Student News Source at Piedmont Virginia Community College
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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Students listened attentively as Virginia Senator Creigh Deeds and Virginia Delegates Rob Bell and Steve Landes discussed the importance of local and state government to students’ lives. The speakers were a part of PVCC’s first Positive Action Conference (PAC), designed to expose students to local issues and to inspire civic and political engagement at the […]
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Forty-five states in America have an official state rock; Virginia is not one of them. Professor Larry Tiezzi thinks it is time to change that. Tiezzi teaches Honors Historical Geology and according to one of his students, Teshawna Quarles, Tiezzi decided to work with Assistant Professor Connie Jorgensen to petition to make the Nelson rock […]
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Non-partisanship reigned supreme on Oct. 5 as Radio IQ host Doug Smith, vice president of the Montpelier Foundation, and Professor Stuart Harris celebrated a belated Constitution Day with students and faculty of PVCC. Smith and Harris gave a highly informative and interactive presentation while addressing everything from freedom of expression during the Vietnam War to […]
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A monument in tribute to free speech week stood in the parking lot of our school from Oct. 19 through Oct. 23. The writing on the wall said many things throughout the week. Arguably the most important fact about the monument consisted of the fact that someone wrote on the wall every day. Connie Jorgensen, […]
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To kick off free speech week at Piedmont Virginia Community College, Connie Jorgensen, assistant professor of political science, booked Joshua Wheeler to give his speech “Heritage or Hate: Free Speech and the Confederate Flag” in room 229 on Monday, Oct. 19. Wheeler is the executive director of The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of […]
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