Paintball wins first regular-season title

Class AA paintball team ends season by shooting its way into participating in NCPA championship tourney Twenty-four Liberty students traveled to Lakeland, Fla., for the National Collegiate Paintball Association (NCPA) Championships April 10-14, according to Liberty Head Coach Todd Hoglund. “Last year we had 16 or 17 players go to nationals, so it was huge to have 24 players go […]

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Sweating out wins

Baseball pulls out three comeback wins to sweep UNC-Asheville The Liberty Flames baseball team (35-10, 19-1 Big South) completed a three-game sweep against the University of North Carolina at Asheville Bulldogs (12-32, 4-16 Big South) April 25-27. The Bulldogs are the sixth straight conference opponents to be swept by the Flames. Liberty 7, UNC-Asheville 4 The Liberty Flames baseball team […]

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Champion Staff Goodbyes

Graduation brings a time of transition to the Champion office. Though we are losing these 10 colleagues, friends, and brothers and sisters in Christ, we know that they are looking towards the future with dreams and aspirations worthy of the legacy they carry. Though they will be missed, we know they are off to change the world. Ashley McAlpin Two […]

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Candidates Field Questions

Keith Anderson Keith Anderson, a 15-year U.S. Army veteran, former Lynchburg City School Board member and current dean of students at Liberty University, announced his bid to run as an independent for Lynchburg City Council Tuesday, Feb. 25. In his position as a dean, Anderson currently provides oversight to Student Care, Student Conduct, Commuter Services and the Campus Pastors Office. […]

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Update: Construction

As the spring semester draws to a close, Liberty University’s construction team is increasing its workload in an attempt to finish the various campus construction projects on time. One of the most significant projects nearing completion is the vehicular tunnel that will provide a new route for transportation from Liberty’s campus to Wards Road. According to Charles Spence, senior vice […]

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New app, ‘Liberty Today,’ will help students

Liberty develops first mobile tool that will include announcements, maps and degree completion plans Liberty University is currently developing its first mobile application as an institution, according to Matthew Zealand, chief information officer. The new application will have a home-screen with different cards for each module available, according to Edgard Luz, manager of software engineering at Liberty. Modules that will […]

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Teenage girl taken from family

Liberty Counsel fights to return Justina Pelletier to her parents after she was taken by Massachusetts DCF “I feel like a prisoner. Why can’t I go home with my parents?” These were the words of 15-year-old Justina Pelletier to her parents Lou and Linda Pelletier, according to the family’s attorney Mathew Staver, president of Liberty Counsel and dean of the […]

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Aeronautics allies with Cessna

Liberty partners with subsidiary of Textron to open up more opportunities for pilots both near and far When the Liberty Aviation program was launched on the growing campus of Liberty University in 2002, less than 10 students dared to take to the skies within the very new course of study. Now, more than 250 students are learning to fly with […]

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Glenn Beck inspires at Convocation

Liberty University students are normally greeted at Convocation by things like the sound of worship music or the aroma of the occasional student bake sale to fund a mission trip.

Instead, each student who attended the final Convocation of the semester Friday, April 25 in anticipation of hearing popular media personality Glenn Beck was greeted with a free $20 bill.

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Film students see success

Cinematic Arts graduates first class A landmark in Liberty University’s history will be made this May as 32 students will graduate as the first class of the Cinematic Arts department. The program has come a long way since it launched in the fall of 2012. According to Stephen Schultze, executive director for the Cinematic Arts Zaki Gordon Center, the program […]

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Jindal to speak to graduates

Louisiana Governor chosen as 41st Commencement speaker Liberty University officials announced today that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal will speak at the school’s 41st Commencement Saturday, May 10, and author Eric Metaxas will speak at the Baccalaureate service Friday, May 9. Now in his second term as governor, Jindal has worked since his 2008 inauguration to improve his state’s economy, health […]

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Hole in one

Golf reclaims conference title with Big South tourney win Liberty University’s men’s golf team won its third Big South Championship in the last four years with solid performances from all five golfers. The Flames finished the tournament with a total score of 867, five ahead of their closest contender Charleston Southern. Three Flames golfers placed within the top 10 in […]

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It matters

“American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age,” philosopher Marshall McLuhan said. McLuhan may have a point when it comes to the majority of youth in the Western world. However, the Liberty University community is different. As a Christian society, voting matters. Christianity calls upon the faithful to engage in and change […]

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What if Jesus did have a wife?

Scholars say strip of papyrus may hold untold truth of Jesus’ romance Jesus has been placed in the spotlight recently, thanks to more controversy surrounding a strip of papyrus that alleges he had a wife. Studies were done on the papyrus that contained the text in question, and scholars determined that the writing is similar to the styles found in […]

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