UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
A publication
for USC faculty,
staff, and friends
DECEMBER 9, 2004
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Graham to speak
at December
commencement
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Olin Graham will deliver
the December commencement address and
receive an honorary doctor of laws degree
during ceremonies at 3:30 p.m. Dec. 13 in the
Colonial Center.
Baccalaureate, master’s, and professional
degree candidates will receive their diplomas
at the ceremony,
which will include
degree recipients
from all USC
campuses.
Commencement
ceremonies for
doctoral degree candidates will be held
at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 13
in the Koger Center.
John McFadden, a
Graham
professor in USC’s
Department of Educational Psychology, will
be the speaker.
The University expects to award more
than 2,400 degrees during commencement
exercises, with Columbia campus students
receiving two associate degrees, 1,043 baccalaureate degrees, 40 doctor of pharmacy
degrees, 18 law degrees, 43 graduate certificates, 496 master’s degrees, 16 graduate
specialist degrees, and 98 doctoral degrees.
The University also expects to award 30
associate degrees, 218 baccalaureate degrees,
and four master’s degrees from USC Aiken;
17 associate degrees and 40 baccalaureate
degrees from USC Beaufort; 23 associate
degrees from USC Lancaster; 19 associate
degrees from USC Salkehatchie; 15 associate
degrees from USC Sumter; nine associate
degrees from USC Union; and 22 associate
degrees, 325 baccalaureate degrees, and one
master’s degree from USC Upstate.
Born in Central, Graham graduated from
D.W. Daniel High School, the first in his
family to complete that level of education,
then earned an undergraduate degree in psy-
Groundbreaking
for research campus
set for Dec. 15
BY MARSHALL SWANSON
University administrators presented their vision for the new Research
Campus Initiative in a Nov. 30 presentation for faculty and staff, which
drew a standing-room-only crowd to the Russell House auditorium.
The hour-long preview and question-andanswer session by President Sorensen and
Harris Pastides, vice president for research and
health sciences, preceded a similar orientation
for community leaders later that evening.
The two outlined plans for the campus’
expansion to accommodate new research initiatives and elaborated on faculty recruitment programs that will bring about 600 new professors
to USC during the next six years. Throughout
their presentations, Sorensen and Pastides
Sorensen
stressed the importance of faculty input in the
research initiative.
“We need to work at this collectively and collaboratively,” Sorensen
said. “We’re excited about the prospect before us, and it will only
work if the faculty gets behind it. If the faculty are enthusiastic and
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Family Fund campaign surpasses
$970,000 and continues counting
Triennial exhibit
Two faculty members from USC’s
art department are among the artists
whose works are featured in the S.C.
Arts Commission Triennial exhibition,
which runs through Feb. 27, 2005,
at the State Museum. Above is Mana
Hewitt’s “Mechanics of Desire,” a
work in etched copper with brass
fittings. At right is Robert Lyon’s
“Collision,” in clay. Works by graduate students Julie Jacobson and Jill
Allen also are in the exhibit.
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Gifts and pledges from faculty, staff, and retirees to this year’s Family
Fund campaign now total more than $974,000.
In addition, 31 University
departments have achieved 100
percent participation; overall, 33
percent of all faculty and staff have
contributed to the campaign, which
allows gifts to be designated for any
academic or support area of the University.
“Faculty and staff make important contributions every day through
their work to support the mission of this University. When they make
additional gifts of financial resources, their pride and commitment is
apparent to everyone,” said President Sorensen. “This level of support
sends an important message to our alumni and supporters everywhere:
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Inside
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Graduate student in public history is editor of the South Carolina
Encyclopedia.
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Giving the right gift is an
art, but not every one is
a masterpiece. Faculty
and staff share their
best and worst holiday
presents.
www.sc.edu/usctimes
Offer made to candidate for executive dean of pharmacy
The University has extended an offer to a candidate for
the position of executive dean of the merged USC/MUSC
College of Pharmacy. President Sorensen made the
announcement at the Dec. 1 meeting of the Columbia
Campus Faculty Senate.
Sorensen also saluted faculty members at USC Aiken
for having generated more than $800,000 in external
funding for research during the first four months of the
year.
Chris Plyler, vice provost and executive dean for regional campuses and continuing education, outlined plans
for the Palmetto College. Palmetto College would be
an academic unit of USC made up of faculties from the
University’s four regional campuses, Lancaster, Salkehatchie, Sumter, and Union, and with participation from
the Aiken, Beaufort, Columbia, and Upstate campuses.
