The budget for the 2015-2016 fiscal year has been posted on the Student Finance Committee page linked from the Longwood University Student Government Association website. After over 10 years of funding, the SGA has decided not to provide free flu shots to students in the fall. This year, almost every ...
Wesley Hadsell was denied bond after a hearing on Friday. The hearing marked the 25th day that AJ has been missing, since she was last seen on March 2. Defense attorney, Katherine Currin, requested that Hadsell be released on bond or electronic house monitoring. According to Fox News, Judge Bruce Wilcox ...
The Student Government Association’s weekly meeting began with allocations, first passing motion of re-allocations to Resident and Commuter Life conference funding of $812.74. SGA money allocations passed $300 in funding for snacks to be provided during finals week at Greenwood library event, Fort ...
The first three months of the year are officially over, and as fast as it has moved, it has been quite interesting in the financial world. The stock market, as a whole, has been quite volatile to say the least. According to Yahoo Finance, The Dow Jones has been up, as high as around 18,300, and as low ...
Longwood’s largest community service project ‘The Big Event’ was most likely originally titled for the amount of people who participate, or it’s impact on the community. Year after year the event has sustained success—a decent portion of university students participate and try to make an impact. ...
Nooses tied, swastikas drawn, repulsive chants shouted and right here at Longwood, racist statements were displayed on a residence hall bulletin board. College campuses around the country have been pierced with actions most would deem damaging to their cultures. The balancing act of fighting racism ...
Missing student Angelica “AJ” Hadsell’s father, Wesley Hadsell, was charged with four felony obstruction of justice charges, possessing ammunition as a convicted felon and felony breaking and entering. On Monday, March 23, Hadsell was arraigned in Norfolk General District Court after being arrested ...
$12,212 in seven days—the amount of funds the Longwood athletics department was able to raise this past week through their self-promoted event, ‘Lancer Giving Madness.’ While facing future revenue cuts, and ongoing controversy with men’s basketball player Jason Pimentel, the department went ...
The Student Government Association senate board began with approval of the minutes from last weeks’ meeting. Senator Chelsea Carrol motioned to go over the approval to change the general formatting of SGA’s bylaws and Constitution. The senate discussed the removal of the Big Event from SGA’s Constitution ...
When Sarah Grace Gomez, an alumni of Longwood University, decided to create a blog post detailing her disgust with the university’s decision regarding basketball player Jason Pimentel, she was unaware of the uproar it would cause. Her post entitled ‘Longwood Dearest, An Open Letter’ was shared ...
Gamma Psi, an off-campus organization not currently affiliated with Longwood, is in the process of coming on-campus and being recognized as a fraternity by the university, a process which takes around three weeks. The organization has attempted to go through the process before, but has never completed ...
Missing Longwood student AJ Hadsell’s father was arrested and jailed earlier today on six charges. According to WAVY, Wesley Hadsell, 36, was questioned by police for 15 hours before being apprehended. Hadsell was detained after being accused of four obstruction of justice charges, one charge of possessing ...
The investigation to find missing Longwood student Angelica “AJ” Hadsell is currently in week three and police still don’t know much about her disappearance—if they do, any information regarding leads has yet to be released. AJ disappeared March 2 and hasn’t been seen since. According to a ...
Longwood University announced Joan Neff as the new university provost and vice president for academic affairs. Neff will be succeeding Ken Perkins, who announced his resignation at the beginning of the academic year. Neff will officially step into the position after the end of this semester. “The ...
The phrases splashed across the entire left side of a Curry Hall sixth floor bulletin board. Expressions most would consider hurtful—deep cutting terms that anyone would agree contain power—but the power of hate. “Blacks shouldn’t exist,” one stated. “I hate n***ers,” the bordering phrase ...
The past couple of weeks have been interesting, to say the least, in the financial marketplace. Due to the U.S. economy having improved over the past year with more jobs being created and falling unemployment, the Federal Reserve is considering raising interest rates for the first time since 2006. The ...
Within the last seven days, two petitions stemming from Longwood University’s decision to reinstate junior basketball player Jason Pimentel collected over 1200 combined signatures between students, alumni, people in the Farmville community and others. In total, equivalent to about 1/4 of the school’s ...
Vice Treasurer Justyn Hall began allocations passing the motion for Alpha Phi Alpha to get a total of $300 for their Eastern Region Conference in March for convention costs. Re-allocations to the Career Health Educators asked for $825 for a keynote speaker. Alpha Kappa Alpha asked for $541.58 for their ...
“Have you seen AJ?” asks several billboards recently posted across the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. The question of course referring to Anjelica “AJ” Hadsell, a Longwood University freshman officially pronounced missing by Norfolk Police a week and a half ago while she was on spring break. The ...
One year and seventeen days after being arrested and charged with rape by the Farmville Police Department, former Longwood University student Gus Altschuler was found 'Not Guilty' in Prince Edward County Circuit Court this afternoon. It took the 12-person jury, which included 11 women, roughly 45 minutes ...
