USC History
The Year USC Was Founded
What is 1801?
The name of the student magazine at USC.
What is the Garnet & Black?
Governing entity of the USC student body; consists of Cabinet and Senate.
What is Student Government?
The minimum GPA needed to stay off of academic probation.
What is 2.0?
The Athletic Conference that USC was a member of before the SEC.
What is the ACC?
The Area that Housed the Original Campus.
What is the Horseshoe?
One sport (besides football) with an August-November season.
What is men's soccer or women's soccer, or cross country, or volleyball?
This is what GLD stands for.
What is Graduation with Leadership Distinction?
What is the Thomas Cooper Library?
The Gamecock Football Team runs out to "2001"; this is the significance of that year (2001).
What is USC's Bicentennial (200th anniversary)?
The first campus Building at USC.
What is Rutledge College?
This 24-hour long dancing event raises money for the local children's hospital.
What is Dance Marathon?
The primary leaders/resources in a residence hall.
What are Resident Mentors (RMs)?
The office to visit when considering which major to choose or to switch to a different major.
What is the University Advising Center or Major Change Advising?
The reason we raise our hands at the end of the Alma Mater.
What is offering a toast? ("Here's a health Carolina, Forever to Thee")
The original name of USC.
What is South Carolina College?
Regular event organized by Community Service Programs; held one weekend each month for service in the Columbia community.
What is Service Saturday?
The student-run governing and programming body of residence halls.
What is the Residence Hall Association (RHA)?
The location to have your resume reviewed or do interview prep.
What is the Career Center?
The nickname of Stone Stadium, the Gamecocks' home soccer field.
What is the Graveyard?
The reason USC was closed from 1861 to 1865.
What is the Civil War?
Organization that grows (and sells) fresh produce on campus.
What is Sustainable Carolina?
The place on campus to get help writing a paper.
What is the Writing Center or Peer Communications Lab?
The undergraduate program that has been ranked #1 for 18 straight years.
What is International Business?
One of the five (5) tenets of the Carolinian Creed.
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