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.
Kevin Shepherd’s grandmother used to tell him: “Boy, don’t you forget where you came from.” Shepherd spoke along with other community members at the Association of African-American Students meeting Tuesday night, a gathering to celebrate the 50th anniversary of racial desegregation at USC.
Todd Wilson remembers the tension 50 years ago, the murmurs and the walk past state police.
On Sept. 11, 1963, there were no riots. There were no federal marshals. There was no fight from the state government. Three new African-American students walked down the steps of the Osborne Administration Building, the first to do so since Reconstruction.
The 2013-2014 academic year will be dedicated to celebrating the anniversary of USC’s desegregation, with academic and cultural events from September until April.
Converse College is cutting its tuition prices by nearly half, Drip’s owner is opening a Five Points gelato joint, and South Carolina could be getting a fourth area code.
Before she went to counseling, Margaret Kramer “believed the stereotype that you just sit on the couch and they write notes and listen and take your money.” “I never really felt like your life could be changed by counseling, but when I went to my second counselor, and that was the right fit for me, that’s when my life changed,” she said.
The Carolina Productions offices have moved out of the Campus Life Center in Russell House to make room for the university’s new Leadership and Service Center.
Volunteers have gathered enough signatures to bring the a strong-mayor referendum before the city’s voters. With just over 12,500 verified signatures, the question has shifted from whether Columbia will vote on the strong-mayor question to when.
Police say a man took a loaded gun into a Charleston airport, Gov. Nikki Haley appointed her new chief of staff, and a Murrells Inlet high school evacuated Monday after several American flags were burned outside its entrance.
Columbia will take private proposals this fall on how it should remedy the city’s homeless problem. But what exactly the city’s looking for isn’t clear.
A fourth-year economics student has been charged with two counts of driving under the influence and driving without a license after police say he struck and killed two motorcyclists last weekend.
Two men face drug charges after separate incidents in Five Points over the weekend.
Student Government has asked the Constitutional Council to throw out the organizational challenge that calls for the immediate assembly of a codified house of delegates.
Student Government looks to expand program to basketball, baseball away games in future
Crime Blotter for Aug. 27 to Sept. 6
A Newberry High School junior was struck and killed by a train, a College of Charleston student died in a car accident and a West Ashley teacher has been accused of anti-gay bullying