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(06/29/16 12:00pm)
On any given sunny Saturday afternoon when school is in session, it’s not hard to find a pup and owner strolling along on the lawn of the Horseshoe. Many in the student population either have or are in want of a dog of their own.
(06/29/16 12:00pm)
The far right in America these days has rebranded itself. No longer are they the Tea Party or the party of Reagan; they are the alternative right (alt-right). This movement, popularized by Donald Trump, is essentially an offshoot of mainstream conservatism that thrives more on nationalism and xenophobia than foreign policy and fiscal responsibility. While many have written articles regarding the bigotry of Donald Trump, I believe that that distinction is less concerning than the bigotry of his followers. As many others have said, even if Donald Trump isn’t bigoted (or racist, or sexist, or a Klansman, or a neo-Nazi) he certainly is the No. 1 candidate of those who are.
(06/29/16 12:00pm)
If you’ve followed world news in the last week or economic news in the last few months, you’ve heard at least a little bit about the UK voting to leave the EU, a decision commonly referred to as the Brexit. Feelings on the other side of the pond are running high, and among news outlets on this side of the pond, there seems to be a sort of consensus that the British vote indicates the advent of President Trump in November.
(06/28/16 5:50pm)
I devoted part of my column last week to fact-averse or prejudice-motivated legislation being pushed by some modern conservatives. Then the Democrats pulled a stunt this week that is forcing me to admit that high-profile liberals do it too.
(06/24/16 7:17pm)
A lot is said these days about the right’s “war on women,” which refers to social conservatives’ attempts to reduce access to abortions and avoid paying for contraceptives and abortifacients in healthcare plans. Whether you agree or disagree with these positions, they are not what this article is primarily concerned with.
(06/22/16 2:47am)
In today's society, it is not uncommon that a show or movie is rated TV-MA (for mature audiences) because of scenes of nudity or sexual intercourse. We all know the line “sex sells.” While this might be the norm on screen, I put to you that this generation should not find this acceptable but rather an atrocious act of over-sexualization that is harmful to women, men and society at large.
(06/22/16 2:47am)
After years of keeping them at bay, they rushed in. Swiftly and mercilessly, these brutes, these barbarians — long since dismissed in the public’s mind as a foreign threat already subdued — stood triumphant at the doorstep to an empire. The enemy was not a thousand miles away; it was not something that lived only in hushed whispers between politicians or in the shadows of the public’s rapidly fading memory. It was here. As outsiders looked on in awe, they knew that the world would never be the same. On the Visigoth sacking of Rome in the summer of 410 A.D., Saint Jerome wrote, “My voice sticks in my throat, and, as I dictate, sobs choke me. The City which had taken the whole world was itself taken.”
(06/23/16 5:41am)
In his final column, longtime writer Ross Abbott talked about the ideological bias of this section. As one of the opinion section editors last year and one of the section editors for Fall 2016, I want to take a second to talk about this section and our relationship with diversity.
(06/19/16 8:25pm)
In the wake of Draymond Green’s suspension from Game 5, and Stephen Curry’s ejection from Game 6, a lot has been made of the NBA’s punishment of its players for acts committed on the court. Big name reporters, all the way down to my coworkers, weighed in on the issue. Some argued that the NBA was too harsh with its punishments, some critiqued the NBA for not being harsh enough and some even went as far as to say the NBA was rigged.
(06/17/16 10:10pm)
When it comes to discussing privilege, my opinion is swiftly and decisively invalidated. As a white, socioeconomically sound male (a superficial and ultimately meaningless description of myself that I am loath to even put on paper), my right to respond to the assertions of those with different experiences is stripped away. Instead of engaging in a meaningful and productive dialogue about race, class and gender, I am instead pedantically instructed as to what my identity has entitled me to — based solely on the three aforementioned criteria. Somehow, my experiences are judged without having actually discussed the specifics of my life beyond what is visible.
(06/17/16 2:48am)
Using the measures of sanitation score, price and food quality, I compared Moe's and Chipotle restaurants in Columbia to determine which restaurant choice is the best choice for USC students, based on healthiness and affordability.
(06/15/16 4:19am)
In July 1995, Srebrenica, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina, fell to the Bosnian Serb Army. The 11-day rampage of violence that descended on the town has come to be infamous throughout the world as the single largest act of depravity and barbarism seen in Europe since the end of the Second World War.
(06/13/16 8:58pm)
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised the Stanford rapist has become widely discussed and hated in recent days. Even though he was caught raping a woman and subsequently convicted, a judge decided that giving him more than a six-month sentence would be unfair. After all, the man was a good swimmer and jail would ruin his career and future. The rapist’s father then waded into the controversy with a cringe-worthy letter describing rape as “20 minutes of action” and apparently arguing that liking to cook steaks balances out raping an intoxicated woman.
(06/13/16 6:18pm)
“If we won it would just make so many people I know soooooo happy…”
(06/10/16 9:44pm)
When the Supreme Court ruled that the same sex couples had a constitutional right to marry, national Democrats and LGBT rights organizations began to focus on non-discrimination laws. At present, there are very few federal protections that prevent people from being fired or denied housing or services because of who they love or who they are. Most states don’t even have those protections, even though they’re such a no-brainer that 90 percent of Americans believe they already exist.
(06/05/16 12:10am)
It wasn’t orthodox or pretty, but Golden State’s trouncing of the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 1 of the NBA Finals left one thing clear: This is most definitely their series to lose.
(04/21/16 3:35am)
To teach or not to teach Shakespeare? That is the question.
(04/19/16 2:49am)
For the last few years, I’ve spent at least one night a week putting my thoughts on paper for this publication about myriad topics, from serious things such as the presidential primary and last year’s flood to lighter topics such as the train problem in Columbia or the value of memes. I was even lucky enough to serve as an editor on the staff, if only for a few semesters.
(04/19/16 2:48am)
The persecution of Christians is a subject of intense debate in this country. What should be a relatively simple question to answer — whether persecution happens — is instead politicized, with the right insisting upon an infringement on Christians’ freedom to worship, and the left dismissing such claims as alarmist and baseless. This polarity of perspective is prevalent in our very own opinion section. However, the question of Christians’ disputed persecution need not be politicized, and it can be broken down into facts devoid of political bias. The simple answer, an answer based not in opinion, but in empirical data, is that Christianity is the single most persecuted faith on the planet. This fact, however, is obscured by America’s national politics, a system in which the conflict between the Christian right and the more secular left has distracted from the truth about the world’s most oppressed religious group.
(04/15/16 7:25pm)
After a historic night in the NBA that saw a legend retire and the regular season wins record broken, most wondered what the next big headline would be. There had been rumblings around that the Tennessee Titans were shopping the No.1 pick, but most expected a deal to be finalized closer to the draft.