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PRIDE PRIDE Columbia celebrates LGBTQ community

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Members of the LGBTQ community and their allies paraded down Main Street during the ‘Famously Hot’ South Carolina Pride festival on Saturday.

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The Famously Hot SC Pride parade and festival returned to Main Street on Saturday, offering attendees a packed day of events centered around promoting and celebrating Columbia’s LGBTQ community.

SC Pride is a yearly event that features a parade, musicians, guest speakers and many different vendors and food trucks.

For many, SC Pride is an event where people who might normally be afraid to be open about their sexuality can go

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and be themselves without fear of being harassed or judged.

“I think it’s really great that people can come out and be completely open about this,” Alex Billotte said. “The police come and make sure it’s a safe environment for everybody, it’s sponsored, it’s just really heartening especially for people who may be afraid to come out and things like that.”

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Professor profile: Keith Kenney Emily Barber @EMILYRISA

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I n a n of f ice f i l led w it h African art pieces and books on photography, philosophy a nd re s e a rc h met ho dolog y sit s Keit h Ken ney, a v isua l communications professor in USC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications. I first met Kenney at the airport in Rome and got to know him just a bit as a professor in the three weeks following. A lthough it was unusual talking to him in a small room tucked away in a corner of the journalism school, his passion for photojournalism was as clear as ever.

Kenney f irst “fell in love”

w it h p ho t o g r ap h y i n h i g h school. He attended a private school that offered photography courses, where he developed his photos in a darkroom. He said this process was the main attraction of photography.

“It was sort of a magical thing, I thought,” Kenney said, after discussing the control a dark room provides a photographer.

He could alter aspects of the photos and watch the images app e a r on p ap er b at hed i n chem ica ls, rat her t ha n ju st ordering prints elsewhere.

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September Dates to know

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Health Carolina Farmers Market Greene Street, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Goldwater Scholarship Application Workshop Gressette Room in Harper College, 4 p.m.

The I. DeQuincey Newman Institute for Peace and Social Justice’s inaugural Call to Action lecture series

Widener thrives in return to Columbia Courtesy of the Charleston RiverDogs

Inn at USC, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

BlackSpace (community support group for black USC students) Russell House, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m..

Cooper Kickoff and visit from Cocky Thomas Cooper Library, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m..

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Taylor Widener felt right at home pitching Sunday night for the Charleston RiverDogs. As he took the field in Columbia for the first time since the Gamecocks’ postseason run ended in June, he was not

playing for the town he called home for the past three years. Although he was pitching against the Fireflies, he felt welcome by the home crowd — as if he were back at Founders Park.

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Two people killed, identified in murder-suicide Richland County Coroner Gary Watts identified 50-year-old Steven Ulikey and his wife, 56-year-old Cherrell Spires Ulikey, and released their names Saturday. According to deputies, Steven hanged himself after strangling his wife. Cherrell’s brother, The State reports, called the police after checking on Cherrell. The sheriff’s department said the incident occurred at 7119 Middle St. —Compiled by T. Michael Boddie, News Editor

Man who tried to remove tree from highway hit, killed by car Michael Woodrum, 36, was hit by a car while attempting to remove a tree which Tropical Storm Hermine caused to fall onto Highway 17-A. The incident occurred near Cottageville, and Woodrum died at the hospital. His death is the third associated with Hermine following the driver of an 18-wheeler in North Carolina and a homeless Florida man onto whom a tree fell.

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Greenville toddler drowns in pool Three-year-old Za’Marion Wilcox went swimming with his foster family at a community pool in Greenville on Sunday and fell into the pool, according to the Greenville County Coroner’s Office. Wilcox’s foster parents got him out of the water, and eyewitnesses performed CPR. After EMS transported the boy to Greenville Memorial Hospital, he was pronounced dead. The incident is still under investigation.

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Columbia wearing colorful costumes and handing out cards, flags and other items to the large crowd that gathered to watch.

The parade featured local social justice groups such as the Irmo Gay/ Straight Alliance.

