The College of Charleston's Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and Department of Theatre will present "Playwrights Tonight," an evening of new work written and performed by students in Dr. Franklin Ashley's playwriting class. The event will take place at 7 p.m. Dec. 3. The event is free.
"Sinatra Scenes" is a tribute to Frank Sinatra's music using five of his classic songs as inspiration for creating new student-written material. Sinatra songs featured are "The Lady Is a Tramp," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Fly Me to the Moon," "The Way You Look Tonight" and "The Best Is Yet to Come."
Dunks and three-pointers were temporarily set aside to honor nine firefighters lost in the line of duty.
An annual basketball game between College of Charleston and Charleston Southern University took on greater meaning inside the North Charleston Coliseum Wednesday night.
The Department of Music in the School of the Arts at the College of Charleston will present "A Yuletide Madrigal Feast" at 7 p.m. Dec. 6-8 in Alumni Memorial Hall in Randolph Hall on the college campus.
The award-winning College of Charleston Madrigal Singers, conducted by Dr. Robert Taylor, will perform sacred and secular traditional holiday season carols. Each of the three evenings will be filled with Renaissance entertainment and a feast fit for royalty.
Friday, Lowcountry AIDS Services, Carolina Empowerment Group, College of Charleston, Medical University of South Carolina, Abandoned Infants Destined to Succeed, It's Up to Me—The Citadel and Roper St. Francis Hospitals will present a number of events to honor those affected by AIDS and to promote education and prevention of the disease.
Jafza International’s massive investment in rural Orangeburg County has created a local buzz about Dubai, the Middle Eastern emirate from which the company hails. But one College of Charleston professor thinks his students can flip the focus and get Dubai talking about what South Carolina businesses can do for one of the world’s fastest-growing cities.
On Dec. 29, a dozen C of C undergrads, together with about as many students from the University of Hartford in Connecticut, will leave for a week-long fact-finding mission in Dubai.
Findings of a study of the town's dog ordinance will be presented 9 a.m. Friday in Town Hall. Students in he College of Charleston Environmental Community Outreach graduate class have conducted a study that analyzed and evaluated the Sullivan's Island dog ordinance. The students will provide an overview of their findings.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul told students at the College of Charleston Tuesday that many see him as a radical candidate, but it's mainstream politics that's really on the fringe.
"It's an extreme idea to start wars," said Paul, a Texas congressman who has opposed U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lisa Thomson Ross, an associate professor of psychology at the College of Charleston, said a number of factors may play into the recent rash of gun incidents at schools, from the availability of firearms to copycat behavior among students.
A News 2 investigation found the majority of Charleston County taxpayers will not get help from the EMS department in time, if they suffer a cardiac arrest.
With the help of a College of Charleston database expert, we looked at more than 1,700 cardiac arrest calls the EMS department responded to from 2005 to May, 2007.
We discovered only two out of 10 calls to 911 resulted in an EMS response within the critical six minutes recommended by experts.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney held a health care forum in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Sen. John McCain of Arizona campaigned in South Carolina.
Also in South Carolina, Rep. Ron Paul gives a speech at the College of Charleston.
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, was to address a campaign rally Monday evening at an oceanfront hotel in Myrtle Beach and today is to speak at the College of Charleston on presidential communication.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is in Charleston today and is scheduled to be our guest for News 2 Listens at 5 pm.
The Texas congressman will speak at the College of Charleston this afternoon at 2:00, as part of the College’s series on presidential communication.
Stepping out of the second-floor stairwell in Randolph Hall, the oldest structure on the College of Charleston campus, visitors find themselves in the midst of antique furniture pieces and ornate décor that capture the elegance and pride associated with South Carolina’s past. At the end of a hall, lined with artwork that tells the story of the college’s storied 237-year past, sits the president’s office.
Each day, President George Benson goes about his tasks under the watchful eye of Harrison Randolph, C of C president from 1897-1945, whose portrait hangs over the fireplace.
Robert Russell, historic preservation professor at the College of Charleston, says the hardening of those standards is one reason to oppose the idea that the city should adopt them.
He notes that adaptive reuse projects such as the Murray Vocational School on Chisolm Street, the Craft School on Legare Street and the Immaculate Conception School on St. Philip Street (all converted into residences) may no longer be possible under the standards.
