In our opinion: Masters brings good opportunities to USC
By The Daily Gamecock | April 4, 2013While golf may not be quite as exciting as football, the opportunities the sport brings to USC students more than makes up for it.
While golf may not be quite as exciting as football, the opportunities the sport brings to USC students more than makes up for it.
When a transition to a new technology system occurs, it’s normal to expect a few kinks and bugs here and there that still need to be addressed. But as students are beginning to register for classes, it’s clear USC’s Registrar’s Office didn’t take enough time to minimize difficulties for students.
We know that a rich life involves finding ways to give back, and whether it’s the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, USC Dance Marathon to support Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, Relay for Life to support the American Cancer Society or collecting and growing food for Harvest Hope Food Bank, becoming a leader means recognizing our community’s needs and creating opportunities to give back.
Recent history, relations show current actions unable to stabilize North Korea China has a population of 1.3 billion, a gross domestic product of $7.3 trillion and a standing army of almost 1.6 million people.
As a nation we have always been susceptible to the latest trend. But in the case of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication, the public should rethink its overwhelming support of the drug’s mass prescription.
It’s not every day that freak accidents occur so close to home, but Alan Martinez is proof they could happen to anyone.
While women make up about 51 percent of the U.S. population, they hold only 14 percent of government positions. This statistic provides just a glimpse at how unbalanced the gender division is in America’s government and culture.
The stigma against mixing business with environmentally friendly practices may finally be grounded. Tesla Motors, the Silicon Valley–based company that exclusively manufactures and sells electric cars and electric vehicle powertrain components, announced a first-quarter profit, raising the price of the iconoclastic luxury electric car maker’s shares by a solid 16 percent.
With North Korea cutting communications with South Korea, ending the armistice with the United States and threatening to attack both nations, war seems more likely than ever.
Following last year’s disaster in which the commencement committee appeared to pick random names out of the telephone book, we’re happy they reached out to students for names and were able to snag Darius Rucker and other bigwigs to appear at USC.
The issue of faculty and administration pay in our University of South Carolina was reported by The Daily Gamecock some months ago, but what was said at the meeting has not yet been revealed.
Our state’s reproductive health education is not meeting the standards it set in 1988 when it passed the Comprehensive Health Education Act (CHEA). The proposed Healthy Youth Amendment, H.3435, would bring x up to date, providing our states’ students with a comprehensive sex education — something supported by 84 percent of South Carolinians.
Last year, the Aurora, Colo., massacre shook the nation when 12 people were killed and 58 were wounded at a midnight cinema screening of “The Dark Knight Rises.” The suspect, James Holmes, is still in the process of court hearings in this horrific case that has drawn national attention.
It’s that time of year again, when thousands of floppy-hatted and seersucker-clad southerners flock to the horse races that have become as much about the horses as the culture of socializing that surrounds it.
Last Thursday, the Department of Defense requested $150 million from Congress to fund construction of a new prison building at Guantanamo Bay and make renovations to existing buildings. This request is very concerning in many ways.
The past couple of months have seen a lot of big talk from North Korea. This isn’t unusual: The small nation has always had a big mouth and has rarely been reluctant to use it.
I’m sure most of you are aware that the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing two cases having to deal with gay marriage this week — one against the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and the other against California’s Proposition 8 (which overturned a State Supreme Court decision allowing same sex marriage).