Catie Byrne Features Editor To preface this article, when referring to the S*oux Native peoples, this writer will instead use the name, Oceti Sakowin, as the Oceti Sakowin people have communicated that the term S*oux is a slur, and that it is disrespectful for non-Oceti Sakowin to use the word S*oux, as it is not their word to reclaim. Further, use of “S*oux” in … Continue reading Standing with the Oceti Sakowin people
Catie Byrne Features Editor Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2014, marks the second anniversary of Mike Brown’s homicide by police officer, Darren Wilson. It’s hard to forget the murder that re-ignited the Black Lives Matter movement that took America by storm after George Zimmerman murdered Trayvon Martin in 2012. Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, the coiners of “Black Lives Matter,” are all outspoken black … Continue reading Black Lives Matter: two years after Ferguson
Political correctness: The new tyranny Mark Parent Opinions Editor There are those among us who want to kill freedom of speech, and we cannot let that happen. In today’s age, political correctness has become a form of speech fascism that is used to oppress, judge and label individuals for even a minor slip of the tongue. And on college campuses, including this one, this form … Continue reading Correct me if I’m wrong…
Catie Byrne Features Editor It was exactly five months and 25 days since the MRI scan, three months and 19 days since the EEG test and six months and three days since it happened. As an untravelled freshman, when someone hands you the opportunity to visit a place as spectacular as New York City, given you had the needed funds, who would say no? It … Continue reading Slice of life: 6 months
By Catie Byrne, Features Editor Published in print Apr. 22, 2015 On the heels of the campus-wide conversation last Wednesday about an insensitive email sent by the UNCG Police, conversation facilitator and African American and African Diaspora Studies professor Dr. Omar Ali, was approached by students, the police and university leadership to create an advisory board. In collaboration with students, he established the Student Advisory Council for … Continue reading Advisory council
By Catie Byrne, Staff Writer In print April 15, 2015 Last Thursday, UNCG United Students Against Sweatshop (USAS) organizers and organizations gathered outside of VF Corporation’s headquarters in Greensboro to protest and deliver a petition demanding VF sign on to the Accord. After being denied entrance into VF headquarters and a meeting with a VF executive, protesters continued to raise their signs and chant, “When … Continue reading USAS’s perspective: “When workers’ rights are under attack, what do we do, stand up, fight back”
By Catie Byrne, Staff Writer Published in print Apr. 8, 2015 Beginning at noon April 1, UNCG fraternity members of Lambda Chi Alpha held a two-day Puppy Sit in the Fountain Area of Moran Commons. The commotion began as a crowd of students huddled near a circular pin began making excited baby noises April 1 at Moran Commons, the sound of puppies barking filled the air for … Continue reading Puppies come to UNCG
By Catie Byrne, Staff Writer Published in print Apr. 1, 2015 Last Friday, Ahmet Tanhan of UNCG’s counseling department and Dr. Vincent Francisco of UNCG’s department of health education hosted a dinner in the auditorium of the Bryan Building to discuss the results of Tanhan’s survey report of community concerns among UNCG Muslim students, faculty and staff. Tanhan and Francisco opened with a discussion about what the … Continue reading Dissatisfaction among UNCG Muslims
By Catie Byrne, Staff Writer Published print Mar. 25, 2015 Those who know Shane Hicks know him as a poet and active member of UNCG’s Technical Theatre Department. Hicks is a transgender male who has been hormonally transitioning since 2013, and is currently raising money for gender reassignment surgery on his GoFundMe page, “Bye Bye Boobies.” While Hicks has $1,100 raised for the … Continue reading ‘Bye Bye Boobies’
By Catie Byrne, Staff Writer Published in print Mar. 4, 2015 If you’re like me, and a large portion of UNCG students, you’ve liked the Facebook page UNCG Confessions 2.0. Also like me, you’re probably tired of the racist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, anti-feminist and rape apologist posts. Why has a confessions page become a battleground for political debates, anti-social justice grandstanding and a generally hostile area in … Continue reading Best of UNCG Confessions
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