Staff Editorial: Your young votes matter
October 26, 2018
America is in an era of extreme social, political, and economic dysfunction. There is an opioid crisis devastating poor communities, income and wealth inequality is at shockingly high levels while median incomes have stagnated for the past forty years, millions of Americans don’t have the access to...
Report highlights treatment of faculty
Hannah Shoemaker, News Editor
March 23, 2018
In the fall 2017 semester, 33.9 percent of Guilford courses were taught by contingent faculty, part-time or full-time faculty members who are not tenured or on the tenure track. This year, the Guilford College chapter of the American Association of University Professors chose to focus on the treatment...
Guilford releases the lineup for the 2018-2019 Bryan Series event
Finn Williamson, Senior Writer
March 16, 2018
The 2018-19 Bryan Series will feature a number of well-known politicians, athletes and doctors, beginning with a two-person lecture from Karl Rove and David Axelrod, former high-level advisors from both sides of the political aisle. Rove was the senior advisor and deputy chief of staff for former President Ge...
India proposes “Modicare” as healthcare plan
Aarushi Ahuja, World and Nation Editor
February 16, 2018
India recently announced an unprecedentedly large public healthcare scheme proposal. The proposed insurance plan would be the world’s grandest public healthcare system to date, announced to potentially cover the healthcare of over 100 million Indian families. According to BBC, each family would...
Proposed parking fee faces faculty and staff backlash
Hannah Shoemaker and Andrew Walker
January 26, 2018
The final weeks of 2017 at Guilford consisted of finals, winter break and a proposed faculty and staff parking fee. On Dec. 11, the Office of Human Resources sent an email to Guilford faculty and staff stating that beginning on Jan. 1, they would need to pay a monthly fee for campus parking. 10 days...
Mara Stewart shares work on STD awareness
November 10, 2017
There were nearly 2 million cases of sexually transmitted diseases reported in Guilford County in 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mara Stewart, a senior and sociology and anthropology and health science double major, addressed this issue along with the problem of...
Gawande inspires with talk on healthcare
Nicole Zelniker, World & Nation Editor
October 30, 2015
Guilford College’s website describes Atul Gawande as a “best-selling author and physician.” He describes himself as “A doctor who got lucky enough to start writing during (his) training.” On Oct. 20, he came to the Greensboro Coliseum to speak at the Bryan Series. “He was a very engaging...
Xenophobic attacks in South Africa leave several dead
Zachary Lindsey, Staff Writer
May 1, 2015
South Africa, often known as the Rainbow Nation because of the country’s multicultural diversity, is going through an outbreak of xenophobic killing. Currently, 300 suspects have been arrested for anti-immigrant violence, leaving six dead, according to Al Jazeera and other agencies. Thousands of...
