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Orientation offers mix of excitement, nostalgia

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Heat wave expected to last until weekend James Stewart @MYPALHARVEY

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Groups of new students can be seen around campus getting ready for the new school year.

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As flocks of incoming freshmen flooded campus on Monday and Tuesday for the fi rst of 13 orientation sessions, returning students and graduates were reminded of their own experiences as fi rst-years.

A lumna Emily W hite, a graduate of the business school, expressed a common sentiment attached to seeing nametag-clad freshmen — envy.

“I’m really jealous that they’re about to start college,” White said. “They’re just starting and they’re so excited and they have so much ahead of them.”

From t he ot her side of t he college journey, incoming freshman Isaiah Devoe embodied the excitement mentioned by W hite as an orientation attendee first

experiencing life as a USC student.

“I love it. I’ve always wanted to come to Carolina ever since I was a kid,” Devoe said. “There’s a certain feeling I get when I’m here; I love the atmosphere.”

At orientation, students attend a number of i n for m at ion a l se s sion s , f a i r s a nd meetings over a two-day period to learn about the activities and resources offered at USC. As it is an overnight event, incoming f resh men have t he cha nce to st ay i n selected residence halls.

T h i rd-yea r ps ycholog y st udent Christina Henson remembers the load of informational events as being boring. “It was just a lot of information thrown at you at one time,” Henson said.

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Coach McKissick has more victories under his belt than any other football coach on any level ever.

Football coach retires after 63 successful years James Stewart @MYPALHARVEY

Summerville High School head football coach John McKissick, 88, has announced that he will be retiring from his job after one of the most impressive careers in football history.

Coaching since 1952, McK issick said that his age was fi nally catching up with him, but he felt he’d been “the luckiest guy in the world” for being able to coach for as long as he has.

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career, McKissick led his team to 10 state championships and a total of 620 wins; more wins than any football coach has ever achieved at any level of play.

Regarding McK issick ’s ret irement, USC head football coach Steve Spurrier released a statement.

“Coach McKissick is one of the nicest gentleman I know,” Spurrier said. “He’s a sm a r t coac h a nd a go o d coac h — outstanding in ever ything he did. I’m going to certainly miss seeing him when I go by Summerville High School. I’ve made SEECOACHPAGE3

On Tuesday, the National Weather Service reported a high of 100 degrees in the Columbia, S.C. area, as a heat wave settles in, predicted to last the week.

Historically, the highest temperature Columbia has seen was 102 degrees in 1899, followed by a record in 1920 of 100 degrees, which was met on Tuesday.

“This isn’t my fi rst summer in Columbia, but I always manage to forget how hot it can get here.” fourt h-year environmental studies major Jack Williams said. “Even

when most people get back in August, it doesn’t feel nearly as sticky and hot as it does here in June. It’s not surprising t hat t his is t he hottest day of the year so far.”

T he h igh temper at u re s are expected to remain throughout the rest of the w e e k a s We d ne s d a y a nd T hu r sday have a lso been p r e d i c t e d t o r e a c h 10 0 degrees as well.

Regarding hum idit y h o w e v e r, o f f i c i a l s h a v e warned that the heat index could signal dangerously hot conditions outside and they are recommending people to SEEHEATWAVEPAGE3

Rand Paul making multiple campaign stops across S.C. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has been campaigning across South Carolina this week, stopping in Lexington on Monday and plans to stop in Spartanburg and Lexington on Friday.

The GOP candidate spent about an hour at the Lexington Veterans of Foreign War Post 8738, according to WIS. This past weekend, Paul has come under fire from fellow Republican candidate Lindsey Graham, who has been campaigning in his home state of South Carolina for weeks now.

Graham has openly criticized Senator Paul’s stance on foreign policy, and also claimed that Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would be beaten by every GOP candidate with the exception of Paul.

“I think some people are scoring so poorly in the polls, that they want to be relevant,” Paul said to WIS. “The way to be relevant is to attack me.”

Senator Paul did mention foreign policy briefly at the V.F.W. Post in Lexington, mentioning the Benghazi scandal to be Clinton’s biggest failure.

Paul did mention his frustration at how the situation in the Middle East has unfolded as well.

“It annoys me that we are now fighting against our own weapons. ISIS has a billion dollars worth of Humvees,” Paul said.

“I think also there are some in our party who believe intervening around the world in every skirmish makes us safer. [I think that] is wrong.”

