Ailey O’Toole Staff Writer In mid-September, North Carolina state legislators passed a budget that cut $110 million from the eight regional mental health agencies, such as the North Carolina Correctional Facility for Women, Alliance Behavioral Healthcare and the North… Read More ›
Editorials
Students should be able to refinance debt
The Editorial Staff It’s no secret that student debt is a bubble just waiting to pop. Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal reported that student loan debt exceeds $1.3 trillion — more than “credit cards, auto loans, [and] refinancings.”… Read More ›
Greensboro Peace Festival counters Islamophobia
Ailey O’Toole Staff Writer Last Saturday, Sept. 19, I attended Greensboro’s first Peace Festival, an event arranged in response to a hate letter sent to the Islamic Center of Greensboro. The letter was from a local restaurant that asked… Read More ›
Lack of school spirit
The Editorial Staff The Women’s Soccer team played host last Thursday to one of the most prominent athletic universities in the country. In a match against Florida State, the team was defeated in overwhelming fashion, losing to the nationally ranked… Read More ›
Run, Joe, run
The Editorial Staff The Democratic nomination is officially up for grabs. For nearly three years, the American people were told that Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, was going to walk uncontested into the Oval Office as the first… Read More ›
Data protection and education
The Editorial Staff In a world dominated by the Internet, students are becoming more and more dependent on the web for their day-to-day lives. Whether it’s surfing the web on Google Chrome, giving their parents an update on Facebook or… Read More ›
Every Child Achieves
The Editorial Staff Arts education in the United States could be looking at some very significant, constructive changes. After almost 200 amendments and several controversial provisions, the Senate approved the Every Child Achieves Act (S. 1177) by a vote of… Read More ›