"There's no other place like it on King Street," said dance instructor Robert Ivey, who has been a Clara's regular for years. "You feel like you have a little bit of ownership here because they make you feel so welcome."
The quirky place near the College of Charleston became a popular spot for students and professors who were drawn by the cozy, laid-back atmosphere and fresh food.
In local spending, Sanford vetoed $3.6 million in spending for the College of Charleston programs, but both the House and Senate voted to allow the spending, including $350,000 for the Global Trade and Resource Center and $603,000 for a marine genomic program.
Hardest hit in the Charleston area were the College of Charleston, The Citadel and the Medical University of South Carolina. Sanford cautioned that the projects don't address the core mission of educating students.
The College of Charleston will have space on campus for 3,393 students in the 2007-08 school year - 553 more than last year - after two new residence halls open in August, said Tavia Sessoms, director of housing administrative services. Last year at this time, 328 students were on a waiting list, she said.
That's why it's becoming less important for librarians to brag in meetings with provosts about the number of books and periodicals they have in their collection, and more important to emphasize how they are helping students with information literacy, said Elise Bickford Jorgens, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at College of Charleston.
Most of us have an image of entrepreneurs lodged in our heads: hyperactive, visionary, guts of steel. But those who study entrepreneurs say that's an illusion. "Some have very boring personalities," says Schramm. Part of the problem, says Kelly Shaver, professor of entrepreneurial studies at the College of Charleston, is that we tend to focus on superachieving outliers. (You could be one-53,000th as successful as Bill Gates and still be a millionaire.) And many books and magazine profiles about entrepreneurs look only at the ones who have already made a fortune. When asked to explain their success, Shaver says, people tend to think back and try to identify some brilliant thing they must have done - and maybe forget about the routine work, their many mistakes or their sheer luck.
The Charleston area had an estimated 4.21 million visitors in 2006, up from 4.06 million in 2005, according to the latest tourism impact study released by the College of Charleston's Office of Tourism Analysis. Visitors spent an average of $235 a day during their stay, helping to create 50,000 full- and part-time jobs and $1.1 billion in earnings either directly or indirectly related to tourism. It is estimated that each of the area's 15,450 hotel rooms can generate an average of $31,000 annually in revenue.
"One of the strengths of Charleston is the small-town feel," said Bing Pan, assistant professor and director of research for the Office of Tourism Analysis. "It is very hospitable, but at the same time it's not so small; it's a metropolitan area. We don't want to lose that strength."
Dream Africa "is one of a number of groups of people thinking about the historical role of slavery, its legacy and the current slave trade," said Simon Lewis, who directs the College of Charleston's Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World program.
Amy Powell applies her makeup in front of her computer, a Mac she named Ruby, with a built-in camera recording every brushstroke and dab. Then Ms. Powell, 19, from Myrtle Beach, S.C., uploads the video to YouTube for the world to see.
Ms. Powell, a sophomore at the College of Charleston, is among the hundreds of video bloggers - from stay-at-home mothers and television hopefuls to professional makeup artists and Ford models - putting what they do in front of the vanity mirror on YouTube. They give lessons about mundane and usually private routines - applying mascara and eyeliner, putting on fake eyelashes, plucking eyebrows, blow drying hair or brushing one's cleavage with bronzer to make it look deeper.
College of Charleston astronomy instructor Terry Richardson says the longest day could fall on the day before or after the solstice, and that there are numerous variables that make this summer solstice business, indeed, all of astronomy, complicated.
Richardson points to the fact that the Earth's orbit around the sun is elliptical, not circular, that the Earth has an atmosphere, that not everyone follows Greenwich Mean Time, and that leap year must be factored in. Astronomers view the solstice more specifically.
Real chamber music came from some of our own, too, via Piccolo's Spotlight Concert series. The Charleston Symphony's new concertmaster, Yuriy Bekker (plus Andrew Armstrong on piano), delivered a superb recital; so did departing CSO leaders Megan Julyan-Holland (second violin) and her husband James Holland (cello), in their farewell recital. The College of Charleston's classy strings professors, Lee-Chin Siow (violin) and Natalia Khoma (cello), plus piano whiz Volodymyr Vynnytsky, also blew us away with a program of showpieces.
Chris Lamb | Special to the Sentinel
Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants, it now appears inevitable, will break Henry Aaron's record of 755 career home runs. Such historical milestones usually turn baseball writers and commentators positively gaga as they gush ad nauseam while the ballplayer inexorably advances toward immortality.
Chris Lamb teaches Myth, Baseball and the Meaning of Life at the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C. He is the author of "Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training." He can be reached at lambc@cofc.edu. He wrote this commentary for the Orlando Sentinel.
Every college athletic director has a list.
Most keep it hidden in a desk drawer or filed away in an obscure computer file. But they all have a list of candidates should one of their top coaches suddenly need replacing.
It's considered standard operating procedure in a business where people come and go because they overachieved or underachieved.
But, apparently, no such replacement list exists as the College of Charleston finds itself looking for an athletic director.
When Jerry Baker announced last month he was resigning as the school's AD after a 15-year stint, it was perhaps the worst kept secret in town.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - But the culture is experienced through more than simple sightseeing. It's about food, listening to the Gullah language and learning about the culture at museums, including the one at the Avery Research Center for African-American History and Culture at the College of Charleston.
