Opinion: Take walks on campus
With the stress of course work piling up, a lack of parking or a late shuttle can turn a stressful day into a total meltdown.
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With the stress of course work piling up, a lack of parking or a late shuttle can turn a stressful day into a total meltdown.
The new walkway in front of the business school isn’t a fix — it’s a bandage. While it removes the eyesore that was a trampled garden, it teaches bad habits to those that disregarded the area.
University and classroom policies are among my favorite things to analyze. They seem to be misguided and exacerbate situations they aim to fix. As a result, taking the rules of college life and applying them to the rest of the world yield some interesting results.
In the recent campaigns for Student Government positions, many students have voiced that interest is low. Student constituents claim they do not know what SG does and its members are wishing for more participation in their affairs. But it is not the job of either of these groups to raise interest — it’s the job of political activists.
Every election event seems to have its quirks. Sometimes, there is so much competition that messages get lost in all the campaign craziness. Candidates need to be able to successfully navigate the campaign process in order to secure the win.
Family is an important part of our daily lives. Preceded only by safety and psychological needs on Maslow’s hierarchy, it plays a large role in our general happiness and well-being.
When it comes to gender and sexual preferences, most people fall into well-known categories. Specifically, people will generally identify with their gender assigned at birth and have a sexual preference for the opposite.
Poker in South Carolina is illegal — very illegal — but it shouldn’t be since college students could benefit from playing. Current South Carolina law says that it is against the law to play poker, even if there is no money involved, yet the game teaches a variety of skills that can help develop a young student into a headstrong, successful adult.
Although kitchens are common in residence halls, students cooking for themselves seems subtly discouraged. Things promoting this attitude include a lack of kitchen space and a required meal plan.
College is presented as a time of freedom and exploration while discovering life as an adult. Students, however, are not as free to adulthood as they may believe.
Whether I’m outside on a bench, in the Graduate Science Research Center or even in the veterans lounge, everywhere I eat I notice one major difference between me and everyone else. I’m eating out of plastic container I brought from home while others are eating out of Styrofoam or paper bags from somewhere on or near campus.
In low level courses, group projects are not only a terrible teaching tool, but are also a waste of student time. By forcing students to move around an already busy schedule and work with others that have varying levels of commitment, the projects become more hassle than they are worth and a poor example of group work in a company.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has historically made no move to promote the use of electronic cigarettes as a tool for quitting smoking traditional cigarettes. It instead focuses on the possibility of it being a gateway to increased smoking rates, its health risks and its promotion of illegal activities. The WHO should instead be pushing for e-cigarette use because these arguments weaken when placed beside their more dangerous alternatives.
Renovations to the Russell House University Union by Carolina Food Co. brought big changes to the decades-old student union over the summer months. But with students back on campus for the fall semester eager for a quick bite to eat between classes, some students say they're facing substantially longer lines compared to previous years.
The University of South Carolina Board of Trustees revoked Bill Cosby’s honorary degree in a unanimous decision Friday afternoon.
Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing Hossein Haj-hariri officially welcomed SIOS Technology Corp. into a growing list of private partnerships at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday afternoon.
Student Body President Taylor Wright laid out his expectations for his new staff, including goals for improved collaboration and increased transparency, at the first meeting of the new Student Government executive cabinet late Tuesday night.
While some remember college as some of the best years of their lives, for Amber Tozer it was the start of a long journey to the bottom of a bottle. At seven years old, she tasted her first drink and then at 13 she snuck out of her house and got blackout drunk for the first time.
College Park, the university section of the Carolina Cup, may have had music loud enough that nobody even noticed the national anthem had come and gone. But it was still a shadow of its former self.
Hanna Murray, a fourth-year pharmacy student, is no stranger to the importance of suicide awareness. Since the age of 14, she has lost nine people in her life to suicide. As a result, Murray is active in online awareness campaigns and participates in Suicide Prevention weeks. This last Sunday, however, she found herself on Greene Street with over a hundred others for what would be her first Out of the Darkness walk.