So who are the new faces behind the positions of president, vice president and CEO of major companies? Who holds close to 16 percent of all corporate-office rankings in Fortune 500 companies? Who is graduating from college at increasingly higher rates than ever? Less than a decade ago, one’s answer […]
Month: April 2003
Lack of interest, support is disease of the lost generation
This month, I decided to write on a topic that has bothered me deeply since the beginning of my college career at Winston-Salem State University. That topic is why we have we let ourselves become the lost generation that many adults speak poorly of today? It appears that we are […]
Though strides have been made, affirmative action is still needed
It is a pleasure to spend time with you once again with this edition of the Chancellor’s Corner. As discussed at the onset of the first edition, one of the goals of the column has been to discuss areas of concern for you, the students. Based on candid conversations and […]
Former secretary of labor to speak at graduation
Alexis M. Herman, America’s 23rd Secretary of Labor, the first African-American and the fourth woman to head the U.S. Labor Department, will be the keynote speaker at Winston-Salem State University’s Spring Commencement, Saturday, May 10, at 9:45 a.m. in Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Under Herman’s administration, unemployment was at […]
13-car break-in makes for poor April Fools’ joke
What is notoriously known as a day for practical jokes became no laughing matter for 13 Winston-Salem State University students who woke to find that their vehicles had been tampered with.The break-ins occurred to vehicles parked in the Rams Commons parking lot, along Price Street and into the Wilson Hall […]
Though often ridiculed, black leaders continue anti-war stance
We are now three years into the new millennium and as the country nears war with Iraq, black leadership is taking a sharp blow. Figures in particular who are coming under fire from others, blacks included, are: the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan. All three men […]
Housing costs go up across campus, but felt most deeply by tenants of Rams Commons
Residents of Rams Commons will pay an extra $12 a month in rent starting next year.Felicia Billingslea, the general manager of Rams Commons, said that during the fall semester, students occupied 433 of the 436 rooms available. However this did not include resident assistants. The spring semester’s occupancy of Rams […]
Words of Wonder
With a smooth rhythm and poised to take over as one of Dancehall’s steady rising stars in the United States, Wayne Wonder is hoping his dent will be an enormous one.The News Argus spoke with the second reggae artist to make the crossover to the United States by phone from […]
Phi Beta Lambda XI Gamma Chapter is back
With a mission to bring business and education together in a positive working relationship through innovative leadership and career development programs, Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) is sure to make a difference on the campus of Winston-Salem State University.WSSU’s Phi Beta Lambda chapter was chartered on Dec. 4, 1967, before it […]
WSSU’s master’s in nursing program begins in January
Classes for WSSU’s latest master’s degree program, the master’s in nursing program in the School of Health Sciences will begin Jan. 13. “This program is the first for an historically black college and university [HBCU] in the University of North Carolina system and is the first primary care program to […]