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University, Student Government work to improve mental health awareness on campus

Meghan Crum @megcrum24 Last year, after a graduate student’s death, USC students experienced a burst in work towards mental health and wellness awareness on campus. Student Government held its first ever Stigma Free USC week, and Student Health Services began developing new initiatives and projects geared towards mental health.

This year, the second Stigma Free USC week marks the introduction of new resources for students from Student Health Services, such as a 24-hour crisis line, a new podcast where students have the opportunity to share stories about their mental health experiences and a new therapy puppy. The center has also worked on promoting general wellness for students, so they do not only come to the Center for Health and Wellbeing when they are sick.

“We think about mental health the same way we do as physical health,” said associate director of mental health initiatives April Scott. “What are some things that we could do every day or regularly so that we are maintaining our most optimal health? So that we don’t only think about mental health when something is wrong.”

The counseling center has increased its staff to help accommodate a growing student population and encourages students to come in for anything ILLUSTRATION // JAYSON JEFFERS they need. A staff of 33 faculty members work to

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ensure that students who come in for triage appointments to seek advice on how to help a friend, personal matters or just to walk in and speak to someone about stress can get any help they may need.

“Students don’t have to wait if they can’t,” said director of counseling and psychiatry Warrenetta Mann. “Students that need to be seen right away can always be seen right away.”

Mann emphasized the impact coming in to see a counselor could have, in not just their immediate problem but on their entire life.

“Your education as a college student is much broader than just what you learn in the classroom. It’s really being prepared to be a contributing member of society, a citizen of the world and learning how to be a good consumer of medical resources, health resources,” Mann said. “For students who may be living with a mental health condition ... it’s really helpful to speak with someone who has some expertise in that area to help you understand how you SEE HEALTH PAGE 3

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Georgetown County floods after Florence Approximately 8,000 families evacuated Georgetown County after officials issued a flood warning. Hurricane Florence hit North Carolina on Sept. 14, but the flood waters are now making their way down to the coastal regions of South Carolina. With Hurricane Matthew’s severe flooding still in mind, Georgetown residents prepared their houses to survive f looding that is expected to exceed the water levels of Matthew.

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Department of Dance grieves after loss of piano accompanist Hannah Dear @HannahCDear The depar t ment of da nce continues to heal with help from the Student Counseling Center after piano accompanist Adam Cullum passed away on Sept. 4.

F e l l o w a c c o m p a n i s t Yo n i e Penev reflected on his relationship with Cullum and his enthusiasm t h at i n s p i r e d s t u d e nt s . Pe n e v a nd Cu llu m worked toget her as piano accompanists in the dance depar t ment for t h ree years a nd became friends through their shared love of music.

“He was a ver y good friend of mine and he really impacted this community in such a positive way

‘cause he brought what he really knew how to do and loved how to do to the dancers,” Penev said. “I especially could tell how much he loved doing this.”

Cullum was described as a crucial part of the dance community at USC with a loving spirit and talent for musical expression. He played for dance combinations primarily in ballet and pointe classes where firstyear through fourth-year students experienced what they said was a contagious joy.

“He was a genuinely kind person,” said third-year dance performance and choreography student Amelia Hou l i ha n. “He was t he t y pe of person that would see you walking past a locked door and would open the door for you so you didn’t have to

walk all the way around the building.

He was the kind of person that came into class with a passion for his music and a passion for playing for dancers who also had a passion for dance.”

Cullum’s death deeply affected st udent s as h is loss lef t a whole i n bot h t he phy sic a l cla s se s he participated in and in the community as a whole.

“It was really hard, because that morning afterwards he was supposed to play for our contemporary class, so there was definitely an emptiness to the st udio when we walked in and we were standing there, waiting f or t he mu s ic t o s t a r t f or ou r combination to start and there was no music,” Houlihan said.

I n honor of Cullu m’s passing, the dance department hosted a day where people could celebrate his life and process the situation as a community. The Counseling Center also provided administration with tools to help students work through their grief.

“For me it was a little bit different because I was having a hard time seeing how profoundly impacted the students were and worried about them, “ said interim director of the dance program Stephanie Milling.

“So as far as my own feelings about it I was sort of putting those aside to help them and to talk to all the other faculty about how we needed to be here for our community.”

Now that the initial grieving has

passed and the dance department has returned to regular classes, students and faculty alike are looking to find ways to remember Cullum and his impact on the community while also supporting each other in whatever difficulties they may be facing.

