After President Donald Trump’s Executive Order declaring to change the 14th Amendment’s right to citizenship for all people naturalized in the United States, the Spartanburg city mayor, Spartan Burgur, decided to make a decision of his own. The mayor declared a new birthright law, in collaboration with President Samhat.
Together they declared that all children conceived on Wofford’s campus are guaranteed immediate acceptance to the college following their high school graduation. Samhat and many other Wofford board members provided their input on this decision and how they came to the conclusion.
“I mean, let’s be honest, most of the students who attend here were never planning to leave South Carolina in the first place. Do you really think their kids will?” Myrtle Ann Bluffton, 4-year member of Wofford’s Board of Trustees, said.
Many in opposition to this new law speculate that it was created to overshadow the attention Wofford dorms received for a recent legal declaration. South Carolina’s Cam Newton, former quarterback, now senator, was cracking down on illegal places throughout the state.
During his investigation, he found that seven of the eight dorms on Wofford College’s campus met the legal qualifications for a brothel. This means a large building consisting of multiple women engaging in sexual activity.
“I just feel bad for the one dorm, couldn’t have been me. I was a ring by spring sophomore in my time at Wofford,” Catherine Claire Courtney ‘01, said. She has now sent three of her four double-name children to Wofford, the other one didn’t get in.
So, according to Senator Cam Newton this birthright law may see real promise. Wofford is hoping this new law will strengthen their alumni network.
“I think this will really make Wofford a unique and close-knit college in a way other colleges aren’t. I only hope people still make sure to wait till marriage,” Ross Rerrier, a member of the Board of Trustees, said.
The only major concern left now is the increase of pregnant ring-by-spring seniors who will be walking across the graduation stage. However, the majority of current students seem uninterested in this prospect, not wanting to have a child or be tied to the random Kappa Sig they hooked up with. But the same can’t be said for newlyweds visiting on alumni weekend…
