January 31, 2007
Business women to meet
Dorothy Perrin Moore, a College of Charleston professor, will lead a session on how working women can balance their professional responsibilities with family priorities.
While researching her book, "Careerpreneurs - Lessons From Leading Women Entrepreneurs on Building A Career Without Boundaries", Moore found that even the basic concept of balance can differ between a man and a women.
January 31, 2007
Mt. Pleasant Officials Still Quiet About Officer Resignations
College of Charleston Communication Law professor, Dr. Kirk Stone, said that is information that could ease public concerns.
“The tax payers in Mount Pleasant have the right to know what is going on inside their government,” he said.
“The citizens of Mount Pleasant know they know they are ultimately in charge of the government. They cast the vote. They tell the mayor. They tell the police department what they want,” he said.
January 31, 2007
Stringing everyone along
Charleston Music Fest Extravaganza!
After the untimely demise of the Chamber Music Society of Charleston, local fans of live classical music fretted over how they would get their jollies. Luckily, some of the professors in the Department of Music at College of Charleston, along with the Friends of the Addlestone Library, immediately stepped in with their Charleston Music Fest, an ongoing attempt to keep chamber music drifting through the balmy Charleston air.
January 30, 2007
College of Charleston Students Bothered By Clemson Party
Matthew McClellan, a student from the College of Charleston says the event was, "Not funny at all. I was appalled, disgusted. I thought how in the 21st century can someone have such a lack of respect for Dr. King and people like him."
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January 29, 2007
CCU to open new reading series
Coastal Carolina University's Lifelong Learning will hold its first poetry reading at the Waccamaw Higher Education Center today.
The event will feature faculty professors Paul Allen and Carol Ann Davis from the College of Charleston.
The reading is the first in a series of readings that will feature faculty members from local universities.
January 28, 2007
Fans can get their fill of classical music
A four-day celebration devoted to chamber music will be held Thursday through next Sunday as part of the Charleston Music Fest. It will be presented by the College of Charleston's department of music and the Friends of the Addlestone Library.
Participating in the Music Fest will be the co-founders, violinist Lee-Chin Siow and cellist Natalia Khoma, who teach in the music department at the college. Also performing will be Enrique Graf, who is artist-in-residence at the college and on the graduate faculty of Carnegie Mellon University. He has performed at the Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall and many other locations.
January 27, 2007
Adonis Complex affects all ages
Woody Winfree, co-author of the critically acclaimed book "I Am Beautiful: A Celebration of Women" teaches self- esteem to girls and women. But at a recent speaking appearance at the College of Charleston, Winfree said it's not just women who feel self-esteem pressures from the dizzying blitz of glossy advertising.
January 27, 2007
Several top administrative jobs still open at university
A search committee tasked with finding a replacement for George Benson - former Terry College of Business dean who left for the presidential position at the College of Charleston - began its work about two weeks ago, advertising and soliciting prospective candidates, Mace said.
January 27, 2007
After three decades, the Wheel just keeps spinning
There is no one simple reason for the longevity of the games, said Chris Lamb, a communications professor at the College of Charleston, where he teaches a course in mass media and society.
Part of it has to do familiarity, and the dream anyone could be a contestant and win, Lamb said.
January 26, 2007
Single? Female? You're not alone!
"In previous times, in the mid-part of the last century, there were few alternatives to marriage," said Von Bakanic, an associate profew alternatives to marriage," said Von Bakanic, an associate professor of sociology at College of Charleston who teaches courses in marriage and family. "If women wanted to have children, to have a home, they just didn't have the economic power to."
January 25, 2007
Rubin's music matures with life experience
One of the great things about jazz is the vast number of signature sounds listeners get to hear from the better performers of the classic American music. Charleston will host one such practitioner Sunday when vocalist Vanessa Rubin holds forth at the Recital Hall of the Simons Center for the Arts at the College of Charleston.
January 24, 2007
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND | Glory and Optimism
On firmer footing is the College of Charleston's excellent new Charleston Music Festival chamber series. Great music from small ensembles being much cheaper, our Spoleto-induced taste for chamber goodies should be much easier to satisfy over the long haul. Especially when the quality is as good as what we got at the Dock Street on Jan. 12.
Series codirectors Lee-Chin Siow (violin) and Natalia Khoma (cello), along with pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky, got things going with a go at one of Haydn's best piano trios. After a slightly shaky start, everything jelled well -- and the driving Hungarian-flavored finale had the packed house on the edge of their seats. Our pianist then took turns with his leading ladies in showpieces by Brahms and Ravel, besides wowing the crowd with a blockbuster for solo piano by Chopin. After halftime, their gutsy reading of Smetana's grief-stricken Piano Trio in G Minor brought down the house.