Palmetto College would create a structure, by face-toface interaction and through televised, Web-based, and
live instruction by faculties across the University, through
which the regional campuses could offer bachelor’s degrees. For more information about the Palmetto College,
go to pc.sc.edu.
The next Faculty Senate meeting will be at 3 p.m. Feb.
2, 2005, in the School of Law Auditorium.
Student speak
■ Name: Aaron Marrs
■ Class: graduate student
■ Major: public history
■ Hometown: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
■ You’re a long way from Cedar Rapids. That’s not
a new thing for me: I did my undergraduate work in
history at Lawrence University in Appleton,
Wis. I’ve been
in Columbia
since 1999 earning two master’s
degrees, and I’m
now finishing
my Ph.D. My
parents are still
in Iowa. It’s a
two-day drive
from here, and I
get home about
once a year.
They’ve started coming to me, though: they go to the
beach in late December or early January, and I get to
see them then.
■ Did they influence your interest in history? My
parents are college professors—my dad is in English,
my mom is in music—and they encouraged learning,
exploring, and a general interest in the outside world. I
found the path to history on my own.
■ When did that happen? I’ve been pretty much set on
history since day one, thanks to a combination of factors.
I was a voracious reader when I was growing up, and I
tended to read more about the past. I found it helpful to
understand current events by seeing how things developed over time. That interest parlayed itself well into a
major, especially at a place like Lawrence, where I had
excellent instructors and was encouraged to take courses
in a variety of fields. Then I began looking at getting
a master’s degree in history and a master’s in library
science, and USC had very good programs in both. After
earning the degrees, which would qualify me to be an
archivist, I’ve decided to switch tracks to teaching in a
college or university setting.
■ Have you taught? As a graduate teaching assistant,
I’ve taught HIST 101, which is western civilization
prior to the mid 1700s; HIST 111, which is American
history prior to the Civil War; and HIST 112, which
is everything after the Civil War. I’ve also worked in
the Modern Political Collections of South Caroliniana
Library, had an internship at a museum in Wisconsin, and helped a professor edit a book of historical
photographs. This is what makes the Southern studies
and history programs here very strong: I don’t believe
graduate students at other institutions get this wide
range of experience.
■ You’re getting even more experience as the editor
of the South Carolina Encyclopedia, a massive project spearheaded by Walter Edgar. I became editor in
August, but I actually started out with the Encyclopedia
in fall 2001 as a fact checker. I did that for two years
and then went back to teaching. When the editor took a
job with the Thomas Jefferson Papers at Princeton, they
needed someone to step in and finish the job.
■ What’s the status of the Encyclopedia? We’re in
the home stretch. We’re in the process of sending the
text to USC Press letter by letter. It’s my job to put
things in alphabetical order and do the last round of
proofreading. USC Press will do copyediting and send
it back to us to make sure that no errors have been
introduced during the transmission process. Then we’ll
send it back to them for basic layout and design. My
job now is very different from being a fact checker,
where you grab about 20 essays, check them, and move
on. I didn’t realize quite how large this project was
until I stepped into the middle of it.
■ How large is the project? Right now we have 1,925
essays ranging from 250 words to 3,000 words. This
is a full-time job, and I knew that going into it, but I
think it has a lot of benefits for me. This is excellent
experience. And once I’m done, I’m confident that
I can handle any other publishing project. I hope to
complete my degree in May 2006, but whatever time
the Encyclopedia takes away from my research will
have been worth it.
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DECEMBER 9, 2004
■ TOP OF CAROLINA HOLIDAY BRUNCH IS DEC. 12: Top of
Carolina will sponsor a holiday brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30
p.m. Dec. 12. The menu will include fresh fruit salad with a
citrus coconut sauce, vegetable tortellini salad, chicken pecan
salad, ham and cheddar quiche, kielbasa breakfast sausage,
harvest blend wild rice pilaf, cranberry and apricot glazed
chicken breast, seared garlic and rosemary baby lamb chop,
whole green beans with roasted peppers, Granny Smith apple
glazed grilled center cut pork chop, English peas with pearl
onions, and cut corn. The carving station will feature hickory,
mesquite-smoked flank steak with a red wine au jus sauce.
Other items include an omelet station, a Belgian waffle station,
and a dessert station. The cost is $16.95 for adults, $8.95 for
children ages 6–12, and free for children under 5. Reservations
are recommended. Call 7-0848.
