Attractions around Newport News this Spring
As warm weather begins to approach, I encourage all you students that usually hang around campus on a nice day to branch out and explore Newport News while you’re still here. You may be saying to yourself, “but there are no cool places to drive to in Newport News.” But this statement proves false when one discovers Newport News’ local gems.
One option is to take a drive down Warwick Boulevard towards Hilton Village and browse the antique shops along the strip while admiring the old architecture that lines the road. Continue along Warwick and you will discover the Rose Garden–a beautiful place to stop and literally smell the roses on a nice day. The Rose Garden was established in 1970 and is full of history and a wide arrangement of roses–74 different varieties to be exact. While you’re there, let out the kid in you and explore Huntington Park where you will find tennis, swimming and a 13,000 square foot adventure playground, or “Fort Fun.”
If flowers aren’t your thing, browse a few of the museums in the area. The Virginia Living Museum near J. Clyde Morris Boulevard features a variety of exhibits to check out. These include a Virginia Coastal Plain, Piedmont and Mountains Gallery, World of Darkness Gallery, Underground Gallery and a trail through a recreation of the Cypress Swamp and Appalachian Cove. The Living Museum also offers a great chance to gaze at the stars in the comfort of cushioned chairs and heating in their Abbitt Planetarium.
Another local gem is the Mariners Museum, which is also located conveniently behind campus along the Noland trail, offers numerous galleries with rare figureheads, handcrafted ship models, Civil War ironclad USS Monitor artifacts, navigational instruments and more.
After you visit the Living Museum or Mariners Museum, head across the street to the Peninsula SPCA Petting Zoo and Exotic Animal Sanctuary. If you time your trip right, you could have a chance at seeing a tiger or leopard.
If you’re low on cash and would rather just use some gas, take a drive down J. Clyde Morris Boulevard and browse Yorktown. If you head towards the beach, you will find several battlefields along the shoreline. Continue through Yorktown Beach and you’ll drive into Williamsburg, which has numerous tourist attractions. In Williamsburg, I highly recommend stopping at Wythe’s Candy Shoppe in Colonial Williamsburg. Pick up a fresh caramel apple or chocolate covered rice krispy bar before you head back to campus. You won’t regret it.
Posted by Jessa Lane
on Mar 17 2011. Filed under Beyond CNU.
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Well Adam, I disagree.
The way the poll is phrased it asks for those that
1. Had a fair experience
2. Unfair experience
3. No experience
If you were creating a poll to judge the effectiveness of the US court system, you most certainly would not just poll people that have been a defendant in a court case. That is almost guaranteeing you would have emotional responses creating a biased poll. You would hopefully poll the everyday citizen; citizens that still have opinions about the way the court system hands down judgments. You hopefully would not put “Never had an experience with the court system” as an option on the poll.
Instead I would ask what the respondents perception of CHECs is. That would allow me, who has never been in front of CHECs, to say that I believe it is fair. I believe that they enforce the honor code that we all agreed on when we signed during our honors convocation.
And finally, I completely disagree with your assessment that CHECs lacks checks and balances. We as students are allowed to appeal our sanctions. When we do we are placed in front of a panel of our peers. Students that go to this University and do not serve as administrators.
I do respect your views. I know that CHECs has long been criticized by us students. However, it is necessary to have a judicial system and I’m not sure it will ever be popular with students.
Now this was a good article. I like ones like these that give me some good info! Not a huge fan of the checs poll though. I mean how can you expect an unbiased result? That is like asking prisoners if they thought their judge was fair. Most of the time they are going to be mad they got in trouble and blame it on someone else.
I see the point though, I know it will be a hot topic in the coming weeks.
Who else should they ask? CHECs is the investigator, prosecutor, jury and judge. The only other person involved is the student who’s assumed guilty until proven innocent. Those pesky little things called inalienable rights, CHECs throws those out the window too. f you’re saying there’s a better way to get information than to poll the people who have been in that situation, I would love to hear your ideas. By your logic if we were to ask CHECs if they felt their office had fairly administered justice, their answer would be just as biased regardless of the facts at hand. Checks and balances are missing in the school’s disciplinary system, this is the best way for students who have felt wrongly treated to gain a voice.