On Oct. 6, Winston-Salem State will compete against Florida A&M in the Coca-Cola Circle City Classic. The Office of Student Activities is offering students the chance to participate in the festivities. Activities will last through October 6, culminating in the game between the Rams and the Rattlers. Activities such as […]

Across the globe, soccer is perhaps the most universally popular sport. However, in the United States, it has taken longer for the craze to reach the mainstream. For example, Winston-Salem State has 14 men’s and women’s varsity athletic teams, yet soccer is not one of them. WSSU Director of Athletics, […]

At Winston-Salem State University, celebrities don’t walk through the breezeway every day, but students got a glimpse of a rising star Sept. 17. R&B singer Trey Songz came to WSSU to promote his upcoming sophomore album “Trey Day”. While the students were eating in the cafeteria, Songz came out of […]

For some white people, the fantasy of the “Magic Negro” is the only thing that helps them deal with the reality of successful black Americans. Take a black man, imbue him with talent, charisma and power beyond the stereotypes held by some white Americans and voila! you have a Magic […]

Black T-shirts, purple ribbons, the U.S. and black liberation flags swinging high, handmade posters, picket signs and fists clenched while rising to the sky: This was the uniform for many of the thousands of people, black and white, who marched two miles from the Ward 10 Recreational Park in Jena, […]

Shelbia Brown, a senior at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., was just one of many students from historically black colleges and universities who headed to Jena, La., for Sept. 20 demonstrations. They hope to support the six African American teenagers known as the “Jena Six.” “We need to […]

Between class, work, parties and school activities, many students find it difficult to take the time to re-energize body and brain with the real food for the soul, sleep. Failure to get in at least eight hours can result in dizziness, loss of energy and insomnia – all symptoms of […]

Binge drinking refers to the heavy consumption of alcohol over a short period of time. The generally accepted definition of binge drinking is the consumption of five or more drinks in a row by men _ or four or more drinks in a row by women _ at least once […]

Each year, students experience life on college campuses unaware that some of the world’s deadliest germs are going through their college years too. Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis bacteria are among those that cause meningitis, a disease that can wreak havoc in an unsuspecting college population. In 2005, Ashley Lee, […]

Where’s the creativity? Where’s the creativity? That’s all you hear from the older generation. Wasn’t it just a few decades ago that their music (rock, disco, funk, etc) was seen as uncreative, by their elders? Remember the movies from back in the day? Remember how it seemed like all the […]