Alcohol tax could help fund Five Points safety
By Matthew Coleman | Oct. 31, 2013The university and local community are in the midst of a crisis regarding the safety of Five Points.
The university and local community are in the midst of a crisis regarding the safety of Five Points.
Since becoming an exchange student at the University of South Carolina, I’ve noticed profound differences between student life in England compared to the states.
Pets Inc., a West Columbia no-kill animal shelter, is facing closure as it battles debt, an undermanned staff and a stock of animals far beyond its capacity. Fortunately for Pets Inc., they’ve got the support of their community; we think the USC community should join in the effort to keep the shelter open. Emma Robl — along with hopefully many more that support Pets Inc.’s cause — is rallying in an effort to help get the shelter the funding needs to stay afloat.
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Addressing a number of issues in Five Points on Friday, Interim Columbia Police Chief Ruben Santiago made one thing clear: There’s no one problem in the popular bar district.
Student senate last night divvied up money to student organizations, using its current system for the last time. Student Government plans to restructure its allocation process into a rolling system.
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, otherwise known as CISPA, is back in the Senate. Last we heard, the bill was dead on arrival in the Senate, after it was effectively grounded by Edward Snowden’s PRISM revelation.
While Monday’s mayoral candidate forum in the Ernest F. Hollings library was primarily focused — and rightfully so — on issues of safety in Five Points and Columbia as a whole, that’s not all the three contenders for mayor talked about.
After last weekend’s tragic shooting, the main concern of the city of Columbia is violence, especially regarding the Five Points area.
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Everyone agrees: Five Points is a problem area for Columbia. But until everyone agrees on exactly what that problem is, it won’t be fixed. The shooting that left our fellow Gamecock, 18-year-old Martha Childress, paralyzed from the waist down is another on a long list of tragedies that could have been avoided if everyone with an opinion on the bar district’s woes did have “a 100 percent accurate idea of what’s going on.” We think it’s obvious: The two major factors in Five Points crime are gang violence and what truly is a “revolving door” judicial system. Those problems aren’t going to be fixed with 2 a.m.
With major heat plaguing Columbia in the middle of September, the air conditioning units in the McBryde Quadrangle decided it was a good time to quit working.
The recent statement by USC President Harris Pastides concerning safety issues at Five Points should give us pause for a number of reasons, and not so much because of its obvious lack of intellectual sophistication in concluding there are safety issues right after a very tragic incident has occurred.