Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
Sarah Vagnoni, staff writer PVCC’s Annual Student Survey is open to current students until Dec. 15 at www.pvcc.edu/studentsurvey. It asks students to describe their experiences with PVCC student services, academic services, the bookstore, vendors, campus safety and more. The anonymous survey, designed by PVCC’s Office of Institutional Research, Planning & Institutional Effectiveness (IRPIE), allows students […]
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Ray Petree III, staff writer In conjunction with the One Book Program, a collegiate event that encourages students and faculty to read the same book to generate conversation across the college, Doctor Christine Darden, a NASA scientist documented in the 2016 book Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, […]
Continue ReadingAnna Grace Agee, staff writer The Courtland Cougars from Spotsylvania County traveled to The Jungle to take on the Lions of Louisa County on Friday, Nov. 10. It was a 4A quarter finals game of the Region 4B playoffs. The night was blustery with the temperature dropping into the low twenties. The fans dressed […]
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Triston Duenas, staff writer In under two weeks, Rapture opens its club R2 to another round of debauchery. R2 will be hosting several artists from Ebisu Sound, The Untz and the Bassment. Artists include Chee, Moniker, Mr. Jennings, Tre Justice, be.IN and Dutch. Each artist will be playing their own unique set of music […]
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Isaac Rowlingson, staff writer On Saturday, Nov. 11, the University of Virginia drama department performed Seven Guitars by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson. Seven Guitars was directed by Theresa M. Davis and was performed in the Ruth Caplin Theatre. This particular play is part of a larger sequence of ten plays written by […]
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Joel Gibbons, staff writer Few restaurants in Charlottesville can take you on the culinary adventure that Peter Chang provides for its customers. This gourmet Chinese restaurant, founded by the legendary Chinese Chef Peter Chang, takes familiar Asian cuisine and alters it to provide a new explosion of flavor which not only fills your stomach, but […]
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Isaac Rowlingson, staff writer The racing Tabla drums of Debu Nayak rumbled and popped like a thousand bubbles in a sea of color. The Sarangi, a North Indian stringed instrument translating to “a hundred colors,” sang in the bowed hands of its master practitioner Pankaj Mishra. The singer was Dr. Pooja Goswami Pavan, who holds […]
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Triston Duenas, staff writer Teacher of television production at Fluvanna County High School David Small is known to students as an energetic and hardworking man. Always up to something, Small finds ways to consistently drive students to get the job done. Small says he was inspired to teach by his high school drama teacher, Mike […]
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Sarah Vagnoni, staff writer In 1987, when Diana Hagenlocker was getting ready to graduate from high school, she told her guidance counselor that she wanted to be a veterinarian. Her counselor suggested that she choose a different career path, insinuating that she would not thrive in the male-dominated profession. After choosing a career in the […]
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Charles Stish, assistant editor One of the newest student organizations on PVCC’s campus this semester is Earth Guardians. According to their website, “Earth Guardians began as an accredited high school in Maui, Hawaii in 1992, focusing on environmental awareness and action in its core curriculum.” Their goal was to teach students and youth about […]
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