Tag: news
Brittany Maynard Ends Life – Assisted Suicide
Written by Andrea Martin, Media by Jack Wang.
Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old woman diagnosed with brain cancer, died after advocating her right to end her life on...
90-Year-Old-Man Arrested for Feeding the Homeless
Written by Andrea Martin, Media by Jack Wang
On Oct. 22, the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida passed an ordinance, which limited where groups can...
Hannah Graham’s Remains Found
Written by Andrea Martin. Media by Jack Wang.
Human remains have been located and identified as that of the missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham. Graham went...
Second Dallas Nurse Infected With Ebola
Written by Alisha Klug, Media by Jack Wang
It was announced on Wednesday, October 15 that a second nurse from Dallas has been infected with...
Hannah Graham Disappearance Update
Written by Andrea Martin, Media by Jack Wang
Authorities searching for Hannah Graham reported to have found human remains Saturday, Oct. 18, on an abandoned...
India’s Mars Orbiter Makes it to Mars
Written by Alisha Klug, Media by Jack Wang
On Wednesday, Sept. 24, everyone in the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) applauded as their spaceship, Orbiter (its...
Making Green: Entrepreneurship at Greenville
By now, you’ve probably seen them on campus: stands set up selling everything from delicious puppy chow to stylish t-shirts. That’s right, it’s time for the entrepreneurship class to put their new skills into action and provide us with some great merchandise to boot.
Apocalypse Saturday: It’s the End of the World, Again.
Polish your horned helmets* and sharpen your axes, freonds, because this Saturday only is the end of the world! I mean sure, we lived through Y2K, the Mayan Apocalypse, the Rapture, death by fire, and heck… Zorp returns every year! What makes the Ragnarok so different from all of these other ends of the world? Well, uh… um…
World in Briefs (10.08.13)
Ah, coffee—that wonderful beverage to which our country is addicted. The 1:1 ratio of Starbucks to U.S. citizens is proof enough. However, a recent action within a Colombian city might rival our caffeinated nation. Last Friday, October 4, a remarkable group of 13,800 people claimed to gather in a town square in Tunja to share a cup of joe.
Why You Should Care About World News
Greenville College is a wonderful place. Most people would be hard-pressed to find another environment that is as supportive, comforting, and enriching as this campus. It only makes sense that most students would focus their attention on what happens locally. If you had a team of cats with jetpacks doing a choreographed flight performance to Smash Mouth’s greatest hits, why would you want to think about anything else? Comparing GC to the aforementioned cats performance might seem a bit absurd, but the point stands—no matter how great GC is, we should not limit our view to its borders.