“We’ve always been there for one another, but I think there’s more of a sensitivity to the people that you’re seeing on a daily basis, especially the musicians that come in and play for us,” Houlihan said. “I definitely have a greater appreciation for those who are playing for us and no matter what kind of class it is, they are an essential part of our class and we’re incredibly lucky to have them.”

Penev was proud of the resilience the department showed and believes the legacy of Adam Cullum will live on through their support for each other and their passion for dance.

“It’s a longer period of recovery t han you t hink, but I t hink t hat we’re all a little closer because of it. For me, when I play now it feels like a more intimate experience,” Penev said. “A nd we just support e ac h ot her more a nd a re more considerate of each other now I feel like. It definitely feels like a bond has been created through everybody.”

Editor’s note: If you or someone you k now is st r uggling, call t he National Suicide Prevention Hotline 1-800-273-8255.

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How does USC support mental health?

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One of the first things they told us about mental health in orientation was that you get 10 free sessions which I think is great. So if you need help, you have the resources and you don’t have to worry about the cost or things like that, and I’ve been in touch with the people in the [student health center] and they usually respond very quickly and are very supportive.

-Lily Gasnell, First-year undeclared student

I def i n it el y t h i n k t h at t he University of South Carolina cares a lot more about its students than most other big universities and I know they have a lot of resources for that k ind of thing, like the student health center .

-Justin Wright, first-year biology student

I’m rea l ly glad t hat t hey ’re hav i ng t he ment a l week so it provides awareness for students here. Because before, I didn’t really know much to it so I would like to go to that to figure out more. .

-Priya Patel, First-year public health student

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manage those kinds of things.”

Stigma Free enters second year Stigma Free USC week is in full swing in its second year for Student G over n me nt , a nd S e c r e t a r y of Health and Wellness and fourth-year psychology student Katie Cohen put together a full week of events and campaigns to raise awareness for mental health conditions and reduce the stigma of these conditions on campus.

“There is a stigma around mental health and people are afraid to talk about it. People feel like they’re going to be judged, and for that reason they don’t seek the help they need, and that’s a problem,” said Cohen.

“Everyone should feel like they can get the help they need without feeling judgement and without feeling like there’s something keeping them from the resources they need.”

The week’s events will center on a theme of body positivity and selfconfidence, with actitivies focused on helping students learn how to eat healthy and deal with life’s stresses.

“The purpose is really to k ind of teach people how to take care of themselves ... in small ways, and then also to get people to talk about mental health,” Cohen said.

Stigma Free USC week will have its own campaign on social media, showcasing videos everyday where students will share their personal stories and struggles with mental health. They’ll also use the hashtag #StigmaFreeUSC to give students not in the videos the opportunity to share their own stories.

“We are trying to show that mental health ... affects everyone, but it affects different groups differently,” Cohen said.

Cohen hopes that this week’s events will get students thinking about mental health, and even have a personal impact on students as they learn more about what these conditions mean.

“Last year when we did this ... someone came up to me and said, ‘I went to counseling because of that

week. I realized that I had depression, and I realized that I needed to go to counseling,’” Cohen said.

Gamecock Recovery expands Originally a student-led initiative, Gamecock Recovery has evolved into an organization and haven for students in recovery seeking community. This year, the university hired a full-time faculty member to help expand the organization and ensure that students in recovery can still achieve academic s uc c e s s a nd h ave a f u n c ol lege experience without alcohol and other drugs.

Lark in Cu m m ings, t he new Gamecock Recovery Coordinator, has beg un Gamecock Recover y’s f irst ever celebration of National Recovery Month, and held events for the organization throughout all of September. On Thursday, Sept. 27, the organization will kick off a monthly speaker series on recovery.

“It’s exciting. There’s been a huge amount of support across campus and in the community for Gamecock Recovery, and so that’s exciting. It’s exciting to be able to reach out to students and to work with students,” Cummings said. “I am just really delighted and thrilled to be able to work in such a creative environment and to be able to provide those resources to students.”

Gamecock Recovery holds weekly recover y s upp or t meet i ng s a nd social hours afterward to help create community for its members.

“You come into a room and you find other people who have a similar experience to you, who know what you’re going through,” said substance abu se prevent ion a nd educat ion director Aimee Hourigan. “Whether that’s grief over loss, or whether that’s because you’ve got a family member struggling with addiction, or because you’re trying to be a student in recovery and have a true college experience, that opportunity to find other people who get it is just an amazing feeling.”

