College
of Charleston News Stories
September 2005
September
30, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
C of C
group plans trip to help out in Mississippi
College of Charleston
students, faculty and staff will travel to Mississippi during fall break to
help victims of Hurricane Katrina.
From Oct. 14 until Oct.
18, they'll assist with debris removal, minor repairs and providing food and
water to hurricane victims in Hattiesburg and Pass Christian.
They will accept
donations of non-perishable food, bottled water, blankets and clothing at the
College of Charleston North Campus main office, 5300 International Blvd.,
Building B, North Charleston.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=42385§ion=localnews
September
30, 2005
The
State Newspaper
Sanford deputy to leave post
“The communications director is one of the closest
relationships a politician has, besides his campaign manager,” said Jamie
McKown, a former Democratic activist who teaches political communication at the
College of Charleston. “When you change communications directors, it does take
a feeling-out period.”
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/12778947.htm
September
30, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Student robberies continue
Skateboarder seventh C of C victim
this month
If only
John Himmelsbach had kept rolling Wednesday night.
Instead, the College of
Charleston student who stopped skateboarding when a man greeted him became the
seventh victim this month in a string of armed robberies targeting students.
College of Charleston Police
Chief Paul Verrecchia and his officers are trying to make students more aware
of the robberies.
Articles about the
robberies have been published in the college paper, and college officials
provide safety tips to students on a regular basis.
"People have to be
on their toes," Verrecchia said. "The way you overcome is to
eliminate any sort of opportunity for a robbery."
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=42389§ion=localnews
September
29, 2005
The
State Newspaper
Some back Orangeburg woman for high court
But legal scholars don’t
expect Williams has made the jump from Bush’s long list to the short list of
potential nominees.
“Unlikely,” said David
Mann, a political science professor at the College of Charleston who studies
the judiciary.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/12768486.htm
September
28, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Cross-culture cooking
Kinda
McGowan, a College of Charleston senior from Trinidad, mixes a lot of diversity
into her Caribbean cuisine.
My long-term dream would
probably be a chef," says McGowan, a College of Charleston senior from
Trinidad. "If I had a 'perfect' dream, it would be to have a
restaurant."
Meanwhile, she is not as
focused on "perfect" as she is on finding a good job in the
hospitality industry when she finishes school. She would like to see a bit more
of the United States and the world, and she's already well on her way.
McGowan is the first
recipient of the Patrick E. Ringwald Scholarship, named for the former
Boathouse restaurant manager who was fatally shot in 2003. The scholarship, a
project of the Patrick E. Ringwald Memorial Foundation, was established at
Patrick's alma mater and will be given annually to a student in the hospitality
and tourism field.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=42198§ion=food
September
28, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
C of C student robbed in
6th case in 15 days
A College of Charleston
student walking along a downtown street at 2:40 a.m. with two beers in his
pocket and $20 in his wallet is the latest victim in a string of robberies
targeting students, police said.
This time the student was
able to provide detectives with a good description of the robber.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=42174§ion=localnews
September
27, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
THE
DEEP BLUE SEA
Fifty-five scientists
from the United States and Canada are aboard a University of Washington
research vessel.
They are using underwater
robots and high-definition video cameras to explore, sample, monitor and map
one of the most extreme environments on Earth.
Where are they? At the
bottom of the ocean ... 1.5 miles deep ... at the openings of deep sea vents,
hydrothermal vents into the Earth's crust that are pouring black smoke and ash
into the ocean.
Among the critters who
live in this remote and extreme environment are microbes, bacteria, tubeworms,
scaleworms, snails, limpets and vent clams. They live on the hydrogen sulfide
in the flow. Preying on them are octopi, spider crabs, squat lobsters, brittle
stars and rattail fish.
Most of the critters are
in water where the temperature ranges from 36 degrees to 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
But some species of microbes are found in the walls of chimneys where fluid in
the vent can reach temperatures up to 700 degrees. Scientists are studying how
these organisms make it in super-hot environments.
They will broadcast their
findings in high definition and real-time video from the sea floor Wednesday.
The broadcasts are being shown live in several countries and in many marine
science institutions, including the College of Charleston.
