College
of Charleston News Stories
March 2005
March 31,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Rejection
can be a good thing with "YOUNG CONTEMPORARIES"
Each spring, cutting-edge
contemporary art, talent and nail-biting suspense from the thrill of
competition abounds at the Young Contemporaries art show, co-sponsored by the
department of studio art and the Student Visual Arts Club at the College of
Charleston.
The contest is
anxiety-inducing for some students, as the competition can be fierce. This
year, only 69 works of art were chosen for display in the gallery. There were
378 entries from the various art departments at the college.
http://archives.postandcourier.com/archive/arch05/0305/arc03312238684.shtml
March 31,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
College
department plans Music Under the Oaks
The music department of
the College of Charleston's School of the Arts will present Music Under the
Oaks, an outdoor spring concert featuring the College of Charleston Chamber
Orchestra under the direction of Lorenzo Muti.
The event will be held at
6 p.m. April 17 "under the oaks" at the Cistern on campus. Admission
is free and the concert is open to the public. Food and beverages will be for
sale.
The casual outdoor
concert will showcase the talent of the college's music students, who will
perform jazz and classical pieces. Jazz standards and originals will open and
close the event.
http://archives.postandcourier.com/archive/arch05/0305/arc03312237342.shtml
March 31,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
IMAX
decision on 'Volcanoes' sparks professors' boycott
Some
College of Charleston professors are boycotting the IMAX Theatre's decision not
to show the movie "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea." Others say they may
protest.
The science film's
handling of evolution prompted some IMAX managers nationwide not to show it
because it could be regarded as contradictory to biblical teaching.
The downtown Charleston
IMAX was among those theaters. Reactions to the theater's decision have ranged
from outraged to pleased.
Alex Kasman teaches
mathematics at the college and is also an active member of the group, Secular
Humanists of the Lowcountry. He plans to boycott the theater until it screens
"Volcanoes" and said that 19 other professors and faculty members
planned to join him.
Robin Bowers, a
psychology professor at College of Charleston and another opponent of the
theater's decision, said he's planning to protest this Friday or Saturday.
"The only thing that would stop me is if IMAX reversed their
decision."
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=17816§ion=localnews
March 30,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Author
to give lecture on Charleston's diversity
Dale Rosengarten, curator
of the Jewish Heritage Collection at the College of Charleston, will speak at 12:30
p.m. today about her experiences in teaching a special course that explored the
city's cultural diversity over time.
"East Side/West
Side: Charleston's Ethnic Neighborhoods," which was offered last fall,
helped students develop an appreciation of Charleston's ethnic neighborhoods.
They used fundamental documentary techniques such as photography and oral
history, according to Enid R. Idelsohn, administrator of the college's Jewish
Studies Program. As part of the class, students visited the city's rich archival
repositories and historic sites.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=17714§ion=localnews
March 30,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Tuning
out on Social Security
Whatever the outcome of
Bush's plan, young people could benefit from paying more attention to the
Social Security dialogue, said Calvin Blackwell, an assistant professor of
economics at the College of Charleston.
If anything, it might
make them start thinking more about saving for their golden years, he said.
Thanks to compounding interest, he said, the earlier kids start saving, the
more dramatically they'll see their nest egg grow.
"I wish I had taken
that advice," he said.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=17739§ion=localnews
March 29,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
C of C
to host drugs debate
The
debate over legalizing drugs comes to the College of Charleston Wednesday when
former Shelby County, Tenn., Sheriff Larry Henson speaks in favor of
legalization during a 6:30 p.m. panel discussion in Physician's Auditorium,
corner of George and Coming streets.
Arguing the other side
will be Charleston Police Cpl. James Ebbert, who was quick to point out Monday
that he's not necessarily an expert on the subject. He said he was asked to
speak from his experiences as a patrol officer.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=17569§ion=localnews
March 29,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
Signage assault... by
large signs, small signs, lighted signs, billboards... is a driving hazard in
the Lowcountry. GMLc often feels that there's no safe place to get away from
the endless sales pitches on signs... until we take a drive to the ACE Basin or
the Francis Marion National Forest.
Then this banner caught
our eye at the College of Charleston... STOP SMOKING CLASS. FREE... a helpful
sign.
