Tag: politics
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The Impact of the Government Shutdown
By: Stella Bovender On Oct. 1, the federal government shutdown due to Congress failing to pass a budget for 2026. According to BBC’s Oct. 2025 article with Anthony Zurcher and James Fitzgerald, “Why the US government has shutdown and what happens now”, the main reason the government shutdown is because Democrats oppose cuts made to…
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Pentagon Possibly Closing Commissaries
By: Neva Mellow I had the absolute greatest privilege of visiting Washington, D.C. during the second week of October. I ran in the Army race and saw the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, the White House, and the Pentagon. The Pentagon is the center of this story. According to a 2025 Military Times article with…
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension: A Late-Night Lesson in Free Speech
By: Maryem Hamdouni On Sept. 17, ABC’s parent company, Disney, announced the “indefinite” suspension of late night talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel, after his comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk sparked nationwide backlash and a heated debate about free speech. According to Aljazeera’s Sept. 18 article with Elizabeth Melimopoulos titled “What did Jimmy Kimmel…
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Toxic Pipeline Proposed Through Triad
By: Clare Buchanan and Hailey Phillips Photo Credit: NO SSEP Action Toolkit According to the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, commonly known as “Williams,” has sent in an application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to extend the transcontinental pipeline further into Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas. If…
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No Kings Protest in Downtown WS
By: Clare Buchanan Protestors in Downtown Winston-Salem for the “No Kings” Protest. Photo Credit: Clare Buchanan On Oct. 18, Camel City United Indivisible held its second No Kings Protest of 2025. This protest was a part of a series of national protests against President Donald Trump and recent policies passed during his second administration. Similar…
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Salem College Republicans: Upcoming Plans
By Nicole Winks Salem College Republicans will attend two conferences to make students aware of the current political movement and of the Republican Party. These conferences are the North Carolina Women’s Leadership Summit in Raleigh and the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. Salem College has various political organizations on its campus, including the…
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Salem Women Abroad: Ruthie in Finland
Lauren Poole, c/o 2013 Lauren “Ruthie” Treadway graduated from Salem College in May of 2012 with a major in Religion and a minor in History. Originally from Kingston, Tennessee and eventually hoping to have a career in archives or museums, Ruthie left the United States for Finland only a week after receiving her diploma. In…
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Students Against: A Letter
Amendment One is an issue that has unified the Salem College community. Across racial, ethnic, religious, and partisan lines, students have taken a stand against this loose and discriminatory measure. The student legislative body of Salem College voted to pass a resolution standing firmly against Amendment One, making Salem the eighth college campus in North Carolina to do…
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Regarding the Stop Hate Campaign
Emily Abel, c/o 2013 A quick disclaimer—while I am open to (privately) answering questions regarding the feelings that I experienced in connection with secret societies, I will not be sharing details about the societies themselves or giving out any information about (or names of) their current or former members. I do this in respect for the people who have genuinely tried and are…
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Killing Us Softly
Kaitlin Hamilton, c/o 2011 When I was a Salem first year, I was required to watch Killing Us Softly 3 (2000) in my College 100 class. I realized then I’d made the right choice in attending Salem. UNC-Chapel Hill does not require all their first years to watch that particular documentary, but it should. In…
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