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CAROLINA CULTURE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: “A Simple Favor” A n na Kendrick and Blake Lively star in this drama about a mysterious disappearance in a small t o w n . S l i g h t h u m o r, an intriguing plot, and stellar acting makes this the perfect movie to wind dow n a nd watch af ter exams.

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: “iridescence” by Brockhampton After only being in the mu sic scene for a few y e a r s , Br o c k h a mpt o n r ele a s e d t he i r f ou r t h album “iridescence,” just four months after kicking out fou nd i ng member Ameer Vann due to abuse allegat ions. The t rack contains 15 tracks and is 48 minutes long.

SONG OF THE WEEK: “New Patek” by Lil Uzi Vert O n S ept . 18 , L i l Uz i released “New Patek ,” the first single from his upcoming album “Eternal Atake.” The single gives the classic Lil Uzi sound that’s full of character and energy.

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EVENTS OF THE WEEK: West Side Story W h at : T he C olu mbia To w n T h e a t r e ’s production of West Side stor y w ill cont inue its second week of shows from Sept. 27-30 Jam Room Music Festival Fe at u r i n g mu lt ip le musicia ns, Colu mbia’s premier music festival will take place on September 29 at the corner of Hampton and Main Streets.

USC Symphony Orchestra Concert: Opening Night at the Symphony USC’s premier orchestra is performing their first concert of the season on Tuesday, Sept. 25 at 7:30 p.m. The concert is free for USC st udents with ID if tickets are picked up from the Koger Center befe 5 p.m. Tuesday.

ZACH MCKINLEY // THE GAMECOCK This year’s festival included self-guided tours at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, live dance perfomances and tons of authentic food.

Columbia Greek Festival celebrates 32nd year Taylor Washington @_taydelrey

Every September for the past 32 years, Columbia has been gifted a slice of Greek culture and tradition by way of the annual Greek Festival. This year from Sept. 20 to 23, parishioners at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral brought the rich history of Ancient Greece to the local level in a communal experience.

At first glance, there’s a lot to take in as it’s a festival of epic proportions that, according to the church’s website, boasts “the third greatest attendance of all Columbia events.”

Outside, the smell of fresh gyros and souvlaki lingered from grills and the sound of traditional music transported visitors to a Columbia that’s been trapped in time. On the inside of the church g y m nasium v isitors could purchase pastries, browse for items at the Greek grocery store and watch live dance performances. Donned in homemade costumes, the children and teenagers of the church participated in Greek folk dancing, where they perform approximately every 15 minutes.

Elizabeth Chiarel and her family first moved to Columbia nine years ago. Raised Greek Ort hodox, she immediately found her home at the church not to soon after her arrival into town. Since then, she has volunteered at the festival gift shop where she currently resides as one of three chairpersons.

“I believe that the Greek Orthodox

Church and being Greek and being Greek Orthodox ... goes together. So here at our festival we not only showcase culture by showing our dancing ... we also have our church next door which is what really started the whole festival,” Chiarel said.

Proceeds from the festival are mostly donated to local charities. Following Columbia’s flood in 2015, $10,000 was donated to Harvest Hope. Last year alone, the church raised $60,000 for other Columbia charities. Additionally two T-shirt quilts, made from T-shirts from previous festivals were auctioned off for charity.

For over 32 years, parishioner and facult y member of USC’s College of Pharmacy, Dr. Stan Papajohn has designed the gift shop’s t-shirts. Among this year’s t-shirt designs were Carolina and Clemson editions.

In addition to the food and dancing, inside of the church itself visitors were granted access to self-guided tours where they could watch the painters finish the iconography of the Cathedral’s ceilings.

Father Michael Platanis has been head of the parish since 2008 and has since then overseen renovations of the cathedral. After commissioning artists from Athens, Greece in 2011, the painters have been diligently working in an 18-week period over the course of eight years. They are currently in phase four of the project and expect to unveil the finished product on Sept. 27.

George Kordis, the head iconographer, is a professor of iconography at the

Universit y of At hens. One of his assistants Kanellos Kanellopoulos, is a former Greek champion cyclist who participated in the 1984 Olympics and currently holds the Guinness world record for the longest human powered flight.