The free nicotine
dependency recovery seminar is this afternoon, 3-5, in Physicians Auditorium,
sponsored by the College's Counseling and Substance Abuse Services and open to
the general public.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=17576§ion=localnews
March 27,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
IVEY
BALLET
Chris Squires, a
Charleston native who has just been accepted to the Juilliard School in New
York, will be the guest artist when the Robert Ivey Ballet performs its 2005
spring concert Friday through April 3.
Squires, who is a former
student of Ivey, is a dance student at the Governor's School of the Arts and
Humanities in Greenville. He won the Grand Prix dance competition at Lincoln
Center last year and was recently a guest soloist in Japan.
The Ivey Ballet, which is
the dance company-in-residence at the College of Charleston, also will feature
a new pas de deux
"Out of Loss ... Love," choreographed by Ivey and danced by Olga Wise
and Tony Roe to the music of Dvorak.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=17311§ion=artstravel
March 27,
2005
Kansas City Star
Tallahassee Democrat
Myrtle
Beach Sun News
THE
HOME RUN
“The home run became this
reflection of America,” says Andy Abrams, a baseball history professor at the
College of Charleston. “We thoroughly enjoy it, but we're a little embarrassed
that it's such an important thing to us.”
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/11239644.htm
March 27,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Bridge
Run estimated to bring $19.4M
A College
of Charleston-produced economic impact study estimates that this year's Cooper
River Bridge Run and Walk on Saturday will pump about $19.4 million into the
local economy.
That's way up from a
similar study the college conducted 10 years ago that calculated the 15,000
Bridge Run participants brought $4.8 million to the area.
In the winter, the
college's Joseph P. Riley Jr. Institute for Urban Affairs and Policy Studies
sent 1,300 surveys to participants in last year's Bridge Run and Walk.
The institute's interim
director Janet Key said the surveys were sent to runners and walkers in three
different categories: those who lived within a 60-mile radius of Charleston,
those 60-120 miles away and those 120 miles or farther.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=17254§ion=localnews
March 27,
2005
The
State Newspaper
Charleston economy
powers rest of state
In the next 10 years, expect the industrial landscape of
warehouses and stacks of truck-trailer-size shipping containers in “The Neck”
— the area where Charleston meets North Charleston — to be replaced
by shops and homes, said Frank Hefner, an economist at the College of
Charleston.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/business/11241205.htm
March 26,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Port City problem: Get
tourists to tour
According to a study by a
pair of College of Charleston hospitality professors, more than half of all
visitors to Charleston have been here before and, as a development
"buzz" builds on King Street, they are less likely to pay for
designated attractions like museums or historic sites.
The study was based on
interviews with 400 tourists, most of whom said they planned to spend most of
their time in town shopping or strolling through old Peninsular neighborhoods.
The results, compiled by
professors John Crotts and Stephen Litvin, show what local hospitality leaders
have long suspected: that the attractiveness of Charleston is both a blessing
and a curse for attractions trying to lure visitors through turnstiles.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=17063§ion=localnews
March 24,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Trident
drops 4-year culinary plan
TTC students can now earn
a two-year associate's degree in culinary arts, and they can add an additional
two years of study and receive a bachelor's degree from the College of
Charleston in food-service management.
TTC plans to offer more
than a dozen new culinary training certificates, such as menu planning and ice
carving, that students will be able to tack on to the end of their two-year
curriculum. It also recently inked an agreement that will let students transfer
more easily to the College of Charleston, which recently won approval to offer
a hospitality major in its business department.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=16819§ion=localnews
March 24,
2005
The
State Newspaper
New arena to get Carolina First name
The South Financial Group
is giving $2 million to the College of Charleston for naming rights to the
school’s new athletic complex. Work is expected to start in the fall on The
Carolina First Center, which will cost $36 million. Carolina First is among the
Greenville bank’s subsidiaries. South Financial stock closed at $30.38 on
Tuesday, down 12 cents.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/business/11206119.htm
March 23,
2005
Charleston City
Paper
Shaky
Ground
Steven Jaume, a professor in the College of Charleston’s department of geology
and environmental geosciences, puts January’s quakes into perspective. He says
micro-seismic activity has been registered on the fault line ever since quakes
have been recorded in South Carolina. But he says, “That’s very little time
geologically speaking.”
As for
the safety of Charleston’s water supply, Dr. T.J. Callahan at the College of
Charleston who specializes in hydrogeology, says that the city drinks from
sources above the aquifers, and residents should not worry too much because, on
a local level, there is very little interaction between the aquifers deep
underground and the rivers systems above them. He does say there is more
interaction on a regional level, but an extensive study is needed to see how
much radiation could make it into Charleston’s rivers.
