By Nicole FergusonArgus Editor-in-Chief Sharon Stephens only owns two pairs of flat shoes. Several other dozen of pairs of shoes in Stephens closet are representative of what you’d expect to see on a model working a Paris runway-high heels.Stephens is among the hundreds of women on the campus of Winston-Salem […]
Author: Nicole Ferguson
Students express security concerns
Editor-in-Chief Nicole Young, a senior nursing major, says she is becoming more and more concerned with her safety as she has to walk further north down Martin Luther King, Jr. drive to reach her classes in the nursing building. She says motorists aren’t mindful of pedestrians and evening walks alone […]
OutKast has CBS apologizing again
A performance at the Grammy’s by the popular recording artists OutKast led to yet another public apology from the CBS network. OutKast’s performance was not sexually offensive, as the one that led to the first public apology was, but it was racially offensive to Native Americans. OutKast’s Andre 3000 came […]
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 […]
Free at Last
For the first time in well over a decade, Darryl Hunt got to tell his side of the story, but not from behind bars.The Student Government Association of Winston-Salem State University hosted a Free At Last! forum for Hunt on Jan.22 at 7 p.m. in Dillard Auditorium. The forum served […]
Fubu entrepreneurs say love the work, not the money
The street-savvy New York team that founded the black-owned clothing label, FUBU, a multi-million dollar operation with sales worldwide, offered WSSU students some simple yet sage advice during a recent lecture on campus: “Make sure you’re doing something you love. Trust me the money’s not worth it.” This advice came […]
Alumni Employees
With December graduation approaching in a few weeks, hundreds of Winston-Salem State University students are preparing to receive their diplomas and explore the “real” world. But for some recent WSSU students the real world isn’t much different from the campus community they just left. That’s because these alums are now […]
University gets $400k HUD grant
The Winston-Salem State University’s Center for Community Safety (CCS) has received a three-year $400,000 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grant to address health care, crime prevention and education issues in the Belview and Happy Hill neighborhoods south of the campus. The grant comes through HUD’s Community Outreach Partnership […]
Welcome Back
A student chapter of the NAACP has been reinstated on the campus of Winston-Salem State University and one of its first tasks will be to rally students to support a moratorium on the death penalty in North Carolina.”We are the third highest state in the nation in executions behind Oklahoma […]
Rams Rule
The common saying says that you break up to make up. The Ram football team made up with the gods of homecoming after a yearlong wait to reclaim dominance resulted in a 38-0 win over visiting Johnson C. Smith. From the time that the game ball arrived perfectly on the […]