"The industry is going to become more professional, and the best jobs are going to go to those who know how it works," said Jon Wiley, the program's interim director.
The idea for a real estate center was kick-started by Atlanta developer Ben Carter, who helped donate $1.5 million about a year ago to start the program. His mother-in-law, Jane Middleton, is a descendant of one of the college's founders, Arthur Middleton. Carter and his wife, Tricia, also have two children, daughter Palmer and son Ben, who graduated from the school.
In turn, the college has named the program the Carter Center in Real Estate.
"Wayang Modern: An Evening of Modern Shadow Puppet Theatre" will be performed Saturday at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston.
The evening is part of the Halsey's third annual "Paper Moon," celebrating the only purely contemporary art institution in the state, and is an opportunity for visual arts enthusiasts to become members of the Halsey.
"The evening is an opportunity for current Halsey members and potential members," says Mark Sloan, Halsey director. "All guests who are not current members will be encouraged to join."
Perhaps modern-day politicians could pick up a few tips from a College of Charleston communication professor's new book that compiles some of history's great political quips.
"I'll Be Sober in the Morning: Great Political Putdowns, Comebacks, and Ripostes," edited by professor Chris Lamb, is a collection of humorous and biting comebacks that past politicians used to score points and silence opponents.
"I don't think I'll have to revise the book anytime soon," Lamb said. "The media want their politicians to be glib and shrill. Political consultants want their candidates to stay on script. They undervalue humor."
McCain, 72, has managed to regain some lost territory from his summer fiasco, but the effort is probably too little too late, said College of Charleston professor Bill Moore. “John McCain has become old news.”
By JACK BASS CHARLESTON, S.C., Nov. 23 — Former Gov. Robert E. McNair of South Carolina, the political moderate who was a finalist to become Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey’s running mate in 1968 but whose promising career was cut short by what became known as the Orangeburg Massacre, died last Saturday in Charleston. He was 83.
Hinson, 58, will accept a full-time position at the Lowcountry Graduate Center in Charleston, where she's worked part time developing curricula and training courses for the area's in-demand jobs.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul not only will make his first Lowcountry campaign stop next week, but he also will take part in the College of Charleston's Bully Pulpit Series on presidential communication.
The Congressman from Texas is the second candidate in the series, which hopes to attract all the presidential candidates to speak with students and others in the Charleston community. U.S. Sen. John McCain, who also is seeking the Republican nomination, was the first to speak in the series.
The event will take place at College of Charleston's Physicians Auditorium from 2-3 p.m. Tuesday.The School of the Arts at the College of Charleston is featuring the 18th season of the International Piano Series.
Individual tickets are $20. Credit-card reservations and more information can be obtained by calling 953-6575. College of Charleston students and those under 18 years old are admitted free. All concerts will be at 8 p.m. Tuesdays in the Sottile Theatre, 44 George St.
The department of music in the School of the Arts at the College of Charleston will present "A Yuletide Madrigal Feast" at 7 p.m. Dec. 6-8 in Alumni Memorial Hall in Randolph Hall on the College campus.
The College of Charleston Madrigal Singers, conducted by Dr. Robert Taylor, will perform sacred and secular traditional holiday season carols. Each of the three evenings will be filled with Renaissance entertainment and a feast.
Five Charleston area World War II veterans are featured in an exhibit at the College of Charleston.
"Through Their Eyes: WWII Concentration Camp Liberation as Seen by American GIs" honors veterans who witnessed conditions in German concentration camps in spring 1945. Also honored are veterans whose military units participated in the follow-up to liberation.
Area veterans included are W.N. "Buck" Boyles and Henry Smith, both of Mount Pleasant; Mason S. "Mickey" Dorsey of Seabrook Island; and Bernard Warshaw of Walterboro, as well as the late Heyward Shealey of Charleston. They are among 16 veterans whose photographs, documents and "spoils of war" are shown.
The exhibit is at the entrance of the special collections department on the third floor of the Addlestone Library at the College of Charleston, 205 Calhoun St.
