The Tuesday, Nov. 12 Student Government Association (SGA) meeting’s open forum session featured a hot button issue that has spurred student controversy since Jean Wilwohl, associate director of occupancy management for Residential and Commuter Life (RCL), announced the upcoming Longwood Village changes ...
The Longwood University Emergency Response Team (LUERT) is a group of faculty and student volunteers who are trained to respond to man-made or natural disasters. This past Saturday, Nov. 2, LUERT held a disaster response training drill which started at the Farmer’s Market and continued into a section ...
Now, I may have wished this upon myself by getting engaged and all but this semester has been work overload. When you are a college senior and are trying to graduate early, stuff just gets shoved to the side, even when you don't want it to. Especially when you try to do too much, forget about the little ...
Dr. James Jordan is a well- known LU anthropology professor, ghost storyteller and consultant for the TV show “Bones” who makes an exceptional cup of coffee. Many Longwood students know Jordan for his annual telling of campus ghost stories, which took place on Oct. 25 this year. He has told these ...
Handwritten signs and little red flags marked the beginning of the fourth annual Red Flag Campaign event on campus. On Oct. 25 from 3-5 p.m., students gathered behind Lankford Student Union in a space designated as the “Free Speech Zone” on campus to listen to speakers, visit tables set up by student ...
The Sigma Kappa Sorority presented the King Of Our Heart: All Male Beauty Pageant on Monday Oct. 28. “King Of Our Heart is a male pageant that is open to all males on campus. We have more contestants participating this year than in the past. These 16 contestants will participate in four different ...
On Monday, Oct. 7, Delta Zeta Sorority hosted their annual Turtle Tug event on Stubbs Lawn. Turtle Tug is a tug of war event for Delta Zeta’s philanthropy, the Painted Turtle Camp. The Painted Turtle Camp is a camp for children experiencing chronic and life threatening illnesses. This year, ...
In honor of Halloween next week, Alpha Pi Omega decided to use the theme to their advantage and sponsor a fun run to help fund a working trip to Haiti in December. The Halloween Fun Run for Haiti took place on Oct. 21 on Brock Commons at 6:00 p.m. The Fun Run cost $3.00 for pre-registration before hand, ...
Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority held their Fall Festival this past Saturday, Oct. 19. This event was supposed to be held at the Longwood Landings, but the weather became a challenge. However, that didn't stop them, as the sorority simply moved the festival to the Lankford Student Union. There ...
Well, time really does fly, doesn’t it? Here we are, already over halfway through the semester with Halloween soon to be unleashed upon us and exams looming on the horizon. I have been here exactly two months now, and those two months have sped past at a rate of knots. I have accumulated so many new ...
Dr. Joe Keiper is the executive director of the Virginia Museum of Natural History. He visited Longwood on Oct. 21 and spoke to a number of students in Hull Auditorium. Keiper's main topic was Forensic Entomology. Keiper is one of the top 20 scientists recognized for work in Forensic Entomology. Forensic ...
The Longwood University Police Department (LUPD) and Farmville Police Department (FPD) will join forces once again for the seventh National Drug Take-Back Initiative on Saturday, Oct. 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Midtown Square. According to a Drug Enforcement Administration press release, the 2011 ...
As the countdown to graduation continues, the Student Alumni Association (SAA) brings together the senior class by hosting an event called the Senior Series. This includes a series of social gatherings attended mostly by seniors, although some juniors participate as well. The Senior Series is typically ...
Most of us were born in the ‘90s, so growing up in that decade, we all saw a changing world, even if we did not realize it. On all fronts of popular culture, there was something new going on. Music, movies, games and television all evolved from their pasts. This past weekend our campus came together ...
The lawn behind Lankford Student Union had been busy all day as students, faculty and people from all around enjoyed various performances from the Blue Heat Dance Team, Longwood Company of Belly Dance, B.A.S.I.C. Gospel Choir and many others. However, around 5:30 p.m. a larger mass began to form in ...
WMLU (91.3 FM) arranged the music of Longwood’s biggest event of the fall semester: Battle of the Bands. Although it is a competition for money, the sense of community felt between the bands was evident. It was a hot, sticky night for Battle of the Bands. The crowd was sparsely spaced under the trees ...
This weekend was filled with walking around Longwood’s campus and the town of Farmville, reconnecting with friends not seen in months and having a blast at Oktoberfest. As an alumna, I was nervous about visiting campus and seeing all of the changes that had taken place in the five months I’ve been ...
Each year, students gather for the annual Oktoberfest celebration on the campus of Longwood to enjoy and take part in the rich history of tradition. From the Klowns to the performances by local talent to the booth fair, students are able to excitedly anticipate the events to occur over the week, imagining ...
Oktoberfest, which took place this past weekend, is one of the biggest annual celebrations on campus. Many students decide to stay at school for the weekend, just to attend Oktoberfest. Oktoberfest is also a chance for your family members or friends to come to town and see how much fun it is to be at ...
Dressed in white T-shirts and old shorts, students gathered together on Iler Field, many holding cups ready to be filled with paint. The first event of Oktoberfest weekend,Color Wars took place on Friday, Oct. 4. The classes of 2017 and 2015 made up the Green Class, and 2016 and 2014 represented the ...
