Michelle Maples, Copy Desk Chief – Over winter break Lynchburg College spent $70,000 making a series of renovations and enhancements to the campus, said Associate Vice President of Business & Finance John Lewis in an email. Renovations included new “hangout” areas for students, more study areas, new technology in Elliot and Rosel Schewel Hall and Hobbs Hall including a SMART board, new heating and cooling system in the Knight-Capron Library, [...]

Megan Delp, Managing Editor – Lynchburg College’s Student Government Association has an approximate $30,000 for clubs and organizations to apply for this semester. “Any recognized club or organization is eligible for budget. In the fall, we had thirty-seven go through total,” Geralyn Gulino president of the student senate and student body vice president, said in an email. The money given to the clubs and organizations by the school comes from [...]

Bethany Ziegler, Editor-in-Chief - By now all of you know that legendary Penn State University Head Football Coach Joe Paterno died on Sunday after a battle with lung cancer. However, you may or may not know that Saturday night was filled with preemptive death rumors and stories full of false information. Devon Edwards, a college student and the Managing Editor of Onward State, a student-run news organization that covers Penn [...]

Rachad Davis, Sports Editor – Joe Paterno also known as “JoePa,” the former head football coach for Pennsylvania State University died at the age of 85 from complications due to lung cancer on Jan. 22. “The Pennsylvania hospital where Paterno died told the Associated Press that the cause of death was spreading lung cancer,” according to a USA Today article by Jack Carey. Paterno was diagnosed with “what his family [...]

Dear Barbie, Hello, my name is Mike. I know we don’t know each other particularly well. I grew up as an only child. Without any sisters, I really didn’t see much of you until I had a daughter of my own. I do remember that when I was a kid, my friend’s sister had your Dream House. At that point in my life, I was totally obsessed with Star Wars [...]

Marley Connor, Staff Writer – Many readers may have realized that there is a growing trend on Youtube.com these days. More and more videos are popping up, depicting “Sh*t Girls Say,” “Sh*t Yogis Say,” “Sh*t People in DC Say”—the list goes on and on—and, as most trends go, we probably have not yet seen the last of them. The videos are now being shared on social media websites like Facebook [...]

Sierra Spicer, Staff Writer – Opera is not just for the snooty, eloquent upper class. So many people say that the opera is uninteresting and hard to follow because of the lack of an audible storyline. I used to be one of these people, but I am proud to say that even a non-believer can be reformed into a fan of operatic productions. This past weekend, a few of my [...]

Clifton W. Potter Jr., Ph.D., LC History Professor - Josephus Hopwood and Sarah Eleanor LaRue were wed on August 19, 1874. They had planned a honeymoon trip to Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, but instead, they decided to devote the first weeks of their married life to getting ready for the new school year. Until her death almost sixty years later, Mrs. Hopwood was as dedicated to education as her husband. A [...]

Jared Bloomquist, Staff Writer – Are you a little light on credits this semester? I may have the best class … ever. It meets on Thursdays for about five minutes, and then beyond that at your convenience. Credits? They don’t show up on your report card, but they show up on you. The first class starts now, with something called the deadlift. Let’s analyze it word by word, by the [...]

Megan Delp, Managing Editor – As I begin my last semester as a college student at Lynchburg College I can honestly say that my life has taken a change for the best. Over this past Christmas break I traveled with about thirty other LC students and three professors to Rome. I had always wanted to travel abroad but never took the chance to do so. I finally followed one of [...]