Geoff Gilson, Contributor Archives

Should conspiracy theories be taken seriously?

Geoff Gilson, Contributor • April 3, 2019

Your immediate response is probably no, but what if you are the conspiracy theory?You wake up one morning to discover that the senior partner of your small law firm has committed suicide, that $7.5 million...

Are millennials more combative?

Geoff Gilson, Contributor • April 2, 2019

The immediate impression one has of Clemson’s students is that they are both more combative and competitive than previous generations and also are more anxious. Are the two traits connected? All...

Opinion: Conflict of interest for Clemson President?

Geoff Gilson, Contributor • April 1, 2019

Does the president of Clemson University have a potential conflict of interest if his family owns the land on which future off-campus student accommodations are going to be built? The facts, as reported...

Fearful guy- Discovering anxiety issues

Geoff Gilson, Contributor • March 19, 2019

I believe I am the second-oldest freshman within the Clemson family. I am a 62-year old, disabled, dual British-American, disadvantaged, low-income senior citizen, and yet, I made it into the Clemson...

Do students feel safe at Clemson?

Geoff Gilson, Contributor • March 17, 2019

I wrote recently on the subject of CU 1000. And the stats about sexual victimization on campus. I’m not entirely sure the stats tell the whole story. It may be worse. A while ago, I spoke with a...

What is Socialism?

Geoff Gilson, Contributor • March 16, 2019

With what promises to be the most competitive Democratic Presidential Primary in decades already getting quite steamy, the buzzword of the moment is ‘socialism.’ But I’m not entirely...

What on Earth is an alpha male?

Geoff Gilson, Contributor • March 11, 2019

Time to get blunt. The concept of ‘alpha male’ is silly, but it exists, and we are pretty much all of us responsible for it. I may have mentioned this before, but I‘m a bit of an oddity...

Opinion: Should student athletes be paid?

Geoff Gilson, Contributor • March 6, 2019

When student athletes break the rules and accept payment, whose fault is it, theirs or the idiotic system’s?Clemson has a football team that has been to the National Championship three out of the...

Clemson: free market or command economy?

Geoff Gilson, Contributor • March 4, 2019

No, no, no, no. Bear with me. I wouldn’t dream of dumping a boring article on you. But, I’m sitting here. Mind meandering. And I thought I’d share. Here’s the thing. We’re...

Letter to the editor: Calhoun Honors College should not be renamed

Geoff Gilson, Contributor • March 3, 2019

I am a dedicated modern liberal, yet I disagree strongly with the petition to remove the name of Calhoun from the Clemson Honors College. We do absolutely nothing to improve diversity and inclusiveness...

Staff are Clemson family, too

Geoff Gilson, Contributor • February 10, 2019

I spent the last twelve years cooking for a hot bar buffet in a grocery co-op. Before that, I was a lawyer. I left the corporate fast track to focus on my creative interests (writing a book, composing...

Is CU 1000 a waste of time?

Geoff Gilson, Contributor • February 5, 2019

Hands up. Who thought CU 1000 was really useful? Be honest. C’mon, I’m pretty sure that most of us took the view that a course which was basically all about Clemson, Title IX and Library Sources,...

Drive me crazy, or what?

Geoff Gilson, Contributor • February 3, 2019

Holy AxleGrease. Does anyone actually know the cost of wheel alignment these days? I don’t live on campus. I room with friends in Seneca. I don’t do claustrophobia well. And those dorm rooms?...