The first one is
Wednesday at 5 p.m., Physician's Auditorium. The second one is Thursday, 5
p.m., in Education Center Room 118. Both are open to the public at Our Favorite
Price.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=42017§ion=localnews
September
27, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
C of C twins haunted by
Katrina, aftermath
The first
thing Millard Mulé saw when he returned to his old neighborhood were
firefighters using spray paint to mark the houses with corpses inside. Keys
would no longer open the front door to his boyhood home in the Broadmoor
section of New Orleans, so he used a crowbar to get in. He was handed a mask, a
weak defense against the overpowering stench of mold and sewage and death.
Eleven feet of water had
been in the street. Seven feet of it had flooded the raised two-story house,
which had been in the family for more than a century. The walls now are coated
with mildew and dirt. To get inside, the College of Charleston senior had to
crawl over a refrigerator that blocked the front door. When he and his family
tried to move it, it spilled its rotten contents. Mulé had to go outside and
throw up.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=42049§ion=localnews
September
27, 2005
The
State Newspaper
Myrtle
Beach Sun News
Thurmond’s record may be eclipsed
Jack Bass, the College of
Charleston professor who co-authored “Strom,” a biography of the senator,
imagines Thurmond — were he still alive — would react as
competitively as ever to a challenge from Byrd.
“Thurmond would think,
‘Well, at least he won’t break my filibuster record, and I bet nobody else does
either!’” Bass said.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/12750403.htm
September
26, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Visitors to warships,
athletic fields account for economic impact of $49M
The
241,000 or so visitors to the Patriots Point warships and athletic fields last
year had a $49 million impact on Charleston County, according to an economic
impact study released by the College of Charleston last week.
College of Charleston
professor John Crotts, the lead author of the study, said he expected the
numbers to be lower.
"I think that a lot
of people that live in Charleston don't really understand and appreciate all
that they do there," Crotts said.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=41919§ion=businessreview
September
26, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Distinctions
College
of Charleston chemistry professor Charles F. Beam has won the American Chemical
Society 2006 award for undergraduate research.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=41879§ion=businessreview
September
26, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Colleges Rock the Block
to fight abuse of alcohol
The college effect,
explained Elizabeth Walker, a substance abuse counselor at the College of
Charleston, means students come to college assuming alcohol is easy to get and
therefore seek it out. Easy access to alcohol becomes a concrete goal leading
to destructive behavior
So Walker, along with
colleagues from Trident Technical College, The Citadel and Charleston Southern
University, formed the College Community Coalition to address the issue of
underage drinking and promote alcohol- and drug-free student activities.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=41915§ion=localnews
September
25, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Piano Series opens
Tuesday at the Sottile
The
International Piano Series, directed by Enrique Graf, will open its 16th season
at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the College of Charleston's Sottile Theatre, 44 George St.
Performing will be Ciro
Fodere, a pianist with the New York Symphony who has performed in Rome and
Carnegie Hall. Having begun his piano studies at age 4 in his native Uruguay,
Fodere went on to receive a scholarship provided by College of Charleston
supporter John Zeigler. He studied piano with Graf, the college's
artist-in-residence, and after graduating from the college, received a graduate
assistantship from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=41766§ion=artstravel
September
25, 2005
The
State Newspaper
Magazine likes C of C’s education school
The College of
Charleston’s School of Education received high marks from the editors of
Seventeen Magazine, according to the school.
In the October issue, the
College of Charleston is one of three schools the magazine recommends for
students wanting to major in education. The magazine noted “its respected
school of education also has a top-ranked athletic-training education program.”
“It’s wonderful publicity
for us to be recognized among the best schools to become a teacher,” said
Frances Welch, dean of the education school at the College of Charleston.
The College of Charleston
is the only school in South Carolina to be cited by the magazine.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/12735858.htm
September
25, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Researcher writes
history of Jewish life in Charleston
Solomon
Breibart did not set out to write another book.
His reticence had nothing
to do with time, the trouble involved, or age. Certainly not age. Only 90, and
a robust 90 at that, the Charleston native didn't see any particular need to
gather his various writings into a single volume. Though these articles and
pieces for varied periodicals had not been assembled previously, he already had
produced six books.
