SOUTH CAROLINA — Students graduating from the University of South Carolina are remembering one of their own in a bittersweet ceremony Saturday.
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There was an empty seat draped with a cap and gown marked where Samantha Josephson should have been sitting.
"Asking 'what's my name' before entering a rideshare vehicle will save lives and must become as automatic to you as putting your seatbelt when you get behind the wheel," Pastides said.
Josephson was killed in March after getting into a car she thought was her Uber.
The university's president Harris Pastides led students in a chant of "What's my name."
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He also presented Josephson's parents with a posthumous degree in political science in her memory.