University Ambassadors welcomed 31 new members this weekend, concluding a complex recruitment process with a “rookie retreat.” The program received 212 applications this year, yielding an acceptance rate of 14.6 percent.
After years of waiting, students will soon be able to use their CarolinaCards off campus, but not all local businesses are on board.
Columbia will be colorful in more than one way Saturday. Starting the day bright and early at 8 a.m. is the Color Me Rad 5K, in which runners are pelted with five different colors of powdered paint.
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.
Accused shooter out on bond during killing A man is accused of killing another man in a parking lot last week while out on bond on charges of attempted armed robbery and attempted murder, The State reported.
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 Sumter County woman is accused of stabbing her husband with a screwdriver, a 9-year-old boy dies after being struck by a tractor trailer while riding his bicycle, and former USC football coach Paul Dietzel dies at 89.
An event hosted by USC’s Center for Entrepreneurial and Technological Innovation encouraged students to share with their peers ideas that could potentially become startup companies.
With live music, a staff of experienced bartenders and a number of drink specials, Pavlov’s Bar — or Pav’s — has become one of the most popular watering holes for USC students and, apparently, one of the best college bars in the country.
Sitting in the faculty lounge of the Darla Moore School of Business, he’s wearing a short-sleeved, white, button-down shirt. No necktie, though. Steven Mann rarely wears a tie, because it takes him nearly half an hour to try to tie one. His hands just don’t do what his brain tells them to. He has Parkinson’s disease.
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.
After two hours of debate and deliberation, Constitutional Council threw out the organizational challenge against Student Government filed by the president of the South Carolina eSports Club.
Vincent Sheheen has been cleared of three ethics complaints, a 12-year-old charged in a fatal shooting has been placed under house arrest, and Riverbanks Zoo is getting an antisocial gorilla.