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J u s t t h i s w e e k e n d , U S C ’s Dance Marathon celebrated its 20th anniversary by raising over one million dollars for the Child Life Program at Palmetto Health Ch ildren’s Hospital. The f irst president of Dance Marat hon, Simon Herrmann, ret urned to Dance Marathon for the first time since his graduation in 1999 and witnessed this milestone for the organization. “There was just a little group of us in the downstairs basement office with no phone and no windows, crank ing away late in the night … and it’s grown into this huge organization,” Herrmann said. Herrmann transferred to USC in his third year of college and joined a fraternity. After meeting with an executive in Greek life, Carl Ethan Lam / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Johnson, they decided that they First USCDM President Simon Herrmann (left) talks with current heros. were going to make a difference on this campus. geneticist and a doctor for young has become number eight in the He had seen Dance Marathons children, which inspired his son to country for fundraising for a college at other schools, and an injur y want to do good for others. organization. that prevented him from playing “For me to see him have such a “It’s a little surreal,” Herrmann D i v i s i o n 1 s o c c e r p r o m p t e d huge impact on a lot of kids, it was said. “It’s cool that it has grown this H e r r m a n n t o d o s o m e t h i n g also something that I could do to big and is helping out in a way I completely different with his time. help out in a small way,” Herrmann never imagined.” He started working to learn about said. Ca rl Joh n son ex pre s sed t he and do more for others, and worked A rou nd 30 0 st udent s ra ised importance of tradition in the huge w it h Joh n son $55,000 in the event on Saturday. to find a group f i r s t y e a r f or “ We wa nted to st a r t a ne w of i nterested the Children’s tradition that would build on the students. M i r a c l e deep roots of the institution and “We all came N e t w o r k , a grow and thrive like the University toget her t here r e c ord at t he of South Carolina did,” Johnson because we were time for a Dance said. all really wanting Marat hon It’s gratifying for Herrmann to to do something o n a c o l l e g e see how big Dance Marathon has that was outside c a mpu s. T h i s grown and become such a huge part ou r s elve s ,” he year, with the of campus life. said. million dollar “It’s still one of the things that Courtesy of Simon Herrmann H e r r m a n n’s m i l e s t o n e , I’m most proud of.” Simon Herrmann (second from bottom, father was USC’s Da nce right) celebrating in 1999 with his staff. a prenatal Marathon
VOICES OF USCDM “ We’r e j u s t he r e to share our story, a nd to sh a re ou r thanks.” — B re n d a G ree n , parent of Braden, a Miracle Child Hannah Dear /
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“From that point my entire heart sank into this organization and everything it stood for — f ight ing for kids who can’t fight themselves.” — Josh Fr y, morale team member
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“The level of passion has really k i nd of d re w me to it a nd made it a lot of f u n to be around.” — Tanne r S ut te r, seco n d - yea r p u bli c health student
“It’s the power of the movement a nd t he power of the students a nd what it mea ns when a university and a c om mu n it y g et s behind you and that nothing is impossible.” — J a x B o u c h e r, USCDM president
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“ I ’m j u s t r e a l l y passionate about the cause and I love kids and love being able to support something such as this.” — E l a y n e B a u e r, f o u r t h - y e a r international business student
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Joshua Fry has served with Dance Marathon since high school after being diagnosed with cancer eight years ago. “I was going through treatment at the hospital and one of the students from IU who was on their Dance Marathon team ... sat next to me,” said Fry, a fourthyear international business and finance student. “She just kind of pumped me up to explore what Dance Marathon was really about at my own high school in a Mini Marathon.” USC Dance Marathon has been fundraising for Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital Child Life program for 20 years. The program started with 300 students raising $55,000 in the Russell House Ballroom and has grown tremendously since. “I have a personal tie with the hospitals,” third-year electrical engineering student Ken Crawford said. “Someone in my family actually was part of the miracle hospital ... up in New Jersey. So, I actually got pretty passionate about it last year ... just hearing all the families.” Children treated at the local Columbia children’s hospital are brought in to share their stories along with their families. They are called Miracle Children because Palmetto Health is working miracles saving the lives of children every day. “It’s a huge impact on Ellington,” said parent Crystal Hewitt. “Not only just this day a year, but all year. How Dance Marathon really cares for her any time she goes for a procedure ... it’s just something she looks forward to.” While the money does not go directly to families of Miracle Children, it does directly impact them through Child Life. The Child Life program helps children who are dealing with fear and anxiety during their hospital stay among many other things. “We feel a direct impact because Braden has to visit the children’s hospital on a regular basis,” said parent Brenda Green. “The funds that go to Child Life that
