Riverside Park had its most exciting day of the year thus far on Saturday, April 20, populated by droves of wine drinkers, music lovers and those with a penchant for homespun curios. Meals on Wheels hosted the Farmville Wine Festival from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event hosted ...
For the majority of Longwood University students, it is simply the end of the year. However, for 750 undergraduate students and 100 graduate students, the situation is much more novel. The end of this year will herald the accomplishment of a college career and the acquisition of a degree. This ...
This, like most things I write, is a compilation of my experiences, my conversations and my viewpoints over the longest advisable tenure at Longwood University. As a whole, we don’t always do a good job communicating to students what’s happening on campus. Because of that, it took me ...
On March 20, 2013, before pulling their sixth victory of the season at Old Dominion, members of the Longwood women’s lacrosse team wore ribbons in respect for a death in the lacrosse community. Three days before, the women’s lacrosse team at Division II Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania experienced ...
Consider this a follow-up piece: my opinion concerning a difficult and important issue. Emily Wilkins already made the case a few weeks ago in the Politics Club Corner. Wilkins sees this issue from the inside. She’s a member of an off-campus sorority and her message is clear: I am guaranteed by the ...
Sitting down with friends, I hear them classify people. This person is a hipster. This person is an athlete. This person is a gamer. They talk about how they were excluded in high school or they butt heads with the others. They talk about how Longwood is like a high school: being on the small side of ...
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 ...
It’s time to confess to you what my friends have always known. I’m a messy roommate. In the doorway to my Landings cubicle, there are several scattered library books from a project on LGBT youth. The top of my dresser is the home of assorted change, two boxes of cookies and perhaps one or two socks. ...
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 ...
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 ...
