Kenley Hoover, Staff Writer - Based off suggestions by a summer focus group the Westover Room was remolded for this school year. New deli menu items and reupholstered seating are some of the most noteworthy changes. Morgan Maddox, westover room unit leader, said that the changes were made over the summer after the Westover staff received an immense amount of feedback from the student body. Maddox said that a [...]

Dr. Clifton W. Potter Jr., Professor of History at Lynchburg College - Last Saturday while I was waiting for the academic procession to begin, a student asked me why I was carrying “a club” on my shoulder.  I replied that it was the College Mace which was carved from a beam of the original college building, Westover Hall. When the Marshal carries the Mace in the procession that begins Freshman [...]

Dr. Clifton W. Potter Jr., LC History Professor A favorite device in many twentieth-century novels involves the main character revisiting a place that was important in his or her life.  They wander through the rooms in memory, recalling the people and events that made it key in their development as a person.  So it is with me and Westover Hall. Standing in the Main Hall, facing the doors of the Dining Hall, [...]