EDEN HAMBY This past year, Salem College Libraries (SCL) has gained two new additions to their library staff, new resources for students to use and outreach initiatives. The library staff has reached out to the Salemite to introduce themselves and these new resources to the student body. Their goal is to connect with Salem students […]
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GABI IORI February, although the shortest month of the year, can often feel like it drags on forever. Fresh off the heels of January’s resolutions and snow days, February can feel like a waste of time and energy. By the end of the month, it can be hard to maintain those goals we made for […]
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JULIA JENNINGS Interview with Ronnie Lewis, Coordinator of Technology Services. Where are you from? And how did you end up in Winston-Salem? I am from Winston Salem and have lived here all my life. I had the opportunity to move away from Winston-Salem twice for jobs, but stayed local. In 1999, PepsiCo moved my helpdesk […]
Read More…JULIA JENNINGS Objectively one of the cutest inhabitant of Salem’s campus, the eastern chipmunk is also one of the hardest to catch on camera–especially during the winter when they hibernate in their burrows. Although dubbed the “eastern” chipmunk, this small rodent is not found in the eastern part of North Carolina and are most densely […]
Read More… JULIA JENNINGS On Friday, Feb. 9, Salem hosted the first artists’ reception of the Spring semester in the Elberson Fine Arts Center. Two exhibits opened: Meredith Elder in the Velma Mason Davis Gallery, and an invitational throughout the Mary Davis Holt Gallery. The Invitational Exhibition brings together women printmakers currently active in the Winston-Salem community. […]
Read More… SAM SHAW In Search of Us Ava Dellaira pp. 416 Farrar Straus Giroux Published March 2018 When a book starts by tossing out disconnected puzzle pieces that make up the inevitable end, it is a challenge to keep reading. The energy, plot arc and tension have to be powerful enough to keep the rapt attention […]
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DENAE RABINETTE The Vagina Monologues are an Obie award-winning production created by playwright and activist Eve Ensler, based on real interviews with real women about their vaginas, sexuality, sexual experiences and body image–among other topics. Women of all different ages, races and backgrounds were interviewed – including a six-year-old girl, a dominatrix and an elderly […]
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SAV FRANZ Call Me By Your Name dir. Luca Guadagnino Released Jan. 19, 2018 In Luca Guadagnino’s film “Call Me By Your Name,” rather than being ripped into a parallel world of fantasticism and adventure you are taken gently by the hand and lead into an elegant and sensual land of “somewhere in Northern Italy.” […]
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NATALIE PATTERSON Ornament Anna Lena Phillips Bell Published 2017 The 2016 Vassar Miller Prize-winning poetry collection “Ornament” by Anna Lena Phillips Bell reads, quite simply, like a love letter to the Carolinas. Though the speaker never directly expresses this love in so many words, it is implicit in the attention she pays to the […]
Read More… NATALIE PATTERSON On Tuesday, Feb. 6, Traid NOW, the local chapter for the National Organization for Women, hosted its monthly meeting at Parkway UCC, welcoming guest speaker Catrina Thompson, Chief of the Winston-Salem Police Department, and colleagues. Chief Thompson, a 24-year veteran of the WSPD, presents herself as an advocate for domestic violence and mental […]
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