UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
VOL. 106, NO. 17 ● SINCE 1908
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
BRYSON REMOVED FROM OFFICE Tim Bryson, first black Fraternity Council President in USC history, removed from office in 19-5 vote Ben Crawford @BENLCRAWFORD
Tim Bryson, the first black Fraternity Council president in the school’s history, was officially impeached and removed from his position as Fraternity Council President Monday night. Only a two-thirds vote was necessary to impeach Bryson, but 19 fraternities voted for it and five voted against it which far surpassed the two-thirds requirement. The vote was conducted anonymously. Br y son was a cr ucia l f ig u re i n t he implementation of a five-day hold on formal recruitment for 13 fraternities, a move which Bryson said was for the health and
safety of potential new members, a decision which he defends. In an anonymous release, the original four presidents seeking his impeachment said that he had gone beyond the boundaries of his office in levying the hold. “The lack of leadership and transparency within the Fraternity Council has resulted in a divide within the communit y, and the University being viewed in a negative light (sic),” the press release read. “We feel that this could have entirely been avoided if Bryson and Withrow had followed due process and allowed Conduct Board to fulfill their responsibilities, prior to unnecessarily suspending eight fraternities.” Bryson believes that he would not have
been impeached if he was a member of an IFC fraternity, which are majority white. “However,” he continued “I also don’t think that an IFC president would have been courageous and made this decision ... I don’t believe race was the sole reason for my impeachment, but I don’t think we can excuse it from the conversation.” Daniel Glover, president of Alpha Phi A lpha, said that Bryson’s impeachment would bring up “quest ions” bet ween the Fraternity Council and members of multicultural fraternities. “I feel like everything in there is definitely going to open up some dialogue,” he said. SEEREMOVALPAGE3
No ‘dark shadow’ on the Horseshoe
Student clubs to urge voter registration Camille Doloughty @CAM_DOLOUGHTY
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Plans for an apartment complex near the Horseshoe should not cause any more controversy as the plans have been canceled.
Davis out for season Redshirt Junior guard Tiffany Davis tore her ACL and will miss the entirety of the 2015-2016 season, Gamecock Athletics announced Monday. Davis sustained the injury to her left knee in practice on Friday, but it was not conf irmed until Monday afternoon. The 5-foot-7 Houston native has not yet set a surgery date, but will consult with South Carolina Athletics Medical Director Dr. Jeffrey Guy in anticipation of the procedure. Davis has battled injuries as a Gamecock, missing all but three games of her true freshman season with a torn right ACL and missing four games last season due to various injuries. Davis was most productive t wo seasons ago as a redsh ir t freshman, seeing action in 32 games and starting seven. She has averaged 2.2 points in 9.4 minutes a game while hitting 38.3 percent of her shots from behind the arc. Davis was expected to back up senior Khadijah Sessions this season. — Compiled by Will Helms
Brittany Franceschina @BRITTA_FRAN
EdR , a housing d e v e l o p me nt compa ny, ha s announced its decision to forego building a housing facilit y on south Main Street. It was determined last week that after t wo months of discussion w it h le a d e r s f r o m the city of Columbia and the University of South Carolina, there was no way to make the project work
Executive Director hou s i n g de velop er of My Carolina f rom Memph is, A lumni Association announced its plans Jack Clay poole said to bu ild a 15-stor y the building was not student housing tower a good fit for the area on the corner of Main and College streets, near campus. “( T h e b u i l d i n g ) My Carolina Alumni in its init ial design Association launched m i s s e d t h e m a r k a petition and social for complement i ng m e d i a c a m p a i g n t he r ic h h i s tor y called ‘Save Ou r o f o u r c a m p u s Horseshoe’ in protest a n d s u r r o u n d i n g of the plan. “A s a l u m n i , w e c om mu n it y,” are grateful to EdR’s Claypoole said. When EdR, SEESHADOWPAGE2 t he n at io n a l s t u d e n t
SC native honored in state museum exhibit
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Many believe that students are not as involved in doing their civic duty as other demog r aph ic g roup s, but t hat many feel it is time for a change. That’s because Tuesday, Sept. 22 is National Voter Registration Day, a day that celebrates democracy across America and encourages people to register to vote. In order to ensure t hat as ma ny USC st udent s as possible register to vote, numerous st udent polit ical orga n izat ions and clubs will on Greene St. from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to help with the registration process. A coa l it ion of org a n izat ions such as the Feminist Collective, G a mecock s for Peace a nd t he College Democrats at USC have all devoted their time and involvement to work together to register the m a x i mu m a mou nt of st udent s possible during the allotted time. Th ird-year sociolog y a nd Russian major Cor y A lpert has organized the registration fair with the help of over 20 organizations and partnerships with the South Carolina Democratic Party and the South Carolina Republican Party. Alpert stated that the idea for the fair came from a conversation about the amount of students who don’t vote. “There are two or three times as many students as people that voted in the last City Council election and that’s something that we wanted to change,” Alpert said. “We really wanted to make sure that students were able to have their voices heard and that we were able to do that in a way that got as many students as possible.” Alpert stated that the size of the registration fair has grown largely in the past few weeks and he hopes this will help with student turnout. “Congressman Jim Clyburn and (University) President Pastides both said that they will be in attendance as well as both political parties; they started advertising for us on their social media pages,” Alpert said. “We’re growing exponentially as we go.” W hile A lpert and the organizations don’t have a set goal of the amount of students registered for t he day t hey want as many students as possible to register and encourage all students to come out.