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The City of Columbia’s poet laureate is interweaving poetry into everyday life.
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SPORTS: ERIC FAVORS Shot putter Eric Favors develops his role as team captain and prepares for the 2020 Olympics. Page 7
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Provost Joan Gabel transitions to new university
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ZACH MCKINLEY // THE GAMECOCK Students and Columbia residents came in late at night to get Chick-Fil-A on its second weekend of staying open late. The Five Points location will stay open until 3 a.m. on Fridays.
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t udent s ca n now v isit t he Five Points Chick-fil-A until 3 a.m. on Friday n ight to Saturday morning. The fast food restaurant announced the location would test late night hours beginning Jan. 18. “It’s the best quality of food open very late,” said Rivers Slade, a second-year finance student. “There’s no other food that’s as good as this that’s open this late.” Like every Chick-fil-A, the Five Points location will remain closed on Sundays and keep its regular 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. hours on other days. Other late night chain restaurants in Five Points are Waffle House, open 24 hours, and Cookout, open until 5 a.m. on Fridays. Marla Sarah works as an Uber and Lyft driver on the weekend during the late night hours and is thankful for a place to get food from so late at night. “It’s nicer to have a couple things open later because there’s not that much open too
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late here with good options,” Sarah said. Before Chick-fil-A began testing the late night hours, m a n y s t u d e nt s w e nt t o Cookout on their way out of the bars in Five Points. Last weekend, much of the crowd seems to have shifted to Chick-fil-A. “I get really hungry late at night, and normally I go to Cookout but Chick-fil-A’s open so I came here,” Slade said. Not e ver yone c om i n g into Chick-fil-A is coming f rom t he bars. Paige Golson, a fourth-year retail ma nagement st udent , a nd her friend came from home late. But Golson also said she RIVERS SLADE believes the late night hours will benefit the franchise. “They’ll make more business because everyone that’s drunk will come down here too,” Golson said.
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CRIME BLOTTER Jan. 17, 2019 1:59 p.m. Two men were looking for a f un evening, but when a USCPD officer pulled their vehicle over for a suspended license plate, the passenger lost thousands of dollars, a revolver and multiple bags of drugs. When the officer walked up, he thought he was just towing the driver’s vehicle, but then he smelled marijua na a nd reconsidered. He searched the driver and found nothing. The driver’s passenger was a different story. In the police report, the officer reported him smelling strongly of marijuana. A simple search uncovered 2.6 grams of marijuana, three bags of meth, 2.1 grams of meth and cocaine mixed, $1,348.30 in cash and a loaded Smith & Wesson Model 60 revolver. At this point there were four of f icers invest igat ing what started as a failure to pay property tax. The driver was released, but his vehicle was towed. According to the police report, the passenger was transported to the Alvin S. Glenn detention center.
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SHREYAS SABOO // THE GAMECOCK Students for Justice for Palestine advocated for their culture at the International Bazaar in November and continue through legislation.
Palestinian Students advocate for their culture SYDNEY READ @tdg_dailynews W hen Dana A l-Hasan came to USC for her Ph.D., she wa nted to re st a r t a chapter of St udent s for Just ice for Palest ine, an organization that advocates for t he safet y a nd wellbei ng of Pa lest i n ia ns t h r ou g h i nt e r s e c t io n a l collaboration. ” It ’s not j u s t a n
organization. This is f ight ing for our f undamental human r ight s ,” A l-H a sa n sa id. “A nd I bel ieve t hat ou r work here is so important because I believe it needs to be done in the south and in South Carolina more than in any other place.“ SEE PALESTINE PAGE 3
Joan Gabel, executive vice president and provost, is preparing to round out her final semester semester at USC and transition to ser v i ng as president at t he Un iversit y of Minnesota. “I don’t know that it’s fully sunk in that I’m leaving, which I know sounds odd given the fact that I very clearly am,” Gabel said. The Universit y of Minnesota announced Gabel as the finalist for the position in early December, two months after USC President Harris Pastides announced that he would be leaving summer 2019. A university statement reads, “In the coming months, we will have numerous opportunities to express our appreciation to Provost Gabel, who will continue her work at UofSC until the end of the academic year and is committed to ensuring a smooth transition in the academic leadership of our university.” Gabel came to the University of South Carolina four years ago after serving as the dean of the Trulaske College of Business at the University of Missouri. With a background in law, she researched business ethics as part of the business school faculty before becoming the dean. “It wasn’t what I’d originally thought I was going to do,” Gabel said. After working at the University of Missouri for five years, Gabel questioned what her next step was in her career. That was when she discovered USC. “At that point you either make a new list or you start to think maybe it’s time to do something else,” Gabel said. “In making the decision about whether we wanted to COURTSEY OF UOFSC Joan Gabel develop a next set of goals or whether it was time for me to hand that to the next leader, I put a few feelers out and received a few feelers and one of them was here.” Gabel said met Pastides after applying for the provost position and immediately knew she wanted to work for him. Since she was first hired, she has developed a close relationship with the president. “I have really learned from him, both because he’s taken the time to one-on-one teach me but also just by proximity and observation,” Gabel said. “He’s been fantastic.” Though the job of the provost means working with budgets, faculty and administrators, Gabel’s favorite part of her job is the relationships she builds with students. When she leaves USC, Gabel hopes faculty and students have a renewed sense of purpose. “I hope t hat ou r fac u lt y feel a sense of opportunity and support,” Ga I hope our students feel that their voice is respected, that we have a improved sense of belonging on this campus, that we are positive contributors to our community and that we have momentum,” Gabel said. Gabel makes an effort to meet with members of Student Government frequently to ensure the student voice is heard and that the administrative decisions will positively impact students. “Provost Gable has been an impactful leader at our universit y,” St udent Body President Taylor Wright wrote in a text message. “It’s been amazing to get to work with her and get to know her these past couple years. I’m sad to see her go but I’m excited to keep up with her success in Minnesota.” While she is sad to leave, Gabel is excited about the new and familiar challenges her new position will bring. “I think that this is an amazing university,” Gabel said. “My son is a student here, proudly sent him to school here. And that whoever fills the next chapter of leadership here is extremely lucky and has one of the best places to work and create and communicate and live.”