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The brisk air and dark clouds added an air of prestige to the ceremony as undergraduates were recognized for their academics, service or extracurricular achievements.
USC expects about the same number of freshman to enroll in the fall that did last year, according to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
USC administrators love to tout the university as the best in the state, but according to the Princeton Review and student reviews on RateMyProfessors.com, it has some of the best professors in the nation.
With increased safety awareness, fewer USC employees are getting injured each year, saving the university money.
An apartment fire occurred at The Rapids apartment complex Tuesday afternoon.
About 90 of the 200 buildings on USC’s Columbia campus contain asbestos, a material that can pose health risks when disturbed, and the university has formulated a plan to ensure that workers handle asbestos according to defined procedures.
Three to four times the amount of undercover police will be attending Saturday’s Carolina Cup, as estimated by the Kershaw County sheriff.More than 65,000 people attend the steeplechase in Camden, S.C. Several officers from various police departments will be at the event, including the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and USC’s Division of Law Enforcement and Safety, among other state police departments and sheriff’s offices.Six officers from the university’s police department will attend undercover — dressed in plain clothes, according to USC’s Division of Law Enforcement and Safety Capt. Eric Grabski.“We want to go and assist in any way we can,” Grabski said. “Obviously we’re going there for alcohol enforcement.”State agencies, including USCPD, SLED and the Highway Patrol, will be writing student conduct referrals for USC students who are caught violating the law, Grabski said.In the past, underage attendees paid “cooler carriers” to bring in coolers containing alcoholic beverages. However, the Carolina Cup Racing Association suspended the practice two years ago and has not reinstated it, according to Capt. Mike Stone of the Camden Police Department.The executive director of the Carolina Cup Racing Association did not return calls made by The Daily Gamecock.If underage students are caught with a cooler containing alcohol, they will be given a blue ticket and officers will confiscate the contents, said Kershaw County Sheriff Jim Matthews, who will have about 40 officers in attendance. If the underage students are drunk, they will be arrested, Matthews added. There were about 150 arrests last year, including those for minors in possession, public disorderly conduct and resisting arrests, Matthews said.After the race Matthews warned there will be considerably more patrol vehicles for drunk drivers.“I would highly encourage somebody to be the Delta Delta — the designated driver,” Matthews said.
The South Carolina Honors College has been ranked No. 1 by “A Review of 50 Public University Honors Programs,” the first-ever ranking of honors colleges, according to Honors College Dean Steve Lynn.
A USC student has been charged with reckless driving, resisting arrest and simple assault, according to Jennifer Timmons, Columbia Police Department spokeswoman.
Come Fall 2013, there will be no more moaning over 8 a.m. classes or mad dashes from Gambrell to Swearingen to make it on time to back-to-back classes.
During the 2010-11 academic year, about 12,500 USC students borrowed a combined $66 million in subsidized loans, according to Edgar Miller, USC's director of student financial aid and scholarship. And unless Congress steps in, interest rates on these loans for undergraduate students will double for enrollment periods starting after July 1.
The victim in Wednesday night’s on-campus robbery was a 22-year-old female USC student who had just left the Blatt PE Center and was walking east on Wheat Street using her iPad 2, according to police. She told police a man approached her from behind and told her to “turn around” near the intersection of Wheat and Pickens streets.
USC's Office of Student Conduct has handled 961 alcohol violations from the start of this academic year until mid-February.
General education requirements for incoming freshmen will be different from the requirements that have been in place for more than two decades.
All four victims in the Jan. 18 car crash that killed two USC students and a former student had blood alcohol content levels higher than the legal limit and “evidence of recent marijuana use,” according to a release from Richland County Coroner Gary Watts. Brian McGrath, the driver of the vehicle and a third-year history student, had a .157 BAC.