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Homecoming Tailgate 2019: What’s New

Ann Marie Juarez

Tailgating at Winthrop has been a favorite tradition of Winthrop students and alumni for many years, though this year will see the annual homecoming tailgate undergoing some changes. Homecoming for…

How to make Homecoming sustainable

Dean of Students Office/Publications

With Winthrop Homecoming around the corner, students are getting ready to share in the homecoming experience and show their support for our athletes. However, tailgating tends to leave behind trash…

Winthrop Soccer makes the Big South Playoffs for the first time since 2015

Dean of Students Office/Publications

Sports seasons are changing from soccer to basketball with Homecoming Week in full swing at Winthrop University. Don’t lose focus on soccer just yet though. According to Winthrop Athletics, the…

A win for Winthrop

Savannah Scott

It was a victorious win for Winthrop’s Competitive Gaming Club. Five members from the club competed as an esports team playing “Super Smash Brothers.” The tournament is called the Collegiate…

Game face on

Lily Fremed

“Oh my gosh! I’m gonna be Team USA!” Joshua Myers’ reaction to reading his acceptance letter into the Special Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi 2019 was priceless. A York County…

The unique beauty of Winthrop Dance Theatre

Laura Munson

Art at Winthrop comes in a variety of forms, but it is rare that students have the opportunity to see shows dedicated solely to choreography. The Department of Theatre and…

Let’s talk money: Budget Town Hall

Dean of Students Office/Publications

The Council of Student Leaders subcommittee, Campus Outreach, hosted both Winthrop University President Dan Mahony and Vice President of Business and Finance Justin Oates in Dina’s Place for the first…

You should be riding the bus

Victoria Howard

The introduction of the My Ride bus system over the summer was met with positive reactions from students and residents of Rock Hill. During the first few months of the…

“If it harms none, do what you will”

Laura Munson

In the centuries since the Salem Witch Trials, the word “witch” has been a death sentence, an insult, a storybook character, a Halloween icon, and has been reclaimed by a…

Crime stats reveal increase in sexual assaults

Anna Sharpe

A student was raped twice in one night in East Thomson Hall on Homecoming weekend, November 2017, according to a police report filed in Jan. 2018. This was one of…