In this issue: -National Suicide Prevention Month -PSC participates in Northwest Florida Heart Walk -Volunteer Column: Health and Hope Clinic -Health Column: Yerba Mate Tea -Reader Responses -Humans of PSC https://issuu.com/thecorsairpsc/docs/septemberissue2015
Viola Liuzzo: Civil rights activist, courageous woman, incredible inspiration
By Kelli Green On March 7th, 1965, several men, women and children in Selma, AL began their march to the state capitol in Montgomery. The black citizens of Selma had grown weary over the treatment they were receiving at the voting polls. Just a month earlier, a 26-year-old deacon by the name of Jimmie Lee Jackson, who felt very passionately...
Preview of PSC’s production, Six Degrees of Separation: ‘You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll become a part of it’
By Kelli Green & Jennifer Tonnaer Pensacola State College students and local community members will showcase their talents in “Six Degrees of Separation,” an upcoming production from PSC’s Performing Arts Department. Students are encouraged to come out to the Ashmore Fine Arts Auditorium, Building 8 on the Pensacola PSC campus, to check out the play when it comes to the...
Honoring Black History Month; Inspiring facts to remember throughout the year
By Kelli Green In February Americans and Canadians celebrate Black History Month. In honor of that celebration here are a few interesting black history facts. During the Haitian revolution, led by Toussaint L’Overtute, the colony of Santo Domingo (now, Dominican Republic) abolished slavery in 1801 and on January 1, 1804, former slave and revolutionary general, Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared the country...
Citizens of Pensacola enjoy Martin Luther King Jr. parade
By Kelli Green Last Monday, January 18, we celebrated the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This was the thirtieth year of the celebration commemorating the leader who would have been 87-years-old on January 15. Many citizens of Pensacola congregated downtown to help celebrate. Schools, various branches of the military, churches, local law enforcement and local businesses traveled through the...
PSC students work with Pensacola Museum of Art for Mucha exhibit
By Kimberly Bogers In December, six Pensacola State College students in the Graphic Design program teamed up with Dr. Patrick M. Rowe and the Pensacola Museum of Art to present a collateral campaign project that featured items created for promotional use, such as postcards, flyers and posters. The project was initiated by Rowe, a retired PSC visual arts professor, and...
National Novel Writing Month
By Tracey Squaire This month is National Novel Writing Month, so grab your laptops and flock to the nearest coffee shop! National Novel Writing Month, coined NaNoWriMo by hardcore writing fans, is a month when aspiring writers and people who just want to write a story are challenged to complete a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. That is...
Typography New Orleans Trip
By Bara’ah Jaraiseh After meeting Eve Rutledge, a hand rendering type designer, at a Type-Con conference, Pensacola State College graphic design professor Mark Hopkins contemplated taking some of his students to her workshop. This led to the annual typography trip for PSC graphic design students. When the trip first started out, it involved one typography class going to New Orleans once a year,...
Locals and Their Pets Flock to Seville for Annual Barktoberfest
By Brad Andrews Barktoberfest 2015, presented by the Pensacola Humane Society, was an unqualified success. Thousands of dogs and their owners congregated to Seville Square on October 24th to socialize, play games, shop for treats and support the the Pensacola Humane Society, a local animal shelter. Despite an approaching storm, the weather cooperated and provided a nice fall day for the...
Bring Back Warrington Works to Increase Warrington’s Popularity
By Katherine Chen & Kimberly Bogers Saturday, October 3rd was a time of good company, good food and good music at Pensacola State College’s Warrington campus. Vendors pitched tents to sell their wares while food trucks crowded nearby and music from the bands Pelican 212 and Bear With Me entertained visitors. The event also featured a yoga class for early...