The Emerging Sports Media Online
Andrew James Staff Writer A lot of sports articles use the “f” bomb now. Sure, that doesn’t make them good. But it sure as hell doesn’t make them bad, either. It’s 2016, and sports journalism has officially leaked out of the bold black lines of newspaper headings. There used to be carefully written pieces always reigned by the same strict guidelines, wedged between … Continue reading The Emerging Sports Media Online
Great Basketball Teams Didn’t Begin with Jordan
Daniel Johnson Sports Editor The Golden State Warriors team this year has played as one of the greatest teams in the history of the NBA. Stephen Curry is showing to be an once-in-a-lifetime type player and combined with a group of really good players such as Draymond Green, Harrison Barnes, and Andre Iguodala, the team can run twelve deep. Hands down, they are the … Continue reading Great Basketball Teams Didn’t Begin with Jordan
Millennial mythbusters
Jayda Brunson Staff Writer Stereotypes pertaining to the current generation have varied widely over the past few years. Millennials fall into the age range of 18-33. These stereotypical beliefs often range from dating culture, success rates, substance abuse, religiousness, the rate of pregnancy/STDS and our spending habits. Often times these cliché ideas that exist have a way of overshadowing the true facts and … Continue reading Millennial mythbusters
A Letter to the Chancellor
Mark Parent Opinions Editor Dear Chancellor Gilliam, Last Tuesday, I was embarrassed to be a student at UNC-Greensboro. But, worse than that, I felt abandoned by my administrators. Of course, the event I’m tacitly alluding to is the mass protest against HB-2 that rocked our campus to its core. Like many students, I had no idea that such a protest was even being held until … Continue reading A Letter to the Chancellor
HB-2 and Greensboro City Council
Catie Byrne Features Editor After five grueling hours, 15 speakers and nine testimonials from Greensboro city council members, in an eight-to-one decision, on April 5, Greensboro’s City Council approved a resolution against House Bill 2. A controversial section of HB2, which requires transgender people to use restrooms and locker rooms which correspond with the gender on their birth certificates, has exploded in the media, and … Continue reading HB-2 and Greensboro City Council
The rise of the global citizen
Katerina Mansour Staff Writer The term “global citizen” is one that used to really bother me. I viewed it as an arrogant, self-proclaimed status that almost never truly described the person using it. As if a single individual could ever be a citizen of the entire world. As if one could ever travel and learn enough about the vastness of our world, … Continue reading The rise of the global citizen
The risks of new-age media
Adam Griffin Staff Writer Our generation, the millennials, are the subject of numerous articles criticizing and exhorting us for this, that or the other. Perhaps the thing that defines millennials differently than any previous generation in history is the technology that we have access to. Millennials are perpetually under fire from information meeting their receptors. However, it is questionable if this proliferation of information … Continue reading The risks of new-age media
“No Child Left Behind” generation falls short of goals
Zachary Weaver Staff Writer The landscape of millennial education is vastly different from any that has come before. Changes in technology and lawmaking have combined for an ever-shifting educational experience. With an interconnected world, how has this changed how millennials learn? The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was a 2002 U.S. Act of Congress which set the ambitious goal of having every … Continue reading “No Child Left Behind” generation falls short of goals
The millennial success story
Jamie Howell Staff Writer Millennials are a generation that starting joining the workforce only recently and who are on their way to searching for success. Millennials, or Generation Y, consist of people born between 1980 and roughly the late 90s and they take up more than 25 percent of the U.S. population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. “There used to be a ladder … Continue reading The millennial success story
Journalists find new paths in the Internet era
Daniel Bayer Staff Writer It’s no secret that the internet has changed the way in which people, particularly Millennials, consume news. The days of journalists hunched over typewriters while presses whir in the background have been replaced by the clicking of computer keys and the hum of the office server. But while the “ink-stained wretches” of lore may no longer be so ink-stained, the … Continue reading Journalists find new paths in the Internet era
