“He adds humor to the election cycle that hasn't been there,” said Jeri Cabot.
Cabot is a political science professor at the College of Charleston.
She says the political comedian will draw voters to the polls.
COLUMBIA, SC - The SC Earthquake Education and Preparedness Program, administered at the College of Charleston, will host an earthquake lecture/public forum and walking tours in Charleston.
John Huddlestun, an associate professor of religion at the College of Charleston, said scholars would need more information on the juror's beliefs before evaluating what religious principle might have been invoked. Nothing in the Bible speaks against sitting on a jury, he said.
College of Charleston and federal researchers at the Hollings Marine Laboratory are studying mercury levels in turtles on the Southeastern coast and are finding that turtles could be good indicators of local mercury problems, said Dave Owens, a biology professor. The state Department of Natural Resources has no ongoing studies involving mercury, a spokeswoman said.
The College of Charleston has narrowed its search for a new athletics director, with four and possibly five candidates scheduled to visit campus between now and Nov. 8 for a final round of interviews.
Joe Hull, a senior associate athletics director at Maryland, was the first of the finalists invited in for a return visit to campus to participate in an open forum with faculty and staff Monday morning at Sottile Theatre.
"We're approaching the end of the process," said interim athletics director Fred Daniels, who has spearheaded the search for a replacement for athletics director Jerry Baker, who stepped down in June. "The president (P. George Benson) will make the final determination."
On Monday morning, the National Park Service will hold the first public event to introduce her and the other commissioners at the Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston.
"They are really nature's pesticide, in many ways," explained Willem J. Hillenius, a College of Charleston biology professor.
“The fire may be the biggest issue that can be used against him,” said Bill Moore, a political scientist with the College of Charleston. “But, realistically, Joe Riley doesn’t have anything to fear.”
Tri-Deltas at the College of Charleston are making plans to remember their sisters and friends, who were killed in a beach house fire in North Carolina.
Charleston resident Mary Thomas can trace her family back five generations in Charleston. Then, like many blacks looking for clues to the past, she hits the painful era of slavery and information vanishes.
"Some people have memorabilia. We don't have all that," said Thomas, 75, who is eager to learn more about her family so she can share it with her nieces and nephews. "We don't have our own last names."
Thomas joined nearly 100 other men and women Saturday for Roots and Branches: An African American Genealogy Conference at the College of Charleston.
The sticky-prices effect occurs when the value of certain services or commodities does not fall significantly even as demand for those services or commodities does, said Frank Hefner, an economics professor at the College of Charleston.
The highlight of the evening was a brilliantly performed reading of Ludwig van Beethoven's unique "Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra." Three professors at the College of Charleston were the soloists: Enrique Graf, piano; Lee Chin Siow, violin; and Natalia Khoma, cello.
Since all three are internationally recognized, highly acclaimed soloists, they demonstrated keen insight and unmatched ensemble. Stahl and the orchestra provided the suitable musical counterpoint, with a standing ovation following.
"It really makes a difference to students when you see, or hear it's just the College of Charleston, or it's MTV," said Jared Esselman with the Political Science Club at the College of Charleston.
Well, It's a wake-up call for MySpace generation as students get off the computer and head to the polls. Students at the College of Charleston are getting up, getting out and getting to the polls. Twelve presidential candidates were respected on the represented on the campus on the campus this afternoon.
College of Charleston students learned where presidential candidates stand on the issues. It's our Decision 2008 Report as part of MTV's Rock the Vote Campaign the College of Charleston held a fair where students could register to vote and learn more about the presidential candidates. Representatives from thirteen presidential campaigns set up booths and gave a short presentation.
The spiral service stairwell in the center of the main house at Drayton Hall symbolizes the relationship between the black and white residents in the plantation's early days, the director of the African-American studies at the College of Charleston says.
Slaves were the majority at Drayton Hall in the late 1700s and early 1800s and essential to the plantation's operation, Bernard Powers said. But like the stairway, they were hidden from view in the main house.
The College of Charleston now has a system in place to alert students and faculty of an emergency. The Cougar Alert System allows students to register up to six phone numbers and two e-mail addresses to receive emergency alerts.
