Arts, Culture & Tech

To infinity and beyond: 3D printed rockets

Shyanne Hamrick

With a vision to build and launch the first 3D printed rocket by 2021, Relativity Space is revolutionizing the aerospace industry. Relativity Space intends to build this rocket or launch…

Iambic Pentameter on Sidewalk Parameters

Jeb Bartlett

Theaters across the country currently remain closed due to COVID-19, but in Rock Hill, the Old Town Theatre Company has brought a piece of live entertainment back to the community.…

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…