Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
To honor Black History Month, the Black Student Alliance led a celebration of Black culture in the North Mall meeting room on Feb. 24. It included music, dancing and refreshments. From 12-2 p.m., students had the opportunity to drop by and enjoy poetry, lively swing and smooth jazz. With the help of Chef Ralph Brown, […]
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The PVCC Volunteer Club has been revived. Former adviser Kim Hoosier’s close colleague, Dr. Todd Platts, volunteered as faculty adviser. After three preliminary meetings, officers were appointed, a budget submitted and three projects begun. Officers are Ashleigh Killiebrew, president; Yolanda Espinoza, vice president; Natalie Greene, treasurer; Arif Vega, secretary; and Asa Cohen, student government representative. […]
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It was 7:25 p.m. on a Saturday night, and the line was out the door of Dickinson and then some. Groups of music fans and life-long learners chatted while waiting for their tickets to be collected. The crowd shuffled into and eventually packed the auditorium. It was a full house. Despite the variety of people […]
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Federal policies affect our everyday lives. Often what goes on in Washington feels outside our control: politicians make deals behind closed doors, compromise on policies we feel strongly about, or hold firm but legislation passes anyway. It is easy to feel powerless, but remember, we are powerful. “We the people,” the first words of the […]
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The wave of regular applications is over and the transfer students are close to follow. During the next three months colleges and universities will be veraciously reading applications and determining who the next generation of students will be to represent their institutions. When the final words are typed and the applications are submitted there can […]
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My name is Caleb Russell, and I am currently serving as the Director of Events for PVCC’s Student Government Association (SGA). My job as the director of events is to lead and manage the Events Department, which organizes and runs SGA-hosted social events across the campus and the community. In doing this, I work in […]
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It has been a tumultuous start of the 2015- 2016 Ski and Snowboard season at Wintergreen Resort in Nelson County. In fact, calling it the “2015-2016 season” is a bit misleading. The mountain did not even open until about a week into January, a far cry from the previous season, when it opened over Thanksgiving […]
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“Three hundred forty-eight dollars and fifty cents. I know [it] exactly,” said first-year student Talur Martin. The cost of her textbooks this semester is indelibly printed on her mind. “I spent only about 45 dollars because I didn’t buy one of the textbooks I was supposed to get,” said fourth-semester student Graham Farnsworth. He estimates […]
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PVCC Police conducted two lockdown drills on Jan. 21. The main purpose of the drills were to test emergency notifications systems and to evaluate if students and faculty followed directions. “This is the first of many things we are trying to do to make this campus safer for everyone,” Campus Police Chief Chris Wyatt said […]
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Set against the Blue Ridge Mountains and above Greene County’s branch of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library lies PVCC’s hidden gem. The Eugene Giuseppe Center is located in Stanardsville, Greene County, and first opened its doors for classes in August 2012. PVCC’s main campus is generally thought by many to encompass the college in its entirety, […]
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