"It's a great occasion to bring people together to really recognize their history and learn about it and think about the future and where they want to go," said Scott Shanklin-Peterson, director of the College of Charleston's arts management program and former senior deputy chairman at the National Endowment for the Arts.
Nichols, 22 years old, began the club when she was an undergrad at the College of Charleston and working part-time for the Carver Law Offices there. On a lunch break, she saw a sign in a restaurant window that read “Applications Excepted.” From there she started the group, and says she has been surprised by the amazing response. And though the Troy, Ala., native created this burgeoning gang of grammarians, she insists she’s “not a fanatic like some people are.”
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston is currently hosting the exhibit "John Hull & Barbara Duval: Works," beginning Friday and running through the beginning of December.
College of Charleston history professor Bernard Powers, a founding member of the Charleston branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), says the organization hopes to change that.
Founded in 1915 by Harvard scholar Carter G. Woodson, who also initiated Black History Month, the association's mission is to research and publicize every aspect of African American history. But for the Charleston branch, it's been tough going.
San Diego native, Jared Smith, lives in the glare of the computer as College of Charleston's Webmaster. But now, his eyes are glued on it for personal reasons. Of the hundreds of thousands of Californians forced from their homes by fire, five of them Smith calls family.
KERALA’s art and architecture have always been an attraction for many. Mary Beth Heston, associate professor of art history and director of Asian Studies in the College of Charleston, is no exception. It was her PhD guide S.L.Huntigton who directed her to the mural art of Kerala.
"My guide had visited Mattanchery for his work on Indian Art. It was not studied in depth at that time. Somehow, I realised that the murals in Mattanchery were unique. After my PhD I continued my studies on the murals of Padmanabhapuram Palace," said Mary.
I was surfing the channels the other night when I stopped on C-SPAN. They were showing Sen. John McCain fielding questions from the students at the College of Charleston on Oct. 3 in his campaign for the White House. During this, he indicated that the Prescription Drug Bill had been a money bill. Meaning that the pharmaceutical industry had pumped in enough money to get it passed.
It is a common question at those Friday night after-work gatherings of young PR professionals. When the pressures of the week have abated slightly and the conversation has been properly lubricated with a few mojitos, it comes up in one form or another: 'What does it really take to get ahead?'
Some will argue passionately that it's all about who you know. Others will fight just as hard that instead it's what you know. Both will have great anecdotes to support their claims.
In speaking to a number of young pros who are making steady progress on their own upward trajectory, I have a slightly different take. As I hear them describe their own histories, I am struck by a common theme. They have each taken personal responsibility for their own development. Their goal has been to increase the value they bring to the organizations they serve.
Tom Martin is an executive-in-residence, Department of Communication, The College of Charleston. He also serves as a senior counselor for Feldman & Partners. He can be reached at martintr@cofc.edu.
The College of Charleston is falling in line with higher education institutions across the country with a new attempt to grow a little greener and become a role model for environmentally sound practices.
Department leaders campuswide will gather later this month for the first meeting of the college's sustainability committee, says Burton Callicott, a librarian and chairman of the new committee.
Three professors of music from all over the globe, who are now teaching at the College of Charleston, will perform solos in a rare Beethoven concerto at the Charleston Symphony Orchestra's Masterworks concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at Gaillard Auditorium.
Conducted by CSO Music Director David Stahl, the program, titled "Trois, Harom, Drei," will include Beethoven's famous Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C major, Op. 56. Commonly known as the "Triple Concerto," it is the only concerto Beethoven wrote for more than one solo instrument.
The soloists are violinist Lee-Chin Siow, cellist Natalia Khoma and pianist Enrique Graf.
Reid Wiseman remembers when his lifestyle was very much scaled back — because of World War II.
"I remember when I was a kid during the Second World War collecting bacon fat and taking it to the butcher and getting 7 cents a pound," he said. "I've been frugal for a long time."
Wiseman spent most of the following decades in academia. For the past 30 years, he has taught the College of Charleston's course on "Man and the Environment," a blend of science, economics, politics — even sex.
John Wilkes, the 18th-century British political reformer, was debating John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, in the House of Parliament. The exchange kept increasing in bile until Montagu shouted at Wilkes that he would either die on the gallows or of venereal disease.
To which Wilkes responded, "That, sir, depends on whether I first embrace your Lordship's principles or your Lordship's mistresses."
