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Pastides calls for tuition freeze

By Amanda Coyne | Sep. 18, 2013

University President Harris Pastides called for a three-year tuition freeze in exchange for increased, “fair” funding from the state Wednesday morning at his annual State of the University address. Pastides also asked lawmakers to pass a performance-based education funding plan and to cover increasing employee pay, energy bills and health insurance costs. If the legislature does so, the university will not ask for any additional one-time allocations, like the $15 million it received this year to renovate Hamilton College.

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Since Harris Pastides was named president, the football team has had a pair of 11-win seasons and top-10 finishes.

Gamecocks see athletic success under Pastides

By Thad Moore | Sep. 18, 2013

Since Harris Pastides was named president in 2008, the football team shook off years of middling performance for a pair of program-best 11-win seasons and top-10 finishes. The baseball team won back-to-back national championships. And women’s basketball has improved its conference record, taking back-to-back 25-win seasons.

In Brief: September 18, 2013

By Hannah Jeffrey | Sep. 18, 2013

Officers who struck inmate will not face charges, Lexington men to be given additional theft charges and group speaks out against strong-mayor referendum

In Brief: September 17, 2013

By Sydney Patterson and Sarah Ellis | Sep. 16, 2013

Miss South Carolina misses out on the Miss America finals, 13 people are killed in a shooting at the Naval Yard in Washington, D.C., and violent crimes are down in Richland and Lexington counties.

Since opening in August 2012, the Carolina on King welome center in Charleston has drawn over 65,000 visitors from nearly every state and from foreign countries.

USC's Carolina on King welcome center in Charleston celebrates 1st year

By Sarah Ellis | Sep. 16, 2013

When USC planted its Carolina on King welcome center in Charleston last August, President Harris Pastides touted it as “a front door” to the university for Lowcountry tourists, alumni and potential students. One year later, Carolina on King has drawn more than 65,000 visitors from almost all 50 states and a number of foreign countries.

In brief: Sept. 15, 2013

By Hannah Jeffrey | Sep. 15, 2013

Columbia building may become historical site The Palmetto Compress and Warehouse building has been empty for years, but it may be on track to become a preserved historical site, The Post and Courier reported. The big brick building was almost torn down until the city stopped demolition plans and bought the building earlier this year. The Columbia Development Corporation got a $5.6 million loan from the city of Columbia in order to purchase the building to save it from demolition, according to Fred Delk, the director of the Columbia Development Corporation. “I think we’re going to get a lot of different proposals, and they’re going to range from student residential with some commercial to the other extreme of some combinations of lodging, market residential, office uses and commercial uses,” Delk said. Clemson senior killed in pickup truck crash A pickup truck crash killed a 21-year-old Clemson University senior over the weekend, The State reported. Sara Ann Comer of York County was one of three people ejected from a 2005 Chevrolet pickup truck after it swerved off of the road at around 3 a.m.