helps distract what he’s experiencing while at the hospital — it means a big deal to us. It kind of alleviates some of the stress that he endures.” Child Life is a program in many children’s hospitals across A merica. The program helps make every hospitalization, no matter the duration, more enjoyable and peaceful during times of stress. “We come to share stories that we have from working with the kids to help encourage them to fundraise more,” said Grace Goodwin, a Child Life specialist. “We bring a lot of the tools that we use with the kids to educate them about procedures or different scans.” Hours upon hours are put in behind the scenes in order for Dance Marathon Main Event to take place. Fundraising began during the fall semester when different organizations got involved and students started registering. “I think that no matter what you do ... what you put into it is what you’ll get out of it,” second-year biochemistry student Lenda Thompson said. “Putting your heart and soul into staff is so worth it ... It may seem hard at first and it may seem like a lot of time, but you’ll never regret it and you’ll only regret not doing it.” One part of the Main Event is the Morale Team, which teaches the participants the line dance and gets them excited about the event. This was Crawford’s first time on the Morale Team. He was ready to serve in a new way. “Our biggest thing is sort of hyping up our heroes. Our heroes are our registered participants from other organizations ... individuals wanting to help with this cause,” Crawford said. A major part of the 20th anniversary of USC Dance Marathon was working towards the fundraising goal of $1,000,000. In 2017, $703,289 was raised. “Some people told us this wasn’t possible, that jumping $300,000 was literally insane ... but we knew our campus, we knew that this was the right time,” said Jax Boucher, fourth-year psychology student and president of Dance Marathon. SEEUSCDMPAGE3
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Columbia fire displaces 12 families A fire at Briargate Condominiums in Columbia destroyed the homes of 12 families on Sunday morning. There were no injuries according to the Columbia Fire Department. At least eight of the displaced families are being assisted by the American Red Cross. Along with the Irmo Fire Department, CFD fought the blaze at the Old Manor Road apartments at around 10:30 a.m. According to WIS TV, the Richland County Fire Marshal is investigating the cause of the fire. — Compiled by T. Michael Boddie, news editor
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USCDMPAGE1 A jump of nearly $300,000 seemed drastic, but the increase in participants to over 2,000 boosted fundraising efforts. Even though the goal was tremendous, excitement paralleled it on the part of participants, staff, Morale Team and Miracle Children. “It’s a big goal, but we always say on the Morale Team, ‘If your goals don’t scare you, are they really high enough?’ Crawford said. “So it just gives us that extra push to do the most that we can. $1,000,000 is huge, and I’m going to be so excited whenever we reach that at the end of the night.” At 11:45 p.m. the staff flipped over the signs revealing the grand total of $1,025,171, which brought on a rush of enthusiasm from the participants. “Most of the year we weren’t on track, and it was really scary,” Thompson said.
“It was also super inspiring, not just for DM but for every other part of life ... it seems somewhat impossible, but with everyone’s passion you knew that it was gonna happen.” This $1,000,000 is not the end of the journey. Dance Marathon will continue to raise more money to ensure that Palmetto Health can continue making miracles happen. “A million dollar goal is laying the groundwork for the future,” said secondyear public health student Tanner Sutter. A f ter t he f u nd ra isi ng goal was reached, participants were eager to share their experience. With just over 2,300 participants known as heroes at the Main Event, excitement permeated the atmosphere. “The event itself is always the best part,” Fry said. “Being able to see all your hard work come to fruition is something that’s just magical.”
Engineering students react to $1,000s in fees Arunmani Phravorachith @THEGAMECOCK
A long-a nt ic ipated i n c r e a s e i n u nderg raduate fees f o r U S C ’s C o l l e g e of Eng i neer i ng a nd Computing is gaining t r ac t ion. Pend i ng the Board of Trustees approval, the phased-in fee increase per semester will take place in the fiscal year of 2019. Full-time nonfreshman CEC students c u r rent ly pay $50 4 in undergraduate fee s wh i le f re s h men pay $228. For m ajor courses, students pay an additional lab fee. The proposal made by the CEC aims to simplif y the fee assessment by eliminating lab fees and increasing the program f e e t o $1,50 0 p er semester for all full-time students.