There's no record of Montagu's response, or if he even had one. He probably put what was left of his manhood in a thimble and skulked away in silence.Chris Lamb is a professor of Communication at the College of Charleston. His most recent book is "I'll Be Sober in the Morning: Great Political Comebacks, Putdowns and Ripostes," which will be published in November by Frontline Press. He can be reached at lambc@cofc.edu.
Hull will display his artwork with award-winning College of Charleston faculty member Barbara Duval in "John Hull & Barbara Duval: Works" at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art on campus.
How did he become intrigued by a junkyard?
"I had my work in a show in Clearmont, Wyo., in a gallery right around the corner from this incredible junkyard," explains Hull, the new chairman of the College of Charleston's studio art department. "And I became so interested in the kind of people who came there, and the stuff left there, that I applied to be an artist-in-residence to stay a month in Clearmont and paint scenes at the junkyard."
Some firefighting consultants agreed Wednesday that it is not uncommon to share and discuss reports with clients before they are made public. But Chris Lamb, a communication professor at the College of Charleston, said residents are "a lot more likely to get an honest report if it doesn't go through the filter of City Hall."
The Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program and the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston will present a documentary screening of "Shared History" at 7 p.m. Oct. 25 in room 309 of the Simons Center for the Arts, 54 St. Philip Street, downtown Charleston.
Following the film will be a panel discussion led by cultural critic Frank Martin and involving the film's producers, Felicia Furman and Vivian Glover, and one of the descendants featured in the documentary, Charles Orr.
"As a name, Bob Jones is a plus for Romney, but not a huge one," said Jack Bass, a historian and analyst at the College of Charleston.
Bob Jones University alums are already taking issue with the endorsement, arguing that "the issue isn't who can best beat Hillary but what's the right thing to do," Bass added.
The College of Charleston's School of the Arts touts a performance by distinguished music professors Lee-Chin Siow (violin), Natalia Khoma (cello) and Enrique Graf (piano) with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, directed by David Stahl.
The concert, titled "Troi, Harom, Drei," is part of the CSO's Masterworks series and will be held at 8 p.m. Oct. 27 at Gaillard Auditorium.
The program includes Beethoven's famous Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C major, Op. 56.
Legendary pianist Leon Fleisher packed the Sottile Theatre Tuesday night for the opening of the 18th season of the College of Charleston's International Piano Series.
The audience was hushed for Fleisher's transversal of J.S. Bach, and for some four-hand works by Schubert and Ravel with his wife Katherine Jacobson Fleisher.
The Charleston-North Charleston metropolitan area jumped up 10 positions in the recently released Best-Performing Cities Index compiled by The Milken Institute, which ranked the area 12th in terms of economic performance among the nation’s 200 largest cities.
“I think it speaks to the vitality that the Charleston area has benefited from for many years,” said David Desplaces, international business director and assistant professor of entrepreneurship for the School of Business and Economics at the College of Charleston.
An aquarium of velvety, undulating coral flanks the entrance to Phil Dustan’s over-flowing lab. “A student experiment,” he explains. “They’re seeing if these will survive in a controlled environment.” Coral reefs are the canary in the coal mine for this College of Charleston professor and international expert in the field of marine biology and ecology. Dustan has been monitoring reef systems and studying human impact on reefs since his undergraduate days, work that has led him all over the world and deeper into the field of conservation biology. As chief science advisor to the Cousteau Society from 1996 to 2003, Dustan worked on the national policy front, helping create the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force and the Marine Protected Areas Act. Since serving as principal investigator of the Charleston Harbor Project in the early ’90s, he’s been equally involved with local conservation issues. “The enormous changes going on here, as open land is gobbled up at an alarming rate and replaced with impervious surfaces, are dramatically impacting the health of estuarine creeks,” says Dustan, who currently serves on the John’s Island Growth Management Task Force. “At some point, you have to speak out.” And speak out he does, presenting scientific research that’s equal parts hard data and personal passion.
These are the findings of the most recent survey conducted by the College of Charleston’s Office of Tourism Analysis in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management.