The College of Charleston hopes to hire a new athletic director before the start of the school year, but the man in charge of the search says who the school hires is more important than when.
"At this time of the year, schedules are set, budgets are set," said Fred Daniels, Charleston's senior vice president for administration and the head of the search committee. "We would like to think by the start of school, but nobody has set a goal. We want the best person we can for the athletes, the coaches and the college."
By Chris Lamb
Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants - who open a Fenway series tonight - it now appears inevitable, will break Henry Aaron's record of 755 career home runs. Such milestones usually turn baseball writers and commentators gaga as they gush ad nauseam while the ballplayer inexorably advances toward immortality.
Chris Lamb teaches Myth, Baseball and the Meaning of Life at the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C. He is the author of "Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson's First Spring Training." Talk back at lambc@cofc.edu.
Lynne Ford, a College of Charleston political science professor who has studied the issue, said women candidates tend to do well, but there are relatively few of them.
"In part, that's because the South was the last to adopt suffrage, the last to embrace full participation, whether it was women or African-Americans or other minorities," she said. "That legacy is very pernicious. It really has a lot ofcarryover to today."
Fred Daniels, the College of Charleston's senior vice president for administration, will serve as interim athletics director effective July 1, and will be in charge of conducting the search to replace outgoing athletics director Jerry Baker.
No official announcement was made by the school, but Tony Ciuffo, the school's assistant athletics director for media relations, confirmed Monday that Daniels would take over for Baker and lead the search for Baker's replacement.
Don Burkard, dean of admissions at the College of Charleston, said his institution and Trident Technical College this summer will enroll 25-35 students in the Keystone program, which will serve students from low-income families or the first generation in their families to attend college.
Gaelle Blanvillain, a student at the College of Charleston, kneels over turtle Number 1, scrubbing the shell shiny with a green kitchen scouring pad. A wipe of a red gingham dishcloth reveals a smooth mahogany color where the shell once resembled a dirty, wet coconut husk.
As part of the Piccolo Spoleto Spotlight concert series, violinist Lee-Chin Siow, cellist Natalia Khoma and pianist Volodymyr Vynnytsky played with high theatrics before an audience packed into the City Gallery at Waterfront Park.
The title of their program, "Dance!" is a bit misleading. Although Handel's "Passacaglia" began as a concert dance, J. Halvorsen has transformed it in an expansive number that exploits the musical ranges of both the violin and the cello. Bela Bartok's collection of "Romanian Folk Dance" is a showcase for a talented cellist such as Khoma.
Here's a popular chamber music trio with a loyal Charleston following.
As Janet pointed out yesterday, Lee-Chin Siow already has her face on a stamp (Geoff then pointed out that Volodymr Vynnytsky has ... well... really amazing hair). Today's video samples one of their pieces from Wednesday night's concert and reveals some of what went into preparing for this performance.
Wednesday evening's Piccolo Spotlight concert at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park was one of the best-buzzed of the bunch - and no wonder: Featured were Charleston's most famous resident violinist and cellist: Lee-Chin Siow and Natalia Khoma, plus their equally renowned piano partner, Volodymyr Vynnytsky. Siow and Khoma teach their instruments at the College of Charleston (Siow is Head of the Strings Department). Along with Vynnytsky, they form the core of the college's regular season chamber series that got started just this past season, to considerable acclaim. In fact, it was yours truly who first told Charleston that their work was just about on a par with Spoleto's chamber glories.
--One last word on colleges: A tip of the hat to Jerry Baker who is stepping down after several decades as athletic director at the College of Charleston. Job well done.
Yuriy Bekker created his own thunder and lightning with Natalie Khoma, a College of Charleston professor of cello, and Irina Pevzner, a former student of the college's Enrique Graf currently pursuing her doctorate at the University of South Carolina.
The College of Charleston asks this year's incoming freshmen to read Bret Lott's "Jewel."
The College of Charleston boosted tuition by 7.5 percent for S.C. residents next fall, a $544 annual increase to $7,778.
Trustees also voted to raise tuition by 11.5 percent for out-of-state students, to $18,732, a $1,932 annual increase.
The College of Charleston is a public liberal arts and sciences university in downtown Charleston, with a student population of about 11,400 students.
Stephen Osborne, senior vice president for business affairs, told board members that many out-of-state students are interested in attending the college so he doesn't think the larger tuition increase will reduce the number of out-of-state students who enroll.
The tuition increases will cover most of the additional $11.2 million the college needs for next year, according to board chairman Bobby Marlowe.
College president George Benson said the school shaved $5.3 million from its original list of additional needs to keep tuition increases as low as possible.
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The College of Charleston approved tuition increases for both in-state and out-of-state students on Monday.
In-state undergraduate students will pay $7,778 next year, an increase of $544, or 7.5 percent. Out-of-state students will pay $18,732 next year, an increase of $1,932 or 11.5 percent.
The tuition increase will bring the school an additional $11.2 million, Board of Trustees Chairman Bobby Marlowe said.
"We are delighted to host this conference and to serve the leadership of the profession in this way," said Brian McGee, chairman of the Department of Communication. "We look forward to a highly productive and stimulating discussion on the College of Charleston campus."
"A World of Jewish Culture" is produced each year in conjunction with the College of Charleston's Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program, run by Martin Perlmutter.