Culture

Beginning last week, the Roddey McMillan Record released a survey to the student body regarding Winthrop's approach to diversity and inclusivity on campus. The myriad of early responses have been interesting to consider as Winthrop's administration seeks to expand its efforts to promote diversity on campus. When asked how they felt that Winthrop has promoted diversity and inclusivity on campus, students responded quite differently, ranging from avid praise for Winthrop Administration to chagrin for what some sees as a massive failure on the University's part. "personally, I think the campus does a great job with transgender inclusion," says Ben Keenan, a sophomore computer science major. "The fact that I can put my name on my diploma and most professors won't ever know my dead n...

Miguel Caldwell started writing poetry when he was just 7 years old, and now his book, "Golden Boy", will be released sometime this summer. Caldwell, 21, is a Junior elementary education major. He discovered his love of poetry by reading his mother, Vallanie Caldwell's poetry when he was a child, even giving her advice on how to finish some of her poems. "Miguel was in third grade when I realized he had a gift for writing," says Vallanie Caldwell. "It was in May for Mother's Day that he made me a card expressing his thoughts on me as a mother, such a tearful moment for me but he blew my mind." Miguel always had a love for writing and poetry became another extension of that. "You can literally take whatever you're feeling and just put it down," said Miguel Caldwell. "My favor...