College
of Charleston News Stories
June 2005
June
30, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Today is the last day to
consolidate loans
Brittany Sheffert writes
checks for a total of $300 each month to repay nearly $30,000 to four different
student-loan companies.
The rising junior plans
to re-enroll at the College of Charleston this fall after taking a year off to
save money for her education. She hopes to earn a business degree and one day
own her own business.
http://archives.postandcourier.com/archive/arch05/0605/arc06302405382.shtml
June
30, 2005
Billings Gazette
Morning-after pill
raises issues
A Planned Parenthood
student group at the College of Charleston, called Vox, has been trying to
educate students about morning-after pills. Formed about a year ago, Vox offers
information about which stores carry the pills and refers students to the
college's health services department for a prescription.
In the Charleston area,
most pharmacy chains and independent drug stores carry morning-after pills.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/30/build/business/45-pill.inc
June
30, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
High court no goal for
Graham
College
of Charleston political scientist Bill Moore said Graham has the right
conservative credentials to represent Bush's legal points of view on the high
court but that Graham's independent streak on the political front probably
scratched him from serious White House consideration long ago.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=30531§ion=stateregion
June
30, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
ROAD TRIP
"Panorama: Paintings
and Prints by Corrie McCallum and William Halsey" is in the museum's
Lipscomb Gallery. It includes work covering more than 60 years including rare
casein (a milk-based paint) on paper paintings of the Lowcountry by McCallum
and studies for a 1952 mural by Halsey that was destroyed by fire.
There are abstract works
in oil on canvas or wood panels, monoprints, etchings and relief prints,
drawings, casein on paper, collage with textiles and rags, prints, etchings,
lithographs and acrylic on canvas. The museum is at 301 Gervais St. See
www.museum. state.sc.us/ or call (803) 898-4935.
Halsey and McCallum, who
met in the early 1930s and married in 1939, also taught at Gibbes Gallery Art
School and opened Charleston Art School. Both taught at College of Charleston,
where the art gallery is named for Halsey.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=30530§ion=localnews
June
27, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
CUTTING THE WIRE
Charleston is the 32nd
"most unwired" city in the nation, according to a recent survey by
Intel Corp., the world's largest computer-chip maker.
The Holy City ranked 56th
on the roster last year. This year's figure reflects new wireless networks that
went up at Charleston International Airport and a number of downtown hotels.
The College of Charleston campus is a grid of wireless Internet, and an
initiative by the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce started the WiFi ball
rolling here in a bunch of public places such as Marion Square.
http://archives.postandcourier.com/archive/arch05/0605/arc06272396135.shtml
June
27, 2005
Charlotte
Observer
Myrtle
Beach Sun News
New routes for Charleston cruisers
Charleston is still far
smaller than major cruise centers. About 44 percent of all cruise passengers
left from South Florida last year, according to the U.S. Maritime
Administration. Charleston accounted for less than 1 percent.
Many Charleston residents
like it that way, said John Crotts, a professor of hospitality and tourism
management at the College of Charleston.
"Charleston has been
a very strong community in not just allowing tourism to happen but in managing
the growth of its tourism," he said. "What we've got, we're very
happy with."
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/business/11994258.htm
June
26, 2005
San Jose Mercury
News
Kansas City Star
Lexington
Herald-Leader
Myrtle
Beach Sun News
Graham reaffirms S.C. queries on war
If Graham's assessment is
correct, College of Charleston political-science professor Bill Moore says the
Bush administration should be concerned.
"When you find a
state like South Carolina and a decline in support, you should be
worried," Moore said. "It's not a loss of support for the military.
It's a decline in support for the policy.
