The English and Modern Language Department featured films from different cultures and languages around world. The showings started on March 20 and will end on the 29, switching between Blackwell Ballroom around Hull Auditorium On March 20, the first film, La Gran Familia Española (Family United), a ...
"The easiest path for me that I'd still be happy taking (would be working in a pet store). I really like animals, but I would not want to be a vet or anything because I don't like seeing them in pain, and I feel like the best way that I am able to help animals is to educate owners, and I (would) have ...
Nearly a year ago, Longwood University’s faculty senate passed a student-proposed diversity statement, the first of its kind. This semester, the statement hangs in the student union ballroom on a banner, adding a subtle accent to the room. Students from organizations like the Black Student Association ...
Longwood has participated in Alternative Breaks for a little over a decade helping communities with food justice, environmental justice, social justice and more. For a week during spring break, two different groups travelled to New Orleans and St. Louis to serve the communities in different ways. In ...
Poet and author Teresa Svoboda dropped in on different classes to talk with students during her four-day visit last week. On her first day, Monday, Feb. 20, she held a presentation in addition to her classroom discussions at 7:30 p.m. in Wygal Auditorium. “I’m really a poet, I’m in love with words,” ...
This past Tuesday, Feb. 21, was “Love Your Longwood Day,” an online 24-hour event designed to raise money for the university. Love Your Longwood Day is just one of a week-long series of fundraising events for Longwood from Feb. 21-28. “Love Your Longwood Day” featured two spots for collecting ...
This past Saturday, Feb. 18, Longwood University presented the Social Justice in Action Leadership Summit, in Blackwell Hall. The summit, centered around race and politics, hosted keynote speakers Erica Wallace of the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and Ariel Cochrane-Brown of Georgia ...
For as long as he can remember, Trevor Goin has been shooting guns. Now, all of that has paid off, as he was named one of the 2017 National Youth Shooting Ambassadors for the National Rifle Association (NRA). Goin is a junior at Longwood University, and a criminology major. The ambassadors are selected ...
The 2016 vice presidential debate brought many changes and additions to Longwood University, including Willett Hall’s new façade, as the site of the debate itself. The university saw less obvious, or cosmetic, additions as well. One addition that formed a more permanent change to Longwood’s political ...
For eight weeks, colleges across the United States and Canada can report the amount of recycling and trash collected each week to be ranked in various categories based on who recycles the most per capita. The competition started on Feb. 5, continuing until April 2. The winning college will receive national ...
“Explore and get out of your comfort zone,” said Tori Murden McClure. McClure traveled across the Atlantic Ocean not once, but twice on a 23-foot-long, six-foot-wide homemade rowboat. On her first trip in 1998, McClure completed 3,000 miles before she was stranded for days in Hurricane Danielle; ...
Serving Longwood since the 1990s, the Office of Disability Resources has assisted students, faculty, staff and visitors, doing everything from providing disability-based housing to ensuring accessible parking. According to Director of Disability Resources Lindsay Farrar, about 10 percent of the student ...
Magic shows typically provide audience members with an escape from their current troubles. On Friday, Jan. 27, magician Daniel Martin went beyond the norm and aimed to change people’s lives. Longwood Freshman Price McIntyre was brought on Jarman Hall’s stage to perform card tricks with Martin during ...
Last Friday, the Moton Museum held a screening of “All the Way,” an HBO movie depicting the first term of former President Lyndon B. Johnson (actor Bryan Cranston) after John F. Kennedy’s assassination. The movie focuses heavily on Johnson’s history with civil rights legislation and his complications ...
Participating in Washington, D.C.’s Women’s March was more than personal for Dr. Carl Riden. Among the masses of demonstrators, she advocated for the issues of the disadvantaged, an interest stemming from her background. Growing up in a poor, working class community in southern Alabama, Riden’s ...
Seniors Jason Dryer and Danielle Michael may only have one semester left, but they are working to leave a lasting impact on Longwood’s community of aspiring lawyers. As the Pre-Law Society enters its second year of existence, Dryer, the society’s vice president, said the society continues to try ...
Fourteen Longwood students started the new year participating in a ten-day study abroad program to Costa Rica. From Jan. 3-13, the students went hiking and visited the beaches, while also observing the differences between the Costa Rican economy and culture and the United States'. The educational ...
Uptown Café is known for their open mic nights, fund raisers and coffee in Farmville, Va. On Nov 19 from 7-9 p.m., David Rawls, a junior at Longwood University teamed up with Uptown Café and the Farmville Area Community Emergency Services (F.A.C.E.S.) to host live music with a food drive. “We’ve ...
With the holiday season around the corner, it can be a priority to give back to a charity. While there are multiple charities available, donating to homeless veterans rose above the rest for two Longwood student groups. “They keep us safe, fighting and serving in the U.S military, and they come home, ...
There were three different teams hosted by the English and Modern Languages department: Spanish, German and French, each competing for the title of the Iron Chef through a main course and desserts. In the Nance Room of Dorrill Dining Hall on the evening of Nov. 15, the affair began with an auction. There ...
