College of Charleston News
Stories
October 2005
October
31, 2005
Outbound
Wednesday night at 7,
College of Charleston professor of English Charlie Geer will read from and
discuss his novel 'Outbound: The Curious Secession of Latter-Day Charleston' at
Charleston County Library, 68 Calhoun St.
We haven't yet read
Geer's sendup of Charleston society, but we understand its plot deals with the
peninsula breaking away from the South Carolina mainland and floating out to
sea.
Geer, a native
pluff-mudder, has worked as a circus roustabout, an orchard keeper, a
commercial fisherman, a high school teacher and a carpenter. At College of
Charleston, he teaches English 101 and helps edit the literary journal
Crazyhorse. This is his first novel.
N'Awlins poet
Thursday night, Louisiana
poet laureate, New Orleans native and hurricane survivor Brenda Marie Osbey
will read from her work at 7:30 p.m. Her poems are filled with folk legends and
true characters from New Orleans' black culture. It's at College of
Charleston's Alumni Memorial Hall, on the second floor of Randolph Hall (the
big, historic building near the Cistern on George Street. You can't miss it).
Earthquakes
Also Thursday night, Dr.
Susan Hough, seismologist with the U. S. Geological Survey in Pasadena, Calif.,
will lecture on 'Earthquake Storms: The Very Long Reach of Very Large
Earthquakes.' It's at 7:30 at Wachovia Auditorium, Beatty Center for the School
of Business and Economics, 5 Liberty St. The Lowcountry is on a fault. Last big
upheaval: 1886.
The moon
Nov. 9, the College of
Charleston Society of Physics Students invites the public to the IMAX Theatre
film 'Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D.' It's at 7 p.m. Tickets
are $9. The theater is near the S.C. Aquarium at the foot of Concord Street.
Afterward, look at the moon through the society's telescopes, set up just
outside the theater.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=47349§ion=localnews
October
31, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Kalb,
offering anecdotes about his encounters with world leaders to a sizable crowd
at the College of Charleston's Stern Student Center on Sunday, said the common
denominator among those leaders was abundant courage.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=47361§ion=localnews
October
31, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Lady Molesworth was a
former singer and actress who married well and became one of the foremost
hostesses of the day, said Timothy L. Carens, associate professor of English at
the College of Charleston.
In 1866, Dickens had just
completed 'Our Mutual Friend,' his last complete novel, and was conducting a
series of public readings of his works in England and Scotland, Carens said.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=47340§ion=localnews
October
30, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
JOURNALIST
SPEAKS
Marvin
Kalb, senior fellow and founding director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on
Press, Politics and Public Policy, will speak on the College of Charleston
campus today at 9:15 a.m. (Arnold Hall) and 10:15 a.m. (Stern Center Ballroom).
The subject of Kalb's lecture will be 'Characters I Have Covered - From Golda
Meir to Henry Kissinger.' Parking is free in the Wentworth Street garage with
Sunday's program of events. For information, call the College of Charleston's
Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program at 953-5682.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=47326§ion=faithvalues
October
30, 2005
The
State Newspaper
Charles and Andrea Volpe
have given $3 million to the College of Charleston’s School of Education, the
largest single gift given to the education school.
The school will name its
renovated teacher education facilities the Charles and Andrea Volpe Center for
Teaching and Learning. Charles Volpe is the former chief executive officer of
Simpsonville-based Kemet Corp.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/13033912.htm
October
30, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
College of Charleston
officials say they have taken numerous steps toward protecting students from
recent robberies and thefts downtown, including providing them taxicab vouchers
and safety whistles and increasing safety staff.
But it's the students
themselves who have the greatest ability to stop crimes that have targeted many
of their classmates since school began in late August, Public Safety Director
Paul Verrecchia told a forum at the school last week.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=47249§ion=localnews
October
30, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
After riding a bicycle
coast-to-coast, Michael Dennis arrived home in Charleston Saturday with a few
sore muscles and, he said, a clearer understanding of why Habitat for Humanity
needs the money he helped raise.
