Nicholas Tyler Staff Writer We are approaching the beginning of the holiday season. I won’t get into the usual clichés: none of the “it’s that time of year again” stuff you’ve heard. I won’t speak of sweater weather or complain about leggings, or the crisp autumnal morns that make you feel like one of the non-poets in “The Dead Poets Society.” No, I’m going to … Continue reading The Pumpkin Spice is a Lie
Cason Ragland Staff Writer Planning essays is for dorks and nerds and even if I did plan this essay out then I would’ve been very hasty about it. I didn’t think twice about my thesis and to be honest I don’t think I really need to. By the end of any semester I’m always certain that procrastination is my most well executed and useful technique. … Continue reading Satirist’s Corner – The Benefits of Procrastination
Brianna Wilson Staff Writer The language we are using to discuss DACA recipients and their families is one that privileges innocence while condemning people based on race. We assume the worst of those parents when many Americans, especially those who supported the termination of DACA, have never feared for the lives and futures of their children. Who are we to judge them when we know … Continue reading A Nation of Immigrants is Who We Are
Krysten Heberly Staff Writer With the rise of modern medicine, average human life expectancy has increased drastically in first world countries. We are living longer than ever, and can now survive for years longer than our ancestors did due to the technology of the modern age. Yet, as with any technology, this has its advantages and disadvantages. While we are living longer lives, these lives … Continue reading A Time to Be Born, A Time to Die
Catie Byrne Features Editor Over the past few weeks, the United States and the Caribbean have been fraught with concern regarding the devastation of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The sudden onslaught of Hurricanes such as Harvey and Irma as well as the developing Hurricane Jose, is something many have attributed to climate change. In an interview with sociobiologist Rebecca Costa, author and host of the … Continue reading Rebecca Costa Interview
Curtis Hoffman Staff Writer Many University of North Carolina Greensboro students on campus are aware of UNCG’s art program but aren’t really aware of the work actually generated by the professors that call the program home. Starting this week we’ll begin a series of spotlights on particular art professors and their work. This writer sat down to speak with Michael Ananian, Associate Professor of Painting … Continue reading Professor Spotlight: Michael Ananian
Krysten Heberly Staff Writer To discuss the heroes of 9/11 is a complex issue. Those who worked towards providing relief were heroes to those who were in need. Those who sacrificed from within the twin towers were heroes to the security they protected. The men who were responsible for orchestrating and carrying out the fall of the twin towers were heroes to their own cause. … Continue reading We Could Be Heroes
Andrew Oliver Staff Writer The landlord profession, by its very nature, is a problematic one. The landlord, whether their morals and intentions are in the right place or not, thrive off of and sustain an immoral system in which tenants are seeing less and less control over their living spaces due to being more financially burdened and more desperate to find places to live, according … Continue reading Renters Rise Up
Nicholas Tyler Staff Writer Over the past few decades, China has expanded its interests across the developing world, especially Africa, as its state-sponsored companies and contractors have laid down roots. Some see it as a new benevolence; others, a new colonialism. In either case, China isn’t looking to start a war with anyone. Their ventures in Africa do not directly threaten the United States. Rattling … Continue reading China Means Business
Annie Walker Opinions Editor Perhaps one of the most familiar mottos of the environmental movement is the trusty line of ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.’ The alliterative trio makes the difficult task of personally challenging climate change seem manageable. Despite being presented to us as a set of three, only one action of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle fame is regularly incorporated into the lives of Americans. Conflating recycling … Continue reading Recycling Won’t Fix Everything
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