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The National Folk Festival featured six different stages throughout downtown Greensboro featuring musical pieces, dance performances and folklife demonstrations. This is the last year the city of Greensboro will be hosting the free festival which took place from Friday, Sept. 8 to Sunday Sept. 10 2017.//Photo by Fernando Jimenez/The Guilfordian

77th National Folk Festival animates Greensboro

Yunah Kim and Abigail AbantoHollans, Staff Writers September 15, 2017

After 77 years, the National Folk Festival has become one of the largest and longest-running celebrations of arts and culture. This year’s Festival was held in Greensboro, North Carolina from Friday,...

GSO Grasshoppers thrive on the field

Ian Penny, World and Nation Editor May 16, 2017

Dissosteira carolina, the genus and species of the Carolina grasshopper. Despite being a minor agricultural nuisance, the name does not quite elicit fear in the animal kingdom. Carolina grasshoppers...

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Campus power outage

Nicole Zelniker, Editor-In-Chief May 5, 2017

Whether playing pool in Milner or doing homework in the new apartments, on-campus residents from the theme houses to the old apartments experienced a shock when the power went out on campus on April 23. “Immediately,...

Zeke Smith, a contestant from the reality TV competition “Survivor,” was outed by a fellow contestant during the 10th episode of the season. // Photo courtesy of Robert Voets

Trans ‘Survivor’ contestant outed on show

Sonia McLamb, Staff Writer April 28, 2017

Since House Bill 2 was enacted last year, North Carolina has been in the news time and time again due to the issue of transphobia, as both a producer of bigotry and a site of resistance. On April 12,...

Students head to local sites to serve

Nicole Zelniker, Editor-In-Chief September 2, 2016

Regardless of where Guilfordians grew up, being a member of the Guilford Community means being part of the Greensboro community. It also means being part of the community that ranks ninth in the nation...

YWCA, Greensboro stand up against racism

Mae Wood, Staff Writer April 29, 2016

Grab your neighbor’s hand and hold tight because the Greensboro YWCA is forming a human chain and needs Guilford College students to be the links. The YWCA USA, Inc. is the largest and oldest multicultural...

GSO sister cities share culture

Nicole Zelniker, Managing Editor April 22, 2016

In 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower created the idea of sister cities to promote international cooperation. “The idea of sister cities was founded after the Second World War to kind of promote this...

GSO will grow with highway

Patrick Cassidy, Staff Writer April 8, 2016

For several decades, Greensboro and the North Carolina Department of Transportation have dreamed of working on a road project to ease traffic congestion in the city. Over the next few years, that project...

Greensboro-based Julian Sizemore Band performed their Southern soul and blues rock music at The Blind Tiger on Saturday, Feb. 6.

The Blind Tiger: great community and music

William Bryer, Staff Writer February 12, 2016

The stage lights, creating an emerald glow, illuminated the assortment of instruments --- keyboards, six-strings, bass guitars, and a ruby-colored drum kit --- that would soon welcome the musicians into...

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