Crowds of students weave through the mountains of garbage piled in the middle of the College of Charleston campus. Flies buzz around the trash bags and discarded furniture. "This smells so foul," says a coed in oversized sunglasses as she dodges a filthy mattress and a plastic container packed with cigarette butts.
Some people grimace and rush past. Others stop to read the dozens of posters touting environmental facts such as: "To produce each week's Sunday paper, 500,000 trees will be cut down."
But one group of students stands in the middle of the heaps of trash, warily digging through bags full of rotten food and countless plastic containers in search of items that can be recycled.
New Media is ambitious in other ways, too. It's part of an experiment in cross-fertilization between the nonprofit Redux Contemporary Art Center and the College of Charleston, which held a conference on New Media Arts and visual/computational thinking at the Physicians Auditorium last weekend. The partnership certainly helps validate the out-there art of Redux, a young upstart of a gallery that celebrates its fifth birthday on Nov. 30.
Five years for any nonprofit is a true milestone. It's a particularly significant one for Redux, which was founded by a couple of CofC Studio Art students in order to meet demand for a progressive art in the heart of Charleston. Seth Curcio, executive director of Redux, believes the "raw, young energy" of founders Bob Snead and Seth Gadsden, and their successors, has helped to sustain the center.
Maryland associate athletic director Joe Hull was named AD at the College of Charleston. Hull has spent the past 10 years at Maryland. Before that he served several athletic fundraising, ticketing and marketing roles at North Carolina State from 1985 to 1997. While with the Terrapins' athletic department, Hull oversaw all fundraising efforts. He was also project manager for Comcast Center.
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- An associate athletic director from Maryland was picked as the College of Charleston AD on Tuesday.
The school announced that Joe Hull would fill the job left vacant since Jerry Baker's retirement this past summer.
Hull has spent the past 10 years at Maryland. Before that he served several athletic fundraising, ticketing and marketing roles at North Carolina State from 1985 to 1997.
CHARLESTON — Joe Hull hails from the epicenter of major college basketball programs.
At the College of Charleston, he’ll make do with less while striving for more.
Hull, senior associate athletics director at Maryland, on Tuesday was named successor to Jerry Baker as Charleston’s athletics director.
“Anybody in this profession has got a list of the right places they would be interest in, jobs they would be interested in,” Hull said. “Certainly, this place was on my list.”
"I was a partner in a law firm for three years and walked in and told my partners one day that I was 27 years old and if I kept doing what I was doing I was going to do it for the rest of my life," Hull said. "And there was something else that I really believed I wanted to do."
What seemed like a wild idea at the time came to fruition Tuesday when Hull was named director of athletics at the College of Charleston, replacing Jerry Baker who resigned from the job earlier this year.
Joe Hull was formally introduced as the College of Charleston's director of athletics Tuesday, and his hiring was greeted enthusiastically by the school's coaches and administrators.
"We had five very strong finalists," said College president George Benson. "Any one of the five could have done the job. We could have randomly selected from the five. That's the kind of job the search committee did. It was a pleasure to meet with all of them, but one individual rose to the top.
Joe Hull, a senior associate athletic director at Maryland, is the College of Charleston's choice to replace Jerry Baker as the Cougars' athletics director.
Hull will be introduced as the new athletic director at noon today at Randolph Hall on the College of Charleston campus, sources close to the search process told The Post and Courier.
Joe Hull, a senior associate athletic director at Maryland, is the College of Charleston's choice to replace Jerry Baker as the Cougars' athletics director.
Hull will be introduced as the new athletic director at noon today at Randolph Hall on the College of Charleston campus, sources close to the search process told The Post and Courier.
On Oct. 27, the orchestra, under the baton of Stahl, presented a remarkable and courageous Masterworks program at the Gaillard. It featured Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun," Bartok's "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta" and Beethoven's Triple Concerto, played by the College of Charleston's Enrique Graf (piano), Lee Chin Siow (violin) and Natalia Khoma (cello). The musicians played their guts out.
Listening to these favorites, I kept wondering: Maybe the sound wasn't very robust because the players are mostly so young, a little timid; perhaps the Debussy lacked articulation because the orchestra was under-rehearsed; maybe it took the first movement of the Beethoven for the solo parts to condense into a satisfying whole because of miscommunication.
