UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
USC’s bicentennial year
A publication
for USC faculty,
staff, and friends
JULY 12, 2001
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Children with diabetes
learn healthy living at
special summer camp
BY KATHY HENRY DOWELL
MICHAEL BROWN
First steps
Future freshmen and their families head to the Russell House from the Koger Center during orientation. All new students—
this year numbering about 3,500 freshmen and transfers—will attend a one-day session this summer for academic
orientation and to register for classes.
Elizabeth Todd Heckel was 14 when doctors discovered why she was
losing weight, was always thirsty, and had blurred vision.
“I had all the classic warning signs of diabetes,” said Heckel, who
has lived with the disease for some 35 years now. “It was during a
time when the general public was scared of people with diabetes.
There was an old myth that people with diabetes would pass out
unexpectedly, or that the disease was contagious. Thankfully, today
the public is better informed.”
Heckel, program director for the Diabetes Initiative of South
Carolina site in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at
the School of Medicine, has become an important source of information about diabetes. For the past eight years, she has shared her
knowledge and experience at Camp Adam Fisher, a weeklong
summer camp for children with diabetes. This year’s camp was held
June 3–10 at Lake Marion, near Summerton. Of the190 children who
attended, 150 have diabetes.
“At Camp Adam Fisher, a child with diabetes—and their siblings
and friends—can have a great time with others who share their
struggle, and their parents know their child is safe with qualified
health professionals,” Heckel said. “The goal is for kids to have fun
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State allocations for University budget remain at 2000–01 levels
The state’s allocation to the University’s budget for fiscal year
2001–02 will be about the same as last year—$191.2 million.
On June 27, Gov. Hodges vetoed college budget cuts
proposed by the General Assembly, restoring about $29
million to the University’s budget.
On June 29, USC’s Board of Trustees voted to give most
of the restored funds to academic departments, allowing
some classes cut from the fall schedule to be returned.
The board also agreed to cut in half the previously
approved 2001–02 tuition increase for in-state undergraduate students. At its June 22 meeting, the board had approved
a 10.4 percent tuition increase for undergraduates.
With the restoration of state funding for the University to
Inside
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Drawn to the beach: Pritchards Island
becomes the backdrop for art students’
canvases.
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Koger Center raises the curtain on its
2001–2002 season, featuring drama,
comedy, music, and dance.
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Research partners look for source of
indoor air pathogens.
Visit TIMES online
at www.sc.edu/USC-Times
2000–2001 levels, trustees approved President Palms’ proposal
to reduce the tuition increase to 5.2 percent for undergraduates
at the Columbia, Aiken, and regional campuses.
Tuition at USC Spartanburg will increase by 7 percent for
in-state students. School of Medicine tuition will increase by
10 percent (20 percent had been approved); and USC law
school tuition will increase 10.4 percent.
An in-state undergraduate’s tuition and fees at USC
Columbia will be $1,982 per semester ($3,964 per year), up
from $3,768 for 2000–2001. Non-resident undergraduate and
graduate tuition at USC Columbia will increase by 8.5 percent.
In-state graduate students at USC Columbia will pay 5.2
percent more in 2001–2002. In-state students comprise 80 percent
of the Columbia campus undergraduate student body.
Non-resident undergraduate tuition will increase by 2.3
percent at USC Aiken; 2.9 percent at USC Spartanburg; and
by 5.2 percent at the five regional campuses.
USC’s tuition increase of 5.2 percent for in-state
undergraduate students is 1.5 percent higher than the Higher
Education Price Index of 3.7 percent for 2001–2002.
State funding accounts for about 40 percent of the
University’s budget.
President Palms also lifted a hiring freeze effective July
1. The University had been under the freeze since January.
All departmental budgets at USC will be cut by 3
percent, anticipating a savings of almost 5.6 percent.
How to surf without
getting your feet wet
...[Ron Edge has] never
tried to ride a surfboard,
❝and at my age, I doubt
very much I shall try.❞
BY CHRIS HORN
For those of you who cannot or simply will not climb aboard a
surfboard and attempt to ride a killer wave, Ron Edge has a simple
solution.
The septuagenarian professor emeritus has written a thorough
treatise on the physics of surfing. Without so much as getting your
feet wet, you can read all about hydrodynamics, wave propagation,
and drag forces in the May 2001 issue of The Physics Teacher,
which features Edge’s article as its cover story.
Be forewarned: the calculations he uses might require more
brainpower to understand than the energy it would take to learn
how to hang ten (m∆v=(Fsinø)t, an equation for the momentum of
a wave, comes to mind).
For Edge, the equations are easier than the real thing; he’s never
tried to ride a surfboard, “and at my age, I doubt very much I shall
try,” said the now-retired professor from USC’s physics and
astronomy department. He first got interested in water waves after
joining USC’s faculty in 1958 as a nuclear physicist.
“We had no equipment [for nuclear physics research] when I
arrived, so I cast about for some possibilities and did some studies on
waves,” Edge said.
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■ BIOLOGY PROFESSOR PUBLISHES ARTICLE IN
SCIENCE: Vicki Vance, a professor of biology,
recently published in the journal Science a review
of the current state of the science of “gene
silencing,” a recently discovered natural defense
mechanism in plants and animals. By suppressing
gene silencing, Vance and others have found ways
to make plants produce beneficial products, such
as insulin and interferon.
■ VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR FACULTY/STAFF
MOVING CREW: Faculty and staff members will
receive information about USC’s annual Faculty
and Staff Moving Crew in campus mail around the
middle of July. This year’s moving-in day will be
Aug. 18. Volunteers will work in two-hour shifts to
help freshmen move into their residence halls. For
more information, call Terry Davis, director of
undergraduate admissions, at 7-5806 or e-mail
her at terry-davis@sc.edu.
■ TWO STUDENTS RECEIVE NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAM AWARDS: Two students from the Honors
College have received national awards. Kathleen Young of Charleston and Sam E. “Trey” Oliver III of
Boiling Springs have been awarded National Security Education Program scholarships for 2001–02. The
awards are designed to provide American students opportunities to acquire skills and experiences in
countries critical to the future security of the United States. Young, a sophomore majoring in electrical
engineering, will study in Tokyo. Oliver, a sophomore majoring in business management and contemporary European studies, will study in St. Petersburg, Russia. Since 1994, 12 USC students have received
NSEP scholarships.
■ STUDENT AWARDED STATE FARM FELLOWSHIP: Hydrick Harden of Winnsboro has been awarded one
of the nation’s 50 Exceptional Student fellowships from the State Farm Companies Foundation. The
awards prepare high-potential college students for leadership roles in business and society and help
stimulate insurance-related research and the development of new knowledge. Harden is a junior majoring
in accounting and finance. In the past five years, 10 USC students have received Exceptional Student
fellowships from the State Farm Companies Foundation.
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Immunotherapy research targets
treatment for childhood leukemia
BY CHRIS HORN
A research professor in USC’s School of Medicine is
hoping to patent an immune-cell therapy capable of
treating a prevalent form of childhood leukemia.
The therapy, developed in a research project
sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, still must undergo
extensive human clinical trials.
Lawrence Lamb’s research began at
Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital in 1992
when he was tracking the immunological
recovery of patients who had undergone
mismatched bone marrow transplants. The
studies revealed that a particular type of
immune defense cell, gamma delta T-cells,
were plentiful in patients who had the highest
survival rates.
Lamb
“Later we were able to show that the
gamma delta T-cells could kill primary leukemia cells,
particularly acute lymphoblastic leukemia,” said Lamb,
a research faculty member in the Department of
Pediatrics who earned a Ph.D. from the School of
Medicine in 1991.
“Although most patients with acute lymphoblastic
leukemia are cured with conventional chemotherapy,
those who fail treatment often do not fare well, even
after a bone marrow transplant. Targeted cellular
immunotherapy may offer a cure for these patients.”
The mismatched bone marrow transplant program at
Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital no longer
exists—a victim of hospital budget cuts—but Lamb’s
research results might soon be put to use. He is hoping
clinical trials for the gamma delta T-cell therapy can
begin as early as this fall with the University of
Wisconsin at Madison as a possible clinical research
partner.
