Alison McKane Staff Writer On Friday, March 18, Ahmet Tanhan, a doctoral student at UNCG, hosted a photovoice event and discussion regarding UNCG Muslims’ concerns on campus. With over 110 people attending both the dinner and the exhibition between the three and a half hours in which the event took place, Tanhan considered it a definite success. In an excerpt Tanhan wrote prefacing … Continue reading Muslim Photovoice
Zachary Weaver Staff Writer Numerous fights broke out during Gym-Jam, a charity dance, at UNCG’s Coleman Gym around 10:00 p.m. on Friday. The dance, co-sponsored by EBONY and Alpha Phi Alpha, was intended to raise money for Flint, Mich. It was held in Coleman Gym on UNCG campus, a building with a 180-person capacity. Two UNCG Police officers were present inside, accompanying … Continue reading Friday fights have UNCG talking
Maggie Young News Editor Margaret Spellings officially started as UNC System president just over two weeks ago on March 1. Her arrival has been celebrated by some and disputed by many. On her first day as president, North Carolina students held a statewide walkout to protest her arrival. Multiple campuses got involved with the walkout including UNC-Greensboro, Appalachian State, UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina … Continue reading NC Walkout Protests
Aden Hizkias Staff Writer Last Tuesday, February 23, UNCG’s Lunch and Learn held a forum on cultural appropriation in the Virginia Dare Alumni House at 12:30 p.m. The forum discussed the cultural appropriation and impersonation of black women by white, gay men. “I think specifically when people I know would… create names for each other. Female black sounding names, stereotypically in that sense. And … Continue reading Forum addresses cultural appropriation of black female bodies
Daniel Bayer Staff Writer Volunteers met last week, Feb. 23, to begin planning for UNCG’s second Tunnel of Oppression exhibit, to be held Wednesday, March 30, in the Elliott University Center. The exhibit is being facilitated by the university’s Diversity Peer Engagement Committee. “The Tunnel of Oppression is an opportunity for people to see different examples of oppression,” said Shara Cotton, a student facilitator … Continue reading Preparations begin for second Tunnel of Oppression
Aden Hizkias Staff Writer This past Saturday, February 20, Professor John Cox led a discussion about genocide at Scuppernong Books in downtown Greensboro. Cox is the Director of the Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Studies. “I grew up in Greensboro and I grew up very aware of the sit-ins which occurred only a couple of years before I was born. And … Continue reading “To Kill a People:” John Cox speaks on Holocaust and genocide
Aden Hizkias Staff Writer Advocates Taking Action, a new UNC-Greensboro student-led organization, received a grant from Planned Parenthood in order to inform college-aged students about safe sex and health care. The sex education forum was the organization’s first event. Tia Jarrell, a junior and the Vice President of Advocates Taking Action, told attendees that the the group was created as a way for students … Continue reading Planned Parenthood teams up with Advocates Taking Action in “Sex Ed. for All”
Zachary Weaver Staff Writer Campaign season is a turbulent time of year, with both Democrats and Republicans vying to woo voters for their respective parties. This can take some abrasive forms, with groups utilizing tactics that not everyone agrees with or supports. That was the case over the last few weeks, when a flier distributed by the UNCG College Republicans stirred up considerable … Continue reading Behind every College Republican is a Democrat
Zachary Weaver Staff Writer UNCG’s Faculty Senate met last Wednesday to discuss a miscellany of topics including the Provost-Faculty-Fellow Program, the Public Access Policy and an Ombuds Office, among others. The meeting opened with remarks from Chancellor Gilliam and Provost Dunn. Gilliam noted that this autumn will mark the 25-year-anniversary of the Faculty Senate. He also stated that his intention in appearing at … Continue reading Faculty Senate has first meeting of new semester
Daniel Bayer Staff Writer Former Bennett College president and nationally known writer, Dr. Julianne Malveaux called on millennials to pick up where the civil rights generation left off in her keynote speech at the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration last Thursday at the North Carolina A&T campus. “Some of the things that my baby brothers and sisters take for granted are some of the … Continue reading Malveaux marks MLK celebration with call to action
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