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/local/11989165.htm
June
26, 2005
Chicago Sun Times
Baltimore Sun
Houston Chronicle
Funerals get personalized
“They want something different from what mom and dad and
the grandparents had,” said George Dickinson, a professor of sociology at the
College of Charleston in South Carolina.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.funerals26jun26,1,881081.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines
June
26, 2005
Charlotte
Observer
Thurmond, in public and private
Jack Bass is a veteran author and journalist who began
covering Strom Thurmond in the early 1960s. Bass teaches at the College of
Charleston. His other books include "Unlikely Heroes," about Southern
federal judges and civil rights, and "The Orangeburg Massacre,"
written with Jack Nelson.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/editorial/11988665.htm
June
26, 2005
The State
Newspaper
A Holy City set apart
Charlie Geer grew up in downtown Charleston and, after a
variety of jobs and a master’s from the University of Florida, returned to
teach at the College of Charleston. His hometown and its residents are a
suitable choice for satire, and Geer chooses likely targets:
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/entertainment/visual_arts/11978425.htm
June
23, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Hotspots hot targets for
thieves
There's
a WiFi blanket over the College of Charleston campus, Charleston International
Airport and Marion Square. There's also a rash of WiFi bubbles popping up in
restaurants, stores and now homes and businesses.
Nicholas
Amati, a 26-year-old working on applications to dental school at the College of
Charleston library Wednesday, regularly updates his laptop's anti-virus
software and firewall. Although neither prevents WiFi hackers, he is not all
that concerned about anyone tapping into the wireless network he uses at home
or in the library.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=29680§ion=localnews
June
23, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Celestial events keeping
Lowcountry moonstruck
This time, fewer people
have noticed, including Chris True, the College of Charleston astronomy lab
manager. Of course, he has an excuse: he works nights, but isn't studying the
moon.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=29657§ion=localnews
June
23, 2005
Myrtle
Beach Sun News
Entrepreneur opens art gallery
"They kept telling
me [at College of Charleston], 'You can learn here, but you're looking for an
opportunity,'" Chasen McCall said at Sea Gallery in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.
With a major in business,
minor in finance and focus on entrepreneurial studies, McCall, 24, set out to
seek that opportunity.
He started by taking his
grandfather, Miller Pope of Ocean Isle Beach, to lunch and pitching a business
proposal for an art gallery that specializes in giclee prints.
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/11963425.htm
June
19, 2005
Sacramento Bee
Missing pieces
Hypocrisy
doesn't begin to describe the lie that Thurmond lived for virtually all of his
adult life, yet authors Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson have turned out a
largely uncritical biography in "Strom: The Complicated Personal and
Political Life of Strom Thurmond."
Although
Bass, who teaches at the College of Charleston, and Thompson, editor of the
Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, have produced an exceptionally readable book, they
have not filled in all the blanks on what made Thurmond tick. They leave
unanswered, for example, the question of whether his secret relationship with
his African American daughter over the years was "politically motivated
hypocrisy" or "an act of pragmatism" or simply Thurmond
"compartmentalizing his life."
http://www.sacbee.com/content/lifestyle/books/story/13080011p-13925041c.html
June
18, 2005
The State Newspaper
More tuition hikes troubling sign for
access to schools
University of South Carolina trustees are scheduled to vote
Thursday on a 12 percent increase in tuition for undergraduate students. A year
ago, USC implemented an 11 percent tuition hike while Clemson University raised
its tuition 13 percent. Also at that time, the College of Charleston raised its
in-state tuition by 7.5 percent. Trustees at Clemson and the College of
Charleston will meet later this month to set their tuition for next year.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/opinion/11926109.htm
June
18, 2005
Hilton
Head Island Packet
Gibbes shines light on
Southern abstract art
The
South, frequently considered a bastion of figurative art, also has cultivated a
discreet but enduring passion for abstract art among collectors and artists
since the start of the 20th century.
"Beyond
Representation: Abstract Art in the South" explores why artists of the
20th century departed from representational legibility and also investigates
the universal elements contained within abstract work in the South.
Drawn
from the Gibbes' permanent collection and select private collections, the
exhibition features work by the 2005 Spoleto Festival USA official poster
artist Red Grooms, William Halsey, Lee Krasner, Roy Lichtenstein, Sol LeWitt,
Henri Matisse, Brian Rutenberg, Merton Simpson and Michael Tyzack, among
others.
