Opinion: Try something new
(09/13/19 1:27am)
Ever found yourself listlessly surfing social media after class wondering what to do for the rest of the evening?
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Ever found yourself listlessly surfing social media after class wondering what to do for the rest of the evening?
This year, The Trevor Project conducted a “National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health.” Of the 34,000 kids surveyed, two out of three report “someone tried to convince them to change their sexual orientation or gender identity.” That being said, any attempt to repress or change someone’s sexual or gender identity is emotionally traumatizing and overwhelmingly ineffective.
In 2018, the Campus Free Expression Act stopped the implementation of Free Speech Zones on USC’s campus. This worked as an active reminder to the student body that the campus is a public forum; that students' right to free speech is protected on the entirety of the campus, not just in particular parts.
In 1776, the United States put out the Declaration of Independence which outlined the core values for the newly formed nation: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Later, when the United States Constitution was outlined, it included several key rights in the First Amendment to the Constitution – namely the right to free speech and peaceful assembly. These values are central to the rights Americans have enjoyed since the advent of our new nation and have become part of our national identity abroad.
Every month there is a new celebrity who has been “cancelled.” Often it will be because of a minor incident that happened many years ago, and people will bring it up to prevent the celebrity from furthering in their career. Essentially, the intent is to destroy their future and their image.
Students living off-campus should continue maintaining a standard of courtesy to their neighbors and property owners as responsible residents of Columbia.
If you are currently a student at USC, you have definitely noticed some changes within this school year and the previous school years. With the closing down of multiple Five Points bars over the summer, stricter ID scanning and a greater police presence in Five Points, there seems to be a change happening around bar culture.
While most students would agree that the best answer for why we are at college is to learn about our chosen fields and earn a degree, this goal often gets clouded by extraneous activities and relationships. However, now that we are getting into the swing of the semester, it's important to be taking classes seriously, especially ones required for your major.
It is no secret that the University of South Carolina, along with other schools across the country, is facing an overcrowding crisis. Specifically with the addition of 6,250 freshmen this fall, it has become even more unbearable to navigate the busy campus and find quiet areas.
Though college is often quoted as the time where one lives exclusively off coffee and ramen noodles, Carolina’s meal swipe options allow students to approach eating in a healthier way. The variety of meals and snacks provided enable students to be fueled in a healthy way as they go about their day. Their newest initiative includes removing cash equivalency meal swipes from convenience store locations “to promote a healthier Carolina.” This change is to prevent students from using their meal swipe allowances on snack foods, hoping to encourage students to eat more holistic meals.
A lot of people come to college wondering what they want to do for the rest of their lives, and many come to discover who they want to be. However, a few come asking themselves what they want to believe.
The University of South Carolina preaches a “Stigma Free USC” when it comes to mental health, but the ongoing presence of anxiety and depression on campus proves that we have a long way to go. The problem is that the university’s mental health programs seem to focus on fixing existing problems rather than preventing them.
sYou would think that if the lungs of our planet were on fire, we would pay more attention.
Finding a balance between what you are doing in college is hard. If you are an incoming freshman, this holds especially true. You are on your own for the first time and have full control over what you do with your time. For upperclassmen and graduate students, you have to be able to find a balance between schoolwork and personal time. With all of that in mind, a good solution to accomplishing your full routine is to wake up early.
Since 2001, deaths by suicide among black males between the ages of 13 and 19 have increased 60%. In that same time span, deaths by suicide among black females between the ages of 13 and 19 have increased by an almost unbelievable 182%. Despite this alarmingly high influx of black kids taking their own lives over the past two decades, mental illness remains a touchy, taboo subject within the African American community.
As students return for the fall semester of classes, they must learn and adjust to new peers, policies and professors. With every new semester there are new struggles that students must adapt to so they can succeed academically.
It goes without saying, but college is stressful.
College makes burnout almost unavoidable. Characterized by “cynicism, depression, and lethargy,” burnout is the “state of emotional, mental, and often physical exhaustion brought on by prolonged or repeated stress.” It isn’t simply stress, it is the combination of expecting too much of yourself, feeling like your work isn’t good enough and feeling inadequate or incompetent. So, for students who work full time jobs, take over 15 credit hours and have to take care of family lives while dealing with extracurricular activities, burnout could seem like a common occurrence.
Election season for 2020 has already come into full swing as Democratic candidates prepare for the third Democratic debate in September with what should be stricter guidelines.
Recently the debate of what is truly ethical under capitalism has become somewhat of a hot button topic. Perhaps this Marxist idea has become popular due to the show “The Good Place,” in which the underlying topic of it all is that people’s actions become highly complicated because of “the exploitative systems in which we work and live.” Meaning, due to the way products and corporations source and execute policy in unethical ways, our consumption of said product will ultimately be unethical as well.