#SocialDistancing Archives

Winthrop fares with COVID-19 for another semester

Sam Hyatt

Winthrop University students are starting another semester while following guidelines to slow the spread of Covid-19. Before classes started this fall, Winthrop made the decision to require masks in campus…

Repealing mask mandates—a step forward or backward?

Wren Brooke

South Carolina governor Henry McMaster issued an executive order on Friday, March 5, reversing the mandatory mask order in state buildings and other public buildings, including businesses such as restaurants. …

Getting your daily dose of vitamin D

Wren Brooke

With classes almost completely online during the fall and many staying that way this semester, working electronically has started to feel more natural than in-person classes. Here’s a few reasons…

COVID commencement: how social distancing has impacted graduation ceremonies

Autumn Hawkins

Winthrop University’s plan for the December 2020 graduation ceremony is to socially distance as much as possible due to the recent spike in COVID-19 cases. “As we continue to…

Notebooks and nose swabs: the debate on education during COVID-19

Autumn Hawkins

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many students have been given the choice to either learn remotely or in person. At the beginning of quarantine, parents of young students realized…

Numb to the numbers

The Johnsonian

As the pandemic continues, society is growing numb to the impact it has had on 2020. Since this past July, the White House’s actions have indicated that President Trump…

Costumes or COVID-19

Autumn Hawkins

Since January, America has been implementing social distancing and alternative methods of communication due to COVID-19. With the slow release of businesses reopening over the year, people have been…

Youth sports in Rock Hill

Lily Fremed

When the country went into quarantine six months ago, many children, young adults and professional athletes lost the freedom to practice, compete, or simply play outdoors. Slowly, those freedoms are…

Fighting loneliness while social distancing

Autumn Hawkins

Generation Z has been referred to as “the loneliest generation” in studies due to the fact that this generation does not place as much importance on social interaction than previous…