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The Power of Place
Posted on March 20, 2012 | 4 CommentsThis is Trujillo, Spain, and what CofC students find here can't be found anywhere else. -
Driving Directions
Posted on March 19, 2012 | No CommentsSome young alums have found that the open road is a great way to give back. -
Campus Icon: Joy Vandervort-Cobb
Posted on March 19, 2012 | No CommentsThey call her Momma. Students, colleagues, alumni … everyone wants a little love from Joy Vandervort-Cobb. She’s happy to give it, but be forewarned: Half the time it’s tough love... -
Campus Icon: Rick Krantz
Posted on September 7, 2011 | 1 CommentHis great-great-uncle was chief of the Charleston Fire Department. His grandfather served 37 years there, too. Dad was a firefighter before becoming a cop, and Chief Rick Krantz has spent... -
Charleston’s Economic Engines
Posted on September 7, 2011 | No CommentsAlthough rarely recognized as such, Charleston is a college town. The College of Charleston, along with the Charleston area’s three other public colleges and universities – the Medical University of... -
A Landmark Restoration
Posted on September 7, 2011 | No CommentsFor more than 200 years, life at the College has been centered at its Cistern Yard. Here, in a sacred spot both at the heart of campus and downtown Charleston,... -
Written in the Stars
Posted on September 7, 2011 | 1 CommentWe take an inside look at Randolph Hall’s old observatory and the historic graffiti that covers its walls. -
Lost and Found
Posted on March 18, 2011 | No CommentsWhen Goose Creek planter John Mackenzie donated his substantial library to the College in 1771, there was just one hitch: The College didn’t yet exist. Sure, it had been founded... -
Western Exposure
Posted on March 18, 2011 | No CommentsIt may not have been the first to head west in hopes of striking gold, but – as far as we can tell – the College’s Gold Rush Tour was... -
Giving to the Extreme
Posted on March 18, 2011 | No CommentsA frenzied crowd wearing bright blue T-shirts and white construction hats leaned forward on barricades chanting, “move that bus.” Camera operators and production assistants raced up and down the lines...
