Facebook faces controversy following anti-vaccine content
Elliot Adamson, Staff Writer
March 15, 2019
Pressure has accumulated onto the billion-dollar social media platform. Mark Zuckerberg’s company faces a crossroads as content that promotes refusing or reducing vaccinations is finding a louder voice in advertisements across Facebook. After other platforms including YouTube and Pinterest took steps...
Letter To The Editor
April 20, 2018
To the Editor: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent 10 hours, over the course of two days, testifying before both houses of Congress last week. That news rightly took a back seat to reports of a grisly chemical weapons attack against people in the Syrian town of Douma, and of President Trump’s...
Readers are responsible for choosing what they read
Jayraj Jonnalagadda and Nathan Park
October 6, 2017
NFL players protest police brutality. The new Travel Ban. Puerto Rico’s post-hurricane devastation. The world’s stories in the past week has overwhelmed readers. When people check on the weekly news, they get slammed with all these stories. With no way to read them all, it can seem like the world...
Author of “Hidden Figures”speaks in Dana
Abigail AbantoHollans, Staff Writer
October 5, 2017
“It just kept grabbing me,” said author Margot Lee Shetterly of writing “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.” “Every clue led to something else and made me more curious. So in a sense, I had to finish it...
Social media gives way for effective protests in the US
DaeQuan Fitzgerald, Sports Editor
September 15, 2017
How different would our newspapers and news networks be if Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the other modern modes of online communication were taken away? The age of social media has given power to individuals by supplying a platform to bring light to what they may see as the issues or injustices in...
News in Brief
Ian Penny, World and Nation Editor
April 28, 2017
Brazil On April 25, indigenous people protesting in Brasília, Brazil, clashed with police officers. About 4,000 people attended the protest, which concerned legislation about indigenous land rights. Farmers and native groups have clashed in recent months. “We carried 200 coffins symbolizing the...
Opinions about social media differ on campus
Qunicy Malesovas, Staff Writer
March 4, 2016
In an age where Taylor Swift has seven times as many Twitter followers as North Carolina has residents, it may seem we are more virtually connected than ever. For the rest of the world, this may be so, but for Guilford students, social media infatuation is not exactly #trending. In fact, some students...
Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and similar groups turn to the Internet for recruitment
Carlton Skinner, Staff Writers
September 12, 2014
The recent explosion of popularity and use of social media and networking websites like Twitter and Facebook, has completely altered the way information spreads across the globe. However, whether or not this change is a good or bad thing remains to be seen. “Any change of this magnitude has positive...
Compliments page hopes to be campus pick-me-up
Nicole Zelniker, Staff Writer
April 18, 2014
With 495 friends and rising, Guilford Compliments might just be one of the most popular “students” on Guilford’s campus. “We started this as what we hoped to be a kinder alternative to Guilford College Confessions,” said the anonymous page manager. After the infamous Guilford College...
