Crime Blotter for June 7-June 14
By Amanda Coyne | June 18, 2013All crimes reported by USC’s Division of Law Enforcement and Safety Friday to Friday.
All crimes reported by USC’s Division of Law Enforcement and Safety Friday to Friday.
Tuition and fees for USC’s flagship campus and all but one of USC’s regional campuses will increase at an average rate of 3.15 percent, the board of trustees announced Monday.
Incidents at Carolina Stadium and Olympia Mills are included in this week’s blotter.
The Healthy Carolina Farmers Market is back for the summer, selling fresh fruits, vegetables and other treats to USC students. Though held on Greene Street during the spring and fall, the market is on Davis Field every Tuesday during the summer term.
USC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications announced the creation of a fellowship for business journalists to earn a doctorate degree, starting with a $500,000 donation from alumnus Kenneth W. Baldwin Jr.
The 49 newest top scholars at USC have been chosen. The university has awarded the annually given Carolina, McNair, Horseshoe and Hamilton scholarships to 44 incoming freshmen, and five new students have received Stamps Carolina Scholarships, established this year through a gift from the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation.
Incidents including a DUI, simple possession of marijuana and a fight between two women occurred in the last week’s worth of reports.
USC is partnering with the Columbia Police Department to gauge residents’ perceptions of the city’s safety. The effort is funded by a grant from the Smart Policing Initiative totaling nearly $300,000, CPD spokeswoman Jennifer Timmons said.
Recent Honors College graduate, William “Cole” Franks has been awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG).
John McDermott, chair of the economics department, has been appointed interim dean of the Darla Moore School of Business.
USC’s board of trustees approved a $4.965 million project May 28 intended to mitigate the settlement of dirt near Carolina Stadium’s left field that has caused cracking in sidewalks and the stadium’s facade. The high price tag comes from the amount of engineering work the project requires, which USC spokesman Wes Hickman said is “pretty significant.”
The Gamecocks will play at home for yet another bid to travel to Omaha for the 2013 College World Series. The team, which finished second to Arizona for last year’s national championship, will face off against Saint Louis, which has been seeded fourth of the four teams which will play at Carolina Stadium.
USC’s endowment was among the fastest growing in the SEC last year, but on a per-student basis, it’s still the smallest in the conference.
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.
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.
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.