The Carolina Coliseum was filled Tuesday with the sound of cheers, music and noisemakers as students cheered on contestants in the Homecoming Showcase competition, hoping their favorites would be crowned homecoming king or queen.
The Student Success Center and the Office of Student Engagement hosted the first-ever Speed Dating Engagement event Monday.
USC has been recognized for the second year in a row with the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. It is the only school in South Carolina to receive the distinction.
USC’s homecoming week continued Monday with a celebration of square dance and yoga pants as the annual Spurs and Struts competition packed Greene Street corner to corner with eager spectators and Greek life supporters.
Three people were robbed over the weekend in Five Points in a pair of incidents that police say might be connected.
With a week left before voters head to the polls, Larry Sypolt withdrew from Columbia’s mayoral race Monday. He endorsed incumbent Steve Benjamin and accepted chairmanship of a citywide anti-crime task force.
Associate professor Karen Mallia’s Creative Leadership class hosted USC’s annual CreateAthon on Friday and Saturday. During the 24-hour event, students created marketing and communications campaigns for six nonprofit organizations in the Columbia area.
A prominent local attorney has died, South Carolina has the fifth highest violent crime rate and police say a man impersonated an officer and assaulted a woman
Errant feces in South Quad, an incessantly cursing man and a stolen fraternity house salad bar are included in this week’s Crime Blotter
Interim Columbia Police Chief Ruben Santiago says he has concerns about closing streets in Five Points on weekend nights. Santiago said he has seen the concept — which supporters say would ease crowding and let police keep tabs on who comes into the area — work, usually in cities with plenty of public transit.
USC Dance Marathon raised money for Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital, Columbia’s Children’s Miracle Network Hospital and the only free-standing children’s hospital in the state, with its fourth annual FT5K at Blatt P.E. Center Sunday afternoon
Homecoming week started Sunday with Dance Marathon’s FT5K and competing organizations painting banners and storefront windows, but there’s still a week full of events on the way. The Homecoming Kick-Off event takes place on Greene Street from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday.
Columbia police identify 140 gang members for potential eviction, a USC student is sought in connection with a WVU car-flipping, and former President George W. Bush contributes $5,000 to U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s campaign.
In efforts to promote a safer Five Points environment, the USC sorority and fraternity community chose to come together to create this event dedicated to the speedy recovery of Martha Childress, the first-year business student who was left paralyzed after being shot in Five Points on Oct. 13.
Undergraduate advisers from USC’s Columbia and satellite campuses came together Thursday to discuss changes to the advising system that officials say will streamline the process and benefit students.
After years of unfulfilled promises by Student Government candidates, the CarolinaCard will make its off-campus debut today. Salsarita’s Fresh Cantina on Gervais Street today becomes the first off-campus business to accept Carolina Cash as payment.
The S.C. Highway Patrol has issued warrants for the arrest of a driver who fled police; crashed into a house near USC’s campus, sparking a blaze; and ran from the scene on foot.