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College of Charleston Announces $60 Million Gift
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3 Oct 2008 at 8:00am
The College of Charleston announced today that businessman Guy E. Beatty, Jr., will give $60 million dollars to the College of Charleston as part of an estate trust. This gift is the largest single donation to a South Carolina public institution of higher education. Under the agreement, the College of Charleston will receive $2 million a year for 30 years from a trust Mr. Beatty set up in his estate. Beatty has requested that $1 million per year be used for scholarships and $1 million a year for buildings and infrastructure.
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Added: October 3, 2008
Over the Summer: Professor Joyce Barrett
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3 Oct 2008 at 7:32am
Joyce Barrett, Department of Communication and globe-trotting journalist, was in the Republic of Georgia when a conflict broke out with Russia. Hear about her experience and how she brings it to the classroom.
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Keywords: College of Charleston Russia Georgia Georgian conflict liberal arts public university South Carolina
Added: October 3, 2008
Over the Summer: Novelist Bret Lott
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3 Oct 2008 at 7:25am
Bret Lott, Department of English and best-selling author, traveled the country promoting his new novel. Here, he recounts some of the journey.
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Added: October 3, 2008
Dining Services Goes Green
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29 Sep 2008 at 1:23pm
College of Charleston's Dining Services has made several changes to improve the College's carbon footprint -- see what they are!
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Keywords: College of Charleston South Carolina liberal arts public university
Added: September 29, 2008
Georgestock at the College of Charleston
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17 Sep 2008 at 6:51am
Check out the first-ever Georgestock, a kick-off festival for all College of Charleston students held on George Street in the center of campus.
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Keywords: College of Charleston public college university liberal arts South Carolina students street festival
Added: September 17, 2008
Call for Entries I
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4 Sep 2008 at 1:46pm
my College of Charleston Video Contest Call for Entries I
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Added: September 4, 2008
Move In Day at the College of Charleston
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4 Sep 2008 at 10:50am
More than 3,400 students moved into 30 historic homes and more than a dozen residence halls for the Fall 2008 semester at the College of Charleston. Check out what they have to say about moving in the rain!
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Keywords: College of Charleston Move Moving Day Freshmen Freshman Experience First Year SC South Carolina Public University
Added: September 4, 2008
New Student Convocation
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4 Sep 2008 at 8:47am
The College of Charleston welcomed new students with a convocation ceremony featuring Dava Sobel, author of this year's convocation book, Longitude. Find out how she got the idea for the book and her advice for the new students.
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Keywords: College of Charleston Dava Sobel Convocation Longitude freshman experience Public university SC South Carolina
Added: September 4, 2008
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4 Sep 2008 at 7:43am
Call for Entries Video 1
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Added: September 4, 2008
College of Charleston Professor in Georgia During Fighting
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2 Sep 2008 at 10:56am
Joyce Barrett, Department of Communication faculty member, was in the Republic of Georgia when fighting broke out in early August. She gives her perspective on the conflict.
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Keywords: "College of Charleston" Republic Georgia Russian conflict Communication professor Charleston
Added: September 2, 2008
College of Charleston Alum and NBA Veteran Hosts Camp
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4 Aug 2008 at 6:26am
NBA Veteran Anthony Johnson returns to the College of Charleston to host a basketball camp for 5-14 year-olds. He explains why and what makes the College special and why he comes back.
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Keywords: College of Charleston cofc NBA Anthony Johnson Basketball
Added: August 4, 2008
Essay Winner Meets Toni Morrison
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23 Jul 2008 at 11:18am
Author Toni Morrison reads from her new novel, A Mercy, on the College campus and Jasmine Campbell, a senior at Burke High School, will get to meet the author. Campbell won the College's "My Life as a Girl" essay contest where she wrote a reaction to Morrison's "The Bluest Eye."
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Keywords: College of Charleston Burke High School "My Life as Girl" Toni Morrison "The Bluest Eyes"
Added: July 23, 2008
College of Charleston Orientation I
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18 Jul 2008 at 6:40am
Check out the College of Charleston's two-day orientation for incoming Freshmen and their families. During orientation, students and families make connections to each other, the faculty and the campus -- learning everything from how to register for classes to navigating the hundreds of choices at Liberty Street Fresh Food Company.
