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USC receives high ‘Green Ratings’
The new color at the University of South Carolina is green. USC received the highest possible score on Princeton Review’s “Green Ratings” and was named to the 2013 Green Honor Roll. USC was the only school in South Carolina to earn the top ranking. The publication’s ratings, its fifth, were based on surveys about colleges’ environmental practices, policies and academic offerings. The list will appear in the 2013 editions of two Princeton Review guidebooks, “The Complete Book of Colleges” and “The Best 377 Colleges.” USC’s commitment to becoming a more sustainable campus began nearly 10 years ago with plans to build a green residence hall. Green Quad opened in 2004 and earned LEED Silver designation a year later, the first public LEED building in the state and the first green residence hall in the nation. Seven other buildings on campus are green and another 10 are in design or being constructed. The new Darla Moore School of Business is being built at the LEED platinum level with the goal of creating the world’s largest net zero building. The school also employs more than 40 student interns to help implement the campus’ sustainability plan, “Sustainable Carolina.”
Area schools rank low in social mobility
Unlike the annual U.S. News & World Report college rankings, most of the area colleges probably won’t be bragging about their places on the Washington Monthly’s annual rating released Monday. Washington Monthly collaborated with New America Foundation’s Education Policy Program to rate schools on what they are doing to improve social mobility, produce research and promote public services. The rankings also look at schools that combine higher-than-expected graduation rates with affordable prices. “There’s nothing wrong with rankings per se, but the rankings that push individual colleges to heedlessly raise prices help precipitate a collective crisis that threatens to undermine institutions that are vital to the nation’s future prosperity and civic life,” said Kevin Carey, director of the Education Policy Program. “Our rankings pose a different question: What are colleges doing for the country?” Only one of U.S. News’ Top 10 schools, Stanford, is in Washington Monthly’s top 10. The Washington Monthly rankings use social mobility, which gives colleges credit for enrolling many low-income students and helping them earn degrees, research production and community service. In the national university category, the University of South Carolina ranked 114th, while Clemson, which has made it a goal to crack the U.S. News & World Report’s Top 20, was ranked 158th. In the liberal arts category, Furman ranked 99th, while Wofford ranked 222nd. Claflin University in Orangeburg was South Carolina’s highest-ranked liberal arts college at 38th. Converse College was cited as one of the Top 100 Master’s Universities. Converse ranked third.
SHARE. You’ve been together so long, it’s hard to remember life before you were a couple – and the best part of the day is still coming home, when you can share everything with the person who cares most about you. That’s why it’s important that both of you make your health – and prevention – a priority. Encourage each other to get a breast and prostate exam: Take a Love One to the Doctor Day Sat., Sept. 15 • 10 a.m.-2 p.m. West End Community Center 404 Vardry St. • Greenvillle No registration • Free
Palmetto iPhones in peril
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South Carolinians have a major case of fumble-fingers when it comes to iPhones. According to a report by SquareTrade, a California company that sells extended warranties for electronics, South Carolina is the fifth clumsiest state. About one-quarter of South Carolinians who buy a warranty from the company are expected to submit a claim over the next two years. The national rate is 1-in-5. The only states that have clumsier residents are Mississippi, New Mexico, Rhode Island and North Dakota. According to the company, recent claims from South Carolina residents include one from a police officer who dropped his iPhone in a cup while serving an arrest warrant, another from a shopper whose iPhone fell out of her purse into a toilet at Wal-Mart and one from an unlucky driver whose iPhone fell out of a jacket pocket and was damaged by an automated power seat.