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/layout.asp?id=42952&action=detail&catID=1252&parentID=1252
March 23,
2005
Columbia Journalism
Review
Ideas
& Reviews
Book Reports
DRAWN TO EXTREMES: THE USE AND
ABUSE OF EDITORIAL CARTOONS
By Chris Lamb
Editorial
cartoons have steadily lost status since the days when many major newspapers
had a full-scale cartoon either on page one or on the editorial page. Most now
settle for syndicated or reprinted fare, or for gag drawings, more humorous
than pointed. Yet Chris Lamb, a professor of communication at the College of
Charleston,
remains a believer in their worth and vitality. Cartoonists, he suggests, are a
downtrodden class; their "editors do not understand the function of
editorial cartoons" and "cartoonists are often given less freedom
than editorial writers or columnists have." The cartoonist's darkest days
occur when (1) the newspaper refuses to publish a cartoon or (2) when it issues
an apology for a cartoon it published. Yet the examples that Lamb prints of
rejected cartoons -- many of them merely risque rather than daring -- shake
one's confidence in the infallibility of cartoonists. The book is generously
illustrated with the work of cartoonists past and present. It contains a
special tribute to Garry Trudeau, who has now done Doonesbury for more than thirty years; Lamb
hails him as a satirist outstripping Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, and H.L.
Mencken. Possibly.
March 23,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
REASONABLE NOTICE
College of Charleston and Lowcountry
Stargazers will celebrate Astronomy Day on April 8 and 9.
On April 8, the college
will set up telescopes in Ansonborough Field to view the partial solar eclipse
that begins about 5:30 p.m. The telescopes will be equipped with solar filters.
DON'T LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN DURING AN ECLIPSE.
April 9, the college will
hold an open house at Rita Liddy Hollings Science Center, 3:30-10 p.m., with
telescope viewings, observatory tours, displays and talks throughout the
afternoon and into the evening. Weather permitting, the observatory will be
open for looking at the night sky.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/Default.aspx?newsID=16662§ion=localnews
March 23, 2005
Charleston
Post and Courier
'Blue
Surge' offers dose of reality, humor
Friday
night's production at the Chapel Theatre can be summed up in two words:
realistic relationships.
Rebecca Gilman's work is
never simple.
The playwright does not
resort to metaphors, allegories and the like in her work.
In other words, Gilman
tells her stories in plain language, and the College of Charleston's production
of "Blue Surge" is no different. Basically, the piece tells of a
sting operation gone bad, plus people's lives intermingling.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=16683§ion=localnews
March 23,
2005
Sports
Illustrated
What
Do We Do Now?
I WALK
OUT of my house. I cross the street. A professional problem solver lives there.
A 51-year-old man whose job, as general counsel and professor of legal studies
at College of Charleston in South Carolina, is to find solutions to disputes and crises that
arise on campus. And, on the side, to teach a course called Baseball, Mythology
and the Meaning of Life.
Andy Abrams has strolled all around baseball's cesspool, stared at it as lawyer
and lover both. "O.K.," he says. "We can't prove that Bonds
intentionally took steroids, even though everyone knows he did. So let's say we
take him at his word that he unknowingly did. It's still an unfair advantage.
Compare it with what we'd do if someone took a Kaplan course to prepare for the
SAT, and one of the practice tests he got the answers for turned out to be the
real test. Even if he didn't intend to cheat, his score would still be thrown
out. The result must be addressed, even if there's no penalty.
"So how do we, as a society, address the result here? Bud Selig won't act.
Congress can't do much about the records. It's up to the fans and the media.
March 22,
2005
Greenville News
South Financial Group
gives $2 million for arena
The South
Financial Group announced Monday it is giving $2 million to the College of
Charleston for its new arena.
The arena will be called
Carolina First Center after the Greenville-based financial services company's
banking subsidiary.
http://greenvilleonline.com/news/business/2005/03/21/2005032161016.htm
March 21,
2005
The
State Newspaper
Myrtle
Beach Sun News
Hilton
Head Island Packet
Savannah
Morning News
New arena to be named
for Carolina First
The College of
Charleston’s new arena will be called the Carolina First Center after South
Financial Group donated $2 million to the school, officials said Monday.
Construction is expected
to begin this summer on the building, which will sit alongside the existing F.
