If you’re younger than 21 in South Carolina, you cannot buy alcohol. But what about having it in your possession or drinking it?

A court ruling today suggests state law contains nothing that would make it illegal for many young people to own or use alcoholic beverages.

“This magistrate in Richland County has concluded that the statute that criminalizes possession and consumption is unconstitutional,” says attorney Joe McCulloch.

In a ruling issued Monday morning, Richland Co. Magistrate Mel Maurer sided with McCulloch, acting on behalf of a 20-year-old client ticketed March 9th for possession.

So what does that actually mean?

Follow these steps and you will become one of the most popular college freshman:

After being in high school for four years, college freshman are sometimes uneasy and timid when entering their freshman year of college.

This article will show you how to stand out from the crowd, and become well known at your new school.

College freshman are usually filled with excitement for a new life, and being out own their own for the first time in your life. Many fail to realize it is very important to do key things that can make your college career the very best experience.

Read the steps here!

President Obama will propose a $12 billion investment in the nation’s community colleges today, arguing that the money will drive expansions and reforms in the system that are needed to help people get educated in the struggling economy.

Obama will unveil the reforms during a speech at Macomb Community College in Warren, Mich., this afternoon. Later, he will throw out the first pitch at baseball’s All-Star Game in St. Louis before returning to the White House.

The college initiative is designed to drive growth in the number of community college graduates as fewer people are able to afford pricey four-year universities, senior administration officials told reporters Monday night. Obama will call for 5 million additional community college graduates by 2020.

Read all about the proposed bill, here!

It is July on the Florida campus, which means by the time you walk from your car to the football building you need a towel and a sweet tea. The word “languid” comes to mind. Coach Urban Meyer’s office is dark, its occupant stealing the last moments of summer on a coach’s calendar.

And then Tim Tebow bounds up the stairs after a noontime workout. It is July on the Florida campus, but the word “languid” never applies to Tebow. He is wearing a black Gators T-shirt, shorts, blue and orange Crocs and a summer beard.

Not that the 6-foot-3, 240-pound Tebow ever resembled a fuzzy-cheeked boy, but the beard is a subtle visual cue that one of the (already) memorable careers in the history of the game has begun its final year.

Read all about July in Gatorville!

When the new GI Bill kicks in Aug. 1, the government’s best-known education program for veterans will get the biggest boost since its World War II-era creation. But the benefit is hardly the “Government Issue,” one-size-fits-all standard the name implies.

In fact, depending on where service members and veterans decide to attend college, they could receive a full ride, or very little.

An Associated Press review of state-by-state benefits under the new bill shows huge discrepancies in the amount veterans can receive.

Read the review here!

Mount St. Mary’s College and Getty Center art complex, which houses works by Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh, were evacuated as a fire burned in thick brush on the steep slopes of the Santa Monica Mountains.

The fire was 90 percent contained late Wednesday after erupting early in the afternoon and quickly growing to 80 acres above parking facilities for the Getty.

About 350 firefighters worked on rugged slopes and seven helicopters pounded flames with water from nearby Stone Canyon Reservoir.

Read all about the raging LA fire!

Charlie Barlow plans to room with one of his best friends next semester at the University of Chicago: Lauren “Lulu” Danzig.

The two are among 50 students who will take advantage of a new policy allowing male and female undergraduates to room together — something that was forbidden throughout the 117-year history of the Hyde Park school.

For 19-year-olds Danzig and Barlow, it’s not a romantic thing: She already has a boyfriend on campus. She says she simply prefers to live with men, and Barlow is a very close friend.

Read all about the awesome new rules and what other school may implement.

When two entrepreneurs started Chegg, a company that rents textbooks to college students, then called CheggPost, in 2003, they envisioned a sort of Craigslist for college campuses, a network of university-based Web sites where students would buy and sell everything from used mattresses to textbooks. Like most Internet start-ups of that time, the plan was to make money from advertising.

It didn’t turn out that way. CheggPost gained some traction on a handful of campuses but didn’t take off. Still, the experience offered a few valuable lessons.

Mr. Rashid noticed that a majority of the traffic on the site was from students looking for used textbooks. With textbooks being the largest expense for students, after tuition and room and board, and with their cost soaring, that wasn’t surprising.

Read about how Chegg is changing the way students use textbooks!

Stephen Strasburg’s moment in the national spotlight isn’t over yet by any means.

If anything, the Nationals’ No. 1 overall pick in the First-Year Player Draft added even more anticipation to his professional career by racking up honors at the inaugural College Baseball Foundation Awards Show at United Spirit Arena here Thursday night.

Strasburg was awarded both the Dick Howser National Player of the Year trophy and National Pitcher of the Year honors. He beat out the likes of Mike Leake, the Arizona State pitcher picked eighth overall by the Reds, and Dustin Ackley, the North Carolina outfielder selected second overall by the Mariners.

Read all about his award here!

Virtually every college athlete in the country is on Facebook now. This makes sense, it’s hard not to be on Facebook if you’re under 35, impossible if you’re under 25. But Facebook has become a public relations minefield for major athletic programs across the country.

Whether it’s players being kicked out of school for making a threat in their status message (Wake Forest), posting racist comments about the newly elected President (Texas), setting off an internet firestorm over whether or not you actually posted messages on another person’s wall (Georgia) or just having your idiotic responses to quizzes posted all over for others to enjoy (Michigan).

This is just the tip of the Facebook iceberg, every program is in danger at every moment of every day. All of this attention and all of this danger raises an intriguing question: Is it time for athletic departments to ban their athletes from having social media profiles on Facebook, MySpace, and the like?

Is this possible? Read all the details.