SCSU Communications Graduate Shares Success Story

Ralan Wardlaw Speaking on March 22

What a terrific talk South Carolina State University 2015 graduate Ralan Wardlaw gave yesterday at his alma mater! Wardlaw works in athletics media relations at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

He was in Orangeburg for the softball game between UMES and SC State. Wardlaw also handles media and publicity for the Hawk's men's and women's golf and women's tennis teams.

Wardlaw told current SC State communications students and members of the school's softball team who were present about his life after college.

Comm Students Video Garners Honors!

Congratulations go out to Communications majors Ferrante Dunham and TiAnna Dawson whose Orangeburg Massacre 50th Anniversary tribute video won an award.

Ferrante Dunham and TiAnna Dawson

SC State's Department of English and Modern Languages sponsored the video contest.  It was one of the many ways the school remembered that terrible night 50 years ago- Feb. 8, 1968- when three young men, two of whom were SC State students, were killed when state police opened fire on them and other African-Americans gathered on campus near what is today the school's main administration building.

The shooting followed two days of unrest as black students and others attempted to integrate an Orangeburg bowling alley.

Ferrante and TiAnna's short video, titled "The Orangeburg Massacre: Never Forgotten", was selected for the contest's $50 top prize by a panel of Communications faculty.  Here is their video:

Congratulations Ferrante and TiAnna! And thanks to the others students who submitted videos.