Longwood students have been busy all week writing about what love means to them on a large board stationed behind Lankford Student Union. Located in Longwood's Free Speech Zone, the board is there thanks to Longwood/Hampden-Sydney Baptist Collegiate Ministries (BCM). The purpose of the board is to "show ...
Just before Longwood University's winter break began, an opportunity to protect their brand and name arose by employing a domain registration site on the Internet. The site allows universities to buy the domains to their name so they will not be affiliated or misconstrued with anything that may be inappropriate ...
Dr. Wallace "J." Nichols, a marine biologistand ocean conservationist who seeks to "in spire a deeper connection with nature," will speak Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. in Long wood University's Blackwell Ballroom on "Get Your Blue Mind On: Using Our Brain to Conserve the Ocean." Nichols is a ...
After last semester's heavy rainfall that caused the creek near the Virginia Street Parking Lot to flood, plans were set in motion to prevent such incidents from happening again. This coming spring, plans have been made to convert the Virginia St. lot behind the Longwood Landings apartments into commuter ...
If you've tuned into WMLU 91.3-FM recently on your computer, you've probably noticed the web stream is down. That is because the web cast set up by former station member Gerry Martin in 2007 is being replaced. Heading this transfer is Chief Engineer Alexander Pierson, also known as the DJ for the "Metallic ...
The third Student Government Association (SGA) meeting of the semester took place on Tuesday, Feb.7. In open forum, a senator raised concerns about smoking on the sidewalk behind the heating plant that leads from campus to the Longwood Landings. Dr. Tim Pierson, vice president for student affairs, ...
As revolutions and oppositions have been popping up all over the Middle East and Northern Africa, one opposition has been making headlines all over the news. The Syrian government, ruled by a long line of brutal dictators, is now the talk of many international news agencies as the United Nations Security ...
Two weeks ago, the grand master key for the Longwood University academic buildings was reported missing. Students were notified by Wednesday, Jan. 25 that the university was in the process of repining all the locks for the academic buildings on campus. According to Longwood University Chief of Police ...
When The Rotunda sat down with Inetha Carr in November 2011, she was fighting for justice. Nearly three months later, she is continuing her battle. Carr used to work for a local non-profit agency in Farmville called Central Piedmont Action Council (CPAC). With the agency, now known as HOPE Community ...
The first Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) lecture of the semester was held in Greenwood Library Wednesday, Feb. 1, with Dr. Jamie Riley, director of the Office of Diversity & Inclusion, presenting "Racism, Discrimination and Prejudice: Voices of Undergraduate Black Men at Predominately White Institutions." ...
In Fall 2012, Longwood University juniors and seniors will not be guaranteed housing by the school. As of right now, the school may have 40-60 juniors and seniors that will either be placed on a waitlist or have to find off-campus housing according to Associate Director of Occupancy Management Jean ...
The Virginia House of Delegates voted 64-35 Friday to strip the Virginia Board of Health's power to fund abortions for low-income women on Medicaid when a doctor certifies that the woman's fetus would be born with an extreme physical or mental deficiency. Similar legislation that was approved in a Senate ...
On Dec. 11, 2011, Dr. James Jordan, professor of anthropology, and Dr. Brian Bates, department chair of the department of anthropology and criminal justice studies and associate professor of anthropology, took 15 students on a two-week study abroad trip to England. Students participated in a course ...
Kathy Johnson Bowles, director of the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA), is the latest recipient of the Folk Art Society of America's (FASA) Award of Distinction. Bowles received the award last September. Bowles helped promote the value of folk art at Longwood University through the LCVA exhibition, ...
European Winter Described as ‘Tragic' While there is little to talk about in the U.S. when it comes to snow this winter, it's a different story in Europe. Heavy snow in Italy left a number of villages without power this past weekend as temperatures continued to fall. According to CNN, the power outages ...
Over one million people were living in the United States with HIV at the end of 2008, according to the Center for Disease Control. That was a seven percent increase from the U.S. rate in 2006. HIV can be contracted from vaginal, anal and oral sex. It can also be contracted from sharing needles — whether ...
Two Hampden-Sydney College (HSC) students were injured in a house fire early last Wednesday morning, one of them seriously burned. According to the HSC Director of Communications, Thomas Shomo, the fire was called in at 4:12 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 25. Three fire companies — Hampden-Sydney, Farmville ...
On Jan. 28 in Wygal, Lancer Productions hosted the Thinkfast Gameshow to a crowd of eager-to-win, determined students, ready to compete for the grand prize of $200 at the end of the night. The Lancer Productions website describes the game as "a combination of music videos, multiple choice trivia ...
Same Sex Marriage in the Balance in NJ According to CNN News, a political battle is beginning to form as to whether gay and lesbian couples will be allowed the right to wed. If the move is approved, New Jersey will be the seventh state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage. The issue has been ...
Since the beginning of the school year, one group has been gaining more and more attention throughout Longwood's campus. This group goes by the name of RAVE. The name stands for Respond to Acts of Violence Effectively. The group's mission, according to their website, is to "educate the campus community ...
