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Former General Counsel Todd Hagins Files EEOC Complaint Against Winthrop University Alleging Discrimination and Retaliation

6May

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Former General Counsel Todd Hagins Files EEOC Complaint Against Winthrop University Alleging Discrimination and Retaliation

By: Ravyn Rhodes, Managing Editor and Sera Crookes, Guest Writer Todd Hagins, former general counsel of Winthrop University, announced Monday in a press release issued by Hagins’ law firm that he has issued a federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint against Winthrop University. Hagins joined Winthrop University’s Office of the President as the university’s general counsel on Feb. 16, 2023. Before his time at Winthrop, Hagins served as the director of compliance with the University of South Carolina, an adjunct professor at the USC School of Law, director of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division’s general counsel and federal prosecutor. “This is not about whether something like DEI should exist in 2025, but whether Winthrop protects blatant racism,...

Headline: CSL loses authority over chartering new organizations over Winthrop Students for Life

17Apr

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Headline: CSL loses authority over chartering new organizations over Winthrop Students for Life

Byline: Chase Duncan, Guest Writer The Winthrop Council of Student Leaders (CSL)has lost its authority to charter new student organizations after it denied chartering to a Winthrop chapter of the pro-life advocacy organization Students for Life America (SFLA), following an unanimously approved resolution by the Board of Trustees. Winthrop President Edward Serna announced in a campuswide email message sent out on April 7 that after looking into CSL’s review process for multiple new student organizations, including the denied charter request from SFLA, he rescinded the denial of WSFL on February 17, 2025. The email included a link to the resolution passed by the Board of Trustees that removed chartering privileges from CSL. “On April 4, 2025, the Board of Trustees una...

Rock Hill Socialist Activist Banned From WU Campus for Life for Graffiti Vandalism

17Apr

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Rock Hill Socialist Activist Banned From WU Campus for Life for Graffiti Vandalism

Howard “Buddy” Beck was indefinitely trespassed for placing a sticker on a parking sign in front of Tillman Hall Byline: Chase Duncan, Guest Writer Rock Hill socialist community activist Howard “Buddy” Beck has been trespassed indefinitely from Winthrop’s campus after being charged with graffiti vandalism for placing a sticker on parking signs in front of Tillman Hall. Many students at Winthrop might not recognize him by name, but Beck has been a familiar face at Winthrop for the past several years as a tabling vendor inside the DiGiorgio Campus Center, where he would sell Marxist literature and merchandise to students. He also served as a third-party advisor to the now-defunct WU Socialist Student Union. Beck said he was protesting the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil on Oa...

1Apr

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Bigstuff X Cocky (Tiger)

Bigstuff = Winthrop Cocky = Gamecocks Tiger = Clemson Written by: Mac Sports, Pining (maybe mutual), enemies to lovers, inaccurate portail of university mascots, please don’t report us, fade to black, I know too much about bird anatomy now, they/them (because = mascot), I don’t know how football works Bigstuff (what is my life) and Cocky, have been known as enemies for as long as everyone has known. They competed with each other as they grew up in various sports and academic events. Between these they have gotten to know each other well, even though they didn’t want to. At their last football match against each other, they shook hands both knowing that that was probably the last time they would see each other. You see Bigstuff was staying in SC and going to SCU while Cocky w...

28Mar

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Disability Rights Under Fire

Suit Over New Section 504 Guidelines Threatens the Rights of Disabled Americans "No otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States shall solely on the basis of his handicap, be excluded from the participation, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance,” Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C. § 794. When Congress passed the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which contains Section 504, many disabled Americans believed that they were witnessing a turning point in disability rights in our country; however, the passage of Section 504 was preceded by years of intentional sabotage from the Nixon administration. President Richard Nixon (in)famously referred to the...