Archive | January, 2011

They gathered on a rainy night, smart phones, pizza and sodas in hand, to watch President Barack Obama and reflect on the State of the Union. You might call it pizza and the prez as about a dozen students from the College of Charleston gathered in a spacious meeting room on the campus for a […]

Governor Haley’s future working class looked for the good and the bad in her first State of the State address. The students in Kendra Stewart’s graduate level political science class discussed what they heard, what they didn’t hear and what South Carolina needs to hear more of. http://www2.counton2.com/news/2011/jan/20/governor-haleys-future-working-class-reacts-state–ar-1366285/

College student Josh Schmidt dismissed all the talk of newfound civility. He gathered with about a dozen other students in a meeting room at the College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C., to eat pizza and take in the president’s speech. The 19-year-old said this so-called new spirit of compromise, if it really exists, wouldn’t last […]

A newly donated copy of the College of Charleston’s first yearbook makes one thing perfectly clear: The all-male student body in 1917 liked to have a good time. Receiving a suede-covered copy of “The Maroon and White” was a boon for the college, said Karen Jones, director of alumni communication. The school had only one […]

Mark Sloan, exhibition curator and director/senior curator of the Halsey, is “attracted to the conceptual idea” of the multilayered pieces. “They’re visually stunning to see in person,” he says. “They’re colorful, but it’s also really powerful to stand near them. Some of them look like candy or ooze from the center of the earth.” http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/digging-into-leslie-waynes-multi-layered-works/Content?oid=2869527

Gifts from the community continued pouring in. The College of Charleston presented the family with five full scholarships for the kids, who range in age from 16 years to 16 months. http://www2.wsav.com/news/2011/jan/19/beaufort-family-speaks-after-big-extreme-makeover–ar-1362685/

In addition to the home and car they received, the Dickinson’s got a slew of other gifts, including a full scholarship for each child to go to the College of Charleston. http://www.thecoastalsource.com/content/features/extrememakeover/story/Beaufort-Extreme-Makeover-Family-Reacts-to-New-Hom/_oq_XdIh30u3pO84FZG6Jw.cspx

College President George Benson told the family Tuesday at the unveiling of its new home that the college was awarding the children the scholarships. All the children have to do is qualify for acceptance at the college. http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/jan/20/5-siblings-get-scholarships/

But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, according to Brian McGee, a communications professor at the College of Charleston. “Getting to over $800 million of specific cuts is going to take a great deal of work, and I think it would be very challenging to ask the governor in a brief speech to put forward […]

Instead of sleeping in on their day off of school, nearly 200 College of Charleston students and staff headed out into the community to give others a helping hand in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Dr. King was an activist, he didn’t believe in a lot of talking, as he said, paralysis through […]