Jayce Shore Staff Writer On Tuesday, April 4, the UNCG Student Government Association (SGA) met in EUC Maple to discuss upcoming events, including a food drive during the last week of April. After the approval of the minutes shared with SGA members beforehand, the meeting opened with a presentation by Attorney General Antonio Southern. Southern spoke about an upcoming food drive being held … Continue reading SGA Meeting
Ian Hammock Staff Writer The early April sun shone down warmly on Saturday, April 8, which saw the 35th Annual International Festival. Wandering around the festival – located on College Ave in the stretch of road between the Jackson Library and the Stone building – I saw dozens of booths each offering information on the country that they represented. There were over 50 countries … Continue reading International Festival
Jamie Biggs Staff Writer Oftentimes students find themselves wanting to give back—to devote their time to something charitable as opposed to the daily lull of self-involved classes and work. It can be especially difficult to find opportunity to do so with the busy schedule that accompanies the title of “college student.” There is not an abundance of time to search out organizations … Continue reading Boxes of Love
Brandon Combs Staff Writer At 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 6, UNCG’s Master of Fine Arts Program hosted renowned poet David Blair at the Faculty Center on College Avenue. Blair’s has three acclaimed books of poetry and is a recipient of the Del Sol Poetry Award for his book, “Ascension Days.” In 2016, Blair took the bold step of releasing two books of … Continue reading Friends with Dogs a Reading
Tarlon Khoubyari Web Content Manager We all have a favorite browser, word processor and emailing provider. Typically, the major technology service providers appear in businesses worldwide and set the standard of how business is done through those platforms. For example, some businesses may use the Microsoft Suite of programs such as Word, Excel and Azure, but depending on what their employees need, other companies … Continue reading Technology Monopolies Take Over
Emily Cramton Staff Writer Associate professor of viola, Erika Eckert, from the University of Colorado at Boulder visited UNCG this past Saturday. She was invited to play a recital in the Organ Hall, and her hour-long program consisted of three sonatas for viola and piano, all composed by American women. For Eckert, this program was an important initiative to provide greater visibility to American … Continue reading Guest Artist Erika Eckert’s Viola Recital
Matthew Paterson Staff Writer Most of us know memorials as either a statue celebrating a famous figure who has passed or, an extravagant monument mourning those lost in a terrible disaster. What usually gets overlooked is the process of careful planning and decisions made about every little detail down to location, meaning and design. Notre Dame Professor Erika Doss posed the question: why are … Continue reading Memorial Mania: A Lecture by Erika Doss
Jessica Clifford Staff Writer The world premiere of Preston Lane’s “Actions and Objectives” took place at the Triad Stage this past weekend. On Friday, April 7, a cast of fifteen local actors and seven creative team staff members came together to help perform an unrestrained political play within a play about the contemporary South. “Actions and Objectives” takes the setting of the fictionalized … Continue reading A Review on Preston Lane’s “Actions and Objectives”
Chelsea McBay Staff Writer It has been a busy schedule for both UNCG tennis teams; only a week remains in the season before UNCG heads into the Southern Conference in South Carolina. The men played three away games during this past week, facing the Radford Highlanders in a non-conference match. The other two conference matchups were played against the Furman Paladins and the … Continue reading UNCG Tennis Recap
Jaives Lundy Staff Writer Progression is a beautiful thing. Ever since taking the head coaching job on an interim basis in December of 2011, that’s what it seems like Head Basketball Coach Wes Miller has been doing. Even if the win/loss column didn’t reflect the growth of the Men’s Basketball team, it can be seen that there was something bigger that was being pieced … Continue reading An Interview With Wes Miller
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