Thomas Cooper Library introduces single-stream recycling
By Hannah Jeffrey | April 26, 2013The tiny blue bins that were once posted around the floors of the Thomas Cooper Library have been replaced with hard-to-miss gray receptacles.
The tiny blue bins that were once posted around the floors of the Thomas Cooper Library have been replaced with hard-to-miss gray receptacles.
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.
Gamecock quarterbacks Connor Shaw and Dylan Thompson gave Capstone Scholars a glimpse of their personalities and encouragement to be leaders when they spoke at the semester’s final Capstone Conversation Monday afternoon.
Through tears and protracted pauses, Randy Scott said Monday he’s leaving his post as Columbia’s police chief. Scott’s tenure at the police department, capped by a weeks-long, unexplained leave, will end May 1, according to City Manager Teresa Wilson.
Columbia paid $52,000 toward Randy Scott’s retirement fund, and 55 pounds of marijuana were found in an arcade game.