The Pioneer Press

By Lauren Fraine

Students at Volunteer State Community College have the opportunity to attain work experience through the Work Based Learning academic program.

In the WBL program, students work off campus and integrate classroom learning with real-life work experience while developing work-related professional and personal skills, as well as career readiness.

Through WBL, students acquire workplace savvy that is directly related to their major. Students can explore a potential career while earning college credits and pay.

By Hailey Bossert

A Health and Wellness Fair will be hosted by Pioneer Prevention in Dining Room B of the Wood Campus Center March 21, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Pioneer Prevention is an organization on the Vol State campus that serves as a support system for students.

The staff members who work in this department are available to talk to students regarding subject matters such as alcohol and drug abuse, opioid use disorder, suicide, sexual assault, and mental health. They are able to provide professional help as well as resources to help them overcome these personal issues.

By Gloria Cortes

The Volunteer State Community College Student Government Association (SGA) presidential election will take place March 18 and 19.

The two candidates are Mary Dobbs, the current vice president, and Preston Tatum.

There will be voting booths in the Mary Cole Nichols Dining Room A (from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., both days), the hallway of the second floor of the SRB (from 10:45-11:30 a.m. on Monday, and from 12:15-1 p.m. on Tuesday), the hallway of the first floor of Caudill (from 9:15-10 a.m. on Monday, and from 10:45-11:30 a.m. on Tuesday), and the main hallway of Wallace North (from 12:15-1 p.m. on Monday, and from 9:15-10 a.m. on Tuesday).

By Katelyn Marshall

Volunteer State Community College will feature its third International Film Series Friday, March 22 at 5:30 p.m., in the Caudill Hall auditorium. This month’s will be “Devdas.”

“I have never seen the film itself,” Sarah Crotzer, an English faculty and instructor, said. “I know that it’s based on a popular Indian novel and it’s the latest in a series of remakes of that novel. It was made in 2002 and is considered a new classic of Bollywood cinema. But I haven’t had the opportunity to watch it myself yet, so I really don’t know anything else.”

After a wealthy family prohibits him from marrying the woman he is in love with, Devdas Mukherjee’s life spirals further and further out of control as he takes up alcohol and a life of vice to numb the pain.