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(11/28/16 12:31am)
It's generally easier on the conscience to not think about where the fuel that brought most USC students away from campus last week came from. Doing so involves delving into America's past in the Middle East and pollution at home.
(11/28/16 12:12am)
As class registration ends, many students — mostly freshmen and sophomores — are considering how they can fulfill that pesky language requirement. A minimum of two semesters is required by the Carolina Core, and we can choose from a relatively wide array of languages to make that happen. Romance languages and beyond are offered for language credit at USC. But there is one language that you can take that you will get no credit for, although it has all the hallmarks of a language that should earn it.
(11/24/16 5:05pm)
Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday season, a respite from the mundaneness of the working world and a welcome of the approach of the winter season. Today, millions of families gather at the dinner table to give thanks, celebrate each other and stuff themselves with home-cooked meals. Above all others, one food reigns supreme this day of the year: turkey.
(11/21/16 2:54am)
Four months from now, wins against South Carolina State, Holy Cross and Louisiana Tech will be long forgotten. However, South Carolina's men's basketball still has a chance to make this November memorable for the program and the entire college basketball world.
(11/21/16 12:39am)
In 2001, the South Carolina legislature approved a monument to African-American history on the Statehouse grounds. The move came as they debated whether to move the Confederate flag from its perch on top of the Statehouse.
(11/21/16 12:09am)
America, in yet another deeply regrettable discovery since Nov. 8, has learned in the last week and a half that the 45th president is still in possession of his Twitter account. Demonstrating a remarkable lack of ability to pretend he actually meant that he wanted to be a unifying president, as he claimed in his victory speech, Donald Trump has spent the time since Election Day on Twitter lying, reversing past positions and attacking everyone in reach. Occasionally he has made a comment related to his transition, but for the most part, it’s been an embarrassing display of our next president’s paper-thin skin and failure to understand the importance of the First Amendment.
(11/19/16 1:24am)
Puppies are in for some serious cuddle time this week.
(11/18/16 12:16am)
Among talk during the presidential election about the heroin epidemic and ongressional battles over Zika, another public health crisis has gone ignored. We are more comfortable, in fact, talking about guns and porn as health crises than we are in even bringing up a real and growing problem — suicide.
(11/17/16 12:55pm)
It is all too easy to chalk up Jake Bentley's performance against Florida, which was lackluster only in comparison to his first three games, as a product of youth — the consequence of "freshman mistakes."
(11/16/16 10:44pm)
Whatever else it may have been, the recent election was not really about social issues. The candidates did come down on their party’s side of the major ones: abortion, LGBTQ rights and welfare, but their campaigns were not defined by them. However, these issues are by no means going away. The divide on these issues is starker than ever, with rhetoric increasingly tending toward outright demonization of people holding the opposite view. Perhaps nowhere else in American society have these issues exerted as much pressure and caused such bitter divide as within Christianity.
(11/16/16 7:37pm)
Lurking in the shadows of Russell House and Williams-Brice are final exams. They are silently sneaking their way into every student’s life. They start in August as a mere date on a syllabus but slowly and surely come to dominate USC students' every waking hour come November. Students become obsessed with memorizing facts they will most likely forget the second the exam is over, begin frantically putting together projects or start researching a final paper topic with fervor.
(11/15/16 11:21pm)
With the ascendance of a populist demagogue to the White House throne, there seems to be a deep, underlying change in the fabric of the American ethos. How, Democratic voters ask themselves, could such a fear-mongering, homophobic, racist, vitriol-spewing orange man so easily jump to the highest rung of the American political ladder? I, like the majority of Americans, was disappointed by the outcome my country chose a week ago, but I will not so easily dismiss the misgivings of middle-class America as Hillary supporters have taken to doing since watching their candidate fall.
(11/15/16 12:32am)
I didn’t sleep election night, but I have to assume many people did. Most people must have been shocked by the election results when they awoke in the morning, as I certainly was watching it in real time. At the end of this election season, I would like nothing more than a cathartic breakdown, a cleanse of all the hate, angst and partisanship I’ve been harboring this year and a half.
(11/14/16 3:42am)
The banana we eat today is not the banana of our ancestors.
(11/14/16 12:17am)
If you spend any amount of time in the produce section of a grocery store, you are bound to run into fruit and vegetables with the colorful Dole label. The brand is one of the most recognizable in the industry, and it is the market leader in almost every product. It sells the most iceberg lettuce, celery, cauliflower and fruit cups in North America, as well as selling more than a third of all bananas we buy. But, this triumph of American industry has not always been a story of success. Dole’s beginnings are not the uplifting narrative of the scrappy entrepreneur conquering all of the odds and making it big. No, the history of Dole is enough to make you never want to eat fruit again. It is a story of military coups, destroyed government records and poisoning its own work force.
(11/11/16 12:21am)
There is one thing in common between Will Muschamp’s arrival at South Carolina in 2016 and Florida in 2011: He's had to fill the shoes for two coaching legends.
(11/11/16 12:10am)
By now, everyone has heard the allegations against Donald Trump. Rape, assault, groping and bragging about it to his friends. This is not to say that all of these allegations are true. I would not put it past the Democratic Party to have planted “victims” and created stories. But with the sheer number of women who have come forward, there is no possibility that they are all false. So, chances are, we’ve elected a rapist. Great job, America.
(11/10/16 12:46am)
You are in a parking lot when a stranger silently taunts you by waving their gun in the air. You are on the sidewalk when someone threatens you through their car window. You are on campus when a group of students surround you, shouting that you are not one of them. You approach your car to find that someone has keyed “ISIS” into its door. You, like everyone else, are a student trying to fit in and find your place in the world — but to them, you are only a Muslim.
(11/09/16 11:06pm)
I expected I would wake up Wednesday morning and write a column with a dark joke about how America walked away from the edge of the bridge but still needed to grapple with the issues that brought it there in the first place.
(11/08/16 5:00am)
Hopefully, this will be the last thing I have to write about the 2016 presidential race. That might just be wishful thinking, but with this hard slog of an election finally about to be behind us, I hope that neither side will throw a fit in the event of the other candidate winning. I hope that we can be done after this.