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QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Will you vote today? Have you already voted?

Wingate journalism students will be doing Election Night stories and posting material to The Weekly Triangle’s Facebook page this evening. Until then, here’s something to whet your appetite for our political coverage. COM 220 News Writing students ask other Wingate students if they’ve already voted of if they planned to: Class members Andrew Elliott andContinueContinue reading “QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Will you vote today? Have you already voted?”

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What’s your favorite thing about Homecoming?

This weekend is Homecoming at Wingate, so the COM 220 News Writing class is out asking people what their plans are and what they like most about this annual celebration: Casey Roux, a freshman, says she is looking forward to the football game with Mars Hill. “This is such an exciting time and I willContinueContinue reading “QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What’s your favorite thing about Homecoming?”

Question of the Week: Who will win the World Series?

Baseball’s World Series starts tomorrow and the COM 220 News Writing class went out on campus today to see who was going to be paying attention to it. Will the winner be the Chicago Cubs or the Cleveland Indians? What do you think? First, some great analysis from math professor Dr Greg Bell, who spokeContinueContinue reading “Question of the Week: Who will win the World Series?”

Question of the Week: What are you doing over Fall Break?

The COM 220 News Writing class asked students, staff and faculty members about their plans for the upcoming holiday break. Here’s what they said: Sociology major Taylor Edwards, left, with class member Christina Kroeger: “I’ll be working at Outback Steakhouse, shopping with Mom and going to the Carolina Panthers game.” Sophie Jendrzejczyk, sophomore, St.ContinueContinue reading “Question of the Week: What are you doing over Fall Break?”

Combatting Police Brutality

Commentary How can we make a change? Anthanee Doyle, Staff Writer The Law Dictionary defines police brutality as, “the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by an officer when dealing with civilians.” This means a force well beyond what would be necessary in order to handle a situation. The media has been capturing more cases ofContinueContinue reading “Combatting Police Brutality”

We rate the Super Bowl commercials

The Business Journalism class was assigned to watch the Super Bowl commercials and review the best and the worst. Here are their ratings. Feel free to tell us whether you agree or disagree: Summer File, staff writer Best Thirty seconds and Colgate created an emotional, eye opening commercial. Dirty hands washing off fruit, older hands holding aContinueContinue reading “We rate the Super Bowl commercials”

Assassins Creed: Syndicate gives players just what they want

Staff Writer Danny Stueber Last year, Assassins Creed: Unity was a glitchy mess that was not fun to play and had multiple things in game making you feel that you had to pay real world money to unlock them. This year, Assassins Creed: Syndicate fixes many problems from last years game while also adding newContinueContinue reading “Assassins Creed: Syndicate gives players just what they want”

Mixed Feelings for All Access Meal Plan

Written by: Øystein Fjeldberg This fall Wingate University implemented a new system for meal plans. The All Access plan provides students with virtually unlimited meals over the course of the semester. There are some limits, but they do little to inhibit the students needs. Students have 999 meals that they can spend over the course ofContinueContinue reading “Mixed Feelings for All Access Meal Plan”

The Invasion of Pumpkin Spice

Leigh-Ann Clark, Staff Writer “Pumpkin spice and everything nice” is how the saying goes for Americans during the fall season. When they say “everything”, they literally mean anything and everything edible. From candy and doughnuts to yogurt and cereal to even pasta sauce, American businesses saw the rise of pumpkin spice popularity and took advantageContinueContinue reading “The Invasion of Pumpkin Spice”