While Christmas decorations began selling months before the first day of winter even began, Thanksgiving was once again not forgotten by Americans who rushed to grocery store aisles and packed highways, all in the name of turkey. Oh, yeah, and to celebrate family values or something. But what is this ...
Growing up, I never really knew what "When it rains, it pours" meant. But lately, it has become one of my favorite expressions. It seems that whenever one important thing is happening in life, a million other things compound with it, making life stressful and difficult. It can be true about anything, ...
With their one-year anniversary coming up in December, The Shoppe on Main at 236 North Main Street continues to promote their store to the Farmville community. The local consignment shop is owned by STEPS, a non-profit organization, which benefits from the store's proceeds. STEPS provides employment ...
Friday night the circus came to town. It wasn't the Ringling Brothers and there were no elephants. However, there were cheetahs, monkeys and zebras. Several students painted their faces for a good cause that allowed them to embody different animals of the jungle. We were able to watch these animals ...
This past week I happened to watch one of the most pleasing episodes of "Glee" I have ever seen. It made me feel all warm and happy inside. This is the episode where Kurt and Blaine discuss taking their relationship to the next level. They decide to embrace one another and partake in an encounter that ...
How often can you say that you have had a profound impact on a teenager and watched them turn their life around? Maybe once? Twice? The members of Young Life would most likely answer around 20-60 times. Young Life is a religious organization on campus that was described ...
Last Thursday in the Nance Room of Dorrill Dining Hall, the Modern Language Club held its third ever Iron Chef Competition, an annual food competition between representatives of the Spanish, French and German Departments of Longwood University with dishes from the respective language-speaking countries. ...
A crowd of students gathered on Thursday, Nov. 10for a live poetry and short story reading at the Lancer Café in Lankford Student Union. This event encourages students to come forward and read their own work from classes or simply from their own inspiration, such as poetry and short stories, as well ...
College kids with nerf guns are hard to miss and so is a game of tag with headbands designating who is it. If you've seen people like this wandering about the campus purposefully or clashing suddenly in a flurry of foam darts and fingertips, then you've seen Humans vs. Zombies. It's a game like any ...
A small yellow building located at 307 North Main Street sits hidden from sight to many of the thousands of cars that pass by on their way to Longwood University. Although unnoticed by countless Longwood students, this small building is actually a local legend within the Farmville community. In 1955, ...
This semester has proved to be a very busy time for College Pan-Hellenic Council sororities. The Greek women on this campus have spent a great amount of time on charitable efforts throughout the semester. From Farmville to Richmond, our sororities have spent a lot of time and raised a great deal of ...
While the final novel in the Harry Potter series has been bound and published, and the last movie is now on DVD, the magic lives on at Longwood University. On Sunday, Nov. 20 at 1 p.m., students will have the opportunity to participate in the Honor Student Association's (HSA) Harry Potter Scavenger ...
Ever dream of being a contestant on the TV show "Minute to Win It?" Last Thursday on Nov. 10 in Jarman Auditorium, Alpha Delta Pi (ADPi) held the first Rumble in the Jungle event, an event where Longwood students could compete in teams of two to potentially win $75 for their respective club, organization ...
On Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 the week long mandala painting in Lankford's Grand Ballroom came to a close. The Closing Ceremony began at noon with a Tenzin, the group's translator, with an introduction about the plight of Tibet and the meditative and healing atmosphere surrounding the mandala. Tenzin ...
It is well known among Longwood students that the campus offers vivid and entertaining events on a regular basis to not only give students something to distress, but to raise money for great causes. One of such events is the Untamed Elements Show that is being put on by Ashley "Hoop Girl" Russell ...
On Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 the week long mandala painting in Lankford's Grand Ballroom came to a close. The Closing Ceremony began at noon with a Tenzin, the group's translator, with an introduction about the plight of Tibet and the meditative and healing atmosphere surrounding the mandala. Tenzin also ...
It is well known among Longwood students that the campus offers vivid and entertaining events on a regular basis to not only give students something to distress, but to raise money for great causes. One of such events is the Untamed Elements Show that is being put on by Ashley "Hoop Girl" Russell ...
On Nov. 2, the Piscataway Indian Singers and Dancers came to perform in Jarman Auditorium at 8 p.m. The troupe consisted of four members: Mark Kayac, his son, Naiche Kayac, and the elder Kayac's nephews, Eagleboy Coe and Dicky Ridgeway. Explaining the identity of his nation, Mark Kayac said that the ...
Myth #1: You can lose weight off of a certain body part by exercising that target area. The truth is that working on a certain area does not burn fat; when you lose weight you do not get to choose where the weight comes from. For example, doing 1,000 crunches a day will not take the fat from your ...
In Wygal, on Thursday Nov. 3, writer Janet Peery came to speak to an audience of teachers, students and interested community members about her book ‘What the Thunder Said.' Set in 1930s Midwest, during the devastating grip of the dustbowl, ‘What the Thunder Said' focuses on two sisters, Mackie and ...
