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.
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.
It’s with great sadness that I’m writing my last column for The Daily Gamecock. Before I departed for South Carolina last August, I was asked to write an article describing my feelings about the year ahead.
South Carolina’s General Assembly is again mulling over establishing a system to expunge minor, non-violent crimes from public record, a notion vetoed by Gov.
Students need to break down arbitrary social categories I enrolled to study a double Honors degree in 2010 in the hope that it would make me a more rounded intellectual.
I began smoking cigarettes sometime last February.
All Internet arguments have basically three things in common. First, they center on petty, unimportant topics; second, they’re almost entirely unproductive; and third, they end up being embarrassing to everyone involved. So, it’s almost a relief that the Facebook spat between Gov.
The University of South Carolina is making drastic changes to campus to ensure housing and safety for current and future students. The only question many students and faculty may ask is why the construction can’t work a little more in our favor.
In the bucket of total government expenditures, $6 billion seems like a drop, but it’s an especially painful pill to swallow during tax season. That’s enough money to give all American taxpayers $50 refunds on their personal income taxes.