Columbia to continue Black History Month celebrations
(02/04/18 11:00pm)
In addition to last weekend's parade, Columbia and its universities will be hosting several events in celebration of black history.
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In addition to last weekend's parade, Columbia and its universities will be hosting several events in celebration of black history.
Student Government elections kick off Monday, with filing for both executive positions and senate seats. For the first time, elections for speaker of the student senate will be included with the other executive positions of president, vice president and treasurer.
Normally, the Intersection Multicultural Lounge is a quiet place where students can come to relax and let stress melt away in between classes. Thursday night, however, it was the center for discussions on hate speech, particularly the kind displayed on college campuses. Their diversity dialogue ‘A Campus Divided: Free Speech vs. Hate Speech,' is the first of a two-part dialogue series for Black History Month.
Starting at 10 a.m. Wednesday, USC Dance Marathon led a 24-hour fundraising push. The organization aims to raise $100,000, one tenth of its total goal, by 10 a.m. Thursday with Forever to Thee Kids Day.
Student Government officials testified at the South Carolina Statehouse on Tuesday to advocate for a student vote on the USC Board of Trustees.
For the first time, the annual USC effort to lobby the legislature wasn't actually held in the Statehouse. It wasn't even held in a building at all — instead, thousands of tweets, Facebook posts and Instagram pictures were shared with #UofSCImpact.
In celebration of the launch of her book, "Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home," editor and activist Sheila Morris took the stage in the Russell House Theater on Monday afternoon for a panel discussion on LGBTQ activism in the south.
Zachary Cannizzo came to USC for graduate school to answer one question: Why are mangrove tree crabs on man-made docks bigger than crabs in the salt marsh?
If Sen. Lindsey Graham's memories of President Trump's comments during an immigration deal discussion are accurate, Ngozi Chukwueke is not what the White House has in mind when picturing the results of African immigration to the United States.
A new semester at South Carolina has brought many new things to Columbia’s campus: new students, new opportunities and now, Tapingo. This flamingo-rhyming mobile app allows students to place orders for pickup in dining halls and other campus eateries in advance, saving both time and energy for students as they skip the line.
For their event "In Her Shoes," the women's leadership organization chapter "Her Campus South Carolina" gathered a panel of women with expertise in personal branding, social media and the public relations field to network and provide advice on how to obtain success in today's world.
I sit at the bottom of the climbing wall and can’t see the top. I’m surrounded by so many athletic people and immediately feel inadequate to scale this, even though so many people have before me. And then, there’s the problem of my fear of heights.
The beginning of a semester brings about new opportunities, many of which start on Greene Street at the Student Organization Fair.
The first cabinet meeting of the semester laid the groundwork for what Student Government plans to accomplish this spring. Representatives around the room shared semester goals with a unifying focus on the need to strengthen relationships with the community through visibility, accessibility and representation. Student Body President Ross Lordo connected his focus on community to the racially charged fliers found on campus. He said that his cabinet should show that USC is not a place where such things are accepted. He also expressed the need for his cabinet to be prepared to respond should something similar happen again.
The annual "Freedom Rings: an artistic celebration of the life of Martin Luther King Jr." took place Sunday, Jan. 21 at the Koger Center for the Arts.
Daizha Green is the only student at USC to receive the MLK Social Justice Award for her work toward racial equity in the classroom and on this campus. She was honored at a breakfast on Friday, alongside three faculty members, for exemplifying Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophies and working towards equity for all.
The Russell House Theater was packed with students, faculty and staff on Thursday evening ready to discuss a racially charged incident that occurred on campus earlier in the week.
On a day that kicks off a week of celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and legacy in the civil rights movement, a racially and politically charged message was plastered onto a South Carolinian black history display in Gambrell Hall.
If anything is important to a busy college student, it's a caffeine boost.
This April marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister and frontrunner for the American Civil Rights movement. While he is most known for his “I Have A Dream” speech in 1963, he also delivered speeches in Charleston and Kingstree, and visited Gantt Cottage in St. Helena to both rest and strategize at the Penn Center for the Civil Rights Movement.