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On Tuesday afternoon, USC really was full of hot air.
For an early morning Main Street passerby, Aug. 26 was a Friday like any other.
The Russell House ballroom became a war zone Wednesday afternoon as students took a midweek pause from class to duke it out in “What the Puck?” — a hybrid of paintball and capture the flag involving air pucks and giant bases.
With award-winning graduate students, published alumni and professors, the university’s Master of Fine Arts program now boasts a spot in Poets and Writers top 50 MFA programs in the nation.
After 21 years of promoting ethics in the legal profession through community service, the USC School of Law’s Pro Bono Program has announced the launch of a new volunteer service that will directly involve students in local pro bono cases.
Carolina Debate Union hosts first event of the semester
Russell House became a hub for first-year students to mingle, munch on churros, claim free swag and enjoy live entertainment during the second annual Bustle at the Russell event Monday night.
University staff and faculty and more than 170 spirited upperclassmen volunteers welcomed this year’s 4,550-member freshman class in limited space of the Russell House Student Union during Saturday night’s First Night Carolina celebration. The evening marked the first signature event in a lineup of more than 150 planned activities for Carolina Welcome Week, which will run until Friday evening’s Carolina After Dark showcase.
For the 58 percent of the freshman class who are from South Carolina, sweet tea, grits and omnipresent palmetto emblems are as common as “tennis shoes.” However, for the other 42 percent, these aspects of life in the state where the first shots of the Civil War were fired can be puzzling.
USC dining officials are introducing a new meal plan option this fall — dubbed the “Flex” and targeted at only upperclassmen. Students who purchase one of the three Flex meal plans pay around the same amount as those who buy a traditional meal plan at the beginning of the semester. However, instead of buying preconfigured meal swipes, they are given an account of $230, $400 or $470 Flex dollars, which have twice the spending power of traditional retail, to use at any on-campus dining facility at any time. The plan does not limit the amount that can be spent at one time, and students will be able to use any leftover account money to purchase bulk items from Carolina Dining during a “Flex burn” at the end of the semester. Students can add Flex dollars to their Carolina Cards when their meals run out, meaning that they’ll get double in retail value whatever they put in.
Stuck in the slow and quiet summer void of students, Russell House Director Kim McMahon and Event Services Coordinator Ryan Gross have been marking the days until freshmen return. For them, the arrival of what the Office of Admissions has deemed USC’s “biggest and brightest” freshman class means the start of a whirlwind Carolina Welcome Week, which from Saturday, Aug. 13 to Friday, Aug. 19 will brim with performances, games, prize giveaways, heavy recruiting and plenty of free T-shirts, food and drink koozies.
Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger took a break from his South Carolina campaign tour Thursday night to share a positive message about LGBT progress in American politics with 25 Bisexual Gay Lesbian Straight Alliance members and supporters in the Swearingen Engineering Center.
Four blocks away from the Statehouse, where 300 tea partiers and supporters rallied against taxes and federal spending, a group of 14 community members and activists stood in the shadow of Bank of America with a different message.
Student plan fundraiser on zero-sum budget
First-year scholars plan early research in various fields
Second-year English and French student Michael Lambert, a proud member of the Pastafarians and the Unitarian Universalist church, did not consider himself an atheist when he first came to USC
During registration this week students had a variety of options to choose from
Fourth-year mathematics student Madison Miller will be graduating from the College of Arts and Sciences this semester with up to $150,000 to jump-start her future career as a teacher.