Month: February 2010

Sports

Basketball coaches sideline shoes, go barefeet for needy cause

Women’s head basketball coach Dee Stokes and men’s head basketball coach Bobby Collins participated in “The Barefoot for Barefeet” Coaches Initiative Jan. 25 at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum against NC A&T. Winston-Salem State partnered with Samaritan’s Feet, a national non-profit organization, to raise awareness and generate traffic to their […]

Sports

Hayes brings new ideas to athletics

Since his hiring date of Nov. 3 as Winston-Salem State’s athletic director, Bill Hayes has taken the athletic department by the horns at a non-stop pace.  Hayes, a former winning head football coach at WSSU has had other coaching successes at NC Central and NC A&T.  He also went to […]

Features

ROC helps campus groups with funding, networking, training opportunities

The 100 active organizations at Winston-Salem State should  have circled Jan. 30 on their calendars.   On that day the Registered Organizations Council will have a Retreat in the Thompson Center. ROC is an organization that serves as a governing body for all of the organizations on campus.   The speaker […]

Sports

Rams begin 2010 with strong January effort

The Winston-Salem State men’s basketball team began the 2009-2010  season below .500 with a 2-8 record in November and December. The resolution: a turnaround resulting in a 5-3 January record.     The Rams bounced into the new year with a convincing 94-60 home win Jan. 4 over Washington Adventist […]

Features

Winston-Salem State offers ‘Ultimate’ exercise with Frisbee class

You were always told not to throw things in class, but now it’s okay to break the rules. An Aerobics class featuring a Frisbee is offering students at Winston-Salem State a new way to get in shape.  Ultimate Frisbee known as Ultimate is a limited contact sport like basketball, and […]

Opinion

Educating illegal immigrants in North Carolina community colleges

Gov. Bev Perdue and Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton are weak leaders for disagreeing with the decision to permit illegal immigrants to enroll into any of North Carolina’s 58 community colleges. Politicians should want what is best for the state.  Allowing illegal immigrants to enroll in community college is the right […]

Opinion

Spend now, pay with interest later

We have just experienced the time of the semester that all college and university students look forward to:  Student net loan proceeds checks, commonly known as a refund check.  We all enjoy receiving all the money that is handed to us, but do we really know where the money came […]

Features

Student wins tickets to Panthers game

A contest during the “Rams Have Heart” project in October gave one lucky Winston-Salem State student a chance to attend a Carolina Panthers game.       Tazjanne Swinnie, a sophomore Exercise Science major from Rockingham, won two tickets to watch the Carolina Panthers play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in […]

News

O’Kelly wants its overdue DVDs

Borrow: To take or obtain, with the promise to return.  The C.G. O’Kelly library staff at the media desk wants everyone to remember this definition when they utilize the DVD checkout service. DVD checkout services began at the library during the 2004-05 academic year, when a policy was […]

News

Ram-TV station managers say they will be introducing new shows this semester

The signs, videos,  and  voices of the 2008-2009 RAM-TV shows are still being broadcast  in 2010.  Throughout any given day, RAM-TV audiences may view, and sometimes hear, an interview by former students, a faculty meeting, or a “Happy Holidays” sign.  However, that is supposed to be changed this semester. “We […]