“The goal is to generate a cell line from the patient or
patient’s sibling or parent that could be used
for the therapy,” Lamb said.
Lamb’s research lab, located on the
Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital
campus, also provides quality control services
for the Red Cross, which collects various
human cells for transplant purposes.
“In addition to providing funds through
testing services, our cooperative work with
the American Red Cross Center for Cellular
Therapy allows us to participate in clinical
transplant laboratory work, which was lost after the
closure of the allogeneic transplant program of Palmetto
Richland,” Lamb said.
Lamb’s laboratory also collaborates with the
National Cancer Institute Pathology Section and several
biotech firms that are developing immunotherapy
protocols.
“It is a wonderful way to be of service and to learn
the business as well as the science,” he said.
Chris Horn can be reached at 7-3687 or
chorn@gwm.sc.edu.
New degree program offers career possibilities in cardiology
The College of Science and Mathematics has launched a
new undergraduate degree program that prepares
students for careers in cardiology and peripheral
vascular study.
The bachelor of science degree in cardiovascular
technology will include a three-year, 100-credit-hour
program of academic courses and an intensive 18-month
clinical internship at Providence Hospital.
“Providence physicians saw the need for cardiovascular
technologists with a more thorough educational background and came to us with the idea of designing a
program,” said Gerald Cowley, assistant dean of the
college and director of the cardiovascular technology
program. Providence’s cardiology department is expecting
accreditation later this year by the Joint Review Committee
on Education in Cardiovascular Technology.
The hospital will accept up to eight students per year
for clinical internships, which will make progression in
the degree program competitive, Cowley said. Eventually, the college might seek partnerships with other
accredited hospitals to provide additional internships.
“We’re not expecting hordes of students to choose
this major, but those who do will find themselves in a
career field that offers an array of medical settings and
very attractive compensation,” said Kathy Maron, a
student services specialist in the college and associate
director of the cardiovascular technology program.
Under the supervision of a physician, cardiovascular
technologists perform diagnostic and therapeutic
examinations of the heart and blood vessels involving
invasive and noninvasive cardiology and noninvasive
peripheral vascular study.
MICHAEL BROWN
The Visitor Center’s new buses were put into use June 21.
New buses offer cool way
for guests to see campus
The Visitor Center’s two new tour buses allow prospective students
and their families to ride in style while getting an overview of
campus.
The buses were created in direct response to comments from
campus visitors, said Denise Wellman, Visitor Center director.
“It gets pretty hot here in the summer, and the buses are air
conditioned,” she said. “And we wanted to be able to show visitors
more of the campus.
“The buses will be used
exclusively for campus
tours for prospective
❝The buses are small
students, and they will
and comfy. We think
provide a way to show the
it’s real important that
perimeters of the campus.
We’ll still have partour visitors get
walking tours of the
personal attention
campus, but the buses offer
while they’re here.❞
some additional options to
our campus visitors.” The
—Denise Wellman
buses also are handicapped
accessible.
“We can tour 14 people
at a time on each bus,” she continued. “The buses are small and
comfy. We think it’s real important that our visitors get personal
attention while they’re here. One way to do that is to keep the tour
groups small.”
There are visitor centers at other universities using similar buses,
“but they don’t have spirited graphics on the side. This is a lively
campus that has lots of tradition and spirit, and the buses reflect
that,” said Wellman about the garnet Gamecock feathers that
decorate the buses’ sides.
The graphic design on the buses is not paint but a 3M product
applied almost like wallpaper. The material is guaranteed for five
years. The design on the windows allows visitors to see through it for
an unobstructed view.
Committee to begin looking at 2002–2003, Senate told
The Strategic Directions and Initiatives Committee recently held an organizational meeting
and will begin meeting regularly in August, Provost Odom told the Columbia campus Faculty
Senate at its meeting June 20.
The committee will look at issues, colleges, and programs in relation to the University’s
budget for fiscal year 2002–2003.
“I hope that this will be a very, very open process where everyone and anyone can have
input,” said Odom, chair of the committee.
“We will continue to try to frame issues over the summer so that when we meet starting in
August we will not start with a clean sheet of paper but, instead, know about the direction we
need to move with respect to the budget for the fiscal year starting July 1, 2002,” Odom said.
Odom outlined 10 items the committee will consider, including external and internal
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demand for the department or college or center or institute; quality of the program inputs and
processes; size, scope, and productivity of the program; revenue and other resources generated
by the program; and costs and other expenses associated with the program.
Odom said the committee’s goal is to make recommendations to President Palms before the
end of the calendar year.
Members of the committee include Herbert Adams, Board of Trustees; Jeff Cargile, human
resources; Leon Ginsberg, social work; Bill Hogue, chief information officer; Gene Luna,
student affairs; Martin McWilliams, law; Joe Padgett, statistics; Russ Pate, exercise science;
Joan Stewart, liberal arts; Caroline Strobel, business; Mike Sutton, engineering and information technology; and Carolyn West, regional campuses and continuing education.
■ FORMER ASSOCIATE PROVOST NAMED
PROVOST AT ADELPHI: Marcia Welsh, former
associate provost and dean of USC’s Graduate
School, was recently named provost and vice
president for academic affairs at Adelphi
University in Garden City on Long Island, N.Y.
Welsh left USC earlier this year to join her
husband, Lou Terracio, a former USC medical
school professor who is now associate dean for
research at New York University.
■ PALMS CHOSEN FOR FIRST NATIONAL COLLEGIATE
HONORS COUNCIL AWARD: President Palms will receive
the inaugural National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC)
Presidential Leadership Award. The NCHC created the
award to recognize the chief executives of American
universities and colleges for exemplary dedication to and
support of the mission of honors education. The award
will be presented during the council’s annual conference
Nov. 2 in Chicago.
Palms
USC Sumter opens Center
for End of Life Care
BY KATHY HENRY DOWELL
Betty Harvey believes that talking about end-of-life
issues and making decisions about death and dying are
simply a part of good medical care.
But she also knows that many people are reluctant to
talk about death because it can be so emotionally
unsettling.
“It’s an easy discussion to postpone,” said Harvey,
USC Sumter director of distance and continuing education. “The time for families to
talk about death and end-of-life
issues is while each family
member is healthy and able to
make informed decisions.”
USC Sumter’s Center for
End of Life Care will help
families address these
sensitive topics.
Harvey is the impetus
Harvey
behind the new center. She
became interested in end-oflife issues while watching “On Our Own Terms,” Bill
Moyers’ report on death and dying that aired on
educational television. She then attended a “Respecting
Choices” certification program in Charlotte, N.C. The
program was sponsored by the Carolinas Center, an
organization that continues to support Harvey’s efforts
in South Carolina.
“We are the first educational institution in our state to
begin working at raising public awareness on advanced
care, end of life, grief, death, and dying,” said Harvey,
center director. “We’re not out to change anything. We
just want to help folks become more aware and improve
on what was being done.”
Approved May 29 by the S.C. Commission on Higher
Education, the center will provide leadership and
professional and community education toward improving
end-of-life care in five counties: Sumter, Lee, Clarendon,
Kershaw, and Williamsburg.
More specifically, the center will focus on improving
end-of-life care decisions and will foster collaboration
among segments of the community, including hospitals,
nursing homes, hospice programs, healthcare and legal
professionals, members of the faith community, public
officials, and private citizens. The center will facilitate
educational programs and public awareness campaigns.
Another important component of the center is its
educational efforts. The center offers a 14-hour advance
care planner (ACP) certification course. Advance care
planners become skilled at listening to patient fears and
concerns, offering support through the decision-making
process, and communicating the patient’s wishes to
family members and the healthcare team.
“Having these conversations with the patients and
their families is important,” Harvey said. “I am hopeful
that in the future hospitals will have an office with an
ACP in it, or an attorneys’ office or doctor’s office may
have an ACP on retainer. In the past, most of this work
has been done pro bono, but there is a trend now that
people may move into that as a paid profession.”
The center also will offer continuing education
courses and relicensure credit courses for lawyers,
social workers, and other professionals.
