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Fair continues after shooting Following Saturday night’s shooting at the South Carolina State Fair, which left a 15-year-old injured, the fair reopened at regular hours and with no additional security on Sunday, according to The State. The extent of the teenager’s injuries are unknown, but he is in a stable condition, according to a sheriff’s department spokesperson. Sheriff Leon Lott also said that no one else was in danger, and that the shooting was not gang related. Lott has not identified the victim or the reasons for the shooting. The sheriff’s department said an arrest could be following soon. Fair manager Gary Goodman said it is unclear how the gun got into the fairgrounds. Security personnel have not confiscated any guns in Goodman’s memory, but they have taken hand weapons, such as knives. Compiled by Ben Crawford
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South Carolina men’s golf team snagged another Camden Collegiate Invitational title for the second straight year. In a total of three rounds, the Gamecocks finished with an overall score of 838 (-2). There were five competitors in the invitational, including red-shirt senior Sean Kelly and sophomore Kennan Huskey. There were also three freshmen: Scott Stevens, Will Miles and Ryan Stachler. South Carolina bypassed Charleston Southern and Furman who finished second and third, respectively. Huskey finished with his premiere medalist honors in the third round, with a score of 68 (-2). He finished the weekend with a total score of 205. Huskey managed to finish the invitational with a new team record of 12 birdies. Head coach Bill McDonald was impressed by the team’s first win for the fall season. “It was a great win for our guys, and I’m really happy for Keenan. I think we created some great building blocks for the future of our program, and I am excited for the remainder of this season as well,” McDonald said. “The golf we played as a team over the last 45 holes of the event was truly special.” In his first season, Miles fi nished this invitational strong with a second place finish and only two under par. The Gamecocks finished with the most birdies in the tournament with 51. This also marks the first time the team went under par since last season in the NCAA Regionals. South Carolina will end the fall season in Hawaii in the Ka’anapali Collegiate Invitational from Nov. 6 to 8.
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Rounding off the events of Pride Week, the annual S out h Ca rol i n a P r ide Parade and Festival is, by some measure, the largest public celebration of the LGBTQ communit y in the state, drawing in tens of t hou sa nds over t he course of a single day. For over a qu a r terc e n t u r y, P r i d e h a s been provided visibility and a sense of place to s o m e o f C o l u m b i a ’s most marginalized communities, increasing in scope and scale each year. This past Saturday marked the 26th anniversary of the event and was the first Pride since the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is constitutional. Two questions remain: how has Pride changed and how will it move forward? Protesters a nd t he parade Thirty minutes before t he parade, Harold Geddings stood on the St at e Ho u s e g r o u nd s in a pink wig, high heels and a Soviet-style jacket. Standing around seven feet t a l l w it h heels,
he held a colorf ul and carefully-penned poster: “Homosexuality Prevents Abortions.” Some distance behind Geddings, a small group of white men huddled in a circle, heads bowed in prayer. Colorless signs leaned against their knees: “1 Ma n + 1 Woma n = M a r r iage” a nd “Pr ide goeth before destruction.” Every year, a dwindling contingent of protesters stand silently alongside the SC Pride parade on the Statehouse side of Gervais St., rebelling against the r ise of what t hey c a l l “alternative lifestyles.” On the invitation of a f r iend na med Tw itch, G edd i ng s i ntended to protest the protesters. The Soviet uniform — replete w it h Ru ssia n m i l it a r y medals impor ted f rom Ukraine — was his way of gleef u l ly t r y i ng to offend as many of them as possible. “This is my one big party of the year,” Geddings said later. “[Twitch] had organized this thing on Facebook, basically, to annoy the ‘angry old white men’ as she put it.”
