2008 Woodie Awards
Just after graduation last May, Thomson Cafeteria saw a $1.5 million makeover. The renovations took about three months to complete and include new lighting, seating and a farewell to the Eagle Express store, which moved to the East Thomson conference room.
When two armed men confronted a group of Winthrop students last week in the Sims parking lot, there wasn't much police could do with the contaminated scene seven hours later. Three students reported late Monday afternoon, Aug. 20, that two men took a shotgun from the trunk of a green car nearby and forced cash and a gold neck chain from a male victim at around four that morning.
Sixty-eight percent of Americans think the legal drinking age should be lowered, according to a poll by MSNBC this month. For decades, the debate to lower the drinking age to 18 has been a heated discussion between lawmakers, parents, young adults and special interest groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Rock Hill hasn't had a good rain at all this August, and it isn't going to help if it rains a couple of times this week, according to the city. Public services administrator Nick Stegall said students can help voluntarily. Taking shorter showers and washing only full loads of laundry are both good starts, he said.
Universities honor individuals for many different reasons. From philanthropy to volunteer work, many of the buildings on campus are named in honor of a person's entire lifetime of service. The new Owens Hall is named after Winthrop alumna and trustee Glenda Pittman Owens and her husband, Gerald.
Take a walk on campus. From the time you walk out of the doors of Thurmond and make it to the steps of Tillman, you are bound to see one of the hundreds of shirts telling students to go Greek, or a sorority sister with Greek letters printed on a multi-colored tote bag.
Imagine if suddenly the ground starts shaking, shaking and shaking. You look around and see people running, crying and yelling. Then, objects and buildings fall down. And in a couple of minutes, you see destruction. That happened in the earthquake that struck Peru and killed at least 510 people on Aug.
Stepping off an over-crowded plane from San Francisco into the muggy airport of Charlotte, the feeling of sticking one's head inside an oven was overwhelming. How could it possibly be this hot, especially at night? Doesn't the sun go to sleep here? Over the coming days I would become as inquisitive about the culture I found myself landed in as those around me would become about me a foreigner, out of place and in over my head.
MUSIC CONSERVATORY 8/25 Public disorderly intoxication, damage to property A male student was found at the bottom of a short flight of stairs in the third floor hallway of the Music Conservatory, sleeping or passed out. It appeared he had fallen down at least a few of the stairs.
