The increase in criminal activity is always expected to increase during the holiday season. Larger purchases are made with a higher monetary value at risk. Chief Curtis Davis of the Farmville Police Department said that shoplifting, larcenies and occasionally some breaking and entering are all frequently ...
With the common drinking culture surrounding campuses, some universities have created “safe ride” programs or “drunk buses” for students to use for getting home safely. Longwood has not created a specific program for this purpose and according to Lieutenant John Johnson of the Longwood Police ...
This week’s SGA meeting focused attention on the issues concerning summer registration. It was brought up by President Constance Garner how currently the registration for summer courses is a free-for-all. Complaints on the matter have been brought to Faculty Senate as well as the Registrar. The main ...
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 ...
The process of assessing inclement weather requires a team to take everyone’s safety into account and follow a series of steps before informing the community to brace themselves for bad weather. “If we see there’s going to be inclement weather, then we start a more detailed search and use a number ...
In light of the recent national coverage of the University of Missouri incidents, colleges across the country have reached out to show their support for the Missouri students’ demonstrations and protest in the name of their cause. They have sent support in the form of hashtags, several trending over ...
This week’s SGA meeting shed light on the recent tragedy in Paris, France. Dr. Tim Pierson felt that Longwood was successful in rallying together to form a unified front on the matter. One SGA member mentioned the support shown by some organizations at the Men’s Basketball game last Friday for the ...
The owners of the Weyanoke have recently made the decision to neither renew nor sign any new leases for next year. Located across the road from campus, the Weyanoke currently houses three different sororities on three different floors of the building. A total of 30 residents live in the building and ...
This week’s SGA meeting focused attention on some of the previous meeting’s issues to follow up with the progress made towards them. Several SGA members have mentioned in previous meetings how currently there isn’t any space available on campus that is open 24-hours for student access. Treasurer ...
In recent weeks, student veterans have raised their concerns about not being able to register under a time ticket one slot at Longwood University. Army Staff Sergeant/E-6 Shawn White, student veteran, started this discussion in hopes of making a significant change at Longwood University. Coming into ...
“Longwood outsourced the Student Health and Wellness Center,” said Student Health and Wellness Director Dana Cary, who was hired through Potomac Healthcare Solutions when the transfer of ownership occurred. “As of two weeks ago, we are now fully staffed.” On July 1, 2015, the Student Health ...
This month’s faculty senate meeting mainly focused on low student evaluation feedback and how to increase the number of students completing the evaluations. The current rate of student evaluations is at 40 percent, a significantly low number of the student population. Faculty senate chair, Dr. Sarah ...
I’m sure that many of you have heard of Weight Watchers, the company that helps you ideally lose weight in a healthy and relatively quick manner. This company was founded back in 1963 in Queens, New York and has taken the world by storm. The reason I am writing about this stock, however, is its incredible ...
Participation on student evaluations has remained around only 40 percent, leaving a significantly small amount of feedback for faculty to receive at the end of each semester. This low response rate has remained low ever since the evaluations were switched from paper to an online format. According to ...
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,” ...
“The fact that there is a ‘wrong’ bathroom [to use] is almost as if [saying] there is a wrong drinking fountain to use” Dr. Jes Simmons, lecturer of English composition and rhetoric at Longwood University, said when explaining how society influences which bathroom people use. Longwood has begun ...
Roger Ladouceur, a tattoo artist based out of Roanoke, has filed a federal lawsuit against Macado’s Inc. for copyright infringement. The artist claims in 2013, he created and copyrighted the image of the Frankenstein monster wearing a monocle, which Macado’s has applied in recent promotional material ...
A notice, sent out this past Sunday to the campus community, brought attention to a report of sexual assault which stated that an investigation had been opened on the report of a non-stranger sexual assault. The incident allegedly happened in an on-campus residence hall during Saturday evening somewhere ...
The focus of this week’s SGA meeting was on the issues with registering for classes online. Vicki Levine, the university’s registrar, was present at this week’s meeting to answer the questions and concerns of SGA members. In previous meetings, Senator Shawn White spoke on behalf of the student ...
In this week’s stock spotlight, I wanted to focus on a company that many people are probably familiar with: Apple. Apple is currently trading at just over $120 per share, but back in June of 2014, they were trading at close to $700 a share. They didn’t drop in price. However, they did decide to ...
