The top ten Valentine’s Day pick-up lines as submitted by the staff of the NOVA Fortnightly.

NOVA’s ice hockey team is in its second year playing in the Atlantic Division of the Blue Ridge Hockey Conference, a conference which has three divisions. Since last year they couldn’t compete in the playoffs, NOVA’s goal was to become eligible this year. In its division, they compete against four year colleges VCU, Catholic University, VMI, Radford, GMU, William & Mary, and JMU.

It was twistedly romantic. It was spontaneous. It was magical. It was our first date, Valentine’s Day. It was a fateful decision.

We met at his condo in downtown Baltimore as to take one car. The limo was a nice touch, I will admit, though a little superfluous for a first date. None the less I felt flattered he would go to such a length. I don’t remember much about the conversation on the way to dinner but I do remember being smitten with his complicated cantations, higher education, and the fact that he was studying medical law. My first eyebrow raise being postponed until he mentioned how loaded his parents were, one of many times. I wrote his sticky conversation skills up to being nervous and brushed away the awkwardness. After all he was tall, handsome, fit and educated. A wonder to be single. Curious.

NOVA will be closed all day on Thursday as the region tries to dig out from Snowmageddon II, according to a text message alert. This will be the seventh straight day NOVA has been closed since its noon closing last Friday.

The DC region broke the all time historical record for snow, with 54.9 inches of snow fall this Winter at Ronald Reagan National Airport. The snow from the December 19th storm, and the February 5th storm contributed to the record, with a 9.8 inch dump in the past two days pushing up the record. The previous record snow was 54.4 inches from the Winter of 1898-99.

The 2010 version of the Washington Auto Show – its 68th – was entitled “Change Happens Here” and ran from Jan. 27 to 31 at the D.C. Convention Center. Its title was an apt description of the show, with the current emphasis of the federal government on energy and environmentalism and its large ownership of General Motors.
As has been the trend the last few years, the show emphasized the green aspects of new vehicles and built on last year’s show, which was entitled “Driven by the Environment.” Another year of research and development of green vehicles has led to the predicted introduction of a number of them in 2010.

Dr. Terry Alford has received Virginia’s prestigious Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Just 12 faculty members out of 177 were chosen from Virginia’s public and private colleges for the state’s higher education award.

Alford routinely receives glowing teacher evaluations for his “enthusiasm, passion, energy and dynamic teaching style,” as Dr. William Kinsella, Assistant Dean of History noted. One student declared him the “best history teacher I have ever had,” while another applauded him for bringing “enthusiasm, wealth of knowledge and a fabulous sense of humor to his chosen subject.”

This year’s Homecoming Dance will take place during Spirit Week on Friday, Feb. 19 in the Annandale Campus CF Cafeteria from 8:00 p.m. – midnight. The cost for the event will be $3.00 in advance and $5.00 at the door. Tickets will be available at your local student activities office. All money collected from ticket sales will go to Haiti relief effort.

On Saturday afternoon, January 23rd, the NOVA men’s basketball team journeyed down I-95 to Fredericksburg to play Germanna Community College before a smattering of fans in a VCCS game.
It appeared early that it was going to be an easy game for NOVA, as it streaked out to 13-2 and 19-6 leads. Germanna did not give up.Outscoring NOVA 21-2,it took a 27-21 lead as NOVA often wound up with only one or no shots on its possessions.
Down 33-26, NOVA finally called for a time out. It helped momentarily, as Jamal Jones …

As usual NOVA kicked off the semester by organizing a NOVA Day at every campus. This day welcomes new and returning students by providing food, playing music and letting the student clubs recruit new members. Among these clubs were the Hispanic Student Union, Phi Theta Kappa, Vietnamese Student Association, the Visual and Performing Arts Association and others. All of these define a normal NOVA Day for the college.

Bright and early one recent morning, students from Northern Virginia Community College’s Annandale campus loaded onto a bus headed to Richmond, home of the Virginia Senate. Nervous, yet full of excitement, these students were able to dip their toes into politics and get a first-hand look at what really happens behind the scenes.