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During his fifth State of the State address on Wednesday night, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster boasted about the state's "booming" economy and laid out plans for how to spend the legislature's additional money.
For the last eight years, South Carolina Sen. Tom Davis has been working to legalize medical marijuana in South Carolina. During a press conference last Wednesday at the Statehouse, Davis said he expects this is the year that it will finally happen with the SC Compassionate Care Act.
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An associate professor from Notre Dame said fear is a better tool than education and inspiration to motivate changes in behavior toward curbing climate change.
Columbia residents will elect the next mayor from a group of four candidates on Nov. 2. The incoming mayor will replace Steven Benjamin, the first Black mayor of Columbia who served since 2010. Benjamin is not running for re-election.
In recent years, the USC community has begun to question who should have a landmark or building on campus named after them.
South Carolina stands as the fourth most vulnerable state to climate change's effects and is among the eight most unprepared states to deal with the negative health effects associated with climate change, according to a report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Trust for America's Health, a public health policy organization.
Since the 1700s, the American South has been famous for the multitude of historical plantations across the region. South Carolina, home to an estimated 2,000 plantations during the antebellum period, has at least 30 open for tours.
Emma Deloughry, USC environmental health sciences graduate student, has always been a frequenter of Richland County's lakes and rivers. However, she said she began noticing trash and plastics littering the waters she knew and loved within the past couple years.
Since last March, students have been confronted with a new set of challenges to navigate as a result of COVID-19.
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A panel of current students and USC alumni spoke about their experiences as Black students at the university during Friday night's the "Beneath the Bricks" program, an event to celebrate Black History Month.
The Presidential Commission on University History is slated to issue a report reevaluating building names on campus to university President Bob Caslen by June.
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The Residence Hall Association (RHA) announced a new initiative, called 'Different Together,' aimed at highlighting diversity during the student senate's Wednesday meeting.
When Ali Brian, an associate professor in the Department of Physical Education at the University of South Carolina's College of Education, first arrived, there was only one course in adapted physical education.
In a vote of 27-7, the student senate chose not to pass a recommendation for student mental health surveys during its meeting on Wednesday.
The student senate passed a recommendation at its meeting Wednesday that commencement for Spring 2021 be held in Williams-Brice Stadium.