Also in attendance were Greenville chapter representatives of the Sisters of Pe r p e t u a l I nd u l g e n c e . T h i s internat ional organizat ion began in 1979 in San Francisco. It boasts chapters in 43 North American cities and in 14 other countries.

When a Sisters representative who goes by Evelyn Tensions was asked what their favorite part of Pride events was, they said that it was “feeling all t he love and joy t hat’s spread throughout the gay community.”

“People are … constantly fighting for diversity and getting overwhelmed wit h oppression and depression,” Tensions said, “but when you get around a bunch of people that are like-minded, you feel the love and joy.”

Another representative, Sister Bjorn DeSway, described Famously Hot Pride as a “safe space for the LGBTQ

community.”

“It shows t hat t he LGBTQ community is here and we’re here to stay, and we’re not afraid,” DeSway said.

Members of the LGBTQ commu nit y and t heir allies were ple nt i f u l , i nc lud i n g s ome USC students. First-year pharmacy student Annie Savely came to show her support and pride.

“It makes you feel accepted all the time, and it’s awesome,” Savely said of SC Pride. She is a member of USC’s I ndiv iduals Respect ing Ident it ies & Sex u a l it ie s a nd t he Fem i n ist Collective. She says she has been attending Pride events for three years.

A not her s t udent , fou r t h-ye a r a c c o u nt i n g s t u d e nt D e M a r c u s Marable, also attended the event ready to support the LGBTQ community.

“It’s just a really cool thing to do in Columbia on a Saturday,” Marable said, “and to be supportive of the local community.”

Marable says t hat Pride is “accepting, and that’s what we, as a ‘Bible Belt’ community need, is to be more accepting of people who aren’t like us in any manner.”

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PROFPAGE1 which he described as “journalism w it h a c a mer a” — stor y t el l i ng through pictures rather than words.

A not he r p a r t of h i s lo v e f or photog raphy was t he st rong connection it had to travel. At just 17, K en ne y took a n eight-week trip through northern France and the British Isles to take pictures.

T h i s p a s s io n f or i nt er n at io n a l photography continued after high school when he enlisted in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany.

Du ring h is t wo years in t he military, he worked in a darkroom with a German photographer and somet imes as a correspondent to media organizations in the U.S. A f ter h is deploy ment, Ken ney returned to school, first obtaining his undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin and his master’s at E a st Tex a s St ate Un iver sit y, n o w k n o w n a s Te x a s A & M Universit y-Commerce. W hile in t he Lone St a r St ate, he worked as a staff photographer for a local newspaper before apply ing for a do c t or a l prog r a m at M ic h ig a n State University. Kenney joked that he thought he was applying for a teaching position in Michigan, while it turned out to be more of a graduate assistant position.

Kenney wasn’t even 30 years old when he decided to pursue a career in higher education and left his job at the newspaper. He speculates that ot her photojournalists would be critical of his reason for switching paths because he said, “I got bored as a photojournalist.”

“The fact of the matter is that I worked for a small paper,” Kenney said, where he would have maybe four assignments in a day. “There was this down time, and also, news is cyclical ... Every year, there’s Labor Day; you take Labor Day pictures.

After that, there’s Halloween. And

there’s football games. There’s some repetition in it.”

As Kenney recognized, this might seem cou nter i nt u it ive; b ei ng a college professor might not seem as interesting as being a photographer.

He started at USC in 1988 — nearly 30 years ago. But he said there are two reasons he prefers academia, the fi rst of which is that he is constantly learning. The second is that there is no down time in his day-to-day life as a professor.

“I’m constantly working, which I like,” Kenney said. “A lso, I like academ ia a lot because I ca n be doing so many different things, like I just fi nished a very scholarly book and now I’m doing a series of short documentary fi lms. And who knows what I’ll do after that?”

Having the same job for decades never stopped Kenney from pursuing outside projects. One of the largest so far was the Journalism School Part nership Program, which was a $750,0 0 0 g r a nt to e st abl ish a journalism school in the countr y of Georgia. Kenney was one of the leaders on t he project and spent nearly a year living in a small village in Georgia, accompanied by his wife.

