8:00 COMMUTE. THAT'S YOUR WEATHER. AND YOUR TRAFFIC. FRED: THANK YOU, MALACHI. OF COURSE, WE'RE BACK LIVE AT CLEMSON. THIS IS A CITY THAT HAS A LOT OF HISTORY STARTS WITH EDUCATION. TAYLOR FARMER VISITED HER ALMA MATER AND TESTIMONY US MORE. REPORTER: AFTER THE CIVIL WAR THOMAS GREEN CLEMSON HAD A VISION OF WHAT THIS COULD BECOME CENTERED AROUND EDUCATION AND AGRICULTURAL. JOBS. >> I DON'T THINK HE COULD HAVE IMAGINED THE IMPACT CLEMSON WOULD HAVE REGIONALLY, NATIONALLY. GLOBALLY. THEY DIDN'T EVEN REALLY KNOW ABOUT COLLEGE FOOTBALL IN SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE 1880'S. REPORTER: CLEMSON IS A UNIVERSITY WITH A CAMPUS THAT CONTINUES TO EVOLVE. IT WAS BUILT IN THE 1880'S BY CONVICT LABORS. >> HE WANTED AN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, ALL MALE, MILITARY LAND GRANT. THE IDEA WAS THAT THE SONS OF MIC NEXTS AND FARMERS OF THE STATES WOULD COME HERE. >> THE LAND THAT A BECAME CLEMSON UNIVERSITY'S HOME WAS OWNED BY JOHNC CALHOUN WHO WAS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, SECRETARY OF WAR AND SECRETARY OF STATE. >> A HUGE IMPRINT ON THE 19 CENTURY. TAYLOR: CLEMSON ATTRACTS PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY WHO WANT TO CALL IT HOME. (CHANNING) TAYLOR TALLER ACCORDING TO CLEMSON UNIVERSITY RECORDS MORE THAN 23,000 STUDENTS ATTEND THE SCHOOL. UNIVERSITY WAS TO UNDERSTANDED IN 1889, BUT WHEN IT OPENED IN 1893, UNIVERSITY HISTORIAN DR. OTIS PICK IT SAID LESS THAN 500 STUDENTS CALLED CLEMSON COLLEGE HOME. >> WE CHANGED OUR NAME IN 1964. FROM CLEMSON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE TO CLEMSON UNIVERSITY. WHERE WE'D BECOME HEAVILY RESEARCHED FOCUS. WE GRAD DEGREES WE CONFER. WE HAVE WOMEN, WE HAVE AFRICAN-AMERICANS, NONE OF WHICH WERE COMING TO CLEMSON BEFORE 1963 AND 1955. TAYLOR: WHILE THE UNIVERSITY MAKES THE MOST OF CLEMSON AS THE CITY ITSELF IS LESS THAN TEN SQUARE MILES. MANY WHO HAVE LIVED HERE THEIR WHOLE LIVES ARE STILL A LO THE TO LEARN. >> I LIKE IT BECAUSE IT GIVE US PERSPECTIVE. WHEN I WAS YOUNGER, I WOULD HEAR PEOPLE SAY YOU NEED TO KNOW WHERE YOU CAME FROM TO APPRECIATE WHERE YOU ARE. AND AS A YOUNG PERSON I DIDN'T FULLY INTERNALIZE THAT. TAYLOR: IN CLEMSON, TAYLOR FARMER, "7NEWS." OLIVIA: IT RUNS DEEP. CLEMSON WAS ORIGINALLY CALHOUN IN 1937 BUT REINCORPORATED IN 43 WHEN THEY CHANGED IT TO COLUMN. THUS IT'S BEEN CLEMSON 81 YEARS AND QUITE THE NAME. REGARDLESS OF WHERE YOU ARE. FRED: ABSOLUTELY THE NAME STICKS OUT AND OF COURSE, WE HAVE A NICE SPOT ANOTHER DOCK SIDE. I BELIEVE IT WAS 50-50 WHETHER WE WOULD DO THE SHOW FROM HERE OR THE SO CLUB. DOCK SIDE WON OUT