According to several officers and witnesses, three or four shots were fired around 7:20 p.m last evening in the 600 block of South Main Street. The Farmville Police Department is currently investigating the report. Several individuals have been located and interviewed regarding the incident. “The ...
When it was first introduced at the beginning of the year, before its details were hammered out by legislators, Virginia House Bill 1897 was considered to be detrimental to the future of Longwood athletics, potentially threatening to significantly alter the percentage of student fees that could help ...
“It’s really a tremendous opportunity to put Longwood on the national or the international map. There’s really almost nothing like it in the world, in terms of the eyes of tens of millions, hundreds of millions, of people being in one place for one moment,” said Justin Pope, the Chief of Staff, ...
SGA’s final meeting of the semester went over SFC bylaws, making adjustments and approvals of changes to the bylaws. A motion to add RCL to the exception in the bylaws allowing seven members to attend conferences in an unfriendly amendment failed. Re-allocation of $1,667.80 to the Graduate Student ...
The end of the semester is drawing near, and as this year at Longwood is drawing to a close, a new part of the year begins. Summertime brings new financial goals and challenges, along with unpredictability. We would like to share with you what to look out for over the next couple of months, along with ...
In a letter to all Walmart associates, Doug Mcmillon, Walmart's president and CEO released a statement that there will be a “package of changes” within 2015, and raising wages was one of them. “For our current associates, we’ll start by raising our entry wage to at least $9 an hour in April, ...
On Sunday evening, April 19, around 6:30 p.m., resident assistants of ARC Residential Hall returned to find haze and smoke in the air in the lobby on the first floor. “When the police and fire department arrived, they found that an air handler unit had had an electrical malfunction in the storage ...
When House Bill 1897 was first announced earlier this year by del. Kirk Cox, journalists across the commonwealth wrote stories about how it would vastly affect multiple universities’ athletics programs in the state. The Rotunda quoted Longwood Director of Athletics Troy Austin earlier this semester ...
As the University of Virginia’s colossal 11 percent tuition hike was up in lights last month, Longwood officials were able to come through for students a second straight year. The current school year’s tuition was raised in historically low fashion last spring by a 2.1 percent mark, while it was ...
“Though the weight of this horrible prospect has loomed, today extinguishes our hope of AJ’s safe return and confirms our worst fear. Our thoughts are profoundly with her family. These past weeks, they have endured unimaginable anguish and uncertainty, and now they must confront the terrible grief ...
Theodore Roosevelt once said, “Risk is like fire. If controlled it will help you, if uncontrolled it will rise up and destroy you.” In today’s world, this quote explains the financial markets well. If you can use risk to your advantage, you can make some significant gains, but if you take an approach ...
SGA began with the Student Finance Committee report from Treasurer Jessica Darst. Darst made a motion to allocate $10,250 to CPC, IFC, NPHC, LP for an Educational and Skills training Programs. “This allocation would allow 15 students or staff to get certified in “Psycho-Geometrics,” said Jessica ...
Even though Canvas is heavily promoted on-campus through the administration, many professors don’t utilize it’s various resources. “The Digital Education Collaborative was created to help support faculty and students using all instructional technologies, including Canvas,” said Dr. Jeannine ...
Treasurer Jessica Darst began with the FCC report. $781.86 was allocated to Lambda Pi Eta for their Southern States Communication Association Convention in which extra money was needed for hotel fees. $187.76 was allocated to SGA for a reception following the Building Community event. Re-allocation ...
According to WAVY, Norfolk police have confirmed the bodily remains found in Southampton yesterday to be Longwood freshman student AJ Hadsell's. AJ had been missing since March 2. Norfolk Police told The Rotunda they received a tip in their investigation leading them to the 34000 block of Smiths ...
The family of still missing Longwood freshman AJ Hadsell released a statement yesterday via Facebook, after police confirmed they found human remains while searching for AJ. The findings were sent to a medical examiner for identification and possible cause of death. Here's the statement: "On behalf ...
Human remains have been discovered while searching for missing Longwood University freshman AJ Hadsell, police confirmed earlier today. The investigation led police to the 34000 block of Smith's Ferry Road in Southampton County where the remains were found, police spokeswoman Melinda Wray said in a ...
Some people don’t understand—they just don’t get it. Control of things in life is something people want, but is not often granted. With the press, for some reason people think they have a choice with what is run, and it’s bewildering to me. You even see it on the national level at times. People ...
It’s been 38 days since anyone has seen her—March 2, 2015. While on spring break, Longwood student AJ Hadsell vanished from her family’s home, and with only 12 days of class left, the freshman has still yet to be found. The most bewildering part of AJ’s story is that it’s been over a month, ...
Albert Einstein once said, “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it, he who doesn't, pays it.” According to Investopedia, compound interest is, “Interest calculated on the initial principal and also on the accumulated interest of previous periods of ...
