Alison McKan Staff Writer Saturday nights are Salsa nights at Artistika, a Latin dance club on Elm Street. On Fridays, they have Bachata and ladies get in free. Before 10:00 p.m., it only costs $5 to dance. After dragging my friend Justin along with me, I headed out to Salsa. At 9:30 p.m., before any of the real dancing begins, the club offers … Continue reading Artisika experience: The club meets salsa
Naomi Oconnor /The Carolinian Jayda Brunson Staff Writer Every year, UNCG’s Lloyd International Honors College sponsors the Honors Symposium to allow undergraduate students at UNCG and other local colleges to speak in an academic conference. The event involves concurrent sessions and prompts each student speaker to present a ten-minute paper or presentation regarding his or her undergraduate research. This writer attended the conference, … Continue reading 16th Annual Undergraduate Honors Symposium
Catie Byrne Features Editor Several papers and books remain untouched on the desk in my dorm, 73 emails remain unread and — due to an unfortunate turn of events on Friday night — a hand-sized, bright purple bruise on the side of my thigh remains aching. In other words, I’m tired. As I have so many unfinished things to do, one may assume that these … Continue reading Toll of academia: Pre-break angst
Maggie Young News Editor Sir Salman Rushdie spoke to an audience of over 3,000 attendees in the Kimmel Arena at the University of North Carolina at Asheville last Thursday night, Feb. 18. The lecture, titled “Public Events, Private Lives: Literature + Politics in the Modern World,” addressed the ethics, the purpose and the necessity of the novel in a modern context. The author … Continue reading Salman Rushdie critiques censorship, urges writers to confront difficult topics
Aden Hizkias Staff Writer This past Saturday, February 20, Professor John Cox led a discussion about genocide at Scuppernong Books in downtown Greensboro. Cox is the Director of the Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Studies. “I grew up in Greensboro and I grew up very aware of the sit-ins which occurred only a couple of years before I was born. And … Continue reading “To Kill a People:” John Cox speaks on Holocaust and genocide
Matt Harris Staff Writer I almost felt nervous walking into the Pavilion at the Greensboro Coliseum. Greensboro Roller Derby was about to treat me and several hundred others to an evening of Hunger Games-themed roller derby, and I knew very little about either the Hunger Games or roller derby. All I knew about The Hunger Games was what I had peripherally gathered over the past … Continue reading The Hunger Games on wheels: An evening of themed roller derby
Catie Byrne Features Editor A little more than two year ago, upon entering the whirlwind of culture and confusion that comes along with understanding oneself as gay, I self-identified as queer. The word “queer,” as I saw it, was an umbrella term for the LGBT community, and I would refer to LGBT people that I knew as queer. The word was a buzz in the … Continue reading Queer: Not a competition or a club
Jayda Brunson Staff Writer “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see,” said artist, Edgar Degas. This can be perfectly correlated to the ongoing art exhibit, “It’s All About the Hue,” featured at Green Hill for the next few weeks. “It’s All About the Hue,” consists of four artists who bring their work to life through pigments, layers, linen, … Continue reading It’s All In the Hue
Alison McKane Staff Writer On Friday, Feb. 19, Hillel, the Jewish organization on college campuses, and the Muslim Student Association (MSA) hosted an Interfaith Shabbat Dinner. On the flyer promoting the event, it read, “A promotion of peace and friendship. Come join for prayers of each faith followed by dinner and discussion.” Cori Hampton, the staff member in charge of Hillel at UNCG … Continue reading UNCG shares faith
Shaquille Blackstock Staff Writer The winter time, for those who are fortunate, is a time of brisk joy. Hot chocolate, warm fuzzy coats and hats, snow days and choppy winds usually come to mind. When it snows, people react with an almost frenzied joy, rushing to Walmart to buy all the bread and milk for whatever strange reason. For those … Continue reading Winter wonderland: The other story
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