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(09/06/16 12:24am)
Science tells us that every species currently in existence is only a minute fraction of vast numbers of species that have long since come into existence, lived and died out. The animals and plants we see now are the products of ruthless competition in which the losers have gone extinct. Extinction is merely part of the blind force of natural selection driving all biological life. So why should we be concerned if human activity causes species to go extinct?
(08/29/16 1:38am)
If in any other context someone were to be invited to a filthy room stuffed with incoherent people tripping over each other and screaming along to the elementary words of a sacrilegious rapper, it would provoke a hard "no." The media, with the aid of the peer pressure to recap the “crazy” stories from the night before, has promoted college partying to be both reckless and glamorous. As new freshmen find their way around campus and into the party scene, it is important to understand that college parties never live up to their expectation, and it is okay to say no.
(08/30/16 3:41pm)
Socialism is a big deal these days. Bernie Sanders overwhelmingly swept the under-30 vote by running as a “democratic socialist,” and his ideas live on in some of Hillary Clinton’s proposed policies. YouGov, a major online research firm, found that nearly as many under-30s had a positive view of socialism than they did of capitalism. Democrats were even more favorable to socialism, which ranked even with capitalism at 43 percent. Clearly, cultural attitudes toward socialism in America are changing.
(08/25/16 6:01pm)
Over the last year, top news stories have been filled with Donald Trump. Hardly a day has gone by when we haven’t seen something ridiculous come out of his mouth — whether he’s attacking a Gold Star family, making fun of Heidi Cruz, talking about his genitals during a debate or saying a judge from Indiana can’t do his job because he’s Mexican, there is always something new going on with the Donald.
(08/23/16 10:25pm)
Elected Republicans like to talk a lot about "activist courts" overstepping their bounds to make decisions on public policy. Criticisms of "an activist court's 'social engineering'" are at least as old as Brown v. Board of Education and the desegregation of public schools. The same rhetoric has continued to the modern day, with conservatives griping about decisions in favor of same-sex marriage or the health care law.
(08/22/16 3:25am)
Coach Will Muschamp did little to alleviate the widespread anxiety felt in Gamecock Country when he announced that he had no immediate plans to announce a starting quarterback.
(08/22/16 1:57am)
When people think of disease, they think of HIV/AIDS, Ebola and now Zika. Disease takes the most sacred moments of our humanity and corrupts them with pain and death. Ebola took away the act of washing the dead, a common practice in many sub-Saharan cultures, leaving many with yet another pit of grief in their lives. Zika takes from us the gift of birth, leaving us with microcephaly and miscarriages.
(08/22/16 1:21am)
We've heard this before. Last summer, Tennessee was a trendy SEC Championship pick and plenty of sportswriters considered them a threat to make the College Football Playoff. For those who have forgotten what happened last fall, let me remind you.
(08/18/16 1:43am)
Free college, or at least debt free college, was a popular idea during the Democratic primaries. Senator Bernie Sanders used it to drive up support among young voters and soundly beat Hillary Clinton among the demographic.
(08/12/16 6:42am)
Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee, Mike Pence, has a 40 percent approval rating in his home state of Indiana. Pence’s rise and fall in many ways mirror the shift from relative pragmatism to conservative posturing in the GOP during the Obama administration.
(08/12/16 6:45am)
All fans love to have an advantage when it comes to their team. Whether it’s traditions that their team holds, going to the games or barstool sports talk, fans want something so that they can get behind with their team. The fact that they can get pumped up for their team yet write off their opponent is an integral and essential component of any sports fan. At the University of South Carolina, we are one of the best at creating a unique and exhilarating atmosphere, one that most fans want to go enjoy.
(07/27/16 3:50am)
Cue the groans, get ready for the cheers: Josh Gordon has been reinstated and will be allowed to play in the upcoming season after countless suspensions and problems with the NFL involving the use of marijuana. This once again brings one of the hottest social issues in this country to the sport this country loves so much, and it’s a problem that is not going away anytime soon.
(07/27/16 3:50am)
The Democratic convention has been off to a rocky start — an email scandal, the fall of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and plenty of protesters. Worst of all, however, has been the “Bernie or Bust” supporters. They pair an overly simple understanding of political realities with a childlike response to Sanders' primary losses. They have disrupted the convention, rejected the presumptive nominee and, ironically, have booed their own candidate for supporting Hillary Clinton. These ideologues fail to grasp that progressive politics in America can only survive through pragmatism and cooperation rather than sheer will and obstinance.
(07/20/16 4:30am)
Britain's vote to leave the European Union was announced weeks ago and is already fading in American minds in the wake of attention-grabbing police shootings and retaliatory attacks. But we would do well to consider what led to the much-discussed Brexit.
(07/20/16 4:30am)
When’s the last time you were at a church gathering?
(07/17/16 8:49pm)
Loyalty: A quality so sought after in the real world, yet in the small circles of the NBA, seemingly nonexistent. Money and fame stand as the suppressor to this loyalty, causing distrust between players and owners and leading fans to wonder if their loyalty to certain players and teams means anything anymore.
(07/15/16 5:49pm)
At the end of every SEC Media Days, the projected order of finish for the conference's upcoming season is released, sending football fans into a frenzy. Let's take a breath for a second.
(07/13/16 3:34am)
When it comes to starting college, it's inevitable that students will be faced with situations and decisions that will force them into adulthood, if that has not happened before college.
(07/04/16 8:15pm)
With the coronation of the Cleveland Cavaliers as champions, the 2015-16 NBA season came to a close. And as hectic as those finals and the entire season as a whole might have been, what has transgressed since then might have been even crazier.
(07/03/16 2:38am)
Gun violence in America is problematic, and its causes are rooted in a lack of regulation. People highly suspected to be terrorists are allowed to purchase weapons of all types, and our background checks are at best mediocre. This gap in American legislation is supported by the wallets of corporations that profit greatly from gun sales and also a constituency of uninformed voters whose bigoted opinions on the matter are passed down from generations with antiquated views, rather than being birthed out of rational deliberation and science.