Every year, tens of thousands of prospective students and their families visit the University of South Carolina for a campus tour. Here's the story of how the university's Visitor Center came to be, a

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.When Frances Hodgson Burnett penned those words more than a century ago in her classic childrens book The Secret Garden, t

What building on the University of South Carolina campus was named for a Confederate navy commodore and commemorated on a picture postcard? It's a trick question! A high-rise residence hall was featur

Fifty years ago, it wasn't uncommon to hear professors give the 'look to your left, look to your right one of you will have failed by the end of the semester' speech. But exactly 50 years ago, Carol

Women's college sports were in their infancy in the 1970s, but Title IX changed everything by leveling the playing field for men's and women's sports at the collegiate level. Meet two of the first 18

Scores of University of South Carolina graduates have died in military service since the Spanish-American War at the close of the 19th century. In observance of Memorial Day, we remember three, who di

Pranks and pratfalls are part of life in any college residence hall, but one dormitory complex at the University of South Carolina seemed to have more than its fair share. Stories about life in the To

Sarge Frye knew how to make grass grow, and for five decades he made sure the University of South Carolina's athletic fields were green and trimmed. But much more than that, Sarge had a heart for peop

The third-longest serving president in the history of the university, Tom Jones led Carolina during a period of unprecedented growth, both in student enrollment and campus expansion. And he did it dur

Nearly 60 years ago, a Hungarian-born choral conductor named Arpad Darazs launched the University of South Carolina's  Concert Choir, which quickly earned a reputation for its musical prowess. Darazs