Morgen Cvetko

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Opioid Crisis in Horry County: Narcan on CCU Campus April 3, 2019 | Morgen S. Cvetko Opioid overdoses have skyrocketed since the late 1990's, becoming the worst drug epidemic in modern American history. Over 42,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2016—more than deaths from automobile accidents or firearm-related homicides. The problem has become an epidemic in Horry County, the county that Coastal Carolina University is located in. According to Coastal Carolina University Department of Public Safety, there is currently no signs of an opioid crisis on campus. Thomas Mezzapelle, the Captain of Public Safety at Coastal Carolina University has been working for Coastal for more than 25 years and hasn’t seen more than a dozen Opioid related cases.  “We have not really seen opioids on campus, I think in the 26 years that I've been here we've gotten less than a dozen cases where we have ever found any k

April 8, 2019 | Morgen S. Cvetko This past weekend the Coastal Carolina Softball team travelled to Mobile, Ala, for a weekend of softball against the Southern Alabama Lady Jaguars.  The first game was held on Friday, April 5 and the Chanticleers won 4-3. Courtney Dean, center fielder, hit her 12th homerun of the season in the top of the fifth inning, scoring three and bringing the Chanticleers to the lead. Kaitlin Beasley-Polko pitched 6 innings in the game and only gave up seven hits and three runs.   The Chanticleers wasted no time in getting runs in during their second game of the weekend on Saturday as junior first baseman Kassidy Smith hit a home run in the top of the first inning. Smith would go yard again in the top of the sixth inning, this time bringing in two runs and bringing the Chanticleers to the lead. Abbey Montoya scored again in the top of the seventh inning, bringing the final score of the game to 4-2. 

January 23, 2019 | Morgen S. Cvetko The beginning of spring semester also means the beginning of spring sports for Coastal Carolina University. The Coastal Carolina women's lacrosse team is one of the many teams excitingly waiting for the season to start.  Head coach Kristen Selvage is also excited for the season and is hoping to win the conference championship this year.   “I am beyond excited – I live for it,” Selvage said.  Madeline Bromley, senior attacker and team captain, is also excited.  “We have back our entire line up minus on, so we are picking up right where we left off, I am very excited,” Bromley said.  The women lacrosse team will take on Old Dominion University on Feb. 9th, at Brooks Stadium. The ladies last saw Old Dominion in 2017, where they were defeated by one. The CCU ladies are hoping for a different outcome this season.  There was a lot of talk of rings and winning the Conference Cha

January 29, 2019 | Morgen S. Cvetko The 2018 Coastal Carolina softball season was a crazy one for sure.   The Lady Chants opened the season 10-2, scoring five or more runs in six of those games. And then the team dropped six of their next nine games to enter Sun Belt conference play 13-9. The first half of conference play was not a great one as the Lady Chants went 2-11 in the first half of conference play, getting swept twice.  Coastal found themselves in a deep hole but managed to end the year at 26-28 and won the last seven of their 13 conference games to be 9-17 in Sun Belt play. However, the Chanticleers did miss out on playing in the Sun Belt tournament.  The 2019 Coastal Carolina softball team hopes to turn that all around in the upcoming season.  The Chanticleers look to build off the momentum they built at the end of last season winning three of their last five series. Coastal Carolina will have 35 of their

October 27, 2018 | Morgen Cvetko Coastal Carolina University released their yearly Clery Report on Monday, Oct. 1st, 2018   The Clery Report is a mandatory report, established in 1990, that all universities and colleges report to on some level and the report is mandated by the federal government through the Department of Education. The report consists of crimes and fires that were reported on campus, on campus residential areas, non-campus property, and public property usually up to the sidewalk adjacent to the university.  Thomas Mezzapelle, Captain of Public Safety, said, “[The Clery Act is] a guarantee that there is at least once a year, where people can look at something and say okay, these are the crimes that happened on our campus that are being tracked.”   The annual Clery report posted by Coastal allows students and the community to see the data from the last three years. Within the report you can see information o