Council of Student Leaders Chair Erin Emiroglu has always had a passion for student government. She was a member of Emerging Leaders during her freshman year in 2018 and joined the Council of Student Leaders her sophomore year. She is also a member of the Winthrop College Democrats and Alpha Delta Pi. Emiroglu is a senior political science major with a minor in health. She is a first-generation college student and also a first-generation American, having a father who immigrated to the United States from Turkey. While her role is officially called the Chair of the Council of Student leaders, Emiroglu considers her role in simpler terms. “I’m the liaison between the student governing body and the student body. I report to the board and the President.” …
By: Josh Simon, Representative of Winthrop University’s Socialist Student Union The Socialist Student Union is a student-led organization on Winthrop’s campus that advocates for a political philosophy called socialism. The organization’s purpose is to educate the Winthrop community on socialist principles and to take actions in line with those same principles. To explore this organization's position, take a look at the socialist view on politics. Through the socialist lens, politics is an arena in which the interests of various classes struggle against one another. A class in this sense is a social class, determined by the way in which individuals in a group make their living. In the modern capitalist context, there are two classes: the bourgeoisie and proletariat. Under this system, the bourgeoisie are the ones who…
Students are not satisfied with recent changes Winthrop University officials have made to the school’s sexual misconduct policy. The updates to the policy are “blatantly anti-LGBTQ and perpetuate dangerous myths about sexual violence,” according to a post on the group’s Instagram, @wustudentsforchange. Updates, as outlined in an email from Interim President George Hynd sent out to the campus community on Sep. 1, include changes that bring the policy up to date with guidance from the Biden administration and changes to the complaint resolution procedures in the Title IX investigative process. “In the new procedures, all decision makers or appeal officers in the Title IX investigative process will be external to the university. Also, on-campus investigators will be selected from a pool of faculty and staff members who volunteer for the…
The advent of the hallowest holiday of the year draws ever closer with each passing night, and the spirits that roam Winthrop’s ghostly grounds grow more and more restless waiting to greet students and faculty who still roam the mortal plane. Student residents of the Margaret Nance dormitory trade stories of encounters with a feminine, strangely garmented figure that appears before unsuspecting students to ask them where their lost trunk of belongings is, only to disappear before their very eyes. “There was once a young lady who was a student at Winthrop while Margaret Nance was used to house injured soldiers during a war,” said Micheal Reid, a law enforcement officer for the campus police department and Winthrop ghost aficionado. “The all-female student body and the soldiers weren’t supposed to…
“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 Winthrop University said. Artists and students alike have been feeling the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic for six months now. Many restrictions have been put in place since the beginning of March, including a strict limitations on social gatherings in many states across the US. These rules not only make it impossible for countless artists, like Cordell, to continue their craft, but for any person to be afforded the opportunity to carry on in their field as they are accustomed. This severely limits the chances for anyone to make and maintain the strong physical and social connections that most rely…
With the Democratic primaries coming up soon, people are doing whatever it takes to make sure the person they want wins. The Hollywood Reporter quoted Hilary Clinton in her documentary saying, “Nobody likes him, nobody works with him, he got nothing done” referring to Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. Clinton further went on to say that Bernie makes empty promises because he is a “career politician” and that she feels sorry for those who fall for it. Clinton is not the only one making statements about Sanders. According to an article published by CNN, “Sen. Elizabeth Warren publicly accused Sen. Bernie Sanders of telling her during a private meeting in December 2018 that he didn’t think a woman could win.” Sanders has since denounced these allegations, insisting that he did not…
George Hynd has been confirmed as Winthrop University’s interim president by the school’s Board of Trustees with only one opposing vote. Prior to voting Hynd in as interim president, the board returned from executive session to vote on what Board of Trustees Chairman Glenn McCall said was “a resolution authorizing the sale of a property located on Cherry Road [in] Rock Hill, South Carolina known as the Coke Building by Winthrop University to Lancaster Land LLC.” McCall requested to suspend the reading of the resolution and to take a vote on the sale which the board voted unanimously in favor of the sale. Before the vote on Hynd’s hiring was taken, board member Jane LaRoche addressed the room and said the decision to make Hynd the interim president is a…
At the end of last semester, Winthrop students voted for the student body president and vice president. Imani Belton, a senior integrated marketing communications major, won the election for president. Brandon Jackson, a senior business administration major, was voted in as vice president. They welcomed the class of 2023 by introducing themselves and their future plans for the student body. “My name is Imani Belton, I’m an integrated marketing communication [major] with a minor in leadership studies,” Belton said. “Before I became student body president, I worked as a peer mentor, an ASC tutor and served as a member on the LIFT planning committee. Currently, I am also a diversity peer educator.” “My name is Brandon Jackson. I’m a business administration major with a concentration in human resource…
A 21-year-old Winthrop University student was assaulted near the Walk2Campus apartment complex early Saturday morning. According to Kenneth Scoggins, Winthrop University Police Department chief of police, the victim was held at gunpoint as she was walking toward her apartment, instructed to go to a darker area where she was assaulted. The assailant then took her cell phone, ID, keys and car. The investigation was carried out by the Rock Hill Police Department, as it was off campus and therefore in their jurisdiction, but according to an email Scoggins sent to the student body, WUPD was “assisting and remain[ing] actively involved in the investigation.” The alleged assailant was arrested later that day around 11:30 a.m. on India Hook Road. The suspect is Terry Shaimek Tyler, 16. Tyler is technically considered a…
Winthrop introduces new cultural event series to promote civic engagement Die-ins, protests and commonly avoided conversations brought a new wave of events to Winthrop University’s campus. The Leadership and Social Change series is a six-part series of events in which faculty will speak to students about topics ranging from police relations, to civil rights movements and even how art and journalism have communicated social issues and changes. The series will feature three events a semester, all Tuesdays during common time, and will wrap up in April with a keynote speaker- Cynthia Enloe, research professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and the Environment at Clark University in Massachusetts. Jennifer Disney, chair of the political science department and director of the women and gender studies program, is the organizer of…
