Guests enjoyed chicken, rice, salad, pumpkin pie and Challah bread and heard from missionaries to Israel at a Shabbat dinner Oct. 18. The traditional Jewish meal, hosted by the Stand with Israel club on campus, was located in the LU Shepherd Office on the Hill dorm 17. Participants sat on couches or around a rustic piano and conversed until the […]
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Editor’s Note Wendell Walker and David Zilles are running to represent Virginia’s 23rd district in the House of Delegates. District 23 consists of parts of Lynchburg, including Liberty University. Del. Scott Garrett currently holds the District 23 seat in the House of Delegates and has for the past 10 years. Garrett decided not to seek reelection to devote more time […]
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Liberty Mountain called alumni and current students together again during Homecoming weekendOct. 18-19. Liberty provided various events for alumni and students, including a bonfire with live music, the School of Music concert and the Homecoming Day parade, as well as the football game against Maine. The bonfire offered s’mores and live music from alumna Sydni Alexander. “Sydni is a Liberty […]
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If you stopped by the River Ridge Mall this past weekend, you might have been shocked by the line wrapping down the hall with a pirate in one corner of the line and an armadillo nestled in a man’s hands in another. Such a sight marks the grand opening of SeaQuest, an interactive animal experience that walks you through various […]
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With Halloween just around the corner and the month of October as the time for haunted houses and candy, Liberty University hosts Scaremare to top off the season. Scaremare takes students through spooky trails and a haunted house, but it is not the average haunted house experience. It incorporates a biblical message and confronts participants with one question: what happens […]
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Students may have noticed the green and white, pad-like additions to the door-handles of certain doors at the Jerry Falwell Library. Previously implemented in the Liberty University School of Medicine and Liberty Christian Academy, these inconspicuous pads (NanoSeptic Surfaces) could potentially change student life on campus for the better. Merely two weeks into the 2019 fall semester, Delegate for the […]
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After decades as a competitive team for Liberty University, Liberty Debate remains dominant among its competition and holds an winning record this season, despite being a rookie team. Last year’s debate team had a group of seniors and veteran debaters who swept the competition with top-three finishes in the American Debate Association, Cross Examination Debate Association and National Debate Tournament, […]
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Two high school athletes. One plan. When Stephen Buckshot Calvert and Antonio Gandy-Golden committed to Liberty football in 2016, they already had one daring goal in mind: breaking records. The conversations of breaking Liberty’s passing and receiving records started in 2016, when Calvert and Gandy-Golden – then high school recruits – announced via Twitter their intents to shatter Liberty football […]
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While most students were travelling or visiting family during the weekend of fall break, Point of Honor, a historical house in downtown Lynchburg, entertained guests and offered carriage rides. For the past 22 years, Point of Honor has hosted an event called “Day at the Point.” The event is free, family-friendly and offers Lynchburg residents and visitors a chance to […]
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Editor’s note: Four of the candidates running for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates in the Nov. 5 election graduated from a Liberty University undergraduate program or the Liberty University School of Law. We featured the four Liberty alumni’s answers to a series of four questions we asked through email correspondence. Darrell H. “D.J.” Jordan, Wendell Walker and Del. […]
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In light of the upcoming Virginia state elections, Liberty University’s chapter of the College Republicans is mobilizing a number of events to drum up support for Republican candidates. The most involved of these campaigns are the Statewide Deployments hosted on the weekends of Sep. 27-29 in Richmond, Oct. 11-13 in northern Virginia and Oct. 25-27 in Tidewater. Liberty’s chapter joins […]
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For her project and presentation assignment in ENGR 270, senior Bethany Carney prepared something completely different from what was expected. As a math student enrolled in mostly upper-level courses this semester, Carney has a lot on her plate. But her busy schedule didn’t stop her from crafting a fully edible 4-by-1 gingerbread replica of DeMoss Hall, Liberty’s primary academic building, […]
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As a young girl, Gretchen Thennes watched her mom work as a flight attendant for United Airlines. When she was 10, she realized that her dream was to work for an airline like her mom. Instead of being a flight attendant, though, she wanted to be in the cockpit flying the plane. By the time she was a senior in […]
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Muscular dystrophy, which causes progressive weakness and loss of muscle mass, affects multiple students at Liberty. In March 2019, Liberty students Kristen Caldwell and Casey Saul reached out to the Student Government Association (SGA) to discuss hosting the Liberty University Muscle Walk, a Muscular Dystrophy Awareness (MDA) 5K to raise funds and awareness for the disease. Caldwell and Saul both […]
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Liberty University President Jerry Falwell made his first television appearance since the release of allegations detailed in a Politico article in One America News (OAN) Sep. 25. Falwell said the article’s claims had the intention of removing him from his university leadership position. He said this came as a result of the left’s targeting of him and Liberty University’s success […]
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