April Wynn Editor in Chief Boston cream pie, pink lemonade, chocolate dipped strawberry and cappuccino sounds like sugar heaven, right? Iced: The Upstate Cupcake Café has taken these and more and transformed them into cupcake flavors. Iced began as the dream of 11-year-old Courtney Tessler who desired to open a bakery one day. This dream [...]
Jennilyn Dempsey News and Features Editor Melissa Snyder, senior psychology and Miss North Greenville University 2008, passed her crown on to Autumn McAbee, junior elementary education, at the 54th Miss NGU Pageant on Saturday, Sept. 13 in Turner Chapel. “I felt so happy when I found out I had won Miss NGU 2009,” McAbee said. [...]
Cory Guinn Staff Writer The North Greenville University football team traveled to Newberry College on Sept. 11 in an attempt to stop a two-game losing streak. Costly turnovers in the first half and injuries to the defense allowed Newberry’s high powered offense to gain a large lead that the Crusaders were unable to overcome. The [...]
Chris Bullard Guest Writer At the age of 16, Nathan Bramsen traveled with his parents, Paul and Carol, and his two older siblings, Andy and Corrie, across the Atlantic to the United States in order to pursue Nathan’s big dreams of a career in basketball. “Basketball dominated my life completely. When I was 13, I [...]
Monique Quarles & Alyse Sandal Staff Writers The 2008 Global Missions Conference at NGU occurred last week, Sept. 8-11. This year’s theme centered on “Revelation Song” based from the text of Revelation chapter seven. “After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, [...]
Rachel Ham Staff Writer From birthday cakes to extension cords, the North Greenville University Women’s Auxiliary Board shows Christ’s love to NGU students every day in many different ways. The women do many things for students behind the scenes around campus. The Board is made up of friends and alumni of the university and was [...]
Monique Quarles Staff Writer Time is inching its way closer and closer to Election Day, and soon voters of all ages, races and social classes will take their places at the polls. Yet, many times in this free nation the emphasis on the importance of voting is not expressed thoroughly enough due to the fact [...]
Tommy Lee Staff Writer Networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook have gotten negative connotations due to parents dislike for their children talking to strangers and the massive issue of sexual predators. Youtube has also gotten its fair share of off-putting publicity because of its huge amount of questionable content. However, the internet is changing. [...]
Chase Gratz Staff Writer The Crusader volleyball team started out their home season with a bang. On Sept. 9, the North Greenville volleyball team played against the Columbia College Koalas. The Crusaders started the game off on the right foot defeating the Koalas 25-18 in the first set. NGU lost the second and third sets [...]
Paul Conner Staff Writer The women’s soccer team continued their stellar play on Saturday, defeating Kentucky Christian 8-0 on a sun-soaked Saturday at Pepsi Stadium. The men’s team fell 4-0 to Lander, the no. 12 ranked team in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. Leah Ward, freshman sport management, Kaeleigh Meara, junior sport management, [...]
Molly Price Staff Writer Spiderman has nothing on the North Greenville student who ventures to climb the campus rock wall. At 35 ft. high, the rock wall offers students the opportunity to scale new heights when they have free time. “The rock wall gives students opportunities to be active, relieve stress, get to know other [...]
Keisha Tinsley Copy Editor New Moon, book two of the Twilight series, continues with Bella’s story. The book begins with Bella at the Cullen’s home for her “surprise” birthday party, thrown by Alice Cullen. Things turn sour when Bella gets a paper cut, and Jasper’s thirst for blood leads him to attack her. When Edward [...]
Jennilyn Dempsey News and Features Editor You have adjusted your class schedule sufficiently and negotiated a study and sleep schedule with your body clock, but you may be finding that you still have a lot of time on your hands. Perhaps you would be able to fit a part-time job into your schedule, but how [...]
I’ve had the sneaking suspicion lately that here in America we take for granted all that we have. Maybe it’s not that we take for granted what we have, but that we put the wrong emphasis on what we have. Let’s not mix words here, we live like kings. I live like a king. Compared [...]
Cody Fields Staff Writer The fourth season of North Greenville Crusader football at Younts Stadium is upon us. We may not have the tradition and history of the Swamp, the 12th Man, Howard’s Rock or Touchdown Jesus, but we do have palpable energy in the form of an intimate 5,000-seat stadium. The energy is there, [...]