In Brief: September 13, 2013
By Hannah Jeffrey | Sep. 13, 2013Foul play expected in Columbia man’s death, three people, one dog found dead in submerged SUV and Tyheem Henry updates his Facebook from prison.
Foul play expected in Columbia man’s death, three people, one dog found dead in submerged SUV and Tyheem Henry updates his Facebook from prison.
A man is convicted of mistreating animals, another man is breaking into apartments and staring at sleeping women, while The State’s well-known sports columnist will no longer cover the Gamecocks.
Walk Home Cocky, a safe walk program initially proposed by Freshman Council in February, has finally set a start date, Student Body President Chase Mizzell announced at student senate Wednesday.
The Constitutional Council has unanimously decided that third-year international business and global supply chain management student Josh Snead’s organizational challenge against Student Government has standing and that a hearing will proceed within 10 business days.
While the original iconic steps they climbed have been replaced, Henrie Monteith Treadwell and James Solomon Jr. stood at the front of the Osborn Administration Building Wednesday morning, marking 50 years since they first left it as students.
When Constance Gantt arrived at USC three years ago, “it was just coming to college.” “It’s nothing you really think about,” said Gantt, a fourth-year elementary education student.
Kevin Shepherd’s grandmother used to tell him: “Boy, don’t you forget where you came from.” Shepherd spoke along with other community members at the Association of African-American Students meeting Tuesday night, a gathering to celebrate the 50th anniversary of racial desegregation at USC.
Todd Wilson remembers the tension 50 years ago, the murmurs and the walk past state police.
On Sept. 11, 1963, there were no riots. There were no federal marshals. There was no fight from the state government. Three new African-American students walked down the steps of the Osborne Administration Building, the first to do so since Reconstruction.
The 2013-2014 academic year will be dedicated to celebrating the anniversary of USC’s desegregation, with academic and cultural events from September until April.
Converse College is cutting its tuition prices by nearly half, Drip’s owner is opening a Five Points gelato joint, and South Carolina could be getting a fourth area code.
Before she went to counseling, Margaret Kramer “believed the stereotype that you just sit on the couch and they write notes and listen and take your money.” “I never really felt like your life could be changed by counseling, but when I went to my second counselor, and that was the right fit for me, that’s when my life changed,” she said.
The Carolina Productions offices have moved out of the Campus Life Center in Russell House to make room for the university’s new Leadership and Service Center.
Volunteers have gathered enough signatures to bring the a strong-mayor referendum before the city’s voters. With just over 12,500 verified signatures, the question has shifted from whether Columbia will vote on the strong-mayor question to when.
Police say a man took a loaded gun into a Charleston airport, Gov. Nikki Haley appointed her new chief of staff, and a Murrells Inlet high school evacuated Monday after several American flags were burned outside its entrance.
Columbia will take private proposals this fall on how it should remedy the city’s homeless problem. But what exactly the city’s looking for isn’t clear.
A fourth-year economics student has been charged with two counts of driving under the influence and driving without a license after police say he struck and killed two motorcyclists last weekend.