While Paul was campaigning in Lexington, Republican candidate Jeb Bush was preparing a speech in Miami for the same afternoon.

The senator is aware that most of the focus is on Bush at the moment, but is hopeful that voters will decide for a change from the past 25 years, with the exception of the Obama administration.

On Friday, Senator Paul has plans to visit Spartanburg for a meet and greet event, followed by grabbing “a pizza and a pint” with GOP activists in Greenville later in the day.

Paul will be attending a “Stand with Rand” meet and greet at the Beacon Drive-In in Spartanburg at 3:30 p.m., after which he will be traveling to Greenville for pizza with GOP supporters at 5:30 p.m. at the Greenville County GOP Headquarters on Wade Hampton Boulevard.

Finally, Senator Paul will be attending the “Pints for Liberty” event at Connolly’s Irish Pub, located on East Court in downtown Greenville.

An Eventbrite page states that the event is 21 years and older, and that it will offer an “opportunity for liberty-minded folks to get together and unwind, strategize and energize over drinks with special guest: Senator Rand Paul.”

—James Stewart, News Editor

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Man shot outside NW Columbia home in drive-by shooting The Richland County Sheriff’s Department were called to respond to a house on Pelican Drive in the middle of the day after a man was shot multiple times in front yard.

According to Sargent Kevin Lawrence of the RCSD, investigators found that the man was apparently standing in the yard when a dark-colored car drove by and opened fi re, before driving down the street.

The shooting victim has been hospitalized and is currently being treated for his injuries.

Police have yet to identify any suspects in the shooting but investigators do believe that the victim was being specifically targeted.

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Former USC director pleads guilty to embezzlement charges Former USC director pleads guilty to embezzlement Gail Shurling, the USC director of the former Center for Manufacturing and Technology, pleaded guilty to illegally obtaining $336,000 in federal grant money last Friday, according to The State.

Shurling was apparently dividing the money out among her friends and family.

According to prosecutors, Shurling was funneling federal grant money through a Shell corporation that had been set up in her mother’s name, who was known to have Alzheimer’s.

When investigators notified USC of Shurling’s alleged activities, the school fired her immediately and shut down all of the center’s activities.

—James Stewart, News Editor

Operation Oasis helps homeless combat heat by providing water

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Operation Oasis gives water to homeless as temperatures rise With triple digit temperatures arriving in the Midlands this week, the Oliver Gospel Mission has begun the task of providing heat relief to the homeless, according to WIS. Along with opening up their day room to provide the homeless shelter and rest from the hot days heat, volunteers are also providing bottled water to those who weren’t at the Mission.

“That I am aware of, there are only two or three public water fountains in downtown Columbia,” said Jeremy Laughead of the Oliver Gospel Mission.

The mission tries to canvas areas where they know large amount of the homeless will gather in the warmer afternoon hours, such as public parks or other civic buildings.

The mission has received several dozen cartons of water bottles, and says that it will continue to keep the day room open as well as pass out water bottles until temperatures dip back below 100 degrees.

Bottles of water can be donated to the mission at 1100 Taylor St. —James Stewart, News Editor

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ORIENTATIONPAGE1 Some students took to Yik Yak in response to the freshman swarms.

Several yaks from anonymous users involving “freshman advice” were posted.

A few examples include “Remember to look your best for school picture day,” “Be sure to wear all your high school athletic clothing the f irst day” and “If you have a choice, pick McBryde.”

One post even suggested to “Make

sure you snap BigCalPeen, he’s got your best interests at heart.”

Whether the incoming freshmen will add BigCalPeen on Snapchat is yet to be known, but freshman advice on Yik Yak will likely continue throughout the summer as more new students become acquainted with the university at orientation.

The next freshman orientation session is set for June 17 through June 18.

COACHPAGE1 it a point every year to try to go by there during recruiting season and say ‘hello’ to Coach McK issick.

He’s well-respected, admired, a friend of all. We’re going to miss him, but we certainly understand when the time’s right, as he feels it is, it’s time to go do something else, and he’ll be doing something else.”

From the other side of the fence, Clemson head football coach Dabo Swinney also shared his thoughts.

