Courtney Bailey, Staff Writer With the honor of a DuPont grant recently being awarded to Wingate University, both faculty and students have begun collaborating together to form a new sustainability group that will hopefully launch the campus and local community into a more environmental existence. From energy meters being installed on campus to an “Earth Week” plannedContinueContinue reading “Making a BIGG change on campus”
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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”
Seniors lead WU Volleyball to global success
Tyler Smith, Staff Writer Senior volleyball players, Iris Brewer (#5) and Shelly Stumpff (#13), came to Wingate with the hopes of playing high level collegiate volleyball while experiencing everything that college has to offer. However, neither one of them could have guessed that they would have a combined eight South Atlantic Conference regular season titles and beContinueContinue reading “Seniors lead WU Volleyball to global success”
‘Enrique’s Journey’ author speaks on immigration issues
Courtney Bailey – Staff Writer Welcoming refugees, reforming foreign policy, and extending a helping hand to those in need are only the beginning of award-winning author and journalist Sonia Nazario’s ideas for solving the hardships and horrors of immigration to the United States. On the evening of Oct. 27, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Enrique’s JourneyContinueContinue reading “‘Enrique’s Journey’ author speaks on immigration issues”
Midnight Madness
Kyndra Sanden, Staff Writer Cuddy Arena – Basketball season only comes once a year, but when it happens it comes at full force. 30 Games packed into one season, playing in different arenas across the eastern region, getting a bid to the big tournament: It all begins at Midnight Madness. Midnight Madness is aContinueContinue reading “Midnight Madness”
A Haunting at Scarowinds
Tyler Smith, Staff Writer Walking through the gates of Scarowinds is the equivalent to stepping into Disney’s famed Halloween movie, “Halloweentown.” Except this is the MTV version, where the friendly ghosts and goblins seem to have taken the wrong turn and became the receivers of endless torture and mad scientist experiments. For a couple ofContinueContinue reading “A Haunting at Scarowinds”
Getting to know Dr. Thompson
Kyndra Sanden, Staff Writer “I was lying on my back, looking up into the clear sky decomposing lights into one star. That’s when I knew what I wanted to be.” Dr. Grant Thompson, a physics and astronomy professor at Wingate University, grew up in rural northern Missouri. He saw the sky at a whole differentContinueContinue reading “Getting to know Dr. Thompson”
Wingate welcomes the Hinson Art Museum
Courtney Bailey and Hope Rogers, Staff Writer On September 24th, the Hinson Art Museum opened its doors for the first time. A second opening for Wingate University’s staff, faculty, and students followed on Friday. Years ago, Wingate University’s former president, Dr. Jerry McGee, expressed a desire to build an art museum to house the WingateContinueContinue reading “Wingate welcomes the Hinson Art Museum”
The life of a college physique competitor
Kyndra Sanden, Staff Writer Society has this idea that all college students are the same. They all love to party, sleep in late, skip class because they can and put their grades at the end of their priorities. That may be the case for some college students, but not for everyone on Wingate’s campus. JohnContinueContinue reading “The life of a college physique competitor”
Passion behind Wingate Swimming
Leigh-Anne Clark, Staff Writer When most people hear the word passion, they think of an uncontrollable emotion such as love or hate. Kirk Sanocki, in his fifthteenth season as head coach of Wingate University’s swim team, gives passion a definition of his own. “Don’t mistake my passion for anger” is heard daily by Sanocki’s swimmersContinueContinue reading “Passion behind Wingate Swimming”