I n add it io n t o work i n g w it h Georgian professors, Kenney fi lmed for a documentary that is still being produced. This project and daily, close contact with the local people allowed him to absorb many aspects of their cult ure. One topic to be covered in the documentary is the custom of men kidnapping women as a way to force them into marriage; if a man could keep a woman for a f ull night, she was required to marry him. Many of the women in the village where Kenney stayed had become part of that community in this way.

Another custom Kenney witnessed was the tradition of having a “toast m a ster ” at la rge or celebr ator y dinners.

“So this would be a person whose job it was to lead the toasts,” Kenney said. “Ideally he would know all the guests well enough to be able to say something about them in their toast, in the toast that he gave.”

These dinners could last for hours, wit h toasts happening ever y few minutes, and the toasts were always supposed to celebrate t he people they mentioned. The toast master was also responsible for making sure toasts were given in the right order, usually beginning with a toast to religion and moving through the family and friends by status.

“It sort of brings people together.

It makes people feel good about themselves and each other, and it sort of creates a bonding experience,” Kenney said.

M o r e r e c e n t l y, K e n n e y h a s begun working on a series of short documentaries about South Carolina Muslims who are doing good in their communities. The fi rst is about Dr. Reshma Khan, who works at Shifa Free Clinic in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. In addition to basic medial care, the clinic also offers eye care, mental health services, a food pantry, a clothing closet and back-to-school supplies — all free of charge.

“I’m trying to highlight Muslims who are doing this t ype of work, not just for the Muslim community, but for A mer ic a n s i n gener a l,” Kenney said. He also said that only one percent of people who obtain services from the clinic are Muslim.

The rest come from other religious backgrounds.

After creating his series, Kenney pla ns to put t hem on a website toget her, wh ich he hopes wou ld inspire filmmakers in other states to pursue the same type of project.

He also plans to compile a slightly longer film from some of the best segments and submit it to SCETV. Although Kenney has identified as a photojournalist for many years,

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he said t hat t he f ut ure of v isual com mu n icators i n t he med ia — particularly when it comes to making a living — is video.

“I think there’s a huge shift from photography to v ideography,” he said. “I think that there’s going to be a huge market for video, and I think people will make money with video because video is not easy ... When you do video on your phone, that’s nothing like what I’m talking about.”

Given t h is cha nge, Ken ney predicted that USC will also shift to requiring more videography courses than photography because, in terms of specialty skills, creating video is still highly valued, whereas general photography might not be.

U n s u r p r i s i n g l y, g i v e n h i s interest in fi lm, Kenney is a fan of movies. Although he was reluctant to pick a favorite when I asked, he recommended “Harold and Maude,” a 1971 film about the relationship between a death-obsessed, 20-yearold man and an elderly woman. He thought this fi lm in particular would be beneficial for college students to see.

“I think it’s just about an attitude,” Ken ney sa id. “It ’s a way of l ife I guess I endorse and that maybe not ever ybody is really t hink ing about that or trying to achieve that lifestyle. You have to see it.”

He says he doesn’t like comedy films, but when the weather cools down a bit, he’s promised that he’ll never wear a boring tie and he’ll never wear the same one twice this semester.

O verall, Ken ney was realist ic, recognizing the tough truths about photojournalism as it has evolved.

He was talkative, expansive about his experiences, overseas and within t he U.S. There are u ndoubtedly wonderful stories in his career that aren’t found here, but most defi nitely are found in his photographs.

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‘Poets & Saints’ connects listeners to God

Imagine Music Festival brings EDM to Atlanta

“Poets & Saints” Release Date: Sept. 2 Artist: All Sons and Daughters Label: Integrity Music Duration: 42 minutes

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George Wassel attended the Imagine Music Festival at the Atlanta Motor Speedway in Atlanta, Georgia, last weekend.

