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August 12, 2021

*Benedict College To Increase Plant-Based Food Offerings*

The Columbia school is working with food service contractor Perkins Management Services to increase plant-based menu offerings by 5% through 2024. A Meatless Monday tailgate will celebrate the initiative on Aug. 16.

*South Carolina Senate Committee Redistricting Public Hearings*

The South Carolina Senate Committee tasked with redistricting is holding public hearings around the state. It is crucial South Carolina Democrats attend these meetings, submit testimony, and have their voices heard to demand that districts are drawn fairly and not gerrymandered.

*September 15th - University of South Carolina Chosen As Anne Frank House Partner Site*

The University of South Carolina has been selected as the only North American partner site of the Anne Frank House, becoming one of four such sites in the world to offer a permanent exhibition and educational program in partnership with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

The Anne Frank Center, located in the Barringer House, tells the story of the young Jewish girl who documented her family’s two years of hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam during World War II in journals later published as The Diary of a Young Girl. Beginning next month, visitors can take guided tours through the exhibit, which features photos, videos, quotes and original artifacts to illustrate the Frank family’s experience.

“As the fourth partner site of the Anne Frank House, we have a responsibility to share Anne’s life and legacy,” Doyle Stevick, executive director of the center and a College of Education professor, said in a news release from the University of South Carolina. “We hope that visitors to the Anne Frank Center will recognize our common humanity and appreciate our differences. We hope this is a starting place and that it will inspire people to continue to learn about the dangers of prejudice and discrimination and to recognize that we have the ability to stand up and make a difference.”
The Frank family and four other people hid from the Nazis for 761 days from July 6 to Aug. 4, 1944, before being discovered and sent to concentration camps, with only Anne’s father, Otto, surviving. Otto Frank later published Anne’s diary, which has been translated into more than 70 languages.
The other official partner sites are in Berlin, London and Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam also cooperates with additional organizations to share its mission globally through traveling exhibits, workshops, educational programs and teaching materials.
The Anne Frank Center is operated through a combination of funding from the Anne Frank House; the university; fund-raising, donations and grants; and training, rental and visitor fees.

For more information about the Anne Frank Center, visit sc.edu/annefrankcenter. Tours of the center can be scheduled beginning Sept. 15 by contacting AFCUOFSC@sc.edu.