“First, I want to congratulate Coach Joh n McK issick on a n i n c r e d ib le c a r e e r a nd t he cont r ibut ion s he h a s m ade to t h is profession.” sa id Sw i n ney in a release. “He has had such a positive impact on the lives of so many coaches and players dating to when he started in 1952. I played and coached at the University of Alabama, a school whose history i nc lu d e s B e a r Br y a nt . C o a c h McK issick won nearly t w ice as ma ny ga mes as Coach Br ya nt.

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comprehend.”

Swinney goes on to remember what specifically McKissick did for him as he began as Clemson’s head coach.

“The commitment he has made to the sport and to that community is unprecedented. One thing that stands out to me took place my fi rst year as a head coach at Clemson.

I was asked to speak at the state high school clinic and as I started my talk I noticed Coach McKissick sitt ing on t he front row tak ing notes. Here he was over 80 years old and he was still setting a great example. H is presence told me that you can never stop improving, never stop striving to get better, and never be satisfied with your past accomplishments.”

W hen asked about his replacement, McK issick said he would like to see his grandson take over the head coaching position, as he is currently Summerville High School’s offensive coordinator, but ultimately McKissick will remain out of the decision.

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The misty breezes by the library help students cool off when the fountain is filled.

HEATWAVEPAGE1 limit their time outdoors over the next couple of days.

During heat waves like this, many often need to remember to drink plenty of water as well as minimizing the time they spend outside in direct sunlight.

“It’s funny because I never thought about carrying water around with me back home, but on campus on days like this, its almost a requirement.” said Williams. “Honestly, without it, going to classes would be brutal.”

More towa rd s t he end of t he week, the heat will ultimately die down, albeit by a couple degrees,

and forecasters have predicted some rainfall moving into the weekend.

“I feel like most of the time it’s either really hot down here or really wet.”said fourt h-year hospitalit y management student Scott Bartlett.

I wish that the weather could just like go on vacation for 2 weeks and leave us with a cool 80 and a nice breeze. After four years here though, I’m starting to think that just doesn’t happen.”

Unfor t u nately, t here a re a lso predictions for 100 degree weather again next week, which would mean that effectively, the heat has arrived and it’s here to stay.

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‘Jurassic Park’ collection devours box office

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“Jurassic World” surpassed “The Avengers” by becoming the biggest box office opener of all time. In just the first week, Jurassic World generated about $208.8 million.

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In the 1990s, when many of us were waddling around in diapers and bibs, Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton released an idea that visual technology just wasn’t ready for. He unleashed a daunting beast from the

Jurassic period: the dinosaur.

Ju r a s s ic Pa rk ble w up i n t he t heaters and V HS players, entrancing our generation with the idea of a theme park where tourist could trek around in jeeps to explore a world full of genetically modified dinosaurs. As children, this world seemed so amazing, as we jealously

watched as the main characters got swallowed up one by one.

We didn’t care if the computergenerated images were sub-par; we just wanted our free, electric plastic dinosaur cups from McDonalds with our dino-sized meal.

But last week, we were presented with the opportunity to explore the

‘Orange is the New Black:’ What did they do wrong

Jurassic period as adults, without our parents guiding us into theaters to watch Jurassic Park and instead taking a seat with our 20-somethingyear-old friends to discover Jurassic World.

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Warhol’s artwork finds fame in the CMA Morgan Smith @MORETHANMORGAN

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“Orange is the New Black” Season 3 was released hours ahead of schedule by Netflix for “Good Behavior.”

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After a long, lonely year without the erratic cast of unlikely prison mates, “Orange is the New Black” is finally back. This weekend, t housands t uned into Netf lix to watch the long awaited third season of the show.

Socia l med ia blew up w it h instant critiques. Many were not pleased with the plot, saying there “wasn’t enough conflict” or that “it’s turning into ‘The L-word’ behind bars.” However, others were excited to finally learn the backstories of not only several of the inmates, but of many of the correctional officers as well.

Although viewers fi nd out how some of the supporting characters ended up getting incarcerated, many of us couldn’t remember how some of season one and two’s main characters got locked up.

So for your convenience, we have created a reference guide rem i nd i ng v iewers of all t he characters whose incarceration stories were revealed in season one and two. You’re welcome.

Piper Chapman In college, Piper’s girlfriend, A le x , a n i nt er n at ion a l d r u g smuggler, conv inces Piper to traffic a suitcase of $50,000 of drug money to Belgium. Piper was charged for this at age 32 when Alex rats her out.

