Established in 1907 as a bi-weekly news and sports journal, The Tiger is South Carolina's oldest college newspaper. The weekly national award-winning publication has a circulation of about 12,000 and is distributed every Friday on and off campus. Today, The Tiger office is located inside Clemson University's Hendrix Student Center, its home since 2000. Previously, the newspaper had been located for many years on the ninth floor of the University Union. In October of 1997, the organization began the The Tiger: Online Edition which now manages to serve an average of 7,000 visitors a week. Although the newspaper used to receive funding each year from the University, The Tiger became financially independent in 2004. (More...)

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The Tiger Newspaper was chosen as Newspaper of the Year (2008)by the South Carolina Press Association (SCPA) in the category of weekly or bi-weekly newspaper.

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• ...that the Hanover House was first erected in Berkeley County circa 1716?
• ...that the Old Stone Church was first erected in 1797?
• ...that the Messenger was the first newspaper in the area, in 1807?
• ...that the Blue Ridge Railroad brought the first train service to the area in 1860?
• ...that the Seneca River trestle contains some 1530 tons of steel?
• ...that Richard Wright Simpson was the first Chairman of the Board of Trustees?
• ...that Henry Aubrey Strode was the only president never to oversee students?
• ...that Robert Cook Edwards was the longest-serving Clemson president? See President Edwards farewell letter.
• ...that Clemson's first Professor of Chemistry, Mark Bernard Hardin, witnessed the battle between the Merrimac and the Monitor?
• ...that Fort Hill Presbyterian Church is Clemson's oldest congregation, dating from 1895?
• ...that the Clemson College Chronicle was the original university publication of record, from October 1897?
• ...that August "Shorty" Schilletter scammed the college for thousands of dollars for over a decade?
• ...that Clemson's first tied football game outcome was versus Tennessee in 1901?
• ...that Clemson's highest football score was 122, to Guilford's 0? True! Also in 1901!
• ...that Clemson had a Confederate battle flag flap in 1904?
• ...that the Tiger football team's first forward pass took place on November 29, 1906?
• ...that Textile Hall in Greenville hosted the Southern Textile Exposition starting in 1915?
• ...that the Clemson Little Theatre was founded in 1931?
• ...that Richard Newman Brackett was the last surviving and serving member of Clemson's original faculty?
• ...that Company C-4 Pershing Rifles was founded in 1939?
• ...that Lake Hartwell has 962 miles of shoreline and a holding capacity of 830 billion gallons of water?
• ...that the university provided the Issaqueena Bombing Range for World War II training?
• ...that Big Dave's BBQ is operated by the Dallas Cowboys' former executive chef?
• ...that Capri's was a popular Italian restaurant for over a decade?
• ...that the Clemson Wiki has a partnership with the University of Kansas KUpedia?(http://www.kupedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page).
• ...that House Shows have become a Clemson tradition?
• ...that 4/5ths of The Hoodoo Hounds are Clemson professors?
• ...that the Clemson Corps has given out 352 scholarships since 1999?
• ...that Walgreen's Drugs eliminated the last gas at College Avenue and Tiger Boulevard?
• ...that Bash Riprock's, The Grocery, and The Library Club were all old Clemson watering holes?
• ...that Rollercoaster Road provides cheap, if illicit, thrills?
• ...that SHINE, Inc. provides the only soup kitchen in Pickens County?
• ...that the Traditions Calendar raises funds for a memorial to students who passed before graduation?
• ...that Warning Sirens are our friend?
• ...that the third annual Clemson Rave occurred on Library Bridge on December 3, 2008?
• ...that Help! is a recent Unhymnal song?
• ...that YNK is a private dance club in Rogers Plaza?
• ...that about 75 percent of Clemson students are de facto members of Gamma Delta Iota?
• ...that the Clemson area has two indigenous types of poisonous Snakes?
• ...that Welborn Bus Lines had a mixed history of serving Clemson?
• ...that Dabo Swinney is Clemson's twenty-fifth head football coach?
• ...that the next football games with Georgia are scheduled for 2013 and 2014?
• ...that the Clemson Wiki now lists every football game between 1896 and 2007?

