Years after accident, Jimmy Eichorn, former USC student, files suit
Years after accident, former student files suit
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Years after accident, former student files suit
As recent as 12 years ago, CarolinaCards issued to USC students, faculty and staff had Social Security numbers on them when they were distributed, according to Bill Hogue, USC’s vice president for technology.
When fellow students saw a freshman being led out of the Maxcy College residence hall in handcuffs Tuesday, they figured it was just another drug or alcohol bust.
USC police found five handguns in a Maxcy College dorm room Tuesday afternoon.
A security breach on the College of Education’s web server may have compromised 34,000 people’s information.
Calls home, revoked football tickets in order, too
Saturday was a busy one in Five Points for Columbia law enforcement officers.
Traffic in Five Points was blocked for hours early Saturday afternoon, as police responded to a bomb threat in a Rite Aid drug store.
USC expects to lose $277,535 getting Palmetto College off the ground during the 2012-2013 academic year, though the program should recoup those funds the following year, according to Chief Financial Officer Ed Walton.
The computer systems USC researchers use have grown fragmented, too slow and too small — issues it plans to address over the next year, university administrators said.
USC expects about the same number of freshman to enroll in the fall that did last year, according to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
It may not be Capitol Hill, but USC-SPAN is coming to campus.
For a few hours a day this week, USC students will take Columbia's charities by storm, as the Carolina Service Council celebrates its annual Week of Service.
This story is Part 2 of a three-day series on USC's drinking culture. This story addresses administration's plans to reduce alcohol use. Wednesday's story discussed current alcohol-related problems. Friday's story will look at how USC's policies compare to other schools.
This story is Part 1 of a three-day series on USC’s drinking culture. This story discusses current alcohol-related problems. Tomorrow’s will address administration’s plans and reactions. Friday’s story will look at how USC’s policies compare to other schools.
The South Caroliniana Library has seen a fair bit in its years, and for the last 30 or so, Henry Fulmer has been there with it.Fulmer said he first stepped foot in the Horseshoe building as a graduate student in 1979 or 1980 — he’s not sure which, though a curriculum vitae suggests it was 1981. After years of passing it by as an undergraduate student; today, he’s the curator of its manuscripts division.“I actually came here working as a graduate student assistant, but that turned into one job after another after another,” Fulmer said. “I walked in, and I’ve never walked out.”Speaking in a hushed tone, he stood in the library’s reading room Thursday afternoon under a tall cream ceiling with brick red trim and recalled when Pope John Paul II visited the Horseshoe in 1987 and when the Secret Service secured the building and covered its tall windows in 1983 for the arrival of President Ronald Reagan.But his anecdotes represent a sliver of the history to which the library has born witness since it was built in 1840, much of which correlates with the university’s own.At its construction, the South Caroliniana was the only library at the school, then South Carolina College, and housed all of the college’s collections. Today, it’s the oldest freestanding college library still in use in the country, and it represents a niche within the university’s library system.The building has seen marked change, though, even since Fulmer arrived.“I remember the years when protocol for people doing research was different from what we’d expect today,” he said. “We’ve had people who are very well-known academic researchers who came in who were allowed to smoke around materials they were using and to bring their pet dogs in.”Today, the library’s second floor floods with sunlight, hushed conversation and, in a sign of the times, the steady tap on keyboards, and, with the updated protocol, only pencils — no pens — are allowed around documents.But the building has also seen — and avoided — more formative moments in the South and the capital’s history.During the Civil War, for example, as Columbia was ravaged by battle and Gen. William Sherman’s fires, the library — and the Horseshoe — was spared, perhaps, Fulmer said, because of rumors that it was infected with smallpox.That’s of particular interest to Fulmer, who said he’s worked heavily with and is especially fascinated by the library’s Civil War collections.“You realize that it was a nation at war with itself — literally brother against brother, household against household,” he said. “Enemy encampments would be across a creek or a stream from each other, and yet they were forbidden from speaking with each other. I think that’s one of the really poignant things that’s pointed out.”That point and other lessons throughout history, Fulmer believes, are illustrated within the library.“The other thing that really comes alive here in collections is that human nature is the same regardless of the century in American studies that you look at,” he said. “The motivations that people have today, the things they confide to electronic messages is exactly what you find in people’s private writings in previous centuries.”
The 600 block of Pickens Street, between its intersections with Blossom and Greene streets, will reopen this weekend.