Age: A lady never reveals her age ... let's just say I'm "of a certain age."
Residence: Mount Pleasant.
Family: Princess (15-year-old basset), Abby (6-year-old standard poodle), Rhett (3-year-old standard poodle). All of them love my cooking.
Occupation: Dean, School of Sciences and Mathematics at the College of Charleston.
Q: You say your mother was a "master" Southern cook. In what ways did she inspire you?
A: My mother taught me to experiment in the kitchen as well as in the laboratory — after all, much of cooking is just applied chemistry with a bit of magic added. She was an intuitive chef and knew how to combine ingredients for fabulous taste and texture.
Lee Irwin will explore "The Hermetic Art of Dreaming and World Soul Development" from 1 to 5 p.m. Nov. 24 at the Carolina Spiritual Science Center, 165B Metro Drive.
Irwin is chair of the Religious Studies Department at the College of Charleston and has studied world religions with an emphasis on topics such as American Indian religions, Western esotericism, and transpersonal religious experience, particularly dreams and visions.
The sellout luncheon crowd of 400 wanted to show Theodore S. Stern how important he has been and still is to this community. They pinned on buttons with his likeness, raised glasses of ice tea in tribute and overwhelmed him with words of praise and long applause.
The recipient of the Outstanding Individual Award at the National Philanthropy Day ceremony — sharing the spotlight with the business winner, Blackbaud — responded by telling the audience, "You feel good when you do good."
Ted Stern has made his indelible mark by practicing what he preaches.
The College of Charleston Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Richard Marcus, and the Charleston Community Band, under the direction of Jeffrey Hooven and Susan Dupuis, will give a combined concert 3 p.m. Nov. 18 at the Sottile Theatre, 44 George St.
The program will include selections from the standard wind-band repertoire, as well as a musical tribute to Earl Mays, well-known composer and arranger and director of bands at The Citadel 1967-84.
The concert is free. Donations are accepted. Call the College of Charleston Music Department at 953-5927.
The College of Charleston chapter of Americans for Informed Democracy will host a free youth leadership summit titled "SC Youth Voice/Youth Vote 2007-08" at 9 a.m. Nov. 17 in Physician's Auditorium on campus.
The youth leadership summit will bring together motivated students in South Carolina who want to affect global change with policy experts on climate change and energy use, human rights, nuclear weapons, poverty alleviation, trade, global health, and peace and security issues to discuss critical global issues.The summit also is designed to equip students with the information to develop questions for candidates, and provide young leaders with the training, equipment and networks to impact presidential campaign events.
The summit, sponsored by the national chapter of AID, is free. To register online, visit: www.aidemocracy.org/youthvote.php.
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston will host a lecture by John P. Jacob, co-curator of "Unconcerned But Not Indifferent: Works from the Archive of the Man Ray Trust," at 5 p.m. today on the second floor of the Gallery. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Art History and is free and open to the public.
Jacob's lecture will present an overview of the exhibition, which opened in Madrid in June 2007 and is touring in the European Union. Visit www.halsey.cofc.edu or contact the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at 953-5680.
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston's School of the Arts will host "John Hull & Barbara Duval: Works" through Dec. 7.
The Halsey Institute is in the Simons Center for the Arts at 54 St. Philip St.
Parking is available in the St. Philip Street or Wentworth Street garages.
Visit www.halsey.cofc.edu or call the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at 953-5680.
Two College of Charleston professors are among the top 10 out of more than a million who are rated on the widely popular Web site Ratemyprofessors.com.
Devon Hanahan, who teaches Spanish, ranked second. Martin Jones, who teaches math, came in sixth. Only one other South Carolina professor, David Cowles from Francis Marion University, made the site's first top 50 list.
Hanahan said making the list came as a surprise. But she's glad she's conveying her passion for the language. "I love what I do. I love teaching. I love my students," she said.
Students nationwide can anonymously rate professors on the site, which was launched in 1999. Or they can read comments on professors before registering for classes.
Once a year, students at the College of Charleston's School of the Arts get to examine the work of their professors — a couple of them, at least — when faculty members exhibit at the Halsey Institute. This time around it's the work of Barbara Duval (who teaches printmaking, painting, and drawing) and John Hull (SOTA's new chair and professor of painting) that's on display.
