Sunday, July 6, 2008

University of South Carolina

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South Carolina Stages Condom Fashion Show

Look out, Project Runway: Here's comes 'Project Condom.' more >>

An Outbreak of Flu Outbreaks

From South Carolina to Oregon, an epidemic of sick students. more >>

Trail Mix

Foam-sword-wielding warriors at the University of Texas try to make a point; University of Maryland students worry about a university police recruitment video; a South Carolina student invents the Bookah Bear more >>

Trail Mix

Ambitious Harvard student downloads more than 5 million Factiva articles; North Carolina fire killed seven UNC and Clemson students; A mouse causes a power outage at University of Minnesota more >>

School Bands, 'You Suck,' and Differing Levels of Propriety

The American University athletic department has asked the school's pep band to stop playing the "Hey" song. more >>

LSU's Gamecock Problem

The University of South Carolina's mascot name has had a ripple effect for Louisiana State University's band. more >>

Trail Mix

South Carolina has become the latest SEC school to get a live mascot, the Daily Gamecock reports. The new mascot is a 13-year-old English black-breasted red gamecock named Sir Big Spur. more >>

South Carolina Reviewer Likes Borat; Frat Brother Likes His Mom

A reviewer at the University of South Carolina, home of those Chi Psi frat boys in the RV who said embarrassing and racist things in Sacha Baron Cohen's new film, Borat, thinks the movie is "brilliant"–though he does deride the jokes that involve his school, saying they are used just "for shock value." Meanwhile, David Corcoran, one of the frat boys, tells FHM the producers bought him and his friends drinks at a bar and then had them pick up the hitchhiking Borat. more >>

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