If you want to inspire him, give Edward Hart โ88 a johnboat and a tank of gas. Heโll happily zip along the Lowcountry waterways for hours, slipping away from mankind and straight into Godโs country. Surrounded by sandbars and spartina grass, heโll marvel at dolphins feeding along the shore and cast for spottail bass. โWhen
As her students know, Conseula Francis, associate professor of English and director of the African American Studies Program, approaches literature in a slightly different way. Her willingness to look for literary merit in some unusual places has made her a classroom favorite. Recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Teaching Award, Francis took a few moments to
The students slowly breathe in, then out. They pick a point against the classroom wall at which to stare and focus their attention. Exhaling, they lift, in unison, their right legs and rest their feet on the calf of their left legs. A few cut glances at their teacher to see how sheโs doing. They
Itโs perhaps one of the oldest sporting activities in human culture: throwing things. And, naturally, we revere those who can throw the farthest. This spring, two student-athletes on the Cougars track and field team epitomized strength and form as they made school history. Christine Klinar, a sophomore from Hanahan, S.C., threw the javelin a school-best
If the classrooms are where you learn, the student media offices are where you do. They are the laboratories for the social sciences. And those laboratories are my favorite place on campus. Weโre always running experiments in our offices. The students who come up to the second floor of the Calhoun Annex are thrown into
How we experience our environments depends not just on who and where we are, but on how we get there, where weโre coming from, whom weโre with and what that relationship is. When one alumnus visited the S.C. Department of Natural Resources to register a boat heโd acquired 20 years earlier, he couldnโt help but
These are the kids who get locked out of their parentsโ computers because they know how to bypass all the parental controls. Theyโre the ones who get kicked out of high school computer classes because they rewrite the programs theyโre supposed to be learning to use. Theyโre the ones who โ perhaps to their relief
Jim Phillips โ73 had spent the past 40 years systematically collecting the worldโs most important and significant maps and atlases pertaining to the moon โ and now an exhibition called From the Moon: Mapping & Exploration was being held right down the road at his alma mater. It seemed like the perfect fit. Mark Sloan,
Charleston is a city of postcard-perfect places, perhaps no locale more so than the cityโs historic market, anchored on one end by its replica of the Temple of the Wingless Victory. Each day, tourists line up across Meeting Street, cameras and smart phones in hand, clicking snapshot after snapshot of this iconic Greek-inspired structure, and
Each week, a handful of elite Charleston sommeliers gather in a downtown restaurant for a blind taste test. Each brings a cloaked bottle of wine and, in turn, pours it out of sight of his colleagues. The glasses are then delivered for consumption, and rounds of deductive tasting begin, with noses diving into glasses, palates
