Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Isaac Rowlingson, staff writer “See something? Say something.” This slogan has been seen throughout the halls on fliers recently and is a sign of an ongoing attempt for student safety on college campuses throughout the country. PVCC Safe is part of student services and gives students access to various precautions designed to aid the safety […]
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Anna G. Agee, staff writer The Writing Center at PVCC is a student service located in the Main Building in room M617. PVCC students come to the Writing Center from over 100 different classes. Professor Jenny Koster is an English professor at Piedmont and coordinator of the Writing Center. The center’s tutors are experienced […]
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Charles Stish, assistant editor Monday, Oct. 16 was the beginning of PVCC’s Free Speech Week, a time when students and faculty could celebrate their First Amendment rights via the Thomas Jefferson Center for Protection of Free Expression’s mobile free speech monument. On this monument, people could express themselves through words or imagery without fear […]
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Skye Scott, assistant editor This year, PVCC participated in the All-in Campus Democracy Challenge along with 301 other colleges and universities in the United States. Other Virginia colleges that participated were James Madison University, Virginia Commonwealth University, The University of Virginia, and George Mason University, not including Washington D.C. colleges. PVCC was the only community […]
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Charles Stish, assistant editor Last year, Assistant Professor of Political Science Connie Jorgensen and selected students from her American National Politics class (PLS 135) hosted a mock debate for the 2016 presidential election. At this debate, her students played the parts of debate moderator, debate panelists, and the main four presidential candidates. This event […]
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Ray Petree III, staff writer After a tumultuous year in Charlottesville, where the city council has largely been the center of the attention, candidate Kenneth Jackson is calling for unity. After previously running for city council in 2004, Jackson made waves as a gay, black Republican, but he still fell short of being elected. […]
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Anna G. Agee, staff writer John McGuire’s story is fascinating. Being dropped off on the side of the road in Richmond at age five could have given him an excuse to do the bare minimum to get by in life. Instead, McGuire says he has felt the urge to overcome his own obstacles while helping […]
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Charles Stish, assistant editor In 2006, Al Gore published An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary which is arguably his most renowned work as it enlightened people worldwide about the horrors of global warming and pollution. Now, eleven years later, the former vice president of the United States has given the world his follow-up documentary An Inconvenient […]
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Grace Kinsman, staff writer On Monday, Oct. 16, from 12-1 p.m., the Women in STEM-H PVCC faculty panel discussion was in full swing in the North Mall Meeting room. The panel was made up of six women faculty members who have careers in a STEM-H field. STEM-H stands for science, technology, engineering, mathematics and health […]
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Skye Scott, assistant editor Music blared through the PVCC Bolick Student Center and down the main hallway for Casino Night Friday, Oct. 27. As students, faculty, and staff approached PVCC’s Main Building, they were greeted with a fog machine and creepy halloween decorations. However, the atmosphere changed greatly once inside the building. A big, sparkly […]
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