Archive | August, 2010

Linda Gradstein, a journalist who reports for Public Radio International’s The World, AOL News and Slate magazine, has been named the first Norman and Gerry Sue Arnold Distinguished Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston. She will join the Jewish Studies faculty for the fall semester. The visiting chair is meant to […]

“Every time you think you’ve turned the corner, there’s another risk factor looming out there,” said Frank Hefner, director of the office of economic analysis at the College of Charleston. Buyers cash in on Grand Strand real estate A s the Grand Strand real estate market recovers from its collapse, what used to be the […]

Some other protective measures, like the ones taken at the College of Charleston, make it harder for the bugs to get a foothold. Randy Beaver, the College of Charleston’s director of environmental health and safety, says his office investigates a room whenever a student thinks he has bedbugs. In the three years he’s been in […]

To put that in perspective, one’s odds of winning the big prize are not much improved by actually buying a ticket, economist Doug Walker said. He is an associate professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Walker said some, but not all, state lotteries are faring better than other forms of gambling in […]

This week, the National Council of Churches was scheduled to hold a symposium called “Language Matters” in Chicago. The meeting was inspired at least in part by the perception that “the use of gender-inclusive language throughout our NCC member communion churches has declined,” the council noted in a news release last week. The news was […]

In recent days, there have been several media reports on the increase in tuition at South Carolina public universities, including the College of Charleston. We welcome public scrutiny and careful examination of our tuition policies. However, because some recent articles about the College have been incomplete, I am writing to set the record straight. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/aug/13/variety-of-needs-caused-c-of-cs-tuition-hike/

Lindsey Barr, health educator at the College of Charleston, agrees, noting that there is even peer pressure to be healthy. “It’s become hip to do yoga, be vegetarian and eat locally grown food,” she says. Barr says the college’s newsletter, Holistic Healer, (which has a Facebook page) seeks to further encourage “the understanding between the […]

Holocaust scholar Theodore Rosengarten, who teaches courses on the subject at the College of Charleston, explains this ingrained way of thinking: “The survival of every individual depends on the survival of the group, and the survival of the group is (always) in question.” http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/aug/08/familys-quest-is-holocaust-education/

Patti Goff leaned over the pool table, looked down the line of her custom-made cue stick, and calmly slammed the 8-ball into the corner pocket. “I’ve been shooting pool since 1999,” said Goff, who serves as Judge Alex Sanders’ assistant at the College of Charleston by day. “A friend brought me to this pool room […]

Bringing the Bard’s tribute to young love up to the present, playwright Joe Calarco‘s “Shakespeare’s R and J,” an adaptation performed off-Broadway in 1998 and in such far-flung locations as London and Tokyo, opens Friday as a production of the College of Charleston’s theater department. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2010/aug/08/r-and-j-a-modern-take-on-bard-classic/