Good grades, summer job experience and participation in student activities and organizations are not enough to help students land a good, full-time job. In today’s competitive job market, students with career related work experience-internships/ co-ops are getting the best interviews and job offers. Internships and co-ops are entry-level professional experiences […]
Author: LaMonica Sloan
2004 graduates will have easier time finding work
The Class of 2004 should have an easier time finding work than other college grads have had in recent years. The nonprofit National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) measures the potential job market for new grads by polling its company members on four separate occasions throughout the academic year. […]
Campus Voices
#8220;I felt safe on campus until my car was vandalized on February 27, 2004. Since that incident occurred I have not felt safe on campus because I’ve come to the realization that campus police are not doing an adequate job.” – Melissa Nelson, Senior, Molecular Biology major “Yes, I feel […]
WSSU student makes beautiful faces in new boutique downtown
Argus Editor-in-chief Sharon Robinson says she was inspired by a James A. Gray lecture series guest to start her own business. The junior mass communications major said that she’d always promised herself that she’d return to school once her children grew up. After coming to Winston-Salem State University from twenty […]
REAPING THE BENEFITSMiss Gospel World USA begins her reign with a CD
Argus Managing Editor Last November, Kimberly Patrick was named Miss Gospel World USA at the pageant held in K.R. Williams auditorium. Patrick is now reaping the benefits of what it means to wear this crown. Patrick was told she would win a $2,000 shopping spree in New York, a new […]
Norris named police chief
Argus Reporter When Pat Norris was a girl growing up in Winston-Salem in the segregated 1950s and ’60s, her grandmother taught her to obey the law and trust the police. It is advice that Norris took to heart, and advice that she reflected upon when sworn in last month as […]
Williams’ opinion is not for everyone
Argus News Editor Saul Williams challenged students to think out of the box with his thought- provoking spoken word on Feb. 20 at 7 pm. in K. R. Williams Auditorium. “We need to start thinking for ourselves,” he stated. Williams’ ideas about life in general motivated the audience to think […]
Edwards calls it quits after Tuesday’s landslide
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT) RALEIGH, N.C. Sen. John Edwards, the mill-town kid turned millionaire lawyer and major presidential candidate, ended his bid for the White House last month the same way he began it: with a political future as bright as the grin on his face. Edwards stepped aside in […]
Marley Jr. finds his way with Miami Beach store
Knight Ridder Newspapers (krt) MIAMI While his two-month-old twins slept on a couch in the South Beach store with the wooden floors and antique furniture of a Caribbean home, Robert Marley played a DVD on a large flat screen TV and looked wistfully at the highlights of the adventurous life […]
First black reality TV show heads downhill
Argus Reporter College Hill REVIEW What happens when you a producer takes eight black college students on a historically black campus and film their every move? The answer is College Hill, a reality television show gone bad. A couple of weeks ago, many viewers tuned into the first black […]