Category: Features

Serving others, helping the community, raising awareness—these characteristics describe the Pinky Swear Pack, a student club at Liberty University. Members of the club are ambassadors to a larger organization, the Pinky Swear Foundation, which has one primary mission: to bring awareness to pediatric cancer and support the families affected by it.  The Pinky Swear Foundation all started with a simple […]

Art enthusiasts, aspiring creators, proud parents and curious students mingled through the Senior Studio Art Show on opening night, gazing at sculptures, paintings, woven art and more covering the walls and spaces within. The SADA Art Gallery is a way for seniors to present the culmination of their years of hard work to the public and student body.   The […]

Music graced the LaHaye Event Space  March 9 at the Student Activities concert with sophomore artist KMO preforming smooth originals alongside sophomore headliner Nolen Durham playing some of his own songs and covers.  The crowd enthusiastically embraced their performances, often starting chains of rhythmic clapping and supportive cheers. Despite distanced seating, the energy of a community of students united through […]

Spider mums, sunflowers, asters—oh my! These and many other wildflower varieties brightened the LaHaye Event Space during the Student Activities Floral Arranging Workshop conducted by The Hip Tulip.  The front of the room was lined with tall bins offering various types of plants, with stemmed flowers organized on the left and greenery on the right. Each participant, with a budding […]

It is 5:30 on a Tuesday night and five students and a professor just arrived at a classroom in the Center for Natural Sciences. The students prepare their stations, covering the black lab bench tops with newspapers and laying out a pair of scissors, forceps, scalpel, probe, beaker of water and container of cornmeal. Then, they head over to the […]

Life is full of surprises, both joyful and foreboding. For this Liberty professor, one of his came 30 years ago this spring, when he received a brain tumor diagnosis at the age of 24. Dr. Donald Alban, a Liberty University professor of Digital Media and Journalism, had graduated from college a couple of years earlier and been working at the […]

The award-winning film “God’s Compass,” a faith-based film produced by Liberty University’s Cinematic Arts department, received its two-day theatrical release in over 350 movie theaters nationwide on Feb. 25 and 26. Nearly five years after its premier on television in 2016, the film continually gains traction and popularity through DVD sales and online streaming platforms. Its online performance, in tandem […]

For the past 44 years, Dane Emerick has taught, mentored and disciplined Liberty students. He retired from Liberty on Dec. 31, 2020, but he has no plans to stop helping students navigate the challenges and triumphs of this season of  their lives. During his time at Liberty, Emerick served the student body as associate dean of men, campus pastor, counselor […]

Liberty University’s campus is a breeding ground for young creatives hoping to capture pieces of the world on camera in a way that reflects the beauty of the heavenly creator. Two Liberty students that embody this desire are juniors Katie Bridgman, 21, and Aliyah Burton, 20, who have each started their own photography businesses which are focused on capturing their […]

Austin Farmerie walked across campus in a head-to-toe monochromatic outfit—a quality brown turtleneck with a zip-up hoodie overtop of it, paired with Stüssy track pants and chunky nude sneakers.  “Clothes are my art and campus is my runway,” Farmerie said. Farmerie, a junior studying entertainment journalism, is part of a small but increasingly distinguished group of students at Liberty who […]

“Mema wo akwaaba,” Rachel Naa Anyema Clottey said, welcoming students into the International Student Center.  The phrase means “welcome” in Twi, the language of the Ashanti kingdom of Ghana that Clottey calls home.  At the International Student Center’s (ISC) Lunch and Learn: Ghana event, students ate rice water, Nkatie Cake (a candy made of peanuts and coconut sugar) and other […]

“We were moving out of our house before we even had a place to go,” Emma Claire Burns said. “We didn’t know what to do,” Jeremy Burns said. “Does the Lord want us to stay here, does he want us somewhere else?” Last year, the Burns family, originally from Boaz, Alabama, took a leap of faith when the Lord pressed […]

A professor and two students stood around a small object tangled in a thin, barely visible net in the cool November night air. “How about the scissors first. Come in here and snip that thread first,” Dr. Gene Sattler, professor of biology at Liberty, said. “Now take the crochet hook and catch those few threads and go the other way, […]