College
of Charleston News Stories
September 2006
September
30, 2006
Stroll through Charleston's historic homes
Charleston established the historic district in 1931, making it
the first in the nation to create such ordinances that formally protect
historic neighborhoods. The three-square-mile district is now one of the
largest in the nation, said Jennifer McStotts, professor of historic
preservation at the College of Charleston.
"Is Charleston known for our preservation? Certainly,"
she said.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/living/home/15645282.htm
September
29, 2006
Dual role assailed as conflict of interest
Hagood isn't the first person to sit on a state board holding a
paid position for a nonprofit and won't be the last, said Bill Moore, College
of Charleston political science professor. "It's beauty in the eye of the
beholder. The bottom line is (the opponents) no doubt have professional
disagreements with her."
September
29, 2006
Keeping hate alive in a Virginia race
"The Voting Rights Act transformed that word,"
Jack Bass, a professor of humanities and social science at the College of
Charleston in South Carolina, tells The Washington Post. "In much of the
South, there was this tremendous transformation from a time when it was a term
widely used by politicians."
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060929-123446-9747r.htm
September
28, 2006
Webb Denies Ever Using Word as Epithet
"The Voting Rights Act transformed that word. It eradicated it,"
said Jack Bass, a professor of humanities and social science at the College of
Charleston. "The crowd that [used it in the 1970s] either quit using it or
they were gone. Blacks were voters by then."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092702062.html
September
28, 2006
Graduation rates increase slightly for Division I schools
College of Charleston saw a big jump in the graduation success
rate for men's basketball, from 50 percent last year to 89 percent this year.
The baseball team's GSR is 44 percent this year, up from 39 percent a year ago.
Women's sports ranged from 82 percent in golf and volleyball to 100 percent in
basketball and track.
September
28, 2006
School offers open house
The College of Charleston will hold the first of three open houses
for prospective students 9 a.m. Saturday.
Other open house dates are Nov. 11 and March 17, 2007. For more
information, contact the College of Charleston Admissions Office at 953-5670 or
www.cofc.edu/admissions/visiting.htm
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/15626855.htm
September
27, 2006
All Together Now
Whipper-Lewis, if her powerful singing in past mini-performances
of Porgy and Bess is any indication, has a voice to be reckoned with, and the
roster includes accomplished local players from around town, like Charleston
Symphony flutist Tacy Edwards, plus pianist Robin Zemp and cellist Wade Davis
from the College of Charleston. Also contributing their talents will be Ashley
Hall's resident violinist Tiffany Rice and Charleston Office of Cultural
Affairs director Ellen Moryl, who happens to be a fine cellist. The 12-member
CofC Flute Ensemble may make an appearance, too.
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A17934
September
27, 2006
Sing to the Heavens
CofC's Gospel Choir delivers a tribute to Civil Rights heroes
Resident gospel guru Johnifer Fashion leads his College of Charleston
Gospel Choir in a tribute-themed evening celebrating the evolution of their
genre. Monday's program offers a wide-ranging selection of gospel music that
traces its development from its early roots to the present, and Fashion's
80-voice student ensemble is a worthy champion of the authentic black gospel
tradition. You'll hear a little bit of everything, from favorite spirituals and
down-home gospel classics to the latest contemporary favorites. Some of the
numbers will be delivered in tribute to African-American notables, like the
late heroines Coretta Scott King and Rosa Parks. Early civil rights martyr
Emmett Till, whose brutal murder helped to inspire the American civil rights
movement, will also be commemorated. The more recent victims of Hurricane
Katrina will be remembered, too.
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A17934
September
25, 2006
Innovators
The College of Charleston School of Business and Economics
presents success stories from Charleston's leading innovators. Speakers: Karl
Faller, Telecom In- ternational Inc.; Eric Dobson, Nav- Sci Navigational
Sciences; Steve Warner, Charleston Regional Development Alliance; Ernest Andrade,
Charleston Digital Corridor.
September
24, 2006
Building an Environment: Drawings and oil paintings by
city native depict a functional, passionless kind of living
After growing up in Winston-Salem during the 1960s and '70s, Kara
Hammond left town to earn art degrees at East Carolina University in Greenville
and the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. In 1990, like many other aspiring
artists, she moved to New York.
During her 14 years in the city, some of Hammond's more memorable
experiences involved working in the World Trade Center. Under a city-financed
program, she was one of several artists offered temporary studio space in one
of the twin towers in 2001. She was about five months into a six-month
residency when the towers were destroyed on Sept. 11. Fortunately, she wasn't
there at the time, but in a recent conversation she said that she lost about
two years' of art in the disaster.
In 2004 Hammond returned to the South to take a position as an
assistant professor of drawing at the College of Charleston.
