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Old Gold & Black

"Covers the campus like the magnolias"

Old Gold & Black

Editorial: Dear future president

Editorial: Dear future president

Miriam Fabrycky, Deputy Editor April 10, 2026

This letter represents the view of Old Gold & Black Deputy Editor Miriam Fabrycky, not the Old Gold & Black. To the future president of Wake Forest University: I’ll be honest in saying...

Editorial: the power of representation

Editorial: the power of representation

Maria Silveira, Managing Editor February 19, 2026

This letter represents the view of Old Gold & Black Managing Editor Maria Silveira, not the Old Gold & Black. Growing up as the granddaughter of four Cuban immigrants who left a homeland where...

Editorial: The truth can still set us free

Editorial: The truth can still set us free

Miriam Fabrycky, Deputy Editor February 5, 2026

This letter represents the view of Old Gold & Black Deputy Editor Miriam Fabrycky, not the Old Gold & Black. Like millions of Americans, I saw footage of border agents killing Alex Jeffrey Pretti...

From the editor: a student newspaper

From the editor: a student newspaper

Mattie Stillerman, Editor-in-chief January 22, 2026

As we enter the 110th year of the Old Gold & Black newspaper, a lot has changed. Since the paper was founded in 1916, there have been two world wars, 19 presidents, vast innovations in medicine and...

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Letter from the Editor: Signing off

Ella Klein, Editor-in-chief December 3, 2025

I started out on the paper as a favor for a friend.  It was 2023. I was hired, having no previous journalism experience, no idea how to write an article in AP style and no idea how to report. I knew...

Letter from the editor

Letter from the editor

Ella Klein, Editor-in-chief November 18, 2025

This letter represents the view of Old Gold & Black Editor-in-chief Ella Klein, not the Old Gold & Black. This was a tough issue. It's my second-to-last edition as Editor-in-Chief at the paper,...

Letter from Exec: Tell a story that matters

Letter from Exec: Tell a story that matters

Andrew Braun, Managing Editor September 18, 2025

This letter represents the view of Old Gold & Black Managing Editor Andrew Braun, not the Old Gold & Black.  Not all of our passions make sense — there are things we can’t explain our...

Letter from the editor: I urge you to write

Letter from the editor: I urge you to write

Ella Klein, Editor-in-chief April 25, 2025

We all need to write more.  From something as silly as a diary with a fuzzy teddy bear on it when I was 8, to my moody teenage scratchings of poetry in the margins of my notebooks, to my endless writing...

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