Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Madison Weikle, assistant editor On Oct. 10, PVCC held the Climate Change Deliberative Dialogue. The conversation took place in the North Mall Meeting Room at 12 p.m.. Before the presentation began, every seat had been filled with students and faculty varying in age. Some volunteers had to bring in more chairs to accommodate the crowd. […]
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Bryn Dotson, assistant editor After the dinosaurs went extinct, scientists held a devastating asteroid responsible. This catastrophic event is known as the “fifth extinction.” It is estimated by scientists between 150-200 species of plants, insects, and mammals become extinct every day. Now, humans are the asteroid. Elizabeth Kolbert, an environmental journalist and author of this […]
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Madison Weikle, staff writer “You can always start here,” says the Director of Library Services Crystal Newell. Whether someone needs help finding resources and access to a computer or just a place to study, the Betty Sue Jessup Library, located in the main building of PVCC right across from the coffee bar, is happy […]
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Joe Fowler, Charles Stish A panel of three experts dedicated to finding truth, verifying sources and teaching others how to do the same, held a seminar to aid students in combating the escalation of fake news and the labeling thereof. The seminar took place in the North Hall Meeting Room in the Main Building of […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingJohn Lubbock, a 19th century banker and early supporter of Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, once said, “We may sit in our library and yet, be in all quarters of the earth.” The Betty Sue Jessup Library at Piedmont Virginia Community College is working to make this quote ring true, both inside and outside the […]
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