September
24, 2006
Younger Jews seeking cultural connections
Caitlyn Franke, 21, studies political science and religious studies
at the College of Charleston, and said she sees more Jewish-themed T-shirts now
than when she first came here as a freshman. She also said people her age are a
bit less serious about certain aspects of Judaism than her parents' generation.
It isn't overtly apparent as in some locally based Jewish magazine
or clothing line, but to her, a shift still is apparent, though perhaps in more
subtle ways.
'At the college, the reverence isn't there as much. ... I think we
have more freedom of expression than our parents did,' she said.
September
23, 2006
Sinful side of the Holy City
Alison Piepmeier, director of Women's and Gender Studies at the
College of Charleston, said the reality usually is far less rosy. Piepmeier
chairs a local group trying to create a residential program to help recovering
prostitutes. She said many escorts succumb to the lure of drugs and end up
working the streets, where they become victims of rape and other violence.
"The police don't care," she said. "Society
certainly doesn't care. They are treated as disposable people. It is obviously
wrong, and it is perpetuating the damage that has already been done to these
women."
September
23, 2006
Alumnus gives back to College of Charleston
A picture-perfect Southern gentleman, Bobby Marlowe knows the
value of family, friendship and community.
As the College of Charleston Board of Trustees chairman, Marlowe
has made it his mission to give back to the institution that gave so much to
him. After all, it was there where he received an education, it was there where
he met his wife and it was there where he formed the foundations for
relationships that he still maintains today.
September
23, 2006
Small earthquake rattles parts of northeastern S.C.
The quake occurred in an area where there are two existing fault
lines, said Norm Levine, an assistant professor of geology and director of the
Santee Cooper Geographic Information Systems Laboratory at the College of
Charleston.
"This is an area where things have happened in the
past," he said.
September
23, 2006
C of C's signs of protest
College of Charleston police have accused a student in a short but
prolific vandalism spree with possible political aims.
Jonathan D. Lisi, 21, of James Island turned himself in Friday to
face charges of writing graffiti in 10 different campus buildings, police said.
Officials began noticing the slogan "gay power" tagged
in black paint marker earlier this week, mostly in men's bathrooms.
"That was his protest," police Lt. Nestle Grimes said.
September
22, 2006
Carolina quake rattles homes, nerves
"This one is a little small for having those sorts of things
-- houses shaking or cracking windows. What it tells you is the house may be on
ground that is a little more susceptible" to shaking, said Norm Levine, an
assistant professor of geology at the College of Charleston.
He said the quake occurred in an area with two existing faults.
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/09/22/sc.quake.ap/
September
21, 2006
Sanford's claim of creating jobs doesn't fit with high
jobless rate
The more jobs-more unemployed paradox perplexes some. "Nobody
likes my standard answer these days," said College of Charleston economist
Frank Hefner, who helps guide the state's Board of Economic Advisors.
"Quite honestly, I don't know what's going on."
However, it is unlikely the opportunity-seeking transplants
Sanford describes are driving the unemployment numbers, Hefner said.
September
21, 2006
If you thought oysters were noisy, check out these shrimp
"They are impressively loud. They can be incredibly loud.
They're abundant and they snap a ton," said Melissa Hughes, College of
Charleston biology professor.
September
21, 2006
Science Center at C of C on ice
The College of Charleston must tweak the design of a long-awaited
Science Center before the project moves forward.
The city's Board of Architectural Review on Wednesday deferred
approval on the new $47 million facility planned for the corner of Calhoun and
Coming streets. Three board members present at the meeting said their concerns
included: the size and location of a generator on Duncan Street; the general
design of the part of the building that will sit on the corner of Calhoun and
Coming; and the look of the long, uninterrupted side of the building along
Coming Street.
September
21, 2006
C of C baseball renovations set to begin
Somebody give John Pawlowski a sledgehammer.
The College of Charleston baseball coach is so eager for
renovations to begin on the program's playing facility at Patriots Point, he's
willing to offer some assistance.
"I'll be so excited when I see some people out here,"
said Pawlowski, who's led the Cougars to three straight NCAA Tournament berths.
"I'm willing to help them. I'll get our players to help them, that's how
excited I am."
September
21, 2006
Historic Charleston
Go behind the gates with tour of homes
Charleston established the historic district in 1931, making it
the first in the nation to create such ordinances that formally protect
historic neighborhoods. The three-square-mile historic district is now one of
the largest in the nation, said Jennifer McStotts, professor of historic
preservation at the College of Charleston.
"Is Charleston known for our preservation? Certainly,"
she said.
http://www.islandpacket.com/features/story/6109423p-5353105c.html
September
20, 2006
VISUAL ARTS | Halsey Rising
Despite its two floors of wide white spaces and inviting, broad
glass doors, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art is like the reclusive
great uncle in Charleston's inbred family of local galleries. Tucked away in the
College of Charleston's Simons Center for the Arts, it's been doing its best to
get noticed recently, hosting weekly artists' lectures, prepping an ambitious
new show, and planning a move to a new, larger location.
