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  Episode 26: Tales from the President’s House: Part 1

  Chris Horn and Patricia Moore-Pastides

  The current President's House has been home to every university president since 1952. Former university first lady Patricia Moore-Pastides talked to the now-grown children of those former presidents to find out what life was really like in the President's House all those years ago.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, President’s House, President Donald Russell, President William Patterson, President James Holderman, President Palms, President Sorensen

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  Episode 27: Tales from the President’s House: Part 2

  Chris Horn and Patricia Moore-Pastides

  Patricia Moore-Pastides and her husband, Harris Pastides, lived in the President's House from 2008 to 2019 with thousands of university students as their closest neighbors. As you might imagine, there were some interesting moments in those 11 years.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, President's House, President Harris Pastides, students, story time

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  Episode 28: Heading East: The University’s 1960s Expansion

  Chris Horn and Lydia Brant

  More than 50 years ago, the University of South Carolina expanded its campus eastward, building an 18-story dormitory/conference center in the middle of the University Hill neighborhood. Residents there protested the project, and students did, as well, in 1972 when a pedestrian bridge was built to link to the new east campus.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, Capstone House, campus expansion, University Hill neighborhood, Gambrell Hall, Close-Hipp, College of Nursing, Columbia Hall, Pickens Street pedestrian bridge

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  Episode 29: What’s In a Name?

  Chris Horn, Eric Nichols, Jake Miller, Sophia Piscitell, Miller Gaebe, and Kennedy Young

  Since its inception more than 200 years ago, the University of South Carolina has had three different names and several nicknames. But Juliet was right — that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, University's name, South Carolina College, South Carolina College

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  Episode 30: If It Ain’t Swaying, We Ain’t Playing: The Evolution of South Carolina’s Football Field and Stadium.

  Chris Horn and Elizabeth West

  When the Gamecocks take to the football field every fall, Williams-Brice Stadium roars with the full-throated spirit of 80,000-plus diehard fans, a battalion of marching band members, cheerleaders, baton twirlers and dancers. It’s a far cry from the first football game played on the University of South Carolina campus in 1898 when a few hundred fans huddled on simple wooden bleachers on a field situated about where the Russell House now stands on Greene Street.

  Keywords: football, football stadium, football field, Homecoming weekend, Municipal Stadium, Carolina Stadium, Thomas Brice, Martha Williams-Brice

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  Episode 31: Harry Walker: The Underdog Who Won

  Chris Horn, Luther Battiste, and Harry Walker

  Keywords: Student Government president, African American student, the system, establishment, Harry Walker, Association of African American Students

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  Episode 32: Honeymoon Suites: University Terrace Apartments

  Chris Horn, Missie Walker, and Joe Walker

  They were tiny, blazing hot in the summer and had more than their fair share of bugs, but the long-gone University Terrace Apartments were a first home for many married couples at the University of South Carolina. For Missie and Joe Walker, living at UT was the first rite of passage in their 40-plus years of marriage.

  Keywords: university residence hall, married students, University Terrace Apartments, roaches, married students housing

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  Episode 33: Frat House Blues: The 30-Year Ban on Greek Letter Organizations

  Chris Horn

  In the late 19th century, students at South Carolina College who were stalwart members of the institution's two debate societies felt that their esteemed clubs were somehow threatened by the existence of fraternities on campus. So they contrived a way to boot the Greek letter organizations off campus. It was a quirky chapter in the university's history that, ultimately, ended badly for one side.

  Keywords: Euphradian Society, Clariosophic Society, speech, fraternities, dismissal of fraternities, Davison Douglas, Carolina Debate Society.

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  Episode 34: South by Southwest: USC’s 1960s Expansion

  Chris Horn, Sophie Kahler, and Bobby Donaldson

  Like other universities across the nation, the University of South Carolina needed more land in the 1960s to keep up with skyrocketing student enrollment brought on by the Baby Boom. In a previous episode, we talked about the campus migration that created the east campus in the University Hill neighborhood. This episode explores the underpinnings of the campus expansion into Ward One and Wheeler Hill, which were largely obliterated by the 'urban renewal' efforts that acquired more land for the university.

  Keywords: southeast campus expansion, Wheeler Hill, Ward One, African-American communities, African-American neighborhoods

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  Episode 35: A Natural History Stroll Across Campus

  Chris Horn and Rudy Mancke

  Were there always so many squirrels on the Horseshoe? And how else has campus changed in the past 200 years in regards to insects, birds, snakes and such? Take a stroll with naturalist-in-residence Rudy Mancke to learn what's changed and still changing in the natural world of campus.

  Keywords: squirrel, snakes, red-tailed hawks, nature, birds, Horseshoe, timber rattlesnakes, poisonous copperheads

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  Episode 36: Remembering Havilah Babcock

  Chris Horn and John Wert

  Keywords: Havilah Babcock, English, English class, “I Want a Word.”, 25-cent words, Field & Stream and Sports Afield, My Health is Better in November, Tales of Quails ‘n Such, Jaybirds Go to Hell on Friday, I Don’t Want to Shoot an Elephant

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  Episode 37: JFK Once Slept Here: Famous Visitors on Campus

  Chris Horn

  JFK once had a bad night's rest in the President's House, and Burt Bacharach tickled the ivories there. Pope John Paul II addressed a crowd of thousands packed onto the Horseshoe. This trip down memory lane has us remembering some of the famous visitors who've come to campus over the years.