In 2006, visitors spent an average $235 per day vs. $225 per day in 2005. Taking that per-person average amount and figuring in that the number of visitors rose from 4.06 million in 2005 to 4.21 million in 2006, that $10 or 4% increase per person is significant, according to Bing Pan, assistant professor and head of research in the Office of Tourism Analysis at the college.
College of Charleston President P. George Benson has been named chair of the inaugural board of directors of the South Carolina Campus Compact. Benson joined the presidents of 15 other South Carolina higher education institutions in forming the Compact, part of a national coalition of more than 1,000 colleges and universities that are committed to educating the next generation of responsible citizens. The South Carolina Campus Compact will be hosted at the College of Charleston.
"We never see them," said David Owens, College of Charleston biology professor. In 30 years studying turtles, he's rarely had the chance to work hands-on with adult males before Edisto and Cape Romain, who's also in rehab at the aquarium.
The Robert Ivey Ballet, the ballet company-in-residence at the College of Charleston, will present its fall performance, beginning Friday, by premiering new works by artistic director Ivey and associate director Ashley Stock.
A new work, "Concerto," will feature the entire company with music by Shostakovich, choreographed by Ivey and Stock. Also, modern dance choreographer Eliza Ingle has restaged a work, "Sound Ages," to music by the famous French singer Edith Piaf.
Classical pianist Leon Fleisher will join Steve Martin, Diana Ross, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and director Martin Scorsese as one of the 2007 artists to be honored by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 2. The event will be televised Dec. 26.
But before being honored at the star-studded ceremony, Fleisher will open the College of Charleston's 2007 International Piano Series at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Sottile Theatre, 44 George St.
The distinguished musician has a history with the International Piano Series, founded by the college's artist-in-residence, Enrique Graf, a well-known pianist in his own right.
Recently I made a trip south with my twins to look at colleges. We were in Charleston, S.C., on a Friday night. The streets were full of young women from the College of Charleston in summer dresses and young men from the Citadel in their military dress whites and grays. It was something right out of a book.
"There is a symbiotic relationship where they feed off the candidates and the candidates feed off them as well," College of Charleston political science professor Bill Moore said. "For them, it's a combination of getting their message out and seeing if there are candidates who are sympathetic to their message."
Sen. John Kerry talks with Walter Carr on Friday during a Roundtable discussion for the Friends of the Library at the College of Charleston Addlestone Library.
Kerry visited to speak at the College of Charleston's Winthrop Roundtable, founded by former Massachusetts resident and distant Kerry relative John Winthrop.
"We're not Silicon Valley but we have that kind of industry here, and it's diffuse. ... Those are the kind of jobs we want to see in the Charleston area," said Frank Hefner, an economist at the College of Charleston.
"Housing is worse than gasoline. The price goes up and doesn't go down," said Frank Hefner, an economist with the College of Charleston.
Hefner said one explanation for the staying power of home prices is that owners who aren't in a hurry to sell are waiting for the right offer. Also, builders are trying to keep their prices stable, but to do so they are offering upgrades and more-attractive financing packages to bring buyers in the door, Hefner said.
Sen. John McCain brought his (sort of) revived campaign to the College of Charleston last week as the first speaker in the school's Bully Pulpit Series on Presidential Communications.
McCain started out by saying he would talk briefly before taking students' "questions or comments or insults."
One student asked if McCain was against freedom of the press, but the senator said that wasn't an issue with the ad. He also noted that he opposed ads against John Kerry and Max Cleland's patriotism.
CHARLOTTE, NC -- The College of Charleston is working on a new notification system that wukk szend emergency notices to cell phones and other mobile devicxes. It should be fully operational by the end of the year.
Presidential candidate Senator John McCain talked about presidential communication.
Senator McCain was the first presidential candidate to speak in the College of Charleston’s Bully Pulpit Series on presidential communication which invites presidential candidates to speak on such topics as the frequency of press conferences, the candidate’s relationship with journalists, and the power of the president to persuade.
The event was held at College of Charleston’s Physicians Auditorium.
Arthur Felts, a political scientist and director of the Riley Institute for Urban Studies at the College of Charleston, said sales taxes have proven to be an unreliable way to fund schools.
Legislators need to take a broad approach to tax reform, Felts said, specifically looking at the income tax.
“I’m going to save a whole lot of money on my property-tax bills,” he said.
