We live in an age where media is a far-reaching spiderweb, present not only in print publications, but online as well, which extends to our phones, computers and tablets. Once something is published online, all it takes is a Google search and no more than an hour or two of time to unearth past offenses that could cause harm to your reputation and your future.
For this upcoming school year tuition will be raised by 3.2 percent, or $171 for in-state students and $456 for out of state students a semester.
This past Sunday, CNN aired its documentary “41ON41” in which 41 people close to George H.W. Bush, were interviewed. To celebrate his 90th birthday, the former president and father of our 43rd president went sky-diving. Whether or not you agree with the choices he made while in office, that’s a gutsy move to make at any age, let alone at 90.
I have played games like “World of Warcraft” and have enough playtime across all games to make anyone /cry.
On Thursday, Gov. Nikki Haley vetoed the $12,000-a-year raise that lawmakers voted to give themselves. In her defense, Haley made good points, saying that any raise for lawmakers should be decided by voters in a referendum.
Texting allows us to connect with people on the other side of the world within minutes, eating up the miles with our fingertips as easily as we fold up a map. Along with social media, it’s the keystone in maintaining friendships with people across the country and even the world.
The current policy for allowing patrons to purchase alcohol within a SEC stadium is up for debate, but this is one issue that can be permanently tabled.
High school graduation is supposed to be one of the milestones of your life, one that you earn through four years of hard work and dedication.
USC Upstate closed its Center for Women’s and Gender Studies in May.
On May 23, Elliot Rodger shot and killed six people and injured several more.
Department of Social Services director Lillian Koller has resigned from her post, after repeated calls for her resignation, the most recent of which was last week.
A few days ago, someone asked me what it feels like to be in my last week at The Daily Gamecock. Truth is, I don’t know. I probably won’t until well after this column goes to print.
It’s true that America leads the world in exactly two categories: largest military and highest percentage of population in jail. The latter could owe to the U.S.’s dual sovereignty, which allows states to hold their own laws and requires citizens to also abide by federal laws.
For better or worse, it often takes a tragedy to recognize certain aspects of the world around us. Just as so many tragedies have changed how we see the world, Martha Childress getting shot last fall brought safety concerns in Five Points to the fore. We saw leaders from the university, city and state government and the community rally to search for answers to violence in Columbia, for ways to make sure all of us can work, live and play safely. As we continue to work through those big-picture questions, let’s not forget the details of how Childress and all of us transition back to normalcy, as a community and as individuals. Now that the unimaginable has happened, we are forced to take a look at how we operate day-to-day.
When I was a small boy, too small to understand the complex and sinister machinations of the free market, I came across the Books-A-Million in Trenholm Plaza, where everything was great and not horrible.
Before South Carolina can keep it beautiful, we ought to try to at least keep it clean. A litter scorecard released by the American Society for Public Administration has the Palmetto State ranked dead last in the country for “public space cleanliness” — i.e.
If you ask someone if they consider themselves a feminist, you’ll probably hear no more often than yes. Even at a liberal university like ours, people shy away from the term because it conjures up images of bra-burning, man-hating lesbians from the ’70s. Connotations aside, the real definition of a feminist is someone who advocates social, political, legal and economic rights of women to equal those of men — not someone who hates men or wants to bring them down.