Former USC President Andrew Sorensen built strong ties with African-American community
By Josh Dawsey | April 18, 2011Sorensen built relationships, improved educational opportunities
Sorensen built relationships, improved educational opportunities
No extension for Spurrier, though
Student plan fundraiser on zero-sum budget
First-year scholars plan early research in various fields
Stanford professor presents 'The Road to (and from) the 2010 Elections'
Student designer and models display talent on runway
Parking garage and perimeter lot parking prices will increase for next year
Wilcox moves from associate dean to dean of the Law School
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will speak at next month's commencement exercises. USC confirmed the speaker to The Daily Gamecock late Thursday afternoon, saying
Student Health Services displayed more than 200 T-shirts painted by students on Greene Street Wednesday in an effort to promote violence awareness. The display itself prompted some students, like third-year visual communications student Denishia Macon, to jump in and lend a hand.
Second-year English and French student Michael Lambert, a proud member of the Pastafarians and the Unitarian Universalist church, did not consider himself an atheist when he first came to USC However, when the former Episcopalian and Alabama native finally decided to identify himself as a “nontheist,” it was not because of a moment of sudden clarity or a pivotal revelation.
More than 50 private security cameras are now in the Five Points district, and proponents of the cameras say they’re preventing crime and helping authorities solve cases. The private security cameras, first installed in 2005 and now all over the hospitality district, were brought to the forefront this week after Bruce Miller’s car was broken into and vandalized outside his business, Groucho’s Deli, early Tuesday morning.
In 1960, women didn’t wear pants, couldn’t serve on juries, were often turned down for credit and dreamed of being airline stewardesses. Virtually no discrimination was illegal. Marriage came quickly. Careers did not.
In front of McKissick Museum stands a beautiful southern magnolia planted by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1954 to honor Gen. Robert E. Lee. David Rembert, professor emeritus of biology, recounts that in 1960 or 1961, when he was an undergraduate student at USC and the tree was just a small sapling, someone, no doubt a Yankee, cut it down.
Tony Horwitz shares his perspectives on the Civil War
Professional Development Schools conference honors Les Sternberg for years of service
Professor aims to train students