Remembering the Days: A USC Podcast

Remembering the Days: A USC Podcast


Latest Episodes

Left of the dial and right in your ear: History of WUSC-FM
April 30, 2024

WUSC-FM got its start in 1947, providing a training ground for generations of DJs, radio engineers and station managers. Students are still eager to be WUSC DJs, but the motivation today is more focus

Collapsing shower stalls and crumbling mortar: The restoration of the Horseshoe
April 16, 2024

In the early 1970s, USC's historic Horseshoe buildings had fallen into disrepair while new buildings sprouted across the campus. The university began a long renovation and restoration project that sys

Happy birthday, USC: the university's centennial and bicentennial
April 02, 2024

The University of South Carolina has been around a long time long enough to celebrate its 100th and 200th birthdays with the 250th less than 30 years away.

100 years of making music: The School of Music's centennial
March 19, 2024

It began as a music department with only two professors and grew into one of the region's premier music schools. USC's School of Music is celebrating its 100th anniversary of making beautiful music in

Beat Dook! — The first breakthrough win of the Frank McGuire era
March 05, 2024

When Frank McGuire arrived at USC in 1964, Gamecock fans knew they had a winning basketball coach. But early in McGuire's second season, the team had three starters who had never played against a conf

Motto, seal and mace: Enduring symbols of USC
February 19, 2024

Everyone knows the Horseshoe is the oldest part of the University of South Carolina campus. But there are two things the university motto and seal that are even older than USC's historic district.

USC during Reconstruction
February 06, 2024

USC's modern desegregation took place in 1963 when three African American students enrolled at the historically white university but they actually weren't the first black students in the university'

Three in one: the Women's Quad
January 23, 2024

A century ago, USC built its first dormitory for women, whose presence on campus had not been warmly welcomed when the first females arrived in the 1890s. While women's dorms have come and gone on cam

Flying high: USC’s ties to aviation
December 05, 2023

From training fighter pilots in World War II to offering the state's only aerospace engineering degree, USC's ties to aviation are sky high. One of the early players in the story was a Wisconsin farmb

Hoops venues, 1908 to the present
November 21, 2023

USC's first basketball season tipped off in 1908 and since then the men's and women's teams have competed on seven different courts across campus. Today's fans are used to watching the Gamecocks play