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Campus ActivitiesAuthor and environmental activist Silas House will speak Wednesday, April 2, at 8 p.m. in Wygal Auditorium. “He will talk about civic engagement as it relates to mountaintop removal mining, which he is trying to stop,” said Dr. Scott Cole, associate professor of political science and co-director of the Civic Leadership Institute, which is sponsoring the program. House, currently writer-in-residence at Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee, is the author of the novels Clay’s Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves and The Coal Tattoo and the play The Hurting Part. To see all Campus Activities, click here. |
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LCVA Events Sculptor Charlie Brouwer will give an artist’s talk Wednesday, April 2, at 6 p.m. in Bedford Auditorium, in the Brock Commons Outdoor Sculpture Program. Brouwer’s sculpture From Whence Cometh My Help?, made of locust wood, will remain on view through spring 2010. Brouwer lives in Floyd, Va., and is retired from teaching at Radford University. Since 1975 his wood sculptures have been in nearly 200 exhibitions throughout the United States and in three foreign countries. To see all LCVA Events, click here. |
Faculty News Dissertation research by Dr. Naomi Johnson, Lecturer in Communication Studies, was cited in an article in the March 17 issue of Newsweek magazine. Dr. Johnson’s dissertation research on product placement in teen novels, part of her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, was included in the article “Branding For Beginners” by Eve Conant (www.newsweek.com/id/120090). To see all Faculty news, click here. |
Siren alert system to be tested April 3
Longwood’s new public address/siren warning system will be tested Thursday, April 3, at 3:30 p.m. The emergency alert system will transmit a siren tone followed by a voice message stating that a test is being performed. The alert siren and voice message will be transmitted through three speaker arrays across campus and at Lancer Park, Longwood Village and the athletic fields at Johnston Drive. The emergency alert system will be tested simultaneously and will include a siren alert along with a public address voice message. Officials anticipate that the siren tones will be heard within a half-mile of the main campus and within a quarter-mile of the off-campus residence locations.
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Have you noticed a decrease in the number of cigarette butts on campus? If so, it may be the result of an educational campaign directed by Longwood student James Meaden who has been working this semester on the intern project. The purpose of the campaign is to reduce the amount of cigarette litter on campus and to educate smokers to “Smoke Responsibly, Use Receptacles.” Posters, public service announcements, press releases and portable ashtrays have been distributed as part of the project.