"What I discovered
in putting the show together is the diversity of the abstract art," says
Gibbes curator Angela Mack. "You realize that, going from Tyzack, who
works in very minimalist, geometric forms, to Brian Rutenberg, who was a
student of Tyzack's, who moved in a very different direction, with heavy
impastos and very drippy paint, their styles are in completely opposite
directions."
Tyzack
moved to Charleston in 1976 to become chairman of the studio art department at
the College of Charleston.
http://www.islandpacket.com/features/story/4953068p-4530050c.html
June
13, 2005
Charleston Regional
Business Journal
New
office to provide snapshots of tourism industry
John
Crotts is combining his scholarly research interests with a desire to explore
issues facing the hospitality industry in Charleston.
Crotts
heads the new Office of Tourism Analysis in the College of Charleston’s
Department of Hospitality & Tourism Management, which will oversee the
development of the Office of Tourism Analysis that is set to open in July.
The office
is a partnership among the college, the Charleston Area Convention and
Visitor’s Bureau and the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce. Its task is to
provide reports and information about the status of the Lowcountry tourism
industry.
http://www.charlestonbusiness.com/current/11_12/news/4518-1.html
June
13, 2005
The State
Newspaper
Huge houses sprouting on small Columbia
lots
In the past, people
attracted to in-town neighborhoods accepted a trade-off, said Tim Keane, an
adjunct professor in historic preservation and community planning at the
College of Charleston. They “tended to put up with less square footage so they
could walk to things,” he said.
“If you wanted another
bedroom or a playroom for the kids, you tended to go to the edge of the city
and put up with driving every place.”
But attitudes have
changed, Keane said, and “the closer in, walkable, more diverse neighborhoods
have been seen by the market as frankly more valuable than the edge.”
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/11881009.htm
June
12, 2005
Orlando Sentinel
Park
or police?
"The
Montreal team learned that if they didn't get their black players out of
Sanford by sundown, their lives would be in jeopardy," said Chris Lamb, a
College of Charleston professor who wrote, Blackout: The Untold Story of
Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training.
Aside from Robinson, the park attracted other notable blacks such as Satchel
Paige and Joe Louis, both of whom played sports there, and others such as Dr.
Evelyn Stocking Crosslin, Volusia's first black female physician, who gave poor
blacks free physical examinations at the park.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/volusia/orl-vlvpark12061205jun12,0,987837.story
June
9, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Brio showcases old
Spanish song, dance
As an
alumnus of the College of Charleston, Lemos has close ties to the city and has
often performed with the Charleston Pro Musica. Instrumentalists in the
ensemble are Steve Rosenberg, recorder, crumhorn, gemshorn and Renaissance and
baroque guitars; Mary Anne Ballard on viola da gamba and the rebel, an ancestor
of the modern violin; and Danny Mallon, who contributes a smorgasbord of
percussive sounds from hand drums, tambourines, castanets and other exotic and
unusual items.
http://archives.postandcourier.com/archive/arch05/0605/arc06092365808.shtml
June
8, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Chamber Music Society
uplifting
That
Maves, resident composer at the College of Charleston, with 200 compositions to
his illustrious credits, chose the group to premiere his Bali-sojourn-inspired
work already suggests their level of accomplishment. Somewhat whimsical,
extremely complex in rhythm and color, his "Sea Shanty," written to
Lewis Carroll's poem "A Sea Dirge," had Clayton Lefter's gorgeous
mezzo constantly and successfully reaching for pitch as the bassoon, oboe,
flute and clarinet swirled around her. The classical Western instruments echoed
an exotic and percussive effect.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=27699§ion=spoletotoday
June
8, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Play 'Into the Woods'
tells of reality ever after
"There's a different
vibe now with different chemistries," said College of Charleston senior
Rheney Tuten, who plays the Witch. "We were able to get fantastic
replacements, but they are different people."
The changes have only
helped the cast, according to Susie Hallatt, who plays Jack's mother. "The
first time we performed, it was difficult and took a long time to learn the
music," she said. "This time everything just fell into place within
two rehearsals."
Rob Murdoch, a 2005
College of Charleston graduate, jumped at the chance to play Jack from
"Jack and the Beanstalk."