According to t he proposal, the additional resources from the fee increase will enable the CEC to provide benefits to students in the form of improving instructional l a b o r a t o r i e s , reducing class size, increasing teach ing assistance support, i mprov i ng retent ion and professional development programs, and enriching targeted st udent ex per ience programs. “ We compete w it h universities worldwide for the same thoughtleader faculty members, so we must be competitive and offer market rates for salaries — again, which is higher i n eng ineer i ng a nd computing disciplines,” said engineering college Dean Hossein Haj-Hariri. When Duncan Buell,
a professor in the CEC, spoke with the provost on i n November of 2 016 h e r e c e i v e d a response t hat t he fee was never pitched to the board for the purposes of undergraduate education. “The fee was pitched for the board in support of research, but the only place to get more money was the undergraduates,” Buell said. “The undergraduates would be willing to pay the fee because of the increased research prestige of their college would increase t he prest ige of t hei r bachelors degrees.” Buel l i m me d i at el y sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the Board of Trustees asking for the w r it ten just if icat ion. SEEONLINE
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What I talk about when I talk about ... food Emily Barber @EMRBARBER
When I think of food, I think of Thanksgiving, of gathering around a table heaped with a feast that will feed my family for the next three days. I think of making zucchini bread, veggie quesadillas, smoothies and avocado toast. I also think of guilt over finishing a whole box of Annie’s mac and cheese, or an entire medium pizza from Domino’s or a mostly full carton of ice cream in one sitting. Or even over having a brownie during a day or week that I didn’t run. Pretty much everyone I know has voiced the same worry that I fight in my own head regularly: “I can’t eat that if I haven’t exercised.” Or, “It’s okay if I eat this; I ran earlier or I’ll run later.” We often treat food as an enemy, because so many of the foods that are “good for us” aren’t as delicious as ones that are less nutritious. Because I haven’t dealt personally with a seriously
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problematic relationship with food, I talked with Holly Heaton, a recent USC graduate who runs a food- and body-positive Instagram account called @ messykitchgirl. She’s also the social media specialist for Experience Columbia SC. She started messykitchgirl during the summer before her junior year of college as part of recovering from an eating disorder, which had begun in earnest in the later part of high school. Much of Heaton’s approach to food centers on intuitive eating, which she summarized as “getting back to the mind-body connection.” “It’s kind of hard to define into one sentence or one paragraph ‘cause it looks really different for everyone else,” Heaton said. “I just think it is just freeing yourself from diet culture and what you think you’re supposed to eat or not supposed to eat and just letting your body be your guide and learning what works for you.” The intuitive approach to food — eating when we’re hungry and understanding which foods will make our minds and bodies feel good — tends to get socialized out of us. Heaton used babies as an example, because they cry when they’re hungry and stop eating when they’re full. They enjoy all sorts of foods and will eat whatever tastes good, regardless of what it is. Over the course of our lives, we ascribe value to food depending on our experiences. In many cases, such as Heaton’s, people — especially young girls — learn early on that food is intrinsically linked to your body, which is linked to your value. “The earliest I can remember being on a diet was fourth grade,” Heaton said. As a girl with a naturally larger body than many of her peers growing up, Heaton described puberty as a “traumatizing” experience of judgment and poor self-esteem. Her eating disorder began in 11th grade, when she began abusing her Adderall prescription because it lowered her appetite. She said that she also skipped meals, experimented with laxatives and smoked cigarettes, all in the hopes of losing weight. Several years later, Heaton says she in the best mental health of her life, but the struggle is never over; she expects to be in recovery, as she calls it, forever. “I’m trying to learn how to put up arms against it
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when I go out into the world every day and try to fight to just love my body as it is right now in this moment,” she said, “and learn to accept that if I never were a pound thinner, that would be okay.” Heaton told me that one of the things that helped her the most was learning to treat intuitive eating as a form of self-love, which makes perfect sense. So often, healthy eating becomes a way of punishing ourselves for having a burger instead of a salad or a milkshake instead of no dessert at all. Instead, we should choose nutritious foods — ones that we actually like — because we deserve to be energized and healthy. “You have to learn to make those decisions out of love for yourself,” Heaton said. Heaton also believes, and I agree, that food has more value than its calories and nutrients. “Food is fuel, yeah, but food is more than that,” she said. “And I think that whoever created the planet, or whatever created the planet, made food something that is supposed to be enjoyed and is supposed to be a thing of joy and brings people together.” Food is supposed to be a thing of family and community, of well-being in all ways. Food is meant to be enjoyed for how it brings us together as well as how it keeps us alive. Food is a thing of life; food is a thing of love. We have to learn to treat it as such.
