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THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2018
Beauty Redefined promotes body positivity
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World Night celebrates cultures
Meghan Crum
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Lindsay and Lexie Kite grew up competitively swimming. Since t he age of si x, t hese ident ical t w i n s l ived a nd breat hed for div ing into a pool and racing to t he ot her side. By t he t ime they got to high school, things changed. They began to notice bodily imperfections and didn’t want other people to see them in their bathing suits, with ever y insecurity on display when they weren’t in the water. So they quit. “All of a sudden our bodies were more important as ornaments than instruments,” Lexie Kite said. When they went to college, they took a journalism class centered around the perception of women in media and were inspired. They went on to receive their doctorates in media literacy and body image resilience, and they eventually established Beauty Redefined, a
Commander Major T.J. Geary spoke to USC faculty and staff on March 28.
Faculty, staff learn to respond to active shooter Hannah Dear
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C olu mbi ne , V i rg i n i a Te c h , Sandy Hook and Parkland are just a few of the places where an active shooter has needlessly massacred adults and children in the past 20 years. “We’ve had a couple high-profi le incidents, but really these have been going on for a long, long t ime, decades. Even t he larger scale incidents post-Columbine, these have been part of our reality,” operations bureau commander Maj. T.J. Geary said. “Virginia Tech hit home for a lot of universities
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because it was a university setting and a large victim count.” G ea r y ha s spent t he la st 10 years training civilians and law e n f o r c e m e nt of f ic e r s ho w t o respond to an active killer situation through USCPD. On Wednesday, a room in Thomas Cooper Library i n t h e C e n t e r f o r Te a c h i n g Excellence fi lled with faculty and staff eager to hear how they can be better prepared and possibly prevent another school shooting. “I t h ink preparedness is key whether it’s for a fi re or a weather emergenc y. I mea n if you ca n prepare them here, your odds of SEEGEARYPAGE4
Couple weds with help from USC Arunmani Phravorachith @THEGAMECOCK
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Five years ago, Chris Puffenbarger and Lauren Welch’s house burned down. After the disaster, the couple couldn’t afford to have a wedding. Years later, a hospitality and retail management class led by professor Annette Hoover is able to give the deserving couple the wedding they’ve waited so long for. “The fact that we were able to provide that for them obviously feels really good,” said fourth-year finance student Patrick Groves. This hospitalit y class does not follow the same structure as that of a traditional lecture class, according to second-year tourism management student Amy Grant. “It wasn’t your t ypical lecture class where you walk in and go over a PowerPoint. You know, kind of just learning things as you go,” she said. “At this point in the semester, we still have six weeks left. So it seems like we still have a lot more time, but I can guarantee you, most of my learning happened in the first half, just planning the wedding.” In the beginning of the spring semester, the students of the class had the opportunity to select a couple that they wanted to plan a wedding for. After a lengthy application process,
the class decided on Puffenbarger and Welch. The students of the class were divided into various committees to cover all of the aspects that went into putting together a wedding. Among the committees were a bridal com m it tee, g rooms com m it tee, photography committee, videography committee, reception and rehearsal d i n ner com m it tee a nd a f lora l committee. Communication among the various
committees played a key role in planning the event. For fourth-year interdisciplinary studies in hospitality and education student Kate Bennett, communicating was the most stressful part of the wedding. “ I t ’s c r i t i c a l t o m a k e s u r e everybody’s on the same page as you are, ‘cause sometimes even if you know exactly what’s gonna happen, not everybody sees it the same way you do,” said Bennett. SEEWEDPAGE3
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Students showcased their cultures through performance at World Night on March 27.
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The Russell House ballroom hosted 2018’s World Night, a celebration of the multicultural students of USC, on Tuesday. USC’s international students plan, run and perform the entire show, making it a time where the true diversity of the university is shown. St udent org a n izat ions l i ke t he Bangladesh Student Association and the Carolina K-Pop Dance Club showcased traditional and modern performances of singing and dancing. Guests were invited to try food from around the world, like baklava and lychee rice pudding, before sitting down to watch the performances. The night began with a musical performance, and then a f lag parade celebrating all of the countries represented that night. Jody Pritt, director of International Student Services, was excited to see what the students were showcasing and were proud of the work they had done. “It’s really just an opportunity for them to kind of showcase their different cultures and customs, but also I think the big key word here for World Night every year is that it’s a celebration,” Pritt said. The Darla Moore School of Business is home to a nationally ranked international business program, and students come from around the world to study at USC. Over 100 different countries are represented. Pritt thinks the international students bring a refreshing view to our campus. “USC is a place that is very international, and we have individuals, not only just students but staff, faculty from all over the world,” she said. “I think it’s just a really unique environment that we have on campus that some people who might be a little further away from the campus life don’t really realize that we have and it’s really what makes us special and a spotlight institution here in Columbia.”
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Lauren Welch and Chris Puffenbarger married on Sunday, March 25.
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