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=27709§ion=spoletotoday
June
8, 2005
Charleston City Paper
Who's Left Behind
Before
Stephanie Fusco graduated from the College of Charleston in May, she had access
to the new, expensive Addlestone Library for barely a semester. She had not
seen the inside of the Stern Student Center for a year and a half. And, to her
way of seeing things, class size in the Communications department was not
lowered as promised.
Yet, she paid for it. Fusco’s tuition rose 66 percent since her freshman year,
increases that allowed the College of Charleston to hopefully move into the
21st century.
CofC President Lee Higdon stated in a 2002 letter to students that he wanted to
“make the school a nationally preeminent public liberal arts and science
university.” Higdon hopes to achieve this goal with the Board of
Trustees-approved “Fourth Century Initiative: A Quest for Excellence.”
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/layout.asp?id=44916&action=detail&catID=1252&parentID=1252
June
7, 2005
Wilmington Star-News
Online
A
long, strange trip with Strom
Tying
together the different threads of this long, often contradictory life is a
daunting task. Two native South Carolinians, Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson,
take it on, however, and succeed to a remarkable degree.
The two followed their subject a long while. Dr. Bass, who now teaches at the College
of Charleston, was the South Carolina bureau chief for the Charlotte Observer
for many years. (With Wrightsville Beach’s own Walter De Vries, he also wrote
The Transformation of Southern Politics.) Ms. Thompson was a longtime
investigative reporter for The Washington Post.
June
6, 2005
Columbia Metropolitan
People Pages
Reception for the
Columbia Alumni Chapter of the College of Charleston
(Photo of the reception)
June
6, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Bricks and mortar, with
emphasis on mortar
Wielding
hoes, trowels and a big wooden mallet, 10 College of Charleston students spent
most of last month repairing the messier brick sections of 12 Bull St., home of
the college's historic preservation program.
Professor Robert Russell
supervised and ultimately based grades partly on the neatness and thoroughness
of the students' work.
"They are learning
that one of the big jobs of 21st century preservationists will be to fix all
the screw-ups caused by 20th century materials," he says.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=27379§ion=localnews
June
6, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Restaurants getting
software boost
Area
restaurants soon will have a new tool to track their performance and gauge how
they're doing compared to their competitors.
Faculty from the College
of Charleston's new Office of Tourism Analysis and the school's computer
science department are designing software that will help the restaurant
industry gather such information. Local restaurateurs also are offering
insights on the project, which is paid for with money from the state and the Charleston
Area Convention & Visitors Bureau. It should be ready to roll out this
fall.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=27434§ion=businessreview
June 5, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
U.S. students to focus
on Constitution on Sept. 17
Amy McCandless, associate
provost and history professor at the College of Charleston, disagreed.
"It's not a
curricular mandate because it's not saying we have to teach a class on
it," McCandless said. Instead, the provision requires a program of some
sort, celebrating the historic document, she said. "I think I would rather
put this in the category of a holiday rather than say it's a curricular
mandate."
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=27207§ion=localnews
June
4, 2005
Mississippi Sun
Herald
'Stealth
metrics' abound
James Frysinger, a
physics lecturer at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, has another
term: "metric moments." They happen every day without upsetting
anyone. Fat and fiber come in grams, sodium in milligrams. Computer speeds are
in megahertz. Wine and spirits come in metric sizes only. Watts, volts and
amperes are metric units.
While metric creep might
indeed eventually transform us, in-your-face changes likely still will illicit
many a range of reactions, starting with derision and ending with anger.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/living/home/11812399.htm
June
3, 2005
Charlotte
Observer
System switch seeks to reduce risk of ID
theft
CHARLESTON - The College of Charleston hopes to
prevent identity theft by switching to a new program that assigns ID numbers
rather than identifying students by their Social Security number.
A new identification
program at the college will provide students and personnel with an eight-digit,
college-issued ID number.
Social Security numbers
had been used on ID cards and internal reports, and was the way students
accessed online services, college officials said.
But that is changing.
