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South Carolina Law welcomes Class of 2025
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The College of South Carolina Faculty of Regulation welcomed 206 first-year college students into its Class of 2025 on August 10. The category is considered one of South Carolina Regulation’s most
academically proficient, assembly or exceeding its all-time metrics in probably the most
unstable legislation faculty admissions cycles in current reminiscence.
Regardless of an 11.5 % decline in functions to U.S. legislation faculties nationwide, South
Carolina Regulation drew just about even with its 2021 tally of candidates. Greater than 1,750 potential college students requested admission to the legislation faculty — a 25 % improve over 2020 — approaching information set a decade in the past. The coming into class was chosen
from candidates who reside in 49 states, Belgium, and Canada.
South Carolina Regulation elevated its median LSAT and GPA scores to 159 and 3.61 respectively, persevering with the pattern of bettering the coming into class’ educational profile
yearly since 2016. The legislation faculty improved its educational profile in 5 of the
six measures of excellence in educational efficiency.
“The altering nature of the admissions testing atmosphere, plus the financial and
societal components that formed their selections, made this an unusually difficult admissions
12 months. To have ended the cycle with an coming into class whose educational profile matches
or exceeds historic educational benchmarks is especially satisfying contemplating the
challenges we confronted,” mentioned Karen Reagan Britton, vice dean for admissions, profession {and professional} growth, and pupil affairs.
“We’re so happy by their enthusiasm as they meet one another, our school and employees,
and their peer mentors and head to class collectively for the primary time. Our efforts
to compose a proficient and various class have paid dividends with the arrival of the
Class of 2025.”
South Carolina residents made up 54.85 % of the category. Members of the coming into class hail from 29 states, coming to South Carolina Regulation from each area of the nation. Three worldwide
college students are members of the category, coming to South Carolina Regulation from Belgium and Canada.
Greater than 17.1 % of the first-year class are first technology school college students. Forty college students
(20.83 % of the category who recognized ethnicity) self-identified as members of an underrepresented
minority group with 10.94 % having self-identified as Black/African American or Two or Extra (B/AA). Feminine
college students constituted 52.91 % of the coming into class, outnumbering male college students for the third 12 months in a
row.
Members of the Class of 2025 attended 93 undergraduate establishments throughout South Carolina, the area, and the nation. The
College of South Carolina, Clemson College, Wofford Faculty, Faculty of Charleston,
and The Citadel had been the most important South Carolina primarily based feeder faculties. Notably, seven
graduates of the College of South Carolina Honors Faculty selected to stay in Columbia
for legislation faculty. The College of Georgia, the College of Mississippi, and the
College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had been among the many high out-of-state faculties
represented by a number of college students this 12 months.
The category reported 52 educational majors of their undergraduate research. The normal majors of Political
Science, English and Historical past had been prevalent, as had been majors in varied enterprise disciplines
(Economics, Advertising, Finance). A number of STEM majors, together with Psychology, Biology,
Sociology and Chemistry, had been nicely represented within the class. A number of members of the
class carry the advantage of superior levels and notable careers to the classroom.
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Wooden South Carolina amusement park roller coaster left man paralyzed: lawsuit
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A ride at a historic Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, amusement park turned into a nightmare that left a man paralyzed, a North Carolina couple alleges in a lawsuit.
The couple, identified as Gangia Adhikari and husband Kul Sannyashi, said they visited the Family Kingdom Amusement Park July 23, 2021, and rode the wooden Swamp Fox Roller Coaster.
“While riding the roller coaster as a result of the negligence, carelessness, recklessness, willfulness and wantonness of the Defendants, Plaintiff’s husband suffered an acute injury to his spinal cord which caused quadriplegia,” the lawsuit, filed June 20, alleges.
MINNESOTA AMUSEMENT PARK STAYS OPEN WHILE CLOSING POPULAR RIDE AFTER UNPRECEDENTED FLOODING
Family Kingdom, a seaside amusement park in Myrtle Beach, S.C. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The couple alleged the coaster was “extremely dangerous, more so than a typical roller coaster.”
The lawsuit said Family Kingdom Amusement Park “failed to adequately warn customers” of the dangers the roller coaster could present to riders.
The lawsuit also alleged the amusement park failed to take precautions to ensure the ride would not cause serious injuries to its users.
Attorney Morgan Martin told The Sun News Sannyashi is in “horrible condition.”
“The allegation is that he gets on [the roller coaster] fine and then gets off as a quadriplegic,” Martin told the outlet. “It’s such a sad, sad day for that young man, who is just in horrible condition.”
BEAR EUTHANIZED AFTER INJURING TENNESSEE THEME PARK CONCESSION STAND EMPLOYEE
Sannyashi claimed he had to undergo operations that required expensive medical treatment, hospitalization and intensive care.
