UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
A publication
for USC faculty,
staff, and friends
OCTOBER 9, 2003
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Committee favors merger
of Liberal Arts and
Science and Mathematics
BY LARRY WOOD
The majority of the 10-person committee appointed by President
Sorensen to consider merging the colleges of Liberal Arts and Science
and Mathematics favors the merger.
“In the end, the committee concluded that a merger, if done under
the right conditions—underlined—will stimulate interdisciplinary research and teaching, enhance research and teaching in general, enrich
the undergraduate experience, and improve the administrative structure
of the University,” Sorensen said at the Oct. 1 Columbia campus
Faculty Senate meeting.
KIM TRUETT
Beat Kentucky!
The Gamecocks continue Southeastern Conference play against the University of Kentucky Wildcats at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 9 in
Williams-Brice Stadium. The game will be broadcast nationally on ESPN.
Several faculty consider research
opportunities at new child center
BY CHRIS HORN
Several USC faculty are pursuing research opportunities at the newly
opened USC/Gateway Academy Child Development and Research
Center on Wheat Street, which includes a second floor devoted exclusively to research and training projects.
The new center, with capacity for 200 children ages 6 months to
12 years, opened in September and replaces a temporary facility on
Whaley Street.
“The word to faculty is come on down and see what we’ve got,”
said Nancy Freeman, an associate professor in the Department of
Instruction and Teacher Education. “It’s worth a visit to see what we’re
doing at the new center and what’s available for research.”
The second floor of the 28,000-square-foot Child Development and
Research Center includes observation rooms, interview rooms, and
other space that readily lends itself to child research.
Wendy Valerio, a music professor who directs the Children’s
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Inside
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The USC Dance Company will present
“Star-Crossed Lovers,” a one-act
ballet, Oct. 16–17.
Page 3
McKissick Museum
honors the late Tom
Feelings with an exhibit
of his drawings from
The Middle Passage.
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Professor Leith Mullins
will deliver the Freeman lecture on
Oct. 21. The Townsend lecture on
Nov. 1 features author Sterling Stuckey.
www.sc.edu/usctimes
❝I had a long meeting
with the committee,
and I agreed to every
one of the essential
requirements.❞
—President Sorensen
“The minority of the committee believes that each of these important objectives can be attained in ways other than a merger. The
committee, however, was unanimous in believing that merging the
two colleges is insufficient by itself to achieve the intended goals.
Furthermore, the committee was unanimous in identifying certain
requirements and conditions that will be essential to the success of a
college of arts and sciences. The merger should only be implemented
if the University is prepared to meet these requirements.”
The committee listed five essential requirements, including research and scholarship and instructional enhancement, for a successful
merger. “I had a long meeting with the committee, and I agreed to
every one of the essential requirements,” Sorensen said.
A link to the full report is posted on the University’s home page at
www.sc.edu.
Four public meetings will be held in McKissick Museum’s
auditorium for faculty to discuss the committee’s recommendations.
Meetings will be held at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 9 and 9 a.m. Oct. 15 for faculty
in the College of Liberal Arts and at 10:15 a.m. and 4 p.m. Oct. 10 for
faculty in the College of Science and Mathematics. Although the meetings are targeted to each college, faculty from either college can attend
any of the meetings.
Sorensen said he welcomes comments about the committee’s recContinued on page 6
Seventh-annual Midway Physics Day draws nearly 5,000
BY KATHY HENRY DOWELL
Ah, the grand tradition of the South Carolina State Fair:
watching cotton candy swirl in a tub, catching your
breath at the top of the Ferris wheel, gathering data on
inertia and acceleration.
OK, so that last activity isn’t a tradition. But if members of the Department of Physics and Astronomy have
their way, it will become one for middle- and high-school
students. On Oct. 7, nearly 5,000 students attended the
department’s seventh-annual Midway Physics Day, an
event that offers the unbeatable combination of fun, physics, and free fair tickets.
“There’s such a misconception about physics—that
it’s difficult, that it’s boring. But it’s fun; you just have to
take the right approach, and I think going out on the midway is the right approach,” said Dave Tedeschi, physics.
“The event is a big project for our department. We have
about 50 people involved, from faculty—including the
‘Midway Committee’ of Rudy Jones, Gary Blanpied, and
me—to graduate and undergraduate students.”
Midway Physics Day was the brainchild of the late
Richard Childers, physics. The first event was held in
1997 with about 1,500 students from about 30 schools
participating. With other USC faculty now committed
MICHAEL BROWN
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A day at the State Fair teaches high-school students that physics is fun.
Student speak
■ Names: Sarah Whitlock and Emily Whitlock
■ Major: Hotel, restaurant, and tourism management
■ Year: Seniors
■ Hometown: St. Matthews
Q. Are you accustomed to people doing a double
take when they first see you?
A. Emily: We’re used to it. We look just alike, and we
can’t separate. We do everything together, and we live
together. In our sophomore year, our parents encouraged us to live apart for our personal growth. It lasted
two weeks. We were miserable.
A. Sarah: We’re
not perfect, and we
do fight; but she
will be with me
forever. I was born
with my best friend.
There’s nothing we
can’t accomplish
together.
Q. Do you realize
that you are talking at the same
time?
A. Sarah/Emily:
We always talk at
the same time; it relieves any nervousness we might have.
Q. Does working in the hospitality industry run in
your family?
A. Emily: No, our dad is a baker, and our mom is a
teacher.
A. Sarah: Well, our brother, Brad Whitlock, majored in
the same program we’re in. He graduated in May.
A: Emily: We knew coming in what we wanted to
major in.
A. Sarah: We’ve worked in restaurants for years. And
our aunt has a lot of experience in the field. She works
in Charleston. She was telling us that this industry is
growing and opportunities are huge. “You’ll always
have a job if you go into this area,” she told us.
A. Emily: “You’d be smart to go into this field,” she
told us.
Q. What are you doing at McCutchen House that
you haven’t done before?
A. Emily: Today we’re serving, which we’ve done,
but marketing the restaurant is new for us. We all made
banners to attract and inform customers, and we’ve
spread the word through our friends and families.
A. Sarah: We want to get the customer average back
up to 100 to 120 a day, like McCutchen had at the end
of the spring semester.
A. Emily: In the spring, we had regular customers who
had a routine. They’d come on certain days each week,
and we’re hoping they will re-establish their routines.
A. Sarah: To give you an example, we serve ham every
Thursday, and some customers come to enjoy the ham.
A. Emily: And we want to attract new customers, too.
Q. Besides this hands-on practicum, and the course
hours, what other degree requirements are there?
A. Sarah: Internship. I did mine at Groucho’s in Five
Points.
A. Emily: I did mine at Salty Nut Café in Five Points. I
still work there.
A. Sarah: You choose a restaurant or hotel, and you
pick a position on the staff, and for two summers you
work that position and learn all about the place: you
learn the setup of the kitchen, you learn the house rules.
Every Monday we’d write a report on what happened
the week before. We’d explain food cost percentages,
average meal costs, customer numbers.
A. Emily: At the end of the summer, we turned in a
50- to 75-page report about the whole experience.
Q. What are your post-graduation plans?
A. Emily: We’re thinking about traveling. We want to
get out and see what’s out there for a couple of months.
That’s what our brother did. He graduated from the
program in May and spent the summer working in Vail,
Colo. Now he’s working in a restaurant in Austin, Texas.
A. Sarah: We’ll only be 21 when we graduate, so we’d
like to take our time and find what we want to do in life.
A. Emily: One day we might like to own a restaurant. If
our brother ever started a restaurant—and he talks about
it—we would definitely help him and be part of that.
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OCTOBER 9, 2003
■ VERMONT PROFESSOR TO DISCUSS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW:
Patrick A. Parenteau, a professor at the University of Vermont
Law School and former director of the school’s Environmental
Law Center, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14 in Gambrell Hall,
Room 428. His topic will be “The End of Environmental Law
As We Know It: What Comes Next?” Parenteau will provide
an overview of what has happened to environmental laws and
policy during the past several years, particularly under the Bush
administration, and preview what lies ahead. The presentation is sponsored by the USC School of the Environment, the
USC School of Law, and the Sustainable Universities Initiative
at USC. It is free and open to the public, but reservations
are requested by contacting Gayle Crutchlow at 7-9911 or
gcructhlow@environ.sc.edu. For more information, call Kim
Diana Connolly at 7-6880.
