Welcome Week events prep students for fall
This year’s Carolina Welcome Week is packed with more events, more free food and more academic emphasis than previous years.
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This year’s Carolina Welcome Week is packed with more events, more free food and more academic emphasis than previous years.
For Student Government officers, the beginning of the fall semester means one last chance to start delivering on initiatives promised in the spring. In past years, ideas such as Carolina Cab have taken off with success, while others, such as taking the CarolinaCard off campus, have fizzled out. The Daily Gamecock spoke with Student Body executive officers to find out what students can expect from SG in 2012-2013.
Technology overhaul expected to finish in 2014
After the U.S. Supreme Court officially approved the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act this summer, health care providers, insurance companies and customers are still struggling to find out what the new legislation means for them.
For Student Government officers, the beginning of the fall semester means one last chance to start delivering on initiatives promised in the spring. In past years, ideas such as Carolina Cab have taken off with success, while others, such as taking the CarolinaCard off campus, have fizzled out. The Daily Gamecock spoke with Student Body executive officers to find out what students can expect from SG in 2012-2013.
Center offers financial services, advice
The average room rate for campus housing went up 4.8 percent this year, with increases ranging from 4.0 to 5.8 percent.
The man behind generations of students’ first-year experiences at USC will also be the one to usher them out at August’s graduation ceremony.
2012 USC graduate Amy Woodell's college experience opened up more career possibilities for her than she ever imagined.
Saturday was a busy one in Five Points for Columbia law enforcement officers.
Major developments are in the works at Innovista, USC’s multi-million dollar knowledge-based economic development project.
After a year of patching up last August’s hazing scandal and working to rebuild the organization’s reputation, Associate Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Keith Ellis is stepping down, leaving Student Life and the Fraternity Council to carry out a slew of changes to this fall’s recruitment.
Students can count on an influx of private housing options in the next several years, according to Fred Delk, executive director of Columbia Development Corp.
South Carolina may be one of the best states to open a business, with USC situated in the most business-friendly region, according to a national survey by Thumbtack.com and the Kauffman Foundation.
Temperatures have dipped back into the double digits after this weekend’s record-setting heat wave and quick-moving thunderstorms. Still, USC weather experts are predicting a hotter-than-usual summer for Columbia.
Police and firefighters worked well into the evening to control a fire that consumed a recycling center in Cayce Friday morning.
After 12 years of being known only by an acronym, the Graduate Sciences Research Center has officially been named for former USC President John Palms.
Carolina’s Promise earned an additional $10.8 million in May, since the campus launch of the historic fundraising initiative in April.
USC is opening a swanky new welcome center in the upscale shopping district of downtown Charleston.