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Most U.S. states have been running a summer program for years known as “Boys State”.  It is a week long program typically sponsored by a local rotary club or American Legion group.  High school boys attend.  Emphasis is on creating a pseudo government……issues, campaigning, caucuses, elections are all involved.
For the last two years in South [...]

Restaurants in downtown Clemson have it made as far as entertainment goes.  There seems to be a plethora of talented students from the local high school as well as the University.  These students are looking for some exposure and the opportunity to try out their talent in a public venue.  The restaurants/coffee houses seem to [...]

Clemson pulled ahead in the eighth inning last night over Oklahoma State to win it 6-5.    Coach Jack Leggett couldn’t have put it better when he said ” It was a measure of toughness.  We just battled”.
The 6000+ crowd at Doug Kingsmore Stadium celebrated right along with the Tigers albeit with a little extra prompting [...]

The Tigers Varsity 4+ captured Clemson’s first-ever National Championship today at the NCAA Rowing Championships in Cherry Hill, New Jersey!
The women beat powerhouse Wisconsin by 1.76 seconds to earn 16 team points.  Clemson led by more than two seconds at both the halfway mark and the 1,500 meter mark before holding off the Badgers down [...]

Kat Majester a Clemson senior and four year cheerleader is competing in the pole vault in the NCAA Est Region Track and Field Championships this weekend. This is the first major track competition for Kat.  In fact, Kat   picked up a vaulting pole for the first time just six short months ago.
Last fall, Josh [...]

Word is out today that Terrence Oglesby, a starting guard on the Clemson basketball team, will forgo his last two seasons at Clemson to pursue a professional basketball career in Europe.
Terrance was a real polarizing figure in Clemson basketball.  Everyone has an opinion about him — either real good or real bad.  For when he [...]

On Friday, May 22nd Clemson junior, Kyle Stanley was awarded the 2009 Ben Hogan Award at Colonial Country Club in Dallas TX.  The prestigious honor is awarded each year to the top collegiate golfer and amateur tournaments from May 2008 to May 2009.
Stanley is ranked third in the U.S. and eighth in the World Amateur [...]

Play Ball!
Clemson was one of 16 sites selected to host an NCAA Baseball Regional for the 63rd-annual Division I Baseball Championship!  The first game will be held Friday May 29th at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.  The Tigers will be one of four teams to play in the double-elimination tourney.
This is the 10th year that Clemson has [...]

Clemson University originally Clemson College formally opened in July 1893 - with enrollment of 446 men.  From the beginning, the college was an all-male military school.  It remained that way until 1955 when the change was made to “civilian” status.
Notable events-
In 1917, the entire senior class sent President Woodrow Wilson a telegram, in it they [...]

An easy off-campus and GO TO destination is the Waffle House on Hwy 123 in Clemson.  I am citing this particular Waffle House although there are 3 others within a 20 minute radius of campus.    While the Waffle House is a familiar and ubiquitous tradition of the South…it is by no means a “cookie cutter” [...]

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