■ GUT GIRLS TO BE PERFORMED OCT. 8–10: The play Gut Girls, by Sarah
Daniels, will be performed at 8 p.m. Oct. 8–10 in the Benson Theater. The play
examines Victorian notions of femininity, the cost and subsequent value of selfworth, and self-determination as upper- and lower-class English women come
together and struggle to define their roles in society. The title characters are five
unmarried women working up to their ankles in blood in the slaughterhouses
of London. When they lose their jobs in the gutting shed, their world changes,
becoming cleaner and more feminine and at the same time becoming more
restrictive and oppressive. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door.
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Dance Company presents
tale of ‘Star-Crossed Lovers’
The USC Dance Company will hold its fall production,
featuring “Star-Crossed Lovers,” a one-act ballet, at the
Koger Center at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 16–17.
“Star-Crossed Lovers,” the centerpiece of the performance, is set to the music of West Side Story and tells
the tragic tale of young lovers caught up in the gang
scene of modern New York City. Norbert Nirewicz will
dance the part of an ex-gang member who falls in love
with a rival gang leader’s sister, to be danced by Ashley
Revell. Serguei Chtykov is the rival gang leader.
The musical style is based on big-band, jazz, and
Latin music, and the dance styles range from classical
ballet to contemporary jazz.
Nirewicz and Chtykov are guest artists with the USC
Dance Company this season, and Revell is a sophomore
from Florence. Choreography is by Susan Anderson,
artistic director, and Nirewicz. Scenic design is by Nic
Ularu, with costumes by Indira Londsdale.
The dance concert also will feature a new work by
Miriam Barbosa. Maurice Ravel will set the contemporary piece to “Spanish Rhapsody.” It will feature
Chtykov, who has a dream that awakens his knowledge
of womanhood. Ularu designed the set and Londsdale
the costumes.
Tickets are $10 for the public and $8 for students.
For reservations, call 251-2222. For more information,
call 7-5636 or visit www.cla.sc.edu/THEA.
Miriam Barbosa and Serguei
Chtykov will perform a
new work set to “Spanish
Rhapsody.”
Ashley Revell
and Norbert
Nirewicz will
dance the lead
roles in “StarCrossed Lovers,”
to be presented
by the USC
Dance Company
Oct. 16–17.
MICHAEL BROWN
Carolina Plaza renovations to begin; other projects OK’d
USC’s Buildings and Grounds Committee approved an asbestos abatement project in the Carolina Plaza that will mark the
start of a major construction project to create a new home for
the Arnold School of Public Health.
University units currently occupying the Carolina Plaza are
being moved out in anticipation of renovations and asbestos
abatement to the building, which will house public health faculty offices. Groundbreaking is planned for Oct. 23 for a new
public health research facility to be built adjacent to Carolina
Plaza. Actual construction is expected to begin in March with
completion following in two years.
The committee also OK’d several renovation and repair
projects on campus and approved the sale of two vacant lots
on Pendleton Street contingent on regulatory approval for
construction of the University inn across from the National
Advocacy Center.
Columbia Hall, a 480-bed residence hall built in 1971, will
undergo $4.6 million in renovations to include new interior
finishes, mechanical and electrical systems, and fire safety
equipment. The renovations will be completed during the next
two summers to minimize disruption during the academic year.
Renovations to the Carolina NanoCenter in Sumwalt
College continue with an additional $200,000 expenditure to
customize another laboratory for a faculty member. The project
budget to date now totals $1.8 million.
The roof replacement project at the Moore School of Business’
Close Building was increased by $48,000 to $303,000.
The committee also approved the design phase of a new
health education complex at USC Spartanburg that will consolidate nursing and education space. The campus will budget
$475,000 for design and other construction planning documents
for a project that could cost as much as $23 million. USC
Spartanburg will use up to $18 million in bonding capacity and
private funds to pay for the project. The campus also will spend
nearly $750,000 to replace lighting controls, circuits, and lighting fixtures in its Performing Arts and Humanities Center.
USC recognized nationally for its student-athlete life skills program
USC’s CARES Program (Carolina Academic Resource and Enrichment Services) has been recognized nationally by the NCAA
Division 1-A Athletic Directors’ Association as the CHAMPS
Program of Excellence for the 2002–03 academic year.
The Program of Excellence distinction recognizes
CHAMPS programs that benefit student-athletes in academic
and athletic excellence, personal development, and career
development. The CHAMPS program was established in 1991
by the Division 1-A Athletic Directors’ Association to provide
student-athletes with an educational and training program to
assist in their total development.
“It was very evident that the University of South Carolina
has created an outstanding plan and worked very hard over
a significant period of time to develop a superior CHAMPS
program,” said Dutch Baughman, executive director of the
Division 1-A Athletic Directors’ Association. “They have
clearly earned the distinction that accompanies their selection
as a CHAMPS Program of Excellence.”
“This award is a tribute to the commitment of our administration, coaches, and academic support services staff, all of
whom are dedicated to the total personal development of the
student-athlete,” said Mike McGee, USC athletics director. “It
is our goal that the student-athletes who attend Carolina have
the opportunity to learn the life skills that are so important to
their growth as young adults and take these life skills and put
them to good use as they prepare for life after college.”
■ CHEMICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS TO BREAK NEW GROUND FOR
NSF IN JAPAN: Three USC undergraduates are part of the first National
Science Foundation–funded undergraduate research program in chemical
engineering in Japan. Melanie Timmons, Gary Lee Thompson, and Ryan
Petty, all seniors, will join one student from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and one from N.C. State University and collaborate with
Japanese faculty members at the University of Osaka and Sophia University in Tokyo, as well as Kyoto University in the second and third years of
the $650,000 research project. USC’s NSF proposal was put together by
professors of chemical engineering Michael Amiridis and John Van Zee.
The grant will create a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site
in Japan and will pay for study-abroad semesters for nine undergraduates
and two graduate students in the second and third years of the grant.
■ McNAIR PROGRAM SEEKS RESEARCH STUDENTS: The
Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program
is recruiting sophomores and juniors for the 2004 Summer
Research Experience. The purpose of the McNair program is
to increase faculty diversity by helping students from underrepresented groups prepare for graduate study at the doctoral
level. Students from all disciplines are eligible. Benefits include
a summer stipend, research experience, faculty mentoring, and
the opportunity to present at national conferences, expenses
paid. Faculty members can nominate students or inform them
about the program. For more information or to download
an application, visit www.sc.edu/trio or call Chris Nesmith,
program coordinator, at 7-5125. Deadline for applications is
Dec. 15.
The fringe of the Cabin Field site in south Georgia.
Media artist trains documentary
lens on obscure farm field
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BY CHRIS HORN
From the air, it looks like any other south Georgia farm
field, a parcel of land planted in cotton with a sprinkling of
dilapidated shacks and outbuildings.
Laura Kissel first saw the field that would capture
her creative imagination on a satellite map. Her curiosity
piqued by the aerial perspective, the USC media arts faculty
member drove to the field, located near Cordele, Ga., on the
shore of Lake Blackshear in Crisp County.
“I’ve always been interested in the intersection of landscape and human activity, and I started asking a lot of questions when I saw this field. Who farms this land? Who was
the first owner? Who used to live in these shacks?” she said.
It wasn’t an exercise in idle curiosity: Kissel applied for
and received a grant from the S.C. Humanities Council to
produce a documentary tracing the history of the mile-long
field. Although far from complete, Kissel’s project demonstrates that almost any piece of land has a story waiting to be
uncovered, perhaps even a compelling one.
Kissel plans to show the 30-minute documentary, Cabin
Field, at McKissick Museum, in schools and libraries, and
possibly at the Center for Land Use and Interpretation in Culver City, Calif. She also plans to pitch the show to S.C. ETV.
It turns out that the focus of Kissel’s documentary has a
long and rich history. Using archival research and interviews
with the field’s owner and other nearby farmers, Kissel
traced the field’s origins back to the Creek Indian war fought
in Georgia during the 19th century. A local farmer has
shown Kissel his collection of stone arrow points gathered
from the field; another farmer has a promotional filmstrip
demonstrating early Ford tractors that helped to mechanize
farming and transform Southern agriculture.
She’s hoping to locate children of the tenant and sharecropping farmers who once lived in the shacks on the fringe
of the field.
“This documentary is a story of the increasing change in
the past 60 years in farming and in the South,” Kissel said.
“What I’m trying to do in this documentary is to connect
the dots, to take the ephemeral artifacts and interviews and
show how the present collides with the past.
“I am interpreting this place using archaeology and
social geography and an artist’s eye to tell the story of what
this land once was and how it became what it is today.”
