Campus Happenings
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Senate Session Summary for the Week…
The following is a letter from SGA President Tripp Keeffe updating the campus community on the proceedings of the weekly…
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Liberty’s SPIRITED Pep Rally
After a greeting of golden balloons and music pulsating through human-sized speakers, it’s no secret that this year’s pep rally…
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CofC’s Own Comic Con
Comic cons. The epitome of nerd culture. The only places where people can walk around dressed in orange martial arts…
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Senate Session Summary for the Week of 2/5/2019
The following is a letter from SGA President Tripp Keeffe updating the campus community on the proceedings of the weekly SGA Senate Session Dear Cougars, The Senate held its fourth session of this semester last Tuesday, Feb. 5. This week’s session was quite vibrant with four allocation bills, six new club bills, and a club…
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CofC BSU Hosts Second Fashion Show
The College of Charleston’s Black Student Union hosted its second annual fashion show commemorating Black History Month on Saturday, Feb. 9. The show kicked off just after 7:00 p.m. in a full fourth floor ballroom of The College’s Stern Student Center. Vanity Reid Deterville delivered the show’s opening remarks after a brief DJ Scrib performance….
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Liberty’s SPIRITED Pep Rally
After a greeting of golden balloons and music pulsating through human-sized speakers, it’s no secret that this year’s pep rally was one to remember. A smiling Johnsie,one of Liberty’s most enthusiastic dining hall employees checked in students while waving one of the numerous pom-poms scattered across the hall. Johnsie was not the only smiling representative…
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CofC’s Own Comic Con
Comic cons. The epitome of nerd culture. The only places where people can walk around dressed in orange martial arts gi’s, robot costumes and two-foot-long plastic horns and call other people weirdos for not doing it. There are several major comic cons all over the country including famous ones in San Diego, New York, and…
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Cougars’ 4-Game Home Stretch
After losing two straight games on the road, the College of Charleston Men’s Basketball team won every game of their four-game home stretch. During this stretch, the Cougars faced off against conference foes Elon, William & Mary, James Madison University and Towson. The College won by at least 15 each game except for the game…
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CofC Spirit
It’s CofC Spirit Week, do you have school spirit? Because personally if you asked me before college I would have said no. CofC is starting to change my mind though. I mean, we have a great basketball team and we’re 20 minutes away from like five beaches. Not to mention that the liberal arts school…
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CofC’s Club Rugby Makes a Comeback
The College of Charleston’s Club Rugby team made huge strides during their fall season, improving from their 2017 record of 0-6 to a whopping 9-2. These wins included victories over opponents such as Coastal Carolina and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The College also defeated their arch-rival, the Citadel, allowing them to…
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Integrity Week
The National Society of Collegiate Scholars is hosting an Integrity Week campaign from February 11-15. The week, inspired by the National Ethics Project, is oriented on building the core of one’s character “through promotion of honesty, trustworthiness, ethics, and self-awareness.” Each day of the week will have a different theme. Monday will be academic, Tuesday…
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Politics with Pavlinec: Why Do Billionaires Exist?
Inequality is a main focus of our politics today. It undergirds arguments on taxes, healthcare, economics and wages. In congress, Democratic-Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims it is immoral to have a system with billionaires. On its face, this is a brilliant appeal to emotion, but it instead displays deep misunderstandings of inequality and economics. Every economy…
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Catching Up with Susto
Charleston-native band, Susto, are hometown heroes for the local music scene. Debuting in 2014 with a self-titled record, the “Acid Boys” cultivated a bona-fide following. Describing Susto can be a difficult task. Whether you’re familiar with the Spanish originated word or the band itself, you’ll be balancing a lot of thought. However, you just might…
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Are “YOU” a fan?
The new Lifetime show, or I guess I should say Netflix phenomenon, that everyone seems to be either raving about or hating on: You. You aired on Lifetime in early September of last year but just hit the streaming world at the end of Dec. 2018. Shortly after, Netflix subscribers were taking to Twitter, either consuming…
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“The Word Is Murder” Book Review
Originally published in 2017, Anthony Horowitz’s murder-mystery novel “The Word Is Murder” is just now catching the attention it deserves, as Barnes and Noble had officially added it to their best-sellers list in Jan. of this year. As a mystery genre fan and an avid reader, I eagerly picked up Horowitz’s novel as I scanned…
