By Samantha Galarza Caballero This article is the first part of a three-part series featuring selections from an English 101 project in which students were asked to explain how they came to be a student at UNCG. For all of… Read More ›
Features
Spring Semester Uncoils
Sam Phillips Features Editor As Gerard Manley Hopkins reminds us, “Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –” and, though the weather remains largely wintry, UNCG students, faculty and staff have returned to campus in force for the spring semester. We’ve… Read More ›
UNCG winds down fall semester (or, Winter ‘22 with the Gulf Stream)
Sam Phillips, features editor, with Gerard Manley Hopkins The boughs, the boughs are bare enough, But earth has not yet felt the snow. As an autumn of wildly fluctuating temperatures works its way toward winter, the UNCG community is preparing… Read More ›
Blood Drive
Sam Phillips Features Editor Things went wrong almost immediately. It turns out things have changed in the ten years since I last gave blood, and not just in my life. My first task was to find the Cone ballroom in… Read More ›
The NC State Fair: Fun for the Whole Day
Brian Hornfeldt Staff Writer/Social Media Manager The North Carolina State Fair has come and gone, bringing with it memories as well as excitement for next year’s fair. Beginning with its first appearance in 1853, the NC State Fair has become… Read More ›
UNCG’s IDEAS Program: An Interview with Three Students
Jenna McKee Meaney Staff Writer The UNCG IDEAS program is a major within the School of Education and consists of three different concentrations. These concentrations focus on Interpreting, Deaf Education and Advocacy Services (IDEAS). As the School of Education website… Read More ›
UNCG celebrates career of former professor and Poet Laureate: Fred Chappell
Sydney Thompson Senior Staff Writer On Oct. 1, in the Alumni House on campus, there was a celebration from 1 p.m. through 7 p.m. to commemorate the career of former UNCG English professor Fred Chappell. “I Am One of You… Read More ›
Fredfest!
A Celebration of Fred Chappell Erin Yandell Staff Writer As an avid fiction and poetry reader, I am ashamed to admit that I did not know of the legacy of Fred Chappell. After hearing of the Fredfest! Hosted by The… Read More ›
Student Spotlight: Oakel Parrish
Brian Hornfeldt Staff Writer I would like to preface this interview with a thank you to Oakel Parrish for taking the time to sit down and do this interview with me. For this week’s student spotlight, I sat down with… Read More ›
An Interview with International Student Jessica Poulton
Jenna Meaney Staff Writer Jessica Poulton is an International Student who was born and raised in Hampshire, England. She is a junior at Keele University in Staffordshire and studies English and American Literature. She is studying at UNCG for the… Read More ›