New Carolina Core courses get positive reviews
By Jessica Gorman | April 24, 2013The Carolina Core’s new overhauled courses have received positive reviews in their first year at USC.
The Carolina Core’s new overhauled courses have received positive reviews in their first year at USC.
USC athletes traded their playing fields for a red carpet Monday evening at the annual Gamecock Gala awards ceremony at Colonial Life Arena.
Gubernatorial candidate state Sen. Vincent Sheheen, a Democrat from Kershaw County, will visit USC and engage in a Q-and-A session with students today at 7 p.m. in Russell House room 305.
USC’s EcoReps Leadership Team started celebrating Earth Week with a tie-dyeing event on the Russell House Patio Monday.
Gamecock quarterbacks Connor Shaw and Dylan Thompson gave Capstone Scholars a glimpse of their personalities and encouragement to be leaders when they spoke at the semester’s final Capstone Conversation Monday afternoon.
The blotter comes from police reports released by the USC Division of Law Enforcement and Safety and doesn’t include crimes reported by city or county law enforcement.
More than 2,000 participants representing 85 teams asked and answered that question at the 2013 Relay For Life, the annual event that raises money for the American Cancer Society.
As students spend the last days of the semester completing final projects and papers and preparing for exams, professors are hoping they’ll put some time into another assignment, too — professor evaluations. An increasing trend toward online forms in place of traditional paper surveys seems to have helped push evaluation completion rates up to around 70 to 80 percent, says Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies Helen Doerpinghaus.
Even though Columbia is more than 900 miles away from Boston, many members of the Gamecock community felt closely affected by Monday’s Boston Marathon tragedy. Boston native Luke Flanagan, a second-year exercise science student, said he felt his stomach drop as soon as he heard the news of the bombs that wreaked havoc on the streets he had known for so long.
Beta Theta Pi fraternity is hosting Gamecocks Run For Boston today from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Greene Street Fields near the Colonial Life Arena.
On the Russell House patio Wednesday evening, a small group of people began to line up and learn the basic steps to the salsa. Others nearby loaded guacamole onto their burritos.
Clemson University is gunning for some independence from state oversight with a proposed bill before the state Senate, but USC isn’t interested in signing on, USC President Harris Pastides said.
For women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley, talking to Ohio State bore plenty of fruit. USC trustees approved a three-year contract extension and a new pay package for Staley Wednesday that includes a $300,000 retention bonus and a $125,000 raise, with more increases scheduled.
USC trustees approved a three-year contract extension and a new pay package for Dawn Staley Wednesday that includes a $300,000 retention bonus and a $125,000 raise, with more increases scheduled.
Someone tried to claim Williams-Brice Stadium for Clemson Tuesday, spray painting an orange paw print on the field where the Gamecocks have beaten the Tigers twice in their last two meetings.
A USC student was arrested Monday night after the Chi Psi fraternity house director found a jammed shotgun under the house’s stairs.
8 a.m. classes are gone — but only just.
