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 [...]

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 [...]

Joy Thompson, Staff Writer Senior Kyle Greaney won first place for his poster in the School of Communication and the Arts and first place for the Dean’s Award in Qualitative Research at Lynchburg College’s Fourteenth Annual Student Scholar Showcase held on April 13. “I was surprised that I even placed,” Greaney said in an e-mail. Greaney entered the Student Scholar Showcase after encouragement from Assistant Professor of Music Cynthia Ramsey. “Dr. [...]

Greg Bruening, Multimedia/Web Editor Sadly, I’m not yet on the Portal 2 train. I haven’t even had time to really look into it at all since its initial string of ads released to the public. Officially released on April 19, it was led up to by an extensive campaign of indie gaming to “overclock GLaDOS’s CPU” and allow Portal 2 to be released up to 3 days earlier. Valve proposed to [...]

Dr. Mike Robinson, LC Communication Studies Professor What is it like to be an American fan of the long-running television sci-fi series Doctor Who?  Well, for a long time, it felt something like this. Imagine your favorite sport to watch on TV.  Just about every sport has a big culminating event—the World Series, the Stanley Cup, the Final Four, whatever (heck, even curling has the Winter Olympics).  Now imagine that you cannot [...]

Victor Munson, Assistant Editor Bits and pieces of information about video-gaming giant Nintendo’s next home console have been circulating through various gaming news outlets. Nicknamed “Project Cafe,” the console will be capable of running games at high-definition resolutions and is rumored to be “significantly more powerful than the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360,” according to articles on ign.com. “Moving to HD should greatly help Nintendo and its new console in getting [...]