Catie Byrne Features Editor On Oct. 24, 2009, Katy Perry celebrated her 25th birthday party. However, it was the young, 19-year-old starlet, Taylor Swift, who was not yet a musical rival to Perry, who made headlines. Posing next to a… Read More ›
Blogs
The Strategy of the Radical Right — and How It’s Working
Salwa Majeed Web Manager If you’re shocked to see a rise in right-wing keynote speakers visiting college and university campuses (see: Richard Spencer at University of Florida, Milo Yiannopoulos at Berkeley), then you’re probably not paying close enough attention to… Read More ›
Division within the Youth: Free Speech
Benjamin Pulgar-Guzman Staff Writer Building glass was shattered, fires were started. This was the scene at UC Berkley earlier in the year when the university had scheduled a four-day “Free Speech Week,” in which a plethora of right-wing speakers would… Read More ›
Sara Ahmed: The Politics of Complaint
Catie Byrne Features Editor On Wednesday, UNCG’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program presented, “Institutional as usual: Sexism, Racism and the Politics of Complaint,” a talk by feminist scholar, Dr. Sara Ahmed, about the ways in which complaining can work to… Read More ›
Professor Spotlight: Robert Igoe
Curtis Hoffman Staff Writer Robert Igoe is a professor of Printmaking and Drawing at UNCG. Although he specializes in lithography, he is mostly known as an oil painter. Painting since early high school, Igoe began using mostly acrylics but moved… Read More ›
NC Duo Aim to Inspire a Generation
Olivia Tarpley Staff Writer In the spring of 2016, Gene Mance and Keith Parham conceived the idea of NVision. Mance is from Gastonia, North Carolina while Parham is from Raleigh, North Carolina. The two met at UNCG and now consider… Read More ›
Contemporary Feminism: Disabilities
Benjamin Pulgar-Guzman Staff Writer On Sept. 29, a group of students bustled into EUC Kirkland as Dr. Nirmala Erevelles, a Professor Social and Cultural Studies at the University of Alabama, read excerpts from her scholarly article titled “Thinking Relationally Through… Read More ›
Satirist’s Corner – The Value of Education
Cason Ragland Staff Writer If there’s one thing about university you can rely on it’s the fact that you’ll always get your money’s worth. Each class offers new and insightful inspirations that will remain in your heart for the rest… Read More ›
Faith-Based Institutions
Benjamin Pulgar-Guzman Staff Writer On the quiet Sunday of Sept. 15, 1963, Sunday school had just finished at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Carol Denise McNair were ready to… Read More ›
Satirist’s Corner – The Truth About Study Abroad
Cason Ragland Staff Writer So you think you’re gonna study abroad, huh? You really think you’re better than everyone? Well, let me tell you from experience that you are justified in thinking such a way. I’m sorry for my accusatory… Read More ›
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