It is no secret that we live in turbulent times in terms of foreign relations, but it’s not often that the goings on in Guatemala and Iraq directly affect us as students here in Columbia.
If you were fortunate, you were able to the three-thousand or so miniature U.S. flags sticking straight up from the soil outside Russell House last Thursday.
Until very recently, there was a tough choice facing those who thought they were interested in pursuing a pre-Pharmacy career at USC after high school.
Focus on singular body parts exacerbates attempts to see women as wholeThe popular opinion of 2014 seems to be of one mind and two.
Of course, the desire to see changes in government that will be personally beneficial is hardly limited to rich people, companies and interest groups.
We have built a dependence, and, to a certain extent, an infrastructure around these fragile pieces of glass and metal, filled with ones and zeros.
People who love books often have a sort of snooty, reactionary attitude to people who just are not interested in picking up Marcel Proust.
Our whole lives, we’ve been told that these will be our best four years. What happens when they don’t feel that way?
With the Georgia game approaching, an infamously rowdy game, it is more important than ever to remember proper stadium decorum.
With the myriad of programs sponsored by Student Government, from Carolina Cab to the Gamecock Pantry, it’s obvious that they need a pretty sizable budget to function. However, you wouldn’t guess that $20,000 of that sizable budget goes to office operations.
Living in a democratic nation is wonderful, except when public relations paralyzes elected officials from doing anything they were elected to do. This complaint is anything but new, but has once again reared its ugly head as President Obama delays action on the issue of immigration because the controversy would damage the Democratic party in midterm elections.
We begin to lose a handle on the fact that domestic abuse is not a problem among football players, but a reflexive societal disease.
The great thing about being young is that you’re open to the kind of mind-forging repetition that can etch all sorts of information onto an unconscious level.
Student Government and various Five Points bars have lessened the burden of being a designated driver by providing free non-alcoholic drinks to those taking up the mantle.
On Tuesday, President Obama sent another 350 troops to Iraq, bringing the total to more than 1000 US soldiers deployed in the country — but remember, it’s not an invasion.
Now, it seems, this strange “fill one seat and another empties” job ascension chain has attracted the attention of USC Provost Michael Amiridis, who has recently applied to fill the role of FSU’s president.
As a three-time graduate of USC (1969, 1973, 1980) my admiration for my alma mater runs deep. I hope the poem I wrote this month after all those years might be published in your letters section.