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The Guilfordian

The student news site of Guilford College

The Guilfordian

The student news site of Guilford College

The Guilfordian

Saba Taj creates political posters along with students during an event open to the public on Wednesday, April 5 at the Hege-Cox Printmaking Studio in Greensboro, North Carolina. // Photo courtesy of Erin Kye

Artist Saba Taj talks activism

Praveena Somasundaram, Staff Writer April 12, 2017

“What’s most notable to me is it’s one of the few times that I’ve depicted the villain, the thing that is being struggled against, in a body,” said artist Saba Taj. “The figure is stealing...

Philip Slaby, associate professor of history and chair of the history department, challenged the
student body to make connections between past tensions surrounding immigration in France to current events in the United States.

Professor gives lecture on immigration

Praveena Somasundaram, Staff Writer February 23, 2017

Immigrants faced discrimination in the past and still do today. “One of the things I would underscore about immigrants in general, and within democratic societies, is they are very, very vulnerable,”...

HUG engages community, creates safe spaces

HUG engages community, creates safe spaces

Abigail Bekele, Contributing Writer February 18, 2017

Hispanos Unidos de Guilford is a club that celebrates Hispanic culture and students on Guilford College’s campus. HUG is a place where students can go experience the food, music and heritage of the Hispanic...

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Protests worldwide, nationally garner attention

Ian Penny, World & Nation Editor February 17, 2017

Thousands huddle together under nighttime lights. Droves of creative signs and flags sprinkle a crowd. Authorities line up behind rows of riot shields and tear gas. Protests always create captivating...

A Day Without Immigrants

A Day Without Immigrants

Fernando Jimenez, Photography Editor February 17, 2017

“La Bamba” played within the walls of the Central Carolina Worker Justice Center  as members of the Latinx community gathered to make signs in preparation for the Day Without Immigrants protest...

Protesters rally in Pelham against KKK, Trump

Nicole Zelniker, Editor-In-Chief December 4, 2016

On Dec. 3, protesters gathered from all over the country to rally against the Klu Klux Klan in Pelham, North Carolina. “We have just as much of a right to be out here and show them it’s not what...

Alum advocates for change

Maksym Kosachevskyy, News Editor November 4, 2016

“Guilford has achieved quite a lot in the two and a half years I’ve been here,” wrote journalist and disability rights activist Bryan Dooley ’13 in a 2012 article in The Guilfordian. “But we...

Let’s talk about Yemen, U.S. involvement

Let’s talk about Yemen, U.S. involvement

Abe Kenmore, Social Justice and Diversity Corridinator October 28, 2016

Syria has been brought to the forefront this election cycle, quite rightfully, as a humanitarian disaster. But there is another crisis unfolding in the Middle East, one that our country is even more...

Officials are investigating the firebombing that affected various Republican headquarter offices in Hillsborough, NC on Oct. 16.

GOP attacked in NC, Dems start fundraiser

October 28, 2016

The Orange County Republican Party headquarters on Oct. 15 was firebombed, with the words “Nazi Republicans leave town or else” painted on the side of the building. There were no deaths or injuries. This...

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