Ever wondered if your professors thought about professors in other disciplines? Or even which professor would survive on a desert island? Well this past Friday in Hiner 207, some members of Longwood’s facility participated in a RAFT Debate sponsored by the University Lectures Committee. The premise ...
The Longwood University Office of International Affairs will bid a final farewell to this year’s international students on Thursday, April 25 with the annual goodbye event held in room 111 of Bedford Hall. A reception in Bedford’s atrium will follow. This year’s event will honor five exchange ...
Riverside Park had its most exciting day of the year thus far on Saturday, April 20, populated by droves of wine drinkers, music lovers and those with a penchant for homespun curios. Meals on Wheels hosted the Farmville Wine Festival from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event hosted ...
Have you ever heard of covering or wanted to cover a friend’s yard with plastic flamingos? Or even been driving around town recently and seen 10- 20 flamingos covering a neighbor’s grass? Well, this custom, which is called “flocking,” has become a huge fundraising ...
Relay for Life was held in Willett Gym on Friday, April 19 with 820 participants and 50 teams. At the event itself, $5,700 was raised. By the end of the event, $62,000 was raised to be donated to the American Cancer Society. The American Cancer Society is a nationwide voluntary ...
Dr. James Jordan, professor of anthropology, began his speech on April 21 by asking for an amount of people with tattoos on them. He, too, has one but not for the reasons some students might. Jordan went on to explain how his black dot was actually just a mark ...
The Longwood baseball squad is at a critical point in their season with 14 games to play. This week they host James Madison on Wednesday, a team they beat in a matchup during the first week of the season, and host a three-game series this weekend against a Gardner-Webb team that is 7-5 in the Big South ...
On Monday, April 15, Longwood alumna Indira Etwaroo spoke to an audience of Music Education majors in Molnar Recital Hall in Wygal Hall on her journey with her music education major and how expansive it has been for her career. Currently an executive producer with New York Public Radio, the largest ...
O’Neishea Edmonds is a hard worker and a believer in commitment, community and the power of a welcoming smile. As a Lancer, Edmonds has contributed to the vitality of Longwood’s Greek life through her work with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated (AKA) and the National Pan-Hellenic Council ...
Another year winds downs for everyone. Papers to write, projects to turn in, research to be done. Tensions run high and every senior realizes that for them, these will be the last assignments they will ever have to complete. This time of year is celebratory, stressful and emotional. And for many of ...
Co-chairs of WMLU’s Bandfest committee Jake King and Keith Baldwin had a whirlwind couple of months. The committee started getting everything ready for this April way back in November. Baldwin and King realized that now that Bandfest is over and went on without a hitch, they had a lot of free time ...
What hunger looks like and what hunger means can be communicated in many ways, even in Farmville, Va. Longwood students from different disciplines collaborated this spring 2013 semester in the effort to best capture what hunger looks like in the community in conjunction with the Honors English 400 course ...
Four shipwrecked victims will land on Longwood’s campus this Friday, April 19, and there is only one life raft that will save a single survivor. From 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Hiner 207, the University Lectures Committee will be hosting Longwood University’s first annual RAFT Debate. In the RAFT Debate, ...
While Spring Weekend often brings noise omplaints, the Farmville Police Department and he Town Manager’s office reported that this year was relatively calm in terms of behavior. While discussing students’ conduct over Spring Weekend, Doug Mooney, chief of the Farmville Police Department, said, ...
The work of our Longwood art seniors now hangs in the Longwood Center for Visual Arts (LCVA) in the farthest left room and the adjacent room behind. They will stay there for a month, and each tells a striking story fueled by the deep emotions of the creating artists. Take the comparative architectural ...
On Wednesday April 3, Theta Chi Fraternity, Farmville Methodist Church and the Office of Civic Leadership and Engagement hosted their annual Stop Hunger Now event in the Lankford Student Union Ballroom. With over 100 people in attendance to help package and bag food, all involved helped to package over ...
I am a Latina, but you probably wouldn’t know that if you saw me. My pale skin, my natural American accent, but more importantly, my difficulty with speaking Spanish on any level is just the iceberg to how much of a Gringa I am. I know nothing about any telenovelas, and I don’t even know any ...
In the low light of Jarman auditorium, just slight enough to be comfortable, on a stage overcome with billows of incensed smoke, the Longwood Company of Belly Dance performed an hour’s worth of solos and group dances involving almost all of the company’s 30 members. The show took into account belly ...
On April 17, Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority and Pi Kappa Phi fraternity will be collaborating to introduce the Spread the Word to End the Word Campaign for the first time on Longwood’s campus. The event will entail pledge cards and a banner that participants will be able to sign to swear to never use ...
Alpha Sigma Alpha (ASA) sorority would like to invite you to Laugh Your “ASA” Off in a night filled with comedy. Held on Thursday, April 11, the event starts at 7 p.m. and will be held in Jarman Auditorium. Lauren Flood, the philanthropy chair for ASA, said, “Usually [the acts are] stand up comedy. ...