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Added: July 18, 2008
College of Charleston Orientation II
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10 Jul 2008 at 12:23pm
Get a quick glimpse into the two-day orientation for incoming Freshmen and their families. This could be you! Visit www.cofc.edu/admissions for more information.
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Added: July 10, 2008
Welcome to the College of Charleston
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26 Jun 2008 at 9:15am
This is one of the most exciting and distinctive places on the planet to live and study, a place where the past and future influence life every day. The College of Charleston doesn't feel like any other college. Here, rows of live oak trees draped with Spanish moss frame the brick walkways of the main campus. Our students quickly learn that the College is inextricably woven into to the beautiful and historic City of Charleston, which becomes a cherished part of their lives. Founded in 1770, the College of Charleston is the oldest institution of higher education south of Virginia and the 13th oldest in the United States. The College has earned a reputation for excellence in the liberal arts and sciences throughout its 230-year history, and this remarkable tradition provides a strong foundation for 21st century learning. Here you'll find extraordinary opportunities for study that are rigorous and rewarding, guided by faculty who love to teach and get to know their students. In addition to offering a broad range of undergraduate degree programs, we provide 17 master's degree programs to give our students a solid education in specialized fields of scholarship. We also offer an extensive array of educational opportunities and cultural activities for residents of the Lowcountry, the region, and the state. And we have a wide range of recreational activities, such as popular intramural program, more than 150 student organizations, and successful NCAA Division I athletics teams. If you are a prospective student, or parent, come visit the campus to see for yourself why this university is like no other. In the meantime, take a few minutes to browse through our website. Make the College of Charleston your gateway to exceptional opportunities.
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Added: June 26, 2008
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by Pat Conroy
Amazon Price: $10.20
Customer Review: In My Losing Season Pat Conroy chronicles his painful senior year playing basketball for the Citadel Bulldogs. Though Conroy's timeframe is limited to one year, this memoir melds the past with the present to bring reflection and perspective to the memories. The title forecasts a negative experience--on the court, with his team, and with life in general. It was a losing season. But a losing season may not be as downbeat as it initially appears. It's possible a losing season may be an opportunity for growth. That is Conroy's conclusion, but not the original story.
The year was negative for Conroy; so negative he forgot many of the details. He used newspaper accounts of the games, and interviews with the other players to recall events. He found that his depressing experience was equally as depressing for many of the other players. Conroy shares his interviews with the reader--interviews with his middle aged teammates.
Ostensibly Conroy divides chapters into wins and loses of the season, but the games are only an excuse for him to delve into the personalities on the team pitted against the callous behavior of their coach Mel Thompson. Why was Thompson so heartless? Conroy and his team mates try to understand. Conroy uses dialogue and descriptive body language to describe the coach and the players. His writing is so clear it puts readers into the action and emotion of the sweaty young men.
The Losing Season goes beyond Conroy's life and becomes a joint memoir of a team of players. The story takes place during the Viet Nam War era in a military academy where athletes were not valued. None of the men had wanted to revisit the losing season, but once Conroy began the process they had an opportunity to examine what had happened, and try to make sense of a difficult time. These old men confess to each other. They absolve each other. They annoy each other.
In his interview with Al Kroboth, the one Conroy says he feared the most, Conroy, who did not deploy to Viet Nam but demonstrated publicly against the war, listens to Kroboth's story. Kroboth recounts his capture, humiliation and torture by Viet Cong. The two men and Kroboth's wife cry together. Conroy acknowledges his shame for not fighting in the war. He says he should have protested only after fighting for the country. He calls Kroboth a hero. He said he now knew the country was good enough to fight for.