January 24, 2007
An Activist Without A Prayer
Charleston's most famous atheist, Herb Silverman
Herb Silverman came to Charleston in 1976 to take a faculty post in the mathematics department at the College of Charleston. He did not know it, but he was starting a parallel career as South Carolina's most persuasive and outspoken atheist.
Silverman was born and raised as a secular Jew in Philadelphia, where his beliefs were never an issue. He became interested in logic as a child and began dropping from his young cosmology those beliefs which could not be proven logically -- including God. By the time Silverman was 14, he and God and had parted company forever.
"I was an atheist before I knew there was a word for it," he says. He encountered that word a few years later, on reading Bertram Russell's Why I Am Not A Christian.
January 24, 2007
The Bright Revolution
Atheists are people, too
Herb Silverman couldn't agree more. Silverman is the founder of Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry (www.lowcountry.humanists.net) and has the distinction of being South Carolina's most outspoken atheist. (See story, p. 23.)
"Tolerance enables fundamentalism," Silverman says, sitting in his office at the Department of Mathematics at the College of Charleston. "All holy books have horrendous violence and intolerance, as well as love and peace. The fundamentalists will always seize upon the dark side of religion .... Why should we give ludicrous beliefs a pass?"
January 22, 2007
Wheel of Fortune impact spins through Charleston
John Crotts, professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management at the College of Charleston, likened the media exposure to a third-party endorsement.
“They have a very strong following. What (the show says) about a location has a stronger influence than what we can say about ourselves,” he said.
January 22, 2007
U.S. fish-kill mystery possibly solved
The Hollings Marine Laboratory is a joint institution of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, the College of Charleston, and the Medical University of South Carolina.
January 20, 2007
I'll get around to it
David Gentry, a psychology professor at the College of Charleston who read Steel's report without delay, says the more time you have to do something, the more likely you are to put it off and have to work harder to catch up on deadline.
"That's why when you ask someone to do something they don't want to do, ask them well in advance," Gentry says. "Time is a big factor."
January 20, 2007
S.C. bucks trends driving college choice
"These students clearly could go elsewhere," said Don Burkard, associate vice president of enrollment and planning at the College of Charleston. But the gap between good schools and the better schools is closing. Top South Carolina schools including the College of Charleston and the University of South Carolina ranked among the best values in the latest Kiplinger's financial advisor survey. "It's a cost benefit," Burkard said.
January 18, 2007
College of Charleston recognized
The Peace Corps has announced that the College of Charleston is one of the top 25 schools in the nation when it comes to alumni working as Peace Corps Volunteers. With 28 C of C alumni currently working in the Corps, the College of Charleston moved up 9 spots to No. 16 on the 2007 Peace Corps’ “Top 25 List”.
January 18, 2007
Malaise hangs over state's eligible voters
David Mann, a College of Charleston professor whose specialties include campaigns, elections and voting behavior, said that in states "where voters perceive there is little two-party competition, there is less incentive to vote on the part of voters of either party.
"Voters from the minority party don't think their vote matters; voters from the majority party think they don't have to bother because their party will win anyway. I wouldn't say that South Carolina is different from any other state with respect to the above," Mann said.
January 18, 2007
Halsey goes to prison
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston's School of the Arts presents two related exhibitions addressing the lives of prisoners.
"On the Inside" will be in the Halsey Gallery on Friday through March 2, with an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday.
The opening will be preceded by a lecture by Phyllis Kornfeld, who has been teaching art in prisons since 1983. Kornfeld is also the curator of the "Cellblock Visions" exhibit. The lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in the Recital Hall. These events are free, and the public is encouraged to attend.
The first floor of the Halsey will be dedicated to "One Big Self," a remarkable collaboration between photographer Deborah Luster, poet C.D. Wright, and inmates in three Louisiana prisons.
January 18, 2007
Into the Sunset
In 31 years as director of the College of Charleston's sailing program, George Wood's teams have quietly won 16 national championships. Now the coach is moving on.
Wood is leaving Charleston to become director of the Boy Scouts of America's Newport (Calif.) Sea Base.
January 18, 2007
C of C play puts smiles on all faces
The College of Charleston's first production of 2007 is guaranteed to bring wide, winning smiles to the faces of Chapel Theatre audiences, especially those even nominally knowledgeable about theater.
