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Tiger effigy burns in honor of tradition

Students gathered on the Greene Street intramural fields Monday night, jumping to “Sandstorm” and yelling, “Go cocks!” Just as they have for years and years before, they had come to watch a tiger effigy go up in flames.


Clemson fans infiltrate USC campus

When you’re standing in Williams-Brice Stadium, cheering on the Gamecocks with 80,250 of your best friends, it’s easy to forget that not everyone in the stadium grew up loving garnet and black.


	Up to 40 people work at the Bluff Road Bojangles’ on any given gameday. Franchise owner Eddie Frazier says the restaurant’s profits expand nearly 300 percent when the Gamecocks play at home compared to regular service days.

Local Bojangles' serves gameday fans

Sitting in one of the tables in the center of the dining room, Eddie Frazier swirls his Diet Coke around in a bright yellow cup. He stares out the window of his restaurant, the Bojangles’ on Bluff Road, directly across from Williams-Brice Stadium, into the tailgating lots that were once home to a farmers market.


In Brief for Nov. 25, 2013

Car lands on roof after high-speed police chase A car landed on top of a Forest Acres home early Saturday morning following a Columbia police chase, The State reported. The car was pursued after an officer believed he saw an illegal drug transaction at or near the vehicle on Senate Street, the Columbia Police Department told the newspaper. The vehicle did not have lights on and the suspect was driving erratically.


Sigma Nu runs ball 138 miles

One hundred and thirty-eight miles from Clemson seemed a bit shorter last week as the South Carolina and Clemson chapters of Sigma Nu fraternity finished their 37th annual Game Ball Run as part of a run-up to next week’s football game.


Board approves construction plans

The board of trustees’ buildings and grounds committee approved a $27.5 million project to expand the Thomson Student Health Center and a five-year comprehensive permanent improvement plan at its Friday meeting.


'No-Shave-Ember' raises money, awareness for cancer

Put down your razors, boys. It’s time to raise awareness. If you’ve seen unusually hairy men around campus, it’s probably the work of Relay for Life and Beta Theta Pi fraternity, who have dedicated the month they’re calling “No-Shave-Ember” to raising awareness and money for prostate cancer and other cancers whose patients are predominantly men.


In Brief: November 22, 2013

Thanksgiving will yield massive travel days, developments are in the works for Lexington County and Cynthia Pryor Hardy pleads guilty to marijuana charges.


Student awarded NASPA fellowship

Mitchell Hammonds was sitting in his car when he got word that he had been selected to be a part of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Undergraduate Fellows Program.