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Friday, December 5, 2025

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Performing through the pain

A congested, 6-foot-8, 255 pound men’s basketball red-shirt senior sat on a couch, eyes squinted upwards trying to recall the number of hours he spends on his sport per week. “Well, with travel, film, practice, meetings, all that stuff, I just know it’s a lot,” said Lotanna Nwogbo. “I can’t ...


Harrison Samaniego
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Students of Longwood: Harrison Samaniego

Out of the 5,000 plus students here at Longwood University, who would have thought that among them is a professional polo player? A native of San Diego, California, Harrison Samaniego is a junior photography major and a professional polo player. His interest in the sport started with his mother, who ...


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Longwood student band packs Uptown Café

On Jan 30, Uptown Café proudly hosted local band, Joel Worford and the Old Souls. The band, which comprises current Longwood students Joel Worford and Josh Burtner along with Longwood alum Chip Hale, performed during the café’s weekly live music session for their first gig this past Saturday. Well ...


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Basketball

Healthy and hungry

In most cases, a 5-14 losing record is not viewed positively. Even though it was a marked improvement from Longwood women’s basketball going 4-26 overall last season with 10 regular season games left, redshirt junior guard Daeisha Brown called the record what it was. “Bad,” said Brown candidly. Both ...


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Students of Longwood Series: Jordan Boulton

It’s a quiet afternoon at The Manor Golf Club in Farmville, just four and a half miles from Longwood University, where freshman Jordan Boulton attends. After having finished his classes for the day, he begins to practice with the Longwood Men’s Golf team. As part of his training, he evaluates the ...


The Setonian
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Dr. Joy DeGruy speech gives a diagnosis

This past week was Dr. Martin Luther King Week, which featured several events such as the MLK Challenge and the MLK Candlelight Vigil. One of the latest in this series of events is a lecture by Dr. Joy DeGruy, a sociologist and author of the book “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome.” This book, as well ...



The Setonian
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Holiday cheer at the Bedford Hall fine art sale

On Thursday, December 3, Bedford Hall will host a fine art sale featuring the brilliant works of the talented faculty and students in the Longwood University Art Department. Professor Angela Bubash, the assistant professor of jewelry metalsmithing and crafts is running the sale. This is the first year ...


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Voicing the Lancers

While watching a baseball game, you hear two announcers—one over the speakers and one directly behind you. Turning your head slightly, the source of the secondary play-by-play is found. A kid, around 8 or 9, providing his own live commentary as the game goes on. No one can tell if it’s annoying ...


The Setonian
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What’s in my cup? Poinsettia

The crimson flower, the poinsettia, adorning the holiday season, inspires this week’s drink. Serve this beautiful cocktail at any holiday party or brunch as a new alternative to a mimosa. Crimson Folly Spirited Ingredients: ½ glass of champagne ½ glass of cranberry juice 1 oz lemon juice 1 oz of ...


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Basketball

Johnson returns to team, Pimentel not returning

Related Article: Johnson, Pimentel potentially face drug charges in and out of school On Wednesday, Dec. 2, Longwood Athletics announced that men’s basketball senior forward Shaquille Johnson will return to the team and participate in competition, beginning with the Dec. 12 game at the University ...



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Lip Sync takes center stage

Jarman Auditorium was packed with students. The judges, sitting up front, prepared themselves to evaluate the performers. The crowd was filled with anticipation for the upcoming show. Then at 8 p.m., the lights were dimmed and immediately, screams of non-Greeks as well as fraternity and sorority members ...



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Longwood hosts International Affairs Week

This week, the Lankford Student Union is hosting International Education Week. However, the study abroad program is not the only program covered by this event. Emma Kauffman, the education support specialist for the Office of International Affairs, explained that the services shown there also help Longwood’s ...


The Setonian
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Playing with Bones

Dr. Jordan’s honors anthropology students were given a unique experience as they journeyed up to Ferrum College to observe cultural and forensic anthropology. The students first went to study the cultural anthropology of German Baptist farms and how these people lived in the mountains of Virginia. ...


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The tattoo artist Brandy Bryant

Countless designs of brightly colored roses, crosses, and other designs decorate the entire humble room. Sitting on a plush couch, one anxiously waits their appointment, hearing a constant and irritating buzzing noise in the background from another room down the hall. The heart has slowly climbed up ...


The Setonian
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Making Campus Safer

“When it rains at Longwood, our Lancers, they go to class. They go to the D-Hall. They go to work and they also go to sporting events. Rain doesn’t stop a Lancer.” That’s what Doug Howell, the associate director for residential operations with Residential and Commuter Life (RCL) said about deciding ...


The Setonian
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Digging up new opportunities

Longwood University's Department of Anthropology just became very competitive among other undergraduate programs this October with the addition of the Institute of Archaeology (IOA), a non-profit organization. Headed by Dr. Brian Bates, executive director and senior principal investigator, undergraduates ...


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International food makes an international impact

Soft music played in the background as many people gathered in the lower level of Dorrill Dining Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 10, enjoying the various flavors from other countries. Prepared by student hands, the event set different regions against each other in a Food Network-style competition, while at the ...


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Fisher given four-game, ‘team-issued’ suspension

Men’s basketball senior guard Leron Fisher was issued a four-game suspension by head coach Jayson Gee for a “violation of team rules,” according a press release by Longwood Athletics on Friday, Nov. 6. “It is a team-issued suspension for a violation of team rules. We will not have further comment,” ...