There Goes the Choo Choo Man

Photo by Joe Fuller

Children’s fascination and appreciation of all things has continued to fill our minds with wonder and awe. Children find even the smallest of things and value them beyond our wildest imaginations. When Mr. Joe Fuller observed children riding a small train being pulled by a tractor, a new doorway opened up. Fascinated by the children’s reaction, Mr. Fuller began to build his own train.

Three years ago the long journey started. Mr. Fuller began looking for parts and investing in children’s dreams. When asked what sparked the connection with the train, Mr. Fuller replied that he never intended to become so involved. Watching the children’s fascination was the magic. The days for train riding are quickly fading. Mr. Fuller shared a story with me regarding children and their fascination with trains.

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PC Blue Fish are Here for You

photo courtesy of www.presby.edu

Between roommate arguments, suitemate fights, the stress of class, homework, tests, sport games, workouts, practices, rehearsals, and everyday life issues every person needs someone to vent and talk with. Feeling lost as to who can be your listening ear? Have no fear! Bluefish is here to help.

Bluefish is an organization that is made up of PC students, students that go through the same stresses and hurtles as you. Each PC Bluefish is trained as a Stephen Minister. They are here to simply listen, encourage and give helpful advice you can trust. All Bluefish meetings are 100% confidential.

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Energy Use Competition

As part of the campus-wide Presidential Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, PC’s Green Hose has established a competition between the dorms to see who can cut back on their energy consumption the most. Well, the numbers are in for last month and guess who won? Senior Apartments. That’s right! Senior Apartments will win the prize for this month.

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Being Religious: A Pleasure, Not a Pain

In today’s day and age it sometimes seems as if religion is becoming a thing of the past. Of course, there are tons of churches throughout America, especially in the South, but it still seems as if people do not follow religion as closely as they used to.

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A Social Experiment

What the heck is a calendar doing in the bathroom? Well, due to the communication problems at PC, Campus Life has gone for a new angle. “Highlander Highlights” is a new and refreshing way to let people know what they need to know. After all, what else is there to do when you’ve gotta go?

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A Timeless Tradition

Photo by Harrison Hopkins

PC celebrated this timeless tradition this past weekend. The celebration festivities started the week before the homecoming game in which PC battled Gardner Webb University. Wednesday Springs hosted an intense hip hop class where students got to bust a move and get some heavy exercise. Thursday was trivia night at Tony’s Pizza. People were divided up into groups and prizes were handed out to the winning teams. Friday night the band Peace and Love rocked the night away at the PC pep-rally at Baily Stadium.

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Five Quick Questions with the New Freshman Class President

After all the campaigning, speech giving, and voting, the new Freshman Class President, Jacob Plumb, has been elected and sworn in.  And now that that is all done, the following questions should help everyone get to know the new Freshman President and see what some of his plans are:

1.  Is there anything that you’re excited to start working on now that you’re the Freshman Class President?

Jacob:  There are several things I am excited about starting on. I look forward to being a part of the Presidential Interfaith Challenge (starting 1 Oct) in which the whole school will be encouraged to really make conscious efforts to reduce waste and save energy. I am also excited about planning with my vice president and senators fun activities we can do as a freshmen class. We have some ideas floating around and have already begun planning for possible “activities” per se.

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