Geddings smiled. “So, y’know, I can’t pass up an opport unit y like that.” The protesters, primarily religious Baptists, play an increasingly minor role at the SC Pride parade each year. Only a dozen showed up to protest Saturday. Jeff March, the 2015 president of SC Pride, said that Pride’s message was slowly getting through to them. “You can change them one at a time,” he said. And maybe we changed many this year, because that was a third of what was there last year. Maybe we scared them off.” Yasmine Fields, a black, gay mother of one who came out for Pride, argued with a protester before the parade began. “Our authority is not us, but the scriptures,” Lindsey said to Fields. “A nd the scriptures clearly state that homosexuality — sodomy — is an abomination. And we are standing for that principle, those scriptures.” Fields’ response was swift. SEEPRIDEPAGE4
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I n t he Un ited St ates, over 16 million children grow up in poverty. Nearly 300,000 of those children live in the state of South Carolina. Of those children, only nine percent
will have an opportunity to receive a degree from a college or university by the age of 25. T here a re nea rly 350 teacher vacancies across Sout h Carolina p u b l i c s c h o o l s , a 25 p e r c e n t increase from 2014. Vacancies can s ig n i f ic a nt l y i mp ac t e duc at ion
and development of elementar y, middle and high school students. Teach For A merica (TFA) helps mobilize college graduates to lead classrooms in rural communities. The organization has partnered with t he state and low-income school districts to give students a chance to learn from qualified leaders. C h a r l e s M c D o n a l d , T F A’s Ma nag i ng Di rec tor of Grow t h, Development and Partnerships, said in an email that University of South Carolina st udents have a histor y of helping in classrooms across the country and across the state. “The University of South Carolina has a long tradition of contributing graduates to our teaching corps,” McDonald said. “Today, 28 USC alums are current corps members t h r o u g h Te a c h Fo r A m e r i c a , impacting the lives of students across the country.” McDona ld sa id t he R iseSC recruitment initiative was launched this year because of the need for education in South Carolina. The initiative aims to build partnerships with colleges and universities to
“increase the number of diverse, homeg row n leaders who are teaching and leading high-needs South Carolina classrooms.” O ne of t ho se a lu m n i i s 2012 g raduate and former TFA corps member Justin Dunham, an eighth grade science teacher at Darlington M idd le S c ho ol i n D a rl i n g t o n , South Carolina. Dunham became a member of t he teaching corps because of his belief in Teach For America’s mission. “I want to help spark the change needed to eradicate educat ional i ne q u it ie s i n m y c o m mu n it y,” Dunham said. “I applied to Teach for America and was accepted into the program. I was even more excited to get an assignment in Darlington Count y. It was an opportunit y to come home and give back.” Cor ps member a nd 2014 USC graduate Brandon Johnson said that his major at USC, athletic training, didn’t give him an opportunity to give back like the teaching corps did. SEETEACHPAGE2
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Drunk driver wrecks at Oklahoma State homecoming, kills 4 people According to The Washington Post 25-year-old Adacia Avery Chambers was driving a car that drove into a crowd at Oklahoma State University’s annual Homecoming parade in Stillwater, Oklahoma, injuring 47 people and killing four more, including a two-year-old child. Chambers is now facing second-degree murder charges. As of Saturday night, five victims were in the hospital in critical condition, while another 12 remained in six different hospitals for treatment. The other 30 have been treated and released from hospitals. A bystander guessed that Chambers’ 2014 Hyundai Elantra was traveling at more than 40 mph before barreling in to the crowd towards the end of the procession. Oklahoma State’s Homecoming game went on as scheduled.
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Mexico spared of major damage as Hurricane Patricia weakens The most powerful hurricane ever recorded at sea, Hurricane Patricia, has dissipated in Mexico after the former Category 5 storm touched down in the southwestern area of the country on Friday, according to CNN. Thousands were evacuated as the storm’s 165-mph winds wreaked havoc on the area. Heavy rains caused mudslides, but late Saturday night Patricia was downgraded to a tropical depression with 35-mph wind as the mountainous terrain sapped much of the storm’s momentum. At the moment, there are no confi rmed reports of stormrelated deaths or major damage to the country’s infrastructure.
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The blotter comes from police reports released by the USC Division of Law Enforcement and Safety and doesn’t include crimes reported by city or county law enforcement. Last Tuesday morning, officers responded to a call on Love Street reporting a burglary in process. The suspect, a 19-year-old black male, fled the scene on foot after attacking the responding officer. The victim told police that the suspect took a television, an XBox 360 and an assortment of video games. The suspect also stole a diaper bag, which he used to carry the video games and the console. A witness reported seeing the suspect leave a different house on Love Street just minutes before officers reached her. The television and the bag containing the games and console were recovered at the second house. Some of the video games stolen include Assassin’s Creed, Body and Brain Connection, Harry Potter and Call of Duty. In the early hours of Saturday morning, a 34-year-old white male reported the burglary of his truck. Officers responded to the call at Cedar Terrace, where the victim emerged from his house yelling obscenities and wielding a baseball bat. He said that he and his girlfriend, the suspect, had argued at a bar earlier, after which he returned home. He woke up later with his girlfriend standing over him before she ran outside and left with his truck. The victim was uncooperative while officers were on the scene and proclaimed not to remember the suspect’s name until the officers were about to leave.
