When USC planted its Carolina on King welcome center in Charleston last August, President Harris Pastides touted it as “a front door” to the university for Lowcountry tourists, alumni and potential students. One year later, Carolina on King has drawn more than 65,000 visitors from almost all 50 states and a number of foreign countries.
New policy regarding funding sculptures and murals on campus was approved by the board of trustees last week.
Columbia building may become historical site The Palmetto Compress and Warehouse building has been empty for years, but it may be on track to become a preserved historical site, The Post and Courier reported. The big brick building was almost torn down until the city stopped demolition plans and bought the building earlier this year. The Columbia Development Corporation got a $5.6 million loan from the city of Columbia in order to purchase the building to save it from demolition, according to Fred Delk, the director of the Columbia Development Corporation. “I think we’re going to get a lot of different proposals, and they’re going to range from student residential with some commercial to the other extreme of some combinations of lodging, market residential, office uses and commercial uses,” Delk said. Clemson senior killed in pickup truck crash A pickup truck crash killed a 21-year-old Clemson University senior over the weekend, The State reported. Sara Ann Comer of York County was one of three people ejected from a 2005 Chevrolet pickup truck after it swerved off of the road at around 3 a.m.
Women’s Quad, Assembly Street, Moore School to be finished on time.
Athletic director Ray Tanner said he spoke with top executives at The State but did not pressure them to reassign columnist Ron Morris, calling the suggestion “ridiculous.”
Students who did not provide contact information did not receive the Carolina Alert test texts or emails Thursday.
The coed a capella group will reportedly release their first album in the coming weeks.
Authorities are still investigating what sparked the blaze that killed one and left many others without a place to live.
Foul play expected in Columbia man’s death, three people, one dog found dead in submerged SUV and Tyheem Henry updates his Facebook from prison.
Families of fallen first responders joined military officers and city officials Wednesday evening to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the Sept.
USC has submitted initial plans for a privately funded apartment complex to a city review commission, but many of its details — including who will build it — are not yet known.
When Henrie Montieth Treadwell, James Solomon Jr. and Robert Anderson walked down the steps of the Osborne Administration Building 50 years ago, they were met by the tension of a university that had just opened its doors to African-American students for the first time.
A man is convicted of mistreating animals, another man is breaking into apartments and staring at sleeping women, while The State’s well-known sports columnist will no longer cover the Gamecocks.
Walk Home Cocky, a safe walk program initially proposed by Freshman Council in February, has finally set a start date, Student Body President Chase Mizzell announced at student senate Wednesday.
The Constitutional Council has unanimously decided that third-year international business and global supply chain management student Josh Snead’s organizational challenge against Student Government has standing and that a hearing will proceed within 10 business days.
While the original iconic steps they climbed have been replaced, Henrie Monteith Treadwell and James Solomon Jr. stood at the front of the Osborn Administration Building Wednesday morning, marking 50 years since they first left it as students.
When Constance Gantt arrived at USC three years ago, “it was just coming to college.” “It’s nothing you really think about,” said Gantt, a fourth-year elementary education student.