On Thursday, Sept. 8, Longwood University officially opened its brand new, fuel-efficient heating plant for the Board of Visitors and guests to see. Vice President of Facilities Management and Real Property Richard Bratcher opened the ceremony with a small speech, and said in his eyes, "this building ...
As the wildfires in Texas rage on, recent updates on Reuters.com show there is some progress in stopping the blaze. According to the report, the increases in the number of firefighters, as well as lighter winds, have helped to beat back the flames. The fires have already taken 1,600 homes and scorched ...
On Sept. 7 in Blackwell Hall, Longwood University's new Office of Diversity and Inclusion held its Multicultural Student Reception, an event widening the base of the previous office's BSA and BASIC gospel choir-sponsored Minority Student Reception. The event, which had an attendance of over 150 students, ...
On March 1, 1918, the Phi Mu Delta fraternity was founded at the Universities of Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont by six men "seeking to create a more democratic fraternal organization on campus." According to the fraternity's website and pamphlet, they were the first national fraternity to admit ...
On September 9, Longwood's Board of Visitors, the governing body of the university, met in the Stallard Board Room in Lancaster Hall for their first meeting of the academic year. The meeting had several special moments where decisions were made regarding the immediate future of the university. A focal ...
On a day where millions around the world were remembering the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, Longwood began its remembrance event in front of the symbolic Ruffner Hall. The event began with the presentation of the colors by Logwood's ROTC. While an occurrence at numerous university activities, it ...
Each year, the caucuses in Iowa seem to draw a large amount of political attention—more than any other agriculturally-based state. You might think this is because of Iowa's diverse melting pot that defines the true America, full of liberty and justice for all. If you do, then you're wrong. Iowa's ...
It is often called the official start to the new academic year. It is a day of fun and also a day of feeling that stark realization that you are graduating in just a handful of months if you are a senior. That day is Convocation; a day when seniors line up on High Street in their academic attire with ...
Tonight, the Office of Diversity & Inclusion at Longwood will be sponsoring the Annual Multicultural Student Reception in Blackwell Hall. The evening begins at 5:30 p.m. and will include a number of speakers and performances catered to bringing diverse thoughts to the campus community. Dr. Jamie ...
"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself," said psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. "But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates." It's said that college is a time for growth; a new chapter of life where you are finally the author of your own destiny. ...
Texas Wildfire Kills Two According to Reuters.com, two people have died as a result of the Texas wildfires that spread north through the state. In total, 60 separate wildfires have pushed north due to strong winds from tropical storm Lee. Because of the damage, Texas governor Rick Perry cut his campaign ...
Last Wednesday, August 31, Longwood's Health & Wellness Center put on a Welcome Back Wellness Fair for students, faculty and staff on campus. The fair was held inside in the center of one of the basketball courts in the expansive gym. Several booths were set up, both from Longwood as well as within ...
Dr. David Hardin, Associate Professor of Geography, was sitting in his Chichester Hall office when he felt the room begin to shake. His thoughts raced back to December 2003 when a similar shaking event occurred. Hardin knew the August 23 earthquake wasn't like the December 2003 quake that occurred on ...
The decision to remove Goal 12 from the General Education program was approved in Spring 2010. Students coming into Longwood this year have 14 goals to complete instead of the previous 15. Part of the proposal for changing the goal included a period between the approval of change and implementation ...
While undergraduate students are adjusting to a new plus-minus grading system in some classes at Longwood, students in the College of Graduate & Professional Studies are not dealing with the change adopted by some faculty members. In fact, the college is not changing their grading system at all. Assistant ...
You have probably heard about Lancer CA$H by now and you may have even purchased a few items through your newly created Lancer CA$H account. This relativity new service at Longwood University is a prepaid, electronic debit account that works through your LancerCard (a.k.a., ID card). All students, ...
You have probably heard about Lancer CA$H by now and you may have even purchased a few items through your newly created Lancer CA$H account. This relativity new service at Longwood University is a prepaid, electronic debit account that works through your LancerCard (a.k.a., ID card). All students, ...
Just this past summer, a trip of a lifetime was taken by Longwood nursing students Sarah Callaway and Amber Hare. Where did they go, exactly? The small, Latin American country of Honduras. The trip was run through the Richmond-based Friends of Barnabas Foundation (FOBF), who sponsored some volunteers ...
When Dr. Ken Perkins, interim vice president for academic affairs, arrived at Longwood during the mid-1980s, there was conversation about having the pluses and minuses a student earns in a course actually count toward the overall grade point average (GPA) of that course. However, there was no ...
Bombing of UN Building Kills At Least 10 According to Felix Onuah and Camillus Eboh from Yahoo! News, a car carrying a bomb rammed a United Nations building in Abuja, Nigeria, killing at least ten people last week. The car hit the office building before exploding, an attack similar to that of ...
