Brian McLellan The Corsair Before I begin this, I want to get something out of the way. I love this country. I have lived and breathed and bled that pride since the first day I was consciously able to follow politics — around age 5. To quote the “terrorist” named “V,” there’s something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there?...

Pensacola State College awarded $23,365
Kan Zhang The Corsair Pensacola State College was awarded $23,365 in scholarship grants from three groups Wednesday, Sept. 5. One of the groups, Florida Blue, presented the college with a check for $10,600 to fund student scholarships in the areas of Nursing and Allied Health. The Dream Maker Scholarship, established by Bank of America, awarded $3,887 to first-generation students to cover...
Issac closes college
Brownen Gerber The Corsair Due to Hurricane Isaac, Pensacola State College will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday. The college plans to re-open Thursday, but it depends on the weather if it stays closed. As long as there’s electricity at the college, Spyglass will remain running for students to register and adjust their schedules. Also, deadlines to drop classes, deadlines for...
Film comes to the classroom
Rebecca Byers The Corsair Movies are a great pastime to go see, but imagine getting to watch movies and review them in the classroom. Stacey Albaugh, instructor in the English and Communication department will teach the new film course, Special Topics in Communication, diversity in film, offered in the fall semester. The course examines the relationship between film and the...
Be Sure To…
Isaiah Grant The Corsair This is for all high school graduates who plan on attending an institute of higher learning. As soon as you are enrolled at a college or university, you must seize the moment and take care of your business to make the four years seem like a breeze and graduate with a degree. I know some of...

Remembering Alan Poindexter 1961-2012
Stories, video and photos of NASA astronaut and alumnus Alan Poindexter's two space shuttle missions.
College escapes damage from June flood
Danielle Provau The Corsair Pensacola State College escaped with only cosmetic damage from the flood June 10. Pensacola received 13 inches of rain on the Pensacola Campus and a record 23 inches at Warrington Campus. The other campuses had little to no damage at all from the freak flood. Warrington Campus was hardest hit. A footbridge that connects Warrington Campus and Patton...

Time is short to register to vote
If you aren’t registered to vote yet, you only have a couple of weeks to do so before the primary. The registration deadline falls 29 days before the election: July 16 for the August primary, and Oct. 9 for the November election.
Money Does Matter
Rebecca Byers The Corsair The Financial Literacy Committee introduced the 2012 Pensacola State College theme Money Matters. Money Matters means that money is important. Rachelle Burns, the director of Student Support Services, is also the chair of the financial literacy committee at Pensacola State College. “I was one of the first people along with a small group of people who...

My Mid-June
Isaiah Grant The Corsair On the date I am writing this, June 19th, a Union general in Galveston, Texas made a declaration that all slaves in Texas were emancipated, or set free. Today, many African-Americans celebrate this incident as “Juneteenth”; Juneteenth is a portmanteau of the words June and nineteenth and is observed in 40 states of the United States...