Saturday, March 7

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Winthrop Fashion Club Challenges “Corporate Americana”
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Winthrop Fashion Club Challenges “Corporate Americana”

By Lanie Cauthen                   Pinstripes and graphic t-shirts lined the runway at “Corporate Americana” – a fashion show from Winthrop’s Fashion Club.              The event, held on March 13 in Rutledge Gallery, celebrated Black culture by defying the fashion of the American workplace. The pieces worn by the models were styled by Winthrop senior Carrie Vaughn.              “In corporate America, I think of standards,” Vaughn said. “I think of norms. I think of boundaries. I think of hatred against creativity, against who we are as people, against individualis...
Headline: CSL loses authority over chartering new organizations over Winthrop Students for Life 
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Headline: CSL loses authority over chartering new organizations over Winthrop Students for Life 

Byline: Chase Duncan, Guest Writer The Winthrop Council of Student Leaders (CSL)has lost its authority to charter new student organizations after it denied chartering to a Winthrop chapter of the pro-life advocacy organization Students for Life America (SFLA), following an unanimously approved resolution by the Board of Trustees. Winthrop President Edward Serna announced in a campuswide email message sent out on April 7 that after looking into CSL’s review process for multiple new student organizations, including the denied charter request from SFLA, he rescinded the denial of WSFL on February 17, 2025.  The email included a link to the resolution passed by the Board of Trustees that removed chartering privileges from CSL.  “On April 4, 2025, the Board of Trustees una...
Rock Hill Socialist Activist Banned From WU Campus for Life for Graffiti Vandalism
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Rock Hill Socialist Activist Banned From WU Campus for Life for Graffiti Vandalism

Howard “Buddy” Beck was indefinitely trespassed for placing a sticker on a parking sign in front of Tillman Hall Byline: Chase Duncan, Guest Writer Rock Hill socialist community activist Howard “Buddy” Beck has been trespassed indefinitely from Winthrop’s campus after being charged with graffiti vandalism for placing a sticker on parking signs in front of Tillman Hall. Many students at Winthrop might not recognize him by name, but Beck has been a familiar face at Winthrop for the past several years as a tabling vendor inside the DiGiorgio Campus Center, where he would sell Marxist literature and merchandise to students. He also served as a third-party advisor to the now-defunct WU Socialist Student Union.  Beck said he was protesting the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil on Oa...
Winthrop University Denies new Department of Joy and Whimsy
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Winthrop University Denies new Department of Joy and Whimsy

By: Siri H. Burke Recently, as of February it was suggested by students that they were not quite satisfied with the quality of life on campus. It was implied that this was due to lack of childlike wonder and whimsical opportunities on campus.  A proposal was made and submitted by students to Winthrop that a new department be opened called the the Department of Joy and Whimsy. This new department was supposed to offer classes such as “Rediscovering Childlike Wonder”, “The Art of Sidewalk Chalk” and “Hobbies: What do you like.” After the announcement of the potential for the new department there was an outpouring of support from the student body. Unfortunately the excitement was quickly snuffed out by a statement from the Dean of Student Suffering.  In a statement made ...
Bigstuff X Cocky (Tiger)
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Bigstuff X Cocky (Tiger)

Bigstuff = Winthrop Cocky = Gamecocks Tiger = Clemson Written by: Mac Sports, Pining (maybe mutual), enemies to lovers, inaccurate portail of university mascots, please don’t report us, fade to black, I know too much about bird anatomy now, they/them (because = mascot), I don’t know how football works Bigstuff (what is my life) and Cocky, have been known as enemies for as long as everyone has known. They competed with each other as they grew up in various sports and academic events. Between these they have gotten to know each other well, even though they didn’t want to. At their last football match against each other, they shook hands both knowing that that was probably the last time they would see each other. You see Bigstuff was staying in SC and going to SCU while Cocky w...