Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Shawn Kochhar, staff writer Every year, PVCC hosts a dinner for students, administrators, and donors to meet and have a reception. Scholarship & Alumni Association Coordinator Silvia Dowell, who arranges the event, took over in 2010 when it was a lunch-in during school hours. In 2013, she changed it to a dinner at night to […]
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Montana Mitchell, staff writer As the end of the semester approaches, it can start to feel impossible to keep up with the snowstorm of school work. Studying becomes tedious, class readings become unbearable, and attending class feels like trying to run a marathon after barely running a mile. Students become low on energy and time, […]
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Montana Mitchell, staff writer As colder weather approaches, so does seasonal depression. I am not one to open up and talk about the struggles I deal with, especially publicly. In fact, I try to shine positivity into the universe rather than the negativity my mental illness portrays. I have been diagnosed with depression and anxiety […]
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Jamie Blake, staff writer In Virginia, the estimation of people living with epilepsy is 84,800. Dr. Nathan Fountain, neurologist at the University of Virginia, treats approximately 5,000 patients a year with epilepsy. He has been doing this since 1995, when he got his doctrine in medicine in Neurology and went on to become one of […]
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Deadra Miller, online editor Unleashing one’s “super leader” was the theme for 2018’s Student Leadership Conference held at Founders Inn near Virginia Beach. This year revolved around figuring out our superhero identity and using it in leadership roles inside and outside of school. There were 28 different workshops that student leaders could attend taught by […]
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Charles Parziale, staff writer Mezeh Mediterranean Grill will be hosting a fundraiser for Dogs Deserve Better Blue Ridge on Dec. 5 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Forty percent of the proceeds of the evening go to the mission that helps neglected dogs chained outdoors in Central Virginia. At Mezeh, the food is made in house every day […]
Continue ReadingJamie Blake, staff writer Do you like handmade functional wear that you can use every day? If the answer is yes, then come check out the Annual Pottery Sale being help in the Dickinson building at PVCC. The pottery sale will include bowls, plates and cups that were made by students in the advanced ceramics […]
Continue ReadingHidden in the Cuchumatanes mountain range, just on the border between Mexico and Guatemala, lies San Mateo, home to the Ixtatan (Ich-tah-ton) people. Below the clouds lives a small community, a “community at war,” says speaker Beth Neville Evans. Through her talk on the Ixtatan Foundation, given here in PVCC, this tale of adversity and […]
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Callan Shore, staff writer On the night of Oct. 9, campaign signs of many colors lined College Dr. and led visitors through PVCC’s campus to the Dickinson building. The signs were promoting the congressional candidates for Virginia’s 5th District. Leslie Cockburn, a Democrat, and Denver Riggleman, a Republican, came to PVCC for one of three […]
Continue ReadingBryn Dotson, assistant editor Voter turnout for 2016’s presidential election was “an average of 59.7 percent,” according to The Daily Dot. This means that only about 180 million out of 323 million people in the United States voted that year. While that might not seem like a big difference, it demonstrates that a large quantity […]
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