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• June 25: The Clemson Wiki Main Page tallies hit 77,000.
• June 3: The Clemson Wiki Main Page tallies hit 76,000.
• May 5: The Clemson Wiki Main Page tallies hit 75,000.
• April 28: The Tiger Band Unhymnal is submitted to Special Collections at the Strom Thurmond Institute.
• April 26: The Clemson Wiki Main Page tallies hit 74,000.
• April 17: Cleared For Takeoff plays in the Amphitheatre, 5 p.m., free admission.
• April 9: The Clemson Wiki Main Page tallies hit 73,000.
• March 27: The Clemson Wiki Main Page tallies hit 72,000.
• March 26: The North Carolina Dance Theatre performs at the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, 8 p.m. Call 864-656-7787 for information, or go to http://www.clemson.edu/Brooks.
• March 16-March 20: Temporary lane closures will occur on Tiger Boulevard as new decorative crosswalks are installed at the intersection with College Avenue. These improvements are part of the Tiger Boulevard Streetscape Enhancement Project. Further information may be obtained by contacting Andy Blondeau at 864-653-2072, or checking the city's website at http://www.cityofclemson.org.
• March 11: The Clemson Wiki Main Page tallies hit number 71,000.
• March 9: Leahy, contemporary Celtic music, in the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts, 8 p.m. Admission is $20 for adults, $10 for students. Call 864-656-7787 for information, or go to http://www.clemson.edu/Brooks.
• March 8: The Florida State football team will vacate an undetermined number of wins, serve four years' probation, and face a reduction in scholarships and other penalties due to what the NCAA described Friday as "major violations" from an academic cheating scandal.

Nine other programs were also penalized -- baseball, men's track and field, women's track and field, men's swimming, women's swimming, men's basketball, women's basketball, softball and men's golf -- and face the same sanctions. Overall, the scandal involved 61 athletes.

The race between Joe Paterno and Bobby Bowden for most victories in major college football came to an abrupt halt Friday. Bowden, a game behind Paterno when the 2008 season ended, has pulled up lame due to a case of academic fraud, writes Ivan Maisel.

Dinich blog

Football coach Bobby Bowden would have entered the coming season with 382 career victories, trailing Penn State coach Joe Paterno by one win on the all-time list. The sanctions will force him to forfeit all wins during which ineligible students competed in 2006 and 2007.

It is not immediately clear how many wins Florida State will have to vacate. Dennis Thomas, the vice chair of the NCAA Committee on Infractions and acting chair for the FSU case, said only one ineligible player would have had to participate in a game for the entire team record to be vacated. Still, Thomas said the NCAA had no evidence the university knowingly played ineligible athletes.

Florida State is considering appealing the sanction that would force the Seminoles to vacate wins.

"We believe that the NCAA confirmed that our investigative efforts and our self-imposed penalties were appropriate," Florida State president T.K. Wetherell said in a statement Friday. "We already began implementing our self-imposed penalties. And we will begin implementing all but one of the NCAA's additional sanctions.

"We just don't understand the sanction to vacate all wins in athletics contests in which ineligible student-athletes competed because we did not allow anyone who we knew was ineligible to compete. Our position throughout the inquiry was that as soon as we knew of a problem, they didn't play."

In November 2007, Florida State and the NCAA agreed that athletes who had received "improper help" would be suspended for 30 percent of their seasons. According to the Orlando Sentinel, officials interviewed 75 individuals, and 39 admitted receiving improper assistance in an online music course. Roughly two dozen football players were suspended for the Music City Bowl, which FSU lost 35-28 to Kentucky. The Seminoles also suspended about 10 players for the first three games of the 2008 season.