“Being Western people ... everything we do is really based in Ancient Greece, in ancient Hellenic ideals of democracy, philosophy, science, and our language, English language, is 80 percent Greek, so what happens when people come here is they connect to something that’s really their own and that’s significant for me,” Platanis said.

First-year engineering student Leah Atkinson is a Columbia native and has been aware of the festival for years.

She and two of her friends walked from campus and all agreed that they were most excited to taste the food.

“You don’t want to be so caught up in your food that you don’t want to try different cultures or foods,” Atkinson said.

Although the festival is well-known for fel low sh ip a nd f u n, Plat a n is recognizes the Church’s important role as one of the central threads that hold the community together.

“We’re the ones who welcome people into the city of Columbia,” Platanis said.

“You turn right off of Elmwood onto Main Street and there you find us on your left and you see an icon of Christ ... This is a very crucial role that this church and that this festival by extension performs or fulfills in this town.”

Local festival unites Cola Genna Contino @gennac07 Wa l k i ng t h rough t he entrance to City Roots Farm on Saturday, music lovers were greeted with smiling faces and music play ing from three different stages.

Residents of Columbia all joined together to enjoy food, d r i n k a nd mu sic.

Proceeds from the festival benefited Sexual Trauma Services of the Midlands, a local, private nonprofit organization.

To t h e l e f t o f t h e ent r a nce, v isitor s were

GENNA CONTINO // THE GAMECOCK The Magpie Salute headlined the Glass Half Full Fest Saturday night.

immersed in sounds f r o m v a r io u s b a nd s a s attendees freely danced and socialized with each other.

To the right were various vendors that sold anything from festival clothes and handmade jewelry to baked goods.

One t able was hosted

by A shley Ferg uson and Bra ndon Colema n. The pair heard about the music festival from a friend and

said they were immediately interested in at tending.

They had a full set up of various gems, driftwood, jewelry and dream catchers.

Ferguson and Coleman are motivated by “the love for digging for gems and just nat ure,” and source 90 percent of their gems and minerals from South Carolina.

“The things that Mother Nature gives us, we just put

‘em all together and try to collaborate ‘em together,” Ferguson said.

Throughout the day at t he fest iva l, 14 musica l artists performed. The farm had three large stages set up, but still maintained that local feel with its barn and string light decorations.

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Hispanic Heritage celebrations begin Emily Chavez @emchavez Hundreds of students gathered to get a taste of a variety of Latin cultures with the kickoff to Hispanic Heritage Month on Greene Street Friday afternoon. Featuring food, music, visual art and dance, the “Sabor Latino” event let students experience various Latin American cultures.

Held from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, Hispanic Heritage Month celebrates generations of Hispanic Americans and their deep histor y and culture that is intert wined with the A merican experience. The Latin American Student Organization on USC’s campus hosts the celebratory kickoff annually. Leaders of LASO think that exposure to diversity is important to understanding what it means to be Latin American.

Hispanic students only make up 4 percent of the undergraduate enrollment at USC. Despite that small number, many students recognize the value in celebrating the food, music and art of Latin students’ culture.

“We mostly just demonstrate what our Latin culture has to offer,” said LASO vice president and fourth-year biological sciences student Daniela Becerra. “We want the community to know that we are here on campus ... though we may not be the largest population on campus.”

In the current political climate, she thinks that it is even more important to offer events like this to students on campus.

“We’re not just what the media is portraying,” Becerra said.

“We don’t want to be seen in a negative way.”

First-year elementary education student Camila Trujillo is grateful that this event allowed her to reconnect with her Latin heritage.

“I felt a little separated from my culture because I was born in Colombia but I left at eight months,” Trujillo said. “I’m trying to get more into my culture in college.”

Non-Hispanic students also recognized the importance of exploring a culture that is different from one’s own.

“I feel like out of all the histories, we rarely talk about Latin American history,” said Abby Legrand, a first-year undecided student . “It’s a huge part of our country, a huge portion of the population is Hispanic ... it’s a part of our heritage, might as well acknowledge it and honor it.”

Becerra feels like students still have a lot of work to do in terms of embracing Latin American heritage on campus.

“I feel like we do have a responsibility,” Becerra said. “I feel like most people don’t take the initiative to get to know the culture.”

KAYLEN TOMLIN // THE GAMECOCK The Hispanic Heritage Month kick-off on Greene Street was hosted by the Latin American Student Organization. The event brought together students to celebrate diversity through food and art.

