Academic Affairs Staffer Clara Hodges Goes the Extra Mile
You don’t drive 75 miles to get to a job you don’t like – a job you don’t believe in, a job you don’t absolutely love. And Clara Hodges certainly does.
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King Street is One of America’s 10 Great Streets: College Urban Studies Experts Explain Why
Having a "great street" right next to campus is, well, great. Professors and students explain the "why" behind the street's charm.
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10, 2014
Turtles to the rescue: S.C. Aquarium plans new hospital, exhibit space
Fourteen years ago, biologist David Owens stood with two veterinarians around a makeshift table in the caverns of the still- not-opened South Carolina Aquarium, trying to figure out where to make the first cut to operate on a dying young sea turtle. When Owens, a College of Charleston professor, stood over that turtle in 2000,
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Rand Paul: ‘I am not opposed to birth control’
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was asked about the matter during an appearance at the College of Charleston, one stop on a day-long college tour of South Carolina. Read more of the CNN story.
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Econoblogger Chris Martenson Presents “Red, White, and Screwed”
Martenson, one of the early econobloggers who forecast the housing market collapse and stock market correction years in advance, will speaking at the College on October 22, 2014.
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4 Regional Sustainability Initiatives Featured in Online Magazine
The summer issue of "Synergies," published by the Office of Sustainability at the College, focuses on connecting sustainable initiatives within the Lowcountry.
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5 Stress-Reducing Tips from Campus Urban Garden Experts
Stressed out over mid-term exams? Find out how the College's urban gardens can help ease your tension and improve your health.
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75 years later, ‘Gone With the Wind’ endures
“Even today, you can still go through the South, down little country roads and see mobile homes with mailboxes that say ‘Tara’ on them,” said Harlan Greene, the head of special collections at the College of Charleston’s Addlestone Library, in reference to the sprawling, idealized plantation the O’Hara family calls home in the film. Read
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Don’t touch the ‘woolly slug’
Worse, its fluffy "fur" is almost irresistible for young children to touch, and the fur is actually bristles of stinging spines. The bristles are so distinct the larva also is called the woolly slug. The sting is severe enough to have caused rashes and swelling among several children in Eastern states this month, according to
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South Carolina College Road Trip: College of Charleston
Ask College of Charleston students what it was about their campus visit that drew them to the school, and you might hear something like, "They had me at the Cistern." Hollywood couldn't conjure a more storybook backdrop for a Southern college than this grand grassy yard (named for the oval cistern at its center), shaded