In Brief: April 26, 2013
By Sarah Ellis | April 26, 2013A Columbia rapper pleads guilty to sex trafficking, a suspected bank robber is arrested while waiting for a getaway cab, and four children die in a Hartsville mobile home fire.
A Columbia rapper pleads guilty to sex trafficking, a suspected bank robber is arrested while waiting for a getaway cab, and four children die in a Hartsville mobile home fire.
Student ticketing requests will return to a weekly system this football season, just a year after USC made the switch to season tickets for students, according to a Thursday release from Student Ticketing Coordinator Adrienne White.
Student ticketing will return to a weekly system this football season just a year after USC made the switch to season tickets for students, according to a release from Director of Student Ticketing Adrienne White. Students will request tickets for each individual game instead of being granted lower or upper deck season tickets, as they were in the 2012-2013 season.
Jay Fletcher, Amy Pastre and Courtney Rowson don’t think design is fine art. Instead, the Charleston-based designers see their craft as a medium to help their clients represent their brands.
Dara Brown regularly hears excuses for why someone “can’t” do yoga, so the instructor laughs when recalling how Sherwood Toatley told her he just isn’t flexible after his first class. She responded the way she would to any other student. Yoga will help make you more flexible, she told him.
Student Government unanimously passed its annual budget Wednesday evening, but by the bill’s 7:15 p.m. approval, 16 senators were unaccounted for in the roll call vote. The budget was approved by a vote of 32-0. Only two-thirds of the 48-member student senate were present for the vote.
A student was arrested and a bus driver lost her job after they fought, a Virginia man has been accused of calling a bomb threat into Lexington’s White Knoll High School and former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford engaged in debate with a poster Wednesday.
Downtown Columbia’s Ebenezer Lutheran Church served evening meals to about 150 people each day for three years. When its service agreement with the Salvation Army expired March 31, city leaders and service providers stalled over who should pick up the tab for continuing the service.
The state Senate passed a bill that would allow guns in bars, the head of an S.C. development firm filed for bankruptcy and a suspicious package was found downtown, the third in a week.
The Carolina Core’s new overhauled courses have received positive reviews in their first year at USC.
It was a family affair in the Russell House Ballroom Tuesday night.
State Sen. Vincent Sheheen says he has “common-sense solutions to real problems” in South Carolina.
After a 10-year battle that inspired her to raise money and encourage organ donations, Jessica Clark, a USC student, died last week.
A naked wanderer on LSD is found in a state forest, federal budget cuts are causing some delayed flight arrivals, and Elizabeth Colbert Busch leads Mark Sanford in polls for the 1st Congressional Seat race.
USC athletes traded their playing fields for a red carpet Monday evening at the annual Gamecock Gala awards ceremony at Colonial Life Arena.
Gubernatorial candidate state Sen. Vincent Sheheen, a Democrat from Kershaw County, will visit USC and engage in a Q-and-A session with students today at 7 p.m. in Russell House room 305.
USC’s EcoReps Leadership Team started celebrating Earth Week with a tie-dyeing event on the Russell House Patio Monday.