Morgen Cvetko

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...

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 ...

September 18, 2017 | Morgen Cvetko Mary Matalin, a highly-known political contributor, joined the Coastal Carolina University community to talk about the language of politics in the 21st-century. Her expertise comes from her time working under President Ronald Regan and serving as an assistant to George W. Bush.  Her lecture was based around three words: Populism, polemics and polarization.  Matalin believes one of the issues with politics is that both sides have different meanings for politic words.   Populism is defined that ordinary people are working toward the concerns of ordinary people. Polemics is a debate tactic; in which it seems like the only goal of one of the speakers is to undermine everything their opponent has to say.   Matalin is optimistic that this will change because people do not like to constantly argue, it is not ...