Along the way, Kissel has consulted with remote sensing
experts in USC’s geography department to develop more
imagery for the documentary. If all goes as planned, she’ll
be able to capture a sequence of images that begin with a
satellite view of Earth that quickly zooms in on the Southeastern United States, ending up in the farm field in south
Georgia.
Eventually, Kissel plans to share her documentarymaking methodology with communities that are interested
in exploring their own pasts. “I’d like to develop a model for
how to do this,” she said.
Drawings from The Middle Passage, by the late Tom Feelings, will be on display through Dec. 21 at McKissick Museum.
McKissick Museum honors artist
Tom Feelings with memorial exhibit
The late Tom Feelings, whose drawings in his book The
Middle Passage have given millions of people a glimpse
into the horrific transatlantic journey that brought slaves to
the Americas, is being honored with an exhibit on his life
and work at McKissick Museum through Dec. 21.
Feelings, who died Aug. 25 at age 70,
was a retired art department faculty member
who taught at USC from 1988 to 1996. He
was a nationally known artist and book
illustrator whose images captured the African-American experience.
The exhibit at McKissick features drawings from The Middle Passage. Released in
October 1995, the book was Feelings’ first
adult book and features 50 powerful and
dramatic images.
Using black-and-white illustrations with
cool blue and warm brown tones, Feelings
blended abstract and realistic images in The
Middle Passage that make the viewer feel
as if they are aboard a slave trading ship. The illustrations
evoke the feeling of the suffering and desperation felt by the
captive people who were force-fed, beaten, and chained in
small, cramped spaces in the hulls of ships.
“I want my illustrations to reach people on a personal
level—drawing them into the story and allowing them to
feel the pain of the slaves and learn what happened to us on
the ships,” Feelings said in a USC interview in 1995.
The Middle Passage is not only Feelings’ personal odyssey; it is his legacy. Feelings said that creating the work was
time-intensive, as he reworked each illustration five or six
times until he created just the right mood.
For more than 25 years, Feelings created award-winning
books for children and young adults. Among his 20 books is
the Swahili counting book Moja Means One. Others include
Jambo Means Hello, Something on My Mind, Daydreamers,
Now Sheba Sings the Song, and Soul Looks
Back in Wonder. His honors include two
Coretta Scott King Awards by the American
Library Association and two Caldecott winners.
I See Your Face, a collaboration between
Feelings and USC English professor Kwame
Dawes, will be released next year.
Although his children’s books included
poetry and narrative by writers such as Julius
Lester, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes,
and Niki Grimes, Feelings’ The Middle
Passage did not. He said he wanted the book
“to be an emotional journey interpreted differently by each reader—I didn’t want them
to be inhibited by the written word.”
Feelings added, “It is my hope that the book will prompt
family and community discussion.”
McKissick Museum exhibitions are free and open to the
public. The museum is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Friday; 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday; and 1 to
5 p.m. Sunday.
For more information, call McKissick Museum at
7-7251 or visit www.cla.sc.edu/MCKS. For more information about Feelings and The Middle Passage, visit
www.tomfeelings.com.
Moore School of Business provides good ‘return on investment’
An abandoned sharecroppers’ cabin at the Cabin Field site.
For prospective students shopping around and kicking the
tires on MBA programs, USC’s Moore School of Business
may be a sound investment.
A new Forbes magazine ranking puts the Moore School’s
graduate program among top schools for “return on investment,” based on comparisons of graduates’ pre-MBA salaries,
salaries during the five-year period after graduation, and the
costs of attending, including tuition and foregone salary.
Moore ranked No. 44 out of 67 top institutions in the
ranking, based on a survey of full-time graduates of MBA
programs around the world.
Moore graduates could expect a payback on the investment in their degrees within 3.1 years, and average salaries
pre-MBA and post-MBA rose from $33,000 to $98,000.
OCTOBER 9, 2003
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lectures/conferences
lectures/conferences
Math/Science/Engineering
Liberal Arts
■ Oct. 9 Physics and astronomy, “A Fundamental Neutron Physics
Beamline at the Spallation Neutron Source,” Geoffrey Greene, University
of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 4 p.m., Jones Physical
Sciences Center, Rogers Room, Room 409. Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.
■ Oct. 15 Archaeology, Wednesday Archaeology at South Carolina
Lunch, “Archaeology of the Seibels House Kitchen Quarter,” Grant
Quertermous, graduate student, 12:05–1:05 p.m., Hamilton College,
Room 302.
■ Oct. 14 School of the Environment, “The End of Environmental Law
as We Know It: What Comes Next?,” Patrick A. Parenteau, Vermont
Law School, 7:30 p.m., Gambrell Hall, Room 428, free. Sponsors are
USC School of the Environment, USC School of Law, and Sustainable
Universities Initiative.
■ Oct. 16 Anthropology, “Shared History,” a 10-minute documentary
segment dating to the 1950s with 18th-century images and documents.
Addresses issues of South Carolinians’ shared histories of slavery,
race, power, class, and politics. Producer Felicia Dryden will present the
project and answer questions about her relationship to the people in the
documentary, 3:30 p.m., Hamilton College, Room 318.
■ Oct. 16 Physics and astronomy, “Measuring Single Molecular Bonds
with an AFM,” Mike McElfresh, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 4 p.m., Jones Physical Sciences Center, Rogers Room, Room 409.
Refreshments at 3:45 p.m.
■ Oct. 17 Computer science and engineering, “Semantic Video Classification and Indexing for Medical Education Application,” Jianping
Fan, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at
Charlotte, 3:30–4:30 p.m., Swearingen Engineering Center, Room 1A03.
■ Oct. 17 Chemistry and biochemistry, “Engineering and Molecular
Evolution of Heme Enzyme Catalysts,” David Goodin, Scripps Research
Institute, 4 p.m., Jones Physical Sciences Center, Room 006. Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m.
■ Oct. 20 Geological sciences, “Scientific Business—Technologic
Innovation and Social Reaction as Seen in the Oil and Gas Exploration
Industry: A Personal View,” Michael Wiltshire, Wiltshire Geological Services, Mt. Osmond, Australia. 3:30 p.m., Coker Life Sciences, Room 215.
■ Oct. 20 Biology, “How Plants Keep Time:
Understanding the Circadian Clock of Arabidopsis,” Elaine Tobin, UCLA, 4 p.m., Coker Life
Sciences, Room 005.
■ Oct. 22 Philosophy and NanoCenter, “Investigating Chemistry on Metal Nanoparticles,”
Donna A. Chen, chemistry and biochemistry,
12:30–2 p.m., Sumwalt College, Room 102.
■ Oct. 23 Chemical engineering, “Modeling
the Synchronization of Autonomously Oscillating Yeast Cultures,” Michael A. Henson,
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts,
Swearingen Engineering Center, Amoco Hall, 4 p.m.
Tobin
■ Oct. 23 Physics and astronomy, “Early Days of the Manhattan Project,” Tony French, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 4 p.m., School
of Law Auditorium.
■ Oct. 24 Chemistry and biochemistry, “Using Supremolecular Chemistry to Influence Biomembrance Function,” Bradley Smith, University
of Notre Dame, 4 p.m., Jones Physical Sciences Center, Room 006.
Refreshments served at 3:45 p.m.
■ Oct. 16 Philosophy, “Platonism and Conceptualism among the Cartesians,” Tad M. Schmaltz, Department of Philosophy, Duke University,
4–6 p.m., College of Nursing, Room 125.
■ Oct. 21 Philosophy, “The Category of Quantity from Kepler to Kant,”
R.I.G. Hughes, philosophy, 12:30–2 p.m., Philosophy Department Reading Room.
■ Oct. 21 Anthropology and Women’s Studies, “The Sojourner
Syndrome: Participatory Research and Women’s Health in Harlem, New
York,” Leith Mullings, presidential professor of anthropology and director
of the program in medical anthropology at the Graduate Center, City
University of New York, 7 p.m., Gambrell Hall Auditorium. (See story
page 8.)
■ Oct. 24 Art, “The Ashcan School: American Urban Painters,” Brad Collins, art, Columbia Design League Lecture, 7 p.m., Columbia Museum of
Art, Lorick Auditorium, $5 for non–Design League members.
Medicine
■ Oct. 17 Physiology Teachers Conference, 9 a.m.–3:45 p.m., School of
Medicine, Veterans Administration Campus. For more information, call
Philip Watson at 733-3242.
■ Oct. 20 “How do you feel? Aches, Pains, and the Sense of the Physiologic Condition of the Body,” A.D. “Bud” Craig, Atkinson Research Scientist, Division of Neurosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix,
Ariz., 4 p.m., School of Medicine campus, Building 1, Classroom B-1.
