Ty Buckner, Associate Vice President Communications & Marketing, Guest Writer
• February 20, 2015
In 1897, Mark Twain wrote “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” Twain wrote this in response to public confusion between a cousin’s illness and his own demise. I thought about that when I...
Though we may not yet know with certainty the killer’s motives in taking the lives of three young Americans, practicing Muslims in their prime, we do know the crime was not motivated by “an ongoing...
The fountain in front of Founders. The wall around the baseball field. The fish tank in the Quakeria. These are a few examples of times when Guilford College has received generous donations for very specific...
English is a malleable language. By speaking it, we smash and mold its words, often giving them new meanings. When this occurs, adjustments in usage must follow.
Following the attack on satirical French...
Pour être ou ne pas être Charlie (to be or not to be Charlie)?
Suppose I wrote an article insulting your religion, your mother and everything you hold near and dear to your heart.
Do you write...
In response to the article “Society should relax rules about men’s clothing,” I really don’t know how to put my feelings nicely. There is a blatant lack of understanding of how gender is constructed,...
To my fellow political observers, analysts, scholars and human beings who like to know what is happening in our world: There is an increasingly apparent idea that, in order to be considered “credible”...
The arrival of Steven Salaita on our campus last Tuesday, Feb. 3, caused quite a stir. Not only were students and faculty on campus divided, the event — and the decision to move it from The Frank Family...
Unity. This is what needs to happen in our society during Black History Month to bring our country into much needed harmony.
Since its evolution from “Negro History Week” to “Black History Month,”...
