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The Guilfordian

The student news site of Guilford College

The Guilfordian

The student news site of Guilford College

The Guilfordian

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Guilford College lifts community mask mandate

Sheila Sosa, Staff Writer May 18, 2022

It has been more than two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to the shutdown of many schools, stores and other public places in North Carolina and across the country. According...

Measles outbreak continues in Samoa

Paige Abbott and Annie Vo, Staff Writers December 20, 2019

The fight against vaccines has been slowly tapping away at American social politics for years now. However, the threat of unvaccinated diseases became apparent on a large scale as Samoa began suffering...

NIH and CDC work to overcome opioid epidemic

Annette Varghese, Staff Writer January 25, 2019

Starting in the late 1990s, pharmaceutical companies reassured health care professionals that the use of opioids in prescription painkillers would not lead to widespread abuse of the substance or overdoses....

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Mara Stewart shares work on STD awareness

Anna Snider and Shivam Gandhi November 10, 2017

There were nearly 2 million cases of sexually transmitted diseases reported in Guilford County in 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mara Stewart, a senior and sociology...

The Deep South continues to struggle in war against HIV

Aiperi Iusupova, Staff Writer February 6, 2015

The United States has always been divided into geographical fractions based on race and socioeconomic status. Today, the fragmented character of American history has led to a new life-threatening problem...

Pep band hits a new high note in sports events

Emma Rumpl, Staff Writer October 3, 2014

With a “rat-a-tat-tat” and an “oompah,” Guilford College’s pep band will play its way back onto campus for the 2014 – 2015 school year. The band is open to all instrumentalists at any level...

The Ebola virus spreads from patient zero to over 3,000

Aiperi Iusupova, Staff Writer September 12, 2014

Who is patient zero? In epidemiological investigations, doctors often use the term to refer to the first documentated case. According to CNN Health and The New England Journal of Medicine, patient zero...

CDC: a valuable, under-used resource

CDC: a valuable, under-used resource

Juliet Magoon, Staff Writer September 12, 2014

Have you ever visited the Career Development Center? For many Guilford students, the answer is a swift “no.” Students often fall victim to resisting or waiting too long to get the help they need,...

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