The Rams basketball team will compete in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) conference in 2009-2010, Chico Caldwell, the university’s athletic director, confirmed in a recent interview.”Not only will student athletes gain more national exposure but WSSU will also receive nationwide coverage,” Caldwell said. “And also I think that the student […]

Kristin Feemster, a senior in the Department of Mass Communications, arrived in Winston-Salem equipped with everything she needed to begin a successful school year, that is except for one important thing: on-campus housing. Feemster had already arranged to dwell in an off-campus apartment when she applied for housing last spring […]

Tiffany Johnson hears an alarm sound in Rams Commons at least 20 times a day. She is a freshman resident of building three, and her room is located at the end of the hall, near one of the entranceways. “The alarms are very aggravating,” she said, “but I think they […]

All across America, worried mothers are asking their college-age children the same two questions: “Honey, are you eating right? How’s the food there?”  Most students would agree that the food served in college cafeterias cannot compete with Mama’s fried chicken, mashed potatoes, collard greens and homemade peach cobbler – or […]

The Office of International Programs kicked off its International Film Studies in Dillard Auditorium in the Anderson Center with a documentary titled “Black Is, Black Ain’t.”The 86-minute documentary focused on the many shades of black culture. African-Americans are referred to in the film as “gumbo” because of the diversity of […]

Jayson Blair, the fast-track New York Times reporter who resigned in disgrace after editors realized that he plagiarized and fabricated stories, told an audience of aspiring journalists at WSSU that he owed them a debt. “As an African-American and former journalist, I owe you all an apology,” Blair said. But […]

Textbooks – you can’t afford them and you can’t afford not to have them. As tuition fees increase and refunds decrease, it becomes harder to squeeze the cost of books into your budget. Fortunately, opportunities to buy books at reasonable prices are available. Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ecampus.com and many […]

Charles William Dodd is not a typical freshman. He dresses rather conservatively, preferring blue button-down shirts to oversized t-shirts; neat gray slacks to sagging jeans. But what distinguishes him most from other students is not his dress, but rather his age. Dodd is 75. He is not only older than […]

Michael Magruder, WSSU’s new marching band director, is proof that the old adage “good things come to those who wait” is true. After 22 years of waiting and preparing, Magruder’s dreams are finally being realized. He has taken over from Emory Jones, who spent nearly a decade as director of […]

The ladies of Women for Change, a group that aims to instill “values, poise, responsibility and unity” among college women of all races, religions and backgrounds, attracted dozens of interested students to its Fall 2004 kickoff earlier this month. This newly formed group which was founded last year by students […]