9 04, 2012

Racist past haunts Florida town where Trayvon died – Chicago Tribune

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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

9 04, 2012

Email Threats Like Those at Pitt called Virtually Impossible to Trace – Pittsburgh Post

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"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."  

9 04, 2012

Famed Angel Oak threatened, judge told – The State

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An expert witness Armstrong called to court said the development could alter the groundwater flow and hurt the Angel Oak. The project also could hurt the Angel Oak because the tree’s root system is interrelated with that of a nearby forest that will be cleared for the project, said College of Charleston biology professor Jean

9 04, 2012

Princeton Review recognizes S.C. professors – Charleston Business Journal

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The Princeton Review honored several South Carolina professors, including two from the College of Charleston, in its list of the 300 best professors. The Princeton Review partnered with RateMyProfessors.com and identified more than 42,000 professors who had been rated by students on the website. The publication combined that data with its own surveys to create

9 04, 2012

Don’t blame the faculty (op/ed)- Charleston Post and Courier

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In an opinion essay published recently in The Washington Post , former university chancellor David C. Levy placed much of the blame for rising college costs on college faculty and, in particular, on the professors who teach at public universities like the College of Charleston. According to Levy, those professors need to work harder to

9 04, 2012

C of C committee approves diversity plan – Charleston Post and Courier

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 College of Charleston sophomore Denzell Moton is comfortable being one of a small number of black students at the downtown school. He grew up in a racially mixed environment, and attended a predominantly white high school in Aiken. But he knows that for some other black students, fitting in and feeling at home is a