The wellness and recreation center known around campus as "The Strom" has garnered much of the attention to date. USC's board has been hesitant when it comes to Thurmond, a 20th century politician ...

He was named to the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame in 1983 and the school named its public policy center, the Strom Thurmond Institute, for him in 1982. South Carolina president Bob Caslen issued a ...

Former football players at Clemson, Deshaun Watson and ... to Twitter to push the school to rename the Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center. “To celebrate well known segregationist Strom ...

The Strom Thurmond Wellness Center at the University of South Carolina ... At Thurmond's alma mater, Clemson University, there's the Strom Thurmond Institute, spawned in 1981 when a number of ...

Strom Thurmond, one of the most ... Speaking Wednesday night in the Clemson University auditorium of Tillman Hall, which has been the center of controversy after student groups pushed to change ...

(for James) Strom Thurmond, 59, one of the Senate’s deepest ... Strom graduated from Clemson College, taught a high school course in agriculture for a while, studied law at night in his father ...

James Strom Thurmond was born on Dec. 5, 1902, in Edgefield, S.C. He did not go straight into politics. After graduating from Clemson College in 1923, he became a teacher and quickly rose to the ...