One of the Holy City’s most delightful (and often least heralded) resident musical entities is the College of Charleston’s early music ensemble, the Charleston Pro Musica. Directed by distinguished ancient music scholar and performer Steve Rosenberg (also Early Music Department Head), the group enjoys a well-deserved international reputation. It’s a variable and very flexible bunch whose repertoire encompasses a wide range of instrumental and vocal music from the Medieval era through the Baroque. They’re busiest during Piccolo Spoleto, when they perform repeatedly for the duration of the festival.
Reader Chip Biernbaum, professor emeritus of biology at the College of Charleston, has sent GMLc some information about his specialty — invertebrates, or "inverts," as he calls them.
Since these wiggly critters are down the food chain from us vertebrates, the world (other than the world of biology) pays little attention to them. We think that needs to change.
Biernbaum calls these "Oh! Gee Whiz!" facts. That pretty much sums up our reaction to them.
Couches. A light post. Human hair. Unidentifiable ooze that might have been vomit. Those were a few of the items littering the center of the College of Charleston campus Tuesday.
Students stepped around trash bags filled with Monday's garbage. Several covered their noses. Others tried not to gag as the aroma of old pizza and stale beer mixed with the scent of rotting cardboard and used bathroom products.
Pump prices are unusually high for this time of year; the biggest contributor tends to be supply and demand. For example, anything that effects oil production can drive the price up. “Hurricanes can affect supply and during Katrina it did and demand because people want more of it,” said College of Charleston Economics Professor Frank Hefner. He says there are no current problems with supply, making many wondering what is causing this spike in gas prices. “The speculative market and that is hitting us hard right now and the speculative market has really shot the price of oil up to 100 dollars a barrel which is unheard of,” said Hefner.
The universities range from the smallest liberal-arts schools like the College of Charleston to the mega-universities such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Violinist Lee-Chin Siow appeared before intermission, playing Max Bruch’s First Concerto. Lee-Chin’s notable artistry is founded on extremely clean technique bathed in shimmering tone, unhampered by fussy mannerisms. She let the music and the violin speak for themselves, and under her guidance, they spoke most eloquently.
Archaeologist John H. Jameson Jr. of the National Park Service will speak Thursday at 7 p.m. at College of Charleston's Simons Center for the Arts, Room 309. His topic, "The Challenges of Heritage Tourism," is germane to ongoing discussions all around town on how to present Lowcountry and Charleston history. And it's free.
On Nov. 15, Dr. Theodore S. Stern will be honored with the Outstanding Individual Award by the Association of Fundraising Professionals for his philanthropic contributions to our community.
As the 16th president of the College of Charleston, Ted Stern transitioned the small liberal arts institution from a private to state institution. He helped create the College of Charleston Foundation in 1970 to protect the College's private assets as it made the transition. Now, 37 years later, the College of Charleston Foundation provided $1.6 million for scholarships and $2.3 million for programs, facilities and services for 2006.
GREGORY D. PADGETT
Class of 1979
President, College of Charleston Foundation Board
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Two pre-eminent Charleston musicians have come together to help one of the area's iconic institutions get back in touch with itself.
Alphonse Mouzon and Quentin Baxter, both percussionists, will join forces on stage Nov. 18 to benefit the 116-year-old Jenkins Orphanage, now the Jenkins Institute for Children.
Baxter, who is also an adjunct professor of music at the College of Charleston, spoke about his and Mouzon's style one evening last week at FIG restaurant. He had a meeting there shortly before his regular gig at Charleston Grill, but there was casual conversation, too. The historical nature of the Nov. 18 event struck him the most, though.
College of Charleston sociologist Heath Hoffmann agrees that the most effective way of dealing with juvenile crime and misbehavior involves a mix of family, mentors, peers and sanctions. Kids can't shoulder all the blame, but neither can schools.
"The uncomfortable answer is there is only so much we can do, so much we can prevent, so much we can control," Hoffman said. "Schools are damned if they do and damned if they don't."
Russian-born pianist Jan Rautio will perform in the College of Charleston's International Piano Series at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Sottile Theatre, 44 George St.