SHS hold video game, mental health convention Darby Hallman
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W hen t he aver age p er son thinks about video games, his or her mind may go in many direct ions, wit h t he majorit y of them involving explosions, mushroom-based power-ups or plasma grenades. It’s likely that improving mental health isn’t somet h i ng t hat i m med iately come s to m i nd. T h i s week , St ude nt He a lt h S e r v ic e s i s looking to change that. The G ame On! Ment al Health Mini Convention will be held in t he Russell House Ballroom from 5:30 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7, and will feature a gaming tournament, an introduction to cosplay and a panel all about video games and mental health. “Gaming can be like a form of self care,” said Katelyn Hanshaw, t he g raduate assist a nt for Ment a l Hea lt h Initiatives. H a n s h aw, w ho i s also involved in the Carolina G a m e r s C l u b , believes that gaming
can be a way for those who are struggling with issues such as depression or anxiety to fi nd and build communities amongst likeminded people. “I definitely say if you have issues with going out places or maybe you have social anxiety, when you play an online game you can still have a connection with someone without maybe breaching some of these barriers that you’re having,” Hanshaw said. “It’s a way for you to overcome them in your own way.” H a n s h aw s a id t h at G a me On! was inspired by other small convent ions and w ill feat u re gaming stations with a wide range of multiplayer games that can be played in a tournament or just casually with other attendees. The games present will include everything from Mario Kart 8 on the Nintendo Switch, to puzzle games, rhythm games and even a hand-built tabletop arcade w it h over 4 0 0 games. “ S o i f t he r e’s a certain game that you go ‘I grew up playing this game,’ it’s probably on there,” Hanshaw said. There will be a panel
feat uring t wo representatives from the Universit y of South Carolina psychology department, the president of Carolina Gamers Club and a representative from t he local Colu mbia a n ime convention NashiCon. “T hey a re a l l goi ng to be talking and answering questions about mental health, cosplay and gaming, then also getting rid of some of the misconceptions behind these activities,” Hanshaw said. These misconceptions surrounding video games are once again highly relevant following the shooting in Parkland, Florida, as Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin laid part of the blame on video games. Additionally, President Trump might be meeting with leaders in the gaming industry to discuss the topic of violence. With Game On!, the hope is that people will come out to listen and talk to t he professors and ot her professionals at the event about these topics. SEEGAMEPAGE5
INDIE GRITS 2018
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Indie Grits is an annual film, art, music and gaming festival hosted by Indie Grits Labs. The festival will feature work from a variety of local artists at events taking place all across Columbia. 2018 Highlights: Thirty bands across four days Film competition at the Nickelodeon Theatre with 83 films New North Columbia location at 1013 Duke Ave. The Weekly Revue’s Church of Karaoke When: April 12-15 Festival Pass: $150 Most individual events: $10 Find the full schedule, festival passes and tickets at indiegrits. org File Photo: Cody Scoggins/ THE DAILY GAMECOCK
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This week in Arts & Culture The Nickelodeon Theatre
“Call Me By Your Name,” showing Feb. 26 - March 8 “Phantom Thread,” showing Feb. 26 March 8 “Happy End,” showing March 2 - 8 “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story,” showing March 2 - 8 “LA 92,” showing March 6
Columbia City Ballet “Body & Movement Explored,” showing March 9 - 10 New Brookland Tavern Vita and t he Woolf / Daddy Lion, playing March 7 at 8 p.m. Colter Wall/Josh Morningstar, playing March 8 at 7 p.m.
Zu l i /Okey Dokey/ Ba r nwel l / T he Runout, playing March 9 at 8 p.m. The Independents/Soda City Riot/ Bullmoose/ Los Perdidos, play ing March 10 at 8 p.m. Cedar Green /R iviera/Pet Peeves/ Apnea Effect/Social Outcast, playing March 11 at 7 p.m.