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The future is now. Or at least so it seems to the readers of Julia Elliott’s recently published novel, “The New and Improved Romie Futch,” released Oct. 1. The book centers around a South Carolinian taxidermist who, as a result of his p a r t ic ip at io n i n a r e s e a r c h study, has a k nowledge of the humanities subjects downloaded into his brain by “scientists.” This knowledge increase creates a “new and improved” Romie Futch — a man determined to transform his occupation and his failing marriage. The novelist, USC English and Women’s and Gender St udies professor Julia Elliott, combines Sout her n G ot h ic, sat i re a nd surrealism genres in a comically serious tale about the not-sodistant future. “A lthough this is a satirical com ic novel con s t r uc ted to entertain, I hope it examines serious subjects,” Elliott said in an email. “Like the effects of technology on human identity and the environment, planet-
w ide ecolog ical deg radat ion, the commodification of higher education and the excesses of the universit y-industrial complex, the dangers and possible perks of biotechnical research, the effects of genetically modified organism on the ‘natural’ world, and more!” Dealing in t urn wit h many scientific and futuristic themes, “The New and Improved Romie Futch” certainly covers a large amount of ground in its 416 pages — pages that were, interestingly enough, inspired by a classroom here at USC. “ W hen I wa s teac h i ng a n honors section of English 102 on ‘dystopian lit’ at USC, I’d bring in a ‘fake fact’ and a ‘real fact’ about technology each day, each of which seemed futuristic. During this time, I came across a lot of articles about human brain development and the possibility of ‘downloading’ information directly into the brain,” Elliott said. “Instead of exploring this idea in a ‘serious’ dystopian novel, I took a comic satirical approach, imagining what would happen if a dow n-a nd- out a lcohol ic taxidermist from South Carolina got a PhD’s worth of humanity’s
PRIDEPAGE1 “A Christian is going to be a Christian whether we’re out here or not,” she said. “We’re going to be gay and happy and in love with each other, whether you’re out here or not. So you’ll come out, come waste your time with your bibles and your signs — for what?” A t 12 p. m ., t he p a r ade b eg a n in ear nest. Two st udent s g roups, Individuals Respecting Identities and Sexualities (IRIS) and FemCo, led the parade down Gervais Street, chanting “Hey Hey! Ho Ho! Transphobia’s got to go!” Following them, in no particular order, were: roller-derby teams, proLGBTQ Christian congregations, mattress stores, a miniature train for kids, vodka manufacturers and a van sponsored by the Richland Count y Public Library. The Pride crowd slowly inched out from the sidewalk into the middle of the street, giving out high-fives, hugs and small multi-colored trinkets. Flashes
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education downloaded into his brain in less than a month’s time.” E l l iot t not o n l y u s e d her classroom as a springing point for the new book, but she also wrote a novel that includes college st udent s in t he w ide pool of readers that will identify with the story of taxidermist Romie Futch. “I think college students will relate to Rom ie’s ex per ience with education via enhancement tech nologies, possibly by considering new pedagog ical approaches like online classes and how they have changed the way college students learn,” Elliott said. “I’d love to know how many USC students would prefer the ‘brain-download’ version of a class to the traditional classroom and what kinds of qualms they might have about signing up for ‘biological artificial intelligence transmissions.” The concept of “biolog ical artificial intelligence transmissions” is certainly one to t h i n k about , a nd read i ng “The New and Improved Romie Futch” will allow college students to explore the unseen sides of ef for t less, “bra i n-dow n load” educations.