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I attended Imagine Music Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, not entirely knowing what I would be getting myself into. I have been to electronic dance music shows before and I have been to music festivals before as well.

However, I’ve never been to a fullblown EDM festival, especially one with a campground for that matter.

This year marked the third year of Imagine. For the past two years, Imagine had been held in the Old Fourth Ward in Atlanta. Up until t h is year, I mag ine had indirect competition with TomorrowWorld, but Tomor rowWorld h a s b e en canceled for 2016 due to the “current environment.” This left Imagine as the major EDM festival in Atlanta.

I mag i ne Mu sic Fe st iva l took the opportunity of being the sole EDM festival in Atlanta and made a behemoth of a festival. Newly relocated to Atlanta Motor Speedway, Imagine featured five stages, a pool, vendors and live circus acts. For an independent festival, it can be hard to fill each stage with compelling DJs. The way they attracted all types of people to each stage was by having a huge variety in the line-up.

And what a variety it was. With headliners like Advent ure Club, Dillon Francis, Zeds Dead and other acts including Thomas Jack, Keys N Krates and Dirty South the list goes on and on. The point I’m trying to get here is this year’s lineup had depth — a surprising amount of it. With over 60 DJs sharing five stages, there was always something new to listen to. A great possibility when attending a music festival is the opportunity to listen to something new. A new DJ can be heard while walking around the

festival or while waiting for another act to go on.

D i s c over i n g ne w mu s ic at a festival is like trying new food. The uncertainty of whether you will like it looms until you take that first bite. If it is not for you, one bite is enough. But if you like it, you take a few bites more.

You then begin to savor the flavor. To be satisfied with this new discovery.

Once you have finished your plate, you are left hungry for more. This is how I felt leaving Imagine Music Festival; I wanted more.

As with most festivals, there are hiccups in execution, and Imagine was no exception. The five stages felt more like two main stages, leaving the other three to play second-fiddle to the main stages. The lack of clearly marked stages, vendors and bathrooms left many festival goers (including myself) in a constant state of confusion.

Logistically, the Atlanta Motor Speedway was a great location for

this music festival. In relation to the city, the Atlanta Motor Speedway is only about a 40-minute drive from downtown Atlanta. Camping was strewn all along the outer edges of the parking lot, and there were ample lots to fill. When all of the headliners went on late at night, it made camping the best option to see the latest set.

Believe me, you will want to stay for the last set.

Imagine has come a long way in its three short years. With its new location, it now has room to grow.

Yes, there will be growing pains and kinks to work out. Some of those were apparent when I attended the festival. But as a whole, Imagine has the potential to become one of the premier festivals in Georgia and in the Southeast. Imagine does have a lot of growing to do, but it has the foundations of what makes a music festival worth attending. I cannot wait to see what it grows into.

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The third annual Imagine Music Festival featured multiple EDM artists and DJs.

‘Morgan’ falls short of thrilling Lindsey Hodges @LINDSEYNHODGES

“Morg a n,” a sc ience f ic t ion t h r i l ler ab out a n a r t i f ic i a l l y engineered girl, boasts interesting a nd u n ique stor y ideas, but pred ict able plot t w ist s a nd u n r e s ol ve d s t or ie s m a k e it a disappointing fi lm.

Tucked away in a facility hidden in the mountains lives a team of scientists and a little girl they have created named Morgan. After an incident where Morgan becomes v iolent , a r isk ma nagement specialist from the corporate office is sent to assess the situation. The specialist, played by Kate Mara, must make the decision of whether to terminate Morgan or keep her alive based on her potential value.

Superhuman little girls fight the stereot y pes that usually follow you ng female characters. The theme is one we’ve seen before in movies such as “Hanna” and T V s how s s uc h a s “ St r a n g er Things,” and “Morgan” is ver y similar to those stories. The movie rea l ly ma kes you t h i n k about the risks involved with artificial i ntel l igence. T h roughout t he entire movie, the scientists refer to Morgan as a “she,” giving her human att ributes, but t he plot makes it clear that Morgan is far

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Kate Mara stars as Lee Weathers in the science fiction thriller film “Morgan.” from human.

