COMIC: Final push
(12/05/25 2:58am)
1000 items found for your search. If no results were found please broaden your search.
Homecoming is one of the most anticipated traditions at South Carolina. Each year, students and alumni pack Williams-Brice Stadium for a day of football, tradition and nostalgia. For third-year criminal justice student Myron Harris, though, this year’s Homecoming will stand out for reasons that extend far beyond the Saturday game.
Every election cycle, Student Government repeats the same promise to represent students and address problems that deliver real, meaningful improvements to student life. At inauguration, I remember Vice President for Student Affairs and Academic Support Rex Tolliver telling the newly elected officials that past solutions would not solve today’s problems.
For the last decade, the most prominent landmark in downtown Columbia hasn’t been the Statehouse dome or the pristine Horseshoe — it has been a dry, rotting concrete cliff face where a waterfall used to be.
My senior year, I watched the 2024 Tiger Burn from the far corner of the Blatt Field, standing next to a friend who'd helped me build models and run finite element analysis on the thing a few months prior — long before building even began. We'd spent hundreds of hours converting a student’s sketch into a matrix of stress loads and burn rates.
Our student senate just handed ROTC a participation trophy for lawbreaking, breeding the exact kind of softness that makes our modern military look less like "Band of Brothers" and more like "Toddlers & Tiaras."
I’ve spent the last four years running experiments, managing undergraduate researchers and authoring multiple papers. I’ve poured my early adult years into becoming exactly what this country claims it needs: a trained scientist ready to tackle the next generation of challenges. So when I sat down a few weeks ago to apply for graduate funding through the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy, I assumed my credentials would speak for themselves.
The days of Five Points being a college staple for having a drink on Friday nights are disappearing, and we have one culprit to thank: South Carolina's asinine $1 million liquor liability insurance requirement. It's killing Columbia's nightlife while lawmakers sip their cocktails and pat themselves on the back for "reform" that won’t save a single struggling bar.
While USC offers a reasonable number of vending machines located around campus, students often face issues with actually receiving the products they paid for. The university's vending machines are notorious for leaving students out to dry in tandem with a poor refund system that is almost worse than the already low percentage of actually received beverages.
There’s a moment right before the match finds the wick when the whole field goes quiet. The tiger's timber frame creaks, the drum line pauses in anticipation, and you preemptively feel the heat of the tiger before it's lit. In those precious moments before, nobody argues about depth charts or betting lines. It's just a small community of people all joined together in a singular goal, just waiting for the shared spark — pun intended.
Imagine logging into Garnet Gate this fall, only to find your favorite student organization gone. It doesn't show up in search, you're no longer a part of it and the leaders of the organization can't access any university resources. As of November, only 3% of groups are fully compliant with the new standards; at this pace, most organizations could face those consequences next spring unless completion improves.
When hunting for cheap clothes or a one-wear Halloween costume, students often turn to ultra-fast-fashion sites such as Shein. The brand’s bargain prices, near-constant flash sales and seemingly endless inventory are notorious among consumers looking for trendy styles at low prices.
History surrounds the University of South Carolina. Stroll the Horseshoe and you’ll see plaques, monuments and well-worn bricks hinting at a long, complicated past. In his Oct. 16 column for The Daily Gamecock, Samuel J. Cancilla argued for a digital, self-guided history walk to bring those stories to life. He’s absolutely right, and the good news is that it already exists, and it’s growing.
After seeing its budget slashed from $340,000 to $185,000, the University of South Carolina’s Student Government has found an ingenious way to achieve fiscal efficiency: Make the funding process so cumbersome that students simply stop using it. In response, student organizations are now lining up for funding from the new Student Organization Funding Assistance Board — a university-run alternative that is safer, less bureaucratic and more streamlined.