5) “Fury of Dracula” You’re a vampire hunter and Dracula is out there. Will you take out the dark lord, or will his vampire thralls overtake Europe? “Fury of Dracula” is a unique board game in which a single player takes the role of Dracula in a “Carmen Sandiego”-like investigative adventure. The hunters’ goal is to track Dracula’s path around Europe and stop his blood-feast. In the darkness of the night, who’s really the hunter? 4) “King of Tokyo” + Halloween Expansion While not a traditional Halloween-themed board game, this game’s original cast of horrific Tokyocrushing kaiju-beasts is enhanced by this spooky expansion— including two new playable monsters! The original game revolves around a “Yahtzee”like battle to destroy your friends and conquer Tokyo, but the Halloween expansion allows your monster to do this in style. With 12 costumethemed power-ups, your fairy-princess C’thulu can entrance Tokyo into mindless slavery. Easy to play and quick to learn, “King of Tokyo” is perfect for a quick Halloween game night. 3) “Betrayal At House on the Hill” Do you hate your friends? Do you want to drag them into a haunted house and sacrifice their souls to your dark lord? This is a game you’ll like! “Betrayal At House on the Hill” doesn’t want you to play the same game twice. The game board is randomly generated as up to six players explore a haunted house in “Scooby Doo” fashion. Mid-way through the game, the ‘haunt’ is triggered, turning one or more players into traitors. Will you crush your friends or will they escape your trap? 2) “Mansions of Madness” As the keeper of your mansion, it’s your job to repel, trap and drive your friends insane.How dare they invade your space! Similar to “Betrayal At House on the Hill,” this game revolves around investigators exploring a haunted mansion. Unlike “Betrayal,” a single player is always the antagonist. The investigators must discover clues to the mansion’s haunting before the keeper of the house is able to dispatch them, but they only have so much time. With several scenarios, this game allows you to live out your horror movie nightmares. 1) “One Night Ultimate Werewolf” A beast is plaguing the village and you don’t know who it is. It’s up to you and your fellow villagers to discover the werewolf before it’s too late! But first — close your eyes. “One Night” is a series of games in which a group of players discuss, lie, argue and scream at each other with the purpose of killing a single player. With 12 roles in total and 2 teams, each player is either trying to discover the werewolf or, if you’re a werewolf, lie and throw suspicion onto an unsuspecting villager.
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By Ed Madden
The old designs bear witness: they are very much like us. In March we deck the church with calla lilies, stargazers,
of vows becomes another grammar of assent; t h is is t he renu nciat ion t hat is affirmation, a form
bells of Ireland—the green calyces shaped like bells, the white tongues of f lower. You prefer the real
of happiness that attends a great loss—those fictions of law and lineage, annals of blood. The Lenten rose
to the silk, the scentless, the faux rose with its dewdrop of glue. This is real, you said—your words a song
now glows in our garden like a reason—garden where our hands meet, sensing that sweet decline
filled with longing, and glossed with the dappled half-light of spr i ng, t he sh im mer of pale blossoms. Our small drama
into t he ordinar y, a handf ul of daffodils from the yard.
of recognition sparked occasionally between the people in the crowd and those on floats, accompanied by frantic pointing and waving. All the while, huge roars went up for each new float. On the opposite side, the protesters stood silent and grey, signs at chest level, in one straight line. Beside them, Geddings and other counter-protesters held signs in support of LGBTQ people like “Love Never Fails” and “I’m gay and I’m proud.” The protesters, as always, refused to acknowledge them. “They’ve got every right to be out there,” Geddings would say later. “But I’ve got every right to be out there, telling them they’re idiots.” Soon enough, the parade was over. The festival began. A festival in transition
From Nest (Salmon Poetry, 2014).
Ed Madden, Columbia’s first poet lau reate a nd Un iversit y of Sout h Carolina Director of Women’s and Gender Studies, has been involved with SC Pride since he moved to the state in 1994. Since then, he’s served — at different times — as the organization’s president, vice president and secretary. If you ask him, he’ll tell you that the biggest change he’s seen with the SC Pride Festival hasn’t just been the huge uptick in popularity — it’s the nature of the event itself. “It’s a civic festival now,” he said. “It moved from being very political to being very entertainment-oriented. And now it feels like a big civic festival, which I think is so cool.” For three blocks, from the State House to t he Sout h Carolina A rt Museum, 120 vendors lined both sides