O verall, “Morgan” was a bit of a d isapp oi nt ment . De spite having a very interesting view on artificial intelligence, the final plot twist was fairly predictable and, if expanded upon, would have made the story as a whole much more enticing. There was also a romantic buildup involving the main character that is only barely resolved. Some of the characters lacked basic characterization and seemed positively pointless.

The movie left me with more

questions than I came in with. It is advertised as being a thriller movie, but it isn’t very thrilling.

Despite the flaws in the plot, it is entertaining enough to keep your attention and get you think ing ab out t he f ut u re of a r t i f ic ia l intelligence.

If you like high-action scenes and the idea of humanoid intelligence, this movie is definitely one you should check out, but I’d suggest wa it i ng u nt i l you c a n rent it through iTunes or Amazon.

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“Poets & Saints” is the latest album from the worship band All Sons & Daughters.

Grace Batton @TDG_ARTS

All Sons & Daughters’ latest album, “Poet s & Saint s,” has a compa n ion book written by Pastor Jaime George, the pastor of the band’s home church, Journey Church. Sharing the same title, the music-novel combination offers a deeply emotional and spiritual look into the history of the church through stories and song.

As part of the writing process for the book and album, the band ventured to the homes of historic Christian writers and theologians including C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald and Saint Augustine.

W it h t he v ision of “rei mag i n i ng ancient-future truths that have shaped generations of God-chasers,” the album connects to the time-tested truth of the Bible that God remains throughout all generations and that He is the same God today that He was in the years when past believers walked the Earth.

The album creatively illustrates these biblical t r ut hs by feat uring var y ing vocal leads, as Leslie Jordan and David Leonard switch off the role of lead singer throughout songs, contrasting the everchanging state of the world with lyrics from older praise music.

The echoing choruses in songs like “Rest In You” enlist voices in singing, “You cannot change, yet you change everything,” from “The Confessions of St. Augustine.” The repetition of this phrase in the main body of the song reiterates God’s paradoxical unchanging and hearttransforming nature.

In an almost surprising way, the artists give an intimate look into the humanity of famous saints, putting their poetry and writings to music to illustrate how we can connect today with believers in the past through their sufferings and need for spiritual rest.

In the track “You are Love & Love Alone,” the lyrics, “How perfectly our hearts are made for love/ You are love and love alone,” demonstrate that we can only fi nd deep, heart-level fulfillment by seeking the true source of love, Jesus, because we were created by Him for Him. “Nothing else, but You oh Lord/ I find everything in You,” in the song “I Surrender” as well as the lines “In You we live, in You we move/ In You we have our being,” in “Creation Sings” emphasize that completeness can only be derived from and found by loving and living for God. On their website, All Sons & Daughters and collaborative artists of the Poets & Saints project reveal their purpose in this reminder of historic relevancy: “O u r hope is t hat i n t h is mu sic, b o ok a nd c u r r ic u lu m , p eople w i l l f i nd con nec t ion, w it h one a not her and connection with God. A place of vulnerability and discovery where there is freedom and forgiveness ... conversations that generate spiritual health, a ripple effect that changes people’s lives.”

Overall, the album offers a creative view of the rich history of the Christian church while relating it to today’s believers.

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Big oil literally shaking up Western states Avery Freeman Third-year math and physics student

The oil industry has been brought into t he spot light recently as scientists investigate a likely connection between “fracking” and earthquakes, spec if ic a l ly w it h reg a rd to t he recent elevat ion i n Ok la hom a’s seismolog ic a l activity. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a process of oil mining that involves injecting large amounts of high-pressure water into the Earth’s crust in an effort to widen pre-existing

fissures. Many scientists and geographical survey groups believe this excavation process can precipitate earthquakes as large as the 5.6 magnitude one that shook Oklahoma last week and damaged at least 14 buildings.

For almost 40 years, t he central and eastern U.S. have experienced an approximately steady 21 earthquakes per year of magnitude three or higher on the Richter scale (M3+).

