Tag: Sarah Vick

  • The Odyssey Begins at Salem

    The Odyssey Begins at Salem

    By Sarah Vick November 2, 2015, Winston-Salem, NC– Salem College is launching a branch of The Odyssey. First-year Merritt Enright was interested in writing for The Odyssey, but noticed that Salem College was not listed as one of the publication’s affiliated colleges. Undeterred, she reached out to the site’s officials. Today, she spoke over the…

  • What is Intersex?

    LGBTQ+: An Educational Series By Sarah Vick     Last month, The Salemite covered the first five letters of the LGBTQ+ initialism. This month, we’re going beyond the basics with definitions provided by the LGBTQ Center at Wake Forest University. This is the second installment of an educational series that gathers LGBTQ+ terms from scholarly resources and…

  • Mobile Technology and Healthcare: Visiting International Scholar to Speak at Salem College

    Mobile Technology and Healthcare: Visiting International Scholar to Speak at Salem College

    By Sarah Vick, Edited by Hannah Callaway Originally published on the Salem College website on October 2, 2015. Salem College will host a public address by Dr. Ammina Kothari, assistant professor of communication at the Rochester Institute of Technology, on Monday, October 12, 2015. Kothari will speak at Salem as part of the Visiting International Scholar program,…

  • LGBTQ+ An Educational Series: #1, The Basics

    LGBTQ+ An Educational Series: #1, The Basics

    By Sarah Vick      Navigating the ever-expanding alphabet soup of the LGBTQ+ initialism can be tricky, but we’re here to help! This fall, The Salemite is launching an educational series to explain the different LGBTQ+ letters and how they are defined according to the Gender Equality Resource Center at the University of California at…

  • These Shining Lives: Pierrettes Tell Story of Strong Women

    These Shining Lives: Pierrettes Tell Story of Strong Women

    By Emily Ramser     Real women, real stories; it sounds like the tagline for The Vagina Monologues, but it means something different when applied to Pierrettes’ fall semester production, These Shining Lives.     These Shining Lives is a play from the early 2000s written by Melanie Marnich, an American playwright and television writer. These Shining Lives it…

  • Call for Read-Through Auditions

    Call for Read-Through Auditions

    Are you interested in acting and performing? Do you want to learn more about the backstage process of putting on a play? A Hungarian playwright, Janos Degi, is putting together a dramatic production currently entitled “Megan, Boston Marathon” about the Boston Marathon bombing that took place in April 2013. The play follows the life of…

  • Bookmarks: Writing for Young Adults with Bestselling Authors

    Bookmarks: Writing for Young Adults with Bestselling Authors

    Salem College will be hosting an event for Bookmarks, an organization that promotes the love of reading. The event will be called Writing for Young Adults with Bestselling Authors, and will be held this spring. It will feature four bestselling and award-winning authors of young adult novels, namely Kami Garcia, Stephanie Perkins, Brendan Reichs, and…

  • The Pierettes Present “Anton in Show Business”

    The Pierettes Present “Anton in Show Business”

    The Salem College Pierettes presented their fall play, Anton in Show Business, from September 25-27 this year. The play followed the lives of show business members such as actors, producers, directors, and critics. While the play was enjoyable overall, the plot was difficult to follow due to the introduction and change of many characters. The…