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Clemson graduate student government vice president-elect Aury Kangelos addresses student body

Clemson graduate student government vice president-elect Aury Kangelos addresses student body

Aury Kangelos, GSG 2017-2018 vice president March 13, 2017

What a time to be a Tiger! I want to begin by expressing my deepest gratitude for being granted the opportunity to serve as the Graduate Student Government (GSG) vice president for the upcoming academic...

Clemson graduate student government president-elect Courtney Allen addresses student body

Clemson graduate student government president-elect Courtney Allen addresses student body

Courtney Allen, 2017-2018 GSG president March 13, 2017

Greetings, Tigers! I’m Courtney Allen, your Graduate Student Government (GSG) president-elect for the 2017-2018 school year, and I’m excited and passionate to represent the graduate student...

Letter to the Editor: The dangers of not denouncing radical speech

Joshua S. Kelley, B.A. Philosophy/ B.F.A. Visual Arts, ’13 February 27, 2017

Just less than a year ago hundreds of students of this university, most from minority groups on campus, had to sit on the steps of Sikes for more than a week before earning an audience with the campus...

The hypocrisy of America’s response to the possibility of Russian hacking

Basil Babushka, Contributor February 27, 2017

This election cycle American voters worried that a foreign power was possibly attempting to influence the direction America’s government was heading. If the potential Russian hacks are, as Senator...

OPINION: An introspective look at the ‘Fast of Silence’

Todd May, Professor of Philosophy February 20, 2017

As one of the three fasters who stood in front of Sikes Hall recently, I was asked a number of questions.  Many of them were interesting and have led me to write this more formal reflection on fasting...

OPINION: An alternative view on university’s response to Trump exec. order

Mark Hinds, Contributor February 20, 2017

Last week on the steps of Sikes Hall, three professors sat fasting, in protest. These professors expressed their discontent towards the university’s “ineffectiveness” to condemn President...

OPINION: Overtime regulation causes anxiety in business community

Parker Tilley, Outlook Editor February 20, 2017

In the last quarter of 2016, President Barack Obama took an unprecedented amount of action as he attempted to sign and implement hundreds of new regulations before leaving office in January of the following...

Standing up for what a university is, does

Jonathan Beecher Field, Associate Professor February 7, 2017

Dear Clemson family- I am writing to share a story about my family with the Clemson family. I have been teaching English at Clemson since 2004. My late father, Daniel Field, was a Russian history professor...

Clemson University’s ‘disdain’ for freedom of expression

PJ Price, Contributor February 6, 2017

When President Donald Trump attacked the Islamic faith by banning all refugees and all visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries, he assaulted a pillar of America’s constitutionally guaranteed...

Federal spending must yield results

Parker Tilley, Outlook Editor February 6, 2017

While it’s not the largest departmental budget in Washington, approximately $73 billion was appropriated to the United States Department of Education last calendar year. With more than 5,000 employees...

Letter to the editor: Why Clemson must resist, reject complacency in Trump’s muslim ban

Ian Anderson, Clemson community member February 6, 2017

One of the phrases I hear thrown around a lot on campus is the “Clemson Family,” and a question I've asked myself, as I know so many others have, is “What makes the ‘Clemson Family?’”...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a prominent civil rights leader, fought for racial equality throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Staff editorial: Black History Month

February 6, 2017

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Dr. King is undoubtedly one of the more notable figures in American history,...

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