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(10/15/17 10:05pm)
There are many different social media platforms, but recently it seems they are all heading toward offering the same features. From Instagram featuring stories to Twitter adding more live sports, social media platforms keep changing to offer every feature that the others can. This constant flow of changes has brought us to Instagram polls.
(10/15/17 9:28pm)
In a scene deserving of the silver screen, Sen. John McCain, fresh off the hospital bed, marched to the senate chambers and with a single “no” saved America’s healthcare system. Exaggerated, yes, but it was a triumphant moment nonetheless for supporters of the Affordable Care Act. However, some two months later another Obamacare repeal bill, sponsored by our very own Sen. Lindsey Graham, was similarly proposed and shot down. It prompted Sen. Mitch McConnell to declare that the GOP would be moving on from healthcare reform. Of course he said that last time too.
(10/15/17 10:33pm)
Spoiler warning.
(10/15/17 3:08pm)
A house divided cannot stand. In American politics today, there is an ever-increasing rift between conservative and liberal America that seems to grow more each year, with partisans on both sides more or less cloistering themselves in their own little bubbles free from all dissent. According to a new Pew Research study, the political and social divisions between the parties continues to grow at a rapid rate, with ideological conformity and close-mindedness becoming the new norms for members of both parties.
(10/15/17 3:17pm)
The State Renewable Portfolio Standards and Goals are plans made by states to have a certain percent of its electricity providers use energy produced by a renewable source by a set year. The highest standard is set by the state of Hawaii, which hopes to have 30 percent of its energy renewable by 2020 and then continue to convert to more renewable energy until it reaches 100 percent in the year 2045. On the other end of the spectrum is South Carolina, with a measly goal of two percent by 2021. South Carolina nearly doubled their goal last year but has yet to set a new one. Currently, 13 states don’t even have a standard set.
(10/12/17 12:05am)
This week the university is putting on their stigma free mental health week. When I heard, I was initially quite excited. Mental healthcare on campus is bad, as our editorial board noted. I was looking forward to a chance for an open discussion and awareness campaign about common mental illnesses like clinical depression and anxiety as well as some that are more heavily stigmatized in society, like personality disorders and schizophrenia.
(10/11/17 11:54pm)
America has lost faith in science. Unfortunately, it's easy to understand why.
(10/11/17 11:52pm)
There’s a reason why celebrities no longer rely on the 1900s-era trend of blatantly obvious publicity stunts. The public sees right through them. No public figure these days would be shortsighted enough to rely on them, right?
(10/11/17 2:46am)
Surprise, surprise; last Friday, the Trump administration took another step to erase former President Obama's legacy and women's rights. In the name of religious freedom, Trump signed away women's rights to free birth control under their employer's insurance. The federal requirement enacted under the Affordable Care Act to make employers provide free birth control under their company insurance plans has been revoked in an appeal to the religious freedoms of employers. Basically, the government wants to protect the rights of employers to not feel bad about going against their religious values by going against the basic rights of women to have health care.
(10/09/17 3:00am)
This week is Stigma Free USC Week at USC — a week of events designed to raise awareness and reduce the stigma of mental illness. As this article is being written, the website doesn't work if you're using campus WiFi.
(10/08/17 11:53pm)
It’s not news to anybody that student loan debt has reached absurd proportions. Sitting at a cool $1.3 trillion, it exceeds the GDPs of Australia, New Zealand and Ireland combined. While the magnitude of the problem is obvious, the causes are less so. Societal pressure to attend college and overblown tuition prices both fit into the explanation of this popular narrative. However, this fails to account for another major source of the problem: bait-and-switch.
(10/08/17 10:56pm)
Hurricane Maria left Puerto Rico in shambles. The U.S. has left it largely the same. Not to disparage the countless first responders and supplies sent to the island, as every bit of aid has been a blessing, but many have called out the federal government for not doing more and not doing it sooner. Just compare the response to Puerto Rico to that of Houston and the regions affected by Hurricane Irma.
(10/08/17 11:45pm)
News coverage in the days following tragic events is heartbreaking enough to send chills up anyone’s spine. Tributes and profiles of victims — their lives, dreams and loved ones — are a necessary part of properly mourning after a tragedy happens, and I believe that we as viewers should feel the heartbreak and enormity of these events.
(10/07/17 8:01pm)
In the past, women were forced into conforming to rigid beauty standards. From the suffragettes in the 1910s to the female body-positivity movement today, these standards have evolved into more health-focused directives. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of masculine physical and emotional standards. In fact, men are now contained within a smaller box of socially acceptable behaviors and appearances than women.
(10/07/17 1:08am)
After a four-month review of lands protected as national monuments, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is recommending that we shrink four of them and change the rules regarding six others. This recommendation is amoral and violates the very sanctity of these beautiful protected sites.
(10/07/17 8:16pm)
Many of us are aware of the giant presence that the social media platform Twitter has in the world of news and day-to-day conversation. Twitter has taken off and become the voice of the world for not only individual students like you and me, but for celebrities and politicians alike. With so many opinions flying around the site, sometimes we lose track of the facts.
(10/06/17 1:20am)
Recently I heard someone say that the Trump administration hadn’t affected them at all and I had to do a double take. Really? Not in the slightest? It’s hard for me to believe, if only because the last few months have been an endless stream of attacks on me and others for no real reason at all beyond petty hatred or so a rich donor of the president can make a few bucks.
(10/05/17 10:08pm)
According to statistics provided by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, more than 300,000 young immigrants were accepted into the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2017. This program gives many opportunities to children who were brought to the United States at a young age, the most important opportunity being the ability to attend college. Without these government programs, immigrant youth are left with no legal rights and the constant fear of being deported. The majority of these students were brought to the United States at a very young age with no ability to decide their fate, and they have likely spent most of their life here. Therefore, the possibility of being sent back to a fairly unknown country and being stripped of the only life they have known is entirely too real.
(10/04/17 8:11pm)
To offer some background, I am a single parent whose failures have built in me enough confidence to fit on the tip of a fine point pen. Not exactly someone from whom you’d expect to take advice! However, my greatest accomplishment and the source of virtually all my pride comes from having single-handedly raised two very strong, smart and savvy young people who are very different from myself. It is from that visceral place of trust in them and delight at having raised them that I feel even slightly qualified to offer the following advice.
(10/04/17 11:40pm)
In his “Pedagogic Creed” from 1897, John Dewey stated, “education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.” As public educators in North Carolina, we are in partnership with the community to provide a quality education to all children, regardless of their socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, or ability to learn.