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(10/05/17 10:08pm)
According to statistics provided by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, more than 300,000 young immigrants were accepted into the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2017. This program gives many opportunities to children who were brought to the United States at a young age, the most important opportunity being the ability to attend college. Without these government programs, immigrant youth are left with no legal rights and the constant fear of being deported. The majority of these students were brought to the United States at a very young age with no ability to decide their fate, and they have likely spent most of their life here. Therefore, the possibility of being sent back to a fairly unknown country and being stripped of the only life they have known is entirely too real.
(10/04/17 8:11pm)
To offer some background, I am a single parent whose failures have built in me enough confidence to fit on the tip of a fine point pen. Not exactly someone from whom you’d expect to take advice! However, my greatest accomplishment and the source of virtually all my pride comes from having single-handedly raised two very strong, smart and savvy young people who are very different from myself. It is from that visceral place of trust in them and delight at having raised them that I feel even slightly qualified to offer the following advice.
(10/04/17 11:40pm)
In his “Pedagogic Creed” from 1897, John Dewey stated, “education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.” As public educators in North Carolina, we are in partnership with the community to provide a quality education to all children, regardless of their socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, or ability to learn.
(10/04/17 12:46am)
Catalonia is a region of Spain containing the city of Barcelona. Many Catalan people speak a completely different language than the rest of Spain and have an equally separate culture. Because of this, among many other reasons including taxes and cultural suppression, Catalonia seeks independence from Spain.
(10/02/17 9:06pm)
As a kid I wondered if limes were just ripe lemons. As an adult, I wonder why Mexican drug cartels were able to extort lime producers to the point that prices skyrocketed and supply shortages occurred.
(10/04/17 7:55pm)
What is it like to have a child away at college? I would have to say it is like a proverbial rollercoaster ride. From the joy of finding that acceptance package in the mail to preparing for graduation and beyond, the ride is full of twists and turns, with a few loop-the-loops thrown in for good measure.
(10/02/17 4:12am)
The death of a first-year USC student at an off-campus frat party in 2015 due to alcohol poisoning brought increased administrative and media scrutiny onto the campus, but between 2015 and 2016 alcohol transports doubled and fraternity alcohol violations hit a five-year high. Despite the screaming urgency of the situation, the university has primarily resorted to finger-wagging to solve the problem.
(10/02/17 1:23am)
Rodney Davis: Yes.
(09/27/17 11:14pm)
I have served as a senator in the Residence Hall Association in the past. I can tell you from personal experience that changes to make the organization seem more legitimate or powerful are pointless, and that I have serious doubts as to whether RHA needs to exist at all.
(09/27/17 11:22pm)
A study done by the NPR Ed Team says that the average funding for schools comes from “45 percent local money, 45 percent from the state, and 10 percent federal.” In the same study, they found that between 2008 and 2014, 36 states had decreased their education funding.
(09/28/17 12:14am)
Kenneth Gleason, a 23-year-old, white male, was arrested last Monday on charges of shooting and killing two unarmed African-American males. In two separate instances, Gleason fired fatal shots from his car at the men on the street, then proceeded to get out of his car, walk up to the victims and continue shooting. Gleason later opened fire on the house of an African-American family in his neighborhood. No one was injured. Upon searching his home, police found that Gleason had a copy of an Adolf Hitler speech. Gleason had no relation to any of the deceased.
(09/24/17 11:16pm)
There are good game days and there are bad game days. A lot of what makes a game day good has little to do with Williams-Brice. Good friends, good times and a great tailgate can do wonders to any Saturday afternoon. The Gamecocks playing well (and winning) helps, but are the people around you too drunk or too angry? All of these things are critical to enjoying the weekend. However, whether you’re drunk or sober, there is one thing that everyone at some point finds difficult on Saturdays: standing in the student section.
(09/24/17 11:19pm)
If an impending hurricane was predicted to have a six meter storm surge, 180 kilometer-per-hour winds and bring 176 centimeters of rain, Americans would miss the evacuation trying to remember the metric conversions they learned in third grade.
(09/27/17 11:16pm)
People have always questioned our criminal justice system, or at least its efficiency — specifically the police officers tasked to enforce the laws.
(09/21/17 4:43pm)
If you’d asked me last year if Park Place or Aspyre were part of campus, I would’ve told you no. It's a fairly long walk to Park Place, and Aspyre has a brutal hill and a set of railroad tracks between it and the university. But now they are both technically considered on-campus housing. There are also freshmen living in both to satisfy the requirement that they live on campus their first year. The juxtaposition of the rule and the results shows that it’s time to re-evaluate the freshmen housing mandate.
(09/21/17 12:16am)
Diplomacy has always been an integral aspect of modern states. In everything from minor trade deals to world-shaping international defense agreements, diplomacy has led the way. Diplomacy has crafted America’s place and status in the modern world and now may very well take it away.
(09/20/17 11:02pm)
The last time I wrote about how Republicans and Democrats are both failing mentally ill people, there was some objection to my point. Namely, that I was being unfair to Congressional Republicans by saying that they don’t care about mentally ill people.
(09/20/17 4:09pm)
Earlier this month, PewDiePie, an extraordinarily successful YouTuber who streams video games on his channel with over 57 million subscribers, was caught up in controversy.
(09/17/17 10:59pm)
I have been trying to get one of my textbooks since the first week of school.
(09/17/17 9:49pm)
Once upon a time, in a land seemingly far, far away, there lived a president who actually cared about unifying his country during times of tragedy and crisis. Whether it was shedding a tear after innocent children lost their lives at school or singing “Amazing Grace” at a funeral after countless other innocents lost their lives at church, our last president always had the American people in his heart and mind.