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Sydney Patterson


Editor: Memorable moments mark newspaper

Right now, I’m sitting on the couch in The Daily Gamecock’s newsroom. People that I’ve known for years and people that I’ve known for only months are sitting around me, discussing today’s paper, their classes and how we’re going to get the paper done before deadline tonight.

In Brief: September 17, 2013

Miss South Carolina misses out on the Miss America finals, 13 people are killed in a shooting at the Naval Yard in Washington, D.C., and violent crimes are down in Richland and Lexington counties.

Students 'battling the stigma' of mental illness

Before she went to counseling, Margaret Kramer “believed the stereotype that you just sit on the couch and they write notes and listen and take your money.” “I never really felt like your life could be changed by counseling, but when I went to my second counselor, and that was the right fit for me, that’s when my life changed,” she said.

NPHC sorority, fraternity intake begins

You won’t see new members of the traditionally African-American National Pan-Hellenic Council sororities and fraternities on USC’s campus screaming and sprinting down the Horseshoe on Bid Day. Instead of a formal recruitment process, NPHC organizations have what’s called an intake process, and according to Briana Quarles, Sorority Council’s vice president of NPHC, “it’s really different.”

False alarm empties Horizon I building Tuesday

Students, faculty and staff were evacuated from the Horizon I building on Main Street Tuesday afternoon for a suspected gas leak, but it was a false alarm, according to Capt. Eric Grabski, spokesman for USC Division of Law Enforcement and Safety. He said a test done by a hazardous materials team came back clear, but not before a firetruck and several police cars were sent to the scene.

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	Lindsay Richardson (right), Donnie Iorio (center) and Ryan Harman hug after the election results were announced Wednesday evening in the Russell House Theater.

Lindsay Richardson (right), Donnie Iorio (center) and Ryan Harman hug after the election results were announced Wednesday evening in the Russell House Theater.

	Mary Beth Tinker, whose landmark Supreme Court win secured First Amendment rights for students, speaks to high school journalists at a South Carolina Scholastic Press Association conference Monday.

Mary Beth Tinker, whose landmark Supreme Court win secured First Amendment rights for students, speaks to high school journalists at a South Carolina Scholastic Press Association conference Monday.

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