If IBM and Fluor do indeed move into an office building planned to be built on USC’s campus, the school will finally be on its way to rectifying wrongs brought about by the poor management and economic climate that initially crippled the Innovista venture.
Over the weekend, the outspoken owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, had a few sharp words for the NBA’s rule requiring players to be at least 19 and a year removed from high school before they can be eligible to play in the league.
While we’re not sure if there’s a Guinness world record for “Most Municipal Scandals,” we’re confident that the last week or so would have propelled Columbia somewhere close to that lofty achievement.
It has been quite a month for our College of Social Work, as a discussion over the content of a textbook plays out in newspapers, on radio and on primetime television—not just within the borders of our community or state, but across this great country.
Obviously, most people of faith aren’t bigots. But those who decide to take their religious texts literally aren’t misusing faith. On the contrary, they’re the ones who accept all of the tenants of faith without question.
Last July, David Navarro, a former captain, accused Interim Police Chief Ruben Santiago of trying to steal drugs and a gun from a crime scene with the intent of planting them in an assistant city manager’s car.
This letter is in response to a letter published by The Daily Gamecock on Tuesday headlined “USC staffer unfairly criticized on Fox News.” To the individual who wrote this letter: There are many statements you presented as fact that cause me to question your historical knowledge of the nation that has afforded you an opportunity to educate yourself at this wonderful university.
Out of the way dusty gravel, TV trucks and pancaked beer cans: Williams-Brice Stadium ain’t going to be that kind of girl anymore.
Courage is an underlying theme that has resonated at the University of South Carolina this year. We are marking the 50th anniversary of the desegregation of our campus, and the Carolina Leadership Initiative is joining this effort with the third annual President’s Leadership Dialogue.
The benefits of being raised in a Christian household are that you pretty much always know where you stand on an issue. Maybe that’s why I love writing for the Viewpoints section, because I always have an opinion.
When it comes to the machinations of USC’s administrative positions, “increased efficiency” are the two most welcome words in the English language.
In junior “House of Cards” fashion, the house of delegates were upset to discover that its refreshed codes didn’t make it out of the student senate’s rabbit hole in one piece.
Venezuela, a country already crippled by problems, has plunged farther into despair due to the actions of President Nicolás Maduro.
Many consider the War on Drugs a vicious feedback loop, but we can’t count on it ending anytime soon.
I’m an atheist. I’d never considered this to be a bold statement, until I moved to South Carolina. Growing up in a scientifically minded family, God was never a topic of conversation at the dinner table. My parents didn’t discourage religion — I went to Sunday school for a couple of months — but besides seeing my friend once a week and getting to be in the nativity, as a child I never really liked church.
If we learned nothing else from the last half-century, we should have learned that interfering in the revolutions of other countries is both expensive and ineffective. And while we pay the price in tax dollars that could instead be used to improve the lives of Americans, the citizens of Ukraine pay for our international political games in blood.
First, the good news: More people voted in this year’s Student Government elections than ever before.