Take a moment to ask yourself what you can recall about the arrival of the first Africans to early America. Do you know when, where, and how? Do you know their names?
Several organizations on campus are taking different and unique initiatives to give back this holiday season. Students organized projects ranging from canned food drives to creating cards for residents at a local retirement community or even collecting pajamas and books for children in need.
Imagine navigating the living, breathing universe of a college campus for the first time, with all the pamphlets filled with smiling faces and ‘Welcome Home’ phrases, and then having the various new waves of vital information piling up before your eyes. Now picture that as a first-generation…
On a crisp November evening in Farmville, Waldy’s Ice Cream, the family-owned ice cream truck, served its last customers before closing up for the season. For the last week, the business ran various promotions to help sell the last of the ice cream before closing until the spring.
Brick by brick, piece by piece, immersing itself onto the university’s campus under the broad misconception of being child’s play, this organization is certainly nothing to be toyed with.
Humans of Longwood
“Hard work pays off,” said senior political science major Joseph “Joe” Hyman on his life motto.
“I started off as a volunteer. I would go in and help detainees go through worksheets and just kind of learn about different things. (I would) answer any questions that they would have. As I kept going, my first semester there I began teaching this lower level English group ...
Sami Fitz is a junior at Longwood University, a nursing major, a sister of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority and a member of the Student Nursing Association. She gained an interest in the nursing profession as a result of her experience with MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) when s…