Mayor Steve Benjamin and the City Council addressed the city of Columbia at the Zoning Public Hearing Tuesday at 7 p.m. regarding an amendment to allow C-3 commercial zoning districts to permit the building of private dormitories.
Last week, Carolina Productions announced the names of their new Executive Board for the upcoming semester, including the induction of a new president.
Ever since he was ten years old, AJ Needler has known that he has wanted to serve in the military. In March 2011 he received one of the 10 available four-year ROTC scholarships available at USC and began his military training as a cadet. But what truly sets him apart from the crowd is that he is the only ROTC member at USC who is openly gay.
USC’s Relay for Life held the first ever Bark for Life in Rosewood park on Saturday. Dogs and their humans came together to raise money for cancer.
For The Love Of Paws, a fundraising event put on by USC students, benefitted the Columbia Humane Society with a silent auction, live music and food.
Task force created to examine expulsions of black students in Richland 2 Richland District 2 is under examination from a 53-member task force after a black parents association raised concerns over ongoing expulsion statistics — specifically, that the majority of students expelled from Richland 2 are black males.
Greek Village is a large part of USC, and now students in Greek Life are looking to facilitate a more environmentally friendly, green hub for the university.
A check for $30,000 changed hands Wednesday night in Swearingen auditorium as the USC chapter of Circle of Sisterhood celebrated the conclusion of their fundraising campaign to raise money for a school in an impoverished district of Nicaragua.
Each year, the student body president gathers students and faculty together to report on all major events and policies enacted by student government during their stint in office.
On Tuesday afternoon, reports of Bill Nye sightings popped up all over Yik Yak. They ranged from believable to not-quite-right.
Monday afternoon, Dedra Shacklette discovered her daughter, Victoria, was mistakenly picked up by DSS from her Greenville elementary school.
You’d have a hard time confirming anything that you find in the Yik-Yak tide-rush of different bits of half-truths, Spongebob jokes and outright lies.
The voter turnout for the recent elections was the lowest for a general election in South Carolina in at least 40 years, with only 43.6 percent of registered voters making it out to the polls, according to the spokesman of the South Carolina State Election Commission (SEC), Chris Whitmire.
Second-year criminology and criminal justice student Diamoney Greene was identified as one of the two people found shot to death in the Copper Beech Townhouse Community.
South Carolina's ban on gay marriage was ruled unconstitutional Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel.
Students in the College of Social Work will no longer be traveling between seven different buildings for their classes.
Veterans Day Parade sets attendance record The city of Columbia celebrated Veterans Day with its annual parade through downtown on Tuesday.