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In Brief: April 26, 2013

A Columbia rapper pleads guilty to sex trafficking, a suspected bank robber is arrested while waiting for a getaway cab, and four children die in a Hartsville mobile home fire.


Advertising class gives annual Cocky Award

Running into Callcott Auditorium on Thursday night to “2001,” Cocky presented an award of his likeness to Mark Sarosi, the art director behind the Budweiser “Brotherhood” advertisement. The Cocky Award, voted on annually by members of Professor Bonnie Drewniany’s “Super Bowl of Advertising” class, is presented to the best Super Bowl commercial each year.


Ticketing returning to weekly system for upcoming football season

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.


	Dara Brown teaches both disabled and able-bodied students.

Disabled find strength in adaptive yoga

Dara Brown regularly hears excuses for why someone “can’t” do yoga, so the instructor laughs when recalling how Sherwood Toatley told her he just isn’t flexible after his first class. She responded the way she would to any other student. Yoga will help make you more flexible, she told him.


Student Government proposes changes for allocations process

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.


In Brief: April 25, 2013

A student was arrested and a bus driver lost her job after they fought, a Virginia man has been accused of calling a bomb threat into Lexington’s White Knoll High School and former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford engaged in debate with a poster Wednesday.


Homelessness in Columbia: The facts

Downtown Columbia’s Ebenezer Lutheran Church served evening meals to about 150 people each day for three years. When its service agreement with the Salvation Army expired March 31, city leaders and service providers stalled over who should pick up the tab for continuing the service.


In Brief: April 24, 2013

The state Senate passed a bill that would allow guns in bars, the head of an S.C. development firm filed for bankruptcy and a suspicious package was found downtown, the third in a week.