Catie Byrne Features Editor For many cash-strapped, transportation-limited UNC-Greensboro students looking for cheap clothes, the advent of Spartan Trader is a game changer. Located close to Spring Garden Apartments on 1540 Spring Garden Street, the small, sustainable resale store, is a hidden gem on campus. The concept for the new Spartan Trader arose to solve the issue of what to do with items students have … Continue reading Spartan Trader
Matt Wood Staff Writer How many websites do you visit on an average day? How many individual web pages do you click on? “South Park” fans will recall the episode “Over Logging,” in which an Internet outage drives South Park’s residents to California, “Grapes of Wrath” style, in search of a solid Internet connection. Well, that episode came out way back in 2008 when smartphones … Continue reading Never Click on Clickbait
Matt Wood Staff Writer I have never looked forward to a second season more. “True Detective” had rung my bell like no serial before it. Void of any cookie-cutter, made-for-TV crime drama cops, True Detective is driven by a duo of flawed heroes, each with an excess of personal demons. Theirs is a tarnished world full of ignorance and vice. The atmosphere is eerie without … Continue reading “True Detective” season two a convoluted mess
Kenny Mann Staff Writer All summer, the sports world has heard about the “Deflategate” scandal, and it looks like it is finally over for now. Judge Richard Berman ruled on Sept. 3 to overturn the four-game suspension the National Football League placed on New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. It was the right decision, and not what the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wanted, who gave … Continue reading NFL Deflategate suspension of Tom Brady overturned
Catie Byrne Features Editor Zechariah Etheridge, UNC-Greensboro senior and sociology and African American Studies major, volunteers with the Center for Housing and Community Studies (CHCS), a small non-profit research center, and shared insights regarding his work assisting lower-income communities in need of housing repairs and reconstruction. Etheridge credits Dr. Stephen Sills, sociology professor and the CHCS director, for introducing him to the community work he … Continue reading Community house project
Lindsey Dancy Staff Writer Dedication, creativity and drive are among some of the qualities UNC-Greensboro students bring to the table. Students are gathered from all different walks of life and are honored to embrace diversity. This week, The Carolinian had the pleasure of interviewing UNCG women’s soccer player, Georgia Brown. Brown, a junior defensive player, hails from Queenstown, New Zealand, and has … Continue reading Georgia Brown
Thomas Breeden Staff Writer “I call it our crayon box down here,” joked Jennifer Hance, The Music Center Director. She was referring to the colorful walls of the first floor of the Greensboro Cultural Center. It’s a crayon box, indeed. Various colors splash the walls and the people that filled the space on Saturday were a rainbow to match. The room buzzed with … Continue reading Listen, Learn, and Perform! City Arts Creation Celebration
Roger Thomas Staff Writer For UNC-Greensboro students, there are many forms of transportation to get to campus or other places around Greensboro. Students can take the Greensboro Transit Authority (GTA), supply buses that will take students to numerous locations in the city. The campus also provides its own form of transportation for students with the Spartan Chariot, which is a bus that will take … Continue reading Cycling is the way of life on UNCG campus
Vincent Johnson Staff Writer Prophet: A person regarded as an inspired teacher, or proclaimer of the will of God. Profit: A financial benefit that is realized when the amount of revenue from a business exceeds the expenses, costs and taxes needed to sustain the activity. Black Profit is a rap duo composed of North Carolina emcees, Josh and Julio the Poet. As natural … Continue reading Artists Weekly: Black Profit
Emnit Bierga Staff Writer When entering college, it is likely that one will meet a myriad of people from all over North Carolina and even the United States. However, most people don’t notice that UNC-Greensboro also has a diverse group of students that have come to the university through the foreign exchange program. Starting a new school year is an already exciting yet scary … Continue reading An exchange experience
