The Student Government Association (SGA) began with Vice President Adam Fletcher for open agenda. This week’s Rowe Award was presented to Senator India White for taking initiative on current campus issues and giving awareness when needed. Registrar’s office representatives ...
“…Everyone’s running, getting away from the windows. We all raninto the little back room. People are getting under the tables, they are scared. We flipped the tables, covered the windows and locked the door. We started looking around, making sure that everyone had gotten into the room. All we ...
This past May 2014, the U.S. Department of Education finalized the release under Title IX, 20 U.S.C. Sec 1681. It is stated as sexual misconduct, including sexual assaults, harassment, violence, stalking and other forms “of gender discrimination prohibited by Title IX.” As ...
In the early morning hours on Monday, Sept. 1 Powhatan resident, Chester Holtyn III was arrested for committing an obscene act in public. The Farmville police department responded to the 200 block of High Street where Holtyn approached a Longwood student behind the Hotel Weyanoke around 2 a.m. and offered ...
On Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014 at 9:14 p.m. Longwood student Kathryn Olmstead was a victim of a strong-armed robbery behind South Ruffner. The male subject attacked Olmstead from behind and demanded she give him her backpack, after attempting to pull it off of her. According to Olmstead, she believed it ...
The weekly Student Government Association’s (SGA) board meeting was kept quick and brief due to the student Involvement Fair. Senator Constance Garner passed on the Role Award this week to Senator Chelsea Carrol, for her diligence in discussing concerns regarding campus life often during open forum. ...
The Farmville Police Department and Longwood’s Campus Police receive incoming calls from Longwood, on-campus and off, as well as from the surrounding town of Farmville. 911 police calls reach the Farmville Police Department from landlines extending from Farmville to Cumberland. Both the Longwood Police ...
Longwood junior basketball player Shaquille Johnson has been charged with a felony of malicious wounding after an incident that occurred at a party on Buffalo St. in Farmville, VA around 1 a.m. on August 31. According to Farmville Police Chief Doug Mooney, the altercation stemmed from a dance off competition ...
Within the next week, The Covington Company is expected to announce new additions to the Southgate Shopping Center. The company’s web site advertises a space open on the inside of the old Rose’s store next to the Centra center at 7,500 square feet. The site also lists 2,362 square feet of free standing ...
The Student Government Association’s (SGA) board meeting started with a quick move to approve the general meeting’s agenda for the day. Following the motion, the Student Government’s Role Award was presented to Senator Constance Garner, for her hard work and recognition in her position’s role ...
Officials recently told CNN they have a “pretty good idea” of who executed American journalist, James Foley, in a recent video released by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, commomly know as, ISIS. One source told the network that, “We’ve been using all means to identify the person [but] it’s ...
Student Government As-sociation (SGA)- The Student Government Association’s board meeting began with the conduct board officially sworn in. President Gills then moved to reviewing the bylaws of the Student Government’s Bylaws of Longwood’s Constitution, voting on changes for articles in SGA’s ...
Deconstruction on the Cunninghams (Hams) began alongside the beginning of the 2014 fall semester. The project for the Hams has taken underway, as it has been fenced off from the public, in preparation for the Upchurch University Center. The University Center construction plans began in 2011, thanks ...
“Get Involved.” That was the theme this year at Longwood University’s First Friday Back. Longwood University’s annual event took place on Aug. 29, on Iler Field and started at 4 p.m. Traditionally hosted by the Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC), First Friday Back experienced huge changes this year. Instead ...
Longwood University recently opened the new and improved French Hall and Stubbs Residence Hall. After being emptied and remodeled over the summer, the Stubbs Residence Hall has many new features, such as brand new rooms and fully functioning air conditioning systems. They have many improvements to the ...
At the young age of 23, Longwood University lost alumna, Melissa Haislip. She passed away June 18 in a fatal car crash on the 5000 block of Osbourne Turnpike in eastern Henrico, according to police. That Saturday evening, June 21, a candle vigil was held in her memory. ...
WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) released the following statement on Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring’s announcement today that Virginia students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status, or DREAMers, are eligible for in-state tuition at Virginia’s public community ...
This spring saw the retention of more than one thousand members of the freshman class. This retention was the largest in Longwood’s history. Over the years there has been an incremental increase according to Dr. Jennifer Kingsley Green, associate vice president for Enrollment Management and Student ...
My freshman year, Becca Lundberg tried to get me to attend the newspaper meetings. However, I could never go because I had to work during that time every week. Besides, I never thought I would have any interest in journalism, especially writing it. Then, sophomore year, Becca was Copy Editor and one ...
The final Student Government Association meeting was held Tuesday, April 22, 2014 in Lankford Student Union’s BC room. The new advisory board opened with the new members; President Joe Gills, Vice President Adam Fletcher, Treasurer Jessica Darst, Historian Ellen Kensey and newly sworn in Secretary ...