In his 3,700-mile
journey, Dennis saw some of the devastation three hurricanes inflicted on the
Gulf Coast region. He said authorities there allowed him to ride a major
highway that had been closed to traffic after Hurricane Katrina, but other
damaged roads and bridges forced him to take some detours.
Dennis, 37, is a College
of Charleston graduate and a local housing contractor who does volunteer work
for Charleston Habitat. His 30-day ride raised a yet undetermined amount of
money, mainly through pledges, for Habitat. Some of the money will go to
hurricane relief.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=47242§ion=localnews
October
30, 2005
Myrtle
Beach Sun News
Paul Allen to read Allen from 'Crawl' at CCU
Pulitzer Prize-nominated
poet Paul Allen reads at Coastal Carolina University at 4 p.m. Nov. 10.
The Alabama native, who
teaches at the College of Charleston, will read from "American
Crawl," his book that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Allen has also won the John Williams Andrews Narrative Poetry Prize and a
Rainmaker Award, plus the S.C. Arts Commission's Individual Artist Fellowship
in Poetry.
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/local/13036931.htm
Hilton
Head Island Packet
Myrtle Beach
Sun News
Augusta
Chronicle
Greenville
News
A former president of KEMET Corp. has donated $3 million
to the College of Charleston's School of Education, the largest single gift
ever given the school.
Charles and Andrea Volpe say they made the donation so the
college can help future educators learn to motivate and shape young minds.
"With education, you can eliminate all of the woes of
the world," Andrea Volpe said.
The college will rename a newly renovated wing in the
Education Center in the Volpes' honor.
Charles Volpe was president and chief operating officer of
KEMET Corp. in Greenville. Andrea Volpe is part of several boards, including
the College of Charleston's School of Education Advisory Board.
Previously, the Volpes
have funded education graduate assistantships worth $10,000 each.
http://www.islandpacket.com/news/state/regional/story/5292357p-4800189c.html
October
29, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
If you're going to donate
$3 million, it's important to get some bang for your buck.
Charles and Andrea Volpe
say that's why they are pledging the generous gift to the College of
Charleston's School of Education - where it can have far-reaching effects,
helping future educators learn to motivate and shape young minds.
The bequest, the largest
single gift ever given to the college, was announced Friday at a campus ceremony.
'With education, you can
eliminate all of the woes of the world,' Andrea Volpe said. Well-trained
teachers can inspire students to address societal ills such as poverty, racism
and crime, she said.
Fran Welch, dean of the
School of Education, said the size of the gift staggered her. 'I thought I
was going to faint.' She said it's hard to adequately thank the couple for a
gift that helps secure the future of the entire education program. But she
plans to try by putting the money to good use through scholarships and other
efforts that will attract the best and brightest students to careers in
education.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=47180§ion=localnews
October
29, 2005
The
State Newspaper
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/13027918.htm
October
28, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
In cities around the
nation, the poor are being forced out of their longtime homes to accommodate
those who can pay higher rents and taxes, author and social critic Mamadou
Chinyelu said Thursday during a lecture at the College of Charleston's Avery
Institute.
"We are being forced
into a migration to accommodate the profit interest of the ruling class,"
said Chinyelu, a native of Marlboro County who has written four books and
lectures at colleges, universities, museums, libraries and churches.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=46853§ion=localnews
President
Bush told Americans that the federal government will help rebuild the
hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast. Estimates put the cost at $200 billion. The
administration already has spent $300 billion on the war in Iraq. To paraphrase
the late Sen. Everett Dirksen: Two hundred billion dollars here and $300
billion there, and pretty soon you are talking real money.
Despite strangling
federal deficits, Mr. Bush vows he won't raise taxes. He says that he can pay
off the country's debt by finding additional cuts in unnecessary spending. The
Bush administration, to its credit, has already trimmed such fat as bullets and
body armor for soldiers and benefits for armed services veterans and Medicare
recipients.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.satire27oct27,1,4340618.story
October
27, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
But
having such classes in the middle grades is especially important because of the
gender awareness of adolescents coupled with the "socially conscious and
inept" nature of those students, said Sara Powell, an associate professor
of education at the College of Charleston.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=46799§ion=localnews
October
27, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
"Talking
With ..."