Public Health
■ Oct. 23 Groundbreaking for the new Arnold School of Public Health
building, 11 a.m., northwest corner of College and Assembly streets, free.
■ Oct. 23 Winona B. Vernberg Distinguished Lecture Series 2003,
“Bioterrorism 2003—Where Are We Now, Two Years After 9/11,” with a
panel of speakers, 3 p.m., Russell House Ballroom, free. Sponsored by
the Alumni Society of the Arnold School of Public Health.
Women’s Studies
■ Oct. 21 The Adrenée Glover Freeman Memorial Lecture in African
American Women’s Studies, “The Sojourner Syndrome: Participatory Research and Women’s Health in Harlem, New York,” Leith Mullings, CUNY
Graduate School and University Center, New York, 7 p.m., Gambrell Hall
Auditorium, free. Reception following lecture. (See story page 8.)
Los Anthropolocos,” an installation exhibit on display at USC
Sumter, features work by Robert J. Sanchez from San Diego,
Calif., and Richard A. Lou from
Milledgeville, Ga. The artists
have created an imaginary
archaeological excavation site
“unearthed” in the 22nd century. “Bring your imagination
with you when you come to see
it,” said Cara-lin Getty, director
of galleries at USC Sumter.
■ Through Dec. 7 World War I posters from the Joseph M. Bruccoli
Great War Collection.
■ Through Jan. 18, 2004 “It’s Just Mud: Kershaw County Pottery,” an
exhibition of Kershaw County pottery sheds light on a little-known center
of activity in the world of pottery. McKissick Museum exhibitions are
free and open to the public. The museum is open 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Friday; 9 a.m.–7 p.m. Thursday; and 1–5 p.m. Sunday.
For more information, call 7-7251.
exhibits
■ Oct. 16–Nov. 16 McMaster Gallery: “4:Spain,” an exhibit of four
celebrated artists from the southern part of Spain—Carceles, Caro,
Gonzalez, and Cochran. McMaster Gallery is located in McMaster College.
Gallery hours are 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. weekdays and 1–4 p.m. Sundays. All
exhibitions are free and open to the public. For more information, contact
Mana Hewitt, gallery director, at 7-7480 or mana@sc.edu. (See story
page 8.)
■ Through Jan. 18, 2004 Columbia Museum of Art: “Edward Hopper
and Urban Realism,” an exhibit from the Whitney Museum of American
Art in New York City, presents the work of Hopper alongside paintings
by his peers, including Robert Henri, George Luks, John Sloan, Williams
Glackens, and George Bellows. The museum is located in downtown
Columbia at the northwest corner of Main and Hampton streets. Museum
hours are 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday;
10 a.m.–9 p.m. Friday; and 1–5 p.m. Sunday. The museum is closed
Monday and Tuesday. Admission is $5 adults; $4 seniors; $2 students;
free to members and children 5 and under. Every Saturday is free.
theatre/opera/dance
■ Through Oct. 10 Theatre South Carolina: Gut Girls, a historical play
by Sarah Daniels, set in the gutting sheds of a slaughterhouse in late Victorian England. The play shows how the lives of five women are changed
when their work is made illegal. Directed by Amanda Thompson, 8 p.m.,
Benson Theater. Sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Dance and
the College of Liberal Arts. General admission tickets are $5, available at
the door.
■ Oct. 16–17 Koger Center: Star-Crossed Lovers, a ballet based on the
music from West Side Story, by Leonard Bernstein, presented by the USC
Dance Company and Conservatory, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $7 students,
$10 general public. Tickets are available at the Carolina Coliseum box
office, all Capitol Tickets outlets, or by calling 251-2222.
■ Oct. 24 Koger Center: Arriving in Indigo City and The Miraculous
Mandarin, two one-act ballets presented by Columbia Classical Ballet and
Greenville’s Carolina Ballet Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $5 to
$20. To order, call 790-9122.
■ Oct. 24–Nov. 2 Theatre South Carolina: The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, directed by MFA candidate Jerry Winter, Longstreet Theater.
Tickets available at Longstreet Theater box office beginning Oct. 17.
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OCTOBER 9, 2003
■ Oct. 18 Traditional Craft Workshop: Sweetgrass Basket Making,
Mary Graham-Grant, instructor, 1–5 p.m., $35. Workshop is designed
to introduce participants to the basic construction methods of making a
sweetgrass basket. Baskets will be constructed of sweetgrass, strips of
palmetto, and pine needles. Nail bones and construction materials will
be provided. Participants should bring their own scissors. Left-handed
participants should identify themselves upon registration (there is a
difference in the directional construction that must be anticipated by the
instructor). All participants will make a small basket by the end of class.
To register or for more information, call Alice Bouknight at 7-7251.
■ Oct. 11 Koger Center: Never Again, a play written by Michael B. Jones
about the mental conditioning of slavery, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets are
$18. Tickets are available at the Carolina Coliseum box office, all Capitol
Tickets outlets, or by calling 251-2222.
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around the campuses
■ Oct. 9 USC Spartanburg: International film series, “A Celebration of
Women in Film,” features the film Fire, shown in the original language
with English subtitles, 6–8 p.m., Performing Arts Center, Room 120, free.
For more information, call Jay Coffman at 52-5810.
■ Oct. 14 USC Aiken: James Oswald Distinguished Writers Series, John Dufresne,
author of The Way that Water Enters
Stone, a story collection, and three novels,
Louisiana Power & Light, Love Warps the
Mind a Little, and Deep in the Shade of
Paradise, 8 p.m., Etherredge Center, free.
■ Oct. 16 USC Spartanburg: Cleveland
Dufresne
S. Harley Golf Tournament, sponsored by
athletics department, Country Club of Spartanburg. For more information,
call Mike Hall at 52-5140.
around the campuses
■ Oct. 18 USC Aiken: Polish Art Symposium, sponsored by USC Aiken
Visual Arts, 8 p.m., Etherredge Center, free.
■ Oct. 19 USC Aiken: Aiken Community Band and Masterworks Chorale
Concert, 3 p.m., Etherredge Center, free.
■ Oct. 22 USC Spartanburg: Coffee and Conversation, sponsored by the
Honors program, 1:30 p.m., Honors House. “Today’s American Indian:
Myths and Realities,” presented by Jim Charles, education, USC Spartanburg. For more information, call Tamara Valentine at 52-5628.
■ Oct. 23 USC Spartanburg: “How to Trick and Amaze Your Friends,”
Brian Brushwood, 8 p.m., Campus Life Center Ballroom. For years,
Brushwood has toured the country with a show that mixes magic and
mentalism. In his new show, he shows how
it’s all done. He’ll also discuss many of the
popular television shows that claim to speak
to the deceased and explain how hypnotists
work. Then he will demonstrate how to
employ some of these methods to perform
simple tricks. For more information, call Carly
Schiano at 52-5125.
■ Oct. 27 USC Sumter: Fall writer program,
Jill McCorkle will offer selected readings from
her new collection of short stories, Creatures
of Habit, noon, Nettles Building auditorium.
Free and open to the public. Copies of the
book will be available for purchase, and a
book signing will follow the reading. For more
information, call Carol Reynolds at 55-3757.
The Aspen Ensemble
■ Oct. 17 USC Aiken: Cultural Series, The Aspen Ensemble, 8 p.m.,
Etherredge Center. The Aspen Ensemble offers a wide repertoire using
multiple combinations of instruments that range from duos to quintets.
The ensemble performs works by Bach, Bartok, Beethoven, Boulez,
Brahms, Debussy, Dvorak, Mozart, Ravel, Schubert, Schumann, and others. The ensemble’s members are Rita Sloan, piano; Nadine Asin, flute;
David Perry, violin; Victoria Chiang, viola; and Michael Mermagen, cello.
Members have performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center, the New York Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan Opera. Limited
seating is available. For more information, call the Etherredge Center box
office at 56-3305.
sports
■ Oct. 9 Football: Kentucky, 7:45 p.m., Williams-Brice Stadium,
also on ESPN.
■ Oct. 12 Men’s Soccer: Wake Forest, 2 p.m., The Graveyard.
■ Oct. 17 Volleyball: Arkansas, 7 p.m., Volleyball Competition Facility.
■ Oct. 17 Women’s Soccer: Vanderbilt, 7 p.m., The Graveyard.
■ Oct. 18 Football: LSU, TBA, Williams-Brice Stadium.
■ Oct. 19 Women’s Soccer: Kentucky, 1 p.m., The Graveyard.
