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Last Blast 2012

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Deaf-Blind Student Pursues Education at Gardner-Webb

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Raising Awareness

Raising Awareness

By: Olivia Moody gwu-today.com Reporter As the highly anticipated band NEEDTOBREATHE makes its way to Gardner-Webb University this Saturday, volunteers and students across campus are raising awareness about human trafficking and what people can do to help the situation. On Monday, April 23, over thirty volunteers placed 1,080 flags around the flag pole in the [...]


Gospel Explosion Preview

By: Steve DeMilio gwu-today.com Reporter The second annual Gospel Explosion will be held in the Dover Theater Friday night at 7 p.m. The show will feature Gardner-Webb’s E. Jerome Scott Gospel Choir under the Direction of Chad Roseboro and Canaan Grier. “Last year’s show was great. We always believe in going from glory to glory [...]


4/19 Campus News and Sports Update

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Campus Ministries United Hosts “The Ride”

By: Marcus McCoy gwu-today.com Reporter Wednesday, April 18th, Gardner-Webb University’s Campus Ministries United will be hosting The Ride. This event will begin at 6:30pm around the campus flag pole in the center of the quad, and will go on until everyone has completed the race. Participants will be given the option to use different modes [...]


A Year in FOCUS

By: Adam Barnes gwu-today.com Reporter One of Gardner-Webb’s biggest campus ministries, Fellowship of Christians United in Service (FOCUS) will come to a close on April 25 as the ministry of 60 members will experience the FOCUS Last Blast. The Last Blast will start at 9 p.m. in the Millennium Playhouse. The ministry is similar to [...]


Listening Party on the Quad

By: Marcus McCoy gwu-today.com Reporter Gardner-Webb University Student Activities will be hosting a NEEDTOBREATHE listening party on the quad Friday, April 13th from 4pm-7pm. Games and food will be provided during the event. If you haven’t yet purchased your tickets for the NEEDTOBREATHE concert, they will be available during the listening party. Tickets will start at [...]


CMU Applications for Fall, 2012

By: Adam Barnes gwu-today.com Reporter Campus Ministries is now accepting applications to participate on Campus Ministries United’s (CMU) Council for the 2012-2013 academic year. Applications are available in Teresa Davis’s office (Suttle Hall room 107), and need to be turned in by April 13 by 5 p.m. All applicants will be interviewed by Neal Payne, [...]


4/12 Campus News and Sports Update

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GWU’s Wrestling Coach Richard Wince Retires

GWU's Wrestling Coach Richard Wince Retires

By: Adam Barnes gwu-today.com Reporter While Richard Wince initially grew up in Ohio, the prestigious wrestling coach has found his home in Lattimore, N.C. for the past 22 years while serving in Gardner-Webb’s wrestling program. This past week, Wince, who was the head coach for 20 years, announced his retirement. “Ecclesiastes says there is a [...]


Baseball falls to Winthrop Eagles

By: Steve DeMilio gwu-today.com Reporter The Runnin’ Bulldogs fell 5-3 in the rubber match of their weekend series against the Winthrop Eagles Sunday afternoon at John Henry Moss Stadium. The Eagles out hit the Bulldogs 14-7, but the Bulldogs were able to keep pace throughout the game with timely hitting and great defense. The Eagles [...]


PHEMA Sponsored Dodgeball Tournament Thursday

By: Bethany Wright gwu-today.com Reporter Gardner-Webb students, if you like playing dodgeball you’re in luck. The Physical Health Education Majors Association (PHEMA) is sponsoring a dodgeball tournament that will be held Thursday in Bost Gym. Teams of five are required and they must be co-ed, with at least two members of the opposite gender on [...]


Sondheim Cabaret: A Dessert and Coffee Musical Theatre

By: Bethany Wright gwu-today.com Reporter This week, the Gardner-Webb University School of Performing and Visual Arts will present “A Stephen Sondheim Cabaret: A Dessert and Coffee Musical Theatre.” The show opens this Thursday, and will run through Saturday premiering each night at 7 p.m. A special matinee showing will be held on Saturday at 2 [...]


Football Spring Scrimmage

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SGA to host Senior Disorientation Week

By Adam Barnes gwu-today.com reporter This upcoming week, Gardner-Webb’s Student Government Association will host Senior Disorientation Week, a week designed for undergraduate seniors graduating this year. This includes students graduating through the nursing program as well as students graduating in May, August and December. “The whole point behind it is to give something back to [...]


GWU rallies past USC-Upstate to win in extra innings

GWU rallies past USC-Upstate to win in extra innings

By: Marcus McCoy gwu-today.com reporter On Wednesday, Gardner-Webb’s Runnin’ Bulldogs defeated visiting USC-Upstate 6-5 in 10 innings. The Runnin’ Bulldogs got off to an early start with a homerun by Dusty Quattlebaum in the first inning to score Benji Jackson, giving Gardner-Webb a 2-0 lead. USC-Upstate would respond by scoring four runs over four innings [...]


Campus News and Sports Update

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Noel Manning on Lutz Robbery

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NEEDTOBREATHE Tickets on Sale Monday

By: Marcus McCoy gwu-today.com reporter Recently off of tour alongside Pop Icon Taylor Swift, Gardner-Webb University will be hosting the 4-man band NEEDTOBREATHE in concert April 28, at 7pm in the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center. This band consisting of all brothers, Bear Rinehart, Bo Rinehart, Seth Bolt and Joe Stilwell, have already made themselves known as one [...]


Midterm Munchies Preview

By: Marcus McCoy gwu-today.com reporter Midterm Munchies will be held Monday March 5, 2012 at 7pm in the Club House. This Campus Ministries United sponsored event will give students an opportunity to meet, greet and enjoy free doughnuts. For further questions about this event contact Michael Heredia at mheredia@gardner-webb.edu.


Baseball vs. Valparaiso University

By: Olivia Moody gwu-today.com reporter The Runnin’ Bulldogs baseball team picked up their second win in a row Saturday afternoon at home over Valparaiso University winning 2-1. The Crusaders had recently come off a 10-9 win over No. 4 ranked Arkansas only to be defeated by starting pitcher Conner Scarborough and the rest of the [...]


SGA Executive Elections

By: Bethany Wright gwu-today.com reporter On Tuesday, March 6th during Dimensions the Gardner-Webb University student body will vote on next year’s Student Government Association executive board. Students will have the opportunity to vote for vice president and treasurer as both the candidates for president and secretary ran unopposed, but that didn’t stop all eight from campaigning [...]


Women’s Tennis vs. UAB

By: Bethany Wright gwu-today.com reporter The Gardner-Webb University women’s tennis team faced off against UAB Satruday at home. The Running’ Bulldogs defeated the Blazers by a margin of 5-2. The Running’ Bulldogs were lead by freshman Alice Hopkins as she won her sixth consecutive match against the Blazers’ Paula Alvarez 6-2, 6-0 at the singles [...]