The Daily Gamecock collaborates with The Minaret, The Paladin to show regional impact of 2024 hurricane season

The Daily Gamecock, The Minaret and The Paladin collaborated on a story about the experiences of each school's students during 2024's busy hurricane season. We spoke with students about their ordeals and faculty experts about why the storms were so damaging.

Column: Hierarchies in sorority recruitment affect sisterhood

Rush attracts thousands of USC students to campus at the end of every August. Even though the process gets a lot of social media attention, hidden beneath the posts of viral dance trends and get-ready-with-me's is one flawed system.

Column: Moving forward after election season involves student engagement, activism

While the election results may not have been ideal to many people, it is important to stay positive. Students need to continue to advocate for what they believe in, regardless of who is in office.

COMIC: Free the monkeys

Column: Students shouldn’t overlook Thanksgiving

As Thanksgiving arrives, students seem to only be focused on Christmas. Students should take it one holiday at a time and appreciate the aspects of Thanksgiving.

COMIC: Election wish for Santa

COMIC: ‘Most Wonderful’ Season

Column: Halloween should inspire students to become more fashionable

It feels like only one night a year students have the freedom to get creative through their style. Halloween brings out this creativity that should be reflected throughout the whole year to enhance students' style.

Column: Abortion protests on USC campus highlight key issue in 2024 election

In the wake of the Dobbs decision, abortion has been pushed to the forefront of the 2024 election and has been directly in front of USC students. Upon returning from fall break, students traversing Greene Street were met with a display of posters with post-abortion images, images of "genocide" and pro-life sentiments. Events like these highlight the importance of these issues to voters.

COMIC: Do you know where your costume is?

Column: Conversations around food insecurity start with students

"Food insecurity is prevalent in the Columbia community," columnist Kara Rottmann writes. "Students should be more aware of these areas and educate themselves on the specific issues that cause food insecurity to diminish their own biases, reducing the stigma that surrounds the issue in the process."

COMIC: Flying home for the very generous fall break

Column: More work needs to be done to fix wage gap between collegiate coaches

"When female coaches do not receive the same pay and recognition, it may send a message that their contributions are inherently less valuable," writes columnist Morgan Dunn. "Media outlets and the teams' own university can play a major role in bringing more viewership to the players and coaches."

Column: First-time voters are watching political parties change

The Republican party is currently divided between former President Donald Trump and traditional conservative ideals as polarization across the political spectrum increases. Vice President nominee JD Vance finds himself at the crossroads of the two sides.

Column: Collegiate journalists are the voice of campus, community

College newspapers and the student journalists who write for them are important since they educate and inform the campus and local community. Everyone needs to be aware of current and local events and sometimes these college papers are the only source of news in an area. 

COMIC: The Two Cockies Inside Us