However, in 2009, this rate began to accelerate rapidly.

It has continued to rise such that in 2014 alone, the central and eastern U.S. experienced 659 M3+ earthquakes. That’s over 31 t imes t he previous average. A lso in t hat year, Ok lahoma experienced 150 times the yearly average for M4+ earthquakes than it had

from 1882 to 2009.

A f t e r I le a r ne d of t h i s gross increase in seismicit y in Oklahoma and the Great Plains, I was not surprised to fi nd that the state prides itself in its growing oil industr y.

Ok lahoma actually harbors a higher concentration of oil and gas activity than any other state, save only for its neighbor, Texas. The Statehouse was proud to announce that it was the only state to experience a recent strong growth in oil and gas production. Since 2010, it has doubled its annual oil production (now 120 million ba r rels) a nd i nc rea sed it s annual gas production by 50 percent (now 2.2 trillion cubic feet).

The evidence is mounting against fracking. It’s hard to imagine the link between it

and increased seismicity being falsified. But it doesn’t matter.

Corporate giants and venture capitalists will continue to grind and juice the resources arou nd t hem for any drop of profit they can produce.

W he t he r t he r e s ou r c e i s oil, meat, pharmaceuticals, college students, taxpayers or prisoners, America will always have an avaricious corporation exploiting it for all it has and will always be paying corrupt politicians to tear down any remaining shreds of regulation that restrain it.

Fracking is a direct result of corporate greed. It is a fast and cheap way to extract oil from the ground, however it is extremely negligent with respect to the environment and to humanity. Not only does it disturb the Earth’s crust at a

fundamental level, but it also causes obscene amounts of air and water pollution, the latter of which is k nown to have contaminated drinking supplies in many cities across the U.S., which can lead to major health concerns.

This is a common theme in A merican culture. News comes out about how terrible something is, the American people get outraged and finally the American people continue to vote politicians into office that perpetuate it. Look at the crumbling society around us.

It’s time to stop blaming the Republicans and Democrats and time to start blaming the corporatists. We must stop lending them our silence. Vote in elect ions for candidates other than the presidential ones, or soon it will be too late.

Endangered species have no worth in secularism Andy Wilson Secondyear English student

Science tells us that every species currently in existence is only a minute fraction of vast numbers of species that have long since come into existence, lived and died out.

The animals and plants we see now are the products of ruthless competition in which the losers have gone extinct.

Extinction is merely part of t he blind force of nat ural selection driving all biological life. So why should we be concerned if human activity causes species to go extinct?

Ev o l u t i o n w o u l d h a v e us believe that humans are nothing more than advanced a n ima ls. Cha rles Da r w i n claimed, “the difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.” In that case, then however advanced we may be, there can be no moral difference in humans driving a species of fish into extinction by d iver t i ng water for drought-stricken crops than a predator species not native to that ecosystem accomplishing the same effect. If humans are, like the predator species, only a part of nature rather than transcending it, then it doesn’t ultimately make a difference that we are driving

species into extinction. In this worldv iew, human-caused extinction or environmental degradation must be viewed no differently than natural extinction or environmental degradation.

The modern naturalistic worldv iew fou nded up on Dar w i n ism t hus prov ides no universally binding ethic t h at c a l l s for protec t i ng the environment and being concer ned about spec ies’ ex t i nct ion. Those who reje c t t he rel ig ion s t h at c o u ld p r o v i d e o b j e c t i v e moral obligation to care for nature are likely to strike a utilitarian stance, asserting that we should protect the env iron ment a nd prevent species loss because t hese things will affect us negatively.

T h is sou nds g reat i n principle, but it breaks down when we apply it to real-life e x t i nc t ion e vent s. Ever y time human action drove a species into extinction, it is because we derived less value from the species’ continued e x i s t e nc e t h a n f rom t he action that drove the species extinct. People valued easily accessible meat more than keeping dodos around, they valued the sheep that formed their livelihood more than Tasmanian tigers and they value the electricity produced

by Colorado River dams more than the bonytail chub.