of the street. Alongside food trucks, a whole host of organizations set up shop — temporary tattoo parlors, massage booths, tire companies and even grocery store chains — all of them plastered with colors of all kinds. There’s no question: after the Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling, many companies have felt comfortable coming out in support as well. SC Pride is now a significant economic enterprise, as well as a social and political one. Madden couched his assessment of the hard-fought triumph for marriage equality in flowing terms. “It doesn’t mean everything’s over. It doesn’t mean things are solid. It doesn’t mean that there’s not of a hell of a lot of work to do,” he said. “But the landscape has changed — the horizon of what we can do and what we can be.” Others saw this popular surge as a slight disappointment. Johanna Caple, a third-year sociology student, misses SEEPRIDEPAGE5
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PRIDEPAGE4 the days when the festival was held at Finlay Park, which Caple said had a more “community” feel. “ I w ish Pr ide wa s a l it t le le s s corporate,” Caple said. “I saw a f lag earlier that had like a TD bank logo on it. It is cool that we’re getting support from big corporations. But I wish it could be more radical.” Clarie Randall, third-year biology student and president of FemCo, also noted how so many companies were jumping on the bandwagon. “We had marriage equality earlier this year. It’s just happening so fast and I think, in a way, it’s a little annoying because it’s kind of ‘trendy’ so of course there’s, like, Mattress Firm in the Pride parade,” she said. However, Randall’s general outlook is an optimistic one. “Even if it is capitalistic, it’s a sign that the tides are changing.” Facing forward Even though Pride is about celebrating the triumphs of the LGBTQ community — there is no disillusionment about the challenges that the community still faces. Devon Sherrell, fourth-year political science student and president of IRIS, keyed in on one of the issues affecting the LGBTQ community South Carolina: that of employment discrimination. “ T here’s a say i ng — ‘ you c a n get married on Friday and fired on Monday,’” he said. “South Carolina has no employment protections for being LGBTQ. So, if an employer wants to fire you because he’s prejudiced against gay people, he can do it.” While Columbia and Charleston have passed LGBTQ workplace protections to different degrees, there are no statewide provisions as of yet. With so much participation from USC students in Pride, another issue inevitably rises to the surface: the state
of LGBTQ youth. And few have had as big of an impact on that group in South Carolina than Harriet Hancock, who was honored on the Pride’s main stage. She was the central figure in founding the Harriet Hancock LGBT Center, which provided a place for LGBTQ youth to go in the early ‘90s — long before the days when “safe space” became common parlance. “I think the Harriet Hancock Center has filled that void specifically in the Columbia community,” said OK Keyes, a USC visual arts and design instructor who works with the Center’s Youth Outloud support program. Hancock, a lawyer by trade, is often known as the “Mother of Pride” and for good reason — she helped form the group that would eventually call itself SC Pride. “People always want to know ‘why would you get involved?’ because I am a heterosexual person,” Hancock said. “My son is gay and he had come out to me and I accepted him and understood him.” Jeff March, the 2015 president of SC Pride, understands that there are more problems ahead for the LGBTQ community. But, as he stood in the back of the VIP lot during one of the few lulls in activity, he took some time to recognize how far Pride — and the country — has come. “We still have a long way to go,” he said, “but that is so huge because people of my generation never thought we would see [marriage equality] in our lifetime. This is a big day in South Carolina.” Tears welled up in his eyes as he turned towards the burgeoning crowd, where, beyond the stage, music played and people danced and everyone was welcome. “It’s not just a party,” he said. “It’s so much more than that.”
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Gun violence at familiar places disturbing, change needed ISSUE A teen was shot at the State Fair Saturday night. OUR STANCE Shootings in public places must be stopped. Five Points. The USC School of Public Health building. The state fair. T he se a re a l l place s m a ny Gamecocks frequent. They are also all places t hat in t he last few years have been sites of gun violence. We don’t go to t hese places
planning for a gunshot to ring out. But that was what happened on Saturday, as a 15-year-old was shot at the fair. A lt hough t he fa i r resu med normal operations on Sunday, we cannot act as if this is the new normal. It’s impossible to prevent every act of gun violence, but we cannot act as if should be a part of everyday life. Bullets f lying is one of the scarier scenarios to imagine and it happens too often in familiar places for comfort. Ev e n t ho u g h t he f a i r h a d security measures in place such as metal detectors, bag checks
and security cameras, this still happened. Even seemingly safe places such as schools, ma l ls and grocer y stores are falling victim to “normal” gun violence incidents. We had a lively debate about g un v iolence and g un control Sunday night in our newsroom, but ultimately the solutions to t hese larger problems are not ones that can be figured out and implemented quickly or easily. But at a minimum, we as a society shou ld insist on a reasonable degree of safety in public places.
