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(07/05/17 10:39pm)
Last week, an article entitled “Body positivity doesn’t mean praising obesity” ran in The Daily Gamecock. The essential point of that article was that, while body positivity is all well and good, we shouldn’t get too caught up in calling everyone beautiful and end up forgetting that obesity carries health risks. To quote the author of the piece: “Where do we draw the line between supporting people with natural curves and those who are simply overweight?”
(06/28/17 12:09am)
If you're a woman, you've been hearing for most of your life that swearing is unladylike, because for some reason, we're supposed to care about what other people think makes us ladies. If you're not a woman, you've just been hearing that it's impolite and uncivilized.
(06/20/17 11:49pm)
For quite some time, there was surprisingly little uproar from anyone about the fact that the Senate GOP has been trying to pass a health care bill in the dark. Admittedly, it’s hard to generate productive, targeted outrage about something you don’t know anything about. Still, it’s astonishing that Senate Democrats only began holding the floor in protest on Monday, when this process has been going on since early May, when Republicans rushed through a revised version of the American Health Care Act in less than 24 hours, without Congressional Budget Office review, because that would take too long, or something.
(06/13/17 11:28pm)
It is both a good and a bad time to be a Democrat in the United States.
(04/17/17 1:55am)
The present is looking pretty good for the Grand Old Party. They control both houses of Congress, the presidency, 32 state legislatures and 33 governorships. It's open season on regulations, states are allowed to withhold money from organizations that provide abortions and there's a spry young conservative on the Supreme Court. They've had some dust-ups, sure, like the humiliating failure of the Obamacare replacement bill and their attempt at gutting the ethics committee, but for the most part they're sitting pretty right now with nice margins of control of every branch of government.
(04/03/17 3:22am)
Sunday, April 2 was the ninth annual World Autism Awareness Day. Accordingly, our president has issued a statement on the day and the White House has been illuminated in blue in accordance with Autism Speaks' #LightItUpBlue campaign.
(03/27/17 1:48am)
This weekend, Democrats and 56 percent of the American people won a huge victory with the withdrawal of the American Health Care Act, a bill which would ultimately have left 24 million people high and dry. Since then, everyone involved with the bill has been scrambling to blame everyone else involved. Who sunk the bill? Depending on who you ask, the answer might be Paul Ryan, Democrats, the Freedom Caucus or, if you ask Donald Trump, all of the above.
(03/23/17 1:54am)
This week, the confirmation hearings for Merrick Garland’s stolen Supreme Court seat have begun. Neil Gorsuch has done his best to strike the tone of a traditionalist judge — above politics, wholly objective, wholly independent — but even if we might normally buy it, many of us on the left are still (justifiably) bitter about Senate Republicans’ childish dereliction of duty in 2016.
(03/16/17 4:24am)
As part of Sounding Board, a series where The Daily Gamecock's opinion section sends out a columnist on campus to talk to USC students about their views on hot-button issues, we interviewed 10 students to find out how they feel about alcohol use and misuse on campus and in the student body at large. USC leads the SEC in high-risk drinking behaviors, which are on the rise at USC. More than 22 percent of freshmen reported on an AlcoholEdu survey that they had engaged in behavior defined as "binge drinking" three or more times in the previous two weeks. In the six months between August 2016 and January 2017, 187 students were hospitalized for alcohol-related reasons.
(02/23/17 12:04am)
There are rats in my campus apartment. I wish that were some kind of figure of speech, or a joke, or perhaps an indication that it might be time for me to start a successful French restaurant with my new furry friend — but unfortunately, that isn’t the case. Instead, it’s mostly jumping at the noises of the house settling, bleaching every surface and utensil in the kitchen before food touches it, and praying when I open doors into dark rooms that there won’t be a pair of beady little eyes staring back at me from the floor.
(02/13/17 5:18am)
Get a quick overview of the candidates running for the Student Government executive positions.
(02/07/17 4:15am)
In a gleeful flurry of undoing Obama-era regulations on Feb. 2, congressional Republicans voted to remove a gun control measure that prevented guns from falling into the hands of people who get disability benefits due to severe mental illness. They drew fierce criticism from Democrats — understandably, since keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill has been a Democratic talking point on gun control since we started having the debate. From there, prominent liberals and liberal organizations in the base took their opposition to its logical conclusion: Republicans are trying to take away the fragile barriers between us and the crazies with guns.
(01/23/17 1:23am)
Most reasonable and informed political debates require debaters to use facts to support their positions. For example, if you wanted to quantify Obama's economic achievements as president, you might cite the Bureau of Labor Statistics to show how unemployment dropped from 7.8 percent at the time of his inauguration to 4.7 percent when he left office. If you wanted to talk about violent crime, you can show graphs of how the rate of violent crime has been falling steadily since 1994, using data from the FBI Uniform Crime Report. If you want to know what offenses people are in jail for, you can go to the website of the Bureau of Justice Statistics and find out that 68 percent of inmates are held for felonies. On a number of fronts, we depend on the government for an accurate statistical accounting of our world.
(01/09/17 12:48am)
With logistics for building the president-elect’s wall looking as murky as they ever have, plan after plan is being floated for how it could possibly be funded and completed. Trump’s latest is that we’ll fund it and Mexico will reimburse us for the cost — a plan that essentially has the same internal logic as putting a line of duct tape down the middle of your dorm room and then asking your roommate to pay you back for the tape and all the time you spent sticking it to the floor. But one of the more plausible plans that could be used to cut down on work costs was proposed by a sheriff from Massachusetts: Simply put, we should use prison labor from inmates around the country to build the great Mexican border wall.
(11/30/16 8:23pm)
Dear young liberals,
(11/28/16 12:12am)
As class registration ends, many students — mostly freshmen and sophomores — are considering how they can fulfill that pesky language requirement. A minimum of two semesters is required by the Carolina Core, and we can choose from a relatively wide array of languages to make that happen. Romance languages and beyond are offered for language credit at USC. But there is one language that you can take that you will get no credit for, although it has all the hallmarks of a language that should earn it.
(11/21/16 12:09am)
America, in yet another deeply regrettable discovery since Nov. 8, has learned in the last week and a half that the 45th president is still in possession of his Twitter account. Demonstrating a remarkable lack of ability to pretend he actually meant that he wanted to be a unifying president, as he claimed in his victory speech, Donald Trump has spent the time since Election Day on Twitter lying, reversing past positions and attacking everyone in reach. Occasionally he has made a comment related to his transition, but for the most part, it’s been an embarrassing display of our next president’s paper-thin skin and failure to understand the importance of the First Amendment.
(11/18/16 12:16am)
Among talk during the presidential election about the heroin epidemic and ongressional battles over Zika, another public health crisis has gone ignored. We are more comfortable, in fact, talking about guns and porn as health crises than we are in even bringing up a real and growing problem — suicide.
(11/14/16 3:42am)
The banana we eat today is not the banana of our ancestors.
(11/08/16 5:00am)
Hopefully, this will be the last thing I have to write about the 2016 presidential race. That might just be wishful thinking, but with this hard slog of an election finally about to be behind us, I hope that neither side will throw a fit in the event of the other candidate winning. I hope that we can be done after this.