Another important component of the center’s efforts
is collaboration and resource-linking within existing
structures, such as the local Council on Aging and area
churches.
“For example, right now I’m working on an article
for the Sumter Chamber of Commerce, encouraging
businesses to include talking about end-of-life care
when they are doing orientation for new employees,”
Harvey said.
“Maybe the University will start doing this as they
explain long-term care insurance during new employee
orientation. We’re also trying to encourage professors
to incorporate this into the curriculum in programs
where it is appropriate.”
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Students brush up
on landscape
painting at
Pritchards Island
BY KATHY HENRY DOWELL
As Tropical Storm Allison made a last splash across
Pritchards Island in June, a group of USC art students
grabbed their paintbrushes. A flurry of loose papers flew
across their cabin porch, sand swirled into their eyes, and the
air was filled with a wild energy.
It was just what David Voros wanted.
“It was a great shared experience,” said Voros, an assistant
professor of art. “Everyone was involved in the storm; everyone
had the same motivations, yet we’ll see very different work
from each of them.”
The trip to Pritchards Island, a pristine research property
off the coast of Beaufort, was part of a Summer I landscape
painting course for intermediate to expert painters.
“It’s a naturalist’s approach to painting,” said Voros,
who received an innovative instructional grant from the
provost’s office to begin the course. “It’s not only a visual
experience but also a 3-D intellectual experience.”
The storm was just a part of the experience for the
students.
“It was a terrible storm, but it wasn’t frightening. The
marine biologists who are on the island are very knowledgeable and made us feel comfortable about being there,” said
Catherine Ghys, an art student who will graduate this
summer with a BFA degree. “Being out in the open is a very
aesthetic experience, and I felt very relaxed and one with
nature.”
The weather during most of the two-day trip was
clear and bright, allowing the students to do what they
came to do.
“A goal of the trip was to gather information about
coastal landscapes to work with when we came back,” Voros
said. “Students used different media, ranging from charcoal
and pencil to oil pastels, watercolors, acrylic paint, even
some oil paint.
“And the class was a good mix of students: we had
people experiencing landscape painting for the first time,
combined with people who are experienced landscape
painters.”
Kristin Harrell, a graduate student in art education,
hadn’t painted in years.
“It’s an amazing class; I just loved it,” Harrell said.
“Painting at Pritchards Island was very difficult because you
wanted to paint everything that you saw, and it was really
hard to concentrate on just one theme. I came away with
mostly studies for finished pieces I will make, although
some people did come away with finished pieces.
“The landscape was beautiful—it was nice just to
experience it—but my favorite part was interacting with the
other students,” she said. “I would go out and paint something and then come back, and everyone else had gone out
PHOTOS COURTESY OF DAVID VOROS
David Voros’
art students
were inspired
by the
landscape at
Pritchards
Island near
Beaufort.
and painted something entirely different. We talked at length
about what we had painted.”
Another student, Angela Lusk, had never gone on-site to
paint landscapes.
“It really gives you a sense of what you are trying to
capture,” said Lusk, an art education major with a studio focus
in painting. “It’s a lot different from painting from a photograph
because you get a real sense of the elements: the air, the sun, the
sand, the bugs that were biting us.”
The storm that came on the second day offered a
different sense of the elements.
“It came fast, and there was even a small waterspout off
the island,” Lusk said. “Some people working down on the
beach were sketching the storm clouds. We took photos, too,
to bring back with us and to paint from in the future.”
Voros also took his students to the Baruch Marine
Institute near Georgetown this summer to paint landscapes.
The course will be offered again in the fall, and Voros will
return to Pritchards Island in September with another group
of lucky students.
Kathy Henry Dowell can be reached at 7-3686 or
kdowell@gwm.sc.edu.
USC patrol officer receives top award at Criminal Justice Academy
Kathy Henry Dowell can be reached at 7-3686 or
kdowell@gwm.sc.edu.
James Patterson, a patrol officer with USC Columbia’s Police Department, recently received the J.P. Strom Award after
graduating at the top of his class at the S.C. Criminal Justice Academy. Patterson joined USC in March. All police officer
candidates in the state must be certified through the academy before they can perform duties as law enforcement officers in
South Carolina. The nine-week academy teaches officers basic skills such as legal issues, patrol techniques, practical exercises,
driving, and shooting. The award is named for a former chief of the S.C. Law Enforcement Division.
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Staff spotlight
■ Name: Jacob F. Rivers III
■ Hometown: Hampton
■ Title: Director of Veterans’ Services
■ Years at USC: 10, including time as
a graduate student in the Department of
English, during which
I also worked as a test
proctor, driver, and
graduate assistant at
the Educational
Support Services
Center in the Division
of Student and Alumni
Services. I became
assistant director of
Rivers
veterans’ services in
February 1999 and
director in August 2000 when the
previous director, Greg Schutz,
accepted a position with the Tennessee
Commission on Higher Education.
■ Other experience: Bachelor’s
degree in criminal justice, Georgia
Southern University; five years in the
child abuse unit, S.C. Department of
Social Services; six years (1980–86)
with the South Carolina National
Guard; master’s degree in English,
USC, 1987; Ph.D. in English with an
emphasis on Southern literature from
USC, May 1999.
■ Briefly describe your job: My
primary responsibility is to help USC’s
approximately 700 military veterans
take advantage of the educational
benefits they have earned through their
service in the armed forces. The
regional Office of Veterans Affairs in
Atlanta depends on our office to verify
that those who have applied for their
Montgomery G.I. Bill and other
educational benefits are properly
enrolled at the University. I also
supervise six V.A. work-study students
and serve as liaison between the
University and the S.C. Commission on
Higher Education.
■ Best part of my job: Watching
veterans enrolled here as students put
the sense of responsibility, determination, and persistence they learned in the
military to work earning degrees in
demanding fields such as engineering,
business, and philosophy. It’s gratifying for me to see that level of dedication, and it’s a genuine pleasure to help
the veterans get their benefits, which
they earned through hard, arduous, and
frequently dangerous service to protect
this country.
■ Favorite author: South Carolina’s
William Gilmore Simms, the subject of
my master’s thesis and the preeminent
antebellum Southern man of letters.
■ Last book read: Frank of Freedom
Hill, by Samuel A. Derieux, a Virginian
who spent his boyhood in South
Carolina. The book deals with a man
who lived from 1880 to 1922 and
examines a line of thought I pursued in
my dissertation about the cultural
values in the Southern sporting
narrative, that is, the approach by
aristocrats to the natural world as
portrayed in stories about hunting and
fishing.
■ Favorite hobbies: I love to hunt and
fish and garden. The natural world has
always been a great source of inspiration and pleasure for me.
Koger Center announces 2001–02 season
This year’s cultural season at the Koger Center will include a classic
comedy, a Shakespeare drama, an all-time favorite musical, chamber music,
jazz, and a program for children. Tickets will be available at Carolina
Coliseum box office (9 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday) and all Capital Tickets
outlets (hours vary), or by phone at 251-2222.
■ Sept. 26: The Mitchell-Ruff Duo, 8 p.m. An encore performance by
America’s oldest, continuously performing jazz duo. Pianist Dwike Mitchell
and French horn player Willie Ruff met
while performing together in Lionel
Hampton’s band. When they struck out on
their own, they formed a partnership that
would take them around the world, including
the former Soviet Union in 1959 and China
in 1981.
one of Shakespeare’s last and most intricate works. Cast members of the
Aquila Theatre Company bring their renowned and highly praised
ensemble acting techniques, imaginative staging, and original music as
they retell this compelling story.
■ Nov. 16: Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company, 8 p.m.
This dance company has been around for 43 years and is the National
Folk Dance Company of the Philippines. They have inspired the
creation of other dance companies around the
world. Cultural enthusiasts will enjoy a rare treat as
this dance company brings Filipino culture into the
limelight.
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. 18:
. Maurice
. . . Sendak’s
. . .Little. Bear
. .Live. on
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■ Oct. 9: The Sunshine Boys, with Dick
Van Patten, 7:30 p.m.