■ TODD ELLIS TO SPEAK AT STUDENT LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE:
The Office of Student Involvement and Leadership Programs will sponsor the
19th-annual Student Leadership Training Conference Feb. 5, 2005. The theme for
the one-day conference will be “A Game Plan for You.” Todd Ellis, former Gamecock quarterback and current play-by-play radio broadcaster, will be the keynote
speaker. Workshop sessions will include “How Not to Overextend Yourself as
a Leader,” “Advisors Roundtable,” “Selling Your Programs,” “Fiscal Fitness for
Your Organization,” “Leadership Skills from Reality TV,” “Spirituality and Leadership,” and “How to Prepare for a Career in Student Affairs.” The conference also
will offer sessions for advisors. Cost is $20 for USC students, faculty, and staff.
To register online, go to www.sa.sc.edu/leaders/sltc.htm. For more information,
call 7-7130 or e-mail leadership@gwm.sc.edu.
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Relax: How to beat holiday stress this year
BY JANET M. ZIEGLER, USC COUNSELING
AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER
Why is it that the sounds of holiday music no longer bring a
rush of anticipatory joy and delicious fantasies of a festive,
cohesive family joined around a bountiful table?
As females, our thoughts seem to prance and dance like
those legendary reindeer chomping at the bit. Sometimes we
wish for a jolly or even a grumpy old soul to direct us through
the challenges of the familiar and yet daunting terrain that
returns with each holiday season.
For women, sleigh bells and stress seem to go
hand in hand. Menorahs and self-imposed expectations burn in the holiday air. Females continually
try to do everything simultaneously and try to do it
perfectly. We forget words like “good enough” during the holidays. Women continue to be caught in the
trap of perfection and responsibility.
Holiday stress increases the rush of cortisol
(stress hormone) that already courses through female
veins on a daily basis with just the ordinary demands Zeigler
of work, school, kids, husband, parents, church,
synagogue, and household chores. So, what can we as women
do to find a silent, solitary star of enjoyment in the winter sky?
Start by breathing. It’s such a simple, primal task—breathing. Yet if you check yourself during a harried day, you’ll probably find that you are frequently holding your breath or breathing in quick, shallow breaths. This signals “need for flight” to
your brain. Our brains, still unaccustomed to all that we require
from them without sufficient rest, respond by quickening our
heartbeats and sending signals of apprehension and anxiety.
This creates more stress signals.
Simply stated, we need to breathe correctly to reduce stress.
A simple relaxation exercise that works wherever you are is
Women’s leadership
to inhale through your nose to a count of one, two, three; hold
that breath, one, two, three; and exhale slowly through your
mouth, one, two, three, four, five. If you do five repetitions of
this, you’ll fool your brain into a relaxed state.
Create a visual for yourself with your imagination. Feel
the sun on your shoulders or hear the sounds of the ocean or a
waterfall.
While you are waiting to pay at the check out,
imagine that you are waiting in line for a carriage
ride in Charleston, and you’ll soon be on the Battery.
Give mini rewards to yourself. When you’re finished at the post office, get a latte at the coffee shop.
Give yourself permission to enjoy being and
think about delegating. Do you really have to bake
pies yourself? How about the bakery or deli? Can
you just this once call a cleaning service so you
don’t have to stay up until midnight the night before
you host a party? Check out the Internet for shopping ideas, and shop there. Will the perfect color for candles
resolve the long-standing feud between Aunt Hessica and
Aunt Susan? Probably not, so buy the candles that are readily
available, eliminate the shopping search, and seat the aunts at
opposite ends of the table. Be pragmatic.
Give yourself time alone. Luxuriate at least once in a bath
with a multitude of candles and scented soap. You deserve it.
Reduce holiday stress by allowing yourself to be in the season
and to enjoy it.
The holidays will arrive on schedule, and there will always
be things unfinished and not exactly perfect. Acceptance is
good practice, and knowing when it is “good enough” is an art.
