When I came to the College in the spring of 1999, I was a nontraditional student. I had left my previous institution to serve with the U.S. Army for four years. As a nontraditional student, I had every intention of not getting involved in college life again. I held true to that the first semester
“I Just didn’t think i could do it. I wasn’t going to make it. I wasn’t going to finish.” It’s unlike Jenny Leiser ’02, who has completed 40 triathlons of varying distances and finished 30 in the top three overall, to have such doubt on race day, but doubt somehow caught up with her at
When was the last time you went to an opera? Yeah, that’s exactly what Andres Cladera ’99 thought. And he’s hoping to change that. “We’re trying to take the stigma out of opera,” Cladera says. You know the stigma he’s talking about: the horns, the helmet, the stuffy culture, the overblown acting. And, of course,
Leah-Lane Lowe ’00 always knows how to dress the part. Whether she’s talking shop with Gregg Allman or the nation’s leading scientist in liver disease, running around the set of last year’s Hollywood thriller Contagion or a clinic in Uganda, visiting with representatives from the Saudi Ministry of Health or the Bill and Melinda Gates
David Sneddon had never even heard of the College of Charleston – much less considered giving it his boat. But when he realized that his days of offshore fishing were behind him – and that he wasn’t going to get a suitable offer for Dotty, his 31-foot Pursuit 310 C Center Console Deep Hull Offshore
If you ever need help getting your kid into college, consider calling Ann Looper Pryor ’83. In the last four years, she’s helped three nieces and one nephew fill out their applications and write their essays. She’s accompanied them on trips to 18 different campuses, seen all sorts of quads and arboretums, toured every type
Eudora Welty famously quipped that “to imagine yourself inside another person ... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work.” That notion held especially true for one student researcher in her quest to better understand this great Dame of Southern literature. by Crystal Frost Instead of slinging sweet tea and burgers for Charleston’s
Two CofC scientists defend the importance of research against political pressure.
The relationships we make at the College are lifelong. For one alumnus, a connection was disrupted way too early, but the legacy of that friendship will continue on forever, not just in his heart, but on campus as well. by Graig Norden '07 One of the hardest things a college student faces is surrendering many
Daniel Aldrich loves to hit the long ball. And he should, he’s pretty good at it. “It’s the ultimate game changer,” the outfielder says. “It’s like the touchdown of baseball.” Then, by using Aldrich’s own sports-mixing metaphor, we can count him as one of the nation’s ultimate collegiate touchdown makers. Not bad for a school
