Rufus Simmons Staff Writer On Feb 5., the Theatre Department at UNCG opened the semester with a thunderous workshop event of that rocked and riveted the audience throughout their runtimes. The workshop was held in the Brown Theatre Building on Tate Street. Upon arrival, the event was so packed, there were only a few empty seats left in the auditorium. The hallway of the building … Continue reading UNCG Theatre Workshop Takes Center Stage
Benjamin Pulgar-Guzman Staff Writer Love is in the air this week as the flowers are out and heart shaped balloons are floating for Valentine’s Day. For the holiday, some are planning to take their partner out to a nice dinner, while others will be celebrating the counter-holiday, Single Awareness Day or S.A.D. Either way, hearts will be stolen, and money will be spent. While Valentine’s … Continue reading Valentine’s Day: Origins, Love and Money
Jamal Sykes Staff Writer Not being able to fully relate with the people who appear in the media that you consume is a struggle that many marginalized and disenfranchised people face on a day-to-day basis. Even in the age of user curated content, this sentiment still holds true when you look at the representation of minority groups in films produced by major studios, and the … Continue reading A Journey in Black Cinema
Brandi Arledge Staff Writer Delta Sigma Pi Iota Omega Chapter is a professional fraternity associated with the Joseph M. Bryan School of Business and Economics at UNCG. On Feb. 1, 1981, the Iota Omega chapter was founded at UNCG. As it is currently part of The Iota Omega Chapter of Delta Sigma Pi’s recruitment week, it was decided that they would celebrate their charter day … Continue reading Delta Sigma Pi Iota Omega’s Birthday
Lauren Summers Staff Writer On Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., to kick off Black History Month, a few campus organizations put up booths to discuss upcoming events this February. The kickoff event, put together by the African American Diaspora Studies Office, the Office of Intercultural Engagement and the National Pan-Hellenic Council, had food and various booths set up to represent cultural organizations on … Continue reading Black History Month Kickoff
Benjamin Pulgar-Guzman Staff Writer Dating in college; your parents always ask you about it, your friends have engaged in it and you have thought about it. But how does one actually go about it? Or even better yet, should you? Before analyzing such deep questions, I had to create a structured understanding of the types of thinking is involved in college dating. So let us … Continue reading To Date or Not to Date; is The Question
Catherine Titus Staff Writer UNCG’s Office of Intercultural Engagement, also known as OIE, is hosting numerous events for Black History Month throughout February. To kick things off on Thursday, OIE held their first of a two part dialogue called, “Walk in My Shoes: A Walk in Black Identity.” Aysia Evans, OIE’S Graduate Assistant, created these month long activities as a sort of homecoming back to … Continue reading “A Walk In My Shoes”
Rufus Simmons Staff Writer A game of knowledge intertwined with liquid courage is as entertaining as it sounds. Anyone searching for this combination can find their way to Little Brother Brewing in downtown Greensboro for Trivia Night, every Tuesday from 7 to 9 pm. Abstaining from drinking won’t stop anyone from having fun because this is not a dull affair. You could feel the Trivia … Continue reading Drinks and Trivia: A Dynamic Duo
Abbigaile Gustafson Staff Writer People in life jackets; hundreds of orange life jackets, crammed into unstable boats, could be seen in the distance from the Grecian shore, anxiously waiting to come into contact with land. Watching this series of events unfold within the first few minutes of the film, the scenario became clear: these are refugees. The people of many nations, languages, religions and ages … Continue reading Ai WeiWei’s “Human Flow”
Shira Snyder Staff Writer Tu B’Shvat is a holiday that, for the most part, no one has ever heard of. “I don’t know what that is,” said UNCG psychology major and senior, Jesse Gonzalez-Parks, who, like most people, does not know that Tu B’Shvat is a Jewish holiday about celebrating the trees. To experience Tu B’Shvat myself, I went to the Tu B’Shvat celebration that … Continue reading Tu B’Sh-what?
