The search for the next dean of the College of Education and Human Services (CEHS) is beginning to wind down, as Dr. Ken Perkins, vice president for Academic Affairs, said a candidate will be selected among the four finalists within the next two weeks. “I am looking for an individual who is highly ...
On Feb. 25 at 7:15 p.m., there was a session for the public about downtown Farmville and what will come out of it. Aaron Arnett, city planner for Arnett Muldrow and Associates, a city planning/identity and branding firm based in Greensboro, S.C., said, “This particular project is to come up with a ...
The new student center will be located at the site of the Cunninghams Residence Halls. According to Susan Sullivan, director of the Student Union & Activities, the Cunninghams will be taken down around May 2014. Since the demolition will take a few months, the construction of the new student center ...
Longwood University’s Student Government Association (SGA) is taking a new approach to the annual club and organization budget requests process with an exclusively online application. “Usually, you would have to do everything in paper form, and that was causing a lot of problems,” said Queen Burrell, ...
La Parota Grill, a family-owned and operated Mexican restaurant in Farmville which opened in 2000, caught ablaze on Saturday, Feb. 23. Firefighters from the Farmville, Hampden-Sydney, Rice and Prospect Fire Departments responded to the blaze around 4:50 a.m., according to Chief Bean Sears of the Farmville ...
The Student Government Association (SGA) brought a controversial topic to the Tuesday, Feb. 23 meeting. The topic of discussion involved the stance of both the administration and SGA on the role of unrecognized, off-campus student group members’ participation in on-campus groups. The discussion’s ...
Several Longwood University students traveled to the Virginia General Assembly Building in Richmond last Tuesday, Feb. 12, for Longwood Lobby Day, allowing them the opportunity to discuss their higher education experiences and concerns with legislators and to learn more about the General Assembly. Longwood ...
Academics, extracurricular activities,community service, social life, exercise, familyandapositive attitude to go along with it ... college students are expected to maintain it all with ease. Longwood students are no exception, as hyper involvement seems to be the norm among the student body. A popular ...
The Student Government Association(SGA)discussed a variety of topics, including discrimination against off-campus groups during the Senate’s Tuesday, Feb. 19 meeting. To begin open forum, Freshman Class President Jessica Darst suggested implementing an SGA Gives Back program to support Longwood Dining ...
Longwood University’s Web Communications team officially launched a new mobile web app on Monday, Feb. 18. The app can be accessed at m.longwood.edu. Students, faculty and staff received an email announcing the mobile web app on Friday, which David Hooper, director of Web Communications, said was ...
After nearly four years off campus, the Alpha Chapter of Zeta Tau Alpha (ZTA) fraternity for women is again in full operation at Longwood University. On Feb. 14, ZTA selected more than 60 young women as new members, fulfilling the Panhellenic total. ZTA's Alpha Chapter shut down in spring ...
Last semester, several students lobbied Longwood University’s Student Government Association (SGA) to support a change in Longwood’s speech codes. The decision died on the SGA floor, with no clear majority in favor or opposed. Those students then went on to petition the Faculty Senate to support ...
The knowledge and mysteries of core training and stability were the topic of Assistant Exercise Science Professor Dr. Blain Harrison’s Blackwell Talk, "Death to Crunches: Why You Should Change Your Core Routine, But it Still Won’t Make You a Superstar Athlete," on Feb. 18. Harrison’s talk was ...
The Recreation Center in Lankford Student Union is set for changes and possible renovations due to low us- age from students. The bowling alley, which was once used several times a week, now barely has any business. The alley was initially used by the bowling classes 12-15 times a week; however, since ...
The upcoming 2013-2014 academic year will provide Longwood University students with new housing choices, as the construction of Lancer Park North and South, as well as Walk2Campus’ Campus Walk apartments, is well underway. The Campus Walk project was set in motion approximately one year ago. Michelle ...
Contrary to the common belief that racism is no longer a major issue in the United States, disturbing circumstances still surface that prove racism is far from dead. Duke University made na- tional news last week when the university’s Eta Prime chapter of fraternity Kappa Sigma held a party deemed ...
The Longwood University Police Department (LUPD) has released the results of the department’s sexual assault survey, revealing what LUPD Chief of Police Bob Beach called somewhat “surprising” but “encouraging” responses from students. The survey, which received 732 responses, was available ...
Members of the Digital EducationCollaborative (DEC) and Lankford Student Union visited the Student GovernmentAssociation (SGA) at the beginning of the Tuesday, Feb. 12 meeting. President Donald Knight was not present for this week’s meeting. Dr. Jeannine Perry, dean of the College of Graduate and ...
This week is not so much a column on an issue as it is a plea to our campus to become more involved and to start conversations campus-wide. I have had the pleasure of helping put on several political events on our campus. I, along with Pete Martin and Avrielle Suleiman, helped assemble a viewing party ...
After serving as the Longwood University English and Modern Languages Department Chair for six years, Dr. Rhonda Brock-Servais will end her time as chair on June 30. Dr. Wade Edwards, associate professor of French, will take over as chair on July 1. Brock-Servais is originally from Wisconsin. Prior ...