Veteran actors of the stage and screen,
Dick Van Patten and Frank Gorshin bring
to life the characters of Lewis and Clark,
two retired ex-vaudevillians. Together for
43 years, they had been a nationally
famous act—The Sunshine Boys. After
refusing to speak to each other for the past
11 years, they are now a couple of lonely
old men holding grudges against each
other. The hilarity begins when Clark’s
nephew convinces them to come together
for a final television appearance in a salute
to American show business.
Stage, 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Little Bear invites children
into a world of adventure that’s full of warmth, love,
and friendship. No one loves playing more than Little
Bear, especially when the games are put to music.
■ Dec. 2: Sinfonia Da Camera, 7:30 p.m. The
Sinfonia Da Camera provides an evening of chamber
music.
■ Dec. 3: Boys Choir of Harlem, 7:30 p.m. Since
its founding in 1968, the Boys Choir of Harlem
(BCH) has become internationally recognized for its
virtuoso performances and its innovations in the
thousand-year-old art of the boy choir. BCH is well
known for the breadth of its repertoire from staples of
Frank Gorshin and Dick Van Patten are The Sunshine Boys. the European canon to contemporary works. AfricanAmerican spirituals, gospel, jazz, pop, and hip-hop
are choreographed to give the choir a magnetic stage presence.
■ Oct. 28: Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady, 7:30 p.m. The music and
lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe make George Bernard
Shaw’s rags-to-riches story of a poor flower girl dance off the pages of
“Pygmalion.” The evening is filled with such memorable songs as “On the
Street Where You Live,” “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “Wouldn’t It
Be Loverly,” and “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face.”
■ Nov. 12: Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Aquila Theatre Company,
7:30 p.m. A raging storm forces a disparate band of shipwrecked
survivors onto the enchanted shores of a magical island, and so begins
■ Jan. 15, 2002: The Buddy Holly Story, 7:30 p.m.
■ Jan. 20: BBC Symphony, 7:30 p.m.
■ Jan. 22: The Merry Widow, London Light Opera, 7:30 p.m.
■ Feb. 10: Warsaw Philharmonic, 7:30 p.m.
■ March 10: Ellis Island: Gateway to a Dream, American Family
Theater, 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.
■ April 18: Grogorvich Ballet, 7:30 p.m.
Conductors Institute marks 17 years
Each summer, new and experienced conductors work closely with
established conductors and musicians in an intense summer program
held at the Koger Center.
Called the Conductors Institute of South Carolina, the program
wrapped up its 17th summer program June 22. This year, 53 conductors
from across the United States and as far away as Japan, Spain, Quebec,
Peru, and Australia participated.
Through daily podium time, all participants worked on a varied
repertory while they conducted ensembles of varying sizes, including a
string orchestra, a chamber orchestra, and a full symphony orchestra.
All daily sessions were recorded and videotaped for viewing and study.
Every week, a different, nationally known conductor-in-residence
joined School of Music faculty members Donald Portnoy and Manuel
Alvarez. And each week, a different composer-in-residence was added
to the teaching mix.
Several times each week, participants met with special visitors from
the music world to discuss perspectives on management, programming,
performance, and presentation. Guest lecturers presented sessions
regarding score study and preparation, classical, pops and educational
programming, physical aspects of conducting, orchestra operation, opera
conducting, and artist management.
The institute accepts participants in two categories: fellows and
associates. Fellows are in front of an orchestra five days a week for
three weeks. Associates work with a chamber ensemble four times a
week and with the institute orchestra every Friday.
The Discovery Program is for the beginning conductor and lasts two
weeks. Discovery participants work with a string quartet, two pianos,
MICHAEL BROWN
Daily podium time provides a valuable learning experience.
and a repertory carefully selected to maximize the learning opportunity
for those with little or no previous conducting experience. During 10
afternoon sessions, the Discovery participants work with veteran faculty
members. They also are onstage with the fellows and associates for
every morning session.
The institute orchestra is an ensemble of professional musicians
recruited from symphony orchestras in the Carolinas and Georgia,
freelancers, and the School of Music.
Institute faculty for this summer included Portnoy, conductor;
Alvarez, conductor; Karen Lynne Deal, conductor; Peter Jaffe, conductor; Libby Larsen, composer; Stephen Paulus, composer; Roberto Sierra,
composer; and Paul Vermel, conductor.
Donald Portnoy: Travelin’ Man
While the USC Symphony is on hiatus this summer, its music director
and conductor certainly isn’t.
Donald Portnoy, who holds the Ira McKissick Koger Endowed Chair
for the Fine Arts in the School of Music, conducted and taught in China
twice and traveled to Taiwan for master classes. In June, he led a USC
alumni group in and around Salzburg, Austria, and, in August, will visit
Argentina to teach more classes.
On May 26, Portnoy was at the New Century Theater in Beijing to
conduct the 110-member China Philharmonic.
“Where a guest conductor in this country might get a pair of
rehearsals at most, I was given seven rehearsals with the China
Philharmonic,” he said. “At one point I dismissed the musicians because
we were running the risk of over-rehearsing.”
In Taiwan, Portnoy conducted master classes in conducting and
violin in the city of T’aichung.
Three days after the Conductors Institute ended at USC in June, he
was off to Salzburg, Austria, with a group of alumni, to explore the
music history of that great city, including a visit to Mozart’s home.
On July 10, Portnoy returned to China for a two-week Conductors
Institute session in Beijing and X’ian. On Aug. 1, he is off to Argentina
for a round of conducting and master classes in Rosario and Santa Fe.
Later in August, Portnoy will hold auditions for the USC Symphony
and begin rehearsals for the Oct. 4 start of the orchestra’s seven-concert
season.
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The path to better health is taken one step at a time. Literally.
Catrine Tudor-Locke, a public health researcher on the
Columbia campus, has found that increasing the number of
steps in a person’s daily routine not only moves a person to
a more active lifestyle but also improves health and reduces
his or her risk for some deadly and devastating diseases.
“Striving to add more steps to our daily lives has become
very important in our modern society because sedentary
lifestyles have become a way of life,” said Tudor-Locke, who
was quoted in an article in the June issue of Walking magazine
on the importance of steps for health.
A health and fitness researcher at the Prevention
Research Center in the Norman J. Arnold School of Public
Health, Tudor-Locke doesn’t want the public to think that
fitness begins only by donning Lycra and heading to the
gym—although that’s OK, too, if you enjoy it.
When she talks about increasing physical activity, she
means taking more steps. For some, this may mean parking
cars farther from the office or taking a flight of stairs
instead of an elevator. For others, it may mean getting out
and walking around the neighborhood.
For many, it means making a concentrated effort to just
get up, walk more often and walk farther.
“All steps are great,” she said. “Any time you increase
your physical activity, you improve your blood pressure,
and you reduce your risks for diabetes, high blood pressure,
cardiovascular disease, some types of cancer, and obesity.
“Whether you choose to run, walk, swim, take aerobics,
play outside with your children, or work in the garden, you
reap the benefits of improved health.”
The most important thing, she says, is to begin by
adding more steps day by day. And the best way to know
how well you’re accomplishing this goal is to wear a
pedometer to log your steps.
Dubbed “the pedometer queen” by some health and fitness
experts, Tudor-Locke wears a pedometer every day to know
how active she is. It’s a habit she’s had for about two years.
On a recent day at 2 p.m., Tudor-Locke’s pedometer
registered more than 17,000 steps. Keeping in mind that 2,000
steps on a pedometer is the equivalent of about a 20-minute
walk, the USC researcher already had been quite active.
Although some fitness experts say 10,000 steps is a
good goal, Tudor-Locke says that amount may be unreachable for some people and actually may turn them off to
getting moving in the first place.
“It depends on the individual and his or her lifestyle and
health. We know, for instance, that children take way more
than 10,000 steps in a day,” she said. “There’s no doubt,
when it comes to steps, that more is better. But it is
important to set realistic goals to increase steps.”
