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By Kiley Wagner | Feb. 25USC students eat breakfast in the Gamecock Park dining hall on Feb. 25, 2025. Breakfast is the first meal of the day that helps to start up the metabolism in the body.
USC students eat breakfast in the Gamecock Park dining hall on Feb. 25, 2025. Breakfast is the first meal of the day that helps to start up the metabolism in the body.
McBryde Residence Hall stands behind the Thomas Cooper Library on Feb. 19, 2025. The USC board of trustees approved the dorm to be demolished in spring 2026 in order to build a new residence hall that better fits the university’s growing student population.
Richland Library Sandhills' bookshelves are shown as half-empty on Feb. 4, 2025. Over 10,000 instances of books being banned were documented by Poets, Essayists, and Novelists America in the 2023-24 year.
A USC student works on assignments and notes while drinking Celsius energy drinks on Jan. 26, 2025. Caffeinated drinks such as Celsius contain around 200 mg of caffeine per can and are what some undergraduates use to stay awake and energized.
Jesse Pinkman Conglomerate President Ash Jacobson and second-year music industries student Scott Manning attempt to cut a wheel of gouda cheese with a wire during a "Cheese Wheel" event held in the Russell Underground on Nov. 22, 2024. The Jesse Pinkman Conglomerate hosted the event and invited students try a 28-pound wheel of cheese along with other food and refreshments.
A University of South Carolina student stands ready to serve pieces of cheese to event attendees during a "Cheese Wheel" event held in Russell Underground on Nov. 22, 2024. The event was held by the Jesse Pinkman Conglomerate and offered attendees the opportunity to partake in a 28-pound wheel of gouda cheese.
A USC student looks at the Music Teaching Artist Certificate Program application which will guide and support USC students in the School of Music to expand music learning in South Carolina on Nov. 6, 2024. 10 students will be chosen for this scholarship, and the application will end on Dec. 2.
A USC student reads Babel: An Arcane History on an eBook on Nov. 12, 2024. Richland Library is holding a Meet the Author event Nov. 15 with award-winning author Rebecca F. Kuang to discuss challenging themes and subjects within her books Babel: An Arcane History and Yellowface.
A car pulls into the parking lot of Rosewood Elementary School on Election Day on Nov. 5, 2024. Voting polls were open for South Carolina voters from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Jesmyn Ward’s novel “Let Us Descend” is displayed at All Good Books bookstore in Columbia, South Carolina on Sept. 23, 2024. Ward will be signing books at the Fall Literacy Festival Preview this week.