New instructor calls Columbia home
By Hannah Jeffrey | Sep. 4, 2013Dawn Minton said she loved USC so much as a grad student that she decided to apply for a full time position.
Dawn Minton said she loved USC so much as a grad student that she decided to apply for a full time position.
A Lexington County couple is challenging the state’s Defense of Marriage Act in a federal lawsuit, feral hogs are damaging population across the state, and two were injured in a weekend shooting in Sumter.
The blotter comes from police reports released by the USC Division of Law Enforcement and Safety and doesn’t include crimes reported by city or county law enforcement.
The blotter comes from police reports released by the USC Division of Law Enforcement and Safety and doesn’t include crimes reported by city or county law enforcement.
If you thought your Instagram account had #NoLimits before, get ready for the #UofSCPhotoADay challenge. The university’s communications team partnered with Student Government to produce a list of things to take pictures of for every day in September.
As the country celebrated its laborers by giving them a day off, people around the city celebrated with cookouts, music and fellowship. Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin joined many of them Monday at Hyatt Park off north Main Street for an afternoon of free food, Gospel music and school supply giveaways.
Four days after applications for Student Government’s Freshman Council were due, the field of 152 applicants had already been whittled down to 109. The first-year leadership program will welcome its new class of 35 members in about two weeks.
A moped crashed into a telephone pole on Blossom Street Monday afternoon, leaving its driver in critical condition.
A man pleaded guilty in a conspiracy to bring cocaine to South Carolina, the state won’t charge Haley’s campaign after a car wreck and a couple in North Charleston was charged after having sex in Home Depot display shed.
While some events brought in hundreds of students, other brought in fewer than 50, leading to high per-student costs.
Today’s In Brief includes a White Knoll High School official’s guilty plea on embezzlement charges, a Columbia City Council committee’s proposed police policy and a partisan dispute over rally attendance.
What’s the best practice for a job on Wall Street? Managing money, of course. Real money. Students who join the Carolina Investment Association have the opportunity to do just that once they learn the ins and outs of the finance industry.
With more old than new on the agenda, student senate met for the first time this semester, continuing work on previously proposed initiatives and talking about the future of Student Government.
You won’t see new members of the traditionally African-American National Pan-Hellenic Council sororities and fraternities on USC’s campus screaming and sprinting down the Horseshoe on Bid Day. Instead of a formal recruitment process, NPHC organizations have what’s called an intake process, and according to Briana Quarles, Sorority Council’s vice president of NPHC, “it’s really different.”
Less than three months ago, Megan Pinckney was on the national stage, competing for the title of Miss USA in Las Vegas. The fourth-year retailing student, who is also finishing her reign as Miss South Carolina USA, made it into the competition’s top five. After a sixth finalist was selected on Twitter, Pinckney was named fifth runner-up.
Bottlenose dolphins are dying off on the East Coast, authorities are searching for a possible second victim in connection with the Gabrielle Swainson kidnapping and murder case, and cars damaged by Hurricane Sandy are being repaired and resold in South Carolina.
The university will provide a game day shuttle for each home game, accessible to students traveling from campus to Williams-Brice Stadium.