Published: October 12, 2005 The cheering, sold-out, Ashmore auditorium on the Pensacola campus played host to the “FLY Dance Company” which performed on Saturday, Oct. 8th. FLY, listed on their website as an “all-male group of street dancers,” is an innovative contemporary dance troupe that merges everything from hip-hop to classical music with one-of-a kind choreography. The four-person...
Review: With this ring, I thee dead!
Ashley Carter Published: October 12, 2005 Tim Burtons’ “Corpse Bride” is dually set in a dreary 19th century European village, and the colorful land of the dead. This claymation film is a story of an unsuspecting groom played by Johnny Depp named Victor, asking a corpse bride, Emily, played by Helena Bohnam Carter to be his wife. This creates enormous...
Daily Grind finds new location
Ryan Freeman Published: October 12, 2005 The Daily Grind has made its return to the scene in Pensacola. Owner Jay Marsh reopened the local caf‚ on the site of the old Goofy Golf course on Navy Boulevard after the old Daily Grind building was destroyed by a combination of a massive fire and flooding from Hurricane Ivan. “The new [Daily]...
Luna Mantra to perform at student center
Rachel Strehlow Published: October 12, 2005 World beat, in the form of Luna Mantra, comes to the Pensacola Campus Oct. 13. The concert is part of PJC’s 2005-2006 Lyceum series and begins at 7 p.m. at the student center, bldg. 5 on the Pensacola campus. The Pensacola-area band, composed of current and former PJC students, was formed more than a...