New food options

Liberty University students with dietary restrictions may find some comfort in the allergen-free station at the Reber-Thomas Dining Hall referred to as “Simple Servings.” This relatively new development with Liberty dining, still in the pilot stage of planning by Sodexo dining services, caters to the needs of students with seven of the eight most common allergens, including gluten, soy, wheat, […]

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40 years of Roe v. Wade

As Liberty University celebrates 42 years of “Training Champions for Christ,” the pro-life community mourns 40 years of lives lost. Roe v. Wade, legislature that “held unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion to be unconstitutional,” according to Britannica, was passed in 1973. Though the 2012 figures have not been released, according to the Virginia Department of Health, there were 25,404 […]

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Liberty offers Sandy relief

The Center for Ministry Training funds trip to New York Walking carefully through homes, students peered from behind oversized goggles, their breath ragged through the respirators they had to wear as they witnessed the chaos left in Hurricane Sandy’s wake. Amid the debris, Liberty University students came from Jan. 6 to Jan. 11, offering relief to tired homeowners in a […]

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Student initiative seeks to serve

Liberty University is now providing opportunities for students to show their care for the Lynchburg community through regular short term service projects. Since Sept. 6, 2012, Liberty students have been reaching out to the Lynchburg community through the Community Care Initiative (CCI). Will Honeycutt is the program’s faculty coordinator. “You can serve without caring, but you can’t care without serving,” […]

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Back to school with a bang

Student Activities scored a hole-in-one with the Back-to-School Bash Jan. 19. The Schilling Center was filled with students Saturday night as they played their way through a 9-hole miniature golf course and practiced their athletic skills with a football toss. Games such as Twister and pingpong gave students the opportunity to play interactive games together.

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‘Finding Faith’ opens

The new faith-based film premiered Jan. 19 The worship center at Thomas Road Baptist Church (TRBC) filled to capacity Saturday, Jan. 19, as the world premiere of the new faith-based movie “Finding Faith” was introduced to a crowd of cast members, family, friends, local police and community members. In association with TRBC and Liberty University, “Finding Faith” is a film […]

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Greatness in freedom

What defines greatness in a nation? According to HBO’s “The Newsroom,” written by Aaron Sorkin, greatness is defined by statistics, figures and measurements of society as a whole. However, I argue that the greatness of a nation lies in its virtues, not its statistics. The setting of the discussed episode is a question and answer symposium, and the context is […]

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Plunging off fiscal cliff

Congress must agree on a solution to financial crisis before America collapses Like many college students, Congress has the habit of procrastinating whenever it has something difficult to do. However, just like college students, procrastinated work does not turn out nearly as well as it could have. The recent fiscal cliff crisis is a perfect example of this. Congress knew […]

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Low cost of living in Lynchburg

Current living expenses in the Hill City are well below the national average Students and local residents alike may know already that Lynchburg was ranked in a nationwide survey that placed it as the second lowest cost of living city in the commonwealth of Virginia. “The price of residential living is one of the reasons I decided to move off,” […]

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Convocation set to impress

Liberty University distinguishes itself from educational institutions around the world in a myriad of ways, but perhaps the most unique distinction of Liberty culture is convocation. This triweekly, mandatory campus event inevitably produces wide-ranging sentiment. For some of the student population, the time could not be more inconveniently squandered — and why must it be held so torturously early in […]

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Aeronautics receives donation

The program has added three new pieces of equipment to assist students in hands-on techniques Liberty University’s School of Aeronautics (SOA) recently formed a partnership with Dynamic Aviation, a partnership that will provide numerous benefits, including the donation of a King Air 90 Turbine aircraft. Dynamic Aviation is the self-proclaimed “leading provider of innovative solutions for government and commercial organizations […]

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