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GAMEPAGE4 “The on ly way to dispel myths or to get a ns wers is to come,” sa id A pr i l Scot t , t he a s soc iate d i rec tor of Campus Mental Health Initiatives. Prizes in the form of gaming and Amazon gift cards will be given out to the winner of the Mario Kart 8 tournament as
well as someone who attends all three events: t he panel, cosplay int roduct ion a nd t he gaming tournament. This is the first formal Student Health Services event t hat eit her Hanshaw or Scott can remember where gaming and cosplay has been used in conjunction with topics of mental health, but it’s something that
they are interested in pursuing in the future if the demand is there. “ It ’s a l l up t o st udents,” Scot t said. “Student response and student demand.” For a full list of the events hosted by Student Health Ser vices, visit the event page at https:// www.sa.sc.edu/shs/.
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Higher education isn’t liberal, just truthful
Net neutrality won’t release internet from advertising issues BuzzFeed missed its r e v e nu e t a r g e t la st yea r by 70 m illion dollars. V ice m issed it s target by over $10 0 m i l l i o n . Johnathon S i n c e 2 0 1 3 , Fuerte Upwor t hy ha s First-year l o s t o v e r 75 advertising percent of it s student traffic. Mashable, o n c e v a lu e d at $250 million dollars, sold for only $50 million and then had to layoff 30 percent of its staff. All over the web, sites are clo si ng up shop a nd e ven more are putting up paywalls, dem a nd i ng s ub s c r ipt ion s , a s k i n g f or do n at io n s a nd block i ng ad-blockers. The internet can no longer afford to b e f ree a nd op en. T he i nt er ne t i s d y i n g a nd net neutrality cannot save it. The internet as we know it was built on the back of ads, and now t hat foundat ion is falling. The first banner ad in 1994 had a click-rate of 44 percent. Two decades later, I bet none of you have ever once clicked on a n ba n ner ad intentionally. Most of you reading this are probably using an ad-blocker right now. The rest of you don’t even need to, our brain has one built in, our eyes have been conditioned to completely ignore ads online. Ads are the lifeblood of any website and t hey pay close to n il. Mot her Jones spent
18 months and $350,000 on an in-depth dive into private prisons, t he art icle earned over a million views and only $5, 0 0 0 f r o m a d s . D i g it a l media, in its current state, is an industry that can never be profitable. W hen publishers give content away for f ree, ma k i ng money of f of it is inherently difficult. Most websites target t he s a me demog r aph ic — 20-something millennials — and offer essentially the same product. If one site puts up a paywall, there are three more ready to take its lost traffic. A nd the types of ads people want are t he ads t hat don’t work. Audiences want relevant ads w it hout bei ng t racked online. They want 240x180px plain text banner ads tucked away in the corners of their screen, when pop-up and autoplaying ads exist because ads only work if you notice them. A nd t he t y pe of content marketers want is t he t y pe publishers hate. On Facebook, you’ve probably seen videos t hat are just stat ic images, Facebook’s algorithm ranks videos higher than everything else. Why? Ads on videos are harder to skip and block. This prompted numerous sites to “pivot to video” and will very likely result in a slew of layoffs from digital media companies when t he t rend event ually reverses. V ideo is more expensive to produce and has a smaller audience than text,
but it has a promise of higher ad revenue. Marketers inf luence what content gets created. Proctor & Gamble has pulled its ads from YouTube over concerns over “brand safety,” Unilever has threatened to do the same, it doesn’t want its ads playing before a Logan Paul video. But Paul and h is ilk aren’t the only ones getting hurt. Channels covering LGTBQ topics have lost ad revenue for not being family friendly. Think Progress, which exposes white nat ionalists, started asking for donations as its content has been deemed “c o nt r o v e r s i a l .” Pol it ic a l content pulls in lots of views but scares away advertisers. They get to be pick y w it h where they place their ads, for every site that doesn’t want to play by their rules there are three more that will. Media organizations have always relied on advertising. Publishers need to decouple themselves, but they can’t do that without you. We need to support creative professionals who pour hours into making minutes of content that gets gobbled up for free. Otherwise the internet will move towards a subscription model, and you can bet those subscriptions will be sold in bundles like cable channels. This could be the end of a free and open internet.