Alex Vause Alex is Piper’s college girlfriend, an international drug smuggler and also a heroin addict. She was arrested and charged for the same crime as Piper.

Ti f f a ny “ Pen n sat uck y ” Dogget Pennsatucky is a homophobic, Jesus-loving meth head, who was arrested for shooting a nurse at an abortion clinic when the woman made a snooty remark about her five abortions. She later forms a fan group of Christian pro-life supporters who think she shot the woman for being pro-choice.

Tasha “Taystee” Jefferson Taystee is a 16-year-old orphan who was taken under the wing of Vee, also a Litchfield inmate.

Taystee was the drug operations accountant and was later arrested.

She eventually gets out, meets

back up wit h Vee and is later arrested again.

Dayanara “Daya” Diaz Daya is in jail for drug related reasons just like her mot her, Aleida, who is also locked up in Litchfield Penitentiary. W hile incarcerated, she gets pregnant by a correctional officer.

Gloria Mendoza Gloria’s backstory revealed that she and her son were victims of domestic abuse, and she began to save up money to get out of the situation by starting a food stamp scam but was arrested before she could escape.

Lorna Morello Muccio Lorna is a beautiful, psychotic and racist stalker. She used to run a mail scam ordering things online but calling the company saying they never arrived. She runs into a man named Christopher, who she begins to fantasize about and later stalk. He gets a restraining order and she later attempts to kill both Christopher and his girlfriend by putting homemade explosives underneath their car.

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A particularly d ist i ng u ished ar t ist once said “My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.” http:// w w w. b r a i n y q u o t e . com/quotes/quotes/a/ a nd y w a rhol141226 . ht m l T h at a r t i st i s Andy Warhol, and as of June 12th, Columbia has the opportunity to see some of Warhol’s greatest, most focuses pic t u r e s of f a mou s people. ht t p://w w w. columbiamuseum. o r g /e x h i b it i o n s / marilyn-mao The Columbia Museum of A rt opened its new exhibit “ Fr o m M a r i l y n t o

Mao: A ndy Warhol’s Famous Faces on June 1 2t h . T h e e x h i b i t e x p lo r e s A m e r ic a’s fascination with fame and fortune through s o m e o f Wa r h o l ’s best-k now n pop ar t portraits of celebrities. h t t p : / / w w w . columbiamuseum. o r g /e x h i b it i o n s / marilyn-mao Fr om M a r i l y n t o Mao focuses on 55 of Warhol’s most famous portraits of pop art’s most inf luent ial celebrities. Warhol’s message w it h t h is collection of art was to display A merica’s obsession with the idea of fame and to show the mass adoration for SEEWARHOLPAGE5

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Andy Warhol is most popular for his unique style in pop art and found his fame by painting celebrities.

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JURASSICPAGE4 of t he Ju r a s sic Pa rk Collection, shows us a world 22 years after the fatal failure of a hopeful tourist attraction.

I n t h is mov ie, t he pa rk has t h r ived for quite some time. But over time the park loses its attraction, and the great T-Rex is no longer wowing audiences. So they shoot to create a hybrid dinosaur t hat will bring people back to t he isla nd of I sla Nubar. But of course,

things go sour.

The movie released spectacular CGI a nd creat u res t hat mo r e r e a l i s t ic t h a n a ny d i no s au r mov ie b ef ore it . Howe ver, the outstanding g r aph ic s weren’t great enough to mask t he terrible plot and unfavorable characters.

Fortunately, the movie was so abundant with act ion scenes you seem to forget the plot altogether.

Given Jurassic P a r k ’s h i s t o r y a n d

OITNBPAGE4 Janae Watson Janae was a talented track star who was arrested after getting involved in a romance with a gang member and helping him rob a check-cashing establishment.

Yoga Jones Yoga, a sweet, calm woman, was arrested for shooting an 8-year-old child who she thought was a deer trying to eat her crop of marijuana in California.

Brook Soso Soso is a young, half-white half-Asian girl and is arrested for protesting.

Sister Jane Ingalls Sister Jane, the former nun, was arrested for chaining herself to a flagpole at a nuclear weapons base during a political protest.