By using t he ut ilitarian et hic, you forfeit t he idea of the existence of a species having any kind of intrinsic good and are forced to attach its worth to its role in the

ecosystem, its value in tourism or some other external value.

This can be done successfully in some cases, but usually only when the species has significant tourism appeal, such as black rhinos. It is much more common to encounter situations where the players involved see obvious benefits in t he ex t inct ion-causing behavior and do not perceive much cost to themselves in the species’ population loss or reduction.

The problem with ut ilitarianism as a source of morality is that it cannot create a universally binding ethic because it calls an action moral or immoral based on its ability to accomplish the most good for the largest number of people. Ut i l it a r ia n ism fundamentally breaks down when different parties don’t have the same perception of the costs and benefits of an action. If you and I disagree on what t he benef it of an action is relative to its cost, t he same ut ilitarian et hic leads us to a total split on the morality of that action.

The higher extinction rates in the developing world are indicative of this fact. Wealthy Westerners may care about an endangered species, but its continued existence probably come s low on t he l ist of priorities for the impoverished population of the countr y where it resides. As we have seen, protecting endangered species loses almost ever y time in the purely utilitarian ethic when it conflicts with significant human interests, mostly because, in general,

few people — especially in the developing nations where species loss is occurring most rapidly — derive utility from the existence of any given species.

It is on ly i n t he bel ief structures of monotheistic religions such as Judaism, Christ ianit y and Islam — which place humans in some way above nature and assigns us unique responsibility for it — t hat we can have an objective moral obligation to care for the environment a nd protect enda ngered species. It is paradoxical and lamentable, then, that some of those who identif y with monotheistic religions are less likely to care about preserving t he env ironment t han t he religiously unaffiliated.

If Jews, Ch r ist ia ns a nd Musl i ms overlook t hei r responsibil it y to care for the earth and their fellow creatures, they demonstrate t hemselves to have less

c o nc e r n ab out t he i s s ue t han people who lack t he moral foundation calling for environmental stewardship, an inconsistent and unattractive position.

I n conclusion, t hough I argue that proponents of a purely naturalistic worldview der ive f rom it no rea l obligat ion to worr y about human-driven extinction and are forced on the matter to borrow from the stewardship ethic of monotheistic religion, o u r s o c i e t y ’s r e s p o n s e t o i nc r e a s i n g world w ide extinction rates must bring together those of different philosophical outlooks. It’s time for believers to step up and examine how they should r e s p o nd t o t he p r o b le m in light of t he commands of t heir relig ions a nd for s k ept ic s to ac k now le dg e their debt to those religions for the objective ethic that supports their environmental conscience.

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Courtesy of the Charleston RiverDogs

Taylor Widener played three seasons for the South Carolina Gamecocks, where he had a career ERA of 3.59 and posted eight career wins.

WIDENERPAGE1 “Honestly, it reminds me a lot of South Carolina,” Widener said. “I think the structure of the stadium is built a lot like South Carolina’s field.

It was kind of comforting. It was like I was playing back at South Carolina.”

W idener had a not her ter r if ic starting, giving up just one hit and no runs while walking just one and whiffing seven over four innings. He bettered his regular season ERA to 0.78, totaling 34 strikeouts over 23 innings during his time in Single-A. Widener’s strong start helped position the RiverDogs to get the 4-1 win over

the Fireflies.

“It felt good,” he said. “It’s always welcoming. Whenever I first got out there last night, I came out for the first few innings of the first game, and I heard some people yelling my name.

It’s always exciting to hear that.”

Widener also mentioned that he felt the connections to the South Carolina fans. With the Firef lies being the closest thing Columbia residents have to a major baseball team, many were there and happy to see Widener back in the City of Dreams.

“I think there were definitely some Gamecock fans out there,” he said. “I talked to some people before and after

the game, so it was nice to have some people that are still following me.”

Charleston is rounding out its 2016 regular season playing in Columbia with its last game Monday night.

