Another year winds downs for everyone. Papers to write, projects to turn in, research to be done. Tensions run high and every senior realizes that for them, these will be the last assignments they will ever have to complete. This time of year is celebratory, stressful and emotional. And for many of ...
Co-chairs of WMLU’s Bandfest committee Jake King and Keith Baldwin had a whirlwind couple of months. The committee started getting everything ready for this April way back in November. Baldwin and King realized that now that Bandfest is over and went on without a hitch, they had a lot of free time ...
What hunger looks like and what hunger means can be communicated in many ways, even in Farmville, Va. Longwood students from different disciplines collaborated this spring 2013 semester in the effort to best capture what hunger looks like in the community in conjunction with the Honors English 400 course ...
Four shipwrecked victims will land on Longwood’s campus this Friday, April 19, and there is only one life raft that will save a single survivor. From 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Hiner 207, the University Lectures Committee will be hosting Longwood University’s first annual RAFT Debate. In the RAFT Debate, ...
While Spring Weekend often brings noise omplaints, the Farmville Police Department and he Town Manager’s office reported that this year was relatively calm in terms of behavior. While discussing students’ conduct over Spring Weekend, Doug Mooney, chief of the Farmville Police Department, said, ...
The work of our Longwood art seniors now hangs in the Longwood Center for Visual Arts (LCVA) in the farthest left room and the adjacent room behind. They will stay there for a month, and each tells a striking story fueled by the deep emotions of the creating artists. Take the comparative architectural ...
On Wednesday April 3, Theta Chi Fraternity, Farmville Methodist Church and the Office of Civic Leadership and Engagement hosted their annual Stop Hunger Now event in the Lankford Student Union Ballroom. With over 100 people in attendance to help package and bag food, all involved helped to package over ...
I am a Latina, but you probably wouldn’t know that if you saw me. My pale skin, my natural American accent, but more importantly, my difficulty with speaking Spanish on any level is just the iceberg to how much of a Gringa I am. I know nothing about any telenovelas, and I don’t even know any ...
In the low light of Jarman auditorium, just slight enough to be comfortable, on a stage overcome with billows of incensed smoke, the Longwood Company of Belly Dance performed an hour’s worth of solos and group dances involving almost all of the company’s 30 members. The show took into account belly ...
On April 17, Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority and Pi Kappa Phi fraternity will be collaborating to introduce the Spread the Word to End the Word Campaign for the first time on Longwood’s campus. The event will entail pledge cards and a banner that participants will be able to sign to swear to never use ...
Alpha Sigma Alpha (ASA) sorority would like to invite you to Laugh Your “ASA” Off in a night filled with comedy. Held on Thursday, April 11, the event starts at 7 p.m. and will be held in Jarman Auditorium. Lauren Flood, the philanthropy chair for ASA, said, “Usually [the acts are] stand up comedy. ...
Coming from rags and broken dreams, Cinderella was granted a few hours of happily- ever-after thanks to a little bit of hope and a little bit of magic. The world may not have fairy godmothers from the pages of our fairy tales, but it does have something close enough: Cinderella’s Closet. Cinderella’s ...
On Friday, April 5, a crowd of around 10 people, consisting of both students and faculty, made theirwaytogatherinfront of Bedford Hall to show their support for the second annual WalkandRoll,aneventthat was organized by the Office of DisabilityResourcesinhonor of the month of April being Disability ...
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, II spoke to the Farmville Area Chamber of Commerce at Charley’s Waterfront Café from 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Monday, April 8. In his speech, he touched upon his views on transportation, human trafficking, healthcare and higher education, as well as his goal ...
The constant tap of running echoed down Brock Commons during the late afternoon of Friday, April 5. It was a mile run called the Duuka that students and faculty alike paid $5 to enter. The purpose of the Duuka was simple: to benefit the Ugandan-based Doors Ministry, founded by Longwood alumna Mallory ...
In a matter of weeks, The Rotunda will open its door to applications for positions that range from writing to design to photography and to business. A common misconception when it comes to The Rotunda is that you have to be a Communication Studies major to write for us or work for us in any way. As ...
Music, art, drama and military technology. On Friday, April 5 and Saturday, April 6, medieval magic will run amok at this year’s Seventh Annual Meeting in the Middle Undergraduate Conference in Medieval Studies. The conference will begin Friday from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. and end Saturday from 8:30 a.m. ...
From its humble beginnings decades before as the ten-watt station WUTA, manned by only a couple dedicated students with the dream of having their own space to speak freely, the campus radio station WMLU has grown a lot over the years. It is now a massive 40-50-person organization with the second largest ...
On Thursday March 28, the “C” room of Lankford Student Union found itself full of students. The reason for the influx of student activity? The chance to listen to Hilary Corna speak about her book “One White Face,” which was a narrative account about her time abroad. Hilary Corna is the founder ...
After a few years as a student at Longwood University, it is probably very easy to forget what it felt like as a bright- eyed and bushy-tailed college hopeful. Never having seen Brock Commons before, never having taken a dip in Ruffner Fountain, it is easy to forget what that first impression was really ...