■ Oct. 19 Volleyball: LSU, 1:30 p.m., Volleyball Competition Facility.
■ Oct. 25 Football: Vanderbilt, 7 p.m., Homecoming, Williams-Brice
Stadium.
■ Through Nov. 28 USC Sumter: “Los Anthropolocos,” an exhibit featuring installation artists Robert J. Sanchez from San Diego, Calif.,
and Richard A. Lou from Milledgeville, Ga.
University Gallery, Anderson Library Gallery.
Exhibit is free and open to the public. For more
information, call Cara-lin Getty, director of galleries, at 55-3727, or Laura Cardello, galleries
and exhibits assistant, at 55-3858.
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miscellany
■ Oct. 9 Presbyterian Student Association: Thursday Luncheon Series, “Faith and
Science: Promises and Perils,” Charles Bryan,
medicine, 12:30–1:30 p.m., Presbyterian
Student Center, 1702 Greene St. There is no
charge to attend the luncheon, but a $5 donation is suggested. For more information, call
799-0212.
■ Oct. 10 Counseling and Human Development Center: “Healing the Wound: RecoverBryan
ing from Loss,” a workshop led by Ruthann
Fox-Hines, licensed counseling psychologist, that will describe a healing
process and provide time for discussion and sharing, 3–5 p.m., Byrnes
Building, 7th floor. Open to faculty, staff, and students. Free. To register,
call 7-5223; e-mail Trina Isaac at IsaacTR@gwm.sc.edu; or stop by the
center in the Byrnes Building, 7th floor.
■ Oct. 13–Nov. 3 Counseling and Human Development Center: “You
Are Responsible for You: Anger Management,” a four-week group meeting on Mondays. Designed to help participants identify difficulties they
have with anger and developing strategies for being more interpersonally
effective, 3:30–5 p.m., Byrnes Center, 7th floor. Open to faculty, staff, and
students. Free. Participants are expected to attend all four groups and
participate in discussions. To register, call 7-5223; e-mail Trina Isaac at
IsaacTR@gwm.sc.edu; or stop by the center in the Byrnes Building, 7th
floor.
■ Oct. 15 Scholarship workshop series: NSEP Scholarship and Fellowship, for undergraduate and graduate students interested in study abroad,
5:30 p.m., Russell House, Room 203, free.
■ Oct. 16 Lecture series: Heyward E. McDonald Series on Peace and
Justice, “Faith and Science,” Andrew A. Sorensen, USC president, 6–8
p.m., Presbyterian Student Center. Reservations required for dinner,
which is $10 for faculty, staff, and community members; free for students. To make reservation, call 771-4408 or 799-0212.
McCorkle
■ Through Nov. 28 USC Sumter: An exhibit of watercolors by Sumter
artist Charles Wilfong, Upstairs Gallery, free. Gallery hours are
8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. weekdays; closed Saturday and Sunday. For more
information, call Cara-Lin Getty at 55-3727 or Laura Cardello at 55-3858.
concerts
■ Oct. 15 School of Music: Bert Ligon and Friends, jazz ensemble,
7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall, free.
■ Oct. 17 Carolina Center: USC Gamecock Rally, USC vs. LSU, USC
Battle of the Bands winner will perform, along with USC cheerleaders,
dance team, Cocky, and the Pep Band. 7–9:30 p.m., free admission and
free parking.
■ Oct. 21 Scholarship workshop series: Javits Fellowship, for graduate
work in arts, humanities, and social sciences, 4 p.m., Gressette Room,
Harper College, free.
■ Oct. 22 and 29 Counseling and Human Development Center: “Liking
Yourself,” a two-session workshop led by Ruthann Fox-Hines, licensed
counseling psychologist, that will provide a variety of exercises, mini-lectures, and many handouts designed to assist in improving and enhancing
self-esteem, 2–4 p.m., Byrnes Center, 7th Floor, free. Open to faculty,
staff, and students. Participation in both sessions is required. To register,
call 7-5223; e-mail Trina Isaac at IsaacTR@gwm.sc.edu; or stop by the
center in the Byrnes Building, 7th floor.
■ Oct. 16 School of Music: Left Bank Big Band, jazz ensemble,
7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall, free.
■ Oct. 18 Koger Center: The S.C. Philharmonic, Master Series Two,
Beethoven in Blue Jeans, 8 p.m. The second show in the Master Series
will feature Beethoven’s Lenor Overture no. 3, Gruber’s Frankenstein!!,
and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor. Tickets range from $6 to
$34. For tickets, call 254-7445.
■ Oct. 20 School of Music: Faculty and Guest Artist Concert, Ronald
Davis, tuba, 7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall, free.
■ Oct. 21 School of Music: Guest artists Kurt Fowler, cello, and Jennifer
Blyth, piano, will be joined by Paul Bro, alto saxophone. The program will
feature works from Mozart’s Magic Flute and works by Beethoven, Libby
Larsen, Astor Piazzolla, and Gabriel Fauré. 7:30 p.m., School of Music
Recital Hall, free.
■ Oct. 23 USC Symphony Orchestra: Scott Herring will perform Joseph
Schwantner’s Concert for Percussion and Orchestra, and Nicholas Walker
will perform his own composition for string bass, Pop Song. Donald
Portnoy will conduct. 7:30 p.m., Koger Center.
Other campus event information can be found on the USC
Calendar of Events at http://events.sc.edu.
■ 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, 920
Sumter St.; 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 for 2003 are Oct. 23, Nov. 6
and 20, and Dec. 11.
If you require special accommodations, please contact the program sponsor.
OCTOBER 9, 2003
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■ McCUTCHEN BUFFET OPEN TO USC COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC: McCutchen House on the Horseshoe
offers an all-you-can-eat buffet for the University community and the general public for $10 per person
during the fall and spring semesters. The buffet, which is operated by the USC School of Hotel, Restaurant,
and Tourism Management, is open on the second floor of the historic building from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday–Friday. The menu changes daily and is posted on the Web at www.hrsm.sc.edu/hrtm/ (click on the
McCutchen House link on the left). Reservations are not required except for parties of seven or more people.
The $10 charge includes $7.95 plus state and local tax and a 7 percent surcharge to help defray maintenance
costs for the historic building. Dress is informal. For more information or to make reservations, call 7-2104.
■ FLU VACCINES BEGIN OCT. 13: The Thomson Student Health Center will begin administering flu shots
for faculty, staff, and students beginning Oct. 13 for as long as supplies last. Shots will be given at the
center from 9 to 11 a.m. and 2 to 4 p.m. Monday–Thursday. Individuals receiving shots must present their
University ID card at the time of vaccination. Shots are $15 for faculty and staff, free for Family Fund staff
contributors, and $10 for students. For information, call the health center at 7-3174.
■ WORKSHOPS SET FOR NSEP PROGRAM, JAVITS
FELLOWSHIPS: The Office of Fellowships and Scholar
Programs will hold workshops for students interested in
applying for National Security Education Program (NSEP)
scholarships and fellowships and Javits Fellowships in
October. The NSEP workshop, for undergraduate and
graduate students interested in study abroad, will be held
at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 15 in the Russell House, Room 203.
The Javits Fellowship workshop, for graduate work in
arts, humanities, and social sciences, will be at 4 p.m.
Oct. 21 in Harper College, Gressette Room. Attending a
scholarship workshop is the first step in applying for a
national award. For more information, contact the Office
of Fellowships and Scholar Programs, Harper College,
Room 101, at 7-0958 or www.sc.edu/ofsp.
■ LAW-SCHOOL FAIR TO FEATURE
REPRESENTATIVES FROM 20 SCHOOLS:
The School of Law will host a law-school
fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 31 in the
second-floor lobby of the Russell House. The
fair is designed primarily for undergraduates
throughout the state, but it is free and open to
anyone interested in pursuing a law degree.
Law schools from 20 colleges and universities, including Michigan State, Temple,
Valparaiso, and Quinnipiac, as well as USC,
will be represented. A representative from The
Princeton Review also will be at the fair to
discuss the Law School Admission Test. For
information, call Eileen Korpita at 7-5581.
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Music Development Center in the School of Music, is planning to
document the process of music acquisition among young children and
examine the relationship of music acquisition with other types of early
childhood development at the center. Tara Pearsall, a Ph.D. student in
music, is teaching 12 music classes every week in the new center.
Pat Feehan, a
library and information science
❝The new center repprofessor, is on the
resents an outstanding
advisory committee for the center’s
opportunity for child
second floor and is
development research,
planning to “fill every
and we’re excited about
nook and cranny
with bookshelves,
opportunities for working
books, literature toys,
with a diverse population,
and stuffed animals.
including multilingual
I want to create a
model for what other
children.❞
child development
—Elaine Frank
centers can do in their
space.”