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SARA YANG// THE GAMECOCK Gamecocks quarterback Jake Bentley (19) threw 261 of the 534 yards South Carolina recorded against the Vanderbilt Commodores on Saturday in Nashville, Tenn.

Bentley, Dowdle capitalize on offense for South Carolina Nick Papadimas @ngpaps

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he South Carolina Gamecocks (2-1, 1-1 SEC) offense shined in the their second SEC matchup of the 2018 season, notching their 10th consecutive win over the Vanderbilt Commodores.

Headed into the match-up, South Carolina had not played since Sept. 8, when they fell to highly-ranked Georgia at home. As a result of Hurricane Florence hitting the Carolinas, the Gamecocks were unable to face the Marshall Thundering Herd on Sep. 15.

With the Gamecocks up 20-14 at the half, Mon Denson and Ty’Son Williams added two touchdowns in the second half of action to propel South Carolina to a 37-14 victory.

Kicker Parker White added three field goals to the score as well.

Sout h Carolina’s offense dominated Vanderbilt’s, tacking on 534 yards, while the Commodores recorded 284. South Carolina also led the Commodores in average gained yards per play, with South Carolina at 7.0 and Vanderbilt at 3.9. Quarterback Jake Bentley provided 261 of the 534 Gamecock yards. He also threw for a touchdown.

“We saw on film, we had the opportunity to really use tempo against them,” Bentley said. “That’s what we did coming out of the second half. That was our plan going going into it and the linemen did a great job with getting set. It really all starts with them ... however fast we’re going depends on them ... it was a great job by everyone, to just execute and going fast is just something we practice all the time. I think being able to execute that fast is going to be big for us going forward.”

R ico Dowdle reached a season high

in rushing yards, leading all Gamecocks with 112. As the Gamecocks and Dowdle capped their surprise week off, it seemed as if practice made perfect for the junior running-back.

“We had a lot of push, as you could see,” Dowdle said. “As we’ve seen other teams, we thought we can run the ball on them. That’s something that we harped on. We struggled in the run game a few weeks ago, said we were going to run the ball, and we was gonna make sure we ran it today, that’s something that we did in practice and prepared for.”

South Carolina will face the No. 17 Kentucky Wildcats on Saturday at Kroger Field in Lexington, Kentucky with kick-off set for 7:30 p.m. The Wildcats are 4-0 this season, with their most recent win being a 28-7 rout of No. 23 Mississippi State. Next weekend’s matchup marks the first time since 2007 in which the Gamecocks will face an undefeated and ranked Wildcats team.

Gamecocks face undefeated Wildcats Josh German @jgerms20 As the Gamecocks head into week five of the 2018 season, they travel on the road to face a familiar opponent that has been a thorn in their sides for quite some time: the Kentucky Wildcats.

Having lost the last four attempts against the Wildcats, South Carolina has yet to find a game plan that will render them victorious over their SEC east rivals, and this year’s Kentucky team looks to be one of the stronger u nits t hey have f ielded in recent memory.

In the first four games this year, Kentucky has already had an historic season for their program. After ending a 31-game losing streak against the

Florida G ators, t he defeated M ississippi State to start t he season off 2-0 in SEC play for the first time since 1977. It’s easy to see that this Mark Stoops-led Wildcats team is a different team from the years past.

That spells t rouble for t he G a mecock s, a s t he y haven’t been able to capitalize on past VICTORIA RICHMAN // THE GAMECOCK Kentucky teams with less talent and far less momentum than they A.J. Turner ran for 12 yards last season against Kentucky on Sept. 16, 2017. have now. Now facing a hot team, at home, with a 7:30 p.m. kickoff on SEC Network, the threat of W i t h o u t t a k i n g a w a y f r o m edition of the game featured three extending an already embarrassing anything Kentucky has done over missed field goals and a missed extra losing streak looms over the heads of the last four years in this game, it point attempt. the Gamecock program. Kentucky is safe to say that the Gamecocks SEE KENTUCKY will have all reasons to believe they haven’t put their best product on continue to have the number of their the field when they’ve played the PAGE 9 division rivals.

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McGrane and Bauer continue to compete for position Shelby Beckler @sbeckler13 Two of South Carolina men’s soccer players have waiting in the wings to develop their talent in pursuit of a starting role at goalie. Which one will secure the role permanently remains to be seen.

