Arts, Culture & Tech

Hero among many, the passing of Chadwick Boseman

Savannah Scott

Chadwick Boseman, an actor and South Carolina native, passed away on Aug. 28. The 43-year-old had been battling colon cancer since 2016 and was surrounded by his family and wife…

Fresh faces in the College of Visual and Performing Arts

David Botzer

The first day of school can get the nerves going for anyone during a normal semester, especially professors. However, when it's the first day at a new school and the…

Zoom changing class attire

Aerieal Laymon

Online Zoom meetings have become the new normal for many people this year. Something that is questioned before they get on their meetings is what should they wear or if…

Students in our “New Normal”

Chloe Wright

“One day I sat down to figure out what day it was - without looking at anything - and I couldn’t do it,” Griffin Cordell, a junior sculpture major at…

Arts & Culture clubs in the age of COVID

Chase Duncan

The long-awaited return of Winthrop students to the campus environment marks the beginning of a new semester for Winthrop student organizations and clubs. In an unfamiliar age of social distancing…

The curious case of immortal jellyfish

Shyanne Hamrick

A plethora of myths feature the idealized conception of a cure for human immortality, but the immortal jellyfish just might be the Benjamin Button of the sea. With the rare…

Professor plans and student pains

Allison Reynolds

Last spring, Winthrop University made the decision on March 13 to initiate two weeks of online remote learning at the end of spring break because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It…

Nobody cares if you wear white after Labor Day

Chloe Wright

The saying goes, “You can’t wear white after Labor Day,” but have you ever stopped to ask yourself where such a rule that nobody follows even came from? There are…

Voyager 2 spacecraft repaired: a grand tour of the cosmos

Chase Duncan

The Voyager 2 NASA space probe was restored to its normal operations earlier this year after a two month period of partial dormancy caused by malfunctions in the probe’s power…

“Lights Up” on Winthrop’s Department of Theatre and Dance

David Botzer

Among the other events in the world this year, the Black Lives Matter movement has been one of the most prominent. Riots, protests, murders, outcries and more have stemmed from…