November 19- NRCC Men’s basketball pizza sale 11-1 in Godbey hallway. November 20-Human service & early Childhood Development organization Barbecue sale Godbey Hallway 11-1pm PBL Used Book sale in Godbey Hallway 10 am to 1pm Phi Theta Kappa Induction Ceremony 11 am in Richardson Auditorium, Rooker Hall. Women’s Volleyball team plays Wytheville Community College in [...]

If a student government does not serve its students, can it be called a government? Plato argued that a politician’s pursuit of justice involves assisting the people, but how is this possible when a government isolates itself from the heart of its endeavors? A student nick-named Bean asked, “What’s the SGA?” Despite their number of [...]

Spring Registration Begins December 2nd! Take the time to check on the status of your aid before the distractions of exams and the holidays. Payment for classes can only be delayed to January 14. If classes are not paid for by that date, the registration is dropped. Textbook charges begin January 20th. If you have [...]

Learning How to Prepare for “Finals” Finals matter. Finals often equal 30-40% of one’s total grade, and if someone does poorly on a final, it can hit very hard. Almost every major requires a minimum of a C or higher to stay in their programs. In some majors, if you get below a C on [...]

We have all run into the problems with gas prices. Even if the rising gas prices did not effect you directly, it did affect your other costs. How can this be avoided? Though it would be tough to change the filter effect that the gas prices may have had on you, it is possible to [...]

“I’ve found that my teachers have been really available, and I’m happy that they’re willing, for the most part, to discuss things.” In a nutshell, Jordan Kime has defined the source of New River’s exceptional experience: its teachers. Though the teachers serve as professors for a community college and are rarely the targets of public [...]

Wednesday, November 5, 2008: The Basketball team will sell pizza this Wednesday from 11 am to 1pm along the front hallway of Godbey Hall. Activism for Africa meets in the Mall site Room 134 at 5:00pm. Thursday, November 6, 2008: Soccer practice is canceled Thursday at 3:00pm. BASKETBALL SEASON OPENER : The NRCC Men’s Basketball [...]

For some of us, one of our big worries is how to get to and from the Mall site and the Dublin campus. Blacksburg Transit has a survey in the works to find out if it should increase the bus service from Virginia Tech to the Mall Site. Please fill out the survey when it [...]

Activism For Africa According to Ruthie Presgrove, the president of Activisim for Africa, this club was created to discuss issues going on in Africa, such as the AIDS crisis, Darfur, Congo rainforest deforestation, and many more. It plans to have fund-raisers where the proceeds go to various relief benefits, and direct volunteer sites. It also [...]

On October 9th, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine announced his budget plan for fiscal year 2009. An enormous shortage of funds at the state level has resulted in a proposal of reduction of budgets at institutions of higher learning statewide. A five percent reduction in funding for the Virginia Community College System, as noted in Governor [...]