Biden exit clears way for Hillary C.R. Jones III Third-year sports and entertainment mgmt. student We a r e now w at c h i n g t he Clinton coronation. Last week, Vice President Joe Biden walked to a podium in the White House Rose Garden and through the crowd of reporters gathered before him, he informed the nation of what had become increasingly obvious with each passing day. He would not seek t he presidenc y of t he Un ited States in 2016. It was too late. The illness and then sudden death of his son Beau threw a wrench into his plans, and the unpredictable timetable of the mourning process pushed the potential start date for his campaign f urther and f urther back. Just a month earlier, he stated on “ T he Late Night ” w it h Stephen Colbert that he was not emotionally ready to spearhead a national campaign. He recalled an instance where he completely broke down in front of a crowd at just the mention of his son’s name “and you can’t do that,” he said. Once he fi nished his remarks, the vice president walked away w it h h i s w i fe a nd P re s ident Obama by his side. The president placed a hand of t he shoulder of h i s f r ie nd , t he m a n w ho Washington had lovingly come to call the “happy warrior.” He knew what we all knew. A chapter had closed. A dream had just died by the hand of circumstances that neither Joe Biden nor anyone else could hope to control. For Hillar y Clinton and her
supporters, the news of Joe Biden bowing out of the race before his campaign even began should be met with a sense of elation. Hillary’s path to becoming the fi rst woman to hold the office of the president was and is now as clear as it has ever been. However, for the rest of us, those of us who are hold nothing against Hillary yet are somewhat apprehensive of her campaign, the feeling was more akin to dread. I am a Democrat, but I am not partisan beyond reason. I will not throw my full-throated support to a candidate simply because there is a large D next to their name on t he ballot. Grow ing up in a conservative household allowed me a certain perspective on things. I am acutely aware of the deep seeded distrust many A me r ic a n s f e e l t ow a rd s t he Clintons. For many, t he f irst instinct whenever a single syllable comes from Hillary’s mouth is to question, to doubt. Whether that is reasonable or not does not matter. It is the state of things regardless. My hope for a Biden campaign was the prospect of a legitimate challenge to the nomination of Hillary Clinton. While the odds of him winning were long, he at least would have offered up a good fight. He could have helped her too. W it h a monu ment al personality of his own he could have forced her hand brought out her own effervescent personality that we hear so much about yet never see. He could have made her more human, more relatable, less Claire Underwood. Who will challenge her now? Who will bring out the realism t hat voter s c r ave? W ho w i l l force her to bring forward that powerful personality she keeps under lock and key? To t hose
q ue s t io n s s o me m i g ht of f e r Bernie Sanders as an answer. But that is unlikely. While it would ma ke for i ncred ible pol it ica l histor y, no one other than his most ardent supporters believes t h at a Je w i sh so c i a l i s t f rom Brooklyn could capture anything resembl i ng a major it y i n t he general election. His purpose is to drag Clinton to the left. And despite what Republicans might say, Democrats are not stupid. We know this. Unless there is some sort of divine intervention and Martin O’Malley sees a dramat ic rise in support, or Clinton herself e nd u r e s t he s c a nd a l t o e nd a l l sc a nd a l s , t here i s h a rd ly any reason to doubt a Clinton nomination. Until the general, Democ rat s a re not watch i ng a Democrat ic nom inat ion a ny more. We’re w it nessi ng a coronation.
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This letter is written in response to the “Columbia streets transformed into rainbow roads,” published Wednesday, Oct. 21. I appreciate The Daily G amecock ’s coverage of SC Pride. However, there are multiple errors with this piece that must be addressed. Firstly, the repeated use of the phrase “gay community” throughout is inappropriate. “G ay ” is one ident it y a nd not at a l l representative of the LGBTQ+ community. Pride is not simply a celebration of gay people. It is a celebration of all LGBTQ+ people, not just gay people. Pride is much more than just a “fun and colorful event.” I remember the first time I went to Pride, I was so overwhelmed with a sense of joy, community, and love that I even still, 2 years later, have a hard time putting it into words. In a world where my identity as a queer man is constantly being erased, Pride allows me a place to escape pervasive heterosexism, if only for one day. Secondly, the use of the phrase “LGBT lifestyle” is highly offensive. The use of the word “lifestyle” implies that there are other, better choices to be made. This particular rhetoric has historically been used by religious conservativesto demonize LGBTQ+ people. Queer people do not live “lifestyles.” We live lives. Thirdly, this article demonstrates a lack of diligence to to justice to the complexity of the issue. By interviewing four first-year students, it could not possibly paint a clear picture of what Pride is, either the parade or the festival (omitted from discussion). Instead of reaching out for a comment from queeridentified upperclassmen in multiple student organizations dedicated to intersectional social justice such as IRIS, FemCo, or SIC, or to the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, LGBT Programs, or any of the LGBT Peer Advocates, the author interviewed four people who have not attended SC Pride. That’s lazy journalism. Fourthly, the inclusion of homophobic quotes is exasperating. The typical “I support you, I just don’t agree with your actions” rhetoric allows people to feel good about themselves for “support” that is neither useful nor active — nor support. Not hurling slurs at me as I walk in a Pride parade or kiss my boyfriend on the Horseshoe is not support. It is the baseline for being a decent human being. This kind of passive attitude is what allows systems of heterosexism to prevail. It is why it is legal to fire employees for being LGB in 31 states. In systems of inequality and oppression, neutralit y is equivalent to siding with the oppressor. Worse, the inclusion of homophobic language says to queer Gamecocks and Columbians that our happiness must be mitigated. The focus can never remain on our happiness or community successes becau se bei ng LGBTQ+ is undesirable, and we mustn’t forget that. No, bigotry does not equal balance. I commend the editing staff for making corrections to the online article after it was posted. That does not nullify the damage done by the initial printing. This article was a missed opportunity. It could have discussed Pride’s origins in 1990. Or how last year saw over 20,000 attendees with a family area, political speakers, and community partners dispersed throughout. There could have been discussion of the 1969 Stonewall Riots that led to the modern movement. Instead, the article discussed a “lifestyle” and included homophobic statements about “they.” This article proves that we still have work to do, not just as LGBTQ+ people but all people, to be truly inclusive. In our attempts to be inclusive, we must not use antiquated, unacceptable language, erase identities, nor detract from necessary conversations with commentary lacking substance and fact. If we are going to be inclusive, we need to make sure we’re making our commentary as complex as the people about whom we are writing. Otherwise, it’s as good as, or maybe worse than, not writing at all.
