USC students plan wedding for deserving couple
(03/28/18 7:57pm)
Five years ago, Chris Puffenbarger and Lauren Welch’s house burned down. After the disaster, the couple couldn't afford to have a wedding.
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Five years ago, Chris Puffenbarger and Lauren Welch’s house burned down. After the disaster, the couple couldn't afford to have a wedding.
The 11th annual USC Fashion Week began on Friday with a Boutique Crawl in downtown Columbia, where shoppers had the opportunity to shop with a discount at retailers that will be featured in the Finale Show. It was followed on Saturday with the Midlands Heart Walk, which took place on Colonial Life Arena Intramural Field and raised money for the American Heart Association. The week-long event is put together by the Fashion Board, a student organization centered on growth in styling and passion for design, and aims to help its members succeed in the fashion and retail industries. USC Fashion Week will run from March 26 to March 29 and will celebrate the designs of both students and retailers in Columbia alike. Check out the rest of the events happening this week below.
Hanna Murray, a fourth-year pharmacy student, is no stranger to the importance of suicide awareness. Since the age of 14, she has lost nine people in her life to suicide. As a result, Murray is active in online awareness campaigns and participates in Suicide Prevention weeks. This last Sunday, however, she found herself on Greene Street with over a hundred others for what would be her first Out of the Darkness walk.
From spelling out fake words to creating wacky poetry off the top of their heads, the OverReactors improv troupe taps into the root of creativity and gets the audience belly-laughing — all without a script.
USC's third annual SpringFest came to Greene Street on Wednesday, with a carnival-like atmosphere and many different activities for students to participate in.
Ross Lordo gave his last formal address as student body president Wednesday afternoon after a year of growth and accomplishment at the helm of Student Government.
Ellie Boan was on the phone with her mother when she heard her dog start barking at helicopters flying over her house, helicopters on their way to the high school five minutes from her house. There was an active shooter at that high school. She opened her laptop to the news and watched as teenagers from her hometown of Parkland, Florida, emerged from their high school covered in blood.
Emerson Odagis's four-year plan when he first stepped onto USC's campus had getting elected student body treasurer scheduled for senior year. When he got to know treasurer Stinson Rogers, he put a Post-It on the treasurer's computer that said, "I'll be here in three years."
Extroverted.
Sophia Johnson, a first-year biology student, began protesting the Ringling Circus when she was 10. She's now the president of the only animal rights organization on campus.
Gov. Henry McMaster managed to connect an anecdote about his bulldog to Samsung's expansion in South Carolina, all in response to a question about improving higher education. He met casually with a group of about 50 students, mainly members of the College Republicans, in Russell House Tuesday night to talk about his career and answer questions on major state and local issues.
Just this weekend, USC’s Dance Marathon celebrated its 20th anniversary by raising over one million dollars for the Child Life program at Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital. The first president of Dance Marathon, Simon Herrmann, returned to Dance Marathon for the first time since his graduation in 1999 and witnessed this milestone for the organization.
A long-anticipated increase in undergraduate fees for USC’s College of Engineering and Computing is gaining traction. Pending the Board of Trustees approval, the phased-in fee increase per semester will take place in the fiscal year of 2019.
Joshua Fry has served with Dance Marathon since high school after being diagnosed with cancer eight years ago.
Wall Street Journal reporter Valerie Bauerlein, a former reporter for The State, came to speak to journalism students Wednesday about shifting shopping habits and their effect on communities.
USC's Leadership and Service Center was packed Wednesday night with Student Government candidates, their supporters and student media anticipating the election results. But they accounted for a small portion of a much larger group.
With all the different methods of receiving news today, odds are that some of it is going to be fake.
Three candidates received three violation points each Monday night for solicitation in the Honors Residence Hall — presidential candidate Taylor Wright, vice presidential candidate Mills Hayes and speaker of the senate candidate Patrick Ellis.
The 2018 race for president of the student body has seen four candidates, three of whom are running on tickets. Third-year finance and risk management student Tommy DiBona, third-year English student West Russell, third-year broadcast journalism and political science student Kathryn Stoudemire, and third-year public health student Taylor Wright are competing to earn votes on Tuesday and Wednesday to become the next student body president.
Student Government elections begin with candidate filing