Christy Putnam Staff Writer Looking for a grand dinner and friendly atmosphere? Look no further than The Great Bay Oyster House. Located on 109 E. Poinsett Street in Greer; it’s not too far from North Greenville. GBOH’s (as it is referred to by the employees and regulars) is in the business of serving seafood with [...]
Kyra Alexander Staff Writer Winter Jam is an annual Christian music festival with a mixture of famous bands and some you may not know. This year Newsong, MercyMe, Barlow Girl, Skillet, American Idol’s Mandisa and PureNRG did the music. Also, Tony Nolan was the guest speaker. If you needed more action, BMX Real Encounter’s Skate [...]
Jennilyn Dempsey Staff Writer BMW Zentrum Twenty miles from your dorm room lies the “ultimate” museum. Home to the only BMW manufacturing plant in the United States. Spartanburg County is the birthplace of all X5 sport utility vehicles and Z4 coupes and roadsters. At the plant’s museum, also known as the Zentrum, you can learn [...]
Chris Bullard Staff Writer Crusader baseball is hitting off the season with some singles, doubles and even triplets. Mark, Matt and Michael Benjamin are stepping up to the plate for the North Greenville University Crusaders as brothers and teammates. Born on Sept. 29, 1988, the 19 year-old Benjamin brothers were raised in Greenwood, SC by [...]
The members of Edison Glass include: Joshua Silverberg on lead vocals and guitar, Mountain Morin on vocals and bass, James Usher on guitar and Joe Morin on drums. Q: The whole “Christian band” and “Christians in a band” and other labels like that carry a lot of weight and stereotypes. What do you, as a [...]
Chris Bullard Staff Writer An intimate crowd turned out for a benefit concert on Feb. 16 in Turner Chapel, featuring Edison Glass, The War and The Brandon Batson Band. The event, sponsored by the Baptist Student Union and university radio station WNGR, came about after some students on the BSU council attended an Edison Glass [...]
David Sons Staff Writer Nike has set up a billboard in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, that has drawn a lot of attention since its debut several years ago. Displayed for the entire city, if not nation, to see is Cavaliers’ phenom LeBron James soaring through the air, undoubtedly on his way to slamming home a thunderous [...]
Paul Conner Staff Writer The intramural Ultimate Frisbee and basketball seasons are ending this week, and the top four teams in each league will head to the playoffs. As of Feb. 14, the Scrubs were the top team in Frisbee, followed by Easy Street and B Team. For basketball, Size and X were tied for [...]
Chase Gratz Staff Writer On Feb. 12, North Greenville’s baseball team traveled to Brevard to play the Tornados in a doubleheader. This is the Crusader’s third doubleheader of their 2008 season. Brevard’s first baseman Justin Frady started out the second inning with a single and advanced to second on a wild pitch. The Tornados’ designated [...]
Chris Brank Staff Writer On Feb. 15, the men and women tennis teams played Spartanburg Methodist College at the Greer Tennis Academy. The women’s team won their match 9-0. “We had three seniors graduate, so we’re a younger team this season,” said Caitlyn Whitted, senior sport management. “We’re bonding well as a team, and the [...]
Stephen Lane Staff Writer The Lady Crusader basketball team has been a scoring machine, collecting 181 points in two games last week and winning four of their last five games. They came out against Morris College on Valentine’s Day and shot the lights out in the first half, hitting 69 percent of their shots from [...]
Ben Stevens Staff Writer Today, different schools of thought exist within the Christian church, such as Protestantism, the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. One of the problems that may arise from these schools of thought is that they create problems of preference in the global church that leads to division in a group of [...]
Carrie Parker Staff Writer We get our priorities bent out of shape when it comes to worship. In the American “church” we argue over the styles of songs, appropriate dress, and the building we choose to worship in. Yet God is more concerned with the integrity of the heart that worships. True, genuine worship is [...]
Jon Harris Staff Writer Award winning film producer Cassandra Hollis stopped at North Greenville University Feb. 12 and 13. The campus had the opportunity to screen part three of her short-film trilogy, Mattie, Johnny, and the Smooth White Stones. Hollis also participated in the university’s celebration of black history month. “It gives us an important [...]
Kaelyn Pfenning News/Features Editor The One Act Play Festival captured the hearts of many students last week from Feb. 12 to Feb. 15. Four individual plays directed by junior or senior theatre majors transformed Turner Chapel from a lecture hall into a play house. “The whole festival is amazing,” said Daniel Reith, sophomore theatre/history. Each [...]