—Written by Joseph Swell, fouth-year psychology student
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Gamecocks Fall in ITA Semifinals
Gamecocks move past Arkansas in four sets
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Their matchup against Arkansas is the first time the Gamecocks volleyball team were out-hit and still won this season.
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The G amecock s ret urned to action Sunday after a week of rest to host and defeat the A rkansas Razorbacks in a SEC conference match. South Carolina came back to Columbia after a two-match road trip highlighted by a three set win over Georgia and a heartbreaking five-set loss to Tennessee. The Gamecocks dropped the f i r st set of t he m atc h a f ter a back-and-fort h batt le wit h t he Razorbacks. Senior Darian Dozier kept the Gamecocks chances alive
in the set with a team-leading four kills. South Carolina got to an early start in t he second set get t ing a 12-8 lead before an A rkansas timeout. The Razorbacks cut the lead back to make for another close set. The Gamecocks pulled away late to win the set 25-23, and to tie the match going into the half. Junior Dessaa Legros, Dozier, and senior Sarah Blomgren all had five kills apiece in the second set. South Carolina would not let up in the third set after picking up an early lead, leading the Gamecocks to win the set 25-20 and to gain a 2-1 match lead.
The Gamecock s and t he Razorbacks would battle it out i n t he fou r t h set u nt i l Sout h Carolina came back to win the set and the match, all with the help of blocks by freshman Callie Brown and Dozier. Junior Joely Cabrera had the match point for the Gamecocks. The Gamecocks took the match 3-1 aga i nst t he R azorback s to earn the second SEC conference win of the season. South Carolina returns to action Friday against the Florida Gators, and then will face Ole Miss on Nov. 1 to fi nish off the three-match home stand.
T he G a me c o c k s wome n’s t e n n i s team took act ion t h is past weekend in the USTA /ITA Carolina Regional tournament. The event started Thursday and went through the weekend in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The team fared well as a whole, with two doubles teams and one singles player advancing all the way to the semifinals despite the high level of competition. The doubles team, made up of junior Brigit Folland and sophomore Hadley Berg, cruised to the semifi nals by beating the 53rd-best doubles team in the nation 8 -2 on Sat u rday. A lso on Sat u rday, freshman Ellie Zogg and freshman Ingrid Gamarra Martins advanced through to the semifi nals by beating a doubles team from Duke 8-6. Sunday did not go as planned for the Gamecocks in the doubles bracket. There was a chance of an all-Gamecock final round, but both teams dropped their matches before they could get there. Martins and Zogg went down 8-6 and Folland and Berg lost 8-5. On the singles side, it was freshman Paige Cline who stole the show. Coming in with just a 2-2 record on the year, Cline won her first four matches and advanced all the way to the semifi nals on Sunday where she faced off against Joana Eidukony te of Clemson. Eidukony te proved too much for Cline and prevailed 6 -3, 7-5. Ma r t i ns a nd Fol la nd bot h advanced to play on Sat urday in t he singles bracket as well. Martins advanced to t he quar ter f inal before losing to Cline via friendly fi re between the two Gamecocks, and Folland bowed out in the round of 16. The team will play next on November 6th, back in Chapel Hill for the Kitty Harrison Invitational. It will be their last tournament of the year before picking back up with play in January.
Men’s Soccer loses Johnson ties up LSU after loss against UNC-Charlotte Natalee Stanton @TDG_SPORTS
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UNC-Charlotte had a total of 15 fouls, while the Gamecocks had nine.