Rautio began his musical education at the Gnesin School of Music in Moscow and won scholarships to the Royal College and Royal Academy of Music in London, where he finished his studies in 2001 with top honors..
On a recent afternoon, College of Charleston graduate student researcher Jen Fountain catalogued striped bass DNA samples in what she teased is "the Chapman Lab," where the in-joke is to give the various machines names like "Calamity Jane" and the storage refrigerators and freezers are named for the seven dwarfs. No, the fellowship doesn't surprise her. "He's as good as he says he is," she said with a teasing smile. "He's one of the most brilliant people I've ever met."
Educators nationwide are hooked, too - on the school's test scores
UCLA called two weeks ago. The University of Arkansas at Little Rock recently sent two representatives to check out the school at 42nd and Spruce streets. The College of Charleston and Howard University, in the nation's capital, have also been in touch.
As reported last week by Tony Bartelme in the Charleston, S.C. paper The Post and Courier, biologist David Owens and his studens at the College of Charleston have been taking blood samples and shell scrapings of turtles along the Eastern seaboard; they've discovered that "sea turtles captured near the mouths of rivers had higher mercury levels than those caught offshore. In estuaries they discovered that turtles near coal-fired power plants and other industrial sites also had elevated mercury levels."
"Many times when we try to organize things for earthquake awareness, hurricanes tend to interrupt it," said Norman Levine, an assistant professor in the college's geology department.
South Carolina is not as well-known as California for earthquakes, but the state actually experiences between two to five small temblors a year, according to Steve Jaume, an associate geology professor at the college.
A small quake that occurs in the Lowcountry actually is felt more than a smaller quake that happens in California because the ground here is softer, which amplifies the waves, said Dr. Erin Beutel, an associate professor of geology at the college.
Comcast of Charleston will give the Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston an $11,000 grant to fund the Avery Scholars' Program and the Summer African American History Camps.
He is the Southerner in the race,” said College of Charleston political scientist Bill Moore. “If he loses in South Carolina, his campaign is going to be pretty much over.”
Six Upstate World War II veterans are featured in an exhibit opening Nov. 12 at the College of Charleston. "Through Their Eyes-WWII Concentration Camp Liberation As Seen By American GIs" honors veterans who witnessed conditions in German concentration camps in the spring of 1945. Also honored are veterans whose military units participated in the follow-up to liberation.
Whether the pool is a "long course" or "short course," College of Charleston philosophy professor Hugh Wilder is among the best backstroke swimmers in his age group division in the world.
Over the weekend, Wilder added to his growing list of masters world swimming records, setting two more at the South Carolina Short-Course Meters Championship in Columbia, for the male age group of 60-64.
"The princess myth takes hold early, " says Laura Turner, director of the College of Charleston's production of The Ash Girl, a retelling of the Cinderella story by Timberlake Wertenbaker. "My daughter's Pull-ups have Cinderella and a carriage on the front, a pumpkin and a castle on the back. By age two, both daughters knew the princess stories well, and how they must end. In fact, they knew all the princesses by sight."
Not every contributor falls into this young, up-and-comers category. The show features a few more established artists, though you won't find any marshscapes among their works. French-born Bea Aaronson, a multimedia artist and professor at the College of Charleston, is involved in the show, as is surrealist painter Peter Scala. Fred Jamar, a native Belgian featured on the cover of City Paper's 2005 Fall Arts Guide, presents his colorful landscape paintings with distinctive deep-blue skies and his "bubble trees."
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The College of Charleston is now the national home of the Afterschool and Community Learning Network. Along with the new Network, the College also recently received a $450,000 four-year grant from the CS Mott Foundation to support the program.
The Afterschool and Community Learning Network helps mayors, legislators, and local, state and national organizations across America to develop strategies, policies, and partnerships to expand the availability and quality of after school and community learning centers for more children and families.
"He's much better organized than the other candidates, and his people are more likely to turn out," said Bill Moore, a College of Charleston political science professor.
Griffin Allison didn't even consider leaving the area after he graduated from the College of Charleston in 2002.
He grew up here and graduated from Bishop England High School in 1997. "I knew this is where I wanted to end up," he said, "so it would help to start setting up my network early."
