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DeAndre Hopkins, Deshaun Watson Petition Clemson to Remove John C. Calhoun's Name From Honors College
Outside of chin-checking racists and forgetting what I look like with a haircut, one of my favorite pastimes is spending exorbitant amounts of time devouring Wikipedia pages. And a cursory glance at John Caldwell Calhoun’s page reveals that our former vice president is remembered for “strongly defending slavery,” marrying his cousin and inciting the Civil…
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Exclusive: Clemson’s Black Players Refused to Accept Donald Trump’s Invitation to the McCookout
When Filet-O-Fish aficionado Donald Trump invited the Clemson Tigers to enjoy the White House’s first Presidential Value Meal, most of Clemson’s national championship football team members jumped at the opportunity to meet the original cheeseburger-swallowing clown. But The Root has learned that Clemson’s black players, some specifically citing racism and their disdain for Trump’s divisive…
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30 Injured When Floor Collapses at Kappa Party During Clemson’s Homecoming Weekend
It wasn’t “burning down the house”—more like, “falling through the floor,” as a raucous off-campus frat party turned disastrous at Clemson University during homecoming weekend. Partygoers at a rented South Carolina clubhouse were getting it in at an annual Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. party when video showed the floor giving out around 12:30 a.m.…
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Clemson University’s Student Vice President Facing Impeachment after Refusing to Stand for Pledge of Allegiance
The vice president of Clemson University’s student government, a black student who recently refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, is now facing an impeachment trial after the university’s student senate held a vote earlier this week and voted to impeach him. Of course, as the Associated Press notes, the university’s spokesman denied that…