Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Across the PVCC campus, students can see flyers that read “FAFSA” across them. The school has put effort into catching the eyes of students, but why? For one, this month is financial aid awareness month. Secondly, in order for a student to get financial aid, it is imperative that a student fill out the FAFSA […]
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In the midst of one of the “Top 5 worst winter storms” according to Dominion Energy, former Charlottesville mayor Mike Signer took to Twitter and then the TIME magazine OP-ED section to complain about snow days, and to call out his Twitter critics directly.
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Over the past two years, I have been intrigued by Zeta Tau Alpha (ZTA). ZTA is a group of young ladies that become a unity of sisters to form an outstanding sisterhood place of comfort. That it is a place where people can find more than pretty faces, glittery skirts, and pretty hair. Zeta Tau […]
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Free Movie Friday is a place for college students that love the movies without paying for them, and also without snacks and drinks. Free Movie Fridays in the Dickinson theater at PVCC are offered once a month. In October, the movie was Peter Rabbit 2: Runaway, an amazing family adventure and the great expansion of […]
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On Dec. 10, the grounds around the V. Earl Dickinson building on PVCC’s main campus resembled something out of a folktale. Billowing plumes of fire shifted hues from red to purple to green. Yellow lanterns hung from a tree like strange glowing fruit. Flowers flickered gently like candles. This was not a scene from a […]
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Food insecurity is a well known issue, with thousands of food banks and food resource networks across the US attempting to alleviate it; the problem is that most of them are closed during the last ten days of the year. So in 2019, Amanda Key, the Student Financial Resource Center (SFRC) coordinator, came up with […]
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On Nov. 29, I went to one of my favorite movie theaters in Charlottesville at the downtown mall area:the Violet Crown. Violet Crown surely fits the expectations it holds from their reviews. Even their concession stand holds up to scrutiny, from sodas, candies, hot dogs, pretzels, pizzas, coffee, espresso, and tea. The meals and drinks […]
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The Paramount theater celebrated its 90-year anniversary with a showing of Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 film Modern Times on Saturday Nov. 27. For this celebratory event, ticket prices were taken back to older times at only $0.25 a person. The show started at 4 p.m. and went for about an hour and a half. The Paramount […]
Continue ReadingWhile they remain important components of the issue, the increasing abundance of misinformation cannot be entirely attributed to technology and interconnectedness. Without the individual and the combined actions of many, misinformation would remain confined to its source. On Oct. 27, employing the topics of the 2020 presidential election and recent increases in vaccine hesitancy, PVCC […]
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Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife continues the story of the original Ghostbusters franchise after the audience backlash to the 2016 Ghostbusters movie. Callie (Carrie Coon) and her children Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) and Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) are forced to move to an old farmhouse in Oklahoma that was owned by Callie’s father. The children soon learn that […]
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