The Aviso AVW

 “You are what you eat” – a cliché’ thrown around that for some is the motivating factor to eat healthier or better. What and how we eat was the topic of conversation on Tuesday November 9 when a Worldview Forum was held called “You are What You Grow: Food Systems and the Human Soul.”  Farmer/author [...]

The Silver War, sponsored by Heritage Hall, will be taking place the whole month of November as a fundraising effort for ChildReach ministries. Dorms, commuters and faculty will compete against each other, and the team with the highest points wins. The Silver War began in 1996 as an idea from an RA in Devol Hall [...]

Achieving greatness is not easy. We all aspire to touch greatness and everyone wants to leave a legacy that is everlasting. Well after winning the American Mid-East Conference tournament title over Mount Vernon Nazarene University in three sets (25-14, 27-25, 25-16) on Saturday Nov. 13 the Pioneers’ goals and dreams are realized, leaving a legacy [...]

As tuition costs continue to rise every year, the government is giving financial aid to students more than ever. While attending a private school seems like the more expensive option, studies have shown that public institutions have been forced to raise tuition prices by 7.9% this year–an annual increase of 5.6%. The actual cost of [...]

Pride and Prejudice actors got into character Thursday, November  4 while serving tea to students dining in the cafeteria. “Tea Time” was a publicity event for the play Pride and Prejudice. “We are working at promoting the play and making ourselves visible by doing a fun thing to let our students know what going on,” [...]

Campus ministries organized a day where five important spiritual disciplines can be practiced all at once: prayer, scripture, fasting, reading and solitude.  It was called the Silence and Solitude Retreat, where up to 25 students left at 8:45 on November 6 without cell phones, iPods, even their familiar Bible or journal to spend the day [...]

“I can truly say I have never met a genre I haven’t liked,” Eric Metaxas man of letters said. His variety of style has shown through the medley of his writing. Metaxas first wrote for the Yale humor magazine while in college and has since written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Veggie [...]

Alumna Heather Conley was sitting in her freshman  composition class when she had a life changing vision. “Our professor had us write essays comparing and  contrasting pity and compassion. I realized that  compassion is feeling sorry with someone and it  compels you to action and that’s when I received the  vision of a toy drive [...]

October is Domestic Violence Awareness month which gives the university an opportunity to spread awareness about an issue that one in every four women is faced with. On Tuesday October 19th the  fifteenth  annual  Take Back the Night vigil was held to empower the community and stand up to prevent violence against women and children. [...]

On the Friday of Halloween weekend,  October 29, the honor theater society Alpha Psi Omega (APO) will be hosting “Haunted,” a scary scavenger hunt that will span across campus.  It may not be a traditional haunted house, but APO president Andilynne Holcomb said that it was created in that spirit. “There has been talk about [...]