Widener is ready to see what lies ahead.

“It’s a great opportunity to play for an organization that’s as good as the Yankees,” he said. “I have no complaints at all. I’ve had a bunch of fun so far.”

The RiverDogs had the best record in their division in the first half of the season, putting them in postseason play. Widener is anxiously preparing for his first professional postseason

appearance, hoping the RiverDogs make it farther than the Gamecocks did over the summer.

“I t h i n k it ’s goi ng to be ver y exciting,” he said. “I’m pitching in game two of the playoffs, so that’s going to be exciting that will I get to experience the atmosphere of a professional playoff game. It’s just another game that I have to go out and pitch and give our team the best chance to win.”

The South Athletic League playoffs begin Sept. 7. Widener is scheduled to make his first postseason appearance in relief during the second game.

Gutsy calls propel Gamecocks to victory

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Freshman wide receiver Bryan Edwards was the leading receiver for the South Carolina Gamecocks on Thursday night, garnering 101 yards on eight catches.

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The South Carolina offense was out of sorts in the first half of the new season by failing to log 90 yards of total offense. Senior Perry Orth got the start, and the offense struggled with penalties, backing the Gamecocks up deep in their own territory.

As the down and distance became more daunting, the play calls became more conservative, with numerous quarterback draws and short screen passes.

“In the game plan, we knew they would play off, man,” wide receiver Deebo Samuel said. “So we were trying to do quick passes to get the balls into our hands.”

Brandon McIlwain took over for Orth for the majorit y of the first half, and he picked up solid gains on quarterback runs but fumbled inside the Vanderbilt 15-yard line in the

second quarter.

Bet ween t wo f u mble s a nd si x penalties, the Gamecocks couldn’t establish any rhythm in the first half, and they didn’t take any shots down the field. With the more experienced Orth under center after the break, the strategy changed.

In the third quarter, Orth connected with Samuel for 30 yards on a corner route on 3rd and 7, putting the ball at the Vanderbilt 30-yard line, as the Gamecocks still trailed 10-0. The drive stagnated when Orth missed Bryan Edwards on third down, but Elliott Fry connected on a 48-yarder to bring South Carolina within seven.

While the long catch was the true shift of momentum, Samuel didn’t think the play was anything special.

“We practiced those routes, just us and the quarterbacks, every day,” the sophomore said of the corner route that freed him up for a 30-yard gain.

After forcing a Vanderbilt punt on

the ensuing possession, the Gamecocks took over on their own five. David Williams picked up short gains on back-to-back plays before Kurt Roper dialed up another deep shot. Orth chucked a pass down the sideline into one-on-one coverage, and the 6-foot-3 Edwards made a leaping grab to pick up 33 yards and shift field position.

The Gamecocks would have to punt from just short of midfield, but Sean Kelly pinned the Commodores inside the 10. Edwards’ grab flipped the field, setting up the lone South Carolina touchdown drive on the team’s next possession.

The two big shots were crucial in South Carolina’s come-from-behind win, but there were several conservative calls as well that might have cost the Gamecocks. In the late stages of the second half, Muschamp dialed up two punts in enemy territory on short fourth downs.

Just before Fry’s game-winning field

goal, the Gamecocks called for Orth’s fifth designed run of the game, as the offense was just on the fringe of the senior kicker’s range. Orth lost two yards on the play, and had the kick gone differently, the opinion of the play calling might have been much different.

O n e c a n a r g u e M u s c h a m p’s quarterback decisions were cautious as well, playing the more experienced Orth over McIlwain, who Muschamp said “deserves” to start.

“We wanted to see how things went with Perry,” Muschamp said.

He later added that the decision was made about a week ago and that the lack of experience on the offense in general was a major factor in the decision.

Muschamp was unwilling to rule his gameplan as conservative, however.

“Because my last name is ‘Muschamp,’ you say it’s conservative,” the first-year coach said after the game. “Just because my last name is ‘Muschamp,’ it doesn’t mean it’s conservative.”