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.

From ClemsonWiki's newest articles:

• ...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 "The Charge of the Pendleton Guards" was a parody of a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson?
• ...that Textile Hall in Greenville hosted the Southern Textile Exposition starting in 1915?
• ...that the S. A. T. C. was a short-lived military training program during the Great War?
• ...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 the Rat Hop used to be the first musical dance weekend of the fall semester?
• ...that The Bridge at Clemson is an out-of-the-box youth ministry of the Church of the Nazarene?
• ...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 Clemson Girl.Com is a blog dedicated to all things Clemson and Girly?
• ...that TigerPaw Productions help stage major events at Clemson?
• ...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 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 fourth annual Clemson Rave took place on Library Bridge on December 3, 2009 at 12:19 p.m.?
• ...that Help! is a recent Unhymnal song?
• ...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?

Anyone may edit or add to any article posted on the ClemsonWiki, and you are encouraged to author any new articles that you believe will add to our community. Obviously, please keep new entries on-topic and relevant. Please read Adding to ClemsonWiki before writing any articles! You'll learn tips like layout, formatting and style, and will help to keep the ClemsonWiki looking good and consistent.

• The Clemson Wiki has a list of over 500 Wanted Pages. Please feel free to take a look, and if you know something about any of them, please write it! http://www.clemsonwiki.com/wiki?title=Special:Wantedpages&limit=500&offset=0
• September 24: WSBF presents the Chronicles of the Landsquid at Lever Beach, time TBA.
• September 4: Clemson opens the 2010 football season by hosting the University of North Texas Mean Green. Think they'll bring their mascot, Scrappy?
• September 3: The First Friday Parade is held.
• August 31: The Bangled Tiger opens in the former location of The Den on Keith Street.
• August 30: Friar's Tavern, a new restaurant, opens in the former location of Flip Flops on the Old Greenville Highway.
• August 28: After eleven years in operation, the family that runs Rockhopper's at the Ramada Inn on Tiger Boulevard have closed. It will be replaced by The Boulevard Grill.
• August 24: The Clemson Wiki Main Page tallies hit 103,000.
• August 19-August 21: Spittoono XXX is held at the National Guard Armory ball field on Pendleton Road, 6 p.m.-2 a.m. Free admission. Seventeen bands will appear over the three evenings, and all profits go to charity. No coolers and no glass allowed.
• August 12: With construction underway of a new restaurant next door on Tiger Boulevard, the 1970s-era Pizza Hut is demolished.
• August 7: Graduation is held.
• August 5: The Clemson Wiki Main Page tallies hit 102,000.
• First week of August: Work begins on utilities on College Avenue for the future widening of the road. Also, the Norfolk Southern begins clearing the former right-of-way of the long-removed second track through Clemson, preparatory to replacing the 1976-vintage railroad bridge. The north embankment of the railroad east of College Avenue next to Elm Street is cut away to prepare a new approach for the rail overpass.
• July 15 - The Clemson Wiki Main Page tallies hit 101,000.
• July: The former Milliken Defore rayon plant on the western side of Lake Hartwell, constructed in 1944, but closed for several years, is razed in the first week of July 2010. Also, the former automobile service station on the northeast corner of the former Holiday Inn of Clemson parcel on Tiger Boulevard is demolished to make way for a new business development.
• May 28: Clemson football player Jamie Cumbie is arrested and charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature after a 2 a.m. fight in which he seriously injured another Clemson student. The arrest warrant stated that the victim suffered a broken nose, swelling and bleeding of the brain, multiple facial fractures and other injuries. Cumbie, a 6' 7", 290-pound defensive lineman, was dismissed from the team several days after his arrest. Almost a month after the attack, the victim was no longer in critical condition although he will need further medical procedures and his jaw was wired shut.
• May 27: A fire, discovered around 7 a.m., gutted the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity house at 113 Calhoun Street in the original Calhoun section of Clemson. Fire equipment from Clemson, Central and Corinth-Shiloh responded to the blaze which still continued at 9 a.m. Three students escaped the burning structure, and three others had already left for the morning. There were no injuries. However the old railroad hotel-turned frat house is essentially destroyed. Media from The Journal, the Greenville News, the Anderson Independent, Clemson University, Fox-Carolina, WYFF-4, WSPA-7 have all responded for coverage of the blaze. By late afternoon, the fire department was still washing down hot spots in the rear wing addition that was added to the house in 1983.
  

For anyone that wants to make a donation to the AGR Fire Relief Fund, it can be send to :

Alpha Gamma Rho

P.O. Box 1908

Clemson, SC 29633

Make checks to Alpha Gamma Rho with relief fund in the memo line.

Donations are also being accepted online at http://www.agrclemson.com.

• May 25: DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! The Clemson Wiki main page hits the century mark with hit 100,000!
• May: The annual summer business closure cycle sees Ancheaux's, Flip Flops, and Griffin's Sports Bar & Grill all ceasing operation.
• May 7: The Clemson Wiki main page tallies hit 99,000.
• April 19: The Clemson Wiki main page tallies hit 98,000.
• April 17: WSBF-FM presents Spring Festival 2 at Tiger Park, 157 Old Greenville Highway from 2 p.m. from 12 midnight. Multiple bands on two stages, with proceeds going to Clemson Community Care. Art, vendors, food... Admission by donation - cash, clothing, canned food, et cetera.
• April 14: Local band Picture Me Free, expected to be on the edge of breaking out, instead breaks up when internal friction leads the bassist and drummer to split the group.
• April 13: Brad Brownell of Wright State has been named head men's basketball coach after Oliver Purnell's sudden resignation.
• April 10: Mark Tanner Heniford, a sophomore pre-business major from North Myrtle Beach, died from injuries sustained in a single-car accident on Seneca Creek Road in Oconee County Saturday night (April 10).
  

“We are so sad about this sudden loss of a Clemson student. Mark had deep family ties to Clemson and many friends here and in the North Myrtle Beach area. We will keep his parents, his sister and other family and friends in our thoughts and prayers in the months ahead.”

Information about funeral arrangements and a campus memorial service will be announced when plans have been finalized.

• Second week of April: The burned out building that housed Tiger Spirits at 1363 Tiger Boulevard is razed.
• April 6: Clemson basketball coach Oliver Purnell informs Athletic Director Terry Don Phillips in a 1:30 a.m. phonecall that he is resigning effective immediately to take over the head job of the DePaul University basketball team in Chicago. Assistant Coach Ron Bradley is named as interim coach for the Tigers. Purnell was named the Clemson head coach on April 5, 2003. Terry Don Phillips press conference: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20100407/SPORTS/304070041/1025/SPORTS0101/Oliver-Purnell-s-move-not-motivated-by-money--Clemson-says
• April 5: The Clemson Wiki main page tallies hit 97,000.
• March 29: A section of Old Clemson Highway will be closed April 1-18 while a maintenance crew stabilizes the abutment where a recent rock slide revealed a potential hazard to motorists. The section of Old Clemson Highway to be closed is directly off U.S. 123 between Bloom market and Palms convenience store. Traffic to and from Bayshore, Stillwater and beyond will be temporarily routed along S.C. 130 (Rochester Highway) and U.S. 123. The S.C. Department of Transportation will use local maintenance crews to secure this area. Work will continue during the weekend to accelerate completion in advance of the April 18 end-date. Access for emergency vehicles will be maintained.

For additional information, contact:

Mike Smith

SCDOT Assistant Resident Maintenance Engineer

864-647-0798

smithmj@scdot.org

• March 21: The Clemson Wiki main pages tallies hit 96,000.