Evan Parry's direction uses to the best possible advantage every chuckle and nuance of Jane Martin's "Anton in Show Business," a fine and dandy spoof of all things theatrical
January 17, 2007
VISUAL ARTS | Insider Art
Ronnie White's 1994 mixed media work "Essex III" appears
in On the Inside at the Halsey Institute this weekend.
The convicts' teacher is an amazing woman with almost 50 years of experience, half of that within the prison system. She'll be in town on Fri. Jan. 19 to talk about the show in the Recital Hall of the Simons Center for the Arts.
It'll also be interesting to get her take on the show that accompanies Cellblock Visions at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. One Big Self will fill the Halsey's ground floor, continuing the prison theme with photographs of Louisiana inmates taken by Deborah Luster and text by poet C.D. Wright. Instead of straight mugshots, the photos are imaginative and sometimes fantastical visions of the willing subjects, presenting themselves as they wish to be seen.
January 17, 2007
Yeah, but is it art?
The Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Woman Series takes up the topic "Women in the Business of Art" Tuesday at 6 p.m. Speakers are Currie McCullough, curator at 53 Cannon St. Gallery, and artist Susan Romaine of Studio Romaine. It's at Tate Center for Entrepreneurship, College of Charleston, 5 Liberty St. $25 ($20 for Center for Women members). Call 763-7333 or go to c4women.org to register.
January 16, 2007
W. Marvin Dulaney, executive director of the Avery Research Center
and associate professor of history at the College of Charleston, addressed
the Martin Luther King Jr. convocation Monday at Mount Union College.
Civil rights the longest and most vital movement in U.S. history, speaker says
"The civil rights movement was perhaps the most important movement in American history," W. Marvin Dulaney, executive director of the Avery Research Center and associate professor of history at the College of Charleston, said at the Martin Luther King Jr. key address at Mount Union College on Monday.
During his address, titled "The Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience," Dulaney discussed the six reasons why he felt the civil rights movement was one of the most important movements in American history, with the first one being that the civil rights movement was the longest movement in the nation's past. Dulaney said the movement began long before Rosa Parks, the Brown vs. the Board of Education Supreme Court case or even the initiation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
"The civil rights movement began with the first enslaved African on American shore who struggled for rights and freedom," Dulaney said.
January 16, 2007
A civil rights hero remembered
About 160 volunteers packed into the College of Charleston's student union buoyant with enthusiasm Monday.
They heeded the call to serve on Martin Luther King Jr. Day by gathering for the fourth annual MLK Challenge, where they received assignments to volunteer at various nonprofit missions. Their tasks included meeting kids at a Boys and Girls Club and dishing out food at a soup kitchen.
January 15, 2007
Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.
This would have been his 78th birthday. The annual Charleston MLK parade is at 11 this morning.
At the College of Charleston today students will host a service challenge. That event starts at ten and ends with a vigil at five p-m in the Stern Center Ballroom.
January 15, 2007
MLK Day: A Day On, Not A Day Off
Charleston, SC - With schools and colleges closed on Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Day, many College of Charleston students put their books aside and stepped out into the community to give back on the 4th Annual MLK Challenge Day.
"I think Monday, if any day, would be a great day to give back to the community...because of what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. did. And it's not just for African Americans but Americans in general should all give back because what he did benefited every single American," says College of Charleston junior Thomas Miller.
January 15, 2007
King’s personal secretary dies
After graduation, McDonald worked for a year at Avery Research Institute in Charleston, a major repository of the state’s African-American history.
January 14, 2007
Study ties 'cell from hell' to fish kills
The new research, by the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Medical University of South Carolina and the College of Charleston, identifies a reaction in which metal-based free radicals turn Pfiesteria piscicida and Pfiesteria shumway from naturally occurring, algae-munching microbes into toxic fish killers.
January 14, 2007
Q&A with Mack Whittle
And it won't be the only large downtown building to bear the Carolina First Center moniker. When the College of Charleston's new basketball arena opens in 2008, as currently scheduled, it, too, will be called Carolina First Center, courtesy of a $2 million gift from Whittle's company.
January 14, 2007
State's colleges see jump in applications
Suzette Stille, admissions director at the College of Charleston, said the college usually lands pretty close to its target number of 2,000 freshmen.
But it's tough to predict which students will attend after they are accepted, she said. They consider many factors when deciding where to attend, including how much financial aid they will receive, the cost of tuition and whether there is space is available in a residence hall.
