PVCC Celebrates Golden Anniversary
On Sept. 25, 1972, PVCC opened classes to students. To commemorate 50 years of educating students, PVCC will be hosting many events over the next week and throughout the semester. PVCC has two events planned to celebrate on Sept. 27 and 28. On Sept. 27, PVCC will be hosting the Golden 50th Birthday Celebration in […]
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The One Book Program: Global Warming and how Students can get Involved
The One Book Program has a new book out for this Fall semester: The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, by Hope Jahren. The book goes over the science and history of different inventions that are detrimental to the environment, in an attention-holding, interesting way. Many […]
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The Freshest Food for the Busiest Bees: Feast!
It’s the beginning of the semester. Let’s face it, our schedules are packed right now. Simplifying our daily routine is number one on a lot of people’s lists, so why not combine lunch, grocery shopping, and catching up on some work into one stop? Feast! is home to a variety of cuisines, all made with […]
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PVCC’s Tutoring Center Reimagined
PVCC is offering both in-person and online tutoring for a variety of different courses in the Tutoring Center room M253. Although this is where the First Quadrant Math Center used to be located, tutoring is still available for many math classes offered at PVCC through the newly renamed Tutoring Center. Students can either schedule a tutoring […]
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A Dream Fulfilled: Creating The Forum
This article was published in the first issue of The Forum on August 25, 2003. The dream of a small group of students to create a student newspaper at PVCC has become a reality with today’s issue of The Forum. What began as only a wishful thought has blossomed into something more that we could […]
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Editor’s Note
I have enjoyed writing since I was a child. I have fond memories of sitting at the dining room table in my home while tracing letters in a workbook when I was five. From then on I enjoyed creative writing in school and dabbled with writing a fictional book of my own; I was so […]
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Charlottesville’s hidden cigar oasis
I started smoking cigars a few weeks after my 18th birthday. At first I did not fully appreciate the wide range of flavors that cigars brought; at the time what I was really seeking was the nicotine. However, in the 3 years since, I have developed more of a palate as well as a taste […]
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Charlottesville’s lesser known emancipation holiday
Juneteenth, a national holiday that celebrates the complete enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in former slave states, is a celebration that many people know and celebrate, but most are probably not familiar with Charlottesville’s own emancipation celebration, Liberation and Freedom Day. Liberation and Freedom Day is a city holiday on March 3 which celebrates the […]
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Charlottesville Holds Hidden Wilderness
Charlottesville is big and getting bigger all the time. As of the 2020 census, there were 46,553 people living within the city itself. Countless others live in the surrounding counties but work in the city. The combination of thousands of people and continually expanding housing developments can make the wilds of Virginia seem far away. […]
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