Suzanne “Crazy Eyes� Warren Crazy Eyes is a lesbian prisoner with a violent history. She was adopted by a white family and never developed at the same rate as other children. Although

WARHOLPAGE4 famous people just because they are famous. http:// www.columbiamuseum.org/exhibitions/marilyn-mao The exhibition celebrates the Mao Suite, an anonymous gift to the CMA of the complete set of Warhol’s 10 silkscreens from 1972 of Mao Zedong, the chairman of the Chinese communist party. http:// www.columbiamuseum.org/exhibitions/marilyn-mao A long w it h Mao a nd Mar ily n Mon roe, t he exhibition includes the faces of Judy Garland, Muhammad Ali, Sigmund Freud, Kareem AbdulJabbar, Mick Jagger, and Superman, as well as two selfportraits by Warhol. http://www.columbiamuseum. org/exhibitions/marilyn-mao Andy Warhol is an essential influence to the pop art movement and one of the best-known 20th-century American artists. He used many types of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking,

hy pe, Jurassic World unsurprising surpassed The Avengers as t he biggest box of f ice opener of all time with $208.8 million.

Millennials and all following generations continue to tweet, rant and rave about Jurassic World, expressing their loves, likes, and hates.

However, t here is no doubt that the fourth addition to the Jurassic Pa rk Col lec t ion was anything but a success.

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Jurassic World takes place 22 years after Jurassic Park fatally failed to open in 1993.

there are hints that her arrest derived from manic behavior and that she is going to be in prison for a very long time, we are not sure what led to Crazy Eye’s arrest.

Galina “Red� Reznikov Red originally ran the prison’s kitchen and a smuggling operation within prison walls. She and her husband ran a restaurant and were also involved in the Russian mafia and she was incarcerated under organized crime charges.

There are many other characters, such as Cindy Hayes and Poussey Washington, who are not listed here but played huge roles in seasons one, two and three. We didn’t list them because their arrest stories have not been told. Some of their stories are revealed in season three, but we wouldn’t want to spoil it for you.

The new season of “Orange is the New Black� and the stories of the inmates and Litchfield staff can be found on Netflix.

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photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. His work is iconic for artwork created in the 60’s and 70’s. The From Marilyn to Mao collection displays some of his most famous pieces and and gives accurate representations of his style. http://www. biography.com/people/andy-warhol-9523875 The exhibition is filled with of related evening and daytime programs for adults and families. On Saturday’s at 1:00 p.m. the CMA offers a guided tour of the exhibit. The exhibit will be in the CMA until September 13th and admission for students is only $5 with a student ID. http://www.columbiamuseum.org/exhibitions/ marilyn-mao Additional information on prices, hours and other museum events can be found at http://www. columbiamuseum.org/

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Orwell’s still applicable: Moral relativism enables dictators Ben I write this, in part, because absolutely nothing in comparison Everyone who has Crawford read 1984 k nows, I am terrified that left-leaning to institutionalized racism and in an abstract way, what it is like to live in North Korea.

Big Br ot her.

Doublethink.

T hought c r i me.

From these concepts, one can out line Nort h Korea’s relationship to its citizen-slaves — its paranoia, propaganda, torture rooms and, perhaps most important ly, its attitude towards history.

So how is it, then, that George Orwell, an English novelist, could be so right about a country that he himself would never visit?

I a sk t h is to combat — or “problematize,” as the strange new lingo has it — the notion that one’s abilit y to approach truth rests solely on one’s experiences, much less one’s national identity. Orwell did not need to be a North Korean to understand the intricacies of how dictators become emperors and emperors become gods.

It is true: identity has power.

Books would not be worth reading if they didn’t stem from where the author came from or what they had gone through. One of the reasons that it’s worth being interested in other people is that you might learn something new about yourself.

But the truth — like 1984’s vision — is a general human truth, and it has implications for every culture. How many regimes in how many different places have created a Big Brother? Have destroyed the past in order to create it? The 20th century showed us that any society is capable of becoming one of Orwell’s horror-nations.

This one author never directly experienced that kind of horror, but was able to triangulate its existence by never compromising his mental faculties.

college students have forgotten what Orwell teaches us. The tone I get from serious people is that the U.S. spent all it’s cultural currency in the Iraq war, and no longer has the right to discuss what goes on outside of its borders.

These people believe that female genital mutilation is an “African problem,” as if borders and culture somehow lessen that horror. In an attempt to exonerate faith, they say that ISIS is primarily a political organization, not a religious one as if they were mutually exclusive ideas. They scoff at those who have spoken seriously against modern totalitarianism, even those who have experienced it first-hand.