I have been a student at this i ncredible u n iversit y for t hree Lori Elliott long years, and in those Third-year three years, English student I have changed so much as a person. Sadly, that is not the case for everyone who has walked across this campus. I recently overheard a complaint from a fellow student: “This university is full of nothing but liberals and I am tired of having to hear about black people in every class I attend. I shouldn’t have to answer for things I have never done.” It’s not a unique complaint. I have t a ken h istor y classes that have taught me about early Christianity and the pointless genocides of Jews and Muslims. I have taken English and linguistics classes that have opened my eyes to often hateful language revolving around African Americans. A nd I have sat through m a n y p h i lo s o p h y a nd sociology lectures that have explored the horrific details of the pain that Native Americans have endured. But what I do not understand is how teaching t hese subject s makes anyone a liberal. Since when is factual history and educating our youth on the truth deemed as being a liberal? It is not a secret that our public-school system i n Sout h Ca rol i na has failed us. In fact, I am sad to say we ranked almost dead last in the country in education in 2017. So, it should come as no surprise to you that many of us are, in fact, uneducated upon arriving at this university. Textbook s all over t he country are being altered to cover the crimes of our ancestors, and although these are horrible truths, they are truths that must be told and taught.
These horrific events do impact the world we live in today. If we do not reflect on our country’s history, we will never be able to grow from it. The legacy of slavery and genocide exists. We walk across a campus where bricks were laid by slaves. That is why it is important that we have a Black History Month, to better try and understand our problems we are still facing today, whether we want to admit to them or not. Ye t , w he n s c r ol l i n g through “Rate My Professor” during reg ist rat ion t ime, a complaint I constant ly seem to see is comments like the following, “all we talked about was racism in America in discussion.” S o , I a s k y o u , f e l lo w students and faculty, why is this something you feel should not be discussed? This semester had only just begun when we had had racist f lyers strewn about the campus. In the past month, we have had rel ig iou s f a n at ic s a nd bigots march in front of Longstreet Theatre with hate-f i l led (a nd, qu ite frankly, ugly) poster boards at t ac k i n g you r f el low students. It is clear that racism is not dead, so why do some of my fellow students still feel it should not be discussed in class? This is not being a liberal, this is education, something that some of us are clearly lacking. Yet, there is still hope. Many of our students do not tolerate this behavior. We have an incredible faculty that cares very much about what we learn and find it their responsibility to teach the truth as well as a loving university president who wants only the best for all our students. I just ask that you all listen with an open mind. As the famous philosopher George Santayana said, “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”
Gun debate often veers towards conspiracy On Valent ine’s Day, Parkland, Florida, was hit with one of the deadliest shootings in U.S. history; 17 students and teachers at M a r jor y Stonema n Douglas High School lost their lives. Unsurprisingly, Jared this tragedy quickly stoked Bailey the flames of the neverSecond-year ending debate about gun English and political science control. Thousands took student to social media to make their voices heard. But w h i le it ’s g re at t o h ave a publ ic d ialog ue about such a n important issue, using social media as the medium of discussion has left participants vulnerable to manipulation. Opportunistic social media groups made online discussions fruitless and even dangerous by appealing to confirmation bias and baiting people with conspiracy theories. Most of the initial response to the Parkland shooting was benign, but like everything on social media, it quickly devolved. After all of the “thoughts and prayers” were offered, the gun control debaters returned to their traditional meme war. You’ve seen it play out before: A liberal gun control advocate throws out an old argument like “the Second Amendment was only meant to apply to muskets’’ and
is hit with tired conservative rhetoric vague similarities between these teens They have had to deal with non-stop like “guns don’t kill people, people kill supposedly imply that they are characters harassment and threats of violence just people” or “if guns are outlawed, only portrayed by recurring character actors. for speaking their opinions. Consider outlaws will have guns” often overlaid It takes fewer than five minutes to fact- this tweet at 17-year-old David Hogg on images of fictional characters such as check and disprove each example of after he advocated gun control reform: Stewie Griffin and the Three Stooges this theory. The theory has collected “I look forward to executing foreign and — this bickering continues ad nauseam. thousands of likes and shares and briefly domestic terrorists like @davidhogg111. Facebook page admins realized long had a No. 1 trending video on YouTube Turns us #dogsofwar loose POTUS.” It’s bitterly ironic that a debate about ago that they could score huge amounts before being removed. You may be