You’re sitting in class, paying attention to everything else other than the worksheet your professor just handed out. You hear sirens so you glance out the window and see an ambulance racing down the street. As you wonder where they’re going, they pull up out front and ...
Recently, I received a Tumblr message from a reader in which he or she stated, “One of my classes is talking about the over-sexualization of breasts in American culture ... to the point where topless scenes in movies are commonplace but women can't breast-feed in public. I was wondering ...
With the advent of the Internet, some feared we were entering an age in which social communication would become obsolete in the face of the rapid exchange of information. While this certainly hasn’t been proven to play out as the doomsday scenario was proposed, it’s interesting to consider how psychologically ...
This new addition to The Rotunda is written by the Longwood Emergency Response Team and will feature weekly events, announcements and advice regarding the safety of students, faculty and staff of Longwood University. March 11, 2014 will mark Virginia’s annual Tornado Preparedness ...
Is senioritis hitting you quick this winter? If you’re a freshman reading this, don’t think that this common cold can’t hit you too. All of us college students face course overload and try to balance everything, taking on so much more (or less) than we were ...
Virginia21, a lobbying organization for higher education visited the state capitol on Wednesday January 5 in order to lobby for higher education. Among these activists were representatives from every public school in the state, including Longwood University. ...
Men throughout history had no problem sexually assaulting and raping women when they wore corsets and made sure their knees and elbows were covered. Therefore, the argument that women going out in booty shorts and form-fitting tank tops is ...
Longwood Crushes on Facebook. Enough said. If you are unaware of this Facebook page, it is dedicated to the crushers who wish to romantically write about the ones they admire or the ones they see around campus but might not know the name ...
It’s always a special year when it’s an Olympic year, and 2014 is no different; the winter games come this February. As preparation sets in for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, there have been growing concerns of terrorist threats. You don’t even have to follow up with ...
Lizard people and black hole travel. While the two might sound like the opening scenes of the next “Star Trek” movie (no complaints, if so), the two concepts are largely, scientifically speaking, considered completely irrelevant from one another. This brings one to question how, in ...
This year’s Super Bowl commercials were sub par, to say the least. Most were your usual funny beer and celebrity commercials with a few heartfelt ones thrown in the mix. For myself, the “America the Beautiful” Coca-Cola commercial really hit me as a strong one. This is a country that ...
Charles de Gaulle once said, “Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.” The backlash that blew up social media Sunday night and Monday morning proved just that. Sunday night’s Super Bowl ...
Dear Readers, We at The Rotunda strive to report on important topics that directly influence the student body. In the Wednesday, Jan. 29 issue of The Rotunda, topics covered included the understaffing in the Longwood University’s Counseling Center, contrasting views on university recognition ...
All throughout the next week and a half, the Student Government Association will be advertising their two newest campus-wide initiatives. The first is encouraging students to get flu shot, and the other is the #StopTheDrop to increase awareness in the drop of financial aid. ...
With the recent snow and ice mix we received a few days ago, and more expected to head our way, many students beg for their early classes to be canceled. If you have a 10 a.m. class, there’s no hope for you, you’ll have to brave the cold conditions, sorry about it. While ...
Heart attack. Stroke. Coma. Mania. While conventional medical thinking would suggest all of these conditions would merit treatment, evolutions in modern medicine have created a rabbithole- esque world in which these grave conditions are, in fact, simply side effects of new ...
In September 2013, the citizens of Fort Lee, N.J. experienced a traffic snarl like no other. Three incoming lanes on the George Washington Bridge were closed due to what was then being called a traffic study. However, it was later revealed that it was actually the actions of an aide inside ...
While the death penalty has been the center of debate for politicians and lawmakers alike, a recent botched execution of an Ohio man has brought to the forefront of conversation the ethics of the unregulated compounds used in the injections. It has been questioned whether or not these ...
Although Longwood’s new system switched from Blackboard to Canvas at the start of this school year back in August 2013, it was a big adjustment for students to get used to the whole new system. The set-up of Canvas is quite different than what most of the student population ...
$500 Million dollars. While such a sum would be almost inconceivable to students living on a diet of ramen and popcorn, it represents the fine charged to search engine giant Google in a recent court settlement after Google allowed advertisements to run on it’s site for an illegal ...