People l i ke Ay ya n H i rsi A l i, Azar Nafisi and Salman Rushdie, none of whom originate from the U.S., are told that while their opinions are perhaps correct, they are creating a narrative that will only serve to oppress an injured minority, and therefore should keep quiet.

There is something masochistic about this tendency — it is an at tempt to seem u rba ne a nd mu lt ic u lt u r a l by ref u si ng to entertain certain ideas or truths if they concern a sufficiently foreign culture.

B u t t h e r e ’s a l s o a s e c r e t narcissism to it as well. By labeling all events outside of one’s culture as “out-of-bounds” one can restrict the conversation to one’s own culture. One can then feel justified in wasting valuable time debating “manspreading” when unthinkable forms of human suffering goes on just a few hours away by plane.

I am not saying that criticisms of the minutiae of U.S. culture are a total waste of one’s time. There are discussions to be had here.

But they’re a lot like the spurts of violence and vandalism after Freddie Grey — sad, certainly, but

murder. Female genital mutilation is worse than “manspreading,” and deserves to be treated as such.

Priorities still have their place.

Cultural relativism turns away from the world instead of facing it. It is narcissism disguised as acceptance. It is totalitarian in its desire to restrict debate, and publ ic l y s h a me (on Tw it t er, u s u a l ly) a nyone who t a l k s about t he world a s g roup of interconnected human beings, instead of a homogenous place of isolated cultures who, under no circumstances, should be able to discuss each the other’s faults.

It doesn’t particularly matter that many of those who openly accept cult ural relat iv ism are feminists and other social activists, and therefore they are the kind of people I tend to agree with on principle. Even people with the right opinions can come to those opinions easily and disingenuously (and, therefore, cannot defend them properly when attacked).

The old saying stands: it is not what one thinks, but how one thinks that really matters.

Orwell himself had dealt with, and sincerely hated, the English pro-Stalin incarnations of this type: “They take their cookery from Paris and opinions from Moscow . . . It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual wou ld feel more a sha med of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box.”

In this, Orwell gives us another truth: in every culture significantly advanced, there will always be those who resent the place in which they live. They are, unconsciously, the tools of dictators who, at the very least, have strength in their own convictions.

L a s t Tue s d ay, T he D a i l y G amecock repor ted t hat t he USC ad m i n i s t r at io n i s considering the adoption of a “social contract” in an effort to encourage students to “follow the laws of our land,” due to the recent trend by some students to brea k t he law s of S out h Ca rol i na. I f t he Un iver sit y expects students to follow the law, it should fi rst do the same.

Perhaps some students have gathered from the university’s own example that disagreement w it h t he law f rees one f rom t he d ut y t o ob e y. Ju s t l a s t year, t he u niversit y publicly ref used to fol low a Sout h

Carolina law requ iring it to teach the principles of the U.S. Constitution because it viewed t hat law as “archaic,” and in need of “modernization.” This t y pe of reason ing is f lawed.

Many people can identify some law they would prefer not to obey, and often for good reason.

But as Dr. K ing reminded us more than 50 years ago in his Letter from Birmingham Jail, we all have both a moral and legal responsibility to obey “just laws” — a category he defi ned as any duly enacted law not “out of harmony with the moral law.”

The university appears to have lost touch with the philosophical

t radit ion exemplif ied by Dr. King, choosing to disobey laws when it fi nds them inconvenient as opposed to unjust, and relying on voluntary “social contracts” as a basis for enforcing duties t hat ex ist i ndependent of individual agreement. It should n o t b e s u r p r i s e d w h e n it s students do the same thing.

The universit y’s new found enthusiasm for the laws of South Carolina ought to be applauded, but it s me s sage to st udent s might have more resonance if t he universit y would lead by example.

Second-year English and Russian student

—Jameson Broggi, University of South Carolina Alum

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Orientation corny, forgettable, effective ISSUE In hindsight, orientation is an easily forgettable experience.

OUR STANCE What students should remember isn’t the experience, but what they learned from it.

Most students leave Colu mbia for t he hottest months of the yea r, but for m a ny incoming freshmen, t he s u m mer ’s Ne w Student Orientation is t he f irst t ime they’ve ever set foot on campus.