January 14, 2007
U.S. House to address lower rate on student loan
College of Charleston senior Jacqui Barry considers herself fortunate.
The 21-year-old art history major is set to graduate this spring with no student loans hanging over her.
Barry's comments echoed those of the nonprofit U.S. Public Interest Research Group, which Thursday released a report at the College of Charleston showing that Stafford borrowers starting college in 2007 would save an average of $2,280 if the rate reduction measure is passed and fully implemented.
January 13, 2007
Alerts poured in on possible predator
An associate professor of communication at the College of Charleston was among those who received the automated message Saturday. Chris Lamb said he called police to make sure it came from them.
"I'm very impressed with the Mount Pleasant Police Department for doing this," Lamb said. "This is no reflection on them, but you need to double-check things."
January 12, 2007
Columbia, SC
SC schools rank high on Kiplinger's list
Three South Carolina schools make Kiplinger magazine's list of top public institutions for providing the best education for the dollar.
Clemson ranked 29th in the financial magazine's yearly round-up of the top 100 best buys.
The College of Charleston ranked 47 in the list and USC came in at 51.
January 12, 2007
History
So much of the Lowcountry's history is black history that we don't need a special month to discover or study it. We do that year-round. But in February, Black History Month provides an opportunity for some special programs and presentations of black history in the Lowcountry and the nation.
--Jan. 23, the College of Charleston's Department of History will present a program of speakers on "Unsettled Centuries: From Early Race Relations Through the Civil Rights Era at the College of Charleston." 3:30-5 p.m. at Addlestone Library, Room 227. It's free.
January 12, 2007
Wheel Watchers get peek
Kelly Davis, a 23-year-old College of Charleston student, even won an all-expenses paid trip to see and audition for "Wheel of Fortune" in Los Angeles.
January 12, 2007
Stars, Bars, and Memoirs in the Archives of Southern Jewish Heritage
A revival of interest in this history has found researchers in several Southern states beginning to trace Jewish settlement, adaptation, and economic roles in the South. Among those projects is a rich archive of Southern Jewish life here at the College of Charleston, created in 1995 and curated by Dale R. Rosengarten, a professor of history.
Ms. Rosengarten, along with her husband, Theodore Rosengarten, an independent scholar, and other colleagues revealed this history in a traveling exhibition and in a volume from the University of South Carolina Press, A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life, which appeared in 2002.
The Rosengartens began visiting the South in 1968, when they were graduate students at Harvard University working on the history of Southern unionism. They settled in Charleston in 1976, after Mr. Rosengarten's dissertation became the National Book Award-winning All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw in 1975. He has since won other similar awards, as well as a MacArthur fellowship in 1989.
January 11, 2007
Student Loan Reduction Proposal
They contend that reducing the rates is not a political issue and should be embraced by both parties.
The plan would reduce the rate of from 6.8% to 3.4% in five years. Figures provided by US Public Interest Research Group show estimated savings for incoming freshmen in 2007 to be $2,360 over the lifetime of the loan. The rate will be at 3.4% in 2011 and freshmen enrolling then should expect to pay $4,560 less under that rate.
News 2 spoke with some the Student Body President Jacqui Barry and the Director of Financial Aid Don Griggs who both support the rate reduction. Both believe the reduction to be good news for upcoming graduates who can expect a lesser debt burden under the plan.
January 10, 2007
Minimum-wage raise not expected to hurt island
Dr. Robert Frash Jr., who teaches hospitality and tourism management at the College of Charleston, said there probably won't be an immediate effect on the coastal restaurant industry, but there may be some long-term consequences.
"The restaurant industry is heavily labor-dependent and it wouldn't take much to affect the bottom line," Frash said.
January 10, 2007
CONCERT MUSIC — Dancing brooms not included
As part of the College of Charleston's ongoing commitment to promoting chamber music, the highly-decorated instructors at CofC are taking part in the yearlong Charleston Music Fest. January's big show, "Fantasia," features CofC music teachers violinist Lee-Chin Siow and cellist Natalia Khoma (pictured above) performing with pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky, who currently serves as the Music Director at the Music and Art Center in New York. The trio will tackle five works by five different composers: Haydn's Piano Trio in G Major, Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 2 for cello and piano, Chopin's Fantasia for piano in F minor, Op. 49, Ravel's Tzigane for violin, and Smetana's Piano trio in G minor. Visit the website to purchase advance tickets.
