Sierra Spicer, Staff Writer – It’s finally that time of the semester to travel back to where you grew up, visit with your high school friends, tell them about your fun college adventures and reminisce about your childhood memories. Hopefully one of your fun college adventures you share with your friends will involve some sort of fine art; whether it be theatrical, musical or artistic. Just in this past month [...]

Kenley Hoover, Staff Writer – The American paper crane flag hanging in Lynchburg College’s Elliot and Rosel Schewel Hall is the product of a design created by Design 3 student and junior Deanna Hodge. Design 3 is an independent study class which meets once a week, said sophomore and Design 3 classmate Chelsea Meager. Besides these weekly meetings, the students are free to design and create their own art projects. [...]

Kenley Hoover, Staff Writer - Another summer has come and gone. Students are back on campus and dealing with the complications of their new classes and professors. With all the partying that goes on during the summer, it’s easy for many gamers to miss the crucial bits of news that crop up during the summer times. So for everyone who missed it, or just wasn’t paying attention, here are the [...]

Dr. Mike Robinson, LC Professor of Communications - So, what went wrong with Green Lantern?  Say your oath, charge your emerald ring at its power battery, set up your spoiler shields and let’s find out. The Mighty Thor: The summer of 2011 had a lot to offer superhero fans.  While there are clear differences between an Asgardian god and an officer of a space police force, both Thor and GL [...]

Megan Delp, Copy Desk Chief - Why is it that the world of dating and relationships seem to differ greatly during the four years of college from the world outside of college? What does it mean to be “together?” And has the “hook up” culture replaced the dating culture in college? And most importantly, what is hooking up? “Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as [...]

Michelle Maples, Assistant Editor - For the second year in a row, the theme of the Lynchburg College school year is the Year of Sustainability. Last year was also the Year of Sustainability in which the focus was creating a “greener” campus.   According to the Lynchburg College website, Kevin Peterson, a mathematics professor at LC, was the chair for the Year of Sustainability. “To live sustainably means to assume a [...]

Bethany Ziegler, Editor-in-Cheif - Every first year student is faced with a flood of information telling them to be responsible, but how many of them think that bad decisions may be making them sick? Many first year students engage in choices which lead to poor physical or mental health, said Assistant Professor of Nursing, Lyn Kraje. She said behaviors such as staying up all night, excessive drinking, smoking, unsafe sex [...]

Greg Bruening, Multimedia/Web Editor Well loyal readers, it’s been a blast. Hopefully you’ve enjoyed the fresh technological ramblings of my column, but sadly the download is at about 99% and is almost done. It was brought to my attention last week that not everyone knows what “Valve time” is or why it was supposed to be funny. Allow me to enlighten you and bid you farewell, perhaps at the same time. [...]

Dr. Mike Robinson, LC Communication Studies Professor Well, somehow it’s that time again.  The semester is just about over.  I think we should all go out in a blaze of understanding and sharing, so here is “This Summer Movie Stuff I Believe”: I believe that in brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. I believe that after cowboys defeat aliens, they should have to fight zombies.  It’s not [...]

Meredith Brown, Advertising Manager Lynchburg College Entrepreneur’s Organization hosted the second Campus Consignment sale on Friday April 15 making roughly $400 dollars to donate to the Jubilee Family Development Center. “Our main goal was just to cover our costs, a little over $50, and enough to give to the Jubilee Center,” said junior and LCEO Treasurer Alexandra Tomko. The Jubilee Family Development Center in Lynchburg incorporates programs for economically disadvantaged youth [...]