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Thursday, March 13, 2025

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Features

Humans of Longwood: The Edwards

Doctor Wade Edwards and Professor Heather Edwards describe meeting each other in France. “Heather and I met in a two-year Master’s program in French at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. In between the two years, we took classes for 6 weeks at the Université de Bourgogne with ...

The Setonian
News

How to use bonus dollars and turn a guy down

Q1: “Help. I still have 200 bonus dollars, and it’s May. What should I do?”  Let me start by congratulating you. Most college students do not have the level of self-control or appreciation for Dhall food to end the year with 200 bonus dollars left. Good on you.  At this point, bonus ...

The Setonian
News

Chalking up campus and Grindr profiles

Q1: “What’s going on with the chalk protest on campus?” For those who are unaware, there was a protest on Longwood’s campus last week in response to the rule Longwood made regarding the use of chalk on campus. Recently, there have been a growing number of protests on our campus as well as other ...

The Setonian
News

Why people wear ‘T’s around their neck

Q1: “I’ve seen this tremendous douche around campus, and he has a ‘T’ around his neck. What does it stand for? I’d ask him myself, but he’s kind of a music hero.” This is an interesting observation! It’s completely understandable that you’d be nervous to ask him yourself, especially ...

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Humans of Longwood: Sebastian Lacoss

“Being trans at Longwood … I think this is a safer place to be trans because everyone around here is accepting – I’ve only run into one person who has not been accepting – and it’s even better because we have some other people who are also trans on campus who can help to mentor you. It’s ...

The Setonian
News

Pokémon Go and slam poetry

Q1: “How do I quit going to school and begin my Pokémon journey if all these casuals keep having better Pokémon than me in Pokémon Go?” Unfortunately, this is a topic I don’t have much experience with. Although, there is an obvious answer. You have to one-up the casuals. You can’t let them ...

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Humans of Longwood: Jacob Long

Jacob Long, Longwood sophomore, describes the artistic statement he made when applying to the Honors College as a rising freshmen. “Ever since I was a wee little laddie, I used to play a whole lot of Mario Sunshine. When I was 14, I didn’t have any friends or anything to do, so I would just play ...

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Humans of Longwood: Caroline Chatfield

"The easiest path for me that I'd still be happy taking (would be working in a pet store). I really like animals, but I would not want to be a vet or anything because I don't like seeing them in pain, and I feel like the best way that I am able to help animals is to educate owners, and I (would) have ...

The Setonian
News

Just another bad advice column

Q1: "What item did you bring to college that was more useful than you expected?" When I came to college as a first year student, I brought way too much junk, like a lot of other freshmen did. However unlike other students, I have yet to figure out how to decrease the amount of useless things I have ...

The Setonian
Opinion

Open letter to someone I barely know

This is a letter to Franklin, my step-father’s cousin’s uncle’s brother. Franklin, I want you to know, on behalf of me and everyone else who knows someone (but only just barely), I am disappointed in our lack of communication. I saw you at cousin Merkle’s wedding that one time. You were dancing ...

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