A private detective's effort to track someone is what caused scores of people to make tracks during a bomb scare last month at the College of Charleston, authorities said Monday.
The "highly suspicious package" that was found about 9 a.m. Sept. 21 at Coming and Calhoun streets was actually a cell phone connected to a Global Positioning Satellite-tracking device and two heavy-duty batteries, Charleston police spokesman Charles Francis said.
The College of Charleston announced that it has signed an agreement with Connect-ED Communication Service to provide an emergency notification system that will be capable of reaching faculty, students and staff within minutes of a campus crisis.
The service will be implemented with limited capabilities this month, with testing in phases throughout the fall. It is expected to be fully functional by the end of 2007.
"This new emergency notification system will significantly enhance our ability to maintain a learning environment in which students feel safe, secure and comfortable," said Victor Wilson, executive vice president for student affairs.
The college has 9,800 undergraduates, 1,400 graduate students and 1,800 employees. It began looking at a new emergency communications system in late spring as universities across the country examined their crisis communications in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings in April that resulted in the deaths of 27 students and five faculty members, said Mike Haskins, executive vice president for external relations.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A device that a private detective was using to track someone's movements caused a bomb scare last month near the College of Charleston, authorities said.
The suspicious package was a cell phone connected to a Global Positioning Satellite-tracking device and two batteries. The device was found in a briefcase that fell off a car after being placed in or on it, Charleston police spokesman Charles Francis said.
The College of Charleston Foundation is suing a photographer who is selling expensive images of a plantation it owns near Hollywood. The foundation said in a lawsuit that Hilton Head Island artist Benjamin Ham entered Dixie Plantation some time in 2006 without permission to shoot a photograph that he later put up for sale for as much as $4,800 per copy. The 862-acre tract on the Stono River was left to the college's foundation by wildlife artist and ornithologist John Henry Dick, who died in 1995.
DERBY HOLDS A PECULIAR POSITION IN THE PANTHEON OF WOMEN'S SPORTS. While it may not be the only rough, full-contact women's sport -- there are numerous women's professional football leagues, for example -- it has quickly become one of the most popular. "The idea that women are naturally less aggressive than men is bull [expletive]," says Alison Piepmeier, director of the women's and gender study program at the College of Charleston. Instead, she says, "women are trained to channel that aggression in certain ways," like sarcasm and cattiness, rather than physical dominance.
And when a College of Charleston student asks Mr. McCain, a 71-year-old Republican from Arizona, what he personally is doing to reduce greenhouse gases, he offers that he bought one of those eco-trendy cars for his 22-year-old daughter, Meghan.
Despite his travails, there remains a baseline of appreciation — even reverence — for Mr. McCain, even among those who don’t support him. “Hey, I just got called a smartass by John McCain,” bragged Jared Fernandez, high-fiving a friend. Indeed, Mr. Fernandez, a freshman at the College of Charleston, had just prefaced a question for Mr. McCain with a sarcastic aside that, sure enough, elicited that rejoinder. Mr. McCain meant it lovingly, and Mr. Fernandez, who was wearing a “Hillary” button, said he admired the candidate as “a man of great conviction.”
"Republicans have made a career in South Carolina running against Teddy Kennedy and Bill Clinton," observes William Moore, College of Charleston political scientist. "If she is the Democratic nominee, there is no doubt the Republican Party will emphasize the link between the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and Hillary Clinton."
The FBI collects only forcible rape reports from those colleges willing to participate in its crime reporting system. Colleges also report crimes under the federal Cleary Act, usually on their Web sites. That law requires disclosure of forcible sexual offenses, not just rapes. For the College of Charleston, for instance, the FBI reported one forcible rape in 2006. The school reported five forcible sexual offenses that year.
Read more ...Today, religions and cultures have varying interpretations of animal and human relationships. With urbanization, industrialization and the birth of New World religions came a distance between man and nature, said College of Charleston religion professor Lee Irwin. Consequently, beliefs about animals and their place in the universe shifted. Controversy arose over animal rights issues, environmental concerns and conservation efforts, yet animal deities remain prevalent in native religions today, Irwin said.
"In the tales of Native Americans, the heroes are not humans, but animals and stars," Irwin said.