For senior goalkeeper Ian McGrane, his time came in his first career start against the Georgetown Hoyas, making a total of seven saves in that game. Since then, McGrane has been a key component of the Gamecocks’ rebuilding year.

“Ian had his opportunity in the early part of the year and has done great,” said head coach Mark Berson.

During McGrane’s first start, Berson was impressed with how he managed the game and controlled the back line.

McGrane has made 22 saves for South Carolina in the goal and has helped paved the way for sophomore Justin Bauer to earn some time on the field during the second half of the Wofford game.

Berson said this was an opportune time for South Carolina to play both of its keepers.

“This wasn’t a situation where we’re really unhappy with Ian at all, we just have two really good goal keepers right now,” he said.

Despite notching just one save this season, Bauer has bounced back from a minor injury from summer league and finally has gotten the strength to dominate in the net.

Berson said his team needed to keep Bauer “sharp,” and as a result, he was able to get some minutes in goal and did “great” in Berson’s eyes.

Both McGrane and Bauer have the opportunity to gain or keep a starting role for the Gamecocks.

The position was up for grabs once former starter Will Plye graduated.

“So going forward we will be whoever we feel like is in the best position to get the shutout and to help us will be in there and the other two guys both have great futures ahead of them and we have great confidence in them,” Berson said. “Really happy with all our goal keepers, Tyler Kettering’s done a great job training them, they are all ready to go.”

COREY ZUCCO // THE GAMECOCK

Senior goalkeeper Ian McGrane kicked a goal kick during the Wofford game after securing a 5-0 win and paving the way for sophomore Justin Bauer to make his firt career start.

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

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SIMEON ROBERTS // THE GAMECOCK SouthCaorlina volleyball team secures a 2-0 SEC record for the first time in a decade.

Volleyball boasts 2-0 conference record

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Sout h Ca rol i na’s volleyball season is of f to a hot s t a r t , ma rk i ng t he f i rst time in a decade that the Gamecocks have begun SEC play with a record of 2-0.

A f ter sweeping M ississippi St ate this past Friday and defeating LSU 3-0, S out h C a r ol i n a i s on a six-win streak.

H e a d c o a c h To m Mendoza gave credit to his team.

“Obviously it was a g reat weekend f o r u s ,” M e n d o z a said. “[Two wins] is obv iou sly what we were hoping for and I have to credit our group for preparing wel l for t he match a nd t hen com i ng

out and finding ways to be resilient even when t hings didn’t go as we planned.”

The G a mecock s’ open i ng weekend of SEC pl ay c a me to a close af ter t h e y d e f e at e d t h e Tigers, taking three of t he last four meetings. The game highlighted t he effect of key players such as junior Claire Edwards, who t ied for a career-h igh w it h t hree solo blocks.

“I really like t he way we re sp onded and fought, especially at t he end of t h at second set when t h at s e t w a s k i n d of up for grabs and I t hought t he way we responded really changed the outcome of the match and put us up 2- 0 and gave

Cleaning up the sloppy mistakes is the basis behind winning any game, and the Gamecocks have failed to do so recently. This part of the game looms even larger after South Carolina had some careless mistakes that led to a few easily avoidable penalties in their last matchup against Vanderbilt.

The most significant key to this game is stopping Kentucky’s junior running back, Benny Snell Jr., a task the Gamecocks couldn’t complete last year in Columbia. Snell is coming off a monster game that propelled the Wildcats to beat No. 14 Mississippi State, where he racked up 25 rushing attempts for 165 yards and accounted for all four of Kentucky’s touchdowns.

Snell has had 125 plus yards in three of the four games Kentucky has played this year and is the workhorse that produces the majority of the Wildcats’ offense. Limiting his impact will go

a long way in limiting the damage Kentucky is able to do as a whole.

Offensively, the Gamecocks should be able to use their plethora of weapons to attack the Kentucky defense from all angles on the field. Sophomore receiver Shi Smith had his number called often against Vanderbilt and could be in for another big game Saturday night in Lexington.

Despite t he mundane score t he Gamecocks put up last year in this matchup, Jake Bentley had a decent game from a statistical standpoint, throwing for over 300 yards and two touchdowns against the Kentuck y defense. Moving the ball wasn’t the problem, capitalizing on those drives was.

The Gamecocks will have no choice but to do that this year, and if they don’t, they risk falling to 0-5 against Kentucky in the last five years and picking up a second SEC loss on the year.

us some nice rhythm going into the third set,” Mendoza said.

