Health & LifestylesNo Shave NovemberHairy and scruffy are the look of the month as young men on college campuses nation wide put down their razors and partake in the nationwide movement known as No Shave November, according to Hello Magazine. The growing cultural phenomenon encourages young men, and even women, to test their will power to resist shaving.Students trade beds for trash bagsLynchburg College students simulated homelessness during the Solidarity Sleepers event last week in order to raise awareness and money for the homeless.House passes health care reform billThe US House of Representatives passed a health care reform bill on Saturday, Nov. 9, by a vote of 220-215.L.C. in History: back from breakThis column has not been in print for two weeks because it took me that long to recover from fall break. In actual fact I was helping my wife, Dr. Dorothy Potter, print and pack her manuscript for shipment to Lehigh University Press. However fall break actually has a very interesting history. Dr. James Price was responsible for the development of "Discovery Weekend," an opportunity for students and faculty to explore sometime outside the classroom halfway through the first semester. Dean James Huston endorsed the concept and the faculty approved the idea. Unfortunately "Discovery Weekend" quickly became "Fall Break" when we all discover how late we are able to sleep each morning. It is also a chance to go home and discover that your mother's casseroles were not so bad after all, and that your siblings have improved ever so slightly since August.Holiday gifts for nerdsThe heck with Thanksgiving, now that Halloween is over, it's time to begin thinking about holiday shopping. Whatever Annual Gift Day you celebrate, nerds take advance planning. Here are some "Living With Nerds" tips: Halloween at the Naval AcademyTo paraphrase Charles Dickens: It was one of the best Halloweens, it was one of the worst Halloween costumes.How All Hallow's Eve came to beHalloween is a time of celebration, costumes, candy and mischief. While All Hallow's Eve is popular in America today, many people don't know where this holiday originated. Irish and Scottish immigrants brought variations of the Halloween tradition to North America in the 19th century according to halloweenhistory.org.LC remembers Rebecca KearneyA girl who was always making people laugh, a girl who loved her family more than anything else and a girl whose life was simply just beginning before it had to come to an unfortunate end. Rebecca "Becca" Kearney was someone who was just starting off her career here at Lynchburg College when she was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia. Her illness is not what people remember her for now, however. As an unknown author once said, "some people make the world special just by being in it," and hearing friends and family of Becca speak about her makes it easy to conclude that Becca was indeed one of those people.God's Drug or the Devil's Lettuce?It's an average Tuesday morning on the campus of Lynchburg College. Most students are on their way to class while others are up early to get some extra practice in for their respective sports. But, in a campus housing unit one student starts off his day by walking into the bathroom and taking a few gravity bong hits of some potent marijuana.L.C. in HistoryOne evening last week I had to do some research in the reference section of the library, and I was very pleased to see that both floors of my favorite building on campus were filled with students hard at work on various projects or just studying. That is what a library should be---a place to study or do research. In my day sometimes it was put to an entirely different use. LC student goes down underOn Feb. 12, senior Hannah Cameron, an environmental studies major, boarded a plane to Australia. She left everything she was used to behind for a semester and discovered life in a foreign country. Her final destination was the city of Adelaide in South Australia. In Adelaide, Cameron lived in a townhouse with two other students, one from America and the other from Hong Kong. |