Conroy's chapte...
by Ileana Strauch, Katina Strauch
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by Melanie Murray
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by Sigmund Brouwer
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Customer Review: When PI Kellie Mixson is involved in a serious car crash, she asks her friend Nick Barrett to help her close out a case. She's currently investigating the 25 year old disappearance of Victoria Sebastian, a former beauty queen who vanished with her infant daughter one night. The police had given up the search years earlier, and the only fresh clue is a phone call that says Victoria's disappearance is linked to some bodies recently found in a crawl space.
The bodies are interesting. The few who have been identified had also vanished without a trace. But some of the bones are 100 years old, some are 25 years old, and some are in between. Yet all appear to have died in an identical manner.
So what is the connection between these bodies and Victoria? Is she one of them? And will Nick uncover what put Kellie in the hospital?
This being a Sigmund Brouwer book, I went in with high expectations. And they were met. The plot pealed back like an onion, with each layer only leaving me with more questions. Nick is a very real character, and his musings on life and death are just as interesting as the story unfolding for us. Not that they slow things down at all. Angel and Maddie, two characters from the last book, are back as well, and they provide some much needed light in the dark story.
Every time I read one of Sigmund's books, I am reminded just how great a storyteller he is. If you enjoy a good yarn, pick up this series.
by David S. Shields
Amazon Price: $27.50
Customer Review: David Shields' Civil Tongues and Polite Letters traces the development of the concept of civility as evidenced by the formation of social rites and their corresponding literatures in British America. Shields argues that just as Americans developed their political and legal traditions to accord with traditional British values, they also defined their concept of civility and genteel culture from metropolitan European ideals of fashionability. He explains that these socially acceptable forms of public discourse originated in the taverns and coffeehouses of 17th century England as the bourgeoisie and minor aristocracy came to replace the courts of nobility in dictating desirable behavior. The valuation placed upon politeness, gentility, and especially wit remained hallmarks of upper and middle class society throughout the development of colonial culture in the 18th century, and served to unite colonists in an otherwise still developing society while it provided a means by which to discuss their differences as well.
Using the letters, poetry, and published essays of the new gentility, Shields begins his study in the male dominated taverns and coffeehouses of early 17th century England, where merchants, professionals, and landowners congregated to discuss business and engage in pleasurable diversions. By mid-century, these social gatherings had expanded to include upper class women as their locales shifted to include more fashionable spas. The pretentiousness, licentiousness, and irreligious nature of spa culture came under attack by conservative observers in the 1690s, but even critics of the bourgeoisie employed the same literary techniques to express their disapproval. Similar literary cultural sparring was carried on between Quakers and socialites in Pennsylvania, "sensible" women and misogynistic critics of feminine culture, college students, and political rivals in the colonies. Indeed, perfection of literary graces became the ticket to social inclusion throughout the metropolitan cities of the New World, and even as society divided into clubs and associations of specialized interests, the upper classes were all marked by the same concepts of civility.
As a professor of English, Shields' work is heavily marked by literary interpretation unusual to more standardized histories, which may prove frustrating to some historians. Nonetheless, he has clearly shown that the culture of politeness was critical as an American institution, especially in t...
by Ed Macy, Geordie Buxton
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Entertaining at the College of Charleston
by Zoe D. Sanders
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Customer Review: Mrs. Sanders has written a wonderful cookbook about the many meals she serves as the wife of President Sanders at the College of Charleston. Her insights and quick, creative recipes make entertaining the South Carolina way much more fun. The book, which was printed to fund College of Charleston scholarships, is a must have for any serious entertainer. I reccommend it for those interested in Charleston style and for any parent, student, alumni, or friend of the College of Charleston. It's a great way to get entertaining tips as well as help fund higher education.
by Melanie Murray
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by Pat Conroy
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Customer Review: Although I'm not a basketball player or even a sports fan, I couldn't put this book down. The book is really about the coming of age of a young man, as seen through the experience of an intense basketball season at a military academy. The writing is full of wonderful metaphors, and smooth and easy to read. The emotional journey--like other Conroy books--is intense. The difference here is that the experience is so real. He's describing real people, and the narrator is Conroy himself. The depiction of what goes on at The Citadel may shock you with its brutality. Its amazing that Conroy can recreate his senior year in college so clearly thirty years later. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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