Feehan also plans
to use the center’s TV classroom to provide training to 21 public libraries around the state that have satellite receivers. Library and information science faculty could provide training for child care providers
in the fundamentals of selecting and reading children’s literature.
Elaine Frank, chair of the Department of Communication Sciences
and Disorders, plans to do research on early childhood speech and
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ommendations. Faculty can call the president at 7-2931 or e-mail him
at sorensen@gwm.sc.edu.
Sorensen said he plans to present the recommendations to the
Board of Trustees on Oct. 17.
In other business, Sorensen said he is still putting together a search
committee for the position of executive vice president for academic
affairs and provost. He will announce the members of the committee
on the president’s Web page, president.sc.edu.
In his comments, Provost Odom said two candidates for the dean of
the School of Law visited campus during the week of Oct. 6.
KIM TRUETT
The new Child Development and Research Center serves children ages 6 months
to 12 years and offers faculty research opportunities.
language development and on infant swallowing.
“We’re pursuing federal funding but will use departmental funds to
initiate pilot studies on the infant swallowing project, which has implications for swallowing disorders and nutritional function in the first year,”
Frank said. “The new center represents an outstanding opportunity for
child development research, and we’re excited about opportunities for
working with a diverse population, including multilingual children.”
Other faculty members who plan to make use of the center’s second
floor for research projects include Harry Wright, neuropsychiatry and
behavioral science, and Harriett Williams, exercise science.
For more information about the center and research guidelines, go
to http://www.sc.edu/uscgatewaycdrc/about.shtml.
Chris Horn can be reached at 7-3687 or chorn@gwm.sc.edu.
Bernardin Lecture rescheduled
The fifth annual Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Lectureship,
originally set for Oct. 23, has been rescheduled for Nov. 18.
This year’s lectureship will focus on Catholic-Jewish
relations and will feature Eugene J. Fisher of the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops, whose lecture is titled
“Covenant and Mission in the Catholic-Jewish Dialogue.”
Fisher will speak twice, at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., and both
lectures are free and open to the public. The afternoon lecture
also will feature Rabbi Sanford Marcus of Columbia’s Tree of
Life Congregation, who will respond to Fisher’s outline of the
history of Catholic-Jewish relations.
The 3 p.m. lecture will be held in the Lumpkin Auditorium, on the eighth floor of the Moore School of Business.
The 8 p.m. lecture will be at the Tree of Life Congregation at
6719 North Trenholm Road in Columbia and will focus on
recent developments in Catholic-Jewish relations.
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to the event, almost 5,000 students from 80
schools around the state participated this
year.
“The day at the fair is such a great resource for physics teachers, and we could not
afford to do it without USC’s help,” said Steven Eisele, a Lexington High School teacher
who has taught physics for 11 years.
For Eisele’s students, the day begins like
this:
“We give the students electronic equipment and physics problems to solve,” he said.
“To gather data, they attach a single-axis accelerometer, which will measure their acceleration coming down, to a CBL (calculatorbased laboratory) strapped around their chest
or rib cage. Since this is a free-fall type of
ride, there will be no acceleration going up.
Then it goes to zero, which means no forces
are on them. Then on the way down, it will
go to about a 2G acceleration. When they get
off the ride, the calculator gives them a graph
of acceleration and times.
“After they apply physics formulas to the
data, they can tell me how far they fell and
how fast they were going,” said Eisele, who
has an MBA from USC. “We study these
forces in physics class, but there is no way
for the students to feel the excitement and
exhilaration of those forces while they sit in
a classroom.”
Students who have questions at the fair
are directed to “The Tent,” a centralized
mentor station staffed by physics professors
and graduate students. For the past two years,
Barbara Szczerbinska has been at The Tent.
“My responsibility has been to oversee
five computers at the help stations and answer questions,” said Szczerbinska, a Ph.D.
student in physics. “Always, the week before
the fair, all the USC students who are helping
go to training sessions, and we test all the
equipment to make sure it works. Then we’re
ready for the midway.”
Kathy Henry Dowell can be reached at
7-3686 or kdowell@gwm.sc.edu.
Vol. 14, No. 16
October 9, 2003
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.
Glass Menagerie to open Oct. 24
Honoris causa
English professor Janette Turner Hospital, center, received an honorary doctorate in literature from her alma mater, the University of
Queensland, following the end of her national book tour in Australia.
USC Provost Jerry Odom, far right, and Hospital’s husband, Clifford
Hospital, far left, now a professor in USC’s religious studies department, were part of the platform party for the ceremony.
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OCTOBER 9, 2003
USC Theatre South Carolina will present The Glass Menagerie, by
Tennessee Williams, Oct. 24–Nov. 2 in Longstreet Theater.
The play, which made Williams famous, focuses on a wandering
son who is haunted by the sister and mother he had to leave behind.
MFA candidate Jerry Winters is the director.
Tickets will be available at the box office beginning Oct. 17.
Curtain times for USC Theatre South Carolina productions are 8 p.m.
Tuesday–Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday.
Tickets are $14 for the general public; $12 for USC faculty and staff,
senior citizens (age 60+), and the military; and $10 for students. Group
tickets for 10 or more people are available. For tickets, call 7-2551.
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; Tammy Whaley, 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 Assistant to the President for Equal Opportunity Programs.
■ COLLEGE OF PHARMACY RESEARCHERS
■ JOB VACANCIES: For up-to-date information on USC Columbia vacancies,
access the human resources Web page,
http://hr.sc.edu, or visit the employment
office, 508 Assembly St. For positions at
other campuses, contact the personnel
office at that campus.
LAND NIH GRANT: College of Pharmacy researchers Theresa Smith and Michael Wyatt have received
a $145,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute
of the National Institutes of Health to study how
chemopreventive agents, known to inhibit the
growth of cancer, affect the repair of DNA. The
study will look at what can be done to prevent
DNA damage from occurring. The inability of a
cell’s DNA to repair itself after being damaged can
lead to the development of cancer cells in the body.
The USC study, one of the first of its kind in the
United States, could lead to a better understanding
of how diet can prevent cancer and also repair DNA
within cells.
■ LOPEZ-DeFEDE NAMED TO NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL: Ana Lopez-DeFede, director of the Division
for Health and Family Studies at USC’s Institute for Families in Society, has been named to the Advisory
Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis. The council reports to the National Coalition for Elimination of
Tuberculosis (NCET). Lopez-DeFede was a consultant for NCET on the project “TB in America: Disparities in
the Southeast.” She is working on a study with Muriel Harris, a researcher in USC’s Institute for Families in
Society, on tuberculosis among African Americans in South Carolina.
■ McKISSICK MUSEUM GETS LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES GRANT: McKissick Museum has received a
$90,985 Learning Opportunities Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The grant will be
used to develop an Internet-based delivery system that will make the museum’s diverse collections on Southern and South Carolina folk life and material culture available to a broader audience. The project will integrate
the museum’s extensive holdings of artifacts, oral histories, early and contemporary musical recordings,
film, and documents into an organized system. It also will provide support for a Web site that allows in-depth
examination of selected topics.
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Faculty/Staff
■ BOOKS AND CHAPTERS: John R. Jensen, geography, Roberta
Miller, Alexander Goetz, Lawrence Harding, Chris Johannsen, Molly
Macauley, John MacDonald, and Jay Pearlman, Using Remote Sensing in State and Local Government, National Research Council of the
National Academies, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.
George Krause, political science, “Uncertainty and Legislative Capacity for Controlling the Bureaucracy,” Uncertainty in Politics, Barry C.
Burden, editor, Cambridge University Press, New York.
Kendrick A. Clements, history, and Eric A. Cheezum (Ph.D. candidate in history), “Woodrow Wilson,” American Presidents Reference
Series, Congressional Quarterly Press, Washington, D.C.
Susan L. Cutter, geography, and William H. Renwick (Miami University), Exploitation Conservation Preservation, John Wiley and Sons,
Hoboken, N.J.
Nicholas Vazsonyi, languages, literatures, and cultures, “Goethe in
Moscow: Georg Lukács’s Anti-Fascist Readings 1933–1945.” Goethe
im Exil 1933–1945: Deutsch-Amerikanische Perspektiven, Frank
Baron and Gert Sautermeister, editors, Aisthesis,
Bielefeld.
Alexander J. McDonald,
pharmacology, physiology,
and neuroscience, and J.L.