Then his wife, Sarah,
went to work on him. As did local friends Robert Rosen, Jack Bass, Dale
Rosengarten and everyone else who, for years, had savored his perspectives on
the history of Jews in Charleston.
A former
high school teacher, Breibart took on a second career after retirement, doing
research. He invested 25 years in the pursuit and has been a key player in
maintaining and preserving many of the records that became part of the Jewish
Heritage Collection, a consolidation of city and state archival synagogue
documents stored at the College of Charleston. Dale Rosengarten is its curator.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=41724§ion=artstravel
September
24, 2005
Miami Herald
Cirque du Soleil or banquet hall?
Critics liken this push
for bigger and better convention centers to an arms race, with each improvement
justified by the fact that other cities are doing the same thing. They say the
spending build-up comes amid signs the convention industry on a whole has
either flattened out or is declining, creating a shrinking pie of business for
an expanding roster of expo halls.
''Collectively, there is
so much space being built that there has to be losers,'' said Steven Litvin, a
tourism professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. ``It may not
be Miami. But there has to be losers.''
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/12727514.htm
September
24, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Police try to 'think
like a criminal' to thwart robberies around C of C
Charleston
police Sgt. Karl Smith was patrolling downtown after midnight when he spied a
middle-aged couple walking along a dark part of Meeting Street.
It took him only seconds
to size them up.
"This is who I'd
rob," he said. "You have to think like a criminal."
Smith and 14 other
officers were patrolling a patch of downtown Charleston early Thursday morning
as part of a special police detail. For more than a week they've tried to stem
a tide of robberies, most of which targeted students near the College of
Charleston.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=41558§ion=localnews
September
23, 2005
Myrtle
Beach Sun News
Lovelace launches gubernatorial campaign
Lovelace remains "a
distinct underdog and it's unlikely he could win the Republican primary,"
College of Charleston political science professor Bill Moore said, adding that
Sanford has significant financial resources and is popular with voters.
Lovelace's "greatest
impact would be to perhaps embarrass the governor or a wake-up call if he gets
25 (percent) to 30 percent of the vote in the primary," the professor
said.
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/12714215.htm
September
22, 2005
Men’s Fitness
In our
first report on the health of America's college campuses, we partnered with the
Princeton Review, one of America's premier research organizations and an expert
on tracking the fickle interests and habits of college students. Together, we
surveyed nearly 10,000 students from more than 660 of the nation's top colleges
and universities, asking them everything from the personal ("How many
pounds have you gained or lost since you started going to school?"
"How often do you work out?") to their thoughts on the big-picture
issues ("How would you rate the fitness facilities on your campus?"
"Does your school appear to care about how fit you are?").
Top
25 Fittest 2005
Ranking 1.
Brigham Young
University 2. University
of California, Santa Barbara 3. Boston University
4. University of
Vermont 5. Northwestern
University (Ill.) 6. University of Colorado,
Boulder 7. University
of Notre Dame (Ind.) 8. University of California,
Santa Cruz 9. University
of Wisconsin, Madison 10. University of Wisconsin,
La Crosse 11. Boston College
12. Texas Christian
University 13. University of California,
Davis 14. Georgia
Institute of Technology 15. Salisbury University
(Md.) 16. Georgetown
University (D.C.) 17. College of William and
mary (Va.) 18. College of Charleston
(S.C.) 19. East
Carolina University (N.C.) 20. California State
University, Long Beach
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College
of Charleston
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REPORT
CARD: College of Charleston |
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Student
Bodies |
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A- |
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Exercise |
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B+ |
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Bad
Habits |
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C+ |
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Other
Lifestyle Choices |
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B- |
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Culture
of Fitness |
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D- |
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Final |
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B- |
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Enrollment |
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9,479 |
http://www.mensfitness.com/college_rankings/53.