asking yourself, why gun control and protecting schools has of likes and shares by capitalizing on major shootings and arming — pun does this matter? Why is this online turned into a way to target students. H av i ng a heated d isag reement intended — both sides of this war with theory important? Simple: It endangers about gun control online is fine. It’s a politically polarizing memes. While students. These posts have the potential to put controversial issue that deserves to be ethically disgusting, this on its own is not the major problem with the online lives at risk. Consider how similarly discussed with vigor. However, if the gun control debate. The problem arises libelous online posts in the wake of strategy relies on baselessly accusing when these seemingly harmless pages the Sandy Hook Elementary school opponents of being paid frauds and begin to raise the stakes and start shooting caused survivors and their sending threats to teenagers, people are peddling misleading conspiracy theories. families to receive death threats. More doing it wrong. If people’s points of view In response to Parkland, many pages recently, the Pizzagate conspiracy rely on shock-value more than quality began pandering to Second Amendment incited a gunman from North Carolina arguments, it is probably time to stop advocates on the right with a theory to invade a Washington pizzeria with paying attention to Facebook posts and about “crisis actors.” The premise of three guns. Social media users have get offline. the theory is that all of the Parkland been no less cruel to Parkland survivors. s t u d e nt s w ho m a d e T V ap p e a r a n c e s t o LETTER TO THE EDITOR REQUIREMENTS talk about gun control Letters to the editor must not exceed 300 words. reputable sources for any facts in question. Letters are actors paid to Students must include their full name, major and are edited for clarity, style and grammar. p r o m o t e a “ le f t i s t ” year. Faculty and staff must include their full name, Email submissions to agenda. The primar y position and department. Community members opinion@dailygamecock.com evidence of this theory must include their full name and applicable job or mail them to lies in low-resolution title. Verifiable statements of fact must include at The Daily Gamecock comparisons of teens least one source; if we cannot verify a statement 1400 Greene Street interviewed in response of fact, your letter will not be published until the Columbia, SC 29225 to separate shootings; writer implements necessary changes or provides
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Gamecocks defeat Bulldogs for SEC Title Claudia Chakamian @C_CHAKAMIAN
It seems third time’s the charm for the South Carolina women’s basketball team as the Gamecocks defeated the M ississippi State Bu lldogs 62-51 in the championship round for the third straight year. This gives South Carolina its fourt h st raight SEC tournament title — the longest streak in the conference. The Gamecocks came out firing in the first half, bringing them to a spacious 30-19 lead at halftime. A’ja Wilson, who lead the way for South Carolina during the fi rst two games, scored just six points during the fi rst half, but Mikiah Herbert Harrigan pic ked up t he pace a nd led t he Gamecocks with 11 points. The Bulldogs worked during the second half to protect their undefeated season, trailing by only five at one point during the third quarter. But South Carolina found its momentum during the fourth quarter to expand the lead and claim the title. Head coach Dawn Staley recognized the fight in her team to get the win and make program history, and credits how hard they have worked all year. “ O u r k id s we r e e n g a g e d a nd locked into the game plan,” Staley said. “They did not want to lose. I think they wanted to create their own history, which was to win four SEC Tournament championships. And they were determined to do it.”
Wilson ended the game leading the Gamecocks with 16 points and eight rebounds and helped her team accomplish a feat like no other: She earned Sout h Carolina four SEC Tournament t it les, adding to t he already growing legacy she’s leaving on the program. After the game, Wilson celebrated with her team a s they cut down the net and danced around waving four fingers. S h e ’s t h e o n l y Gamecock to have won the four titles a nd k now s how much it means to the program. “It’s a blessing a nd a n honor,” Wilson said. “The SEC is a great conference and to m a k e history like that, to be a t e a m t h at ’s gone four times in a row to the
championship and won it, it’s a great feeling. I really can’t even put into words the feeling I know I have ... So this has been a great tournament.” T h i s g a m e w a s a r e m at c h of t he p a s t t wo SE C Tou r n a me nt cha mpionsh ips, w it h t h e Gamecocks getting t he w i n e a c h y e a r. S o u t h Carolina also
defeated Mississippi State during the National Championship game last season, giving the series this year a lot of attention. The Bulldogs won the reg ular season game 67-53 in Starkville this season, making the Gamecocks even more motivated to get the win on Sunday. South Carolina now awaits i t s N C A A To u r n a m e n t path when the bracket is released on March 11 and t he G a me c o c k s c a n of f icially st ar t t heir journey to defend t h e i r national title.
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With Sunday’s win, the Gamecocks have defeated the Bulldogs in the Championship game for three straight seasons.