Price, “Amygdala,” Learning
and Memory, 2nd edition,
John Byrne, editor, Macmillan, New York, also, “Amygdala,” Encyclopedia of the
Neurological Sciences, Vol.
1, M.J. Aminoff and R.B.
Daroff, editors, Academic
Press, San Diego, Calif.
Lighter Times
Laura R. Woliver, political science, review of Regulating Intimacy, by
Jean L. Cohen, and Real Choices, by Beth Kiyoko Jamieson, Perspectives on Politics.
Marsha Dowda, Karen A. Pfeiffer, and Russ R. Pate, exercise science,
and S.G Trost and J.R. Sirard, “Physical Activity in Overweight and
Nonoverweight Preschool Children,” International Journal of Obesity.
Joshua M. Gold, education, and Gretchen M. Morris (USC education
master’s graduate), “Family Resistance to Counseling: The Initial Agenda
for Intergenerational and Narrative Approaches,” The Family Journal.
Susan L. Cutter, geography, “GI Science, Disasters, and Emergency
Management,” Transactions in GIS, and, with Bryan J. Boruff, Jaime
A. Easoz, Steve D. Jones, Heather R. Landry, and Jamie D. Mitchem,
“Tornado Hazards in the United States,” Climate Research.
Harvey Starr, political science, and Christina Lindborg (graduate
student in political science), “Democratic Dominoes Revisited: The
Hazards of Governmental Transitions,” Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Michael C. Scardaville, history, “Justice
by Paperwork: A Day
in the Life of a Court
Scribe in Bourbon
Mexico City,” Journal
of Social History.
■ PRESENTATIONS:
Tom Hansford, political
science, “The U.S. Supreme Court’s Interpretation of Precedent,”
American Political
Science Association,
Philadelphia, Pa., also,
same conference, “The
■ ARTICLES: Martin S.
Political Determinants
Roth, international busiof the Expansion of the
ness, “Media and Message
Federal Judiciary.”
Effects on DTC Prescription
Daniela Di Cecco,
Drug Advertising Awarelanguages, literatures,
ness,” Journal of Advertisand cultures, “Novels
A quick show of hands is not an invitation to show off jewelry, Iris.
ing Research.
for Dutiful Daughters:
Steven D. Smith and ChrisThe Brigitte Series in
topher Ohm Clement, InstiFrance,” International
tute of Archaeology and Anthropology, and Stephen R. Wise (Parris
Research Society for Children’s Literature, Kristiansand, Norway.
Island Museum), “GPS, GIS, and the Civil War Battlefield Landscape:
Laura R. Woliver, political science and women’s studies, “ReproducA South Carolina Low Country Example,” Historical Archaeology.
tive Choices and the Political Geographies of Pregnancy,” Feminism
Michael Witkoski, journalism, “The bottle that isn’t there and the
and Legal Theory Project, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
duck that can’t be heard: The ‘subjective correlative’ in commercial
Nicholas Vazsonyi, languages, literatures, and cultures, “Marketing
messages,” Simile.
German Identity: The Wagner Industry,” German Studies Association
Nancy Freeman and Kevin Swick, education, “Preservice teaching:
Conference, New Orleans, La.
Interns strengthen the fabric of their communities,” The Generator.
Dennis Pruitt, student affairs, “Introduction to Student Affairs for
Sara Wilcox, exercise science, A. McTiernan, C. Kooperberg,
Business Officers,” Business Management Institute, University of
E. White, R. Coates, L.L. Adams-Campbell, N. Woods, and J. Ockene,
Kentucky, Lexington.
“Recreational physical activity and the risk of breast cancer in postBetty Glad, political science, “When Presidents are Tough?” Internamenopausal women: The Women’s Health Initiative cohort study,”
tional Society of Political Psychology, Boston, Mass.
Journal of the American Medical Association.
Perry Myers, languages, literatures, and cultures, “Transformed
Michael E. Hodgson, John R. Jensen, and Jason A. Tullis, geograSpaces: Tonio Kröger Discovers a Volksbibliothek,” German Studies
phy, and Kevin D. Riordan and Clark M. Archer, “Synergistic Use of
Association Conference, New Orleans, La.
Lidar and Color Aerial Photography for Mapping Urban Parcel Imper■ OTHER: Charles W. Kegley, political science, named to the editoviousness,” Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing.
rial
board of International Politics.
Peter G. Murphy, literature and Spanish, Union, “Naturalism from
Elizabeth Dickey, journalism and mass communications, presented
Forest to Village in William Gilmore Simms’s ‘The Armchair of
the Honors Lecture for the Scholastic Journalism Division of AmeriTustenuggee,’” Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural
can Educators of Journalism and Mass Communications, Kansas
Studies.
City, Mo.
Joseph Pappin III, philosophy, continuing education, “Freedom and
Laura R. Woliver, political science and women’s studies, elected
Authority: Burke and Sartre in Dialogue,” Modern Age: A Quarterly
president-elect of the Women’s Caucus for Political Science for the
Review.
American Political Science Association.
Charles W. Kegley, political science, and Gregory A. Raymond,
Pat Willer, International Programs for Students, elected national
“Preventive War: Prelude to Global Peril?” USA Today.
chair of the Council of Advisers of Foreign Students and Scholars
Russ R. Pate, exercise science, P.D. Thompson, D. Buchner,
section of NAFSA: The Association of International Educators.
I.L. Pina, G.J. Balady, M.A. Williams, B.H. Marcus, K. Berry, S.N.
Blair, F. Costa, B. Franklin, G.F. Fletcher, N.F. Gordon, B.L. Rodriguez,
A.K. Yancey, and N.K. Wenger, “Exercise and Physical Activity in the
Prevention and Treatment of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease,”
Circulation.
Gregory J. Carbone, geography, Linda O. Mearns, Theodoros
Mavromatis, E. John Sadler, and David Stooksbury, “Evaluating
CROPGRO-Soybean Performance for Use in Climate Impact Studies,”
Agronomy Journal.
J. Ralph Byington, business, Aiken, and JoAnn Christensen (Louisiana Tech University), “The Computer: An Essential Fraud Detection
Tool,” Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance.
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Shinogle named health policy fellow
Judy Shinogle, an assistant professor of pharmaceutical and
health outcomes sciences in the College of Pharmacy and health
services policy and management in the
Arnold School of Public Health, has been
named an Academy Health Policy Fellow
by the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’s National Center
for Health Statistics (NCHS), and Academy Health.
The program brings visiting scholars
in disciplines related to health services
research to the NCHS to collaborate on
Shinogle
studies of interest to policymakers and the
health services research community using NCHS data systems.
The duration of a full-time fellowship is 13 months, and up to two
individuals are selected each year.
Shinogle has been at USC since completing a Ph.D. in public
health economics from The Johns Hopkins University School of
Public Health and Hygiene in 2001. Her research interests include
pharmacoeconomics, mental health, employer benefits, and disability. As a fellow, Shinogle will focus on “Firms’ Demand for
Health Benefit Generosity.”
In memoriam
Salkehatchie remembers Chilcote
Wayne L. Chilcote, associate professor of English and
geography at USC Salkehatchie, died unexpectedly
Aug. 11 in Charleston. He had been a member of the
faculty at USC Salkehatchie for 13 years.
Services were held Aug. 14 in Charleston. Students
remembered his dedication to excellence and his love of
learning at a memorial service held on the Salkehatchie
campus Aug. 27.
Chilcote was born Sept. 12, 1945. He served in the
U.S. Army during Vietnam, attended the University of
Tennessee, and earned masters’ degrees at East Tennessee State University and the University of South
Carolina. He held numerous positions in the USC
Regional Campuses Faculty Senate and, at the time of
his death, was serving as immediate past chair of the
Faculty Senate, chair of the USC Salkehatchie Faculty
Organization, and chair of the USC Salkehatchie
Humanities Division.
He is survived by his wife, Bernadette, and daughters Deborah, Emma, and Hannah. A scholarship fund
has been established in his name at USC Salkehatchie.
Music professor earns ASCAP Award
Samuel O. Douglas, a professor in the School of Music, has been
awarded an ASCAP Award by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.
The award recognizes creative efforts, prestige value of music,
and continued activity in composing and performing. The awards
are determined by a panel of accredited music professionals, which
includes conductors, music critics, performers, and educators.
ASCAP is the world’s largest performing rights organization,
with more than 140,000 composers, authors, and publishers in
the United States, representing music of every variety and style.
ASCAP is the only U.S. performing rights organization governed
by and for its members.
