Another week and another set of papers, all with varying degrees of taste, style, importance and relevance. If ever a paper could divide opinions, it is The Daily Gamecock – all because it does the whole media thing.
A small number of students are reporting on what’s going on, and everyone thinks they are the top story, or alternately not the top story. You take your pick.
But that’s why the job is vital and the newspaper ticks along – normal students work hard every day to report on sports, the city, politics or student organizations. Events are covered and are stories told with passion, exhaustion and effort.
Working at the paper is awesome, even if everyone once in a while complains about it.
Being an alum of The Daily Gamecock, I miss the nights in the newsroom following whatever game is on, trying to figure out the point of columns or arguing about fashion (not really). Students here are hardworking and smart, good friends and comrades in a never-ending fight against the oxford comma. From an hour editing to two hours getting coffee to survive the later evening, each group of workers complaining about everyone else and finally getting the paper sent, the sense of accomplishment is immense.
You never realize how much you relied upon that comradeship and effort until it is no longer relevant.
People complain about The Daily Gamecock, yet it is read by tens of thousands of people around the world. It is just part of the fabric of the university, and USC would be unthinkable without it. Students, faculty and parents would have little to complain about if they didn’t know the things that the hardworking kids at the paper find out about.
Long live The Daily Gamecock, and may it attract the same amount of divided opinion forevermore.
-- Aaron Brazier
Former editor in chief (Summer 2006) and viewpoints editor
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