Category: Features

For two years, I worked at a small historical location called James Monroe Highland, where James Monroe’s former home stood. As visitor after visitor passed through, my passion for museum education grew. Getting to interact with guests and build excitement for the history before them was something I grew to love.  After two years of reading books, giving tours and […]

While the sun is still sleeping and hardly any cars travel along the road, Linda Witt promptly wakes at 4:30 a.m. to prepare for work as a bus driver for Liberty University Transit Services.  After clocking in for her shift at 6:30 a.m., Witt begins preliminary safety measures on the bus for a half-hour that she calls “pre-trip.” A bus […]

For the first time in Liberty University history, the LU Army ROTC won first place at the 4th Brigade Ranger Challenge Competition at Fort Barfoot in Virginia.   After months of training, Liberty’s cadet team competed in the Ranger Challenge Competition from Oct. 20-22. The team competed in functional fitness, weapons assembly and disassembly, radio communications, call for fire, grenades, tactical […]

Ever wonder who runs all of the live video, audio, and other technology during Convocation, football games, Block Party and more?  The talent behind the scenes is a large group of students, faculty, freelancers and professionals that make up what is called the Liberty Broadcast Experience (LBX). LBX provides students with the opportunity to interact with industry-standard broadcast technology and […]

Decades ago, Pastor Danny Anderson stepped foot on the mountain   where Liberty stands. Now, 26 years later, his three children — all current Liberty students — have experienced the same thing for themselves. When Danny first began his college experience, he initially attended New York University (NYU). He became a Christian in his senior year of high school, so […]

The Liberty University Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu club attracts people of all skill levels to come to learn the ropes of Jiu-Jitsu and build a sense of community with other students. Students attend club meetings where they practice and learn the fundamentals of Jiu-Jitsu and then spend time together afterward.  Jiu-Jitsu (Brazilian) is a martial art that originates from Brazil and emphasizes […]

Through the strokes of a paintbrush, digital doodles on a tablet and the shutter of her camera, Caroline Fiol, a Liberty alumna, has built her own design and photography businesses, Caroline Arts & Co., on Instagram.  Fiol graduated from Liberty this past May with a Bachelor of Arts in graphic design and a minor in studio arts and photography. She […]

For most people, venturing 3,000 feet underground, weaving in and out of tight fissures and not seeing sunlight for days at a time is a nightmare. Heck, some people don’t even like to explore caves in Minecraft. But for a cave explorer, also called a caver, the idea is exhilarating. Whether you cower at the thought of touring a cave […]

Any senior at Liberty can attest that thinking of post-graduation can be daunting or stressful.  But for international students, thinking of the next steps after their student visa expires involves much more than domestic students might realize. From Oct. 24-26, the International Student Center (ISC) hosted immigration consultations for Liberty students are primarily seeking long-term employment in the United States.  […]

The Liberty University Marching Band has added more than just instruments to its performance this year.  Last year, the Spirit of the Mountain added a singing solo during its performance for the first time. This year, it continued with the addition and included two band members singing during part of its home football game show.  Rivvyn Cafe and Erica Windsor […]

You have five assignments due at 11:59 tonight and you’ve only finished one of them. You got around five hours of sleep last night, so to compensate you’ve probably had enough caffeine to give someone a little older heart palpitations. Truth be told, you may have skipped a couple of meals too. “But I’m fine,” you tell yourself.   As […]

There was a buzz in the air as friends, family members, Liberty students and theatre connoisseurs chatted over drinks at Mission House, a coffeehouse. Members of the audience had coffee, tea and even soft green matcha in their hands as they awaited the show. On Saturday, Oct. 21, the Coffee Shop Octet was put on by Lauren Gabler and Jonathan […]

A medical E-journal is a platform in which medical researchers, including students and faculty, can publish the research they often spend so much time and energy on.  Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine (LUCOM) has recently created its own channel, through Cureus Journal of Medicine, to allow students and faculty to publish their research.  Through the LUCOM E-journal, the work of […]

Scott Strobel planned to go into full-time ministry, but his life took unexpected turns that led him to enlist in the Air Force. He eventually found himself working as a professor in Liberty’s Helms School of Government. Strobel attended The King’s College in 1990 for the first three years of his undergraduate degree before transferring to the University of Maryland […]