Up for a riveting conversation?
Visit the Chapel Theatre on the College of Charleston campus for a performance
of "Talking With ..." today through Saturday at 8 p.m. or Sunday at 3
p.m.
The play, which launched
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jane Martin's career in 1981, looks into the
thoughts and feelings of 11 women who aren't afraid to express themselves while
asking a few earnest questions (some of which might leave a few folks in the
audience blushing!).
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=46606§ion=preview
October
27, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
College of Charleston
graduate students Bree Anne Tomlinson and Albert Plan were in a car talking
about the string of robberies that have targeted students when they suddenly
found themselves witnessing one.
"I had just thanked
him for driving me home," Tomlinson said. "I had told him that it
wasn't a comforting feeling knowing that one of the robberies had happened
here."
The two remained calm
when two men shoved a woman against a wall on Coming Street about 9:10 p.m.
Tuesday.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=46765§ion=localnews
October
27, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
The College of Charleston
is set to host a congressional hearing on Medicaid, offering students and the
public a rare opportunity to see federal bureaucracy up close.
Sleep-deprived students
should exercise caution, though: The weighty subject matter could induce
Starbucks-proof yawns.
Communications Professor
Jamie McKown said that while some students may have little interest in the
topic, the Friday hearing offers students an opportunity to see how Washington
politics looks off-camera.
"It's a valuable
experience," McKown said. "They get to see how these kinds of events
are staged. When you are watching these things on TV, you are not seeing
everything that goes on behind the scenes.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=46592§ion=localnews
October
26, 2005
Charleston City
Paper
Pitch
Perfect
Asking
someone to listen to (or read about) choral music is a good way to get the kind
of reaction my mom used to when she asked me to take my medicine. But the human
voice is the original instrument, and choral singing was mankind’s first means
of communal music-making. There are more choirs on earth than any other kind of
musical ensemble, and an estimated one of every 10 persons is or has been a
choral singer. And that percentage is surely higher in Charleston.
It’s not
called the Holy City for nothing. Charleston’s profusion of historic churches
and fine organs have nurtured a centuries-old tradition of sacred music, and
their choirs have fostered untold generations of local choral singers.
Local
colleges have imported musicians of renown, too. Chief among them is Dr. Robert
Taylor, who heads the College of Charleston’s choral program as well as the
choirs of the Charleston Symphony. His CofC Concert Choir recently proved their
worth by appearing at this year’s ACDA convention in Los Angeles, the Superbowl
for American collegiate choirs. Only the very finest get invited.
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/layout.asp?id=48495&action=detail&catID=9298&parentID=1254
October
26, 2005
Charleston City
Paper
The
Saint Goes Marching In
Talk about
representing the home town. Local filmmakers Brian Higdon and Virginia Friedman
recently learned that they had won the Slamdance Film Festival’s award for Best
Short Screenplay, for their short film The Saint of the Zuiderzee. The news was
announced at a special awards reception for the Writers Guild of America in Los
Angeles last month.
The
filmmakers work in College of Charleston’s department of College Relations and
Media Communications, and it’s not the first time they’ve done righteous work.
Higdon is the director of a number of 16mm works and Friedman has won two
regional Emmy Awards for her documentary work. The Slamdance award comes with a
$500 cash prize, as well as some sweet bragging rights. Begun in 1995 as an
alternative to Sundance, Slamdance encourages true independent work in film,
and over the past 10 years several of its winners have gone on to garner
widespread distribution and national acclaim.
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/layout.asp?id=48513&action=detail&catID=10300&parentID=10300
October
25, 2005
Kansas City Star
Christopher Lamb, an
associate professor of communication at the College of Charleston in South
Carolina, dedicated a chapter to "Doonesbury" in his book "Drawn
to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of Political Cartoons."
"Satire is
ephemeral. It doesn't last. For Trudeau to do it for so long is just
incredible," Lamb said. "He may be competing with satirists like Mark
Twain, Ambrose Bierce and H.L. Mencken. He rides the cultural, political and
social waves. He's a heck of an observer."
