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blacksburg: Top of the Stairs- Blacksburg, VA
- 03/18/09 08:24 AM
It's a Tuesday night. You're bored and it's Blacksburg. Where do you go?
TOTS of course! (Top of the Staris, but no one calls it that- dead giveaway that you're not from the area) Around here, Tuesdays are known as TOTS Tuesdays. Karaoke night is a great night to go watch people make idiots of themselves trying to remember all the steps to NSync's Bye Bye Bye or something random like that. And you can't leave without having a rail. Trust me, one is all you need.
You might be thinking -ok, TOTS is obviously a bar, that means they … (1 comments)
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blacksburg: Sights from Virginia Tech- Burruss Hall
- 03/18/09 07:33 AM
Burruss Hall is named after our 8th school president- Julian Burruss. He was the first alumni to become president and his claim to fame is convincing the board of visitors to allow white women to attend the college.
Much of the money to build this came from the New Deal. Several other buildings were finished around this time including Eggleston (now dorms and offices), Owens (built to replace the aging mess hall, now an a la carte food court) and Squires (now includes classrooms, diversity offices, SGA, Breakzone- bowling and pool, Au Bon Pain, Sbarro, two … (2 comments)
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blacksburg: Sights from Virginia Tech- Torgersen Bridge
- 03/06/09 07:08 AM
Torgersen Hall and Bridge were named after recent President Paul Torgersen. Both the hall and bridge were built in 2000 to accomdate the growing number of students and add a high tech space for students to study. Administrators were skeptical at first of the bridge going over Alumni Mall because it would block the view of War Memorial and the drillfield from Main Street (War Memorial is directly behind me, Main Street is the street that houses the white buildings with red/green awnings). Esocoff and Associates did a fabulous job of making it blend right in with the … (5 comments)
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blacksburg: Why your kids should go to Virginia Tech
- 02/12/09 02:41 PM
Your kid is a junior in high school. This summer you'll be college shopping if you haven't already started. You know nothing about Virginia Tech but it should be on your list. Why?
We've got history. We were founded in Blacksburg, VA as Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, a land-grant military school, in 1872. Aside from Texas A&M, we're the only other non-military school in the country that has all four branches of the military still represented. When we received accredidation in 1923, we droppped the four year Corps of Cadets requirement to two years. Today it is no … (10 comments)
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blacksburg: Blacksburg going green- renovating the old Doc Roberts building
- 03/25/08 06:16 AM
Little ole Blacksburg is going green! While we've been making steps toward being green like a successful recycling campaign and the use of biofuel in all town vehicles, this is the first major building renovation heading in the 'green' direction.
The old Blacksburg Motor Company (of as some refer to it the Doc Roberts building) was purchased in April 2007 by the town of Blacksburg to be remodeled into the Municipal Services Annex. They're aiming for Platinum LEED certification, the highest LEED certification available. Renovation has already started- they've torn out the inside and are working on the facade. They are … (3 comments)
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blacksburg: Concealed Carry on Campus
- 03/25/08 02:54 AM
I am part of Virginia Tech Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. We're part of the national Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. We've been trying to gather support and change the ruling of CCC for the past three years and it's really taken off this past year because of the event sof April 16th. So far we've been to talk to Gov. Kaine, delegate John S. Edwards, and the "town hall" meeting with President Steger, Larry Flinchim and other important university officials. This week we're attending the Take Back The Night rally for violence against women and teaming up with … (23 comments)
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