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Throughout 2020 and 2021, the USC campus and surrounding Columbia was the site of many protests and demonstrations — some student-led, and some led by outside groups. However, USC has a long history of on-campus protests and activism since its open in 1801.
Alex Harrell and Kate Turner were respectively elected student body president and treasurer on Wednesday as the 2021 Student Government election concluded.
The majority of students surveyed by The Daily Gamecock said the move to mostly online classes in the 2020-21 academic year was the right decision to make, though the transition had its issues.
The updated USC COVID-19 dashboard reports a total of 43 active COVID-19 cases as of March 1.
South Carolina will transition into phase 1b of vaccine rollout starting March 8, Gov. Henry McMaster announced on Tuesday.
The USC organization Gamecocks Aiding Refugees in Columbia (GARC) offers virtual tutoring services to the refugee community and is beginning cultural and educational awareness training among its members.
USC announced plans to return to face-to-face classes for the fall 2021 semester on March 8. The amount of in-person classes offered in the fall will be close to the number of in-person classes offered before the pandemic, give or take 5%, according to an email from the provost.
Sunday marked the end of National Eating Disorders Association’s annual awareness week, which is usually marked with an on-campus NEDA walk. This year, the walk will be online.
Dance Marathon cut attendance from more than 2,000 people during the main event last year to 120 people at a time in interval shifts this year to accommodate for COVID-19 guidelines.
The updated COVID-19 dashboard reports a total of 78 active COVID-19 cases, a slight increase from the 64 cases reported on Tuesday.
The Presidential Commission on University History has identified "more than 70 named buildings, rooms, monuments and grounds" on the university campus to review, while focusing specifically on renaming for two dozen of these entities, the commission said in an interim report released Friday.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster tweeted Friday that starting on March 1, bars can resume selling alcohol past 11 p.m., and he will no longer require the South Carolina Department of Commerce to approve events with more than 250 people.
The races for student body vice president and speaker of the student senate ended Wednesday night, with Emily Dengler being elected for vice president and Morgiana McDevitt being elected for speaker.
USC is now facing 64 total active cases of COVID-19 on campus, according to the updated online COVID-19 dashboard.
Struggling to find her place on campus after transferring from USC Aiken, Yaunna Hunter couldn't find organizations that fit her interests or needs, so she devised a plan — she'd make her own. She created an organization for transfer students like her.
A group of university students recently reactivated USC's chapter of the NAACP after a four-year period of inactivity. Its first event on campus was the Aim to Rename press conference earlier this month, where the organization gave a self-chosen name, “Dean” Willie L. Harriford, to the Thomas Cooper Library.
Fourth-year pharmacy student Tiffany Nguyen said her aunt was sprayed with disinfectant by a customer at the Bi-Lo pharmacy where she works in the Charlotte/Fort Mill area. Her uncle, who also owns a pharmacy, was robbed.
Ed Lee III led a College of Arts and Sciences discussion about white supremacy, called "Ed Talks on Race: From Just Talk to Justice," on Monday.
Between saliva testing temporarily shutting down on Sept. 3 after a "key lab staffer" fell ill, a high of 1,461 active cases reported on Sept. 4 and having only one lab worker with the government certification necessary to determine if a COVID-19 test was positive, USC experienced several challenges in the fight against COVID-19 last semester.
The Daily Gamecock interviewed Student Government executive candidates to find out more about their platforms.