The 2014 Greek Awards was held on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2015 in Jarman auditorium at 4 p.m.. Every Greek organization on campus attended the event, and each were excited and anxious to find the results of this year’s winners. The Fraternity and Sorority Life Associate Director Wolfgang Acevedo and Assistant ...
In 2009, Longwood added the competitive Nursing Program to its list of degrees with around 30 students. Since then, the program has now grown to well over 100 students and continues to expand by doing community outreach events, launching new programs and enhancing their student connections through the ...
Groans of heartbreak. Screams of excitement. Shouts of anger. Silent suspense filled the air. All were heard as Longwood students came to the Lee Grand Room of the Dorril Dining Hall for Lancer Production’s Welcome Back BINGO last Saturday. The annual tradition helped ...
Beyond the deafening roar of all nine College Panhellenic Council (CPC) chapters at the Spring 2015 Sorority Walk, the heat of adrenaline electrifies the free speech zone on the afternoon of Jan. 11. Sisterhood is more than just the new members running into the embraces of their new home, it’s a carefully ...
On Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, nearly 180 students gathered in the Student Union Ballroom at 8:45 a.m. ready to take on a day of service in the name of a legendary civil rights leader. During the time where the remainder of their peers were still laying in bed, the largest group of participants ...
Folk musicians and students with acoustic guitars play to patrons in sweaters holding mugs of hot java at Uptown Coffee every Thursday night. Longwood’s creative writing community gather at The Bakery’s Speakeasy “anything goes” spoken word to share their workshop pieces over craft Belgian ...
On Wednesday November 19th, the Sigma Kappa sorority held their fourth annual King of Hearts pageant in the Jarman Auditorium at 7 p.m. The King of Hearts pageant is a male pageant show, where male students were encouraged to come and take the stage. Professor Rhonda Scarrow, Dr. John Miller and Dr. ...
Dorrill Dining Hall may not be the most luxurious place to work, but it is the mandatory first stop for a student employee. If accepted for work-study, every freshman must work in the dining hall. Sometimes for these first year students, it can be a reality check. “A lot of them have ...
The campus was quiet and peaceful and the Cunninghams dorm was still. In the next minute, cranes rolled in. Students stopped in awe as the bricks began to fall. Once the walls started to come down and the inside of the building became open, they started taking pictures. Everyday since then, the ...
When Longwood University first opened its doors for the 1839 experience, the main field students were studying in was education. Today, 175 years later, education is still one of the most popular majors at Longwood. “Academic areas of interests grow and change over time,” said Joanna Baker, the ...
As Debra Wooding strides along the sidewalks and through the doors of Longwood University daily, she walks assured of her safety. After all, she works behind the scenes in the Office of Integrated Security Systems handling every faculty member and student’s safety here on campus.. The three main things ...
Longwood’s Kappa Delta sorority women eagerly waited on their front porch at their house that they commonly referred to as the “Looney Bin.” Attempting to scare away the nerves, they chanted loudly until all of Buffalo Street could hear them. Everyone was excited, except for Amanda Varnes. "I ...
“Be the change.” was the rally cry of the Teal Party in the Lankford Student Union Ballroom on Thursday, Nov. 20. The English 400: Gender Topics class hosted the event as a group project to help raise awareness about sexual violence and harassment. Professor Ariana Reilly, the advisor for ...
Folk musicians and students with acoustic guitars play to patrons in sweaters holding mugs of hot java at Uptown Coffee every Thursday night. Longwood’s creative writing community gather at The Bakery’s Speakeasy “anything goes” spoken word to share their workshop pieces over craft Belgian ...
“Mics are live” says a student to himself as he turns on the mics. He pauses and counts down. 3, 2, 1, and then he proclaims into his microphone, “You are listening to WMLU 91.3 the music of Longwood University and Farmville, Virginia.” With the whole renovation of French completed, WMLU is ...
Twenty percent of women are sexually assaulted while attending college. However, fewer than five percent of completed or attempted rapes of college-age women are reported to law enforcement. Part of the reason underreporting continues to be a serious problem is that many colleges have not yet implemented ...
This past week our nation honored our soldiers on Veterans Day. Farmville’s local Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) continues to honor them every day. They do this by assisting veterans when they need it most. “We are a charity, but we have helped with rent, dues for active duty members, sponsor veteran ...
Items ranging from handmade pens, Busch Garden tickets and several gift cards to El Patron, almost everything and anything was up for grabs at the Tri Sigma Live Auction Tuesday night, in the Student Union ballroom. According to Erin Frye, the chapter secretary of Tri Sigma, approximately 40 items were ...
The atmosphere was one of laughter and sincerity as a surprisingly small crowd gathered in Jarman’s Auditorium to listen to two of the four young men from MTV’s ‘The Buried Life,’ Dave Lingwood and Duncan Penn, speak on Nov. 12. After opening with banter between the ...
The Leadership Conference changed the tide with its new location at Smith Mountain Lake. This year the annual conference was held from Nov. 14 to the 16. The purpose of the conference was to educate students on leadership. This year’s theme was “Change the Tide.” The conference has been in existence ...
