Wanting to raise awareness of the disease, Longwood’s Student Nursing Association (SNA) hosted a multiple sclerosis (MS) simulation event on Friday to help students and faculty to understand the difficulties faced by those who suffer from the disease. The members of SNA had a table decked out in orange ...
After a year of preparation, planning and fundraising, another Relay for Life at Longwood University will go down in the books as a success. With the theme, “Paint your world purple,” over 1,000 people from both the Longwood and Farmville community participated in the 12-hour long event. During ...
Spring has sprung and with it comes the newest restaurant to the Longwood Landings. Right next to Chick-Fil-A is The Hot Dog Bar, co-owned by father and daughter duo Louis Anderson and Ashley Campbell, locals of Amelia County. The Hot Dog Bar features specialty and build your own hot dogs, as well as ...
Like compact, glossy, white machines of the future, Vianney Klausen’s abstract pieces quickly catch the inquiring eye of anyone passing by the working artist studio in Bedford. Klausen is laboring away this month as his LCVA showcase with Longwood seniors draws near in May. After welcoming me into ...
Seeing space near the top of the paint with 3:58 left in the fourth quarter, Daeisha Brown drove from the right flank to just inside the free throw line to find herself in wide open space. Without pausing, the 5-foot-3 point guard released a jumper and hit her mark. No celebration followed, Brown just ...
Here at Longwood, one thing that is really stressed and emphasized is the concept of citizen and student leadership. There are plenty of examples within the Longwood community. One organization and its leaders are truly embodying that concept. The Pre-Law Society, in just one short year, has gained ...
Longwood’s National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) hosted their Activity Hour on Friday, featuring a ladder toss, music and a large game of Connect Four. The NPHC, a Greek life organization specifically created with African American students in mind, puts on the Activity Hour each spring semester to ...
Farmville hopes to get a makeover for its downtown area in the near future and it’s looking to community members for suggestions. Farmville will be hosting the SOUP proposal event from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on April 1, at the Longwood Center for Visual Arts (LCVA). With the payment of $5, people will get ...
The most recent comedian to visit Longwood is Arvin Mitchell, the former star of BET’s “Club Comic View” and Kevin Hart’s “One Mic Stand.” Just about all of the Student Union Ballroom was filled, and everyone who came seemed to love the show. The key to Mitchell’s Friday night success ...
Dorrill Dining Hall, more commonly referred to as D-Hall, is arguably the hub of the Longwood University campus. As the only cafeteria on the campus, D-Hall’s functions and services are a big topic for students. Whether it’s a casual complaint or praise of D-Hall, Grant Avent, the Senior Director ...
Did you see the bright lights coming out from the Lankford Student Union? Did you hear funky music playing from the ballroom? On Wednesday night, the Student Union held “Salsa MAGIC!” an event that led each dancing soul on campus into the ballroom to let their hips and feet move to the rhythm of ...
On Feb. 20, worlds will once again collide, and mighty heroes will battle for dominance. Not for the fate of the universe but for college tuition. Heroes of the Dorm, Blizzard Entertainment’s collegiate competitive gaming tournament has returned for the second time, with as much as $500,000 on the ...
Lancer Productions’ most recent event was Pinterest night, in which students made crafts reminiscent of those seen on the photo sharing website. There were maybe thirty or so people packed into the Lankford Student Union Ballroom to make crafts and eat cake while watching Easy A. There were five different ...
Worries about life after college and the dreaded job-hunt plague almost every college student at some point. Well aware of this, the Office of Alumni and Career Services hosted The Real World Chronicles, an event taking place throughout this month, bringing in professionals who can help students learn ...
After several inquiries from The Rotunda and other local media outlets, Chris Cook, the assistant vice president of athletics communication, released a statement on Wednesday, Feb. 10 from Longwood’s third-year men’s basketball head coach Jayson Gee regarding the absence of senior guard Leron Fisher ...
Bringing the joyous festival’s rich history and culture to the Longwood campus, Longwood Landing’s residential staff hosted the Mardi Gras Crawl, which took place in front of the Curry and Frasier Frazer residence halls was on Tuesday. The staff was very gracious to all those who participated in ...
The Social Justice in Action Leadership Summit is upon us once again. The fifth annual summit is an all day symposium that will be held on Saturday, Feb. 20 in Blackwell Hall. Its mission is to help motivate and encourage students to be citizen leaders who advocate for social justice and equality on ...
Speed, knowledge and creativity were the key in students’ quest for victory. On Friday in the Lankford Student Union Ballroom, Lancer Productions hosted “Think Fast,” an interactive trivia game show where students competed for the prize of $200. For the first round, students used ...
For Eboni Gilliam, the drive to play Division I basketball outweighed the difficulty of the long path ahead of her to perform at that level of competition. The first step was to leave her community college in Nebraska to journey south and play for Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, North Carolina. “When ...
At midnight in Farmville, most people are sleeping but some are having trouble. But the problem is not the sleeping issue but rather the time. There are some people on Longwood’s campus that are still adjusting to jetlag along with being in a new country. Longwood University may be a small university, ...
