Launched in 2013 Yik Yak is a social media app where users can anonymously post and comment on threads from within a five-mile radius. When it comes to Yik Yak’s impact on campus culture, there are varied opinions from Longwood students and a professor on the app’s positive and negative effe…
Spring Weekend has been a staple of Longwood’s history for many years and is a way for students to support organizations on campus and have fun, but not many people know what must happen behind the scenes for Spring Weekend to come to life.
This fall semester of 2021, I took Dr. David Magill’s Literature of Diversity class where the topics vary each time it is taught. Last semester, the topic was on Racial Fictions. This topic was newly constructed and it was Magill’s first time teaching it. I interviewed him so I could inform …
Have you ever felt self-conscious? Due to the culture and society that we are all currently living in, where social comparison is at our beck and call, being self-conscious is somewhat inevitable. A sociology course called Self & Society, that Longwood University students can enroll in, …
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…