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July 26–Aug. 4 Pineapple Productions: Moose Mating, a play by
David Grae, 8 p.m., Longstreet Theater, $5 general admission. This
is the first production for Pineapple Productions, a new theater
company launched by a group of directors, actors, and designers,
many of whom are MFA candidates at USC. Tickets available now
through Pineapple Productions’ box office at 254-2068 or at the
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■ Permanent exhibits: Baruch Silver Collection, an extensive
collection of 18th- and early 19th-century British silver; The
Laurence L. Smith Mineral Collection, gem stones and
fluorescent minerals with a hands-on mineral library. Free.
9 a.m.–4 p.m. weekdays, 1–5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
For information, call 7-7251.
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■ Through Aug. 25 Finlay Park: Summer Concert Series,
Saturdays, 7 p.m., free. Bring your picnic baskets and lawn
chairs for a pleasant evening of live music. Each week, South
Carolina’s best musicians present a free concert including
blues, rock, beach, jazz, big band, and more.
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■ Through January 2002: “Catawba Clay: Pottery from the
Catawba Nation,” organized by the North Carolina Pottery
Center in Seagrove, N.C., this exhibit features the ceramic
works of Catawba Indian potters spanning four centuries.
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Exhibit, featuring works by artists from 18 states and the
District of Columbia who competed for places in the prestigious
show.
■ Through Oct. 28: Works by Eddie Arning.
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• Interactive multimedia showcasing the University’s academic
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■ LIST YOUR EVENTS: The TIMES calendar welcomes
submissions of listings for campus events. Listings
should include a name and phone number so we can
follow up if necessary. Items should be sent to TIMES
Calendar at University Publications, 701 Byrnes Building,
e-mailed to kdowell@gwm.sc.edu, or faxed to 7-8212. If
you have questions, call Kathy Dowell at 7-3686. The
deadline for receipt of information is 11 days prior to the
publication date of issue. Remaining publication dates this
summer are Aug. 2 and Aug. 23.
What’s hot on the Columbia art scene this summer? An exhibition of
contemporary art featuring works containing elements of fire such as
smoke, ash, and flame at the Columbia Museum of Art. “Burn: Artists Play
with Fire” includes Household Cosmology, above, by Willie Cole, which
combines scorched ironing boards, wood, and metal; and Dante’s Inferno:
Suicides, below, by Thomas Kettner Jr., created on paper using a
magnifying glass and the sun. The exhibit can be seen through Sept. 23
during museum hours: 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday and 1–5 p.m.
Sunday. Admission is $5 adults, $4 seniors, $2 students, and free for
museum members and children five years old and younger. The first
Saturday of the month is free to all. For more information, call 799-2810
or visit www.columbiamuseum.org.
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• The USC Press
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• Student photography, oil paintings, and ceramics
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■ July 30–Aug. 2 USC Sumter: U.S. Cheer Camp 2001, a
cheerleading camp for beginning and experienced cheerleaders
ages 6–18, 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Nettles Building gymnasium. For
participation fees and other information, call 55-3763.
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■ July 9–27 USC Beaufort: “Translation: Interpretations of
Pritchards Island,” new paintings by Mike Williams, USC
Beaufort Art Gallery, 801 Carteret St. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.–
5 p.m. Monday–Thursday.
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■ SEND IN THOSE VACATION PICTURES: France and Nepal are a couple of
countries USC faculty and staff have traveled to this summer. Closer to home,
Florida is a favorite. We’d love to see your vacation pictures, too. TIMES will print
vacation photographs in the Aug. 23 issue. The deadline to submit pictures is Aug.
14. Send them to TIMES Summer Photos, Publications, Seventh Floor, Byrnes.
We’ll return your photographs after publication.
■ UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATES NAMES OFFICERS: John C.B. Smith Jr., president of John C. B. Smith Jr.
Realty Co. and a lawyer with the firm of Nexsen Pruet Jacobs and Pollard P.A. has been elected president
of the USC’s University Associates for 2001–2002. Other new officers are president-elect James W.
Cantey Jr., president of COA/Radius Inc.; vice president Charles T. Cole Jr., executive vice president and
regional executive of Wachovia Bank; and secretary-treasurer J. Cantey Heath Jr., senior director of
development at USC. University Associates is an organization of Midlands-area business, community, and
professional leaders who support and promote USC.
■ COUNSELING CENTER EARNS REACCREDITATION: The Counseling and Human Development Center
at USC recently earned reaccreditation from its two accrediting bodies, the International Association of
Counseling Services and the American Psychological Association. The center, located at 900 Assembly
Street, provides counseling services for students and similar services for faculty and staff through the
Employee Assistance Program.
■ USC AIKEN CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR RECEIVES GRANT: Ann M. Willbrand, an associate professor of
chemistry at USC Aiken, recently received a $26,000 nationally peer-reviewed grant from the Camille and
Henry Dreyfus Foundation. The grant will be used to upgrade USC Aiken’s nuclear magnetic resonance
(NMR) instrument. NMR has been a major tool used by chemists to study molecular structure for more
than 40 years. The same principles are used clinically in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). “This grant is
quite prestigious, and the list of grant recipients from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation places
Ann and USC Aiken in extremely good company,” said Monty Fetterolf, chair of the chemistry department.
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USC names 40 Carolina, McNair scholars
USC has named 40 of the nation’s top high-school seniors
to receive the University’s most prestigious scholarships—
the Carolina Scholar and McNair Scholar awards.
The $28,000 Carolina Scholar award is considered
USC’s most prestigious and valuable scholarship for South
Carolina students. The $64,000 McNair Scholar award is
for out-of-state students. The University also names several
finalists in each competition to receive scholarships.
“USC’s most prestigious and valuable scholarship
programs have made it possible for us to offer scholarships to 40 of our state and nation’s best and brightest
high school students,” President Palms said.
The McNair gift has enabled USC gradually to increase
the number of out-of-state scholars to 20, the same number
of Carolina Scholar awards given annually. The first group
of 10 McNair Scholars and five McNair Scholar finalists
entered USC in the fall of 1998.
“It is appropriate that the fall of 2001, the University’s
bicentennial year, marks the first time that 20 McNair
Scholars will be on USC’s campus,” Palms said. “For more
than 32 years, Carolina Scholars have played an important
role in enhancing the academic life of our campus, and our
Carolina Scholar alumni are working and making significant contributions to our state and nation.”
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He went on to make his mark in research and as a
physics educator, producing a manual of interesting yet
surprisingly simple physics experiments for high school
teachers on shoestring budgets. Edge remains active in
physics education, advising physics teams at S.C. high
schools, and last year accompanying a Beaufort high
school team to an international physics competition in
Europe.
A few years ago, Edge worked with a high school
student interested in writing a term paper about surfing.
That experience lured Edge back into the deep water of
wave research. He checked with the Scripps Institute of
Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., and learned there was
very little scientific literature about the physics of
surfboarding.
“That’s not so surprising,” Edge said. “Imagine
trying to get an NSF grant to study surfing!”
Edge’s quest for wave data led him to Los Alamos
National Laboratory, which, decades ago, had conducted
in-depth water wave research.
Ivy-covered walls
of academe
This photo of Lieber College on the
Horseshoe as it appeared in 1874 is
one of 17 pictures of the USC campus
taken in that year and recently
discovered in the Harvard University
library. An article about the photos and
how they made their way to USC will
appear in the Aug. 2 issue of TIMES.
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This year’s Carolina Scholars, from 10 cities in South
Carolina, have an average SAT of 1473. The McNair
Scholars represent 11 states and have an average SAT of
1456. USC also has named four Carolina Scholar finalists,
who have an average SAT of 1420, and six McNair Scholar
finalists, who have an average SAT of 1403.
The 2001 Carolina Scholars include Ian Kane, Bethany
Matheny, and Matthew Wilkinson, Aiken; Priscilla Larkin,
Sheena Lazenby, Sylvie Lomer, Corinne Sheridan,
Elizabeth Sutton, and Ashley West, Columbia; Elizabeth
Howarth, Kristen Morella, and Anna Stewart, Florence;
Grant Woodward, Greer; Anita Autry and Kara Lane,
Lexington; Sallie Ruth Coleman, Spartanburg; Antonio de
Ridder, Taylors; Corey Garriott, Walhalla; Zack Nichols,
West Columbia; and Patrick Norton, Winnsboro.
