The Winston-Salem State baseball team followed last year’s CIAA championship victory with another successful season. The team won the 2012 CIAA regular season conference championship with a 15-3 conference record. Overall the Rams finished the regular season with a 31-17 record. “We fell a little short of the games we […]
Author: Daniel Braswell
Lady Rams win CIAA title
The Lady Rams (30-17, 15-1 CIAA) softball team repeated as CIAA champions April 21 when they shutout the Virginia State Lady Trojans (21-22, 12-4) 3-0 in the CIAA championship game. The Lady Rams defeated the Lady Trojans on VSU’s home field in Ettrick, Va. Britney Cato, a junior right hander […]
Non-traditional students involved as much as their counterparts
In recent years, the economy has been in a recession, depression or just bad. Jobs are few, and both the old and new ones require new skills. To meet these challenges, some non-traditional students are entering Winston-Salem State for the first time or returning to complete a degree. The non-traditional […]
Men’s, women’s teams fail to capture intramural basketball championships
Winston-Salem State’s men’s and women’s intramural teams failed to bring home the top prize as they traveled to Raleigh for the ACIS Basketball Regional and National Championships on April 13-15. In the women’s bracket, the No. 1 seed, Rams were upset by East Carolina, 51-50 in opening round women’s club […]
Campus to be saturated with lifesaving defibrillators
The University is placing automated external defibrillators, in buildings throughout the entire campus to increase the survival chances of anyone who may experience a sudden cardiac arrest. According to American Heart Association, AEDs are lifesaving tools. Each year, sudden cardiac arrest claims the lives of at least 250,000 people. The […]
Phi Mu Alpha chapter celebrates 33 years, new plot, probate
The campus grounds received yet another addition to the landscape, only this time in the form of a new Greek plot. Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a music fraternity, joins the small list of Council of Independent Greek Organizations members to receive a Greek plot. The plot, which is in […]
Track and field team performs well at first home meet in more than 30 years
The WSSU Collegiate Invitational was the first track meet Winston-Salem State hosted in more than 30 years March 30-31. Ryan Robinson a junior thrower for the Rams said that the support that was shown helped him perform his best. “It was nice for us to be able to showcase […]
With rising gasoline prices, commuters should consider less expensive alternatives
With gas prices reaching a new high for this year, it’s pricey for students, faculty and staff to get back and forth to campus. The national price of regular gas is $3.87, according to GasBuddy.com, a site that provides real-time, national average price searches for gas by city, state and […]
With no tears shed
As the 2012 spring step show came to a close I hugged my line brother and we realized that our time at WSSU is coming to an end. Normally when you read a goodbye piece, you see people telling you how to live and what to do during your time […]
Faculty Senate proposing grading scale that includes pluses/minuses format
Everything Winston-Salem State students know about calculating their GPA may be changing significantly — if the Faculty Senate’s proposal is accepted next fall. Himanshu Gopalan, chair of the Faculty Senate said that the Senate is working to alter the University’s grading scale from the solid letter grades like A’s or […]