Media focuses too much on negative stories
By Deveney Williams | Oct. 21, 2013A shift to positive news could change public mindset
A shift to positive news could change public mindset
The reason tragic events are so tragic is because typically, nothing ever comes out of them. Communities come together for a short while, but eventually, people go back to their daily lives.
Being a woman in America, I have been offered so many different options for preventative medicine in my life. There are Gardisil shots for preventing cervical cancer, or birth control for pregnancy prevention and, of course, the average flu vaccine.
The University of South Carolina does everything it can to reach its students, including social networking.
Is the sky falling for our Gamecocks as we watch Jadeveon Clowney’s legacy tarnish after sitting out Saturday without warning coach Steve Spurrier? Probably not, but that’s what the likes of ESPN want you to think. A miscommunication like that between a high-profile player and his notoriously outspoken coach is the kind of story that sports journalists live for, but we can be thankful that most of the reporting was a bit sensational. Unfortunately, one facet of the story is dead on: the concerning lack of communication.
Closure could affect students if not resolved soon
Citizens must be aware of privacy concerns
Pharmacy students don’t usually get much attention for their leadership. With a strenuous course load and a packed curriculum, they’re often confined to their studies, but Donna Walker was an exception. Before she became a marketing and pharmaceutical sales executive, she studied pharmacy at USC, served as a student senator and interned with then-U.S.
If USC wants to step up its game and jump in college rankings, it needs to ditch any and all classes driven by recorded lectures.
Hello parents, and welcome to USC. Rest assured, the tuition you’ve spent has not been in vain. Despite the flashbacks to your own college days of varying rambunctiousness, perhaps triggered by the many nights of unanswered texts to your child, we can assure that great things are indeed happening at USC.
Football is a man’s world, or so says our culture. From birth, it seems little girls may only enter this world with pom-poms in hand or a bow in their hair, cheering on their male counterparts, who dominate the realm of sports media.
USC managed to make national news under less than ideal circumstances after a remarkable amount of students left Williams–Brice Stadium in the third quarter of the Vanderbilt game a couple weeks ago.
The United States federal government has been “shut down” for almost two full days as I write this.
Police found no evidence of a rape near the East Quadrangle in February. Consequently, the case was closed after the victim failed a polygraph test and provided inconsistent details regarding her alleged rape, and police leads led to dead ends.
Miley Cyrus has dominated pop culture lately with her tantalizing MTV Video Music Awards performance, fascinating tweets and, most recently, an interview with Rolling Stone, in which she questions America’s censorship policy.
As I write this, your social media feed is blowing up, and news syndicates are portraying the downfall of society.
Mason Branham, president of USC’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Straight Alliance, said it best: “Old white men: Times are changing.”