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/12993780.htm
October
25, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Adult
decisions (Letter to the editor)
I opened my The Post and
Courier only to read, yet again, of another College of Charleston student who
seemingly can't get through the day without help from a kind stranger. More and
more, we read of these students who cannot find their way home safely. I
suppose we should all stop and take a moment to give thanks to the kind
strangers of the city, the ones who protect your sons and daughters.
I suppose I should accept
the fact that College of Charleston students, or the vast majority of them,
don't realize how fortunate they are to be attending such a school. With
college, however, comes a measurable amount of responsibility. No only are
their parents depending on them to spend their money wisely by maintaining
their grades, they are also depending on them to exhibit some good judgment, at
the very least.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=46205§ion=letters
October
25, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
A College of Charleston
student who reported that she was kidnapped and forced to smoke crack cocaine
abruptly left town with her parents before investigators could question her
further Monday, police said.
Detectives called
Priscilla
Roberts' cell phone after
they were unable find her Monday morning, said Lt. Richard Moser. A relative
who answered the phone told detectives that Roberts had returned to Atlanta
with her parents and was unavailable to speak with police, he said.
Roberts, 19, and fellow
student Bastian Moldehnke, 23, told police Saturday that they were kidnapped at
knifepoint and forced to smoke crack by a man they encountered on Meeting
Street. The two students, both tennis players for the school, told police they
had been drinking for hours before they were kidnapped, led to an unidentified
spot on Mary Street and forced to share their abductor's stash of drugs for
four hours.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=46174§ion=localnews
October
24, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Carolyn
Morales has been named associate vice president of diversity at the College of
Charleston. Previously, Morales was assistant dean of students for
intercultural programs and services for Wells College and director of
multicultural affairs for Elizabethtown College.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=45885§ion=businessreview
October
24, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Charleston
police are investigating whether two College of Charleston students were
kidnapped at knifepoint early Saturday and forced by their abductor to smoke
crack cocaine.
The responding officer
raised questions about the students' claims, however, citing "many changes
and inconsistencies" in their stories. The police report states that both
students, who are members of the school's tennis teams, "smelled strongly
of alcohol ..., could give few details about the suspect despite allegedly
spending several hours with him, and were nervous and evasive in their
answers."
The report also noted
that the students were advised of the legal consequences of filing a false police
report.
October
23, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
New
business owners "don't know what they don't know," said John Clarkin,
who teaches entrepreneurship classes at the College of Charleston and heads the
college's Tate Center for Entrepreneurship.
Clarkin recently
analyzed data collected on 800 "nascent" entrepreneurs, defined as
people in the process of launching a business.
His research showed
that entrepreneurs who seek outside business counseling or training have a much
better chance of succeeding.
Those who don't seek
expert advice often get in over their heads, Clarkin said. "The mistakes
are very expensive."
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=45829§ion=business
October
23, 2005
Hilton
Head Island Packet
New Orleans
Times-Picayune
The Rev. Alexander Glennie of Georgetown kept a detailed
weather record from about 1830 to 1880. The daily record even included
barometric pressure - a key hurricane indicator. His diary is preserved at the
College of Charleston.
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/local/12976084.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9839506/
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/research/2005-10-27-hurricane-history_x.htm
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/detail.asp?ID=70986&GRP=D
October
23, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Phil Jos,
a political science professor at the College of Charleston, is skeptical, too.
"Given the
megachurch empire-building of people like Warren, who seems to be all about
filling football stadiums, it's hard to imagine 'blue' churchgoers and groups
cooperating with them. And nonchurchgoers are increasingly hostile to the
excesses of religious conservatives."
October
23, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
The Long
Duo will return to the College of Charleston's International Piano Series on
Tuesday at the Sottile Theatre.
The series, in its
16th season, was founded and is directed by Enrique Graf, artist-in-residence and
piano professor at the college.
The Long sisters,
Beatrice and Christina, have performed throughout the United States and Asia.
They won the Lucille Ward for the Best Performance of American Music and first
prize in the 1997 Ellis Duo Piano Competition.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=45839§ion=artstravel
October
21, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Sixteen College of
Charleston international studies and business students and a professor are
hunkered down in Havana, where as much as 3 feet of rain and hurricane-force
winds could hit by Sunday, depending on the storm's track. The students, on a
10-week program, also braved Hurricane Katrina in September.
