Archive | January, 2012

Politicians choosing to give Las Vegas a run for its gambling revenues might find now is a good time to push the concept, an economics professor said. “People want jobs and they don’t want higher taxes. Legalizing casinos can be argued to create jobs and tax revenues,” said Douglas Walker at South Carolina’s College of […]

Aaisha Haykal sorted through boxes of decades-old historical NAACP papers dealing with the Confederate flag, education and police brutality. Haykal, 24, an archivist and scholar working at the College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture is organizing the papers of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and […]

 Colbert found a clever way around the ballot barrier he faced in South Carolina — a state who does not allow write-ins in their presidential primary — and teamed up with former GOP candidate Herman Cain. The two appeared together at Colbert’s “Rock Me Like A Herman Cain: The South Cain-olina Primary Rally” at the […]

The two even appeared together at Friday’s “Rock Me Like a Herman Cain South Cain-olina Primary Rally,” an event where Colbert once again drew attention to his favorite issue, the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling. “If corporations are people, people with the constitutional right to influence our elections, then I promise you: […]

 Cain and Colbert appeared together Friday at the College of Charleston in front of a mostly liberal crowd. While Cain was generally treated respectfully, when he mentioned that folks should consider joining the Tea Party movement, he was treated with groans from the crowd, according to reports. Despite that, he considered the experience a good […]

One of the women in the movie trailer says, “You can’t be what you can’t see.” The film looks at how women are represented across the media. It’s not a very flattering portrait. “There are real double standards and certainly the election process makes that clear,” said Alison Piepmeier, director of the college’s women’s and […]

Moreover, men don’t possess the same coping mechanisms as women do, said George Dickinson, professor of sociology at the College of Charleston and author of “Understanding Dying, Death, and Bereavement.” “For men of Mr. Paterno’s generation, work was everything, and after retirement they don’t really know what to do with themselves,” he said, noting that […]

Over dinner on R.V. Calypso while anchored on the lee side of Glover’s Reef in Belize, Jacques Cousteau told Phil Dustan that he suspected humans were having a negative impact on coral reefs. Dustan—a young ocean ecologist who had worked in the lush coral reefs of the Caribbean and Sinai Peninsula—found this difficult to believe. […]

 Christopher Starr, chairman of the computer science department at the College of Charleston, remembers the days before Blackbaud. At the beginning of his 25-year career at the college, most of his graduates left town for jobs.  http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2012/jan/29/keeping-tech-talent-in-town/

John Allison’s talk is part of the College of Charleston BB&T Free Market Process Speaker Series. It will be held Feb. 9 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Wachovia Auditorium at 5 Liberty St. in downtown Charleston. The title of the talk is: “The Practical Impact of the Federal Reserve on Decision Making in Large […]