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■ HOMECOMING IS OCT. 24–25: “Coming Home To A New Carolina” is the theme of
this year’s homecoming celebration Oct. 24–25 with football opponent Vanderbilt. The
weekend’s events will feature special activities for students, faculty, staff, and alumni of all
classes, and reunions for the classes of 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, and the Carolina
Centurions, graduates of more than 50 years. The festivities begin Oct. 24 with the class
of ’53 reunion luncheon, followed by the Homecoming parade on Sumter Street starting at
4 p.m. and the awards dinner at 7:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Hotel, 2100 Bush River Road.
The annual Cockfest pep rally will be held at Williams-Brice Stadium at 8 p.m. Oct. 24. On
Oct. 25, the Alumni Association and the Moore School of Business will co-host the annual
Tea Dance and Pre-game Party at the National Guard Armory on Bluff Road with music by
The Men of Distinction. The party, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., precedes the football game with
Vanderbilt at 7 p.m. A variety of other events also are planned and are listed on the Carolina
Alumni Association’s Web site at www.CarolinaAlumni.org. A detailed schedule and an
announcement of award winners at the Alumni Association’s Homecoming Gala and Awards
Dinner will be published in the Oct. 23 issue of TIMES.
■ JOURNALISM TO RECOGNIZE OUTSTANDING GRADUATES: A leader
in South Carolina’s advertising and public relations industry and the
strategy and business development manager for a marketing communications agency in Sydney, Australia, will be honored by the School of
Journalism and Mass Communications as distinguished alumni
Oct. 9 in Columbia. W. Lee Bussell, ’82, chair and chief executive officer
of Chernoff Newman Silver Gregory, LLC, will receive the school’s 2003
Bussell
Speelmon
Distinguished Alumni Award, and Jim Speelmon, ’96 master’s, will
receive the Outstanding Young Alumni Award. Before joining the Newman Saylor & Gregory firm in Columbia, which merged
with Chernoff/Silver & Associates to form Chernoff Newman Silver Gregory, Bussell was president of Broom and Bussell
Inc., a Columbia-based advertising and public relations firm. As business development and strategic planner for the Sydney,
Australia, office of the Euro RSCG Partnership, Speelmon focuses on increasing the profitability of existing clients through
development of integrated communications planning. He leads account planning and strategic direction for the interactiveonly clients and is a key member of the integration team responsible for planning all client work. The Euro RSCG Partnership
is Australia’s eighth-largest agency and the largest Euro RSCG Worldwide agency in Asia Pacific.
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If you go
McMaster Gallery to showcase
‘4:Spain’ exhibit Oct. 16–Nov. 16
In Spain, art is everywhere in a multitude of forms. This environment, where art is revered as a vital historical and cultural value,
has fostered many talented artists. McMaster Gallery will showcase
some of this talent Oct. 16–Nov. 16 in an exhibition of works on
paper by three well-established Spanish artists and a photographer
who resides in Spain.
“4:Spain” will feature the work of artists Juan Cárceles, Luis
Caro, and Jose Manuel González, and photographer Bishop
Cochran.
Cárceles’ beautifully executed works are both peaceful and mysterious. His control of color, line, and illumination produce a deeply
dreamlike ambience.
He has taught for
many years in the
Faculty of Fine Arts
in the University of
Sevilla, Spain.
Caro creates
works ranging from
wonderfully realistic
portraits in oil to the
experimental, as in
this show.
American photographer Bishop Cochran lives
González, the
in Spain.
youngest of the three,
comes from a family of artists based in the medieval city Cáceres.
He represents some of the modernist graphic tendencies seen in the
coming generation of Spanish artists.
Cochran is an American-born musician and designer who has
lived in Sevilla for many years. He has extensively photographed in
the United States, Spain, and Europe. His work is done exclusively
in 35mm black and white.
■ What: “The State of Scholarship on Slave
Art and Labor,” Townsend Lecture
■ Who: Sterling Stuckey, Presidential Chair
Professor of History, University of California,
Riverside
■ When: 7 p.m. Nov. 1
■ Where: Belk Auditorium, Moore School of
Business
Townsend Lecture to examine
‘American-ness’ of African slaves
BY CHRIS HORN
Luis Caro’s “L’attente,” a portrait in oils, is part of the exhibit.
“4:Spain” is free and open to the public. An opening reception,
also open to the public, will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 16 in the
gallery.
McMaster Gallery is located in McMaster College at 1615
Senate St. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Monday–Friday and
1–4 p.m. Sunday. For more information, contact Mana Hewitt,
gallery director, at 7-7480 or at mana@sc.edu.
Medical anthropologist to deliver Freeman lecture
Leith Mullings, presidential professor of anthropology and director
of the program in medical anthropology at the Graduate Center,
City University of New York, will deliver the 2003 Adrenée Glover
Freeman Lecture in African American Women’s Studies at 7 p.m.
Oct. 21 in Gambrell Hall Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to
the public.
Mullings’ lecture, “The Sojourner
Syndrome: Participatory Research and
Women’s Health in Harlem, New York,”
will address the persistent reality that African-American women at all socioeconomic
levels are at higher risk than white women
for contracting many illnesses, developing
chronic conditions, and dying, especially
during pregnancy. She also will address
how to see the social contexts of women’s
Mullings
lives through a participatory research process that respects community members, actively engages them in
all phases of the research, and leaves communities better off.
Mullings headed a team of scholars and community members
in Harlem in a multi-year, multi-site, participatory project on the
social contexts of reproduction, which was funded by the Centers
for Disease Control and is discussed in her latest book, with Alaka
Wali, Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in
Central Harlem.
In addition to her work in medical and urban anthropology,
Mullings has been one of the pioneers in developing theory about
the complexities of race, class, and gender in the United States. Her
books include On Our Own Terms: Race, Class, and Gender in the
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Lives of African American Women; Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle (with Manning Marable); and
Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An Anthology of African American
Social and Political Thought from Slavery to the Present (with
Manning Marable).
She received the Society for the Anthropology of North America’s Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of
North America and the French-American Foundation Prize: Chair
in American Civilization, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, Paris, France. She has held faculty positions at New York
University, Princeton University, Columbia University, and the
University of California at Berkeley.
The Freeman Lecture was established in 1993 in memory of
Adrenée Glover Freeman, a Columbia attorney who was active in
civic affairs and served on the Community Advisory Board of the
Women’s Studies program. Mullings’ visit is co-sponsored by the
College of Liberal Arts, the African American Studies Program,
the Arnold School of Public Health, the College of Nursing, the
Department of Anthropology, and the Prevention Research Center.
If you go
■ What: Adrenée Glover Freeman Lecture
■ When: 7 p.m. Oct. 21
■ Where: Gambrell Hall Auditorium
■ Admission: Free and open to the public
A noted historian and writer on the culture of
American slaves will present this fall’s Townsend
Lecture Nov. 1 in Belk Auditorium.
Sterling Stuckey, Presidential Chair Professor of
History at the University of California, Riverside,
will address “The State of Scholarship on Slave Art
and Labor” in his 7 p.m. lecture in Belk Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public.
“Some argue that those Africans who were
caught in the net became African Americans
before they even left the African continent,” said
Stuckey, author of Slave
Culture (Oxford Press).
“Many scholars have led
us to believe those slaves
were more Americanized
than they really were.”
Stuckey contends that
scholars should better
examine the African ethnicity among slaves and
acknowledge the influence Stuckey
the slaves’ African roots
had on American culture.
“So much of what was thought to be American
is black; its origins are African,” Stuckey said.
Stuckey plans to display images from The
Middle Passage, a pictorial chronicle of the Atlantic slave trade created by the late Tom Feelings,
a former USC art professor (see story page 3).
He’ll also draw on S.C. folklore from Tales of the
Congaree, by E.C.L. Adams, and audio recordings of slave folk tales recorded by William John
Faulkner.
It wasn’t until post–Civil War Reconstruction
that ex-slaves joined formerly free blacks in thinking
of themselves as American, Stuckey said. “They
maintained that feeling of belonging despite efforts
in the Jim Crow era to deny their newly won rights
and, of course, displayed even greater conviction
in the post–World War II period when the quest for
civil rights was greatly accelerated,” he said.
“My main point, though, is that when we refer
to the early slaves as African American, we are
missing the larger question of what being American actually meant in that context,” he said. “We
need to explore how the African culture shaped
the early American culture.”
The Townsend Lecture series began in 1997
with funding from J. Ives Townsend, a 1941 USC
graduate and professor emeritus at the Medical
College of Virginia. The lecture series focuses on
biology’s impact on society (spring lecture) and
Southern cultural issues (fall lecture).