"We just got back
from Villa Clara Province. We were supposed to go out to Santiago, but the
roads are pretty wet out there, and since we were supposed to fly back on
Saturday, decided to take the bus back to Havana," Dr. Douglas Friedman,
the college's Latin American and Caribbean Studies director, said Thursday in
an e-mail.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=45511§ion=worldnation
October 21, 2005
Charleston Post and Courier
Charleston County School
District will kick off its Middle Grades Matter initiative with a conference
for parents, teachers and administrators of middle school students from 8 a.m.
to 2 p.m. Oct. 29. Sara Powell of the College of Charleston will be keynote
speaker, and sessions will be held on Internet safety, reading, potential
dropouts, teen pregnancy and adolescent development.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=45485§ion=localnews
October
20, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
"Julie
Evans and Barbara Takenaga each bring a sensuality of touch, vibrancy of color,
and personal vernacular into a joyous confluence of form. Their paintings burst
with luminosity and unpredictability making us aware of the physicality of
living and the sheer joy of seeing," says Brian Rutenberg, guest curator
for the exhibit. Rutenberg, an alumni of College of Charleston, is also a working
artist in New York. Because of his maintained ties with the college, he was
asked to curate the exhibition of the two female painters whose work he had
been following.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=45419§ion=preview
October
20, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Charleston
Mayor Joe Riley, Virginia Tormey Friedman of the College of Charleston's
communications department and longtime media personality and Star Gospel
Mission Executive Director J. Douglas Donehue will be honored today for their
contributions to the humanities.
They're the recipients of
this year's Governor's Award in Humanities, given by The Humanities Council SC,
the state branch of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
VIRGINIA TORMEY FRIEDMAN
Friedman is the college's
vice president for communications and cultural diversity and has produced
award-winning documentaries. The council called her "a teacher and public
servant who uses her talents and resources to encourage cultural awareness and
responsibility in others."
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=45306§ion=localnews
October
19, 2005
Charleston City
Paper
The
Clone Wars
With the
birth of Dolly the sheep in 1996, Britain’s Roslyn Institute was transformed
from a worthy research center into a marvelous high-tech sideshow. There,
Scottish scientists were busy playing God. (Their choice of animal wasn’t so
surprising; Scotsmen have spent centuries cultivating an, er, intimate
knowledge of their bleating buddies.) Now that we knew that scientists were
capable of replicating sentient life, we wondered what other tricks were up
their sleeve. For a while, anything seemed possible. Yet nine years later,
Dolly is dead and the future seems further away than ever.
So where
does that leave PURE Theatre’s A Number? The piece concerns a dissembling dad
and his cloned offspring, who all have different personalities. As such, it
explores similar themes to the Schwarzenegger-by-numbers flick The Sixth Day
and Ira Levin’s The Boys From Brazil. The play is already less shocking than in
2002, when it was first performed by Michael Gambon and Daniel “James Blond”
Craig. Fortunately, the fun here isn’t derived from the concepts so much as the
way they’re presented.
Playwright
Caryl Churchill flaunts her Brechtian influences with a simple, episodic
one-hour show. The first four scenes contrast one son — the gentle,
bewildered Bernard 2 — with a proto-Bernard, neglected as a child and
aggressive as an adult.
Churchill
seeks to subvert the fantastic trappings of A Number. She’s aware that the
genre is renowned for starting a story with an ugly lump of exposition, so she
obliges. Salter (Mark Landis) confesses that he had a facsimile made of his son
after a car crash. The son has just learned that he has a number of photocopied
siblings, and he’s in shock. The dialogue is believably disjointed, and Salter
seems sincere as he attempts to help his son deal with the news.
As the
dad, CofC professor of theatre Landis’ earlier, more comedic scenes are his
strongest. He plays a foil to Mandel, who meets the challenge of playing the
same guy three different ways. One grumble: in the final scene, his Michael
Black character (the third clone) is a little too blithe, oblivious to some of
the darker matters that Salter discusses with him.
