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(10/29/18 7:07am)
Upon careful consideration of the merits of both tickets, The Daily Gamecock endorses James Smith and Mandy Powers Norrell for governor and lieutenant governor, respectively. We believe that Smith adequately addressed many of the issues that we, as students and young adults, care about deeply and offered policy positions that we can stand behind.
(10/29/18 7:06am)
The Daily Gamecock editorial board has decided to run endorsements for the following candidates based on a discussion surrounding the issues each candidate ran on. Multiple senior staff members (paid staff members that appear on our masthead) voted on each candidate based on the particular issues each candidate listed on their campaign website, their congressional website and through their official vote records (if they were an incumbent).
(10/26/18 5:53pm)
To this day, there are only seven states in America that have laws prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality in a classroom setting. South Carolina is one of them. While commonly referred to as "No Promo Homo" laws, these codes usually allude to the LGBTQ+ community as a whole, or as the state government calls them, “alternate sexual lifestyles.”
(10/22/18 5:15am)
With midterms coming up, many students could use some pawsitivity in their lives. For some, they already have it in the form of an emotional support animal, or ESA. Animals are often amazing companions, they help relieve stress and they are constantly showing love for their owners. Some animals are even able to sense illness and stress in humans and try to comfort them.
(10/22/18 5:18am)
Conor McGregor is back in the spotlight after his submission loss to Khabib Nurmagomedov, a Dagestani fighter from Russia. The post-fight brawl that broke out in the audience, however, was the event that really captured headlines after Nurmagomedov leapt over the ring and attacked McGregor’s trainer. The entire end to the fight really is a good metaphor for McGregor’s public life, being that it took what should have been a good show and brought down any sense of class or decency.
(10/22/18 5:13am)
Elizabeth Warren has no credible claims to Native American heritage. Warren’s DNA results have not proven her assertions of identifying as Native American. Yet she still portrays herself as having proven something with this “evidence” and demands attention and recognition. In reality, Warren has proven nothing other than the fact that she has once again claimed to be something she has no right to, in order to further her own personal agenda.
(10/15/18 4:41am)
Everywhere you look today, democracy seems to be under siege. From Hungary to the Philippines, democracy is clearly in crisis as populist and authoritarian figures rise to power across the globe. In addition to the usual right-wing suspects, democracy now also faces a new and potentially insurmountable adversary: our present climate catastrophe.
(10/15/18 2:52am)
If there was a disease that caused 30,000 new cases of cancer every year and had no cure, wouldn’t you want to be vaccinated against it? What about if you knew that a quarter of all men and a fifth of all women already have it? Or that many people have it but don’t know it?
(10/08/18 12:27am)
There is no doubt that afternoon football games can suck due to how extremely hot it can be. Few if any enjoy standing in the stadium, which is practically an oven during these games, while being blasted by the sun. In fact, this past Saturday was absolute hell for some before the rain hit with temperatures up in the 90s. These circumstances, combined with fans drinking alcohol, can lead to a lot of dehydration and potential for serious heat strokes.
(10/09/18 3:35am)
Perhaps the single most positive political development in the United States over the past decade has been the clear movement away from prohibition when it comes to the world’s most widely used illicit substance. These days, a clear majority of U.S. citizens support the legalization of marijuana and more and more states are moving towards legalizing the drug in some capacity, be it medicinal or recreational. New Jersey seems poised to legalize the drug eventually and as the years go by it seems inevitable that more and more states will continue to make the sensible decision toward legalization.
(10/08/18 1:54am)
The other day country icon Willie Nelson got into some hot water with his more conservative fans over his very public support for Beto O’Rourke, a Democratic candidate for Congress from Texas. For those who don’t know, O’Rouke’s campaign has garnered public attention because he is directly challenging Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and preliminary polls suggest he may even win.
(10/03/18 2:24am)
This is parents week and my son asked me to write something. While writing, my mind went blank for couple of minutes and I started thinking of my role as a parent.
(10/03/18 2:32am)
I grew up a Gamecock fan, attended the University of South Carolina, am a Gamecock and, now, the proud parent of a Gamecock. That’s me.
(10/03/18 2:32am)
When our older son, Dan, headed to the University of South Carolina three years ago, my wife Cathy and I were sad for ourselves but excited for him. Even though Dan had the opportunity to go to universities in Georgia, he decided USC was best for him. Instead of being 30 minutes away, he was three and a half hours from our home in Atlanta.
(10/03/18 2:30am)
Through the years, our three daughters have largely made parenting easy, but my wife and I were not prepared for the challenges of parenting from 800 miles away. While we have never been helicopter parents, we have always been a part of our girls’ lives. We knew their teachers. We knew their spiritual mentors. We knew their schedules and their whereabouts. And we always sought to have the home where their friends wanted to hang out so we would know each of them too.
(10/02/18 2:37am)
Like it or not, American culture is somewhat bizarre. We are one of the richest countries in the world, but we were recently ranked 27th in the world for healthcare and education by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. We never cease to proclaim our love for democracy and freedom, but we align ourselves with nations like Saudi Arabia that undermine those principles, and allow the ruling class to subvert those ideas with mass surveillance and anti-voting tactics like gerrymandering and purging voting lists.
(10/01/18 4:18am)
Combat sports such as boxing, Muay Thai and wrestling are great activities that everyone should pick up. They provide too many benefits for someone to pass up. That being said, college students especially should pick up combat sports as our demographic can greatly benefit from it.
(10/02/18 2:38am)
For the past few months, the Roman Catholic Church has been shaken by allegations of sexual misconduct conducted by church officials across the world. The scandal has extended through all levels of the Catholic Church hierarchy, with some accusing Pope Francis of doing little to address the serious concerns.
(09/23/18 10:45pm)
The recent prison strikes have made prescient certain aspects of the U.S. prison system that need changing but there is an important, often ignored, issue in the U.S. prisons that also needs to be addressed: the prison suicide rate.
(09/24/18 12:25am)
One thing that the presidency of Donald Trump has shown is that it’s imperative that our president is of sound mind. President Trump’s behavior over the course of his presidency has been downright bizarre at times, and his actions have raised serious questions over his mental fitness.