Month: March 2014

News

The Campus Incident Report- 3/26

Sunday, March 2 Rape At 5:12 a.m., a female student alleged that a male student she knew raped her. The female student said that she and the male were fooling around in Foundation Heights when she told him that she didn’t want to have sex. He ignored her and forced […]

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Forsyth County gives inclement weather tips to students, locals

Inclement weather and winter storms have been plentiful this season, but the Forsyth County Emergency Management Advisory Council has plans to keep residents – including the Winston-Salem State community prepared for natural disasters. Melton Sadler, director of the Office of Emergency Management, said the Federal Emergency Management Agency requires a […]

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Chancellor Reaves announces his resignation

Chancellor Donald J. Reaves will be ending his near 8-year adminstrative relationship with Winston-Salem State effective Dec. 31, 2014. Chancellor Reaves announced his departure from WSSU March 21 “I learned seven years ago, the arrival of a new chancellor is a big event,” Reaves said. “I decided based on that, the departure of a chancellor is big as well.” Reaves met […]

News

Local church continues giving to honor late chancellor

Winston-Salem State received $10,000 from United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church on Feb. 9 in honor of late chancellor Haywood L. Wilson Jr . The church celebrated its annual event Winston-Salem State University Day to present the Haywood L. Wilson Jr. Memorial Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship is named after Wilson, who […]

News

Parking deck, bridge to shorten drive time

Driving maintenance golf carts on Interstate Business 40 with fast traffic zooming by is not the safest, neither is walking pillar to post from Lowery Street but there is hope for a solution. Winston-Salem State is in the process of building a parking deck and bridge for the convenience of […]

Opinion

Black Twitter

When you think of the most popular social networks, Twitter definitely comes to mind. The site is a haven for those craving the latest, hottest news of the day. For that reason, Twitter has become a microcosm consisting of many small communities, one of which has taken the world by […]

Sports

COACH’S GAME BALL: Tajanel McNeill

Who says that a walk-on athlete can’t have the same success as a recruited athlete? Winston-Salem State’s Tajanel McNeill wasn’t recruited to run track in college, but she tried out for the team during her freshman year at WSSU and made it. McNeill, now a junior, has been chosen by […]

Opinion

Entertaining Criticism: “Shock Exchange”

Ralph Baker is no stranger to the stock market. His father introduced him to the Wall Street Journal in fifth grade, and since then Baker has worked his way to a lucrative more than 15-year career in corporate finance. In 2006, he founded the New York Shock Exchange, an inner-city […]

Opinion

Write or Die Editor’s Column: Watch who you idolize

I take pride in being a woman. After all, we are nurturers, trend setters, muses for fashion; face it — humanity is nothing without us. But, there is more to womanhood than that. As author-poet Ntozake Shange said, “Where there is woman, there is magic.” Women have undoubtedly played a […]

News

No extra pay for teachers seeking M.A.

Gov. Pat McCrory's Mansion   It is not surpring that the N.C. law that eliminated the 10-15 percent supplemental pay incentive for teachers obtaining master’s degrees has support for and against it. The N.C. General Assembly passed the bill in 2013, and the law went into effect beginning with the […]