Seven candidates confirmed for SG election
By Amanda Coyne | Feb. 2, 2014Student Government elections will take place next Tuesday and Wednesday on my.sc.edu, and students will elect new executive officers and several new student senators.
Student Government elections will take place next Tuesday and Wednesday on my.sc.edu, and students will elect new executive officers and several new student senators.
Homeless shelters reach capacity during storm Local homeless shelters exceeded capacity as temperatures plunged below freezing this week, The State reported. Columbia warming centers opened on Tuesday at Martin Luther King Park and Hyatt Park and could potentially stay open if the winter weather persists. The Transitions homeless shelter on Main Street already reached full capacity, with 255 beds taken and some homeless staying in daytime-only areas.
Oxford professor attempts to define role of religion
Student Government officers have proposed a new constitution that, if passed through student senate next week, will appear as a referendum on the ballot in the upcoming election.
Columbia will host big name shows in 2014, two students were arrested after setting off stink bombs at Battery Creek High School and a tire plant officially opened in Sumter Wednesday.
Snowmen were built, snowballs were flung and roads were icy Tuesday and Wednesday after Columbia saw a snowfall that left a few inches of snow on the grounds.
Thursday’s classes have been delayed. All classes started before 10 a.m. have been cancelled.
As the afternoon started to fade into night around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Thomas Cooper Library was barren. The doors were locked, the sidewalks all but empty, the steps littered with small pellets — of salt, that is.
This week’s snowstorm didn’t only cancel classes; Student Government also closed for the winter weather, including a mandatory candidate meeting scheduled for Tuesday night.
The university Tuesday night that it will cancel classes Wednesday, again following the lead of Richland County government.
The Retreat at Columbia will be participating in a nationwide fundraising program this year to help support the Boys & Girls Clubs of The Midlands by raising $5,000 and giving 500 volunteer hours.
14 students from the USC School of Music performed in a 30-member ensemble directed by Greg Stuart, USC clinical assistant professor of music, on Nov. 18 at the Columbia Museum of Art. This concert received national recognition in The New York Times on Jan. 15.
If you’ve been to Jillian’s on a Thursday night over the last few weeks, you may have seen Ashlyn Bassett and Patrick Rogers practicing their moves.
This week’s briefs include Darius Rucker being stuck in traffic when he won his first Grammy Award in 18 years, a mental health patient being fatally shot and a Wofford College student’s innovative business idea.
Due to impending inclement weather, USC’s Columbia campus will be closed on Jan. 28. The announcement cancelling all classes and closing all university offices was posted on the university website around 7:15 p.m. Snow and ice are expected to hit most of South Carolina, including the Midlands.
A Charleston teenager was charged with murder after S.C. State shooting, meteorologists are calling for snow in the Midlands this week and the wildfire red flag alert was lifted by officials over the weekend.
When Christie Severin and Paula Novacki took over the leadership of Phi Alpha Delta, they were only given a dusty box with plastic cups, forks and a scrapbook that wasn’t put together.