January 10, 2007
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND | Two Cheers for Chamber
The College of Charleston's new Charleston Music Fest should raise the quality bar even higher. The school has long harbored world-class musicians, like pianist Enrique Graf. But more recent starry imports have included mega-violinist Lee-Chin Siow (from Singapore) and Russian cello dynamo Natalia Khoma — along with their global reputations and networks. They now codirect a chamber program that needn't take a back seat to anybody's.
January 10, 2006
Carolina First opens new Charleston facility
Another building named Carolina First Center is being constructed just blocks away. The bank gave $2 million in 2005 to the College of Charleston for its new athletic arena now under construction alongside the F. Mitchell Johnson Physical Education Center on George Street.
January 10, 2007
96 Wave changes programs
But syndication provides a way for broadcasters to expose listeners to popular shows from other markets, said Douglas Ferguson, a professor in the department of communication at the College of Charleston. It's also cheaper than creating programming in house. The risk, Ferguson said, is that some might tune out if a morning host is not discussing local issues.
"But if it's popular enough, the audience doesn't care," he said.
January 10, 2007
McNaught might light up sky at sunset
"If you know where to look you might be able to see it right after the sun has gone below the horizon," said Chris Fragile, College of Charleston assistant astrophysics professor.
January 10, 2007
Historian tells surprising story of black watermen in slave era
The North Carolina native on Thursday will tell the stories of the people he found and wrote about in his book, "The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in the Maritime South," in a presentation at the College of Charleston.
January 9, 2007
For Sanford, 'now is the time' to complete agenda
Wednesday looms as a big day not only for the governor but also for many others who will have a hand in the ceremony, including Richard Marcus, director of the College of Charleston's wind ensemble. Marcus will lead 11 students in a brass ensemble as they help perform "The Star Spangled Banner," "America the Beautiful," and other songs during the inauguration.
January 9, 2007
S.C. lottery a winner with $4.6B in sales
Students who have benefited from the program include College of Charleston senior Christine Younts of Fort Mill. She said the lottery has provided $10,000 in annual financial aid to her. "It's allowed me to go to school," she said.
January 8, 2007
Sanford smiles on tourism in spending plan
Sanford, however, proposed to cut $150,000 in funding for a hospitality research department started at the College of Charleston last year. The college has already hired a couple of workers with that money and probably isn't anxious to hand out pink slips just as the project gets up to speed.
But if Sanford's spending proposal is received by the General Assembly as it has been in years past, C of C might not have much to worry about.
January 8, 2007
Area attractions halt decline in visitor numbers
Steven Litvin, a College of Charleston hospitality professor who has studied area attraction attendance, said the results showed a smaller "capture rate."
"Any time you turn the trend ... it is a positive thing," Litvin said. "Charleston's on a great trajectory, but at the same time, it is maturing, which means it's welcoming more repeat visitors who are less inclined to go to attractions."
January 8, 2007
College courses
GMLc did a check of college course offerings in the Lowcountry. Although we didn't find anything particularly titillating, like adultery literature, we did find:
At the College of Charleston: "The Psychology of Eating and Drinking"; "Extremist Politics"; and "LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered) Politics."
January 7, 2006
Alligators, an interstate and high insurance rates
There's also a buzz about passing a bond bill that could be used to fund a multitude of projects, including a new science center at the College of Charleston.
January 7, 2007
Edwards leans left, where votes are
“This puts him closer to the front-runners,” said College of Charleston analyst Bill Moore.
January 7, 2007
Charleston Music Fest
On Friday, the Charleston Music Fest will present a concert starring College of Charleston music professor Lee-Chin Siow, who has been praised by critics at the Times of London and the New York Times for her exceptional prowess as a violinist. The concert, "Fantasia," will begin at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Dock Street Theatre, 135 Church St., and also will feature cellist Natalia Khoma and pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky.
The Charleston Music Fest is presented by the College of Charleston's music department and the Friends of the Addlestone Library at the college. The year-round celebration of classical and contemporary chamber music is performed by world-class artists and co-directed by Siow and Khoma.
January 1, 2007
New year in advance
By CHRIS LAMB
Guest columnist
Every year about this time, writers and broadcasters look back at the past year and then in a self-congratulatory way pick the top political stories.
Big deal.
Here are the top political stories for 2007 before they happen. Remember, you read it here first:
Mr. Lamb is an associate professor of communication at the College of Charleston. His latest book is Wry Humor: An Anthology of Midwest Humor. He can be reached at lambc@cofc.edu.