I work for The Rotunda for more than a few reasons, but for some people, the motivating factor behind writing for a newspaper is making enough money to buy low fat Belldeloon cheese in a special just-for- you serving size wrapped in squishy red wax. Or at least that’s why Ivy and Bean, the seven-year- ...
Longwood University expects to launch the new Digital Commons institutional repository in February. What this means is that all works which have been created by faculty and/ or students can be easily filed and located. Amanda Hartman, Janet D. Greenwood Library’s special collections & digital ...
After Years of sharing a commencement ceremony with undergraduate students, graduates of the College of Graduate and Professional Studies (CGPS) will have a separate ceremony this May. The May 10th ceremony will take place at 7 p.m. in Jarman Auditorium the night before the undergraduate ceremony ...
Jen Rentschler, assistant director of Leadership and Civic Engagement, is leaving Longwood after nearly seven years to assume the role of associate director for Student Life for the Center of Lead- ership at the University Georgia, reports Longwood Insider. Rentschler managed the university’s leadership ...
Longwood University has re-launched their renovated off-campus Elementary Education Masters Program. Candidates who complete this program will receive a Masters of Science in elementary education from the university. This program was once available in he past and was pulled back out of storage ...
The Student Government Association (SGA) welcomed four new members at the Senate’s Tuesday, Jan. 29 meeting. President Donald Knight swore in Kendall Lofton as junior class vice president, Ashlie Robertson as Greek Representative, Blake Shaw as the Cook-Cole College of Arts & Sciences Representative ...
After serving as director of the Office of Diversity & Inclusion (ODI) for less than two years, Dr. Jamie Riley will leave his desk at Longwood behind on Jan. 30. Riley will soon begin his role as director of University of California, Berkeley’s new LEAD Center. Riley began his time at Longwood ...
On Thursday, Jan. 24, Denzel Washington’s voice resonated through Jarman Auditorium. “Anybody know what this place is?” He asks rhetorically, in a clip from the hit 2000 movie, “Remember the Titans.” “This is Gettysburg.” He answers, addressing his team of dirtied, tired men. “This is ...
Longwood University is one step closer to experiencing the leadership of a new president, as the university’s Presidential Search Committee has narrowed down the pool of 65 pres- idential candidates to a more manageable pool of eight to 10. In the coming weeks, said Dr. Derek Taylor, committee vice ...
Longwood Dining Services hosted the first Dine with the Director of the semester on Tuesday, Jan. 22, beginning the night with greetings from Grant Avent, director of Longwood Dining Services, and Brenda Ferguson, assistant director for Operational Excellence. The meal began with the traditional Longwood ...
This April, the WarmStreets Gallery will be hosting a sci-fi and steam punk-themed art exhibition at their Gallery 205 on Jefferson Street. Area artists interested in submitting their 2D or 3D work — anything relevant to the theme — for consideration are encouraged to send up to three digital ...
The Southside Messenger reports that a local mother has been bound by fate to a fellow community member and her premature baby through common experience. At the age of 19, Cheryl Traylor Daniel gave birth at 28 weeks to her son, James, on Oct. 10, 1999. At a weight of 1 pound and 2.4 ounces, ...
According to the Southside Messenger, a team of Charlotte County residents, students and faculty from the county’s school system plans to participate in the 2013 Polar Plunge on Feb. 2. This year being held at Virginia Beach, the annual event serves a charitable role in which those willing to accept ...
In protest of President Barack Obama’s recent announcement proposing a strengthening of gun control laws and enforcement in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, gun rights advocates coordinated a march on Capital Square in Richmond on Saturday. Estimated at 150 people, the crowd ...
The second Student Government Association (SGA) meeting of 2013 began with the addition of two new representatives to the Senate. President Donald Knight swore in SAC Representative Jessica Diaz and College of Business and Economics Representative Stuart Paykel. The Senate then invited ...
After more than three years of planning, Longwood Dining Services installed a fire brick oven in Dorrill Dining Hall (D-Hall) during the university’s Winter Break. According to Grant Avent, director of Dining Services, another project was in the works before the plan for the $25,000 oven was developed. ...
Minimum wage sounds like a wonderful idea in practice, right? An employer cannot pay his or her employees less than a fixed dollar figure, so the employee can make at least a decent living. Surely this is an example of how labor can use its power to make demands and have them met. Sadly, this is not ...
Shortly after Security Magazine ranked the Longwood University Po- lice Department (LUPD) on its 2012 Security 500 list as one of the top law enforcement agencies in university education for the fourth consecutive year, the LUPD reacted to a planned Winter Break power outage as if it were a real emergency ...
The Farmville Police Department is still investigating the circumstances behind the Nov. 6 First Ave. couch fire. As reported in last week’s issue of The Rotunda, Farmville Fire Department Second Lieutenant Robert Hammock said the department received reports of the fire at 11:46 p.m. Farmville police ...
Becca LundBerg News Editor he Hampden-Sydney student will behave as a gentleman at all times and in all places,” states local Hampden-Sydney College’s (H-SC) early 19th century Code of Conduct. A group of H-SC students reportedly broke this code last Tuesday. In response to the announcement ...
