Author: Rachel Ali

You can almost always expect some kind of homey smell to overtake your senses well before your foot crosses the threshold of Liberty University’s Commuter Lounge. But the lounge isn’t just for commuters, it is for graduate students as well.  Gretchen Cline, associate director for Graduate Student Life, moved quickly and swiftly. Bright eyed and full of charisma she did […]

Scenes of suicide. Car crashes.  Infant deaths. Violence. Poverty. Jonathan E. Hickory saw it all from the bottom of a beer bottle.  Every time he remembered walking into a crime scene, he took another sip. Having been a police officer for 15 years, he thought he was used to seeing the grief and pain. However, with every new gruesome report, […]

Foraged & Cut is a local business owned and operated by Natasha Coan.  According to the Foraged & Cut website, Coan fell in love with floral designing after designing her own flower arrangements for her wedding. Coan then worked for a flower farm before opening Foraged & Cut.  Coan is passionate about supporting American flower farmers and works hard to […]

LU Serve launched the Lynchburg 101 Series to bring students expert insight into the controversial topics of the day. The first series of 2019 held of Feb. 6 discussed the topic of mental health with a panel of speakers from the School of Psychology along with representatives from Lynchburg’s Horizon Behavioral Health, located in Lynchburg. Debra Jefferson, Horizon’s Crisis Intervention […]

When curator of the Jerry Falwell Library Biblical Museum Dr. Randall Price is not teaching Liberty students about archeology, he is in Israel digging up pieces of history. In the past few years, Price has been instrumental in the recovery of many important artifacts from Qumran, the same series of caves where the Dead Sea scrolls were found in Israel. […]

The International Student Center hosted its first ever Lunar New Year celebration, ringing in the year of the pig with traditional Asian foods and trivia games.  As students gathered in the ISC Feb. 5, the sound of music and the smell of dumplings and spring rolls filled the room. Flags of different countries lined the tables as decorations, along with […]

 Will Rogers performed at the Lynchburg Academy Theatre in the 1920s. He swings back onto that newly renovated downtown stage Feb. 1-10 in Alluvion Stage Company’s production of “The Will Rogers Follies.”  Liberty University Theatre Arts Department Chair Linda Nell Cooper directed the show. She credited Rogers for popularizing styles of entertainment like stand-up comedy and solo acts.  “He’s a […]