Cinemark Movies 10 to close in near future because of failure to renew lease The Cinemark Movies 10 theater located on Candlers Mountain Road will not be renewing its building lease for the upcoming year, according to Liberty University Auxiliary Services Administrator Lee Beaumont. Offering movies for less than $3 a ticket, the Cinemark Movies 10 is one of Liberty […]
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Aviation school ranks sixth in the nation for unmanned aerial system major Liberty University’s School of Aeronautics’ drone program continues to soar in both growth and reputation, as it has been ranked No. 6 in the nation by successfulstudent.org. According to Jonathan Washburn, professor for the school of aeronautics, the unmanned aerial systems (UAS) program started several years ago and […]
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Plans to begin construction on new banked indoor track and field facility Liberty University is preparing to construct a new 130,000-square-foot indoor track and field facility that is expected to open in the fall of 2016, according to Liberty University Athletics. The new facility is dedicated specifically to the NCAA Division I program. Liberty’s Head Track and Field Coach Brant […]
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Steven Monetti views his job at the Dining Hall as an opportunity to serve A chef with thin-rimmed glasses and a loose smile prepares food behind a menu that offers a choice between Cuban rice salad and honey barbecue sandwiches. He grins, and hands a plate of food to a student on the other side of the counter. His nametag […]
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Students establish a weekly music gathering inside the East Campus tunnel A group of students in their first year at Liberty University, strolling through campus on a Friday night, decided to stop and play music in the East Campus tunnel. It was September of 2014. Two weeks later, they decided this would become a regular event. Each Friday night at […]
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Whitney Taylor was granted a publishing contract for her young adult novel Most college students spend four years at a university in hopes of landing a dream job after graduation. Liberty University junior Whitney Taylor has made her dream a reality at the young age of 20 by scoring a publishing deal for her debut young adult novel, Definitions of […]
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Approximately 10,000 people attended the Lynch’s Landing annual event College students and area residents gathered between the buildings on Main Street in the heart of the city for the seventh annual “Get! Downtown” festival Friday, Sept. 11. Executive Director of Lynch’s Landing, Heather Kennedy said that shops like Pastiche at Main and the White Hart kept their doors open for […]
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Lady Flames are prepared for conference play Following the Flames win over VCU, they will head to George Washington before finishing the season in conference play. The season began with two back-to-back losses against Cal State Fullerton and UC Riverside. Then they battled against Tennessee in double overtime only to end in a scoreless tie. Following that, they lost back-to-back […]
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Men’s and women’s tennis teams prepare for another successful season The Liberty men’s and women’s tennis teams are getting ready as another season begins. Men’s Tennis: Liberty’s men’s team earned the No. 8 ranking in the Atlantic Region of the International Tennis Association, the highest year-end regional ranking in program history. They finished 6-2, setting their program record in conference […]
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Bernie Sanders. Terry McAuliffe. Other than the fact that these men are influential government officials, what do they have in common? Well, each has been invited to Liberty — a proud, conservative institution — despite being liberals. A good portion of the Liberty students will not vote for these men. Usually, their beliefs, both politically and sometimes religiously, differ from […]
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Liberty’s Worship Collective becomes unified band of rotational musicians Worship groups have made a few visible changes due to a larger, strategic shift happening in Liberty’s worship music culture. The new Liberty Worship Collective, formerly the department of ministry teams, is comprised of six worship bands: the Sounds of Liberty, Exodus, 71, Crimson Flood, Campus Band and Awaken. The Liberty […]
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Vermont senator speaks at Liberty about wealth inequality Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders addressed the student body of Liberty University at Convocation Sept. 14. Sanders focused on his beliefs of creating a moral and just society in which there is wealth equality, meeting the needs of the underprivileged and providing free health insurance for everyone. After receiving […]
Read moreDue to the lack of on-campus housing for married students, Liberty University proposed an idea to convert the old Annex II dormitories on Odd Fellows Road into an apartment-style complex for couples. According to an article in The News & Advance written by Jessie Pounds, many leaders at the university have said that some students have denied Liberty’s acceptance due […]
Read moreSurrounded by posters of his favorite “redemptive movies,” as he called them, cinematic arts professor Scott Curlee recounted the opportunities that students of Liberty University’s Zaki Gordon Cinematic Arts Center participated in over the past year. Working on feature films such as War Room and Woodlawn, students made a favorable impression on the film crews. “The producers said that the […]
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Liberty partners with Adobe Liberty University recently signed an agreement with Adobe that allows students, faculty and staff the opportunity to download Adobe Creative Cloud to their personal computers for free. Since late last spring semester, Liberty’s Information Technology (IT) department has been working to make sure everything is in place for the new changes in technology usage. “Liberty has […]
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