As a daily reader of The Daily Gamecock, I was more than a little surprised to have to read a cover story this past Friday that informs us of personal family details of the president of our University of South Carolina. Upon reading the article, I was even more stunned to learn that the president had contributed to the story by means of an email interview.
Don’t get us wrong; Student Government may well need to make changes to its structure in order to run more efficiently. But if SG wants to become more efficient, using its time to craft new ideas and programs — initiatives that would benefit USC and its students — instead of worrying about insider issues would go a long way.
My challenge to you this year: Keep your gym resolution. Stick to your goal to be more money-conscious. Keep improving yourself, but please keep others in mind.
As with all complete totalitarian states, the atmosphere of general terror inside that country-turned-prison is impossible to relay accurately. Everyone was an informant. Those who were caught were either tortured or killed.
First, the good news: South Carolina’s unemployment rate dropped to 6.6 percent last month, the lowest in five years and a hair — 0.1 percentage points — below the national rate.
Growing up, many of us were taught the importance of obtaining higher education. After receiving the same message, high school students across the country are gearing up to attend college in the fall.
We all know the saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Maybe you see a guy spending hours upon hours at the library day in and out, and think, “What a nerd.
Classes are canceled, and the triennial “snowpocalypse” is upon us. Students cheer, professors palm their faces in concern over their course plan, and Northerners mock the state’s massive overreaction to the weather.
A few months ago, I received an email from a Marine Corps recruiter in Columbia asking me to consider the officer training programs that they offered.
It’s one thing to be drunk in a bar and then get in a fight. But it’s another thing to be in the same situation, except you have a gun on you. Impossible, you say? Not now, South Carolina residents.
The main responsibility of any community is easier to sum up than you might think: “It takes a village to raise a child.”
Swear words essential part of modern expression
The Office of Sexual Assault and Violence held its third-annual Stalking Awareness Fair on Thursday.
Message of stars and bars nothing to be proud of
Standards unattainable, should be rejected
This week, Hungarian singer Boggie released a music video that seeks to demonstrate how dramatically Photoshop can transform an image.
This most recent and certainly unsurprising account of racial intolerance is a disgrace, and yet most people will probably say to themselves, “I guess we should then conclude that racially and physically harassing, demeaning, terrorizing and disrespecting NPHC (traditionally African-American) fraternities and sororities is merely being ‘satirical’ and ‘humorous’ as well.” Please, spare us.