September
22, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
CORRECTION
Because
of a reporter's error, a story on Page 1B of Wednesday's editions of The Post
and Courier about fleas in College of Charleston housing contained incorrect
information about pest-control methods. When using anti-flea products with a
growth regulator to kill eggs, exterminators do not always have to return
within a week. With many other products, however, exterminators do have to
return after more fleas hatch, usually after a week. Also, the story
incorrectly stated the location of Lowcountry Pest Management. The business is
in Mount Pleasant.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=41283§ion=localnews
September
21, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Patrols increased near C
of C
An extra
15 Charleston police officers are patrolling downtown streets at night in an
effort to nab robbers preying upon college students over the past month,
authorities said Tuesday.
Interim Police Chief Ned
Hethington said police are taking the holdups seriously, and he is confident
they will make arrests.
"We're working on
it, and we're giving it every effort," he said. "We're going to catch
somebody for it."
Since Aug. 27, seven
students have been robbed near the College of Charleston in an area also
popular with tourists. The most violent robbery occurred early Friday when a
man stabbed a 20-year-old student and stole her purse after she left a King
Street restaurant.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=41222§ion=localnews
September
21, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
C of C language students
flee fleas
The
Spanish and French houses at the College of Charleston need one serious flea
bomb.
Eighteen language
students were forced to move from their Bull Street homes into the Hampton Inn
on Meeting Street three weeks after school started because their homes became
infested with the parasites.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=41186§ion=localnews
September
20, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Robberies near campus
unnerve C of C students
A spate
of robberies targeting College of Charleston students since school began has
left students uneasy and some of them afraid to walk the streets at night.
Women now walk in pairs.
Officers have increased patrol in the area. A robbery victim looks over his
shoulder as he walks alone.
The number of robberies
is unusually high, said College of Charleston Police Chief Paul Verrecchia.
"We are
concerned," Verrecchia said. "The city has taken this very seriously,
and they are taking action."
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=41122§ion=localnews
September
20, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Turn
up the heat (letter to the editor)
The Goody
Shoppe has been an amazing undertaking with enormous support. Thanks to Dr.
John Clarkin of the College of Charleston for awarding $5,000 to our
entrepreneurship program. Thanks to Jimmy Bailey for introducing NFTE (National
Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship) to the Charleston area. This
three-day seminar taught teachers the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and
provided valuable resources in the form of books, videos and supplements. A big
thank you for the support we have from our principal, Bob Olson, who gave us
$400 to start our business idea and to my department head, Sandy Pennekamp, who
allows teachers to try things that are different than the norm.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=41137§ion=letters
September
19, 2005
Charleston Regional
Business Journal
Prices at the pump fail to put brakes on tourism
“Supply
isn’t so much a problem because Charleston gets its gas from barges, not
pipelines,” explained John Crotts, director of the College of Charleston’s hospitality
and tourism management program. “Even though the rise in gasoline prices has
been a psychological jolt to everyone, when you back up and look at it, driving
is still affordable.”
http://www.charlestonbusiness.com/current/11_19/news/4779-1.html
September
19, 2005
Charleston Regional
Business Journal
Rising gas prices eat at restaurants’ profits
Researchers
at the College of Charleston are compiling consumer-spending statistics for
Lowcountry restaurants, said Robert Frash, a professor in the college’s
Hospitality and Tourism Management department.
Nevertheless,
Frash suspects Charleston restaurants are withstanding the gasoline price
increase better than restaurants in many other U.S. cities. Peninsular
Charleston’s restaurants are driven by tourism traffic and located within
walking distance from one another, making driving unnecessary, he noted.
http://www.charlestonbusiness.com/current/11_19/news/4778-1.html
September
19, 2005
USA Today
Displaced
collegians get reoriented
CHARLESTON, S.C. —
How quickly can young adults recover when their lives are thrown off course?
For the estimated 100,000 students who were supposed to be at a college in New
Orleans this fall, that question cannot yet be answered.
The College of
Charleston, one of the many colleges to open its doors to displaced students
(it took 29), is no stranger to hurricanes. Memories of Hugo, which ravaged the
campus 16 years ago this month, are still fresh. “There's no way you can really
understand what they've gone through unless you've been through it yourself,”
says political science professor William Moore. He says he recognizes that
shell-shocked look on some faces.