The 2001 McNair Scholars are Chandra Caitlyn Farris,
Arizona; Jacque Banks, Jamie McIntyre, and Sarah Schoen
Refi, Florida; Jenny Lake, Illinois; Hilary Schramm,
Kansas; Amy Buchanan-Feinberg, Graham Culbertson,
Dean Emmerton, Stephanie Lareau, and Amy Bostic, North
Carolina; Bethany Kessell, Michelle Casper, Katherine
Rochelle, Ross Nesbit, and Andrea Waddle, Tennessee;
Brian Lacy, Texas; Daniel Lewis and Brooks Willet,
Virginia; and Nina Lerner, Wisconsin.
JULY 12, 2001
“A breaking wave is represented by extremely nonlinear mathematics—very complicated equations,” Edge
said. “In fact, it resembles the explosion of an atomic
bomb, which is why Los Alamos did the best research
on water waves.”
Edge got the data, but never tracked down the Los
Alamos researchers—like Edge, they, too, had all
retired. No matter, Edge already was riding the crest and
soon constructed the article, “Surf Physics,” for The
Physics Teacher magazine.
Edge’s “Surf Physics” won’t make you a better
surfer, but it might pique interest in the physics of other
moving objects. One of his colleagues, a retired physics
professor at Yale, has written about the physics of
baseball. And Edge himself once penned an explanation
of the physics of golf balls.
“I was responding to an advertisement I’d seen about
a particular golf club,” he said. “They had it all wrong.”
Chris Horn can be reached at 7-3687 or
chorn@gwm.sc.edu.
PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN KHOURY
Elizabeth Heckel, back row in baseball cap, and other camp counselors take a
break from the activities.
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and learn about good, healthy diabetes management, and to learn that
diabetes shouldn’t keep them from doing or enjoying anything they
want to in life.”
The camp is a very special place for children with diabetes; many
of them form lifelong friendships and return year after year. This
summer marked Beverly Humphrey’s 21st anniversary at the camp.
“I’ve been going to Camp Adam Fisher since I was 10, only now I
go as the camp manager,” she said. “Those kids have become my
children. I just love them. I’ve grown up with diabetes, and I think
they can identify with me.
“There are so many fun things we do at camp: swimming in the
lake, team sports like volleyball and softball, horseback riding, arts
and crafts, archery, dancing, canoeing, hiking, cookouts, a talent
show,” Humphrey continued. “Of course, we test our blood sugar
levels, take our shots, and eat our meals together, too.”
Volunteer nurses and physicians, including Kay McFarland, a
professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, staff the camp
infirmary around-the-clock. Several nutritionists discuss dietary
restrictions and demonstrate ways to prepare food.
Camp counselors are past campers who have proven to be positive
role models, along with PharmD. candidates from the Medical
University of South Carolina. This year, the camp offered continuing
medical education credit for doctors. Howard Heinze, a pediatric
endocrinologist and an assistant professor in the Department of
Pediatrics, provided instruction.
The camp has become even more than Greenville businessman
Adam Fisher envisioned when he began the project in 1967. He
wanted to provide a safe camp experience for his daughter, who had
diabetes. And this summer, like many summers before, a grown-up
Susan Fisher was at the camp to help.
Vol. 12, No. 11
July 12, 2001
TIMES is published 20 times a year for the faculty and staff of the University of South
Carolina by the Department of University Publications, Laurence W. Pearce, director.
Director of Periodicals: Chris Horn
Managing Editor: Larry Wood
Design Editor: Betty Lynn Compton
Senior Writers: Marshall Swanson, Kathy Henry Dowell
Photographers: Michael Brown, Kim Truett
To reach us: 7-8161 or larryw@gwm.sc.edu
Campus Correspondents: Office of Media Relations, USC Columbia; Deidre Martin, Aiken;
Marlys West, Beaufort; Sherry Greer, Lancaster; Jane Brewer, Salkehatchie; Gibson Smith,
Spartanburg; Tom Prewett, Sumter; Terry Young, Union.
The University of South Carolina provides equal opportunity and affirmative action in
education and employment for all qualified persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex,
national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. The University of South Carolina has
designated as the ADA and Section 504 coordinator the Executive Asssstant to the President
for Equal Opportunity Programs.
■ JOB VACANCIES: Although the University
has instituted a hiring freeze, some
categories of jobs are still available. For
up-to-date information on USC Columbia
vacancies, call 777-JOBS (5627) or visit
the employment office, 508 Assembly St.
For positions at other campuses, contact the
personnel office at that campus. Vacancies
also are posted on the human resources
Web site at http://hr.sc.edu.
■ ROPER RECEIVES
AWARD: Fred Roper,
dean of the College of
Library and Information
Science, received the
Hall of Fame Award
from the Special
Libraries Association
(SLA) for distinguished
service to the profession. Roper, who
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14, is the first person from the state’s SLA
chapter to receive the lifetime honor.
■ PERRY NAMED VICE CHANCELLOR FOR UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT AT USC SPARTANBURG: John
Perry, senior director of development at USC Spartanburg, has been named that campus’ vice chancellor
for university advancement. Perry, who has been at USC Spartanburg since 1997, also will be executive
director of the Carolina Piedmont Foundation, the campus’ fund-raising partner. University Advancement
includes the offices of Alumni Affairs and Communications and has responsibilities for development and
fund raising. Perry holds a bachelor’s degree from Presbyterian College and a master’s from USC
Columbia in student personnel services in higher education, with a minor in counseling.
■ DUCKETT NAMED ASSISTANT CHANCELLOR: Randy Duckett has been appointed assistant chancellor
for enrollment services at USC Aiken. Before accepting the position, Duckett was interim director of the
enrollment services and institutional planning division. He has held several other positions at USC Aiken,
including dean of enrollment and planning and director of admissions. He joined USC Aiken in October
1982 as a financial aid/admissions counselor. He received a master of education in student personnel
services degree from USC Columbia and a BS in secondary education from USC Aiken.
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■ BOOKS AND CHAPTERS: Thomas L. Johnson, South Caroliniana Library,
“Nocturne on a Winter’s Night,” Inheritance: Selections from the South Carolina
Fiction Project, Janette Turner Hospital, English, editor, Hub City Writers Project,
Spartanburg.
Rebecca Stevens, education, Spartanburg, “Peer Mediation: An Examination of a
School District’s Training Program for Educators” and “Involving the Whole School in
Violence Prevention,” Preventing Violence in Schools, A Challenge to American
Democracy, Joan Burstyn, et al., editors, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Norwood, N.J.
Jim Lyons, exercise science, “Distractor effects and response competition: The
influence of environmental constraints and task requirements on selective
attention and action,” S.C. Bicentennial Symposium on Attention, Columbia, and,
with M.A. Kahn, D. Elliott, J. Coull, and R. Chua, “Optimal control strategies under
different feedback schedules: Kinematic evidence,” North American Society for the
Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity Conference, St. Louis, Mo.
Lessie Jo Frazier, history, “Military poetics and national memory in the formation
of the Chilean socialist state,” Images of Power: National Iconographies, Culture,
and the State in Latin America, University of London.
Ed Madden, English, “Austin Clarke’s Irritated Penis,” American Conference for
Irish Studies, New York City.
Kathleen Scharer, nursing, “Parental management of a child’s psychiatric hospitalization,” International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses, Phoenix, Ariz.
Mark Berg, chemistry and biochemistry, “Local Dynamics in DNA by Ultrafast
Stokes-Shift Spectroscopy,” American Society for Photobiology, Chicago, Ill., and
“Inertial and Diffusive Dynamics as a Function of Viscosity: Transient Dichroism
Measurements of Nonpolar Solvation and Rotational Diffusion,” Gordon
Conference on the Chemistry and Physics of Liquids,
Plymouth, N.H.
Stephen Zdzinski, music, “Parental Involvement and
Musical Performance: A Review of Literature,”
Southeastern Music Education Symposium, Athens, Ga.
