Episodes
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Left of the dial and right in your ear: History of WUSC-FM
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
WUSC-FM got its start in 1947, providing a training ground for generations of DJs, radio engineers and station managers. Students are still eager to be WUSC DJs, but the motivation today is more focused on sharing a personal passion for music.
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Collapsing shower stalls and crumbling mortar: The restoration of the Horseshoe
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
In the early 1970s, USC's historic Horseshoe buildings had fallen into disrepair while new buildings sprouted across the campus. The university began a long renovation and restoration project that systematically rejuvenated each 19th century building, and the vigilant maintenance process continues to this day.
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Happy birthday, USC: the university's centennial and bicentennial
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
The University of South Carolina has been around a long time — long enough to celebrate its 100th and 200th birthdays with the 250th less than 30 years away.
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
100 years of making music: The School of Music's centennial
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
It began as a music department with only two professors and grew into one of the region's premier music schools. USC's School of Music is celebrating its 100th anniversary of making beautiful music in 2024.
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Beat Dook! — The first breakthrough win of the Frank McGuire era
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
When Frank McGuire arrived at USC in 1964, Gamecock fans knew they had a winning basketball coach. But early in McGuire's second season, the team had three starters who had never played against a conference opponent. Their first such matchup on Dec. 6, 1965 — the No. 3-ranked Blue Devils of Duke University.
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Motto, seal and mace: Enduring symbols of USC
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Everyone knows the Horseshoe is the oldest part of the University of South Carolina campus. But there are two things — the university motto and seal — that are even older than USC's historic district.
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
USC during Reconstruction
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
USC's modern desegregation took place in 1963 when three African American students enrolled at the historically white university — but they actually weren't the first black students in the university's history. For a brief window in the 1870s, USC became the only state-supported public university in the South to open its doors to white and black students alike.
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Three in one: the Women's Quad
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
A century ago, USC built its first dormitory for women, whose presence on campus had not been warmly welcomed when the first females arrived in the 1890s. While women's dorms have come and gone on campus, the Women's Quad retains its status as the original location for and the only present location of women's-only residence halls at the university.
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
Flying high: USC’s ties to aviation
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
From training fighter pilots in World War II to offering the state's only aerospace engineering degree, USC's ties to aviation are sky high. One of the early players in the story was a Wisconsin farmboy who flew a plane solo at the age of 12.
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Hoops venues, 1908 to the present
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
USC's first basketball season tipped off in 1908 and since then the men's and women's teams have competed on seven different courts across campus. Today's fans are used to watching the Gamecocks play at Colonial Life Arena, but hundreds of games were played in a now-demolished fieldhouse that once occupied a spot in the middle of campus.