By Rebecca Juntunen On Tuesday, October 15, 2013, nearly 100 PSC students, employees and community members filled the Lou Rous Gym for a health fair on the Pensacola Campus, to receive health information and various free screenings. Booths from different organizations offered information on weight loss, stroke prevention, height and BMI, healthcare services, and healthy eating. Faye Ellis, the Captain...
The Academy of Teaching Excellence Award is Open for Teacher Nominations
By Rebecca Juntunen Nominations have opened up for the 28th annual Academy of Teaching Excellence Award, allowing students to nominate a great professor for this year’s award. Now is the time to use the definition of the school’s greatest teacher to help recognize your favorite professors for their excellence, enthusiasm, and dedication. What is your definition of a great teacher? ...
PSC student gets on registry in spring, donates bone marrow last week
by Ben Sheffler During one of several WEAR-TV and “Be the Match” Foundation Bone Marrow Registry drives earlier this year, Pensacola State College student Aaron Heintzelman signed up. Last week, he followed through on his commitment with a donation to someone with leukemia. Heintzelman hadn’t been thinking about getting on the registry, but the drive held at PSC in the...
Advice of the Day
There is no nice way to put this, so I am just going to come right out and say it. Ladies and gentlemen, if you are going somewhere to be interviewed please do not be dressed like you are going to a party or a club. Ladies, do not have your knockers out and showing, mini skirts so high...
Astronomer Clay Sherrod talks comets, predicts good show for ISON
by Ben Sheffler Dr. Clay Sherrod of Arkansas Sky Observatories gave a lecture at Pensacola State College to educate people on the approaching Comet ISON, as well as the history and science of comets, on Saturday, Oct. 12, highlighting a few days that the comet could best be viewed. Comet ISON, an acronym for the International Scientific Optical Network, is...
Movie Review: Gravity
Round and Round and Round She Goes… by J. Scott Southworth Watch it… to experience a roller-coaster of a movie, a disaster film in space that introduces fascinatingly detailed models of some of the most famous objects in earth orbit, and then gleefully destroys them. Avoid it… if you are hoping for a spacefaring drama of the same artistic and...
AHF provides free HIV testing to PSC students
by Ben Sheffler Free condoms and HIV tests were offered by the Aids Healthcare Foundation on the Pensacola campus on Tuesday, Oct. 8. “We make it a priority to come to college campuses to provide condoms and to educate and increase HIV awareness,” said Rose Marshall, an HIV testing counselor for the AHF. The testing process takes just a few...
Tech Wars
By: Alexis Lugo Many students at Pensacola State College use laptops or tablets to complete their homework, instead of a desktop for your home. Over the years, technology has grown more advanced and continues to grow every day. Cell phones are thinner, computers are becoming more portable and manufacturers have made it possible to browse to a new page by...
Movie Review: Rush
High on Velocity by J. Scott Southworth Watch it… to feel one of this year’s truly unique experiences, a racing film and biopic that distinguishes itself with a fierce integrity of character. Avoid it… and go to one of the many knock-off and franchise blockbusters currently running unique characters if fresh experiences are not your cup of tea. “It’s just...