Mendoza won 24 matches last season i n 2 017, w h i c h i s t he second-most in S o u t h C a r o l i n a ’s Division I era.

“Tom is a teacher a nd st rateg ist who has been successf ul in his coaching career recruiting and d e v e lo p i n g y o u n g volleyball players to become outstanding s t u d e nt- at h le t e s ,” said athletic director R a y Ta n n e r t o Gamecock sOnline.

“I’m am [sic] looking forward to the impact that Coach Mendoza w ill have on our volleyball program.”

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Letter to the editor: Prison suicide overlooked but important problem Thomas Hansen Fourth-year psychology student The recent prison strikes have made prescient certain aspects of the U.S. prison system that need changing but there is an important, often ignored, issue in the U.S. prisons that also needs to be addressed: the prison suicide rate.

After years of gradual decline, the U.S. prison suicide rate began to rise again for the first time in a number of years and, since 2013, has been rising steadily. And while prison is not supposed to be an enjoyable experience, certainly, even if you believe prisoners should be punished rather than rehabilitated, we can agree that the conditions of prison should not be so bad that anyone is more inclined to kill themselves.

I think it will help if we first delve into some facts about the U.S. prison suicide rate.

State prison suicide rates are much worse than federal prisons (though federal prison suicide rates are still nothing to boast about) and some are as high as 45 per 100,000 inmates. Compared to the general population rate of 13 per 100,000, it is a more than significant difference. Suicide in prison is the third leading cause of death while in the general population it is the tenth — even less common than deaths from archaic bogeyman’s like pneumonia and influenza.

And in 2014, of the 3,927 deaths in all U.S. prisons, 274 were from suicide. That’s a death-by-suicide rate of 7 percent. If the general population of the U.S. had a death-by-suicide rate of 7 percent, almost 190,000 people would be killing themselves each year — 5.3 percent higher than the current rate.

A skeptic at this point would say that the statistics are skewed, that maybe prisoners are already predisposed to commit suicide at a higher rate than the average person, but Occam’s Razor would say that the simplest answer to determining the cause of the disparity between prison suicide rates and general population suicide rates is that prison — put bluntly — sucks.

The daily challenges of a prisoner are Sisyphean in nature. The pernicious aspect of prison that might as well be pushing a boulder up a hill endlessly. But I would argue that for prisoners, it’s almost as if the

boulder gets heavier each day. As physical stress aggregates and wears down the body, as they become inured to anxiety and as lack of meaning begins to layer upon itself day-after-day like sediment, the boulder becomes slightly bigger.

Eventually, the day comes when the prisoner tries to push the boulder, but can only hold it in place, forcing them to either accept the position they find themselves in and, if they can, hold the boulder or admit to themselves that they are never going to receive the help they need to continue living and let go, letting it roll over them, ending both their life and their situation.

What makes the prison suicide rate so alarming is that most prisoners have committed entirely nonviolent crimes and in no sense of the word ‘justice’ deserve to carry out their sentence in a setting that might cause them to become suicidal.

But unfort unately for non-v iolent or pett y offenders, the degree of one’s crime does not make one exempt from the realities of U.S. prison-life. Not the stultifying structure — the cruel fact that your desires do not matter and that you will do what you are told, when you are told. Not from hearing cries of fulmination in the night. Not from long hours of boredom, isolation and regret-laden contemplation.

Not from post-release societal malaise when (if) you get out. And of course, no one is exempt from all the other daily experiences of prison that overtime, can compress one’s will to live like a car compactor, until the person that was first sentenced, like the car itself, is no longer recognizable.

There is an analogy made by David Foster Wallace in his book “Infinite Jest” that illustrates both his own perspicacity of this issue and the point I’m trying to make. Wallace equates the experience of the suicidal person, or the “so called ‘psychotically depressed’ person”, to someone trapped in a burning high-rise.

And I quote: “Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling ... is still just as great as it would be for you or me [but] ...

The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames … It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames.”

It is the quotidian experience of prison that acts as the flames because deciding to commit suicide is not a spurious inclination but rather an amalgamation, an accumulative despair stemming from how they are

treated, and then an ensuing acceptance that they can no longer justify not killing themselves. It is the very conditions of prison that cause people to be 5.3% more likely to kill themselves and it is our unwillingness to change these conditions that perpetuate it.

