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Breaking: Darla Moore gives $5 million more to University of South Carolina

'My commitment to USC is as strong as ever' Darla Moore had hundreds of students, almost a dozen television cameras and USC’s top officials packed inside a captive Russell House ballroom, ready to hear her thoughts on being removed from USC’s board of trustees. Moore didn’t give them. In a powerfully captivating speech that left a few students in tears, she instead chose to give $5 million more to the university for an aerospace research center that will be the “wave of the future” in a knowledge-based economy.