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(11/21/16 9:58pm)
Studying abroad this semester is one of the best decisions I have made during my college career. The lovely climate in the south of France, the challenging coursework, and incredible people have made the experience worthwhile. The students here at SciencesPo are bright and gifted linguistically. One of my fellow students certainly has a way with words. We were discussing the best ways to write for a campus newspaper. We argued back and forth, with him spewing multiple choice words at me, until he paid me the following compliment:
(10/20/16 3:22am)
In 2008, Dawn Staley took over a South Carolina women's basketball program that was essentially dead, having failed to put together a winning conference record or reach the NCAA Tournament in its last five seasons under Susan Walvius. By last season, Staley had made the Gamecocks into a powerhouse, having reached the program's first ever Final Four in 2014-15 before posting a 33-2 record last year.
(10/19/16 11:28pm)
Four years. That's how long I have to study and test and intern until I can receive a degree in public relations. That doesn't sound altogether unreasonable. Most professions require applicants to have a degree, and most degrees take four years to complete. However, there is a profession that sometimes requires an education minimum of a high school diploma and only 12 to 14 weeks in a training program: the police force.
(10/19/16 11:35pm)
What mayor wouldn’t want his or her city to be the next Silicon Valley? The area has reached an almost mythical level for all things innovative and is held up as the gold standard for high technology companies around the world. Local government officials dream of a similar entrepreneurial environment that creates jobs, new businesses and increased revenue streams in the form of taxes on young high wage workers. In an effort to fulfill this dream, governments tend to fund research efforts within their cities. Columbia is no exception.
(10/19/16 11:35pm)
Driving back from fall break with her parents' car loaded up with winter clothes, a friend of mine stashed a box of tampons behind her headrest in the back seat for safekeeping. She didn’t want the box to get crushed, needed them in an easy-to-reach location and thought the back window of the car was a perfectly suitable place. However, when her stepfather got out of the car to pump gas and caught sight of them, he became incredibly upset. He said that “no guy wants to see that,” and it was “disgusting to advertise that sort of thing.” He seemed completely panicked that this cardboard box filled with small cotton cloths was out where a poor, unsuspecting man might be subjected to viewing it. So what is it about feminine hygiene products that is so incredibly terrifying to men?
(10/19/16 11:36pm)
Both on the national and the local level, perhaps the defining characteristic of the Republican platform this election cycle has been an appeal to fear: fear of a weakening America, fear of free trade, fear of certain religions, fear for homeland security. The proposed solutions are as outlandish as the problems they aim to solve, from high-tariff protectionism to refusing immigrants on the basis of religion. On careful examination, they just don't hold water.
(10/19/16 11:37pm)
How many mornings have you woken up, looked in the mirror and wanted to crawl back under the covers? Beyond the messed-up hair and tired eyes, the reasons we feel like this extends much deeper: Society has become so obsessed with perfection that anything less than what we see on the covers of magazines fails to satisfy us when we look in the mirror.
(10/17/16 2:51am)
Even for someone who almost exclusively watches ESPN, Fox Sports 1 and NFL Network, I can't escape the the slimy tentacles of the 2016 presidential election.
(10/17/16 12:27am)
It might be attractive to protect local industries, but to stifle free trade is to stifle progress and economic growth — two of the focal points of this year’s election. As both candidates promise an America rich in jobs, they fail to articulate to the American public the economic realities of their anti-free-trade agendas, which will only serve to undermine the economy and workforce, not benefit them.
(10/17/16 2:38am)
Before being hired by South Carolina, Will Muschamp had a track record of being an elite defensive coach. Halfway through his inaugural season in Columbia, that record is showing itself.
(10/16/16 11:00pm)
Colin Kaepernick is the epitome of an NFL benchwarmer success story. Thrown onto the field in 2012 when Alex Smith, then the San Francisco 49ers starting quarterback, suffered a concussion mid-season, Kaepernick went on to lead his team to the Super Bowl. Although they lost, he started the next year over Smith and fans were enamored with his style. At that point in his NFL career, he looked like a champion. He quickly lost his hot streak in following seasons, however, and now is a benchwarmer once again. He started on Sunday for the first time this season. How is it that someone who was primarily a benchwarmer until now currently has one of the top-selling NFL jerseys?
(10/15/16 12:19am)
One of my favorite cards to play in "Cards Against Humanity" is “sexual peeing.” Many people consider “sexual peeing” to be a complete oxymoron. There are couples who have been married for 50 years and still would never even consider peeing with the bathroom door open. It’s funny to listen to people say “ew” and “yuck” as that card is read laughingly, never considering that that card exists because some people out there are really into watersports.
(10/10/16 12:34am)
It’s graduation day — the day you’ve been waiting for since you arrived on campus freshman year as an 18-year-old kid with the belief that after four years of intense work, you would graduate with a degree that will actually land you a job. How mistaken you were. As you walk across the stage, what should be a joyful feeling becomes apprehension as you realize that you will have another two to four years of school and tuition fees to earn the next possible degree in order to land a decent job.
(10/10/16 12:55am)
To the surprise of no one, the RNC has been running negative ads about Tim Kaine. In the one released before the VP debate on Oct. 4, the narrator says: “He has a passion for defending the wrong people. America deserves better.”
(10/06/16 1:03am)
South Carolina coach Will Muschamp didn't explicitly mention any plans to redshirt freshman quarterback Jake Bentley when asked about the scenario during his mid-week conference, but in all likelihood that is the path the coaching staff will take with the former four-star recruit.
(10/04/16 9:04pm)
Imagine it’s Friday night, and you are at the grocery store preparing for the game on Saturday. It’s an away game, and you are helping to plan a party to watch the game with some friends. You decide that you are going to make your homemade guacamole that your friends love. So you go to the grocery store to get what you need and make a beeline for the produce section to get the most important ingredient, avocados. You pick a couple that you find the most appealing and notice that they have a sticker on them saying "Product of Mexico." You think to yourself that you couldn’t be more authentic than that, right? Would you change your mind if I told you that by buying those avocados you just gave money to Mexican drug cartels?
(10/03/16 3:34am)
When did being lazy become a bad thing? Seriously, people call me lazy expecting me to get offended. All I can say is “uh … ok thanks” and then they give me that look that says “you have done nothing to contribute to society, you are a good for nothing.” A look that says “I know your worth from a glance.” And all this is because I’m lazy. So what? I like to take the easy way more often than not.
(10/03/16 3:34am)
April 1 in Chicago, Illinois, should have come and gone just as any other Friday does: school-aged children seated at desks with pencils in hand and recess on their minds. However, on this particular Friday, thousands of discontented public school teachers decided to strike against the state government’s failure to allocate proper funding to schools, a neglect which has resulted in not only the lack of proper resources for students but also the lack of fair pay for the teachers.
(10/03/16 3:35am)
In 2012, the Republican nominee for president lamented that 47 percent of Americans paid no income tax and would never vote for a Republican because of it. In 2016, the Republicans made a billionaire who once paid no income tax their presidential nominee. Why this is tolerated strikes to the core of how we view welfare as a country and why that attitude is problematic.
(09/30/16 10:04pm)
As I write this article, the state of race relations in our country is as bad as most people can remember. The Washington Post reported this July that “Pessimism about race relations in America is higher than it has been in nearly a generation.” The Post’s survey found that 63 percent of respondents think race relations are generally bad. The highly publicized deaths of African American men in questionable police shootings have led to widespread protests and major polarization. On college campuses these trends have created various ripple effects.
