Month: September 2017

News, North Carolina

Budget Cuts Continue for NC Education

Kevin Liu Staff Writer North Carolina’s State Board of Education had to make legislative cuts to meet legislature’s $3.2 million demand as part of a two-year reduction for the state’s top education bureaucracy. Members had already passed down $2.5 million in legislative cuts in late July by ordering layoffs and reducing operations which are likely to impact professional development and support systems of the state’s … Continue reading Budget Cuts Continue for NC Education

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Greensboro, News

Gerrymandered Maps Affect Guilford County

MaryKent Wolff Staff Writer Four districts in Guilford County are currently involved in a dispute against gerrymandering in North Carolina. House Districts 57, 58, 60, and Senate District 28 are all facing changes created by the new North Carolina voting maps, which were drawn in response to pressure surrounding the 2011 map. The 2011 plans were thrown out for being illegal racial gerrymanders, and some … Continue reading Gerrymandered Maps Affect Guilford County

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News, Politics

DACA Dilemma

Chris Funchess Staff Writer Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) came to an end last week when President Trump ended the program via a six-month sunset expiration. This decision follows months of anticipation for the roughly 800,000 children of undocumented immigrants – most of whom are adults now – who have been protected by this program. In six months, these people will find themselves without … Continue reading DACA Dilemma

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News, North Carolina

Two new chemicals found in Cape Fear River

Sarah Purnell Staff Writer A new study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports that two new chemicals have been discovered in the Cape Fear River. The Cape Fear River has been under close examination after it was discovered that a chemical called GenX had contaminated the water. Chemours, a chemical company based in Delaware with a location in Fayetteville, North Carolina, leaked the … Continue reading Two new chemicals found in Cape Fear River

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News, Politics

Hurricane Irma Wreaks Havoc

Madison Hoffmann News Editor Dubbed by the National Hurricane Center as the strongest Atlantic basin hurricane ever recorded, Hurricane Irma tore through the northeast Caribbean on Wednesday with wind speeds up to 185 mph and is now continuing on its western path. Direct hits were made on Barbuda, St. Barthelemy, St. Martin, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands, while the United States Virgin Islands and … Continue reading Hurricane Irma Wreaks Havoc

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Columns, Opinions

We Could Be Heroes

Krysten Heberly Staff Writer To discuss the heroes of 9/11 is a complex issue. Those who worked towards providing relief were heroes to those who were in need. Those who sacrificed from within the twin towers were heroes to the security they protected. The men who were responsible for orchestrating and carrying out the fall of the twin towers were heroes to their own cause. … Continue reading We Could Be Heroes

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Columns, Opinions

Renters Rise Up

Andrew Oliver Staff Writer The landlord profession, by its very nature, is a problematic one. The landlord, whether their morals and intentions are in the right place or not, thrive off of and sustain an immoral system in which tenants are seeing less and less control over their living spaces due to being more financially burdened and more desperate to find places to live, according … Continue reading Renters Rise Up

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Columns, Opinions

China Means Business

Nicholas Tyler Staff Writer Over the past few decades, China has expanded its interests across the developing world, especially Africa, as its state-sponsored companies and contractors have laid down roots. Some see it as a new benevolence; others, a new colonialism. In either case, China isn’t looking to start a war with anyone. Their ventures in Africa do not directly threaten the United States. Rattling … Continue reading China Means Business

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Editorials, Opinions

Recycling Won’t Fix Everything

Annie Walker Opinions Editor Perhaps one of the most familiar mottos of the environmental movement is the trusty line of ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.’ The alliterative trio makes the difficult task of personally challenging climate change seem manageable. Despite being presented to us as a set of three, only one action of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle fame is regularly incorporated into the lives of Americans. Conflating recycling … Continue reading Recycling Won’t Fix Everything

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Columns, Opinions

The Do’s and Don’t’s of Tinder

Brianna Wilson Staff Writer Many people have had the attitude that Tinder is not the app for self-respecting people to use, which could not be further from the truth. I previously believed there was no way to find precisely what you were looking for in a partner in the world of online dating. This belief was recently challenged when I made a Tinder profile for … Continue reading The Do’s and Don’t’s of Tinder

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