Graciela Tissera, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese,
“Temas e imágenes en la poesía de Martha Canfield,”
Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and
Literatures, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Thomas McConnell, fine arts, Spartanburg, demonstration of his online course in contemporary literature,
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association,
Albuquerque, N.M.
Irma J. Van Scoy, education, “Teacher Development
and Empowerment through University Partnerships,”
Rejuvenating Schools through Partnership
Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
■ ARTICLES: Laura Woliver, government and international studies, “Everyday Life
Struggles for Women and Girls: Progress, Stalemate, Backlash, and Future Agenda
Items for the Women’s Movement,” Asian Women.
Joanna Casey, anthropology, A.C. D’Andrea (Simon Fraser University), and M.
Klee (Universitat Basel), “Archaeobotanical evidence for pearl millet (Pennisetum
glaucum) in sub-Saharan West Africa,” Antiquity.
Peter H. Hildebrandt, physics and astronomy, “My War: Jacob Homer’s story of
his survival of an Alabama POW Camp and the sinking of the Steamship Sultana,”
Civil War Times Illustrated.
Stephen Zdzinski, music, “Parental Involvement and
Musical Performance: A Review of Literature,”
Southeastern Journal of Music Education.
Lessie Jo Frazier, history, and Deborah Cohen,
“Género, terreno y acción en el 68: la participación
feminina y la ciudadanía social en México,” Memoria
Seminario Nacional Movimientos Estudiantiles
Mexicanos en el Siglo XX.
Richard Clodfelter, retailing, “How Are Traditional
Retailers’ Online Sites Evolving to Meet Shoppers’
Needs?” Frontiers in Direct & Interactive Marketing
Research.
Stacy L. Wood, business, “Remote Purchase
Environments: The Influence of Return Policy
Leniency on Two-Stage Decision Processes,” Journal
of Marketing Research.
Joan Hinde Stewart, French and classics, “Reading
■ OTHER: Gary Senn, Ruth Patrick Science
Lives a la manière de Crébillon,” Eighteenth-Century
Education Center, Aiken, received the Award of
Fiction.
I’m taking you off the antidepressant and
Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and
John R. Rose and Michael N. Huhns, computer
putting you on a good herbicide.
Technology at the International Conference on
science and engineering, “Philosophical Agents,”
College Teaching and Learning in Jacksonville, Fla.
Internet Computing.
Jim Charles, education, Spartanburg, will serve as a
Walter Scrivens, chemistry and biochemistry, Kim E.
member of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education Board of
Creek and Lucia Pirisi, pathology (medicine), and J. M. Tour, “Synthesis of 14CExaminers.
Labeled C60, Its Suspension in Water, and Its Uptake by Human Keratinocytes,”
Linda Lucas Walling, library and information science, received the Association of
Journal of American Chemical Society, and, with R. Bullard-Dillard and J.M. Tour,
Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies 2001 Exceptional Service Award.
“Tissue Sites of Uptake of 14C-Labeled C60,” Bioorganic Chemistry.
Charles Love, education, Spartanburg, has been selected by the state Department
J. Larry Durstine, Greg A. Hand, and Barbara E. Ainsworth, exercise science, K.L.
of Education to chair the Teacher Education Performance Standards Committee,
Drowatzky, M.L. Irwin, C.G. Moore, P.G. Davis, and M.F. Gonzalez, “The
which will develop performance standards for all South Carolina colleges, schools,
association between physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and lipoprotein(a)
and departments of education.
concentrations in a tri-ethnic sample of women: The Cross-Cultural Activity
Participation Study,” Vascular Medicine.
Stephen Zdzinski, music, appointed research chair of the S.C. Music Education
Association.
Lawrence Glickman, history, “The Strike in the Temple of Consumption:
Consumer Activism and Twentieth-Century American Political Culture,” Journal of
Camille McCutcheon, library, Spartanburg, has been elected president of the
American History.
Piedmont Library Association.
Sara Wilcox, exercise science, S.A. Shumaker, D.J. Bowen, M.J. Naughton, M.C.
Kathleen Scharer, nursing, received the International Society of PsychiatricRosal, S.E. Ludlam, E. Dugan, J.R. Hunt, and S. Stevens, “Promoting adherence
Mental Health Nurses 2001 Division Award for contributions to clinical practice,
and retention to clinical trials in special populations: A Women’s Health Initiative
research, and education in child and adolescent psychiatric nursing.
Workshop,” Control Clin Trials.
Ray Merlock, fine arts, Spartanburg, was elected to the Executive Board of the
Murray Mitchell, physical education, and Theresa Purcell Cone, “No Gym? No
American Culture Association.
Problem! Maintaining Quality Physical Education in Alternative Spaces,” The
Thomas L. Johnson, South Caroliniana Library, appointed to the governor’s
Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.
committee to select a new South Carolina poet laureate.
John E. Kalachnik, pediatrics and Center for Disability Resources, and Thomas
John R. Rose, computer science and engineering, selected to be a NASA Fellow by
Hanzel (private-practice psychologist), “Behavioral Side Effects of Barbiturate
the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts.
Antiepileptic Drugs in Individuals with Mental Retardation and Developmental
DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, nursing, Afaf I. Meleis, and Teri Lindgren,
Disabilities,” National Association of Duel Diagnosis Bulletin.
“Women’s Work Redefined,” Arab Families Conference, American University,
■ PRESENTATIONS: DeAnne K. Hilfinger Messias, nursing, “Immigrant Women’s
Cairo, Egypt.
Transnational Experiences: Lessons for Practitioners,” International Global Health
Joanna Casey, anthropology, participated in the Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad
Council, Washington, D.C.
Program studying globalization in Morocco and Tunisia.
Gary Senn and Jeff Priest, Ruth Patrick Science Education Center, Aiken, “K–12
Lessie Jo Frazier, history, received the Alfred J. Beveridge Fellowship for
Partnerships and Preservice Teacher Training,” International Conference on
Research on the Western Hemisphere from the American Historical Association.
College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Fla.
Jim Curtis, communications, appointed to the Professional Development and
Patricia Wilson-Witherspoon, family and preventive medicine, Michael Samuels and
Training Committee for the International Alliance of Avaya Users.
Janice Probst, health administration, Karin Willert, and Kristen Jespersen and Suzanne
Swann (USC epidemiology and biostatistics graduate students), “Rural African
Americans and Hispanics: Health Status and Barriers to Care,” National Rural Health
Faculty/Staff items include presentation of papers and projects for national and
Association, Dallas, Texas, also, same conference, “Availability of Ambulatory Care
international organizations; appointments to professional organizations and
Services for Rural African Americans and Hispanics.”
boards; special honors; and publication of papers, articles, and books. Submissions should be typed, contain full information (see listings for style), and be
Lawrence Glickman, history, “Make Lisle the Style: Fashion as Politics on the Eve
sent only once to Editor, TIMES, 701 Byrnes Building, Columbia campus. Send
of World War II,” International Seminar on Political Consumerism, City University,
by e-mail to: chorn@gwm.sc.edu
Stockholm, Sweden.
Lighter Times
Price named interim
dean at journalism and
mass communications
Henry Price has been named interim dean at
the College of Journalism and Mass
Communications, succeeding Ronald Farrar,
who has served in the post since October
1999 and is retiring in August.
Price, a faculty member at the college
since 1969, will assume the interim position
Aug. 16.
Price has taught
courses on copy
editing and public
opinion and
propaganda. He also
has served the
college in administrative roles,
including chair of the
news-editorial
Price
sequence, associate
dean for academics, and associate dean for
undergraduate studies.
In recent years, he has conducted
seminars and writing workshops for
newspapers, businesses, federal and state
agencies, and the private sector.
In 2000, Price was named one of three
journalism Teachers of the Year by the
Freedom Forum, and from 1998 to 2000, he
was the Eleanor M. and R. Frank Mundy
Professor in the college.
He earned his bachelor’s and master’s
degrees from the University in 1959 and
1964 and his doctorate in communication
from Michigan State University in 1972. He
began his journalism career at The State
where he was a news editor, copy editor,
and reporter from 1963 to 1964.
