The Daily Gamecock

News

More from News

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.


In Brief: November 21, 2013

Individual cigarette sales could be banned in Columbia, a teen charged in a shooting could be tried as an adult, and a Charlotte man is accused of robbing a dead man’s house.


Revised Student Government election codes passed by senate

Student Government election campaigns will now include a two-week period of “soft” campaigning followed by a one-week period of “hard” campaigning after student senate passed a much-debated, amendment-filled bill restructuring the election codes Wednesday night.


OMSA celebrate Native Americans

Drum and dance performances, speeches from Native American chiefs, art exhibits and discussions on Indian mascots and nicknames are only some of the events honoring November as Native American Heritage Month.