The Voyager

During his lecture, “The First Amendment and the Common Good,” investigative journalist and author Carl Bernstein spoke to a crowded UWF Conference Center about the importance of finding the most obtainable version of the truth. Bernstein’s lecture on April 17 was the last segment of Seligman First Amendment Celebrations series. “The missing ingredient in our [...]

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The University of West Florida Student Government Association’s recently elected president and vice president discussed their plans to bolster student involvement and recognition on campus in the coming academic year at the April 19 meeting. “Our platform that we ran on was ‘Argos Moving Forward, Together,’” Sherrell Wood, SGA vice president, said. “We wanted to [...]

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The soft vocals of local performers blanketed over the sounds of children playing, dogs barking and vendors attempting to save the environment. The Earth Day Pensacola festival took place on Saturday in Bayview Park. The festival featured more than 40 vendors and organizations. Each booth had an environmental aspect to it. Some were selling their [...]

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The University of West Florida’s chapter of Health Occupation Students of America will continue on to the HOSA National Leadership Conference in late June. Nine students from the organization competed at the Florida HOSA State Leadership Conference during the weekend of April 4 in Orlando, Fla. The students qualified for the state level at the [...]

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Federal student loan interest rates are set to increase on July 1. The concrete changes are yet to be determined, but the future of student loan interest rates may go one of two ways. They will either  double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent or they will be regulated annually based on market interest rates. [...]

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Grade-point averages for incoming freshmen at the University of West Florida increased in 2012, following a series of declines that began in 2006. The average GPA for incoming freshmen dropped from 3.62 in the 2005-2006 school year to 3.23 in 2011-2012, according to UWF’s annually published data. However, the average GPA rebounded to 3.4 this [...]

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The University of West Florida will transfer to a new student information system this June called the Ellucian Banner System that will guide the university into an online database that is more succinct with the 2012-2017 strategic plan. The Banner Student Project was created in June 2011 to oversee the transition of the university into [...]

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Gary Kleck, professor of criminology at Florida State University, discussed his research on gun control during his lecture titled “Firearms, Self Defense and the Public Interest” on Friday at the Pensacola Museum of Commerce. Kleck emphasizing the lack of continued research, and  commented on current implications for public policy and the public’s reaction. Cheryl Swanson, [...]

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The members of the Business Enterprises Inc. Board of Directors announced Friday, April 12, that they were close to choosing a master developer for the University Park and Northwest Village construction projects. Nine development firms applied to build the new facilities, which will include a stadium, student housing and a retirement community. The Board of [...]

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The University of West Florida’s Student Government Association swore in a new president, vice president, senate president, treasurer and 16 senators at its transitional meeting April 12. The SGA also swore in three chairmen to serve on committees within its legislative branch. Cora Merritt, former SGA president, said she hopes to leave behind a tradition [...]

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