Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
UPDATE (2-11-19) – This year’s conference has been canceled. Look for more information in the future about upcoming civic engagement events. Bryn Dotson, assistant editor In 2016, the country was plagued by extreme political division. The presidential election resulted in a severe crack in the country’s unity. In 2017, while the immediate aftermath of the […]
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Callan Shore, staff writer Throughout history, it has disproportionately been the older generations who have turned out to vote on election days, especially for the midterm elections. Younger people have tended to not make the effort to vote or to not understand the importance of voting. In the 2014 midterms, only 20 percent of people […]
Continue ReadingCallan Shore, staff writer The clock ticks on and the students wonder how these lessons will ever be used in real life. Sitting in a classroom all day long may not be the most productive learning environment for every student. At PVCC, there are opportunities for experiential learning and real-world experience that can help break […]
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Skye Scott, assistant editor This year, PVCC participated in the All-in Campus Democracy Challenge along with 301 other colleges and universities in the United States. Other Virginia colleges that participated were James Madison University, Virginia Commonwealth University, The University of Virginia, and George Mason University, not including Washington D.C. colleges. PVCC was the only community […]
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Charles Stish, assistant editor Last year, Assistant Professor of Political Science Connie Jorgensen and selected students from her American National Politics class (PLS 135) hosted a mock debate for the 2016 presidential election. At this debate, her students played the parts of debate moderator, debate panelists, and the main four presidential candidates. This event […]
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Skye Scott, assistant editor On Monday, Sept. 11, PVCC held a faculty run teach-in to address student concerns on the rallies that recently occurred in Charlottesville. The teach-in explored the history of the confederate statues, the sociological aspect of hate groups, the psychological reasoning around racism, and the political aspects of the rallies. As students, […]
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Andrew Fletcher, guest writer If you are like me, the 2016 election was the first election that I actually paid attention to. With that being said millennials are the least likely to pay attention to politics. Because of the outcome of this election, I was driven to become more politically active; however, this seemed like […]
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Olivia Stevens, staff writer On Thursday, April 20, 2017, in the Dickinson theatre, the rows of seats were filled with award recipients and their families. On the stage, seats were filled with faculty members who had nominated students for awards. The students, dressed in their best clothes, were excited and nervous about the awards they […]
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Skye Scott, assistant editor On Wednesday, Feb. 1, Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) students, faculty, and staff gathered in the Bolick Student Center to celebrate the cultural diversity at PVCC. Before the speakers started, participants were encouraged to put heart stickers on a colorful world map to show where their families were from. Participants could […]
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Charles Stish, staff writer Oct. 17, 2016 was the starting day of PVCC’s Free Speech week. With it, activities and events were celebrated throughout the school in honor of the United State’s First Amendment. One of these events was a presidential mock debate conducted by one half of the student body in the American National […]
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