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Color Me Rad paints Columbia

Five thousand people dressed as fairies, bananas and cows in white from head to toe were pelted with paint as they ran across Columbia early Saturday at the Color Me Rad 5k.


New ambassadors chosen after selective process

University Ambassadors welcomed 31 new members this weekend, concluding a complex recruitment process with a “rookie retreat.” The program received 212 applications this year, yielding an acceptance rate of 14.6 percent.


Largest-ever Pride marches on Columbia

This festival had everything: dogs in rainbow outfits, giant sea urchin-esque backpacks, drag queens and a camel. What sounds like something out of the mouth of Saturday Night Live’s Stefon actually took place in downtown Columbia on Saturday: the 24th annual SC Pride festival, South Carolina’s oldest and largest gay pride celebration.


In Brief: September 27, 2013

PCBs found in Columbia-area sewers Carcinogenic chemicals have been found in a Columbia-area restaurant’s sewers, The State reported. The revelation comes out of a state investigation of illegal chemical dumping in the Midlands and the Upstate. Now, the concern is whether PCBs found their way into rivers from wastewater treatment plants or onto farmland and landfills from contaminated sludge. PCBs have recently been found in multiple Upstate wastewater treatment plants, which release into rivers.


Columbia painted rainbow Saturday

Columbia will be colorful in more than one way Saturday. Starting the day bright and early at 8 a.m. is the Color Me Rad 5K, in which runners are pelted with five different colors of powdered paint.


In Brief: September 26, 2013

Accused shooter out on bond during killing A man is accused of killing another man in a parking lot last week while out on bond on charges of attempted armed robbery and attempted murder, The State reported.


Preachers shout on Greene Street

The sound of scripture and passionate sermons echoed down Greene Street and around Russell House Wednesday afternoon. Members of Rock of Ages Ministries shouted Bible verses and handed out fliers to students walking past Thomas Cooper Library.


Sorority Council given national award

USC’s Sorority Council was awarded the National Panhellenic Conference Excellence Award on Monday. The group is one of just 14 out of the nation’s 574 college Panhellenic organizations to be recognized with the award, according to NPC leaders.