The popularity of the intramural basketball program prompted the season to start early this school year. Intramural basketball usually start in the beginning of the spring semester, but this year there is a fall season.Games are played on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 7 to 10 p.m. in Whitaker Gymnasium. On […]
Month: October 2003
Rams turn out victory in first matchup with Bears
Special to the ArgusYou get one chance to make a first impression. For the first time in history the Rams of Winston Salem State University played the Bears of West Virginia Tech in Montgomery, W.Va. Three thousand fans climbed the hill to Martin Field to witness what started out to […]
Coaches pass
I appreciate the benefit that is extended to high school coaches to be able to attend the games of all the college games . What I’ve noticed is that universities such as Wake, UNCC,Johnson C Smith and the rest of the universities in the state extend to us two tickets. […]
Not the average 15-year-old
The average fifteen year old female–she’s in the 10th grade; maybe she’s running for homecoming court; she could even be on her high school track team…Or just maybe, she’s strolling the sidewalks of a college campus! Shalonda Ingram began fall classes this semester with a cumulative GPA of 4.3 (3.98 […]
Haki Madhbuti shares literary talents with WSSU
Poet, essayist and entrepreneur, Haki Madhubuti, embodies a true spirit of renaissance man as he moves through the worlds of literature, business and education. Madhubuti was the guest speaker for a program was held by the Department of English and Foreign Languages on September 4. Many students were given opportunities […]
Fashion is center-stage in exhibition at the gallery
Fashion has always been an important part of African American culture. Since June 13, Diggs Gallery has taken a look at fashion and the role it has played throughout history with an exhibition created by the Black Fashion Museum, also known as BFM.Master-minded in Washington D.C., the BFM created “A […]
Have lessons been learned from War?
I remember reading about the ancient Greek tale of Pyrrhus, the great war general that became famous for his example to mankind about fighting battles that, even in victory, would be at too great of a cost. The skirmish in Iraq is a parallel to this story, as the US […]
Housing still a concern
If it weren’t obvious by the scarcity of seats in the dining hall, then it certainly was more than evident that the number of freshman accepted and enrolled by Winston-Salem State University was well above past averages when some people found themselves short of a place to live during the […]
Student learns lesson from behind bars
A study abroad trip for one WSSU student ended in three nights of jail time, and a dismal perception of the Finnish culture.Tiffanie Adams, a 20-year-old junior molecular biology major from Charlotte, said that because of racism and a poor justice system, she spent time in jail in Finland while […]
Blacks battling with anorexia often scrutinized
KRT CHICAGO In many ways, Stephanie Doswell is your regular college student in a T-shirt and flare-legged jeans. But she is also anorexic, bulimic and African-American, a combination so rare that it sometimes goes unrecognized.”If someone sees a sickly, thin white person, they automatically think that they have anorexia,” said […]