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A North Carolina man is reportedly paralyzed after riding the popular Swamp Fox roller coaster at Myrtle Beach’s Family Kingdom Amusement Park. (Family Kingdom)
The lawsuit claims he requires 24-hour nursing assistance and suffers from extreme pain, mental anguish and depression due to his permanent injuries.
According to the lawsuit, Adhikari is suing for loss of companionship, fellowship, aid, assistance, company and more.
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Mary Elle Marchant, River Bluff native, crowned as Miss South Carolina Teen 2024 – ABC Columbia
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COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — The Miss South Carolina Scholarship Organization has crowned Miss River Bluff’s Teen, Mary Elle Marchant, as Miss South Carolina’s Teen 2024.
According to Gavin Smith with the organization, Marchant hails from Lexington, SC, and is an 18-year-old who recently graduated from River Bluff High School.
Performing a musical theatre dance to “I Hope I Get It” from “A Chorus Line to Life,” Marchant was a preliminary winner in the teen evening gown and teen talent award categories.
She received a $12,500 savings bond and will compete for the title of Miss America’s Outstanding Teen.
The Miss South Carolina Scholarship Organization also named four additional delegates as runners up in the 2024 Miss South Carolina’s Teen Competition:
First runner up: Miss Daniel Island’s Teen, Tess Ferm
Second runner up: Miss Columbia’s Teen, Le’Daviah Terry
Third runner up: Miss Greer High School’s Teen, Madison Harbin
Fourth runner up: Miss Greater Greer’s Teen, Lilykate Barbare
The Miss South Carolina 2024 competition will continue Saturday evening, beginning at 8 p.m.
Miss South Carolina 2024 will receive a $60,000 scholarship and will compete for the title of Miss America.
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Editorial: Long-awaited reform on how SC picks judges will help, but it doesn’t go far enough
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The reform measure the Legislature sent to Gov. Henry McMaster on Wednesday won’t solve the multitudinous problems with the way South Carolina picks judges.
The governor still won’t have anywhere near as much say as the Legislature in selecting the members of the third branch of government.
And lawyer-legislators still will retain inordinate sway over the careers of judges they practice before — creating the appearance if not the reality of preferential treatment.
But the bill — more than a year in the making and far longer than that in the needing — provides a good first step to addressing real and perceived flaws that threaten public confidence in our judicial system. We urge Mr. McMaster to sign it.
For the first time, it allows the governor to appoint some members to the Judicial Merit Selection Commission, which decides who legislators can elect or reelect to the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals and the Circuit and Family courts. Governors have never had any say in those elections, and they still won’t participate in the vote, but S.1046 lets the governor appoint four of the 12 commissioners.
House and Senate leaders will still pick the eight other members, and six of them have to be legislators; technically, the bill allows all eight to be legislators, which would ensure legislators’ continued majority on the panel, but if House or Senate leaders choose to interpret it that way, it will be a massive betrayal of the public trust.
Perhaps equally important, legislators will be limited to four consecutive years on the panel, and all but three current members will be expelled from the commission when the law takes effect in a year. Among those leaving will be House Democratic Leader Todd Rutherford, who has made himself the poster child for how lawyer-legislators can manipulate that position to their personal advantage. (Additionally, commissioners have to resign if a relative files to run for a judgeship.)
As long as the Legislature elects judges, the governor should appoint all the members of the screening panel; that’s the only way to create the balance of powers that is foundational to our nation’s system of governance. Barring that, lawyer-legislators should be prohibited from serving on the panel: One chance to influence who becomes a judge — when they vote in the election — is enough; that second opportunity is the root of most of the evil that South Carolina’s prosecutors have been complaining about for more than a year.
It’s worth noting that lawmakers agreed to give the governor some say on the commission at the very same moment they reduced the commission’s power: It still will be able to end the careers and the hopes of judges and would-be judges, but in most cases, it no longer will be able to nominate its favorites from among multiple qualified candidates. Now, instead of nominating a maximum of three candidates for each seat, the so-called cap will be six — which is more than the number of candidates in most contests — so if six candidates are found qualified, all six of them will stand for election.
The other smart reforms are a requirement that screening hearings be livestreamed and a related ban on candidates dropping out before the commission issues its report on their qualifications. Both are designed to stop the panel from pressuring candidates to drop out after screening by suggesting that the public will see unflattering material about them if they don’t.
As Upstate Solicitor Kevin Brackett tells us, “This is helpful, but some of the main structures that ensure legislative dominance are still in place and need to be addressed.” That means getting lawyer-legislators off the screening commission and, ideally, allowing the governor to appoint all 12 members. It’s not too soon to start working on that next round of reforms.
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