When I think of the problem of prison suicide, it seems more akin to something like global warming than other social welfare issues because in both cases, we recognize the problem, we verifiably know that something needs to be done, we know exactly what must be done to fix the problem, and yet we either start too late, do too little, or sit in never-ending games of legislative thumb war.

It is issues like these, the ones that come about, or are at least preserved, by lack of action, that make me think of a line from Richard Linklater’s 2001 prodigious film, “Waking Life”. In the scene I’m speaking of, the protagonist and an older gentleman discuss why history is not a story of progress “but rather this endless and futile addition of zeroes”.

The older man goes on to say that this raises the real question of why we never advance, of why we have not reached a utopia yet, ultimately asking the protagonist whether he thinks this inability to progress comes from one of two fundamental human attributes: fear or laziness.

Is it fear of upsetting the status quo – of changing the way things have been done in favor of an untested method – that perpetuates problems such as the prison suicide rate, or is it the desire for complacent comfortableness rather than the hard, but overall beneficial, work of improving society that keeps these problems from being resolved?

So, I will end by asking you, should we keep pretending that we are giving people justice when we are in fact only blindly following the law or should we own up to our reluctance to change things for the better? The former option is simply ignoring the oncoming train that the trend of prison suicide is indicative of, but keeping steady, hoping with naive hope that it might miss us, while the latter option acknowledges that when we set up any bureaucratic system, it needs constant and concerted refinement and that we have neglected to do so with our prisons.

Should be a simple decision, yes?

Age limit for presidency may be necessary requirement in future elections One thing that the presidenc y of Donald Tr u m p h a s shown is that it’s imperative that our president is of Joseph Will Fourth-year economics sound mind.

President student Tr u mp’s behavior over the course of his presidency has been downright bizarre at times, and his actions have raised serious questions over his mental fitness.

According to the incendiary book “Fire and Fury,” Trump’s aides have expressed serious concerns regarding t he ment a l c omp et enc y of t hei r president, with alleged fears that Trump is suffering from ailments such as dementia. These concerns were echoed

by Omarosa Manigault Newman’s recent book “Unhinged,” which, as its subtle title suggests, paints a portrait of Trump

as a man entirely unfit for the office he’s found himself in.

According to Omarosa, Trump has undergone a serious mental decline over the years. Supporters of the president will likely counter that these are ultimately unsubstantiated rumors emanating from biased sources attempting to sell books, and they’d be right. However, the threat of a president with dementia is a real concern that’s bigger than Trump.

Ronald Reagan was also suspected by some as having Alzheimer’s during his second term. His own son, Ron Reagan, has claimed that his father showed clear signs of cognitive decline during the course of his presidency. W hile his theory is by no means authoritative and has been contested by others close to Reagan, this is a scary thought.

Dementia and other age-related mental afflictions are terrible and terrifying diseases that erode basic cognitive capabilities, and no one who suffers from such diseases should ever be in a position of real power.

Like many people, I’ve seen the

corrosive effects of age-related mental afflictions firsthand, and the results are always heartbreaking. Seeing smart and successful people struggle to accomplish everyday tasks is never a pretty sight.

The existence of this disease does raise the legitimate issue of whether or not there should be an upper bound on how old a president can be.

We already have a rather arbitrary lower bound on the age of the president, so why not set an upper age limit as well?

While age gives experience and maturity (usually, anyway), advanced age carries with it an increased risk of cognitive decline. 1 in 6 people over the age of 80 suffer from some form of dementia, and even those who won’t develop such a pernicious disease will still likely have some form of cognitive decline.

If Trump’s erratic behavior can be medically attributed to dementia, it would be pretty significant proof that the dangers associated with having an elderly president are considerable. At the age of 70, Trump is the oldest person ever to be inaugurated. Joe Biden and

Bernie Sanders are both much older than that, and are both possibly running for president in 2020. While they are both clearly of sound mind now they will inevitably begin to decline as they age further.

If one of them were to win, we’d have a president in his 80s by the end of his first term. At an age when many seriously consider giving up driving or looking into assisted living, one of those men would be tasked with leading a country. The enormous amount of stress that the position entails would likely be disastrous for their mental state, as long term stress is believed to contribute to cognitive decline.

Of course there are plenty of elderly people above the age of 80 who are still sharp and are more than capable of being in a position of power. However, given the clear risks involved, I believe that a serious consideration of an upper age limit for the presidency is not beyond the pale.

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