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Since 1919, The Carolinian has functioned as a weekly newspaper that distributes each Wednesday during the traditional academic year. The all-student content reflects the diversity of the 20,000+ students of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. You can find us all over the UNCG campus and off campus in select locations on Tate and Spring Garden Street in Greensboro, NC. The Carolinian is a teaching newspaper that is organized and produced by students of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. It is our objective to teach young writers journalistic skills, while emphasizing the importance of honesty and integrity in campus media.
News, Politics

The Bernie Sanders “political revolution” comes to Greensboro

Emily Bruzzo Editor-in-Chief Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders charged forward in his campaign to “make the establishment nervous” Sunday night as he told a Greensboro crowd that it’s time to close the income gap in America and level the playing field in education, healthcare and the job market. With stops in Georgia Friday, South Carolina Saturday and Virginia Monday, Sanders’ call for a “political revolution” … Continue reading The Bernie Sanders “political revolution” comes to Greensboro

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Community, featured, Features, Human Interest

BRAVE aims to prevent sexual abuse

Molly Ashline   Staff Writer Since the fall semester at UNCG began in late August, three rapes and multiple incidents involving sexual assault have been reported to campus police. Campus police are required by the Cleary Act to inform students of sex crimes on campus in an effort to keep the student population informed and safe. That fact is disturbing not only in that those … Continue reading BRAVE aims to prevent sexual abuse

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Columns, Opinions

Millennial Moment

Natalie King  Publisher Instagram is an alternate universe of pictures, quotes and other rather useless bits of information we millennials likely scroll through 50 times per day. I would argue that almost anyone who is an active Instagrammer has experienced the awkward encounter of seeing someone you only know via social media in public. To those of an older generation, this would likely not be … Continue reading Millennial Moment

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Columns, Opinions

My weekend at Bernie’s

Spencer Schneier    News Editor n Sunday, Bernie Sanders delivered a speech at the Greensboro Coliseum to a crowd of over 9,000 people, outlining his platform in a passionate speech touching on things from racial inequality to health care reform. Many of his solutions are outlandish; some of them are probably too socialist to ever be viable in the U.S. political climate, but all of … Continue reading My weekend at Bernie’s

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Artist Weekly, arts and entertainment

Artists Weekly: Melody Choplin

Thomas Bremen     Staff Writer Melody Choplin’s office reads much like any creative person’s might. Traces of her work clutter the room. Instruments line the walls and spare parts and tools cover her workbench. She likes it this way; she’s too busy fixing to worry about neatness. Choplin is an instrument repair technician for the School of Music. She maintains department instruments, makes repairs and … Continue reading Artists Weekly: Melody Choplin

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arts and entertainment, Upcoming A&E Events, Visual & Performance

Pride Festival

Shannon Neu   A&E Editor The Greensboro Pride festival is returning this weekend, and guests can expect some exciting new changes. This is the tenth anniversary for Greensboro Pride (formerly known as Triad Pride). To mark this milestone, the festival will be moved from its previous location at Festival Park to South Elm Street. The “Taking Greensboro Pride to the Streets” event will take place on … Continue reading Pride Festival

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Campus Sports, Sports

UNCG celebrates stress-free, exercise with yoga

Daniel Johnson     Staff Writer The practice and art of yoga has been a part of human society since its origins in Asia around the fifth and sixth century BCE. Many major religions and philosophies include some form or tenet of yoga in their everyday practices, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. During the workout and gym boom of the 1980s, the practice of … Continue reading UNCG celebrates stress-free, exercise with yoga

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Features, Human Interest, News

Fourteen years later: The dust is still here

Catie Byrne Features Editor Upon reflection of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack 14 years ago, it is difficult to divorce the nature of this national tragedy from the lingering memories of physical wreckage and devastating imagery of death and injury. One of these stark pictures captivated America. The image of a woman, frozen in time, petrified and entirely covered in dust after one … Continue reading Fourteen years later: The dust is still here

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