In Fall 2012, Longwood University juniors and seniors will not be guaranteed housing by the school. As of right now, the school may have 40-60 juniors and seniors that will either be placed on a waitlist or have to find off-campus housing according to Associate Director of Occupancy Management Jean ...
The Virginia House of Delegates voted 64-35 Friday to strip the Virginia Board of Health's power to fund abortions for low-income women on Medicaid when a doctor certifies that the woman's fetus would be born with an extreme physical or mental deficiency. Similar legislation that was approved in a Senate ...
On Dec. 11, 2011, Dr. James Jordan, professor of anthropology, and Dr. Brian Bates, department chair of the department of anthropology and criminal justice studies and associate professor of anthropology, took 15 students on a two-week study abroad trip to England. Students participated in a course ...
Kathy Johnson Bowles, director of the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA), is the latest recipient of the Folk Art Society of America's (FASA) Award of Distinction. Bowles received the award last September. Bowles helped promote the value of folk art at Longwood University through the LCVA exhibition, ...
European Winter Described as ‘Tragic' While there is little to talk about in the U.S. when it comes to snow this winter, it's a different story in Europe. Heavy snow in Italy left a number of villages without power this past weekend as temperatures continued to fall. According to CNN, the power outages ...
Over one million people were living in the United States with HIV at the end of 2008, according to the Center for Disease Control. That was a seven percent increase from the U.S. rate in 2006. HIV can be contracted from vaginal, anal and oral sex. It can also be contracted from sharing needles — whether ...
Two Hampden-Sydney College (HSC) students were injured in a house fire early last Wednesday morning, one of them seriously burned. According to the HSC Director of Communications, Thomas Shomo, the fire was called in at 4:12 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 25. Three fire companies — Hampden-Sydney, Farmville ...
On Jan. 28 in Wygal, Lancer Productions hosted the Thinkfast Gameshow to a crowd of eager-to-win, determined students, ready to compete for the grand prize of $200 at the end of the night. The Lancer Productions website describes the game as "a combination of music videos, multiple choice trivia ...
Same Sex Marriage in the Balance in NJ According to CNN News, a political battle is beginning to form as to whether gay and lesbian couples will be allowed the right to wed. If the move is approved, New Jersey will be the seventh state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage. The issue has been ...
Since the beginning of the school year, one group has been gaining more and more attention throughout Longwood's campus. This group goes by the name of RAVE. The name stands for Respond to Acts of Violence Effectively. The group's mission, according to their website, is to "educate the campus community ...
Dr. Deneese L. Jones, dean of the Longwood University College of Education and Human Services (CEHS), will leave the university come the end of the semester to assume the position of provost at Drake University. Jones, who will begin her duties at the Iowa university on June 1, was offered the ...
The Virginia General Assembly has had a busy week debating bills that might affect you if passed during this session. Here is a highlight of some of the week's news. The Virginia House of Delegates passed HB 251 on Jan. 20. The bill draws new boundaries for the U.S. congressional districts in the Commonwealth. ...
Let me ask you a question. Did you happen to throw a cyber-related party Saturday night or call up your bank thanking them for keeping your information private on Monday morning? You probably did not, and that's okay. You also probably didn't know that Saturday was Data Privacy Day, according to the ...
Longwood's Executive-in-Residence series kicked off its first event of the semester, and third out of four for the academic year, Tuesday night in Blackwell Hall with Gail W. Johnson, president and CEO of Rainbow Stations Inc. and PRISM LLC in Richmond, Va. Johnson is an innovative leader in the early ...
The Student Government Association (SGA) held the second Senate meeting of the semester Tuesday. The session began with the swearing in of representatives Aaron Brown, Cook-Cole College of Arts and Sciences; Dustin Black, College of Business and Economics; Rigby Bendle, Office of Diversity & Inclusion; ...
Pairet's Inc., the famous T-shirt shop in Downtown Farmville, and The Scarf at Longwood University have teamed up to celebrate February in style. Starting today, Wednesday, Feb. 1, if you wear your 2010 or 2011 Longwood Scarf to Pairet's, you can receive two dollars off your purchase all month long. "A ...
If you have visited Longwood University's homepage, longwood.edu, recently, you may have noticed a new color scheme. The new design is complemented by a blue header and footer with white space in the middle. A new featured scrolling bar also appears at the top of the homepage. According to Director ...
A kickoff event celebrating Farmville, Va.'s designation as an official Virginia Main Street (VMS) community was held Monday at 5:30 p.m. at the j Fergeson gallery in Farmville. The event, sponsored by Centra Southside Community Hospital, brought out a crowd that packed the building located on Main ...
After a month long hiatus over winter break, the Student Government Association (SGA) held their first Senate meeting of the new year on Tuesday, Jan. 24. To start the meeting, they opened up nominations for executive senator. Senator Shannon Rosedale, who filled the spot of junior class president on ...
Giffords Announces She is Resigning Congress This week, Arizona Congressional Representative Gabrielle Giffords announced that she was resigning from Congress to spend time focusing on her recovery. She received wounds from an assassination attempt in January 2011. Giffords received injuries to the ...
