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University of South Carolina Scholar Commons November 2017 2017 The aiD ly Gamecock, Thursday, November 30, 2017 University of South Carolina, Office oftude S nt Media Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/gamecock_2017_nov UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2017 VOL. 109, NO. 62 ● SINCE 1908 Gamecocks seeking magic in Orlando Allen Marcus Harter @ALLENMHARTER After notching a 2-0 victory over No. 16 Florida to send South Carolina to the College Cup for the fi rst time in program history, the Gamecocks will face their toughest challenge yet against Stanford. No. 1 Stanford (22-1-0) is currently on a 20-match win streak and has the best scoring offense in the nation with 86 goals on the season, averaging 3.74 goals and 25.1 shots per match. Along with the best offense, Stanford has one of the top defenses in the country. Stanford is third in the nation in goals against average, allowing .304 goals per match and only conceding seven goals all season. To beat Stanford, South Carolina will have to stop the freshman forward phenom Catarina Macario. While Macario is just a freshman, she has already racked up a fair share of awards. Macario has been named the Pac-12 Forward of the Year, Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, a semi-finalist for the Mac Hermann Trophy and espnW’s Soccer Player of the Year. She leads the nation with 47 points, and is tied for fourth in goals with 17 and tied for fi rst with 13 assists. Just in post-season play, she has three goals and three assists. Along with Macario, Stanford has another great attacker in redshirt junior forward Kyra Carusa, who has racked up 14 goals and five assists this season. Macario and Carusa have been giving opposing defenses trouble all season. SEESOCCERPAGE8 Logan Zahner / THE DAILY GAMECOCK The South Carolina women’s soccer team will face Stanford in the Final Four in Orlando at 5 p.m. on Friday. Tuition-waived graudate student Bill could fields of study impact grad student taxes 60% Arunmani Phravorachith STEM @THEGAMECOCK For most students, graduate school is an expensive endeavor. In the 2017-2018 academic Mary Ramsey / THE DAILY GAMECOCK year, graduate tuition was $6,627 for full time Members of Student Government want to hold more town in-state students and $14,184 for full time out- halls and outreach events to better connect with students. of-state students at USC. And a clause in the Republican tax bill, currently up for debate in Congress, could increase that cost for current and future graduate students at USC and beyond. SG introduces To help afford graduate school, many students Essentially, rely on tuition waivers earned from teaching graduate classes as teacher’s assistants or from doing students would be paying taxes on money that town halls research as research assistants. The waivers are they never see. Some graduate students could see intended to help graduate students who may have their taxes increase by as much as 400 percent, Mary Ramsey want. diffi culty making ends meet with rent, gas and according to CNBC. @MCOLLEEN1996 “There are some projects food on top of tuition. Currently, these tuition Graduate students at USC, like mass that I’m working on that I waivers are not taxed as income. communications student Joseph Meyers, fear the never would have thought In an effort to better Under the bill, tuition waivers will be counted move has the potential to fi nancially devastate of unless I heard people at connect and communicate as taxable income. In removing the tuition graduate students. USC just complaining about with students, Student waiver exemption from the tax code, the cost “I think for the Ph.D students especially, I it ... It really makes a real Government launched of living for graduate students will increase. think it could be a big deal as far as an increased difference,” he said. a new town hall system Clinton Wallace, an assistant professor of law cost for them,” Meyers said. Fourth-year history and Tuesday. Members of t he who specializes in tax law and policy, explained The American Council on Education political science student student senate gathered on that the change is intended to offset the cost of estimates that 145,000 graduate students across Jereme Hines, a fellow the Russell House Patio to other tax cuts in the bill. the country would be affected by this change if student senator, shared a talk to their constituents “This is embedded in a huge tax cut for some the bill passes. similar philosophy. and collect data on what people but that tax cut is paid for by raising taxes Currently, Republican party leaders are “One thing I’ve learned they want to see from their on other people,” Wallace said. “One of those hoping to bring the tax code to the Senate fl oor throughout my fi rst year in representatives. groups ... in the House bill is grad students [who] for votes by Friday. The bill has already passed Student Government is that For third-year political will see their taxes go up.” the Senate Budget Committee. you can’t really do this alone science student Kevin ... The only way to really Boyd, a student senator who know what [students] need chairs the Student Services and want is literally to go Committee, participating in talk to them,” he said. the new initiative is a way to He described the town get better at his job. hall as a chance for Student “In order to have the Government to examine ability to govern,” he said, “how far we’ve come from 145,000 graduate students use tuition wavers nationally, “we need to know what the this semester, what we can people of USC want.” compared to 27,000 undergrads do next semester to make Although the townhall things better for students system is new, Boyd has and what we can do ... over relied on student input the next few years.” throughout his time in 12% 25% Hines also believes that Student Government in events like Tuesday’s town Graduate students could see their tax rates grow 13 percent if the order to get a feel for what the students he represents propsed bill passes Graphics by Taylor Sharkey SEESGPAGE5 RHA mixed on impact of Johnson resignation Mike Woodel @GETHISDOGONETOO senators were not initially impressed by Maxcy- resistance in the senate in coming months. Thornwell senators’ requests for $1,200 in shared RHA President Turner Johnson submitted a letter Residents of Maxcy and Thornwell colleges might funding to pay for hall sweatshirts. Ultimately, the of resignation Tuesday afternoon, saying he violated not realize how close they came to not getting their senate settled on an amendment that lowered the traditional hall sweatshirts this semester. amount requested to $1,000. 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