Terry Peterson of the College of Charleston, formerly top aide to former Gov. Richard Riley when he was U.S. Education secretary, says he thinks so. Stop thinking of schools as 8 a.m.-to-3 p.m. islands of specialized teaching services, he says. Instead, bring them back into the fabric of neighborhoods. Elementary and middle schools in his formula would be seen as community learning centers, open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., for a full range of children's needs and interests — study hours, fitness and sports, community gardening, computer labs and more. Ideally, health, mental health, library and other facilities — services for the 'whole kid' — would be available as well.
Nevertheless, Rumi was a devout Muslim who managed to practice mysticism within Islamic orthodoxy, College of Charleston religion professor Lee Irwin said, comparing Rumi to St. Thomas Aquinas or St. Francis of Assisi, Catholics who lived during the same period and who found ways to reconcile religious doctrine with mystical exploration.
Rumi, who wrote extensively, is widely considered among the greatest Islamic thinkers, Irwin said.
Poet and essayist Albert Goldbarth, the Adele Davis Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Wichita State University, will read from his work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Alumni Memorial Hall at the College of Charleston.
The event, part of the school's inaugural Visiting Writers Series, is free and open to the public.
Goldbarth has published more than 27 collections of verse, including "Saving Lives" and "Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology," both of which won the National Book Critics Circle award for poetry. Goldbarth remains the only poet to have received the award twice. His collection "Jan. 31" was nominated in 1975 for the National Book Award. His latest book is "The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems 1972-2007."
The College of Charleston must be entrepreneurial and strengthen relationships with alumni, the city and the Lowcountry, newly installed school President George Benson said Friday.
"I like to encourage people to think in terms of no boundaries," he said.
Benson spoke after being installed as the 21st president of the college in a ceremony at the Sottile Theatre. Representatives of 44 colleges and universities attended his inauguration, including University of South Carolina President Andrew Sorensen, Hampden-Sydney College President Walter Bortz III and Citadel President John Rosa.
New information on the College of Charleston's President. He was inaugurated as the school's 21'st President. He came from Rutgers where he was the Dean of the School.
He's already been in office for months, but today President George Benson made it offical. He was innaugurated President of the College of Charleston in front of a capacity crowd on campus. When asked why he would want to be president, he said, "Just look around."
George Benson has actually been he is the former Dean of Rutgers Business School. He also served as Dean of the University of Georgia's Business School where he launched a music business program. Benson says he will look for similar opportunities in Charleston.
Jack Bass, a professor of humanities and social sciences at the College of Charleston who is familiar with South Carolina history and politics, said he believes the proposal is intended to invoke discussion more than anything else, especially given the difficulty in convening a constitutional convention.
While McConnell said he views illegal immigration as a danger to the country and a drain on South Carolina's resources, Bass contends that most Spanish-speaking residents, whether legal or not, contribute significantly to the revenue base and provide a skilled workforce.
"For the state to intrude into the law enforcement role of the federal government seems a radical step in transforming the role of federalism in our country," Bass said. "Senator McConnell's proposal reflects a very creative mind."
CHARLESTON, SC (AP) - George Benson is set to be inaugurated Friday afternoon as the 21st president of the College of Charleston.
The former dean of Rutgers Business School has actually been on the job since February.
Benson also served as dean of the University of Georgia's business school, where he launched a music business program.
George Benson today officially becomes the 21st president of the College of Charleston after being on the job since February.
His 2:30 p.m. inauguration at the Sottile Theater is open to guests, faculty, staff and students. A reception follows at the Cistern.
Rain hampered the two-day celebration Thursday, forcing a dessert extravaganza and presidential meet-and-greet indoors.
Benson was among five contenders for the post.
Dusting off antique stage plays can be tricky, if the original is by a comic genius of 2,500 years ago, such as Aristophanes, author of "Lysistrata."
The College of Charleston's Department of Theatre opened its production of this comedy in a modern adaptation by British playwright Ranjit Bolt, nephew of Robert Bolt, famous for the screenplays of "Lawrence of Arabia" and "A Man for All Seasons."
George Benson is set to be inaugurated this afternoon as the 21st president of the College of Charleston.
The former dean of Rutgers Business School has actually been on the job since February.
Benson also served as dean of the University of Georgia's business school, where he launched a music business program.
