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Apply to Join the Rotunda!

In a matter of weeks, The Rotunda will open its door to applications for positions that range from writing to design to photography and to business. A common misconception when it comes to The Rotunda is that you have to be a Communication Studies major to write for us or work for us in any way. As ...




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WMLU: Student-Run Radio Serves Campus and Community

From its humble beginnings decades before as the ten-watt station WUTA, manned by only a couple dedicated students with the dream of having their own space to speak freely, the campus radio station WMLU has grown a lot over the years. It is now a massive 40-50-person organization with the second largest ...


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Author Hilary Corna Encourages Students to Dare Themselves

On Thursday March 28, the “C” room of Lankford Student Union found itself full of students. The reason for the influx of student activity? The chance to listen to Hilary Corna speak about her book “One White Face,” which was a narrative account about her time abroad. Hilary Corna is the founder ...


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Longwood Ambassadors: The Faces of Longwood University

After a few years as a student at Longwood University, it is probably very easy to forget what it felt like as a bright- eyed and bushy-tailed college hopeful. Never having seen Brock Commons before, never having taken a dip in Ruffner Fountain, it is easy to forget what that first impression was really ...




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The Lancer Bucket List

We only have six weeks left of the semester. And that is just enough time to do everything you’ve wanted to do as a Longwood student. The four years spent as a college student pass by so fast, so the opportunities you have need to be utilized now while you still have the chance. You don’t want to ...


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Take a Book, Leave a Book

Dr. Rhonda Brock-Servais, chair of the English & Modern Languages Department, introduced a book borrowing system in an email sent to faculty and students in the English & Modern Languages Department on March 18. Faculty and students may leave or take books located on the shelves on the second- ...



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The Biggest Influences Behind This Year's Big Event

It may be only one day a year, but The Big Event is the biggest one to look out for. As Longwood University’s largest campus-wide community service project, The Big Event breaks records every year, whether through the number of students attending or the number of projects in the community being attended ...



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Standing Ovation to the Interim President

A standing ovation was given to Interim President Marge Connelly this Tuesday, March 26 at the formal announcement event for President-Elect W. Taylor Reveley IV. Marianne Radcliff, rector of the Board of Visitors, thanked Connelly for her service to the university. “In just the few short months, ...


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Traveler's Column: A Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow

Mass exodus to Ireland for St. Patrick’s Day. That is what occurred, only I wasn’t a part of it sadly. But over in Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day is the equivalent to New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve, times about 10. I would have loved to go, but tickets for flights to Ireland for the ...


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35 Years of Excellence: A Different Fraternity

“This Fraternity will be different.” That is what Carter Ashton Jenkens responded when being questioned as to why another fraternity should be inaugurated at Richmond University in the Fall of 1901 and over the past 112 years. That response has been the foundation of Sigma Phi Epsilon. With Virtue, ...