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Honors Program succeeds in diversifying

Chris Collins, Staff Writer February 19, 2016

Diversity. You can never have enough. It provides perspective, inspires innovation and cracks quandaries. Recently, Guilford College’s Honors Program has come under fire for its lack of diversity. “Currently...

Community scrutinizes Honors Program’s diversity

Kathryn Long, Staff Writer February 19, 2016

“We’re concerned that the Honors Program is currently white-dominated and needs to include more students of color in the academic opportunities that it offers,” said junior Molly Anne Marcotte, Community...

Open letter from a Guilford College student advocate

James Ricks December 1, 2015

To the board of trustees, faculty and student body C/o President Jane K. Fernandes Dear Madame President, thank you for taking the time to meet with me this morning about my first letter. As a student...

In response to five common misconceptions about atheism

Walter Hassell, Guest Writer November 13, 2015

Atheists are the least trusted minority in America today. What, you were thinking of a different group? If so, that isn’t surprising, given that there has been great pushback (as there should be)...

Core values offer chance to change

Core values offer chance to change

Brenna Walsh, Staff Writer November 13, 2015

How often do you think about Guilford’s core values in your day-to-day life? Be honest — it is not very Quaker to lie. Guilford established its seven core values, community, diversity, equality,...

Meacham ends this semester’s Bryan series

Lily Lou, News Editor November 13, 2015

Nine days after releasing his latest book, “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush,” presidential historian Jon Meacham, author, executive editor and vice president at...

Shea Orth-Moore (R), an international student form Kenya, talks with fellow first-year Taryn Bonner. She is one of Guilfords many international students.

International students add diversity

Quinn Johnson and Maksym Kosachevskyy October 23, 2015

A 2006 study found that nine in 10 young Americans could not find Afghanistan on a map. It is ironic that Guilford hosts students from countries this demographic cannot even identify. Students from...

Jane Fernandes delivers her inaugural speech, Inspiring Distinction.

President Fernandes plants her roots

José Oliva, Staff Writer September 4, 2015

On Aug. 26, President Jane K. Fernandes was welcomed as Guilford College’s first woman president and the first deaf woman president of an American college during the inauguration of the college’s ninth...

Catwoman: bisexual or over-sexualized?

Catwoman: bisexual or over-sexualized?

Annie Fullwood, Staff Writer April 17, 2015

In a world of gods and men, there seems to be a shortage of, well, people. DC Comics and Marvel Comics, the largest competitors in the business of superheroes, have created a combined total of over...

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