How PVCC Strives for Safety

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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Free Speech on College Campuses

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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PVCC Receives Civic Engagement Recognition

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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Mock Gubernatorial Debate at PVCC

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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PVCC to Show An Inconvenient Sequel

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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Casino Night group pic

SGA’s Casino Night

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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