FSU officials and players were under the impression those athletes had already served their punishment, but Thomas said on Friday that the instant a player cheated in class -- regardless of whether school officials knew about it -- he became ineligible, and if that athlete played in a game, it must be vacated. That could cost FSU games from 2006, when the academic fraud began.

"They are ineligible at the time of that violation until they are reinstated," Thomas said. "If they participated while ineligible, obviously the games they participated in will have to be vacated. The trigger is if those 61 individuals obviously as identified by the institution committed academic fraud. At that point, they rendered themselves ineligible."

The football team will be limited to 83 total scholarships in 2008-09; 82 in 2009-10; and 84 in 2010-11; the maximum usually allowed by the NCAA is 85. Florida State self-imposed the loss of the two scholarships for 2008-09, and will self-impose the loss of three scholarships for 2009-10. The NCAA added an additional loss of scholarship from the maximum in 2010-11.

The committee stated this case was "extremely serious" because of the large number of student-athletes involved and the fact that academic fraud is considered by the committee to be among the most egregious of NCAA rules violations.

Florida State's probation extends through March 5, 2013.

"I must say that Florida State did a great job in cooperating with the enforcement staff in accumulating all of the information that was required," Thomas said. "Yes, Florida State did self-report. They did an outstanding job. We have to give Florida State University credit for that."

The NCAA determined that a former learning specialist, academic adviser and tutor gave "improper assistance" to Florida State athletes who were taking online courses. According to the NCAA, the former learning specialist typed portions of papers for at least three athletes and also provided answers to an online psychology course quiz by instructing another athlete to complete the quiz on behalf of the athlete enrolled in the course.

Heather Dinich covers the ACC for ESPN.com.

