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29 Clemson University Students Injured In Floor Collapse At Off Campus Party

Clemson University officials say six students remain hospitalized after being injured early Sunday morning when the floor of a clubhouse party room collapsed.

The students were attending a homecoming party at an off campus apartment complex, sponsored by the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity during homecoming weekend. A Clemson spokesperson said the students were dancing when a large portion of the floor suddenly collapsed. Twenty-nine students were hurt and taken to the hospital with broken bones, fractures and lacerations. None of the injuries are life threatening.

Clemson officials say they do not know what caused the collapse and because the complex is privately owned, they are not investigating the incident. Instead, officials say, they are focusing on providing counseling and other support services to the students who were injured and others who attended the party.

Gwendolyn is an award-winning journalist who has covered a broad range of stories on the local and national levels. Her experience includes producing on-air reports for National Public Radio and she worked full-time as a producer for NPR’s All Things Considered news program for five years. She worked for several years as an on-air contract reporter for CNN in Atlanta and worked in print as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun Media Group, The Washington Post and covered Congress and various federal agencies for the Daily Environment Report and Real Estate Finance Today. Glenn has won awards for her reports from the Maryland-DC-Delaware Press Association, SNA and the first-place radio award from the National Association of Black Journalists.