More than 1,000 run 5k for breast cancer awareness
By Davis Klabo | Sep. 29, 2013A sea of pink raced through Columbia this Sunday as Zeta Tau Alpha’s largest ever Pink Ribbon 5k kicked off this week’s “Think Pink” activities with a resonant bang.
A sea of pink raced through Columbia this Sunday as Zeta Tau Alpha’s largest ever Pink Ribbon 5k kicked off this week’s “Think Pink” activities with a resonant bang.
Silence was the most persistent noise in the School of Law Auditorium as the audience waited to hear the words of award-winning poet Nikky Finney.
The Arnold School of Public Health sponsored the second annual Hispanic/Latino Community Forum at the Richland County Public Library Thursday evening.
The sound of scripture and passionate sermons echoed down Greene Street and around Russell House Wednesday afternoon. Members of Rock of Ages Ministries shouted Bible verses and handed out fliers to students walking past Thomas Cooper Library.
The 66 members of the 2014 Dance Marathon morale team were announced on Monday after going through an online application process and interviews.
An overhaul of Student Government’s legislative codes was delayed for the second time Wednesday night, this time due to a dispute over a new system of implementing legislation.
USC’s Sorority Council was awarded the National Panhellenic Conference Excellence Award on Monday. The group is one of just 14 out of the nation’s 574 college Panhellenic organizations to be recognized with the award, according to NPC leaders.
A woman told the Columbia Police Department she was grabbed by an unknown man on Pickens Street who told her to “come with him” around 10:30 a.m. By 5 p.m. Tuesday, police had arrested her on charges of making the story up.
A man and woman are being sought in multiple cases of vending machine vandalism on USC’s campus.
Crimes reported to the University of South Carolina Division of Law Enforcement and Safety between Sept. 13 and Sept. 20
After kicking off a yearlong celebration of diversity with its commemoration of the 50th anniversary of desegregation, USC, along with the McKissick Museum, has expanded on that memory.
Buildings in the south, west and central areas of campus, including the Russell House, lost power for about three hours Saturday morning. Thomas Cooper Library remained closed until 10 a.m. Sunday due to the outage.
This year’s record sized freshman class is even larger than the university projected in August. Instead of an estimated 4,900 students, 5,034 first-year students enrolled at USC this fall.
Associate professor Nancy Brown of the College of Social Work addressed an intimate audience in the Gressette Room of Harper College Wednesday night, discussing her paths to success as a counselor and therapist, as well as a friend and mother.
Student senate introduced a streamlining of its legislative codes Wednesday night. The overhaul of the 200 section largely organizes the codes, codifies current procedures and moves certain codes to more appropriate sections.
University President Harris Pastides called for a three-year tuition freeze in exchange for increased, “fair” funding from the state Wednesday morning at his annual State of the University address. Pastides also asked lawmakers to pass a performance-based education funding plan and to cover increasing employee pay, energy bills and health insurance costs. If the legislature does so, the university will not ask for any additional one-time allocations, like the $15 million it received this year to renovate Hamilton College.
University President Harris Pastides called for a three year moratorium on tuition increases in exchange for increased and “fair” state funding at the annual State of the University address Wednesday morning on the Historic Horseshoe.