It’s a fact of life that crimes happen, but it’s also true that young people — especially college students whose campus is less than 15 minutes away from a cluster of bars and restaurants — are going to out and have fun.
Can you hear that? It’s the groan of thousands of students learning that the surface parking lot behind the Carolina Coliseum will be closed next week to accommodate the construction of new student housing.
Growing up in a suburb of New York City, I was privileged to live in a community that was open about sex education. I had my first sex ed class in eighth grade — we had a contest once to name the most STDs — and I cannot remember ever seeing one pregnant girl in my high school.
After months of relative calm, Five Points is back in the news again for all the wrong reasons. A man was shot in the popular hospitality district just past midnight Saturday. Members of the Columbia community, including USC, are left with a question: How can we solve the issue of violent crime in a neighborhood so popular with students?
It’s lunchtime, and you’ve just gotten your chicken fingers and curly fries. You go to grab something to drink, but with all the calories already sitting on your plate, you don’t want to add any more. So instead of grabbing your usual Coke, you figure a Diet Coke would be a better alternative; there’s no sugar or calories in it, so it can’t be as bad for you, right?
As an exchange student from England, I’m often reminded just how far I am from home when I log into Facebook.
Like electricity, successful businesses take the path of least resistance. For Tesla Motors, the premium electric car company, this means bypassing dealerships and selling their vehicles directly to consumers.
It’s slightly mind-blowing how many different ways there are to work out. There are the classics, like jogging, biking, swimming and tennis; the dance centric, like zumba, hip-hop, aerobics and barre; the new wave, like body pump, Cross Fit, P90X; and on and on.
Throughout their time in college, students learn a plethora of academic and life lessons. Part of becoming an adult may include maturing and becoming more professional.
As Gamecocks, we’re obligated to follow the Carolinian Creed to create a more welcoming school environment.
In 2012, South Carolina was the 6th most dangerous state to drive in. We rose to 2nd most dangerous in 2013.
The recent tensions in between Russia and Ukraine have been met with a largely negative reaction from western nations such as the U.S.
Hacking coughs fly through the air like bats in a belfry. Sniffles echo throughout classrooms with the steady, irritating rhythm of a leaky faucet.
The third largest institution of higher education in South Carolina is about to inaugurate a president with no experience in education. Lt.
Now that I’m in college, where mature people go to do mature things, it’s almost comforting to know that Yik Yak, an anonymous, twitter-esque posting site, has made it that much easier to reveal other students’ personal information consequence-free.
The South has a contentious history tarnished with racism. However with the aid of social activism and time, today our southern city of Columbia, S.C. appears to be nicely growing in both diversity and tolerance. But a significant figure vital to the continuance of that unpleasant history still stands outside of the statehouse as our government chooses to still honor the most prominent white supremacist in state history.
As children, people are taught basic rules that can apply to any age group: Don’t hit, clean up your messes and share. You learn these things and other similar edicts because they all fall under the proverbial Golden Rule, the cornerstone of polite society that seems to be forgotten more and more often these days: Treat others as you’d like to be treated. The Columbia City Council members seem to have tossed these rules out the window, according to The State. The story follows a pledge put forth by Mayor Steve Benjamin, a tenet of which urged the council members “to refrain from engaging in name calling, insults, demeaning or inflammatory remarks.” That sounds an a lot like what we learned in kindergarten. The State cites the council elections of 2013 and the strong-mayor referendum that followed as the start of these issues, but isn’t that what a City Council is supposed to do?