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7 09, 2011

“City of Broken Dreams” by Owen Evans ’03

By |2011-09-07T11:58:29-04:00September 7, 2011|College of Charleston Magazine|1 Comment

Home base: Brooklyn, N.Y. Life from 9 to 5: โ€œCurrently, my duties are split between writing and recording and waiting tables in Manhattan.โ€ Songwriting process: โ€œI typically start with an idea like a chord progression or a melody or both, and fiddle with it until a structure takes shape. I try to couple a classical

18 03, 2011

Lost and Found

By |2011-03-18T14:11:05-04:00March 18, 2011|College of Charleston Magazine|Comments Off on Lost and Found

When Goose Creek planter John Mackenzie donated his substantial library to the College in 1771, there was just one hitch: The College didnโ€™t yet exist. Sure, it had been founded a year earlier, but the College was still without a few critical components, namely students, buildings and books. Mackenzie, however, reasoned he could help resolve

18 03, 2011

Western Exposure

By |2011-03-18T14:10:48-04:00March 18, 2011|College of Charleston Magazine|Comments Off on Western Exposure

It may not have been the first to head west in hopes of striking gold, but โ€“ as far as we can tell โ€“ the Collegeโ€™s Gold Rush Tour was the first traveling admissions team to take college recruitment quite this far. With stops in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, Phoenix,

18 03, 2011

Giving to the Extreme

By |2011-03-18T14:10:18-04:00March 18, 2011|College of Charleston Magazine|Comments Off on Giving to the Extreme

A frenzied crowd wearing bright blue T-shirts and white construction hats leaned forward on barricades chanting, โ€œmove that bus.โ€ Camera operators and production assistants raced up and down the lines filming the cheering faces, finally settling on the Dickinson family. The Dickinsons, wiping tears from their eyes, had just been reunited through satellite uplink with