For those in the journalism school, this sounds like the chorus to a depressing country song about a love you don't believe you'll ever see. You'll be released into a building with windows and cell phone service. No longer will your hallways abut the elephant room. And the love will return from Amarillo, Texas, and soar into your arms.
The Daily Gamecock would cheer the proposed move, as we have time and time again. Conditions in the journalism school must be among the worst in the university. Professors, expected to teach cutting-edge multimedia material that will prepare journalists for the 21st century, are against long odds in the current Carolina Coliseum.
Recruiting new students to the school can be challenging when you walk them through the drab halls of a building not at all constructed for higher education — or education of any sort.
How can you cover the world when you can't even see it?
But enough skepticism. Should it happen, this is one cool building that will feature lounge space, a two-story atrium, a rooftop garden, video boards, lots of much-needed abundant light and technology sorely needed to learn and teach journalism. USC's journalism school could span 50,000 feet and sit in the old Arnold School of Public Health on the Horseshoe.
Dean Charles Bierbauer says the project will happen this time. If not, we'll consider printing his cell phone for reader comment.
He probably won't mind.
Without service in the Coliseum, the phone will never ring.