“I’m always ready to listen, and I really think that that has made a big difference in my time here,” said Joyce Trent. Familiar to many students and faculty on campus because of her “open door policy,” Trent is a known as a figure of hard work and loyalty to the campus and to the students, ...
Recently, I’ve been trying to learn how to sacrifice. Not in the sense of giving up a possession or a fight. I don’t mean quitting. I mean self- preservation. I look around me at all the Lancers and citizen leaders, all the award-winning young geniuses and all the people who can fall asleep in class ...
With a dialogue on social justice and racial diversity, Lancers are being given the opportunity to learn how to be better citizen leaders by scholars, researchers and activists who will lead the Second Annual Social Justice in Action Leadership Summit (SJALS). The summit will be held on-campus from ...
On Saturday Feb. 2, the staff of the Longwood Landings apartments transformed the Lankford Student Union ballroom from a regular room into a painter’s paradise. Three large canvases laid on a tarp of painter’s plastic, which covered roughly half of the room. From noon to 6 p.m., almost a hun- dred ...
From Jan. 20 to March 20, Longwood will partake in a competition with colleges all over the nation in an effort to recycle more. Longwood has been involved in Recyclemania since 2008. Recyclemania is one of the programs of RecycleMania, Inc., a non- profit 501c3 organization. “There were 605 colleges ...
Blackboard. We all know it as the website that basically runs the life of an average Longwood student. If it is not on Blackboard, it throws the student into a whirlwind of panic and despair. The uses for Blackboard vary from announcements that let teachers inform their pupils about changes to the curriculum, ...
The semester of yes. The entire American collegiate establishment is a phenomenal thing. Each week I have found that I have blown another hundred dollars on pitchers of watery beer, “Mexican” food and themed out- fits from Goodwill that – thankfully, for my sake – I will never wear again. I ...
Late last February, I wrote an article in The Rotunda titled, “Protection Over Convenience: Beach and Wooding Discuss Card Access.” The article discussed how the hours of closed access to buildings may impede certain majors that require more time outside of the classroom to finish work, including ...
On Feb. 23, Longwood University will be host to a Special Olympics event known as the Piedmont Regional Basketball Tournament. Longwood’s participation in the Special Olympics has been going on for at least 20 years. Longwood became a regional site around 10 or 15 years ago. Associate Professor of ...
On Tuesday, Jan. 29, the Office of International Affairs hosted a “Wel- come Reception” for new internation- al students in the Lancaster gallery. The event was held in order to give Longwood students the opportunity to meet and greet new international students and make them feel more at home. To ...
The Moton School Civil Rights Learning Center, previously known as the Robert Russa Moton Museum, serves as Virginia’s only civil rights National Historic Landmark. The Moton School Center honors the courage and tenacity of the movement towards the integration of schools in the Prince Edward County. Serving ...
The Longwood University community honored Martin Luther King, Jr. by presenting the words and vision of the Dalai Lama. On Wednesday, Jan. 23, a group of Longwood students, faculty and staff volunteered to read excerpts of the Dalai Lama’s speech, “The Global Community,” outside the steps of the ...
While a college student's undergraduate career is very bried, the biggest mistakes a student can make during the short four years on campus are procrastinating and not planning enough until the diploma is in his or her hand and real life becomes a real problem. The Academic & Career Advising ...
This week, students who have credit hours starting at 48 or more by the end of the spring semester will be allowed to apply to live off-campus next year in order to move to a new stage of college life. Jean Wilwohl, associate director of Occupancy Management, said, “Starting Monday of next week to ...
This past year in 2012, the attendance numbers doubled at High Bridge Trail State Park from 86,110 to 188,467, as reported in an online article pub- lished on Jan. 14, 2013 by the WFLO radio station. The limestone-covered trail stretches 31 miles long through Cumberland, Nottoway and Prince Edward counties ...
I know it’s pretty late news for me to be talking about New Year’s, but I think the resolutions we keep from there stay with us long enough for me to be irrelevant, if only for a moment. Last year, when I wrote about resolutions, I didn’t hold back my opinion that the resolutions we resolve ...
The First Baptist Church of Farmville is a historic landmark only a pebble’s throw away from Longwood University. The First Baptist Church recently became a new addition to the Virginia Landmarks Register, a list of historic properties in the state of Virginia. According to the National Register of ...
As paper becomes pixels and careers go digital, the Longwood Theatre department took one step closer toward the future of set design. This past weekend, a two-day workshop was organized by Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre David Griffith with help from the Longwood University Parents ...
This year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicated a rise in Influenza (the flu) in more than 10 states, including Virginia. Influenza, according to the Virginia Department of Health (VDH), is “a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses that infect the ...
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, nearly 100 Longwood students signed up to carry on the eight- year tradition of giving back to the community through the MLK Service Challenge. To participate in the service, students signed up in the preceding fall 2012 semester before winter break and during a brief ...
