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Misty Mountain Camp Resort offers fun and activities for everyone. Haunted Camp had spooky and fun activities planned every weekend for the month of October. Activities included pumpkin carving, apple bobbing, costume and campsite decorating contests, hayrides, ice cream socials and an evening of Trick or Treating from site to site. Campfire karaoke lasted until […]
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Fox’s Café sits at the corner of 403 Avon Street and Levy Avenue in Belmont. It is less than two miles from campus. For years, I drove past it without ever giving it any thought. Last spring, I witnessed an older couple drive into Fox’s empty parking lot and arduously disembark. Midway through the process, […]
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Feminism is the new “F” word. Or at least that is how it can feel. The connotations behind the term “feminism” can be ambiguous at times, but it has increasingly become out of vogue to call oneself a feminist. However, PVCC’s Gender Equality Club shed light on the origin of this word during its April […]
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With classes in session for just a month, PVCC’s Public Safety Department is cracking down on parking violations. I should know, I have gotten two parking warnings. Our parking lots here at PVCC are like the Hunger Games. Parking at school is hit or a miss Between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., […]
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I have lived in the Charlottesville area for my 19 years of life. I am now a college student, and though I may sound ridiculous, but my age terrifies me. In the past six years, five females have gone missing from this area. UVA is going through a major federal investigation due to unreported rapes. […]
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As an Iranian woman who lived in the Middle East and the USA, I have so much to say about gender equality. I have seen two sides of this world, and they are not so different from each other. Contrary to what you see in the media, Iran is not like Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan. […]
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The Hannah Graham case has really hit home since I am in Charlottesville practically everyday; I’m a student at PVCC and work at Urban Outfitters. It didn’t really start to get to me until the surveillance videos of Hannah were released. It was disturbing to see a young girl stumbling and in a very vulnerable […]
Continue ReadingChapped and soot encrusted youthful faces, with eyes that tell stories of innocence lost, look out at silent nights disturbed by the rough and rugged rambling of trains chugging along the tracks to a destination far away. Emptied bottles lie abandoned by the tracks, an eerie reminder that someone was once here. To many, this […]
Continue ReadingI am depressed. Not literally at this moment, while I write these words, but in general. I am one of approximately 15 million Americans who suffer from clinical depression and yet, by some sardonic twist of irony, my diagnosis, by its very nature, makes me feel all alone. But, I am not alone. At least, […]
Continue ReadingOn Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012, a fourteen-year-old girl climbed into an armored van, rode a short distance to an idling helicopter and boarded. Veiling her face behind a green cloth to hide her identity from potential attackers, she was flown away from the jail in Rawalpindi, Pakistan that had been her home for over three […]
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