Upperclassmen generally remember their orientation for the corny ice breakers they played and not much else. At such a large school w it h so many orientation sessions, chances are slim that you’ll meet your f ut ure best f r iend at a one-day event. It’s even less likely that you’ll come to any life changing

revelations from the brief time you get to speak one-on-one with your orientation leader.

B u t t h a t ’s O K .

Fo r n e w s t u d e n t s (e s p e c i a l l y out- ofstaters) this is a time of tremendous change and upheaval. Passing along important informat ion to new students in a manner that is relatively low key is perfectly fine.

W hat’s important is t hat t hey remember t he message, not necessarily the way in which it was relayed.

For a l l of t he st udents pick ing up t h i s a r t ic le f rom a newsstand du ring you r or ient at ion, play the silly games and try to meet new people. But above all, pay attention to the i n f o r m at io n b e i n g presented to you; this will be your home for t he nex t few yea rs, and it’ll be a lot more f u n (a nd a lot le s s stressful) if you know your way around the house.

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46 Cold hard cash 47 Cubes in a bowl 49 Folk icon Seeger 51 Spiteful, as gossip 53 Antitheft noisemakers 58 Bracelet site 60 Cry heard today, and a hint to the ends of the answers to starred clues 63 Deep trepidation 64 Not hypothetical 65 “Not only that ...”

66 Mayo holders 67 Beaver-built barriers 68 Conserve energy

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RECRUITSPAGE10 Military Academy by averaging 20 points and 12 rebounds an outing.

Doby will play what Martin likes to call a “combo forward,” which means Martin thinks he is quick enough to defend perimeter players while holding his own in the paint. Doby will provide some energy to the team with offensive rebounds, put backs and maybe some high-fl ying alleyoops. His shooting and passing need some work, but that should come with time.

Jamall Gregory — G, 6-4, 180 lbs (Washington, D.C.) SCHEPERPAGE10 but I’m just excited to have the win.”

Scheper deserved the win with all that she accomplished this season.

The Saint Lucia native won all five of her regular season meets as well as an SEC championship where she hit a lifetime best of 1.96 meters. That 1.96 is a school record for women’s high jump, breaking her previous school record by .01 meter. A 1.96 would have also placed her in the top nine at the 2012 London Olympic games.

Track and field’s head coach Curtis Fr ye agrees that Scheper’s win is justified by the year she was having.

NCAAPAGE10 receive it?

I love college football a nd b a s k e t b a l l , a nd I ’m a v ig or ou s defender of college athletics. There are thousands of positive stories of how playing these sports and getting scholarships have changed lives, and I think, on the whole, athletics are a good enterprise for schools. But much like FIFA, the NCA A needs

One thing that all the reports are saying is that Gregory is as athletic as the next guy. The big guard can fly high with dunks and is quick off his fi rst step, yet there is a reason he is only a three-star prospect by all the outlets: he doesn’t shoot well.

With a one-sided offensive attack like his, he will be hard-pressed to fi nd playing time. However, Martin says he has the capabilities of being an elite defender, so he might fi nd some t i me play i ng lockdow n-D against t he opponent’s of fensive weapon.

“ I t ’s a c u l m i n a t i o n o f w h a t shou ld happen when you have a great support system and a great subject,” Frye said. “She came here at 16 years old, she’s a model student and a model person. That’s what should happen … I’m thrilled, it couldn’t have happened to a better role model.”

Scheper will most likely compete at t he USATF Outdoor Championships later in June and hopefully earn a spot on the 2015 I A A F ( International A ssociation of At h let ic s Feder at ion) World Championship team.

serious top-down change of culture.

Schools need a new attitude, one that puts learning before wins.

This problem of putting athletics before academics is not a new one. But the action by the SACSCOS has put schools on notice: you can’t continue to c a l l you r sel f a n out st a nd i ng academic institution while failing to educate those you admit. You can’t have your cookie cake and eat it too.

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Men’s basketball gains 3 new recruits

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Despite beating two eventual March Madness teams and a good start to the 2015 season, Frank Martin’s team turned in a mediocre record of 17-16 with a 6-12 SEC record.

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Frank Martin announced Tuesday three new players will join his team next season.

Along with Columbia, South Carolina native P.J. Dozier and New Jersey’s Chris Silva, Eric Cobb, Raymond Doby a nd Ja ma l l Gregor y w i l l

join South Carolina’s 20152016 team. The departures of sophomore Demet r ius Henr y and freshman Shamiek Sheppard due to transfers and senior Tyrone Joh n son f rom el ig ibi l it y opened up three spaces for Martin’s team.