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A17722
September
20, 2006
13 Ways of Looking at Sherman Alexie
Noted poet, author, director, comedian, and songwriter Sherman
Alexie speaks tonight at the College of Charleston. While it's encouraging to
know that a mere writer can be too big and busy to give an interview, it does
demand a more creative way to preview his much-buzzed visit.
http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A17723
September
19, 2006
Discovery unlikely part of walled city (Letter to the
Editor)
The remnant of an old brick wall found under the intersection of Church
and Water streets is certainly intriguing.
Speculations about it being part of the "original city
wall," however, are off base. First of all, Charleston was not
"originally" a walled city. The city wall was constructed decades
after the city was established. It was built during the War of the Spanish
Succession, when England was at war with both France and Spain, her colonial
rivals, and stronger defenses were deemed necessary.
Robert P. Stockton
6 Montagu Court
Stockton is an architectural historian who teaches at the
College of Charleston
September
19, 2006
International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Arrrr!
Goll, goll, goll. What has become of Little Boy GMLc's adult life.
Well, here goes: The Lowcountry has had its slopful of ringed, bandanna'ed and
cutlassed figures. They were welcomed in the colony's early days, with their
jangling pockets of coins and fondness for rum in a city that had far more
taverns than churches. They became a lucrative side business for merchants
restricted to British-only legal shipping. By the end of Queen Anne's War in
1712, when boatloads of sailors found themselves out of work and
entrepreneurially raised the Jolly Roger, the sea lanes got so crowded with
pirates there was hardly room for a merchant ship to get through for them to
raid. "That's one of the reasons Charleston decides to get rid of them,
there's just too many," said College of Charleston assistant history
professor Scott Poole.
http://www.charleston.net/assets/webPages/departmental/news/GMLc.aspx
September
18, 2006
The male model
College of Charleston psychology assistant
professor Dr. Robin Bowers sees the influence that popular culture has on
students and is witnessing a renewed interest in being thin among males.
Bowers, who for the past decade has taught
a course called the Psychology of Eating and Drinking, not only has seen a
shift to thinner bodies for guys, but also an increased interest in his class
by them, going from about 10 percent to about 30 percent of the students
enrolled in it.
Some of them emulate other characteristics
of their pop-star idols: longer, unkempt hair and a "blank stare, like
they are looking through you."
September
18, 2006
'Automated concierge'
Like any older city, Charleston has some quirky geography -
one-way streets, dead-end alleys and lots of little lanes that may or may not
be on the map. And city planners have never been too crazy about signs.
About 8 percent of travelers in a survey released by the College
of Charleston last week said finding their way around was one of the things
they least enjoyed about Charleston. The college's Department of Hospitality,
however, has been working on the problem, mashing visitors guides into Google's
local mapping functions. The end result is a pretty pragmatic Web site:
http://www.butterfat.net/planner/ (click on "demo").
September
17, 2006
Jobs outlook complicates election
The more jobs-more unemployed paradox perplexes some. "Nobody
likes my standard answer these days," said College of Charleston economist
Frank Hefner, who helps guide the state's Board of Economic Advisors.
"Quite honestly, I don't know what's going on."
However, it is unlikely the opportunity-seeking transplants
Sanford describes are driving the unemployment numbers, Hefner said.
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/local/15540942.htm
September
17, 2006
Crossovers multiplying this cycle
"These are usually fairly small groups and aren't significant
when it comes to impacting the election but interesting this year is the
dissatisfaction among Republicans toward Sanford," says College of
Charleston political scientist William Moore, no relation to the candidate.
"That is a group," he said, "that potentially may
have greater impact than Democrats for Sanford." Alienation factor
September
17, 2006
A BIG DEAL
The National Governors Association meeting in Charleston last
month generated more cash for the town than anticipated, a study found.
An economic impact study, conducted by Dr. John Crotts of the
College of CharlestonÕs Office of Tourism Analysis, pegged the value of the
four-day event at $4.3 million. ThatÕs more than twice the initial prediction
of $1.6 million.
ÒCharlestonÕs popularity as a destination generated
greater-than-expected attendance from delegates, the media and corporate
sponsors,Ó he said.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/15537215.htm
September
16, 2006
Missing Historical Marker Finally Erected
Drive south on Highway 17 from Charleston towards Ravenel, and
youÕll pass a sign telling of an historical marker coming up in half a
mile. But for years, decades, that
marker eluded even the most hounding of sleuths.
That's because it was never actually erected. Had it been, you could have read about
the Stono Slave rebellion.
ÒWhat we're talking about is the largest slave insurrection prior to the American Revolution,Ó said Colle