“Excuse me, would you mind turning down your volume? We can hear everything you’re listening to.” Just last week, I was sitting beside a girl in class who was catching up on her favorite shows on Netflix.
We live in a golden age of steroid use in professional sports. No matter how many times you hear that the “steroid era” of the ‘90s and early 2000s is over, there is still widespread drug use across Major League Baseball.
Solidly conservative South Carolina is more than expected to have a handful of virulent social conservatives in its state senate.
Solidly conservative South Carolina is more than expected to have a handful of virulent social conservatives in its state senate.
Although efforts to forcibly merge the Medical University of South Carolina and College of Charleston were effectively quashed, a state House panel has shown no signs of hesitating to strike while the iron is hot.
Steven Asbill recently offered an insightful reflection on some problematic components of the Affordable Care Act.
Many individuals using e-cigarettes have yet to see the danger of the device’s powerful liquid nicotine that is hitting stores nationwide. Federal authorities do not regulate e-cigarettes and e-liquids, but they are still sold legally nationwide in stores and online.
Issue: A new development is in the works on Assembly Street. Our Stance: While this is good in theory, the city should be wary.
It’s a fact of life that crimes happen, but it’s also true that young people — especially college students whose campus is less than 15 minutes away from a cluster of bars and restaurants — are going to out and have fun.
If you can find yourself emotionally shaken by reading an out-of-context tweet (written by a well-known satirist) on the Internet, my question is this: How exactly does such a person get through the day without breaking down internally?
Everyone knows that parking at Carolina is a hassle. If you park at the Carolina Coliseum parking lots, you remember that just last week students were forced to compete for parking with the circus, which took up half of one of the lots. Unless you always get to campus before 9 a.m., you have also experienced the circus that is the Coliseum parking lot, with drivers cutting off other drivers, honking and gesturing, pulling out in front of others, circling the lot looking for a spot or stalking a student that is leaving and waiting impatiently until that person pulls out. You may have left an hour before your class, only to drive around looking for a spot until it’s class time and you’re forced to go back home.
The recent disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is a horrifying tragedy. The loss of any aircraft during a flight is frightening, but the sheer number of people aboard Flight 370 — 239 in total between passengers and crew members — makes it all the more saddening. With that said, as families and others memorialize the victims, the disappearance should raise awareness about things overlooked in both air travel and transportation in general.
Can you hear that? It’s the groan of thousands of students learning that the surface parking lot behind the Carolina Coliseum will be closed next week to accommodate the construction of new student housing.
Growing up in a suburb of New York City, I was privileged to live in a community that was open about sex education. I had my first sex ed class in eighth grade — we had a contest once to name the most STDs — and I cannot remember ever seeing one pregnant girl in my high school.
After months of relative calm, Five Points is back in the news again for all the wrong reasons. A man was shot in the popular hospitality district just past midnight Saturday. Members of the Columbia community, including USC, are left with a question: How can we solve the issue of violent crime in a neighborhood so popular with students?
It’s lunchtime, and you’ve just gotten your chicken fingers and curly fries. You go to grab something to drink, but with all the calories already sitting on your plate, you don’t want to add any more. So instead of grabbing your usual Coke, you figure a Diet Coke would be a better alternative; there’s no sugar or calories in it, so it can’t be as bad for you, right?
As an exchange student from England, I’m often reminded just how far I am from home when I log into Facebook.