Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
When you drive up the hill to enter PVCC, you will see a new building is in construction for the college. This building has been under construction since the middle of the 2022 summer semester. Construction is expected to finish during the beginning of the 2024 summer semester. Once construction is finished, the rooms will […]
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IT services help with everything from recovering forgotten passwords, and tech support, to maintaining the building’s online functionality. They provide online class tutorials for those who need them, and they even handle emergency closure information like when PVCC had a snow day recently. Anni Wilson works as a systems analyst in the IT department at […]
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The newest addition to the Scott Pilgrim franchise, an anime titled Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, was released on Nov. 17, to a contentious debate amongst fans in regards to the direction in which the story writers decided to take the series. Normally, the Scott Pilgrim franchise centers around its titular protagonist, an egocentric 22-year-old Canadian […]
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After several semesters of being non-operational, PVCC’s LGBTQ+ club has been taken over by President Kendra Ross, who intends to reinvent the club and leave a lasting impact on the PVCC community. A professor asked if Ross would consider leading the club, opening the door for Ross’s first time in a leadership role. Although Ross […]
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Fantasy novels, cookies, gentle jazz music, and iced coffee. These are just some of the Book Club’s favorite things. Other than offering a comfortable place to read, the club allows PVCC students to connect with fellow book lovers. Kathleen Jeffers, the president of the Book Club, joined last fall when there were only two members. […]
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It’s been eight years since the last Hunger Games film was released. As a huge fan of the franchise, I was so excited to see the prequel to the series, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The book is amazing because of the lovely pacing, great characterization, and captivating plot. It meets the same standards […]
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As the six of us sat around the square of tables, we went around sharing what we had spent the last ten minutes writing. There were two prompts to choose from. The first: “Pick one of your fears. Write about an encounter with it from its perspective.” The second: “gargantuan, wonder, party.” Jennifer Koster, professor […]
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With its Gatsby-esque visuals, stellar ensemble cast, and many disturbing moments that will make audiences squirm, Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn is far from boring. However, with the lackluster writing, the film ultimately feels superficial and predictable. Saltburn takes place in 2006 and follows Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), a new student at Oxford University who struggles to […]
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The chess club is one of many clubs at PVCC. In this club, students can play the game of chess. The chess clubs meet every Wednesday from noon to 2 p.m. in the Bolick Center, or in room M155 if other events are happening in the Bolick Center. At the chess club meeting, there were […]
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Bullying can be a pervasive problem in all aspects of life. Regardless of age, people get browbeaten, tormented, and mocked for often arbitrary reasons. Though bullying tends to end in people’s lives as they get older, it can also become more difficult to see in others’ lives. The federally funded organization StopBullying.gov states, “Behaviors that […]
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