Dates to Know: April 17-19
Monday, April 17
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Monday, April 17
The Weather Channel is predicting rain and storms until at least 7 p.m. in Columbia. Large hail is possible, with winds up to 15 mph. Richland and Lexington counties are under a flash flood warning until 4:30 p.m. and a tornado watch until 8 p.m. A tornado warning has been issued for southeast Richland County, with hail up to 1 inch spotted on the radar.
After a long wait, University President Harris Pastides announced the details Friday morning on Twitter for a free Darius Rucker concert on April 5 at Colonial Life Arena.
Ross Lordo’s favorite moments are when he passes students on USC’s campus who had him as a tour guide.
Dani Goodreau is USC’s next student body vice president. She campaigned on mental health, veterans’ issues and student senate accountability, and won with 60 percent of the vote. Ever since campaigning began on Feb. 1, Goodreau has been everywhere on campus — doing organization visits, arguing the Momentum platform at the debate and larger than life on a Greene Street poster.
Is more democracy always better? In the annual Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society lecture Thursday night, Princeton political scientist Christopher Achen challenged the view that democracies are an inherently successful system.
Get a quick overview of the candidates running for the Student Government executive positions.
The biggest change in faculty governance since the introduction of the faculty senate 30 years ago was up for debate at the Feb. 1 meeting — a measure allowing non-tenure track faculty a vote in senate elections.
The last time Zaid Alibadi saw his sister was three years ago. He was working for the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, and he had started receiving death threats for associating with Americans. When it got dangerous, he knew it was time to leave. He got a student visa and is now earning his doctorate in computer engineering from USC. But the threats were against his family as well. His brother and mother were able to come to the U.S. this summer as refugees, but his sister, Shahad, is still waiting in Iraq.
This year's list of candidates for Student Government elections contains what is likely a record number of students running for senate positions at the same time as a drop in the number of students running for executive positions. There are 92 students running for a total of 53 positions. Last year there were five candidates for president, while this year there are just three. Almost all of the academic units have enough candidates to fill their seats, except for the schools of social work, education, law and music. Campaigning begins Feb. 1 with a Candidate Showcase on Greene Street from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
USC and Clemson student governments hope to start a new period of more student involvement in state government, beginning with their Wednesday release of the Student Higher Education Report and Honor Roll. The report, an original part of Parks’ platform, includes voting records on higher education bills in the past two years and honors legislators who consistently supported higher education.
President-elect Donald Trump named rising Republican star Gov. Nikki Haley as his pick for United Nations ambassador, and she accepted the nomination on Nov. 23. If confirmed by the Senate, she will step down as governor of South Carolina on Jan. 20, 2017, and take her place representing the U.S. on the U.N. Security Council.
When you get hit by a car, it doesn’t hurt at first.
Fried mushrooms or pickles? I’d never really thought about it before. But at the South Carolina State Fair, it seems like an important decision to make. While I ended up going with an ice cream cone instead, the pervasive scent throughout the vast sea of flashing fluorescent booths was definitely one of sizzling fat in hot fryers. I’m pretty sure my clothing and hair soaked it in, or maybe I was just imagining it in a cloud around me when I fell into bed, tired after hours of wandering the unlimited aisles.
As the campus empties of USC students, its residence halls opened for those seeking refuge from Hurricane Matthew.
The student-run volunteer organization created last October during the historic flooding has begun to remobilize in order to serve the Carolina community in the case of damage caused by Hurricane Matthew.
College of Arts and Sciences Dean Lacy Ford was brought in this July with the largest college in the university facing an unfamiliar challenge: a complete lack of carryforward funds projected into the next fiscal year.
The emergency response program at USC is halting its use of live pigs following a federal complaint from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. The program will instead use simulation technologies.
When Sonia Gutierrez first arrived in Columbia a year and a half ago to work at WLTX, she went to the public library to find out more about the history of Latinos in South Carolina.
A male pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle on S. Assembly Street late Wednesday night has died, according to the Columbia Police Department.