With technology expanding by the minute, universities continue to try and balance online material and traditional learning. The University of South Carolina, like many other schools, remains in limbo — pushing the limit of in-classroom customs and nervously entering the uncharted waters of virtual learning.
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Addressing a number of issues in Five Points on Friday, Interim Columbia Police Chief Ruben Santiago made one thing clear: There’s no one problem in the popular bar district.
Student senate last night divvied up money to student organizations, using its current system for the last time. Student Government plans to restructure its allocation process into a rolling system.
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, otherwise known as CISPA, is back in the Senate. Last we heard, the bill was dead on arrival in the Senate, after it was effectively grounded by Edward Snowden’s PRISM revelation.
While Monday’s mayoral candidate forum in the Ernest F. Hollings library was primarily focused — and rightfully so — on issues of safety in Five Points and Columbia as a whole, that’s not all the three contenders for mayor talked about.
After last weekend’s tragic shooting, the main concern of the city of Columbia is violence, especially regarding the Five Points area.
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Everyone agrees: Five Points is a problem area for Columbia. But until everyone agrees on exactly what that problem is, it won’t be fixed. The shooting that left our fellow Gamecock, 18-year-old Martha Childress, paralyzed from the waist down is another on a long list of tragedies that could have been avoided if everyone with an opinion on the bar district’s woes did have “a 100 percent accurate idea of what’s going on.” We think it’s obvious: The two major factors in Five Points crime are gang violence and what truly is a “revolving door” judicial system. Those problems aren’t going to be fixed with 2 a.m.
With major heat plaguing Columbia in the middle of September, the air conditioning units in the McBryde Quadrangle decided it was a good time to quit working.
The recent statement by USC President Harris Pastides concerning safety issues at Five Points should give us pause for a number of reasons, and not so much because of its obvious lack of intellectual sophistication in concluding there are safety issues right after a very tragic incident has occurred.
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In light of recent crime, taking precautions, using services essential With daylight savings time approaching in less than three weeks, it is imperative we as students take steps to keep ourselves safe at all times.