Last year, someone broke into the Cannon Street home of Martin Jones, but it wasn’t a big deal to the popular College of Charleston math professor. “The guy, I assume it was a guy, smashed the door down, turned on a light, looked around — there was no TV, no stereo, no computer, there was […]
Archive | April, 2012
C of C professor talks shop- Charleston Post and Courier
I’ve quietly watched Herb Parker’s career over the past few years and must say I’m so impressed by this sculpture professor who teaches at the College of Charleston. He has done amazing things throughout the world. Karen Ann Myers of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art said, “Parker has participated in over 50 site-specific installations […]
Two CofC students are gunning for seats in the Statehouse- Charleston City Paper
For his first interview as a candidate for S.C. House District 111, Will Freeman chooses to meet in a quiet upstairs alcove at the Stern Center, the College of Charleston’s student union. He arrives sharply dressed in a navy blazer and khakis, takes a seat, and readily rattles off a list of reasons why he […]
Santee Experimental Forest laboratory in the Francis Marion National Forest an important link to coastal research_ Charleston Post and Courier
“The model provided the reference,” said Phil Dustan, a College of Charleston biologist who worked on the study. “The study showed that what comes out of urban watersheds (is) a lot more nutrients, more pollution,” he said. http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120416/PC16/120419482&slId=6
Chris Lamb: Even baseball legend treated poorly in Sanford- South Florida Sun Sentinel
Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. A year earlier, he went to Sanford as a prospect with the Montreal Royals, Brooklyn’s top minor league team. He made the Montreal roster and played that season with the team. Robinson was then promoted to the big leagues, where he […]
Helping bust baseball bigotry- New York Daily News
The campaign to integrate baseball, which culminated 65 years ago today with Jackie Robinson taking the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers for the first time, is often portrayed as a lonely struggle waged by Robinson and a few allies. Lamb, a professor at the College of Charleston, is author of “Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and […]
Catcher’s Tears Were a Likely Inspiration for Rickey- New York Times
The Montreal Royals, the top minor league team in the Brooklyn Dodgers organization, broke baseball’s color line on Oct. 23, 1945, by signing shortstop Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro leagues. The Associated Press reported that the Dodgers’ president, Branch Rickey, said he had given a lot of thought to discrimination […]
Column: Robinson deserves more than one day- USA TODAY
Sunday is Jackie Robinson Day in major league ballparks, where the ballplayer and his legacy will be remembered with tributes and testimonials. All big-league players will wear Robinson’s number 42 on their backs, the only number in sports retired in perpetuity. Chris Lamb is a professor of communication at the College of Charleston and the […]
Racist past haunts Florida town where Trayvon died- Chicago Tribune
It was 1946 and Robinson arrived in this picturesque town in central Florida for spring training with a Brooklyn Dodgers farm team. He didn’t stay long. Robinson was forced to leave Sanford twice, according to Chris Lamb, a professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, who wrote a graphic account of Robinson’s brush […]
Email Threats Like Those at Pitt called Virtually Impossible to Trace- Pittsburgh Post
“There’s no cookie-cutter approach to how you respond to a bomb threat,” said Paul V. Verrecchia, chief of police for the College of Charleston in South Carolina and president of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators. “You’ve got to go with your gut instinct and experience.”