Teaching the Basics: Right and Wrong

By Chaquita Williams
 
                “What can I do to help?” she asked during the Depression of the Thirties, the civil rights movement of the Sixties and the desegregation of the Seventies.
                Thelma Vivian Grant Richardson, 82, has spent a lifetime trying to answer her own question.
                 For Richardson, the answer came through years of preparation [...]

Dying Promises

By: Sara O’Lena

Finally, I have a few minutes with my mom, just me and her. Well… me, her, and the night-shift nurse constantly walking in and out of the hospital room, checking her oxygen level, her blood pressure, her temperature, changing her IV every half an hour as it runs out of pain meds.
My [...]

Define Feminism …

By: Lauren Bach
 
“Which one are you? A slut? Or a lesbian?”
That was the first question on a guy’s mind when he met a SVA girl. I wore the SVA uniform – white blouse, green plaid pleated skirt, knee-high socks – and by the end of my four years, I knew the reputation that came with [...]

Heavy Soles

By Chaquita Williams
                He bought me those shoes. The shoes were a gift.
                “These shoes will help you get your feet off the ground,” he said.  He bought me a new pair of round toe, patent leather, three-inch heels from Shoe Show for my special day.
That day was May 25, 2005, Graduation Day. He [...]

Where are the women in S.C.?

By Pia-Luisa Lenz
Women in South Carolina are special: They live in the only state in the nation with an all-male Senate. Despite the candidacies of U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, 2008 did not become an extraordinary election year for U.S. women. In South Carolina, for the first time in three decades, [...]

S.C. young adults imagine Obama’s presidency

By Maresa Whitehead
 
South Carolina young adults are thinking about President-Elect Barack Obama’s first term. 

Two weeks after Election Day, Americans have shifted their focus from guessing the election’s outcome to forecasting Obama’s presidency.  During the campaign, Obama made promises regarding various issues, as do all political candidates.  Now, as he begins his transition into the [...]

Facebook For President

By Cassey Williams
“Obama is my homeboy,” states a piece of flair, an application of random sayings and pictures that can be posted on a user’s profile page on Facebook, a social networking website used by over 50 million people, according to Wikipedia.
The amount of young people using these types of sites, between the ages of [...]

Why Did They Vote?

Voters stormed the polls in record numbers not seen in 100 years. What compelled some of South Carolina’s voters to brave the long lines and waits, as long as three or four hours for some?
Bobby Snuffer, 34, a deputy for the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department, said it’s important to vote because “this country has survived [...]

Republican Women Consider Sarah Palin

By Cassey Williams
Sixty percent of American women younger than 50 said they would not vote for Sarah Palin. Some of South Carolina’s young Republican women agree, while are still standing strong in their support of Palin.
In late October three young Republican women spoke about how they were feeling about the election. More specifically, they spoke [...]

Obama 2.0

This is a continuation of Election 2.0.
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President-Elect Barack Obama in particular utilized the Internet’s strengths – its global audience, its 24/7 immediacy, its ability to spread information virally – to help further his campaign.
“Obama capitalized on connecting to younger voters by using technology. McCain failed miserably at using technological tools,” said S.C. political blogger [...]