UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
VOL. 110, NO. 05 ● SINCE 1908
MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2018
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Gamecocks get revenge against Mizzou in heated 64-54 win Shelby Beckler @SBECKLER13
No. 9/7 South Carolina fought through a competitive game against No. 11 Missouri team Sunday night, ultimately getting revenge and
securing the 64-54 win. The start of the game set the tone for the Gamecocks as they looked to gain the quick momentum needed to progress. Although it wasn’t the cleanest game, head coach Dawn St a ley is st i l l happy w it h t he
outcome. “I’m just happy to get the win ... and be healthy,” Staley said. The competitiveness of both teams soon reached a point of hostility that resulted in a fight and caused two Missouri players to get
ejected. Despite the tension, South Carolina did not back down. Even though the environment became very threatening for the Gamecocks, composure became their friend. SEEMIZZOUPAGE8 Sarah Hinckley / THE DAILY GAMECOCK
After suffering a tough loss to the Tigers earlier this month, No. 9/7 South Carolina battled through No. 11 Missouri to get their revenge and secure another SEC victory.
Food ordering app ‘Tapingo’ comes to USC campus Meghan Crum @THEGAMECOCK
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Student embraces Nigerian culture in American life Mike Woodel @GETHISDOGONETOO
I f S e n . L i nd s e y G r a h a m’s memories of President Trump’s comments during an immigration deal discussion are accurate, Ngozi Chukwueke is not what the White House has in mind when picturing the results of African immigration to the United States. A s e c o n d -y e a r h o s p it a l it y management student, Chukwueke grew up in Georgia. Her father works as a nurse at a VA hospital in Greater Atlanta while her mother is fi nishing a psychiatry dissertation at Columbia Universit y. Bot h immigrated to the United States from Nigeria to attend medical school. A nd both, Chuk w ueke says, are instrumental in her success at school. “My parents just really instilled in me that it was important to do really well at whatever it was I was trying to do,” Chukwueke said. “It’s not, like, inherent pressure, but they are very, very insistent that I do my best at school.” Reporting earlier this month on t he educat ion of Nigerian Americans, the Houston Chronicle pulled data from a 2006 survey conducted by the Census Bureau. The survey found that 37 percent of Nigerian Americans held bachelor’s degrees, while 17 percent held master’s degrees and 4 percent held doctorates. Comparatively, about
19 percent of white A mericans surveyed held bachelor’s degrees and only 1 percent held doctorates. Tyler Cowen of Bloomberg echoed this in a Jan. 12 editorial, citing a Migration Policy Institute article that showed 41.7 percent of African-born immigrants to the United States held a bachelor’s deg ree or h igher i n 20 09. I n comparison, 28.1 percent of nativeborn Americans and 26.8 percent of all foreign-born Americans held a bachelor’s or more at the time. Chukwueke began in Gamecock Gateway before transferring to USC’s Columbia campus. Though having grown up in a predominantly white town and describing USC as “more of that,” Chukwueke says she has seen good promotion of African culture through the Pan-African Students Association. “ I t ’ s b e e n r e a l l y n i c e ,” Chukwueke said. “It’s really fun to see … people engaging in black culture in general on campus.” The status of Africans in the United States re-entered the public eye when The Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump used the phrase “shithole countries” to describe Haiti, El Salvador and African nations. The Post reported that the president hoped to see more immigration from Norway and Asia instead. The Post’s report was confirmed by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), who attended the Thursday Oval Office meeting in which the president
reportedly made the comment. Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) told The Post and Courier that he was told by fellow Sen. Lindsey Graham the report was “basically accurate.” Sen s. Tom C ot ton ( R-A R) and Dav id Perdue ( R-GA), in at tenda nce w it h D u rbi n a nd Graham, remembered the President using the word “shithouse” instead. House or hole, Chukwueke isn’t surprised such a word could come from the president’s lips. “Honestly, the way that this ad m i n ist rat ion has presented itself to America and to the world, nothing is surprising me anymore,” C hu k w ueke sa id. “ I k new it probably had something to do with where my family is from, but I wasn’t outraged about it because there’s no time to be outraged anymore. Action is more important. Awareness is more important.” But regardless of sentiment from Washington or anywhere else, she is determined to show what she, and other Africans, and other children of Africans, can do. “Something that [Africans] talk to their kids about so much is going into a career that can build and support a family for a long time to come,” Chukwueke said. “I just want kids that look like me and that are from the same area as me and have family in Nigeria and just Africa in general that you can do the same things that people over here are doing.”
A new semester at Sout h Carolina has brou ght m a ny ne w things to Columbia’s campus: new students, new opportunities and now, Tapingo. This f l a m i n g o -r h y m i n g m o b i le a p p a l l o w s st udent s to place orders for pickup in dining halls and other c a mpu s e ater ie s i n advance, saving both time and energ y for students as they skip the line. “ We k now you’re busy,” t he Carolina Food Co. said about the app. “Order from t he palm of you r hand.” Sporting the c at c hph r a s e “ Wa it l e s s . L i v e m o r e ,” Ta p i n g o w o r k s t o a l low st udent s to spend less time wait ing in line, and more t ime meet i ng new people, studying and hanging out with friends. In fact, the app can be connected to the CarolinaCard, and students can pay for food t hrough the app using CarolinaCash or their meal plan.
Students can register their CarolinaCard in Tapi n g o u s i n g t he GE T mobile app, which allows students access to their meal plans without swiping their card. Over 60 universities across t he U.S. use Tapingo on campus to accommodate their students, and USC’s i mple me nt at io n of it o p e n s up ac c e s s to food on any part of ca mpu s w it h i n seconds. It g ives students a chance to d iversif y t hei r d iet and t r y new din ing opt ion s on c a mpu s instantly. “The app was really eff icient,” f irst-year computer science student Adam Lewis s a id . “ It wo u ld b e rea l ly ef f ic ient if more people got onto t he app and started usi ng it , because it wou ld ex ped ite t he p r o c e s s of g e t t i n g food sometimes and make the lines a lot shorter.” Tapi ngo cont a i ns 17 dining options on c a m p u s , i n c lu d i n g the new Starbucks in SEEFOODPAGE2
Courtesty of Meghan Crum