  Keywords: George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Rondald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Howard Taft, Darius Rucker, Hootie and the Blowfish

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  Episode 38: The Great Biscuit Rebellion

  Chris Horn and Elizabeth West

  For much of the first half of the 19th century, students at South Carolina College were not pleased with the quality of food served on campus. In 1852, the wormy biscuits and rancid meat were too much to stomach, so the students issued an ultimatum — that ultimately gave them a case of indigestion.

  Keywords: Great Biscuit Rebellion of 1852, stewards hall cafeteria, food, meat, worms, horrible food

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  Episode 39: The Lecture Hall That Never Was

  Chris Horn and Jim Hunter

  Intended as a large lecture hall when it was built in 1855, the building we now know as Longstreet Theater never lived up to its intended purpose. Poor acoustics turned it into an echo chamber that was ill-suited for almost any academic purpose. But an engineering miracle in the 1970s transformed the building into a premier stage for live theater.

  Keywords: Longstreet Theater, bigger chapel, lecture hall, classrooms, laboratories, student gymnasium, gym

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  Episode 40: #UofSCLove: A Valentine’s Day Edition of Campus Love

  Chris Horn, Mohammed Behbooei, Amy Harrington, Aaron White, Kara White, Ali Laughlin, Andy Laughlin, Dawn Yamashiro, Nabou Yamashiro, Emily Lordo, Ross Lordo, Will Shockley, Victoria Shockley, Justin Capone, Stephanie Capone, David DeWeil, and Kelly DeWeil

  Cupid's arrows find their mark in this special Valentine's Day episode about eight couples who fell in love on the University of South Carolina campus.

  Keywords: love, couples, falling in love, married, marriage, kids

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  Episode 41: Small-Town Girl Makes Big-Time History

  Chris Horn and Jotaka Eaddy

  When Jotaka Eaddy arrived at the university from her rural dirt-road home in the Pee Dee, she quickly joined several organizations, including Student Government. By her junior year, the small-town girl was making a big splash — and making history.

  Keywords: Jotaka Eaddy, AAAS, student government, Chosen Gospel Choir, president of Student Government, African American woman, Sarah Ladenheim, civil rights advocacy, #WinWithBlackWomen, Full Circle Strategies, Board of Governors

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  Episode 42: Once and Future Treasure: The South Caroliniana Library

  Chris Horn, John Bryan, and Elizabeth West

  Keywords: South Caroliniana Library, Robert Mills, Maxcy Monument, Washington Monument, first free-standing college library, architect

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  Episode 43: Homesick, Lovesick, and Out of Money: Student Letters from Yesteryear.

  Chris Horn

  No one writes letters much anymore, but back in the day, University of South Carolina students wrote letters to home as frequently as today's students send texts on their phones. Technology changes, but one thing remains constant: college students always need more money.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina students, Carolina Voices, Carolyn Matalene, Katherine Reynolds, homesickness, money, dating, letters

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  Episode 44: Sweet Friends: Arpad Darazs and the Concert Choir

  Chris Horn, Sharon Altman, and Alicia Walker

  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 is long gone but the Concert Choir remains the university's premier choral group, and Darazs' former students remain stalwart fans.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina's Concert Choir, University of South Carolina, Arpad Darazs, Columbia Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungary

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  Episode 45: Man For All Seasons: President Tom Jones

  Chris Horn, Frank Avignone III, Don Greiner, and Cissie Jones Snow

  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 during a tumultuous era of Vietnam War protests and a rapidly changing society.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, Tom Jones, campus enrollment, building boom, university’s desegregation, devoted University President

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  Episode 46: The Grass Whisperer, Sarge Frye

  Chris Horn, Jerry Frye, and Sid Kenyon

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, University of South Carolina's athletic fields, Gamecock sports, Sarge Frye, Weldon B. Frye

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  Episode 47: High-Rise Hijinks: Life in the Towers

  Chris Horn, Eve Blsikie, Bob Holdeman, Brain Gambrell, Chip Harvey, and Craig Brandhorst

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, Towers, dorms, dormitory complex, Honeycombs, Veilblocks

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  Episode 48: Remembering the Heroes: A Memorial Day Tribute

  Chris Horn, James Hull, and Jared Evans

  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 died serving their country in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War.

  Keywords: fallen veterans, veterans, Armed Forces, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Vietnam War

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  Episode 49: Fair Play: The 50th Anniversary of Title IX

  Chris Horn, Judy Van Horn, Cheryl Grindle, and Nona Kerr

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, women sports, athletics scholarships, collegiate level sports

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  Episode 50: Sink or Swim: The Course That Became a Freshman Lifesaver

  Chris Horn, John Gardner, Dan Friedman, Sully Hutto, and Yasmin Balogun

  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, Carolina tried something different: a course designed to help freshmen feel like they belonged along with the academic tools they needed to succeed. It was called University 101, and it became model for hundreds of colleges across the country.

  Keywords: University of South Carolina, freshman, University 101, classes, The Freshman Year Experience