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/layout.asp?id=48284&action=detail&catID=1254&parentID=1254
October
19, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
A man was
arrested on charges of pushing a College of Charleston student to the ground
and taking her purse early Tuesday, according to Charleston police.
The incident continues a
trend of robberies and thefts downtown, despite arrests last week and heavy
patrols. Many of the crimes targeted college students or occurred near the
campus.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=44938§ion=localnews
October
18, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Role
of colleges (Letter to the Editor)
In a recent column, David
Brooks stated that he sees college education as the newest social divide. He
labels colleges and universities as "one of the great inequality producing
machines America has known." Then he says, "The most damning
indictment of our university system is that these poorer kids are graduating
from high school in greater numbers. It's when they get to college that they
begin failing and dropping out."
He then notes that a
major reason for that failure is because many poorer students are not
academically, psychologically or culturally prepared for college. Finally, he
suggests most colleges and universities are neglecting these students and
implies they should be doing more to help.
While I agree with most
of what he said about the benefits of college education, and that it may
contribute to social divisions based on education, it is not the place of
colleges and universities to cure this problem.
Good counseling can be
used to address the social and psychological issues, but it cannot be the
mission of colleges and universities to provide remedial academics to a large
portion of their student populations.
JAMES L. CAREW
Professor
College of Charleston
2047 Dogwood Road
October
17, 2005
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Tourists Return to Big Easy After Katrina
Steve Litvin, a hospitality and tourism professor at the
College of Charleston in South Carolina, said he'd be surprised if New Orleans
sees many visitors in the next year.
"Tourists
can go wherever it is they wish, when they wish," he said. "When a
tourist picks their destination of choice, the choice will be someplace without
problems. Why go somewhere that will provide anything less than a wonderful
experience?"
October
17, 2005
Charleston Regional
Business Journal
Local leaders taking action on Angelou report
The
Lowcountry Graduate Center, in conjunction with The Citadel and the College of
Charleston, is working on a number of initiatives to bring advanced degrees to
the Charleston community. The new master’s degree in computer science could be
expanded to include a certificate of insurance program from the University of
South Carolina. Master’s degrees in engineering and communications are also in
the works.
• The
College of Charleston is working on a degree in supply chain management, which
has a focus on homeland security and keeping supplies safe as they are
transported from place to place, explained Rew “Skip” Godow, dean of the
College of Charleston North Campus and executive director of the Lowcountry
Graduate Center.
http://www.charlestonbusiness.com/current/11_21/news/4987-1.html
October
17, 2005
Charleston Regional
Business Journal
Property tax debate: Count to 10 and THINK! (Editorial)
Thankfully,
Mr. Altman’s op/ed piece was soon followed by another from Arthur A. (Andy)
Felts, director of the Joseph P. Riley Institute for Urban Affairs and Policy
Studies at the College of Charleston. Mr. Felts calmly and carefully spelled
out the challenges of crafting sound tax policy for the funding of local
government services, including schools.
First, he
noted, it’s not entirely unfair to impose a heavier tax on people who own more
valuable property. Typically, they will have higher incomes and the relative
tax burden may be lighter on them than a less affluent person living in a less
valuable home.
Felts
pointed out that “circuit breaker legislation” could be passed to give relief
to people of low or moderate income whose taxes have risen due to a rapid rise
in property values in the areas where their homes are located. This would be an
intelligent and targeted way of responding to one of the major “fairness”
issues related to property taxation, yet it has hardly been mentioned.
http://www.charlestonbusiness.com/current/11_21/editorial/4993-1.html
October
17, 2005
Charleston Regional
Business Journal
Kiawah’s Sanctuary, tournaments pack economic punch
The
Sanctuary played an integral part in helping Kiawah Island Golf Resort account
for 12% of Charleston County’s $6.9 million in accommodations tax collections,
observed John Crotts, chairman of the College of Charleston Hospitality and
Tourism Management Department.
“Charleston’s
hospitality industry has always been focused on quality, and the Sanctuary more
firmly establishes us as a renowned destination not only in the United States
but in the world,” Crotts said.
http://www.charlestonbusiness.com/current/11_21/news/5000-1.html
October
16, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier