LU Serve hosted its annual Serve Lynchburg event April 23, bringing together over 1,200 students to provide service to over 75 organizations across Lynchburg. Students worked throughout the day in whatever ways needed like painting, planting flowers, mulching and landscaping. Serve Lynchburg is a day focused solely on serving the community. Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears joined students working at […]
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The Compassion International club, along with approximately 80 students, took to the Academic Lawn April 21 to worship and learn how to help children living in extreme poverty. President Emily Del Grosso presented students with the issues and challenges associated with global poverty. “As a club, it is our desire to introduce many different ways that students have the ability […]
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Commencement for the class of 2022 is fast approaching in Liberty University’s historic 50th anniversary, and this has been a year to remember. Many of you, like me, are probably wondering how this time flew by so fast. It seems like it was just yesterday that I was preparing to send off the class of 2021. Students, faculty members and […]
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“Commencement is happening in a few weeks, and even before that, three-quarters of the students leave,” Cort Comfort, director of Student Activities, said. “We wanted to make an event for students where everyone, especially the seniors, can just hang out with their friends as a way to end their year in a great way.” Warm and sunny weather encouraged people […]
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After receiving the most votes in the Student Government Association election on April 6, Daniel Hostetter and Riley Foster were inaugurated as SGA president and vice president April 12. As the school year comes to a close, the annual election gives students a voice by allowing them to cast their vote to elect a new Student Government Association president and […]
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For the third year in a row, Culture of Life 1972 hosted a Garden Soiree for Life April 22 in collaboration with Students for Life, Turning Point USA and Pursuit of Truth, as well as special guest speaker Alex Clark, to represent and celebrate the pro-life movement. Culture of Life (COL) 1972 is a fashion brand that launched in January […]
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Local Lynchburg nonprofit Freedom 4/24 hosted two races at Liberty University to raise awareness on sexual exploitation and human trafficking. The races were held April 22 and April 23. Friday featured a kid’s fun run and family night outside of the Liberty Indoor Track Complex. The main event took place on Saturday, featuring one of the nonprofit’s “Run 4 Their […]
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On April 6, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his fourth extension on the student loan payment pause. Student debt payments were originally supposed to resume May 1, but this announcement extends the payment pause until Aug. 31, 2022. The pause includes a suspension of federal student loan payments, a 0% interest rate on payments and stopping collections on defaulted loans. […]
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Music by The Beatles, Ed Sheeran or the Super Mario Bros. theme song may not seem like cello music, but these tunes provided an evening of entertainment as the Liberty University Cello Project performed a number of arrangements at its concert in the Worley Prayer Chapel on April 21. This project consisted of a cello quartet made up of […]
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Liberty’s American Sign Language Club channeled the prohibition-esque parties on April 18 as it hosted a 1920s Murder Mystery Gala. Attendees happily complied with the Roaring Twenties dress code with feathers, shawls, suspenders, flapper dresses, hats and headbands highlighting their outfits. The Montview Ballroom was set up to match with gold and black decor and moody jazz playing. But aside […]
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Next fall semester, Tilley Student Center’s natural! will be renovated to host The Nook – a breakfast and lunch sandwich shop. The new location will share the space with Dunkin’ Donuts. The Tilley Student Center in Marie F. Green Hall has been flooded with students with the opening of Shake Smart, and Sodexo doesn’t want to end its success there. […]
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More than 50 students challenged themselves to climb the 40 feet tall rock-climbing wall during the Route Climbing Competition on April 8. Campus Recreation created 19 new routes with different colors to indicate top rope or lead climb for the competition. They host at least one competition each semester where people of all skill levels are encouraged to join. Each […]
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Despite only being the fifth graduating class for the school, the Liberty University College of Osteopathic Medicine class of 2022 achieved a 100% match rate for its graduating students entering residencies in 30 states in the U.S. For fourth-year medical students, “Match Day” determines where they will spend the next few years training and what specialty they will pursue. Before […]
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Blue Ridge Bagels will host its 10-year anniversary event in celebration of both the company and its customers on April 15, 2022. Blue Ridge Bagels is a family-owned bagel shop located in Lynchburg, Virginia. This shop is open Monday through Saturday and serves bagels, doughnuts, sandwiches, salads, wraps and more. Blue Ridge Bagels is operated and run by Barry […]
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Liberty’s Campus Recreation hosted a “skolf” event at Snowflex on April 9. The event aimed to combine elements of traditional golf with skiing and snowboarding. Instead of holes in golf, competitors would need to complete specific features or tricks. The competition included multiple categories for tricks, specifically a jump and box section. The entire event had nine “holes” or features […]
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