On Sunday, Jan. 22 at 5 p.m. behind Lankford Student Union, a new crop of 123 Longwood girls ran toward a sorority that offered them a bid. After a long recruitment weekend, each girl was finally able to discover which sorority welcomed them into their sisterhood.

Advertised as a program set up to boost Longwood University's recruitment, volunteering students were "asked to do one or more of the following: return to their high school during winter and/or spring break, sign postcards, participate in phonations, have lunch with a prospective student or host a prospective student overnight," as stated in Longwood's Weekly Email. The Student 2 Student Program took place this winter break.

Students interested in the Student 2 Student program were also advised to contact Assistant Director of Admissions for Out of State Tracy Debner, providing their "name, email address, major, year (e.g. freshman, sophomore, junior, senior), former high school and [preferred volunteer work]" over email. Some contacts were also made directly to the students from the office, asking for involvement with the program.

Whether your New Year's resolution is to lose weight, hit the gym, eat better, pick up running or "get big" (i.e., gain muscle mass), this is the time of the year where those New Year's resolutions get tossed to the sideaside and forgotten about. How can you stick to your New Year's resolutions without giving up?

Jamie Clift, The Rotunda's longtime features editor, is studying abroad in Valencia, Spain at the Institute of Spanish Studies during the spring 2012 semester. Having stepped down from her position as features editor for the time being, Jamie Clift has charitably taken it upon herself to assume the role as The Rotunda's official Foreign Correspondent. In doing so, she will document her traveling experiences as an exchange student in each issue of The Rotunda.)

On Wednesday, Jan. 18 and Thursday,

Jan. 19 at 8 p.m., the Longwood Student Diversity and Inclusion Council (SDIC) hosted two screenings in Wygal Auditorium to a small, but involved audience. The first film, "Citizen King," depicted the career of Martin Luther King Jr. and his supporters in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during their fight for civil rights for African Americans in the United States.

After a short interlude that forecasts the inevitable death of King, the film starts with King's activism in Birmingham and explains the difficulties of working in a city that had witnessed numerous atrocities against blacks. These included 50 unsolved bombings and a case in which an innocent black man was caught on the street by a mob of angry Caucasians and castrated.

Hello and welcome back to another of what I am hoping will be a great semester at Longwood University! This semester, The Rotunda's Black Column will look a little different.  During my time at Longwood, I have always wanted to write and have my ideas published.  After talking to the lovely Jessica Stone, she agreed to allow me to help co-write this column that she has done such an excellent job with. It is my hope that these articles and ideas will challenge your thoughts, educate you on various issues and entertain you as well.  So with that being said, I would like to move on and give you all a little something about me as an introductory piece.