E r i c C o b b — F/C , 6-10, 275 lbs ( Jacksonville,

Florida) Ranked as a four-star by ESPN and a three-star by 247sports.com and Rivals. com, Cobb is a big-bodied post player who works well with his back to the basket.

Even though he won’t make an immediate impact because of how raw his game is (he only averaged 13 points and

nine rebounds a game his senior year of high school), Cobb is a viable replacement for Henry. From watching t h e c o u p le o f h i g h l i g ht videos, Cobb seems to bully his opponent on the block.

Add a couple of months of technique work and he might be a solid steal from Martin’s old team, Kansas State.

Raymond Doby — G/F, 6 -7, 230 lb s (St . L o u i s , Missouri) A f t e r a n a v e r a g e 10 .7 points per game at Montrose C h r i s t i a n S c ho ol , Dob y upp ed t he a nte when he spent a post-graduate year at St. John’s Northwestern SEERECRUITSPAGE9

High jumper Scheper earns NCAA gold

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UNC has been suspect of acedemic fraud since 2012 when Julius Pepper’s transcript came out.

Column: NCAA needs to be gutted, reorganized Ben Turner @THEGAMECOCK

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Scheper has wanted to win the NCAA championship in high jump since she first began jumping and finally did with a 1.90 meter.

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After missing her mark the previous t wo years, senior Jeannelle Scheper has fi nally done it: She is t he NCA A champion in women’s high jump.

T he g old me d a l d id n’t c o m e e a s i l y, t h o u g h .

Scheper endured some pesky competition on Saturday in Eugene, Oregon, especially f r o m K a n s a s St at e’s K imberly Williamson.

S c hep er a nd W i l l ia m son were the only two jumpers to clear 1.90 meters while Georgia’s Leontia Kallenou and K ansas States’s A kela

Jones both failed to get over the bar. Both Scheper and Williamson failed on their f irst t wo at tempt s at 1.90 meters, but Scheper didn’t even have to complete that height as Williamson missed her third jump.

Scheper has cleared t he 1.93 ma rk i n t he past , so not being able to clear it on Saturday perturbed her a bit.

“Today was a little bit of a rough day,” Scheper said after the win. “I was a little bit annoyed that I didn’t clear that last bar, cause that’s a bar I’ve cleared many times.

I knew I could have done it ...

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Last week, the University of North Carolina’s flagship campus in Chapel Hill was put on academic probation.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ (SACSCOS), the same body that accredits USC, stopped just short of yanking their accreditation.

Somet hing is seriously wrong here, and it’s not just an insanely long acronym.

A 20 -year cheat ing scandal was just uncovered at a major U.S. university.

Administrators and facult y were complicit in the cheating, and former s t u d e nt s a r e s u i n g t h e u n iver sit y for da m age s.

Ot her college presidents are calling for UNC to lose their accreditation.

So why is this not getting more news coverage?

College athletics, the fake classes, infl ated grades and s h a m d e p a r t m e nt w e r e desig ned to ma ke su re athletes, especially football and basketball players, were eligble to play.

It’s an all-too-familiar s t o r y. T h e N C A A i s c u r r e nt l y i nve s t ig at i n g as many as 20 schools for academic fraud related to athletics. Earlier this year, it was alleged a member of the Syracuse basketball staff was posing as players i n e m a i l s t o pr of e s s or s so t hey wouldn’t have to do work. A nd last year, a CNN investigation found that some athletes at major universit ies could barely read.

W h i le t he NC A A sit s around debating issues like whether or not University of South Carolina can ice cook ie c a ke s it g ive s to recr uits, players in t heir

spor t s a re cheat i ng a nd being cheated.

You may think — where’s the harm? Many of t hese same st udents who str uggle academically go on to professional careers, making millions of dollars.

But as a n ESPN specia l found, many professional at h letes go ba n k r upt , some because they have no other sk ills and were not taught basic economics or mathematics. And many of them don’t go pro at all due to injury or circumstance, leaving them with a piece of paper rather than skills or knowledge.

Ostensibly, these players are compensated through t he u se of schola r sh ips.

But the U NC case raises a n i m p o r t a nt q u e s t i o n — what’s the value of an e d u c a t i o n i f y o u d o n’t SEENCAAPAGE9