Mitchell Johnson Physical Education Center. The new arena will be approximately
270,000 square feet with room for about 5,000 seats, 1,500 more than the
current court.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/sports/11197493.htm
March 21,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Carolina
First scores with gift
The new
athletic complex at the College of Charleston will be known as the Carolina
First Center, thanks to a $2 million gift to the university from the biggest
banking company based in the state.
A courtyard ceremony in
front of Alumni Hall was held Monday to announce the naming-rights deal, which
college president Lee Higdon said gave his school a "critical piece"
of funding needed to begin building the $36 million structure.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=16541§ion=business
March 21,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Good
Morning Charleston
It is
Women's History Month... Celebrate tonight at 7 p.m. by hearing a dramatic
reading about "The Pollitzer Sisters: Charleston's Iron Jawed Angels"
at College of Charleston's Black Box Theatre, Simons Center for the Arts (54
St. Philip St.). It's FREE. Donations will be taken for a historical marker to
be placed at 5 Pitt St., childhood home of...
THE POLLITZER SISTERS: Anita Pollitzer (1894-1975) left
Charleston, where she was the youngest daughter of a prominent and wealthy
Jewish family, for a college education, Elisa Kay Sparks of Clemson
University's English department writes in a paper on Georgia O'Keeffe.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=16438§ion=localnews
March 21,
2005
Hartford Courant
Congress
Bulking Up Probe Of Sports
"Congress
has taken this issue before the American public, and now they have to continue
to put a public face on the problem," said Andrew Abrams, professor of
legal studies at the College of Charleston, who teaches a course called
"Baseball, Mythology and the Meaning of Life."
http://www.courant.com/hc-steroids0320.artmar21,0,6916791.story
March 20,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
MONDAY
NIGHT CONCERT
Cellist David
Starkweather and pianist Evgeny Rivkin will perform Monday as part of the
college's Monday Night Concert Series at the Simons Center for the Arts.
On the program will be
Robert Schumann's "Stucke im Volkston (Pieces in Folkstyle)" and
Gaspar Cassado's "Requiebro."
Starkweather was awarded
a certificate of merit as a semi-finalists in the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=16287§ion=artstravel
March 20,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
GUITAR
SERIES
Also at the Simons
Center, classical flamenco guitarist Miguel Rodriguez will perform as part of
the College of Charleston's International Guitar Series on Thursday.
Rodriguez, who lives in
Phoenix, began playing the guitar at age 5 and performed with his sister in
ethnic and variety shows at age 10. He developed a fascination with flamenco
when he explored the folk music of Mexico and Latin America.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=16287§ion=artstravel
March 20,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
'IRON-JAWED
ANGELS'
In honor of Women's
History Month, the Center for Women will present a theatrical reading,
"Iron-Jawed Angels," based on the lives of the three Pollitzer
sisters of Charleston at 7 p.m. Monday in the Simons Center for the Arts at the
College of Charleston.
The Pollitzer sisters,
Anita, Carrie and Mabel, changed the course of history for women during the
early part of the 20th century. Anita was a key figure in the ratification of
the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote in 1920.
Carrie led the campaign
to bring co-education to the College of Charleston, and Mabel was the driving
force behind the opening of the first public library in Charleston, says Jennet
Robinson Alterman, director of the Center for Women.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=16287§ion=artstravel
March 19,
2005
Kansas City Star
Tallahassee Democrat
The
State Newspaper
Miami Herald
Charlotte
Observer
Steroid hearings only
pointed out gap between management, players
"With McGwire, you will wind up with the unwritten
asterisk," says College of Charleston professor Andrew Abrams, who teaches
a course on baseball's place in society. "People will look at him and
Barry Bonds and see the world's greatest home run hitters were in all
likelihood using performance-enhancing drugs. The public will have to
judge."
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/baseball/11181081.htm
March 19,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Cast
guilty of fun in 'Trial by Jury'
Oh joy
unbounded in Recital Hall surrounded, on Friday night resounded at the College
of Charleston. (With apologies to William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan).
It was difficult to tell
who was having the most fun with Gilbert and Sullivan's one-act "Trial by
Jury," the lively cast or the directors.
Musical director Deanna
McBroom, stage director/choreographer Robert Ivey and the nearly 20 cast
members all had a blast with the operetta. The piece parodies the 19th century
British justice system and conveys the entire story in song, with no spoken
dialogue.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=16145§ion=localnews
March 18,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Shanklin-Peterson
named winner of Verner Awards
Lowcountry
resident Scott Shanklin-Peterson has been named a winner of the 2005 Elizabeth
O'Neill Verner Awards.
