Tag: October 2019
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Nikole Hannah-Jones “Separate and Unequal: School Segregation in Modern Day America”
SADIE MARSH Nikole Hannah-Jones represents the potential we have in our own backyard. A New York Times investigative reporter raised in North Carolina. A reporter who focuses on racial injustice. A reporter who fights for equality in education for all children. Her passion for covering race, class, equity and school resegregation issues is profoundly more…
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October Town Hall Review
SADIE MARSH From the Dean of the College: Salem College is building strategic relationships between places involved in academic and student affairs. The College will be working on developing several new Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs), like the pathway to pharmacy currently in place with High Point University. Other MOUs are in place with Elon University, Campbell…
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Doran Commits to Salem Community, Transitions from Interim Role
SADIE MARSH On April 18, 2018, Sandra Doran was named the interim president of Salem College, a position which she started the following month. She served in this capacity for 14 months. This September, Salem Academy and College’s Board of Trustees voted to transition Doran into the role of Salem’s 21st president. When she was…
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Center for Women Writers Hosts Embodiment Panel
NATALIE PATTERSON On Friday, Oct. 18, Metta-Sáma and the Center for Women Writers welcomed poets Cameron Awkward-Rich, Rosebud Ben-Oni and Brenda Iijima, as well as self-identified diarist and anti-poet Kenyatta JP García, to each present a talk on the topic of embodiment. In her introduction of the writers, Metta-Sáma explained that the Embodiment Panel was…
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Salem Expands Community Partnerships with Articulation Agreement
MEGHAN NELSON Salem College and Forsyth Technical Community College recently signed their new co-admission agreement into effect in a ceremony held at Salem College on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. Sandra Doran, the newly appointed President of Salem College and Janet Spriggs, President of Forsyth Technical and Community College, represented their respective schools in the short…
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Counseling Services Welcomes New Director Robin Campbell
MEGHAN NELSON Salem College welcomes Robin Campbell as the new Director of Counseling. Campbell has over 20 years of experience in the mental health field, most recently at Bennett College where she held the same position for 12 years. She has also worked at a behavioral health hospital in High Point, North Carolina and earned…
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Pierettes Review: “Collective Rage” Uses Absurdity to Connect Us
SAV FRANZ In the Salem College Pierettes’ production of “Collective Rage: A Tale in 5 Betties,” the club shows they are not afraid to get a little political and extremely absurd. Centering itself around five different New York women all named Betty, each character reflects the deeply individual yet uniting struggles they face in loving…
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Safety Abroad: Be Aware, Be Ready, and Be Rude
ELLE CHIARADIO Recently, I ran into some other Americans while in France. It isn’t something I’d say is uncommon, but nonetheless I was ecstatic to engage in some North American small talk, something that is hard to find amongst the French. After some brief introductions, I was asked the standard question, “Why are you in…
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Pierrettes Preview: “Collective Rage” Unites Women Through Theatre
SAV FRANZ Salem College Pierrettes will be putting on a dark romantic comedy, running Oct. 3-6, bringing together five very different New Yorkers expressing their love, rage, and passions together through the art of theatre (or as they call “the thea-tah!”). The five characters— all named Betty, each come from distinct backgrounds but together discover…
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The New Poetry Review: The Best American Poetry 2019
NATALIE PATTERSON The Best American Poetry 2019 Major Jackson, Guest Editor David Lehman, Series Editor Though the question, “What is the best poetry in America?” is virtually impossible to answer, the Best American Poetry series seeks nonetheless to compile some of the finest American poems in one volume each year, edited by a different renowned…
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