Sarah Grace Goolden Staff Writer The Genocide Awareness Project, an anti-abortion organization, set up their displays on Wednesday in front of Jackson Library as day one of their three day installment. Students heading to class on College Avenue had no choice but to walk past huge, blown-up pictures of abortions, lynched slaves and piles of bodies at concentration camps. Free speech should be celebrated but … Continue reading Pro-Life Doesn’t Have to Be Scary
Bruce Case Staff Writer Imagine yourself as a person who is blind or deaf. Now imagine that you are also a huge Marvel comic book fan. The new Avengers movie comes out next week and you are extremely excited about it. That excitement, however, is immediately dampened by the fact that you may not be able to have the accommodations to help you enjoy the … Continue reading Making Accommodations: Subtitles and Audio Description
Co-Written By Patrick O’Connell and Gordon Cathcart Staff Writers When one thinks of Greensboro, they think of pizza. That’s why Tate Street has five pizza restaurants on the same block. Our lack of culinary diversity has given us little choice of what to eat on Tate Street. With that there is also a great deal of competition. That’s why it’s important we define which of … Continue reading Which Game of Thrones Character is your Favorite Pizza Place?
Ron DeVarona Staff Writer In August, an amazing, experimental initiative was passed in Los Angeles County to tackle the soaring homeless population. The LA Community Development Commission has greenlighted a $550,000 program that aims to provide low cost housing for the homeless by incentivising homeowners to build essentially “tiny” homes in their backyards. The rewards are quite attractive: loans of up to $75,000 to build … Continue reading Tiny Homes for the Homeless
Omar A. Obreggon Cuebas Staff Writer Sinclair Broadcast Group is in hot water for mandating news anchors across its stations to repeat a tirade against “fake news.” A video released by Deadspin showcased hundreds of different stations repeating lines such as: “Some members of the media use their platforms to push their own personal bias,” and “This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.” It seems … Continue reading Sinclair Broadcasting is Another Biased Source
Kaetlyn Dembkoski Staff Writer Since last month, there has been a lot of excitement growing as many farmers have begun harvesting the spoils of their new crop: industrial hemp. Yet, in the wake of this excitement, many are still against the harvesting of industrial hemp-based on inaccurate information and fear-mongering. Industrial hemp has been grown around the world for hundreds of years. Hemp is a … Continue reading Industrial Hemp: North Carolina’s Newest Crop
Patrick O’Connell Staff Writer My faith in humanity continues to be tested. This week, the thing that sends me to the bottle is the dark realization of how little academia matters to college applicants. I remember back when I was applying and touring potential schools and how tours would typically go. It would always be a summer camp-esque sales pitch focusing on all the … Continue reading Yes I’m Still Complaining About the Kaplan Center
Krysten Heberly Opinions Editor Often when we think of extinction, we think about the dinosaurs and the inevitable meteorite which ended their existence. Perhaps we think of the illustrious Dodo bird, which may be the goofiest looking animal to ever exist. Scientists are now predicting that we are now in the 6th greatest mass extinction in the history of planet Earth. Perhaps this is a … Continue reading How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Extinction
Omar A. Obreggon Cuebas Staff Writer Four long years into the Flint Michigan water crisis, locals of Flint are protesting the conclusion of the free bottled water program. The entire crisis was a result of Michigan placing economic benefit over the lives of its denizens. In 2014 the state switched Flint’s main water source from Detroit to Lake Flint. After the change, a study done … Continue reading Flint: More than Water Bottles
Elliott Voorhees Staff Writer This past week, UNCG’s Residence and Housing Life set up a Lemonade “Stand” in the bottom of the Moran Commons Cafeteria. This cute phrasing was meant to show the political nature of their booth. Their stand celebrated International Day of Pink, an event which raises awareness about homophobia and transphobia in an effort to stop these issues. At this stand, you … Continue reading Making a Stand versus Taking a Stand
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