Benson says he will look for similar opportunities in Charleston.
“When I was growing up nobody was really interested in the solar system much,” said Professor Robert Dukes of The College of Charleston’s Physics and Astronomy Department.
“Astronomy, not that long ago, was entirely based on optical ground based telescopes,” added Professor Jon Hakkila, Chair of The College of Charleston’s Physics and Astronomy Department.
Later Wednesday, McCain spoke at a town hall meeting at the College of Charleston, promising if he was elected president he would brief the public each week on the war in Iraq.
One student asked McCain what he thought about lowering the drinking age from 21 to age 18.
An upcoming seminar at the College of Charleston will detail the ins and outs of franchising.
"This is a great opportunity for local entrepreneurs to learn from experts about the skills necessary to run a successful franchise," said Tate Center director John Clarkin.
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain spent an hour Wednesday alternately joking and talking earnestly with a student-dominated crowd of about 500 at the College of Charleston.
The U.S. senator from Arizona began with a short stump speech about how Republicans lost the 2006 mid-term congressional elections because of their overspending and how important it is to support Gen. David Petraeus' current strategy in Iraq.
Laura Hershey, a veteran activist and organizer in the struggle for human rights, with an emphasis on disability, gender and sexual orientation, will speak on "Help and Power: My Story of Becoming Independent" at 1 p.m. Oct. 5 at the Jewish Studies Center on Wentworth Street.
Republican presidential hopeful and U.S. Sen. John McCain will spend an hour tonight with College of Charleston students talking about his campaign in general and about presidential communication in particular.
McCain is the first presidential candidate to take the college up on an offer to appear at its Bully Pulpit Series on presidential communication.
His talk begins at 6:30 p.m. in Physicians Auditorium, but anyone who doesn't already have a ticket is out of luck. Students have received about 80 percent of the 500 available tickets, said Brian McGee, chairman of the school's Department of Communication.
J. David McSwane, editor of the Colorado State University daily newspaper, The Collegian, wanted to shake his readers out of their collective apathy about the importance of free speech. If this was his objective, he succeeded. He also succeeded in revealing his limited vocabulary and his sloppy rhetorical skills. He'll find out later this week whether he will lose his job.
Chris Lamb is a professor of Media Studies at the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C. He can be reached at lambc@cofc.edu. He wrote this for the Sentinel.
Paul Roof, a sociology and pop culture professor at College of Charleston, started the society after learning online about similar groups around the world. The closest he knows of is in Greensboro, N.C., he said.
The Charleston-area society started out as a "virtual community," Roof said, on the social networking Web site MySpace.com. Members decided to meet at local bars and recently participated in their first philanthropic event, the Charleston Nine Memorial Run. Roof hopes future events will include a trip to the NYC Beard & Moustache Championships next spring.
CHARLESTON, S.C. | A nonprofit foundation that supports the College of Charleston has sued a South Carolina photographer, claiming he did not have permission to take pictures of a plantation known for its avenue of Southern oaks.
Sen. John McCain will be bringing his revived campaign to the College of Charleston on Wed., Oct. 3, as the first speaker in the school's Bully Pulpit Series on Presidential Communications. According to the school, the series "invites the individual presidential candidates to speak with students and Charleston community members on such topics as the frequency of press conferences, the candidate's relationship with journalists, and the power of the president to persuade."
"If there is a nasty fight over Lindsey Graham running for a second term, it could only help Erwin," said William Moore, a College of Charleston political scientist. But even then it would be an uphill fight, he said.
The Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World program at the College of Charleston and other organizations in the Lowcountry, including the historic plantations, are marking this bicentennial of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade with a number of events and programs on slavery, resistance and abolition.
Remarkable among them is Roots and Branches: An African American Genealogy Conference coming up at the end of this month at C of C's Physicians Auditorium.
The College of Charleston Foundation is suing a photographer who is selling expensive images of a plantation it owns near Hollywood, a dispute that involves the wishes of the property's late owner and copyright law.
The foundation, a nonprofit arm of the school, said in a lawsuit that Hilton Head Island artist Benjamin Ham entered Dixie Plantation some time in 2006 without permission to shoot a photograph that he later put up for sale for as much as $4,800 per copy.