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050919/studentsdisplaced19.art.htm
September
18, 2005
The
State Newspaper
A life lost to time
Sadly, his story is one
that few know, and that is wrong, says Andy Abrams, an amateur baseball
historian who uses the game’s lore in teaching a class at the College of
Charleston called Baseball, Mythology, and the Meaning of Life.
“Cal Drummond is such a
terrific story, and I had never heard it,” Abrams says. “It’s really
remarkable. He had a real commitment and willed himself back onto the field for
the game he loved.
“I saw an article and
thought, ‘Wow, this guy is a hero.’ He showed dedication, a caring and passion.
He showed courage and self-sacrifice. He was willing to give up his life for
what he believed in.”
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/sports/12676127.htm
September
18, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
'Celebrate Discovery' to
open symphony season
Also on
the opening program will be Camille Saint-Saens' "Havanaise" Opus 83,
which was composed in 1885 originally for violin and piano, according to
William Gudger, music professor at the College of Charleston.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=40820§ion=artstravel
September
18, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Clean sweep
Karen
Chandler's housekeeping skills would pass muster with most visitors to her
James Island home. Art, books, cosmetics and dishes are exactly where you would
expect them to be. And for the most part, they are well-organized.
But Chandler isn't as
satisfied with the condition of her house as visitors are. She knows where the
dust bunnies hide. She frets about getting the floors polished. And she wishes
for window panes so clean they seem to have vanished.
To Chandler, a College of
Charleston associate professor, her house may deserve a good grade, but not an
"A." Her situation is similar to those of many busy people.
"The nature of my
work is that I'm out and about," she says. "On weekends, I don't want
to be cleaning."
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=40838§ion=garden
September
16, 2005
London Guardian
Unlimited
Coffins are so last century for Britons seeking life
after death
George Dickinson, a
sociologist at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, agrees. With an
estimated 77 million American baby boomers reaching the age of 50 between 1966
and 2015, he predicts that dying will soon become a major obsession.
He says Americans prefer
burial to cremation by a factor of about two to one. But whether it's having a
solar-powered video screen embedded in your tombstone or arranging for your
pallbearers to be dressed as Elvis Presley, traditional funerals are becoming
more elaborate.
By 2025 Mr. Dickinson
expects more and more Americans will follow the lead of Hunter S Thompson. His
"cremains", at his request, were last month were packed inside a
firework and blasted from a cannon to a height of 500 feet above his home in Colorado.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,1571693,00.html
September
14, 2005
Charleston City
Paper
Chain Reaction
CofC grad shifts gears with an
interactive exhibition
“I didn’t
want to use anything too contemporary,” says Bump, who used generic army men in
WWII garb. “It’s not about Iraq or Afghanistan. It’s all about voyeurism.” A
local artist who graduated from the College of Charleston in 2002, Bump’s
previous pieces were full of “big gears.” They were driven by their mechanics
rather than the ideas they were trying to convey. Now the hand-cast gears in a
work like the “The Idiot Box” are concealed, and it’s the subject that really
matters.
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/layout.asp?id=47361&action=detail&catID=1254&parentID=1254
September
13, 2005
Seventeen Magazine
College/The
Best Major
September
13, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
HIGH
PROFILE
Case-in-point:
"Insider's Charleston" in the September issue of National Geographic
Traveler. We usually like National Geographic ... its recent covers on
hurricane science and its special issue on Africa, for example, were great.
And we don't object to
National Geographic Traveler promot-ing Charleston as a walking city or
noticing its eccentricities. But their leading with a reference to Rhett Butler
is unfortunate.
Traveler gives nods to
Moo Roo handbags, Fort Sumter, the Powder Magazine (one of GMLc's favorite
buildings), Market Hall, the Battery, the Aiken-Rhett House, Marion Square,
King Street, Middleton Place, Spoleto Festival USA, pirates, the Yorktown, the
Gibbes Museum of Art, College of Charleston's Cistern and Avery Research Center
for African-American History & Culture, a bunch of restaurants ... and even
the remains of the original walled city of Charles Town.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=40216§ion=localnews
September
12, 2005
Miami Herald
Hurricane worries: Is this the new
normal?