The South Carolina Arts
Commission announced Thursday that Shanklin-Peterson is recognized in the
Individual category for her outstanding contributions to the arts in the state
for more than 30 years.
She now
serves as director of the College of Charleston's arts management program in
the School of the Arts, which trains young people to manage arts organizations.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=16039§ion=localnews
March 18,
2005
Washington Post
Congressional Hearing
May Leave 'Unwritten Asterisk' in Public's Mind
"With
McGwire, what you will wind up with will be the unwritten asterisk," said
Andrew Abrams, a professor at the College of Charleston who teaches a class
called Baseball, Mythology, and the Meaning of Life. "People will look at
him and Barry Bonds, and what the public sees is the world's greatest home run
hitters who were in all likelihood using performance-enhancing drugs. The
public will have to judge."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45394-2005Mar17.html
March 18,
2005
Los Angeles Times
Players Balk on Steroid Use
Baseball
is like any private business entity in that the federal government cannot step
in and dictate a drug-testing policy, said Andy Abrams, professor of legal
studies at the College of Charleston. Congress could regulate the professional
sports industry as a whole, drawing in all sports, but that would be a lengthy,
difficult process, he said.
"Baseball has been a sacred cow. Congress has to use the threat of
[revoking] the antitrust exemption," Abrams said.
March 17,
2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Batter
up: Congress is in session
"That loud bang you
just heard was the sound of baseball shooting itself in the foot ...
again," said Andy Abrams, a tenured professor of legal studies at the
College of Charleston who teaches an honors course titled, "Baseball,
Mythology and the Meaning Of Life."
"Major League
Baseball's head-in-the-sand approach to the steroid issue and the commissioner
and owners' refusal to clean up their own house from steroids ... have made the
sport both fair game and easy fodder for those who play their games in the
political arena."
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=15946§ion=sports
March 17,
2005
South Florida
Sun-Sentinel
San Jose Mercury
News
Congress
has fascination with game
Dr. Chris
Lamb, a professor of media studies at The College of Charleston, doesn't see
today's proceedings as critical to the national interest.
"It's nothing more than P.R., a gimmick, and I use the word gimmick in the
lowest of possible forms," Lamb said. "The [politicians] are going to
stand up and say, `Wow, we've done something good,' and they haven't done
anything. They'll just hope it won't get worse. I just don't think anything is
going to happen here. I'm not sure what could happen."
Yet Lamb admits baseball deserves this, after failing to institute a strong
steroid policy.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-congress16mar17,0,4180544.story?coll=sfla-sports-headlines
March
16, 2005
Knight Ridder Washington Bureau
Congress says baseball
steroid hearings not a witch hunt
"If
you're going to talk about the issue in a high-profile way, then you have to
bring in the high-profile players," said Andy Abram, a law professor at
the College of Charleston who's written about baseball's role in American life.
"Is it overkill? Is it grandstanding? It won't be the first time."
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/11143775.htm
March 16, 2005
Miami Herald
Baseball, steroids take
center stage
The players' presence
guarantees media coverage.
''If
you're going to talk about the issue in a high-profile way, then you have to
bring in the high-profile players,'' said Andy Abram, a law professor at the College
of Charleston who has written about baseball's role in American life. ``Is it
overkill? Is it grandstanding? It won't be the first time.''
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/11145668.htm
March 15, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
What
colleges want
The College of Charleston
also will require a writing score for fall 2006 and use it "on a limited
basis."
"We want to gather
data for a year and see how it matches with students' success before we make it
part of the admissions process," said Suzette Stille, the college's
director of admissions.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=15674§ion=education
March 15, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Testing
1 2 3
Suzette
Stille, director of admissions at the College of Charleston, said the new
writing section "gives us another tool for evaluating students'
preparedness for college and their ability to write, which is a skill used a
great deal for college work."
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=15672§ion=education
March 14, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
ANTIQUES
FRENZY
Today, the College of
Charleston continues its Charleston Antiques Symposium, with talks on Colonial
America, Neoclassical style in the Lowcountry, craftmen's choices and Ben
Franklin.
