Campus In 10 Years
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22 | GARNET & BLACK 2010 gandbmagazine.com oday, in 2010, only a de- cade after the inaugura- tion of the feared millen- nium, your CarolinaCard doesn’t work off campus, Cocky’s Caravan absorbs the ma- jority of your student fee and the Thomson Student Health Center is an eyesore rivaling the scoreboard after a Clemson football game. As questions arise about what the next decade holds, especially in these dubious times, we wonder what the University will look and feel like in the future. The continuation of the growth of infrastructure no longer solely depends on cost and the speed of implementation. In an age where green isn’t simply the last name of a senatorial candidate, the University understands the practical necessity of planning for the future of campus and college life in a sus- tainable manner. Now, optimistically, imagine this: your cell phone is a universal remote, your conversations regu- larly turn to talk of social security (reform, that is) and your bedtime is a little earlier than it was 10 years ago when bars seemingly couldn’t stay open late enough. It is 2020, and as you return to the Carolina campus for your class reunion, what changes do you see? Let’s dust off our iCrystalBall and take a look. Athletics With the Gamecocks winning the back-to-back BCS champion- ships in the late ’10s and the sail- ing club’s emergence as a nation- ally ranked team in 2016, Gamecock athletics has become a huge incen- tive for future applicants. Athletics became competitive with the rest of the SEC schools’ athletic programs after the completion of the Dodie Academic Center in 2010. The University’s Director of Ath- letics Eric Hyman says this achieve- ment is “an integral part of making USC’s athletic program America’s best.” When you were a student, the University had exactly one tennis court per 9,000 students; however, in 2020, the school has generously resurfaced and completed nine tennis courts on which the student body can lob, serve and volley. The immaculate Strom remains a crown jewel and shows no visible signs of wear or tear (not unlike the physi- PHOTOGRAPHY BY KERI GOFF & THOMAS WOODSON
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22 | GARNET & BLACK 2010 gandbmagazine.com
oday, in 2010, only a de-cade after the inaugura-tion of the feared millen-nium, your CarolinaCard doesn’t work off campus,
Cocky’s Caravan absorbs the ma-jority of your student fee and the Thomson Student Health Center is an eyesore rivaling the scoreboard after a Clemson football game.
As questions arise about what the next decade holds, especially in these dubious times, we wonder what the University will look and feel like in the future. The continuation of the growth of infrastructure no longer solely depends on cost and the speed of implementation. In an age where green isn’t simply the last name of a senatorial candidate, the University understands the practical necessity of planning for the future of campus and college life in a sus-tainable manner.
Now, optimistically, imagine this: your cell phone is a universal remote, your conversations regu-larly turn to talk of social security (reform, that is) and your bedtime is a little earlier than it was 10 years ago when bars seemingly couldn’t stay open late enough. It is 2020, and as you return to the Carolina campus for your class reunion, what changes do you see? Let’s dust off our iCrystalBall and take a look.
AthleticsWith the Gamecocks winning
the back-to-back BCS champion-ships in the late ’10s and the sail-ing club’s emergence as a nation-ally ranked team in 2016, Gamecock athletics has become a huge incen-tive for future applicants. Athletics became competitive with the rest of the SEC schools’ athletic programs after the completion of the Dodie Academic Center in 2010.
The University’s Director of Ath-letics Eric Hyman says this achieve-ment is “an integral part of making USC’s athletic program America’s best.”
When you were a student, the University had exactly one tennis court per 9,000 students; however, in 2020, the school has generously resurfaced and completed nine tennis courts on which the student body can lob, serve and volley. The immaculate Strom remains a crown jewel and shows no visible signs of wear or tear (not unlike the physi-
PHOTOGRAPHY BYKERI GOFF & THOMAS WOODSON
