Category: Features

Local teen partners with Causelife to bring clean water to Guatemala After seeing the physical needs of the Guatemalan people on a church mission trip, 16-year-old Lynchburg resident Hunter Smith is on a mission to raise funds and awareness for their country. “While I was there in Guatemala, I fell in love with the country and its people,” Smith said. […]

Wendy Coffey provides high quality cakes for special occasions According to Wendy Coffey, everything happens for a reason. In fact, when she was laid off from her job, she said she was given the opportunity of a lifetime — starting a small business of her own. Coffey Cakes, owned and operated by Coffey, is a small bakery in the Timberlake […]

Public relations majors Ashley Kelly and Chelsea Dawson make final round in GM ad competition A class project has led two public relations students to have a chance at winning over $5,000 and an internship at Alloy Media + Marketing. Ashley Kelly and Chelsea Dawson are in the running to win the John Caples Student Campaign of the Year Award, […]

Lynchburg canines and their owners have something to wag their tails about, with the upcoming construction of Blackwater Creek Athletic Area. The park, which will be built when fundraising efforts have been completed, will provide a fenced area where dogs can roam leash-free. The park’s mission, posted on the Lynchburg Dog Park’s website, is “to establish and maintain an off-leash […]

Audience votes Chasing the Horizon to number one Clad in skinny jeans, V-neck T-shirts and skate shoes, students anticipating an evening of competitive musicianship filled the Tilley Student Center Friday, Feb. 24, for Student Activities’ Battle of the Bands. Five bands representing several musical genres took turns performing in hopes of winning the evening’s grand prize, a $1,200 gift card […]

While students are used to hearing relationship advice from Clayton King during Campus Church on Wednesday nights, they received an extra dose at the Flirt Fest. Students flocked to the Tilley Center after church on Feb. 22 for an event put on by the Freshman Class. The event had a casual atmosphere where students were encouraged to ask King any […]

Big hair, neon colors and everything 80s will be taking over Liberty University’s Spring 2012 Coffeehouse on March 30. The bi-annual show that fills the Vines Center each year is set to feature singing, laughter and videos, styled to take students back a few decades. “We collectively picked 80s based off of our understanding of the student body and what […]

The Liberty Mountain Snowflex Center (LMSC) began its second Trails 2 Rails experience, Journey to the Jumps, Feb. 21, offering students an opportunity to expand their skills in skiing or snowboarding. Students took to the slopes on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 7 p.m. to participate in the initial tryout sessions for Journey to the Jumps. The tryout sessions were […]

For Liberty student Brennan Beikert, coffee isn’t an addiction. It’s an art. Buying green coffee beans from local coffee shops, he roasts his own batch to create flavor that suits his taste and his budget. “I’m always watching the beans I use, looking at the color to see when they’re finished roasting,” Beikert said. “The way they’re roasted changes the […]

“Leave it all behind and come to the well.” That was the line reverberating through the Vines Center as Casting Crowns played a sold out show to an audience of all ages Saturday, Feb. 18. Students, College for a Weekend (CFAW) guests, families and youth groups filled the Vines Center for the Come to the Well tour, which featured award […]

Give Scott Southard a minute — a minute and a half, to be exact, and he can inform an entire student body of the events that take place on their campus. Southard, a 2011 graduate of Liberty University, is the producer and editor of 90 Seconds Around Liberty, the familiar student-run news production aired every Wednesday during convocation. Over the […]