Wilson becomes all-time scorer in program history Brandon Alter @BRANDON__ALTER
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TJ Hopkins hit the walk-off on Friday, but the Gamecocks couldn’t use the momentum the rest of the series.
Timely hitting leads Tigers to Palmetto Series win Ethan Lomas @ETHANLOMAS15
T he Pa l met to Ser ie s between the South Carolina and Clemson baseball teams has been nothing short of elect ric over t he past few years, and this year was no different. The Tigers entered Friday ’s game u ndefeated and ready for anot her heated rivalry, but lost the fi rst game at Founders Park. However, Clemson managed to take the series with back to back wins in Greenville and Clemson. Game one feat ured one of t he b e st pitc h i ng p er for m a nce s G a mec o c k f a n s w i l l s e e a l l y e a r. Adam Hill tossed another masterful game, giving up two earned runs on two hits while strik ing out 14 over seven innings. Despite his great numbers, Hill had no r un support to secure t he win. The Gamecocks found themselves down 2-1 in the eight h inning when pinch h it ter M at t W i l l ia m s h it a solo home run to tie the g a me up. T he ver y ne x t inning, TJ Hopkins hit the game-winning sacrifice f ly
to give the Gamecocks a 3-2 victory. The G amecock s were unable to carry that walk-off momentum in Greenville on Saturday, as they produced just one run on seven hits. Two Clemson home r u ns and strong pitching lead the Tigers to tie the series with a 5-1 win. G ame t h ree at Doug Kingsmore Stadium proved to be the deciding game for the fourth year in a row. The Gamecocks found themselves down early again, but this time the mountain was a lot steeper. John Gilreath gave up si x r u n s i n t h ree a nd two-thirds innings pitched Sunday afternoon, allowing t he Tiger s to g a i n some ground at home. However, the Gamecocks battled back with a Hopk ins three-run homer to make things close. A f ter g iv ing up a home r un in t he bottom half of t he sixt h, t he Gamecock s found themselves down 7-4 but were determined to not go dow n w it hout a f ight. Down to their final chance in the top of the ninth, the Gamecocks tied the game at seven behind an RBI double
from LT Tolbert and a Chris Cullen sacrifice fly. That joy for the Gamecocks was short-lived af ter g iv i ng up a wal k i n t he bot tom of t he n i nt h. Clemson left fielder Drew Wharton hit a deep fl y ball over Gamecock right fielder Carlos Cortes resulting in a triple and the game-winning run for the Tigers. After the game, head coach Mark Kingston focused on what he lear ned f rom h is baseball team rather than the result. “ I le a r ne d a lo t ab o ut my baseba l l tea m today,” K ingston said. “I learned that if when we fell behind six-nothing, we aren’t gonna give up to anybody, at any time.” His message to his team after the game was t ypical of the moment, telling his guys to keep their heads up and focus on the good things they did to get back in the game. The Gamecocks travel to Charlotte Tuesday to take on Appalachian State in search of a win after losing four of their last five games.
A’ja Wilson entered the SEC Tournament uncertain if she was going to play due to vertigo symptoms, but she made her presence known on Saturday as she became the all-time leading scorer in South Carolina history. Wilson needed just five points to pass Sheila Foster and was able to reach that mark pretty quickly, scoring 21 points in only 27 minutes during Saturday’s win. Foster (1979-1982) had 2,266 in 134 games. Wilson now has 2,298 points over her career. For Wilson, the accomplishment means more to her than just being in the record book. “It’s a blessing, it really is, to kind of be the homegrown child who came in and just kind of ... and now she’s the leading scorer,” Wilson said. “I mean it is a blessing and an honor to have that. But I give it all to my teammates. I wouldn’t have been able to do what I do without them. So really I give it all to them. They help me out a ton off and on the court. So that goes to them, honestly.” Wilson also had 11 rebounds on the night for her doubledouble number 21 on the season and 51 in her career, which puts her in third place in the record book in that category. Wilson is top five in several other South Carolina record book categories. She is third in rebounds, second in 20+ point games, second in SEC rebounds, first in blocks, free throws made, first in free throws attempted, fi rst in SEC points and is fourth in offensive rebounds. While Wilson’s career at South Carolina is coming to a close, Gamecock fans will remember her as one of the best, if not the best, to ever play in garnet and black. When she is eligible to have her jersey go up into the rafters, it will be the ending to a great chapter in Gamecock basketball history.
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