“(Most of) the other candidates simply haven’t been putting the money into media yet,” said College of Charleston political scientist Bill Moore. Giuliani and Thompson, he said, “have the upside” to win over more voters.
Britt Hunt is owner of Comunicar Language Service, a language services company. As part of that, Hunt works as a courtroom translator and interpreter. He spoke with the Columbia Business Journal about the job of a courtroom interpreter.
WHAT EDUCATION DO YOU NEED?Hunt said around 35 states have certification processes for interpreters; South Carolina isn’t one of them. “S.C. doesn’t require licenses, but Georgia and North Carolina both require licenses.”
“There is a lot of training you go through, learning legal terminology, and technique as well.” Hunt said the College of Charleston offers a masters degree in language interpretation.
Gullah is a culture that must be learned about through experiencing it. Gullah food, Gullah language and Gullah culture are about more than simple sightseeing and those so-called historical tours offered throughout the Southeast. Gullah is a feeling and a taste of the real history and the beauty of the people responsible for true Southern culture and cuisine. Check out museums like the Avery Research Center for African-American History and Culture and the College of Charleston as well as visiting authentic Gullah communities in Wadmalaw and St. Helena Islands.
A three-rabbi panel organized by the College of Charleston's Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program will tackle issues concerning the revelation at Sinai.
A retelling of the classic "Cinderella," Timberlake Wertenbaker's "The Ash Girl" opens Thursday at the College of Charleston's Robinson Theatre.
Presented by the college's department of theater, "The Ash Girl" will be directed by Laura Turner, associate professor of theater at the college, where she teaches theater for youth.
I have waited a long time to read the first book of poems by College of Charleston associate professor of English Carol Ann Davis.
Davis was the runner-up for the esteemed Dorset Prize offered by Tupelo Press, and her book "Psalm" was released by this well-known literary publisher. It is the best first collection of poems I have ever read. Each poem is its own exquisite reliquary, and the poems require the kind of reverence one associates with a reliquary.
The way Frances Welch sees things, if it makes sense for a nation to have national health care standards, shouldn't it have national education standards, too?
As dean of the College of Charleston's School of Education, Health and Human Performance, she said the lack of national standards is part of the problem with South Carolina's schools, especially those found in the poorer, rural Interstate 95 corridor known as the "Corridor of Shame."
"I think we should have national standards about (school) buildings. That's part of the problem in the Corridor of Shame, not to mention the curriculum and the quality of the teachers," she said.
Other school districts and colleges also are looking into similar instant notification systems, including the College of Charleston, which announced in October that it plans to buy a $30,000 emergency communication system.
Terrapins, a common turtle found in coastal estuaries, "are homebodies," said David Owens, a College of Charleston biology professor working on the research. "In their lifetime, they might stay in a few acres of water. So when you get a terrapin, it becomes a signature for what's going on in that spot."
“He can win without (the gay vote),” said Jeri Cabot, an adjunct political science professor at the College of Charleston.
PARIS, FRANCE - "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.
Thursday night, members of the College of Charleston chapter of the Tri Delta Sorority held a candlelight vigil on the front steps of the sorority house to honor the seven South Carolina college students who died in the Ocean Isle, NC beach house fire last weekend.
The Tri Delta chapter at the College of Charleston paid their respects to three sisters lost in the Ocean Isle Beach Fire. It was also a time for students to remember all seven fire victims during a candlelight vigil.
Hundreds with the College of Charleston Chapter of Delta Delta Delta planted a tree. The palm tree is in honor of the one Clemson University and six University of South Carolina students killed in a beach house fire.
Three of the girls who died, including Cassidy Pendley, were members of the sorority.
Frank Hefner of the College of Charleston said that Charleston builders have mostly corrected for the glut of new houses of the past few years and that home construction could pick up again in the middle of 2008. In addition, Hefner said the economic slowdown will not mean unemployment across the state.
“This is going to be a jobful recession,” Hefner said.
College of Charleston political science professor Bill Moore said Mallard's political mailing is a negative campaign tactic known as a "push poll." Push polls appear to be surveys, and typically ask readers to choose responses to negative statements about the candidate's opponent.