Dr. Mathieu Deflem, a professor in the sociology department, hopes students take independent online reviews of professors with a grain of salt.
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.
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.
The issue of faculty and administration pay in our University of South Carolina was reported by The Daily Gamecock some months ago, but what was said at the meeting has not yet been revealed.