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The No. 22 South Carolina men’s soccer team fell to an unranked Charlotte team on Friday in a heated matchup at Tra nsa mer ica f ield i n Charlotte, North Carolina. Th is game was physical, especially for Charlot te, who committed a total of 15 fouls, while the Gamecocks committed nine of their own. It was a truly fierce matchup, even if the 2-0 Charlotte win made t he game seem one-sided. The 49ers came out strong, scoring both of their goals in the fi rst half. Charlotte fi rst scored just three minutes in off a goal from midfielder Brandt Bronico. Later in the 21st minute, they sealed the deal with a goal by forward Kyle Parker, making this his eighth goal of the season. T he G a me co c k s c a me to life in the second half, putting five shots on goal for the game, but were not able to capit al ize. Sout h Carolina senior for ward /
midfielder Jeffrey Torda led the Gamecocks with a total of three shots in the game. Referee A ndrew Chapin also was not stingy when it came to reprimanding the players during this game, showing the first card within just five minutes of play. He handed out a total of seven cards in just this game alone — four to the Gamecocks and three to the 49ers. Freshman defender Andre Streete was even dealt a red card for the Gamecocks in t he 86t h minute and was duly ejected from the game. South Carolina fi nished the game with just 10 men, but st ill fought f iercely unt il the last minute. Sophomore goalkeeper William Pyle, aside from the two goals he let in, had eight saves over the course of the game. The Gamecock s are approaching the end of their regular season, with all three of t heir f inal games back home at Stone Stadium. They face FIU next on Oct. 27th in an evening matchup.
Sout h Carolina women’s soccer team has battled against t he top teams in t he SEC for the past two games, first against Florida, then taking on LSU. The Gators pulled out on top of the Gamecocks with a 2-1 victory on Thursday. The Gamecocks managed to tie up a game on Sunday with the Tigers on Sunday 1-1. In the game against Florida, the Gamecocks were first to score as the clock hit the sixth minute mark of regulation play. Senior defender Carly Ray passed into the box but was saved by Florida goalkeeper Kaylan Marckese. Sophomore forward Savannah McCaskill saw an advantage and chipped the ball into the right hand comer of the net, putting the Gamecocks on the board and in the lead. Florida’s Savannah Jordan found a pass midfield from Christen Westphal. She made an opening and slid the ball past Gamecock goalkeeper Caroline Kelly into the net. Both teams continued to bring the offensive pressure, but were
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Senior Raina Johnson scored her eighth goal this season against LSU. unsuccessful in regulation play. The game-w in n ing shot come from Liz Slattery, who found a loose ball and landed the perfect shot into the top corner over Kelly’s outreached hands. Tr avel i ng f rom F lor ida to go up against LSU, t he Gamecock s played a game that ended in a draw. However, something good to be noted, Senior Raina Johnson earned her sixth goal of the season. Johnson earned her sixth goal in the fourth minute when
she drove a rebound from the LSU’s goalkeeper’s hands into the net from close range. LSU’s Leading scorer Jorian Baucom tied up the game in the 25th minute as she broke t h rough Sout h Ca rol i na’s defense to score. Both teams proved to be an equal match up for each other, as neither were successful in securing a win. Nevertheless, it was a great way to end the regular season for both teams, as the No. 17 Gamecocks are now 11-4-2.
Doubles team advance to Flight B Bobby Balboni @TDG_SPORTS
While most South Carolina st udent s headed home to catch up with friends, the men’s tennis team was busy competing in the SEC Fall Classic hosted by Auburn. Even though the tournament continues through Monday, the weekend was very successful for the Gamecocks. Fo u r m e m b e r s o f t h e tea m pa r t ic ipated i n t h is tournament: junior Andrew Schafer, as well as sophomores Thomas Mayronne, Harrison
O’Keefe and Gabriel Friedrich. May ron ne and O’Keefe combined for one doubles team, while Friedrich and Schafer made up the other. Schafer entered flight play as a No. 2 seed, and he didn’t d isappoi nt. Schafer made quick work of Tennessee’s Jack Heslin by winning two sets, 6-2, 6-1. Schafer dropped his set against Ole Miss’s Fabian Fallert 5-7 but rebounded to win his next two sets 6-2, 6-0. The win against Fallert secured Schafer a spot in the Flight B championship with a chance
to advance to the tournament’s final four. Mayronne also performed wel l i n t he tou r na ment winning his first set, but fell to Florida’s Elliot Orkin in a heartbreaker, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5. B ot h double’s t a ndem s received a buy in their first rou nd, but only Friedrich and Schafer were successful on Saturday. After winning against an A rkansas team, Friedrich and Schafer will advance to play in the Flight B bracket.