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Wandersman receives
national award
Abe Wandersman, a USC psychology
professor, recently received the 2001
President’s Prize for submission of a paper
detailing the First Steps evaluation process.
First Steps is a statewide initiative
dedicated to improving school readiness
through county partnerships. Wandersman
was the primary author of a paper titled
“PIE a la Mode: Mainstreaming Evaluation
and Accountability in Every County of a
Statewide School Readiness Initiative.”
Wandersman developed the paper in
collaboration with a team from the USC
Institute for Families in Society and the
Office of First Steps. PIE is the First Steps
program accountability system that was
developed to enable First Steps to ensure
that funded programs address and achieve
school readiness results.
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Earthfriendly
A Global Electric
Motor (GEM)
car will become
part of USC’s
fleet this
summer.
■ CPR CLASS SET: Health and Wellness Programs
will offer an American Red Cross adult CPR class
from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Aug. 8. The class will be held
in Room 111 of the Blatt PE Center and is limited to
eight to 12 participants. Amy Skinner of the
Department of Exercise Science is the instructor. For
more information or to register, call 7-7618.
■ PARENTS WEEKEND TO BE SEPT. 14–16: USC’s
Parents Weekend 2001 will be Sept. 14–16. For
information on events and registration forms, access
www.sa.sc.edu/stlife/parents/PW2001.htm. For
more information, contact the Office of Student and
Parent Programs at 7-7130 or 800-868-6752.
■ WOMEN’S STUDIES TO CONVENE MENTORING CONFERENCE: “Advancing
Your Career Through Empowerment Mentoring: A Conference for Women in
Healthcare Education, Practice, and Research,” a one-day conference
sponsored by Women’s Studies, will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sept.
21. The conference will be in the Daniel Management Center on the eighth
floor of the Moore School of Business. The featured speaker will be Deborah
Simpson, associate dean at the Medical College of Wisconsin, a noted
designer of faculty mentoring programs. Other events include poster sessions
and a luncheon. Concurrent small group sessions include “Embarking on a
Successful Research Career,” “Navigating the Seas of Promotion and Tenure,”
and “Becoming a Successful Clinician/Teacher.” Registration is $40 for faculty
and staff, $20 for graduate students. More information and a registration form
are available from Women’s Studies by calling 7-4007.
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Scientists test hypothesis
on indoor air pathogens
Partners in Research
This is the second in a series of articles about interdisciplinary research at USC.
BY CHRIS HORN
Like a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, Alvin Fox is attempting to track down an elusive
quarry—in this case, the source of airborne bacteria in several Columbia school buildings.
And like an Arthur Conan Doyle tale, Fox’s quest might come to an interesting conclusion.
Fox, a professor of microbiology and immunology in the School of Medicine, is leading a
three-year $860,000 study of airborne bacteria in 20 Columbia-area schools. Karen Fox, an
associate research professor (also in microbiology and immunology); Eugene Feigley, a
professor in environmental health sciences; and Lennart Larsson, a Swedish microbiologist,
also are part of the investigative team.
“In a previous study, we did some air sampling in several schools and found a distinct
correlation between elevated carbon dioxide and bacteria levels,” Fox said.
That data led Fox’s team to hypothesize that the CO2—and the bacteria—were both
coming from people in the school buildings. The bacteria are probably being shed from human
skin or exhaled, he said.
“The usual thinking is that contaminants in the air come from outside of a building or that they
are lurking in the air vents,” Fox said. “The so-called ‘sick building phenomenon’ certainly is real,
as in cases of Legionella bacteria living in hot water supplies that cause Legionnaires disease.
“But in these school buildings the initial evidence suggests that the bacteria are coming
from the students themselves, and inadequate ventilation is preventing pathogens from being
dispersed.”
To test the hypothesis, Feigley said, the researchers will sample the schools’ air quality
while students are present, then come back in the evenings when the buildings are empty.
Both the carbon dioxide and bacteria levels should be lower when no humans are present if the
hypothesis is true, he said.
“We’ll probably also use a leaf blower to stir up whatever is on surfaces in the room when
the students aren’t there to get another perspective,” Feigley said.
The problem with indoor air quality in schools—and many other buildings—is that
heating/cooling systems are usually operated for energy efficiency and not for maximum
ventilation, Feigley said. That means the same air is recirculated constantly, with inadequate
fresh air added to the mix. Standard filters are only about 30 percent effective in removing
contaminants in the air, he said.
“What we’re doing here is asking some sensible questions, such as ‘where are the bacteria
coming from?’” Fox said. “We need clear tests asking clear questions; a lot of research on
MICHAEL BROWN
Gene Feigley, left, Alvin Fox, and Karen Fox test air samples in a medical school lab.
indoor air in the past has produced data but not many answers.”
Fox’s research group has developed an array of expertise in sleuthing for bacteria. They’ve
received one patent and applied for another for sophisticated testing instruments they have
built to detect chemical markers for bacteria. They also will assay levels of DNA markers
characteristic of the normal human bacterial flora or the environment.
In a separate research project in press, they recently collaborated with the Johnson Space
Center in Houston to search for contaminants in samples of lunar dust brought back by U.S.
astronauts. They found that NASA’s lunar sampling techniques were scrupulous in not
allowing earthly microbes to contaminate the moon dust.
“Lunar fines are remarkably different from any terrestrial dust we have ever analyzed. One of
our future goals is to be involved in testing Martian dust samples for evidence of life,” Fox said.
A.C. Moore Garden
gets a needed facelift
Workers dredged the pond in the A.C. Moore Garden June 27 as part
of a bicentennial project to revitalize the urban park and make it more
accessible.
A rededication for the garden is planned tentatively for Nov. 27.
The garden, shaded by eastern cottonwoods, oaks, and Southern
magnolias, slopes from the south side of Patterson residence hall to
Blossom Street at the corner of Pickens Street in downtown Columbia. The greenspace occupies about one quarter of a city block.
Before the rededication takes place, other improvements are
planned, said Kirstin Dow, an assistant professor in the geography
department, who is helping with the revitalization.
The spring-fed pond will be refilled and restocked with bream,
crappie, largemouth bass, and catfish. Before the pond was dredged,
workers used nets to remove most of the fish.
The pond is more than a home for fish, frogs, and tadpoles. The
biology department uses it for sampling methods, Dow said.
Sediment dredged from the pond will be dried out and recycled as
prime topsoil. The Asphalt Association of South Carolina has
donated the materials for walkways and paths in the garden, and
native azaleas will be added to the landscape.
Other improvements include repairs to the stairway leading to
Patterson, an irrigation system, and enhanced lighting.
University alumni took the first steps to renovate the garden in
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Liken named
Hartford Scholar
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Sediment from the A.C. Moore pond will be recycled as topsoil.
March, clearing limbs, leaves, and debris on National Service Day.
USC purchased the property in 1937 to be used as an arboretum
and dedicated the garden to Andrew Charles Moore in 1941.
Moore, born in 1866, was the first honor graduate of South
Carolina College in 1887. In 1905, he became the first chair of the
newly created Department of Biology, establishing the herbarium that
also bears his name.
He served twice as interim president of the University from 1908
to 1909 and from 1913 to 1914. He died on campus in 1928.
For more information about the A.C. Moore Garden, access
www.environ.sc.edu/A_C_MooreWeb/acmindex.htm.
Michelle Liken, an assistant professor in the
Department of Family and Community
Health Nursing, was one of 12 scholars
chosen for the fourth annual Hartford
Institute Geriatric Nursing Research Fellows
and Scholars Program at New York
University’s Division of Nursing.
Liken is a gerontological clinical nurse
specialist, and her research and clinical
practice is with family caregivers of
relatives with Alzheimer’s disease. Her
current research project is development and
testing of an intervention designed to reduce
incidents of unplanned or emergency
institutional placement of relatives with
Alzheimer’s disease.
Through the program, scholars worked
with geriatric nursing research faculty from
the University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences, the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, the University of Florida, and
the University of South Florida.
The program promotes excellence in
nursing research that substantially improves
care of the elderly.