Wynonia Barrows Published: Friday, August 29, 2008 Lately, the presidential race has been the main focus of national news. However, the buzz about the presidential race isn’t just obvious in national news; it has also affected and inspired many students at PJC, like Christopher Randall and Jeniece Brown. Randall is the founder of the PJC Students for Obama Campaign, which...
Nursing students to benefit from accreditation
Katie Coseo Published: Monday, August 25, 2008 There is good news for nursing students; the nursing program located on PJC’s Warrington Campus received accreditation for the next five years. For new and future nursing students, this acclamation gives them flexibility for finding jobs and furthering their education in the nursing field outside of Florida. Pat Jones, the interim director of...
The Corsair to drop anchor on-line
From Staff Reports Published: Monday, August 25, 2008 Starting this semester The Corsair is dropping its anchor on-line, and primarily will be using its Web site www.eCorsair.com to publish stories. College Publisher, the hosting service for eCorsair.com, just rolled out an updated version that will allow for continuous updating throughout the day, rather than bi-weekly issue roll-overs. “It will make...
Cell phones in class
Ben Johnson Published: Tuesday, September 9, 2008 First day of class, everyone knows what it’s like in one way or another and knows what to expect. You find your classroom and pick a seat to spend the next 16 weeks of your life listening to a very inspirational teacher lecture on a subject that will probably never apply to every...
PJC offers 21-credit hour education program
Shelley Austin Published: Monday, August 25, 2008 More than 100 new teachers have entered the workforce over the past three years thanks to PJC’s Educator Preparation Institute (EPI). Established in 2005, the institute is for people who already have a bachelor’s degree but are not certified to teach in the public schools. Instead of enrolling in a university education program,...
‘Urinetown’ auditions
Pensacola Junior College invites members of the community to try out for “Urinetown,” an upcoming Lyceum production. Auditions are 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 23, at the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8, on the Pensacola campus. The Tony Award-winning “Urinetown” is an uproariously funny musical, a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution in a time when...
Atlantis launches
Christina Drain The Corsair Amid sun and billowing clouds, space shuttle Atlantis lifted off at 2:45 p.m. today. The weather was a concern all day but a jubilant Kathy Winters, shuttle weather officer, made the announcement during the final planned hold at 9 minutes that weather was acceptable for launch. A final check of the ECO sensors, which delayed the...
ECO sensor testing underway
Christina Drain The Corsair With the external tank one-third full of propellant, NASA crews are closely watching the engine cut-off sensors for any sign of failure. Monitoring includes the sensors, the recently soldered pass-through connectors, even up through the flight deck, according to mission control. The malfunctioning sensors were the cause for the December scrub of Atlantis. NASA offficials sounded...
Shuttle tanking uneventful
Christina Drain The Corsair The slow fill of the three fuel cells on Atlantis is going well. A mixture of liquid hydrogen and oxygen is being pumped into the cells. The crucial ECO sensor testing has not begun.
Countdown going smoothly, but weather may be factor
Christina Drain The Corsair Atlantis is ready to go, but weather may be a factor in tomorrow’s launch. Severe weather pummeling the southeast today is expected to move into the area by launch time, although it won’t have the energy it has had in the last 24 hours, according to shuttle weather officer Kathy Winters. “I wish I had a...