Steve Litvin, a professor
of hospitality and tourism management at the College of Charleston in South
Carolina, noted Charleston's tourism industry has pressed the National Weather
Service to drop its five-day forecast for hurricane tracks because its broad
swath needlessly implicates such a large area.
While Litvin said he
didn't agree with the bureau's strategy, he sees the hurricane tracks fueling
traveler worries. Busy hurricane seasons will naturally compound that factor.
''I think it's going to
dramatically increase the nervousness about it ahead of time, and the
seriousness with which people will take warnings,'' Litvin said. ``From a
vacation point of view, it just means if you're anywhere near that cone, you're
just going to cancel.''
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/special_packages/business_monday/12605803.htm
September
11, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
WHY? Reconciling God and
catastrophe
Catastrophe
will strike. And human beings, endowed with consciousness and curiosity,
capable of compassion and cruelty, invariably will ask, Why? Those who believe in the Western
concept of a benevolent and merciful God might wonder how such a God could
permit human disaster of the magnitude we have seen the past two weeks in the
wake of Hurricane Katrina.
The Post
and Courier invited religious leaders and scholars in the community to reflect
on this question. Here is what they had to say:
Professor Lee Irwin
Chairman, religious studies department, College of
Charleston
From the point of view of
the comparative study of religions, suffering is an aspect of human life that
is common to all humanity. Natural disasters are largely impersonal events that
reflect potential imbalance and loss of harmony on a global scale. What drives
this imbalance? Many religions address this question, and the most common
answer to the question of suffering is human ignorance, not divine displeasure.
Human beings are not
simply passive agents within nature, but active co-creators in the process of
maintaining values which can support harmony and balance. If we choose
exploitation, create ecological disaster, pollute the Earth and fail to deal
successfully with the consequences of over-industrialization, excessive
population growth and massive consumption of all resources, we also ignore the
responsibilities of good stewardship. The consequences of human action may well
contribute to global imbalance.
Dr. June McDaniel
Religious Studies Department, College of Charleston
Why did God destroy New
Orleans? This is the classic question of theodicy: Why is there evil if we have
a good God? The question is often phrased in this way: If God wants innocent
people to suffer, then he is not good but evil; and if he allows evil to occur
but does not want it to happen, then he is weak. In either case, God lacks
either goodness or omnipotence. Religious skeptics have long used this
argument.
Sometimes we see the
argument that descendants are punished for the sins of their ancestors. As the
Ten Commandments say in Exodus 20:5, "I the Lord your God, am a jealous
god. I punish the children for the sins of the fathers to the third and fourth
generations ."
In this argument, people
are not punished for their own sins, but for the sins of their relatives.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=39937§ion=faithvalues
September
11, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Youth rally promotes
clean fun without being preachy
Robert Westerfelhaus, an
assistant professor at the College of Charleston who focuses on religious
communications, said it shouldn't come as a surprise that rap is morphing to
meet social needs.
"Rap started out as
social commentary on conditions of poverty, marginalization, prejudice and
oppression," Westerfelhaus said. "Only later was it co-opted by gangs
and used in this gangsta form. Now, the music is being co-opted again in some
of the same socially positive ways we saw at its roots."
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=39961§ion=faithvalues
September
11, 2005
Washington Post
Good
Old Boys
Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms helped
create an unsettling brand of politics.
In
telling the story of their fellow South Carolinian, Jack Bass and Marilyn W.
Thompson show how the South helped to shape modern America by shaping Thurmond.
In 1947, the New York Times had published an editorial entitled "Strom
Thurmond, Hope of the South," praising South Carolina's then governor for
his progressive programs.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090801620.html
September
11, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Accept
aid (letter to the editor)
As I read the news
following the destruction caused by Katrina, I see numerous reports of nations
around the world offering aid in the form of monetary and material or
personal-effort contributions.
The United States has
long been a donor to nations in need, usually in a fairly gracious manner. It
would be foolish of us at this time to be less gracious as a
recipient. In fact, it
would be a mark of inflated pride to brush them off.
JAMES R. FRYSINGER
Physics Lab Manager
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
College of Charleston
66 George St.