"Social Security
numbers will still be collected for federal-reporting purposes but will not be
the key identifier within the college's system," said Pamela Niesslein,
associate dean for assessment and planning.
Other colleges have said
they stopped identifying students and personnel by their Social Security number
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/states/south_carolina/counties/york/11802794.htm
June
3, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
House picks Harrell to
be new speaker
Jack Bass, a state
politics expert at the College of Charleston, said it was incredibly rare to
see one region consolidate so much power.
"Certainly, for
longer than a century this is the first time you've had three Charleston County
residents in three of the most powerful offices in state government," he
said. "But as many of us know, they don't necessarily agree on
everything."
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=26997§ion=stateregion
June
3, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
One goal is to explain
unique Charleston sound
He is the embodiment of
that whole (local jazz) tradition," said Dr. Karen Chandler, associate
professor of arts management at the College of Charleston and one of the
founders of the Charleston Jazz Initiative.
In March 2003, Chandler
organized a semester-long retrospective of the jazz age in which the Jenkins
Orphanage bands were featured. The retrospective was a big hit, she said.
"It was from the community response to the public program that we launched
the Charleston Jazz Initiative."
http://archives.postandcourier.com/archive/arch05/0605/arc06032354896.shtml
June
3, 2005
The State
Newspaper
Offbeat art off the beaten path
Another good bet in
Charleston is “Alive Inside: The Lure and Lore of the Sideshow,” on display at
four locations around the city.
The show is the creation
of Mark Sloan, director of the College of Charleston gallery, who often comes
up with oddly themed exhibitions. Not all have been successful, the concept
being better than the art. That’s not the case with “Alive Inside,” because the
artists truly understand their subject matter.
The main attractions are
pseudo-sideshow banners by David Boatwright, who creates some philosophically
challenging sideshow acts. Among them are the invisible woman and her husband
the stone man, which is as much a comment on relationships as sideshows.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/entertainment/11798170.htm
June
3, 2005
The State
Newspaper
Myrtle
Beach Sun News
College
of Charleston hopes to prevent identity theft
The College of Charleston
hopes to prevent identity theft by switching to a new program that assigns ID
numbers rather than identifying students by their Social Security number.
A new identification
program at the college will provide students and personnel with an eight-digit,
college-issued ID number.
Social Security numbers
had been used on ID cards and internal reports and was the way students
accessed online services, college officials said.
Other colleges have said
they have stopped identifying students and personnel by their Social Security
numbers.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/11802482.htm
June
2, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Photographer focuses on
jazz greats
"A photojournalist,
teacher, activist, entrepreneur and media consultant, Mr. Alexander has been on
the scene — at festivals, concerts, cultural events, rallies,
demonstrations, meetings and marches, photographing events that guided the
course of history," says Dr. Karen Chandler, associate professor of arts
management at the College of Charleston. "Jim's photographs are full of
life and reflective of his active involvement with the very musicians he has
photographed.
http://archives.postandcourier.com/archive/arch05/0605/arc06022351893.shtml
June
2, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
C of C adopts new
identity program
A new identification
program will provide students and personnel with an eight-digit, college-issued
ID number, instead of using a Social Security number. The federal numbers had
been the main form of identification on ID cards, internal reports and in the
way students accessed online services, college officials said. All that is being
replaced by the new college ID number.
"Social Security
numbers will still be collected for federal-reporting purposes but will not be
the key identifier within the college's system," said Pamela Niesslein,
associate dean for assessment and planning.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=26801§ion=localnews
June
1, 2005
Charleston City Paper
Behind the Music
Listening
to local researchers Karen Chandler and Jack McCray talk about Charleston’s
jazz history can make your hair stand on end.
Chandler’s
an associate professor of arts management with the College of Charleston’s
School of the Arts and the former director of Avery Research Center. Her cohort
McCray has worked a day job as a writer and editor at The Post and Courier for
decades. His passion, though, is jazz. Born and raised in Charleston, he
estimates he’s been collecting local jazz stories for nearly 50 years.
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/layout.asp?id=44716&action=detail&catID=1254&parentID=1254