Author: Jamie Hunter

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 […]

News

Welcome home to Pegram Hall in fall 2010

Pegram Hall is scheduled to reopen fall 2010. Pegram had been closed fall 2009  because the Office of Housing and Residence Life had not received enough housing applications. Enrollment determines whether dormitories at Winston-Salem State remain open.  “With the [new] guaranteed housing process, we must now make all dorms […]

News

Campus Crime Blotter: Dec. 14 – Jan. 27

The Campus Crime Blotter is a concise summary of the up-to-date incidents that affect the Winston-Salem State campus and community. Certain incidents may lead to News Argus articles that discuss them at great length. Monday, Dec. 14 At 1:33 p.m. campus police dispatched to investigate noises similar to gunshots in […]

News

WSSU students witness history at opening of Civil Rights museum

In celebration of the grand opening of the International Civil Rights Center & Museum, 11 Winston-Salem State students, all mass communications majors, attended the Town Hall Forum Jan. 28 at the NC A&T State Alumni Event Center.   The free event had approximately 700 people in attendance.  The Museum opened […]

Opinion

Way to go President Obama!

This time last year we were celebrating the inauguration of our first African-American President.   Many of us traveled to Washington D.C.  and stood in chilling temperatures to be a part of this great American history.  President Barack Obama has not accomplished everything he said he would during his campaign, […]

News

Winter weather postpones fall 2009 ceremony

The events surrounding the day of the 2009 fall commencement are probably a time many Winston-Salem State graduating students and their parents will remember.  But not for a good reason. Dec. 18 [the scheduled for commencement] a winter weather advisory was issued by the National Weather Service to the Winston-Salem […]

News

New process guarantees campus housing

Unlike 2009, continuing Winston- Salem State students will not have to worry about having a place to stay when they return to campus. For the 2010-2011 academic year, all students will be guaranteed housing.  The online lottery process, introduced by the Enrollment Management Committee in spring 2009, will continue to […]

Sports

Inaugural cookout brings together coaches, faculty, student-athletes

Director of Athletics Bill Hayes is backing up his emphasis on the success of Winston-Salem State’s student-athletes with the first Dr. Reginald K. Sherard Academic Cookout. The event took place at C.E. Gaines Center Jan. 21 in attempts to reconnect the focus on academics between coaches, student-athletes, and professors. “The […]

Sports

New coach, new season, new record, hopefully

Winston-Salem State turned to another familiar face to serve as the school’s ninth football coach.  WSSU alum Connell Maynor, a veteran with more than 20 years of football experience as both a player and a coach, began his first stint as a head coach. Maynor was hired Dec. 16 and […]