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Professor developing Google Glass app with Duke team

What seems like science fiction is becoming a reality for Srihari Nelakuditi. The associate professor in USC’s College of Engineering and Computing and three researchers from Duke University are in the process of developing a Google Glass application called InSight that would allow users of the upcoming computer eyewear to recognize and virtually communicate with others in person.


	Zeta Tau Alpha sorority’s Annie O’Connor dances with her partner in the pageant’s introductory portion.

Sorority members compete for crown

Jillian’s was packed wall-to-wall with antsy students Tuesday night, all eager to witness an annual crowning moment in Fraternity and Sorority Life. It was time for Sigma Chi fraternity’s Miss Venus pageant.


Executive officers choose cabinets

After vetting 56 applicants for top Student Government positions, Student Body President Chase Mizzell has selected all but one member of his executive cabinet.


In Brief: March 27, 2013

Columbia will spend $5.7 million on the Palmetto Compress warehouse, a cold snap might mean lost money for farmers and the number of state employees has been dropping as the state’s population has grown.


In Brief: March 26, 2013

Some Richland residents want to create new county, Tanner to be inducted into SC Athletic Hall of Fame and court upholds district’s ban on Confederate attire.


2nd Puzzle Hunt kicks off

The second annual USC Puzzle Hunt kicked off Monday, with 18 teams of students competing to solve nine “metapuzzles” based on a colonial America theme. Second-year mathematics student Chris King created the Puzzle Hunt on his own last year and worked with a team of other students to construct this year’s puzzles.


	Students tour the interactive and educational Tunnel of Awareness, which is on exhibit through Wednesday.

Tunnel sheds light on justice

There’s a light at the end of the Tunnel of Awareness for students who experience the exhibit highlighting social justice issues. “It leaves you curious as to what else you really don’t know,” first-year exercise science student Dominique Francis said.


SPTE hopes to add PhD

The Department of Sport and Entertainment Management plans to add a doctoral program that will be the “natural next step” for the school, department chairman Andrew Gillentine said.


In Brief: March 25, 2013

Sheriffs around South Carolina will meet after four lawmen were indicted, authorities are searching for a missing inmate and ETV is facing layoffs under federal budget cuts.


Crime Blotter: March 15 to March 22

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.