• March 5: Trumpeter Alison Balsom performs in the Brooks Center, 8 p.m. Call 864-656-7787 for more information, or go to http://www.clemson.edu/Brooks.
• March 1: A snowstorm sweeps across the Southeast United States and delivers several inches of snow and ice (following rain) to the Clemson area. The university will be closed on March 2. Jack-knifed trucks at Cowpens create a 20-plus mile traffic jam in the northbound lanes of I-85 in Cherokee and Spartanburg Counties. Sledders could be found on every hill as well a the Lake Hartwell diversion dams.
• February 28: The Clemson Wiki Main Page tallies hit 70,000.
• February 27: Tri-County Technical College and Clemson University officials plan to break ground Friday for the new Academic Support Center for the Bridge to Clemson program. The 8,664-square-foot building on Old Cherry Road will house classrooms for tutoring, student meeting rooms and offices for staff members. The first-of-its-kind in South Carolina Bridge to Clemson program is a collaboration between Clemson University and Tri-County Tech that allows students to transition from Tri-County to Clemson, when, as high school graduates, the students narrowly miss admission to Clemson University. Jenni Evans, director of the program, said Bridge to Clemson has been in existence for three years and will serve roughly 450 students this year, up from 234 students in the first year. “This is an invitation-only program,” Evans sad. “We feel that it is an important part of our academic program at Tri-County. The 75 percent success rate of students who ‘cross the bridge’ is comparable to other programs of this type nationally.” Housing for the students will be provided at the Highpointe of Clemson condominiums. The condos have four bedrooms, four baths and more than 1,600 square feet of space per unit. Shuttle bus service to class and gated security are a part of the accommodations. “The Academic Support Center is being built for the Highpointe Bridge students at no cost to Clemson or Tri-County,” said Tom Winkopp, developer of Highpointe. “All costs associated with the center are absorbed by Highpointe. Students sign a lease and live here while a part of the Bridge program.” Tri-County Tech and Clemson University feel it is important for freshman students to be housed together so they can be acclimated to the “Clemson experience” and have a “seamless transition to Clemson University their sophomore year,” school officials said.
• February 24: Clemson may cut salaries of its Administrative Council by 10 percent next year, according to a source and a Clemson official, the Anderson Independent-Mail reported today in an article by John Staed. Administrative Council members represent some of the highest-paid officials with the university, and a 10 percent cut would be significant. Administrative Council members include, for example, the provost and the executive director of governmental affairs. According to information obtained by the Anderson Independent-Mail, Clemson President James Barker was to tell faculty and staff Tuesday about budget changes, including a 10 percent cut. But Robin Denny, a spokeswoman, said no letter was going out Tuesday, but a separate message was sent about a retirement incentive program for employees in University Facilities. Earlier Tuesday, Angie Leidinger, executive director of governmental affairs, confirmed that a 10 percent cut had been discussed, but said today “I’m not sure where that is in the process.” “I’m not sure that decision has been made officially,” she said. She referred further questions to Cathy Sams, chief public information officer for the university. Sams was out of the office and not available, according to her office. Brett Dalton, Clemson chief financial officer, said no decisions had been made. "I'm not aware of any firm decisions being made in terms of administrative costs," he said. Asked specifically about the 10 percent cut, he said he has heard "hundreds of different ideas and suggestions" but would not comment further. He said Barker has been very open about the process and has not completed his final plan. Barker and Provost Doris Helms, asked earlier about the cuts, declined to comment. Barker created 11 task forces to examine the budget issues and those reported to him on Feb. 15. He has said he would have recommendations from those reports soon. The notice of a retirement incentive for Clemson facilities employees was approved by the state Office of Human Resources and “was introduced to facilities employees as they arrived for work today(Tuesday),” according to the statement. Because of state budget cuts, Clemson officials have required a mandatory five-day unpaid furlough for all employees, frozen most hiring, offered early retirement packages to its Public Service Activities employees, stopped building programs, cut travel and more. Barker has said the school has received $38 million less in revenues since the budget cutting started. The work stoppage on new building projects has hit facilities employees “particularly hard,” according to the statement. Chief Facilities Officer Bob Wells said his goal is to prevent employees from losing jobs from a reduction-in-force plan. “The option is available only to employees in the facilities department, which is funding the upfront costs through lapsed salary accumulated this fiscal year by holding a significant number of vacant positions open,” according to the statement. Denny said there are 360 active, permanent employees in the Facilities budget center, which includes Facilities, Utilities, and Environmental Health and Safety, and of those, 62 are eligible to consider the early retirement program. “No one can predict how much longer this crisis will last, or how far we will be asked to reduce our budget, but protecting our staff will remain our focus as we deal with whatever may come,” Wells said. In January, Clemson offered a retirement buyout program for employees of the Public Service Activities departments, which includes agricultural and extension departments. The university, however, may receive $17.5 million through the federal stimulus package, according to earlier reports, but Barker has said details of how much and how it would be earmarked have not been confirmed. Recently, a Clemson professor criticized what he claimed was big increases in salaries and administration budgets, a claim Barker responded to in a campus-wide email. Barker said the information was “incomplete and misleading.”
• February 26-March 1: Clemson University's performing arts department and the Clemson Players will put a different twist on William Shakespeare’s “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” when they present the comedy of mistaken identity at 8 p.m. Thursday to Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at the Brooks Center. The award-winning musical is comprised of songs written by “Hair’s” John Guare and Galt MacDermont. For details, contact Glenn Hare (656-1478).
• February 22: The Food Lion supermarket on Canoy Lane, just off Old Greenville Highway, will close its doors February 28, 2009, if not before, according to store officials. The Clemson Tigers defeat the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, 81-73, in Atlanta.
• February 20: Texas Christian University replaces Central Michigan on the 2009 Clemson football schedule, the athletic department announces this date.
• February 17: Clemson soundly defeats Maryland, 93-64, in Littlejohn Coliseum, with a 43-17 run that started in the last minute of the first half. The Tigers improve to 21-4, (7-4).
• February 16: The Men's basketball team is ranked 13th in both the Associated Press and USA Today/ESPN polls, with a record of 20-4. Milton Constantine Antonakos, co-founder of Nick's passes away.
• February 15: The Clemson Wiki Main Page tallies its 69,000th hit.