In Brief: February 19, 2013
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Reports from Feb. 8 to Feb. 15 Disorderly conduct — 1
Phi Mu sorority members and their house director were woken early Friday morning to a group of men pulling a screen off a window at the Phi Mu house in the Greek Village, according to a police report from USC’s Department of Law Enforcement and Safety.
Kenneth Bragg never planned on running for president.
As students were safe and asleep in their beds or half-awake and dragging themselves to early morning classes, the Carolina Alert siren blared across campus and in select buildings in its semesterly test.
‘Unbelievers’ first song released by quartet
A woman has been accused of leaving her 2-year-old son shoeless in a Fort Mill parking lot while she was at a nightclub last weekend.York County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called around 10 p.m. when the toddler was seen alone in the Palmetto Place Apartments parking lot, WBTV reports. When a couple brought him home, they found the door unlocked and the boy’s 4-month-old sister home alone in her crib.When authorities contacted Colleen Pellettiere, the 26-year-old mother, she said she was on her way home. More than an hour later, she showed up with a stamp on her hand and wearing only a halter top and black pants — no shoes or jacket.Pellettiere could not explain why she left the children home alone and was charged with two counts of unlawful neglect of children.
While its tuition continues to rise, the University of South Carolina is still a “best value” college, according to the Princeton Review.
An emotional commercial about a man and his horse has taken home the 10th annual Cocky Award. The award is chosen by students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications’ class, “Super Bowl of Advertising.”
A 28-foot white beam topped with a Pindo palm tree and covered in the signatures of Darla Moore and other major donors was lifted onto the top of the new Darla Moore School of Business Monday afternoon as the theme to “2001: A Space Odyssey” played on the patio of the Koger Center for the Arts.
New eating option to officially open at the end of the month
Chase Mizzell, Kenneth Bragg, Alex Waelde to run for top offices
While some students used the extra day off class for Martin Luther King Jr. Day as an excuse to sleep late or go downtown an extra night, more than 400 USC students participated in the 17th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on Monday.
Alpha Chi Omega sorority members welcomed the Greek community into their house Thursday night to remember their sister, Julie Tamborino, who passed away over winter break after battling leukemia for more than a year.
Jake’s Bar and Grill reached a $975,000 settlement in a lawsuit after footage from video cameras showed a young man being served in the establishment then later hitting and killing a pedestrian in Five Points.Justin Timmerman, 24, was hit by a SUV, driven by 24-year-old William Holt Carlen, while crossing Harden Street in Five Points May 5, The State reported.Timmerman’s father brought the lawsuit against the bar, claiming the bar had overserved Carlen, whose blood-alcohol content was .20, more than twice as much as the .08 legal limit for driving.Dick Harpootlian, attorney for Timmerman’s father, learned while investigating the case that Jake’s had 16 cameras recording footage of its customers and told The State the video evidence was “a tremendous help in this case.”A February court date is scheduled for Carlen, who is facing the criminal charge of felony DUI.— Compiled by Austin Price, Assistant Design Director