Tuesday, talks will be
held on the Miles Brewton House and the Confederate Home.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=15516§ion=localnews
March 13, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
A Charleston flower lady
Coakley
seems to have followed in her grandmother's entrepreneurial footsteps. She's
director of the Upward Bound program at the College of Charleston and is very
active in Mount Pleasant. She designs and sells sweetgrass baskets. Coakley, in
her 50s, does missionary work through her church, God's Way Healing and Worship
Center. She does everything from cleaning house, running errands and cooking
for the elderly, to planning weddings and funerals for her neighbors.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=15383§ion=artstravel
March 13, 2005
Durham Herald Sun
DA student wins Math Meet
Suzanne
DiNello of Durham Academy won first place in the College of Charleston's 2005
Math Meet on Feb. 26.
She won
in the chemistry sprint competition. Other winners from Durham Academy, Jordan
High School and the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics were listed last
week.
http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-586300.html
March 13, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
College
operetta a courtroom comedy
Opera
fans have a treat in store when Gilbert & Sullivan's "Trial by
Jury" is performed by the College of Charleston's School of the Arts opera
program Friday through March 20.
The one-act operetta is
widely known as a courtroom comedy filled with patter songs, satire and high
jinks.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=15362§ion=artstravel
March 13, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
Public
access to information focus of week
Mike Robertson, a
spokesman for the College of Charleston who previously worked for the state's
Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, said he generally just
provides information without a formal FOIA request.
"It's rare that I
had people file something. It's easier just to do it," he said.
Robertson said he
sometimes would ask for something written if it involved a big or complicated
request, simply to make sure he provided everything requested.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=15354§ion=localnews
March 12, 2005
Washington Post
Take Me Out to the Gall
Game
If
baseball wanted an exemption from political grandstanding, it should have
cleaned itself up years ago. Now not one but two congressional committees will
hold C-Span parties at baseball's expense, to express in droning sound bites
their moral indignation at the harm done to our youth. "Ironically,
baseball's efforts to thwart these hearings by opposing congressional subpoenas
simply reinforces in the public's mind the need for action and thus the
legitimacy of congressional action," says Andy Abram, a professor of Legal
Studies at the College of Charleston who teaches a class titled "Baseball,
Mythology and the Meaning of Life." "To the average person in the
street, it seems pretty clear -- if you have nothing to hide, why aren't you
willing to testify?"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28391-2005Mar11.html
March 11, 2005
The Chronicle of
Higher Education
Place of Science and
Romance
The photographs are by
Mark Sloan, director of the Halsey Gallery at the College of Charleston School
of the Arts. The text is by Nancy Pick, a staff writer for the Harvard Museum
of Natural History. Both photographs and text are from their book The Rarest of the Rare: Stories
Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, published by
HarperResource. Copyright © 2004 by the President and Fellows of Harvard
College.
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v51/i27/27b01901.htm
March 10 , 2005
Charleston City
Paper
Drawn to Extremes
College
of Charleston associate professor of media studies Chris Lamb has a lifelong
fascination with the cartoonist’s craft and he has brought his passion and
knowledge together in a new book, Drawn to Extremes — The Use and Abuse
of Editorial Cartoons.
“Cartoonists are at their best during bad times, when our politicians are lying
and violating our democracy and are cynical,” Lamb said in a recent interview.
“These are such times and we need cartoonists now, more than ever.”
Lamb comes by his fascination naturally. He is a native of Dayton, Ohio, home
of Bob Englehart and Mike Peters, two of America’s leading cartoonists. Before
entering academe, Lamb served time on several newspapers, working as a
reporter, columnist and copy editor. When he was laid off from his last
newspaper gig, he decided it was time to get a job with tenure; and so began
his academic career. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Mike Peters. Drawn
to Extremes is based on that dissertation.
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/layout.asp?id=42635&action=detail&catID=1253&parentID=1253
March 9, 2005
Charleston Post and
Courier
2
piano concertos reflect flavor of the Lowcountry
The
jam-packed Sottile Theatre echoed on Tuesday evening to the double magic of two
memorable piano concertos, immaculately realized by distinguished hometown
pianist Enrique Graf with sonorous help from the Charleston Symphony Orchestra.
Part of the College of
Charleston's International Piano Series, the concert's first half featured the
impressive "Tidal Concerto" by local composer Edward Hart.
He teaches composition at
C of C's School of the Arts, where Graf is artist-in-residence. This modern,
yet accessible work is a marvel of latter-day musical impressionism,
beautifully evoking the timeless tides that bathe Charleston from all sides.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/Default.aspx?newsID=14416§ion=localnews