Energy Services’ Preston Sims reflects on 42 years at USC
BY MARSHALL SWANSON
Sims worked his way up by coupling a willingness to learn
new skills with opportunities in a variety of different specialWhen Preston Sims first came to work for USC in July 1962,
ties, from plumbing to brick masonry to heating. He also put
John F. Kennedy was president; the University enrolled only
himself through Midlands Technical College at night to learn
white students; and the campus was a fraction of the size it is
air conditioning and refrigeration. The result was a lifetime of
today.
upwardly mobile employment that enNow, as Sims contemplates his impendabled him to support his brothers and
ing retirement in December, the licensed
sisters and also raise his own family of
heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning
three children.
technician and supervisor in Energy Services
Even though he’ll be retired after
looks back on his 42-and-one-half-year
Dec. 23, his last official day on the
career at the University with a sense of awe.
job, don’t look for Sims to quit work
It’s hard to believe, he said, that so much
completely. His legendary work ethic
has changed since he joined the USC staff
won’t let him.
as a 19-year-old cement finisher earning 75
After his return from a long-promcents an hour.
ised trip to Hawaii with his wife of 41
“I feel as though I grew up with the camyears, Rebecca, a retired surgical aide
pus,” said Sims, who, when he started work
at Baptist Hospital, he plans to pursue
here, never expected the kind of profesself-employment as an HVAC technisional development he experienced or other
cian in Columbia. “I’ve come a long
changes that have occurred in his lifetime.
way, and I don’t intend to stop now,”
When he was hired, campus restrooms
he said. “I’ll still be working out there
were still segregated, five of which were dessomewhere.
ignated for African Americans in the vicinity
“I enjoy my work, and that’s why
of the Horseshoe, Sims recalled. In those
Sims
is
retiring,
but
he
won’t
stop
working.
I’ve stayed with it so long,” said Sims,
early years of his employment, he said, there
adding, “I’ll always respect USC because it brought me a long
were “good days and bad days, and I thank the Lord the good
way and gave me the opportunity to do a lot of different things.”
days outweighed the bad ones.”
With the arrival of the first black students in 1963, opportuMarshall Swanson can be reached at 7-0138 or
nity also opened for blacks working at the University, he said.
mswanson@gwm.sc.edu.
The ghost of Christmas presents:
Love ’em or hate’em
A beautiful burgundy bicycle, a
crocheted sweater with a deer on
the back, a family heirloom, and
a lethal letter opener: Faculty and
staff share the best and worst of
their holiday gifts.
■ “It was the best of times, yet it was the worst of times that Christmas
when I was 9. I told Santa all I wanted was a big bicycle. I had gone
through a huge spurt of growth that year and was desperate for a
bike that would accommodate my much longer legs. As we did every
year, the three of us girls raced out of bed near dawn to see what
goodies were waiting for us. All I saw was a tree with no bicycle. But
when you know every gift from Santa is precious, you don’t want to let
on to your parents that you’re disappointed in his choices, right? So
you grin and go on. That’s what I thought I did. If it had been any other
Christmas, I would have been thrilled with what I received. Santa had
generously left me a beautiful bride doll and a white Bible with my name
engraved in gold—things I had seen other girls have without realizing
I would love them, too! I was a little ashamed because it wasn’t nice of
me to keep wondering why there was no bike! After all, that bride doll
and Bible with engraving were top-notch gifts for any 9-year-old little
girl. But it just didn’t seem right, and try as I might, I couldn’t get that
bike off my mind. Then when all the gifts were open, Daddy asked me
to gather up the wrapping and take it to the garbage. How humiliating!
I wasn’t the oldest. Why did I have to do that job? And it was adding
insult to injury, wasn’t it? I began to whine until Daddy gave me “that
look,” and I knew there was no need. I decided I’d better get to it so I
could come back and inspect the bride doll and the engraved Bible a
little closer. It took forever and three trips to the kitchen container to get
that paper off the floor by myself! I finally finished and headed back to
the tree, and Daddy said, ‘Judy, take that kitchen can and empty it in the
big can outside.’ Holy mackerel! Was it never going to end? Was I the
only girl on the planet who was suffering this badly? Didn’t Daddy know
I wasn’t the only healthy kid in this family? Either of my sisters could do
this job just as well as I could, right? Daddy must have seen my expression, because once again I got ‘that look’ from him. It was the ‘look’ that
could paralyze you or make you faster than the Roadrunner. It made
you know there was no discussion, no alternative. It was his way or …
I remember literally dragging my feet across the floor as I went toward
the kitchen. Then I dragged the kitchen can across to the back door. (I
just wanted to be sure everyone could hear that I was doing something
while they were having fun!) Then I went out onto the porch in the cool
December morning air. As the chill hit me, so did the vision of that
beautiful burgundy bicycle, propped all alone and cold on our back
porch. It didn’t have a nametag, ‘For Judy, From Santa,’ and didn’t need
one. I realized, as tears flooded my eyes and I turned to run back to tell
them, that Mother and Daddy were standing in the doorway smiling at
me. That Christmas was the best of times for me.”
—Judy Ledford, director, Alumni Relations, USC Aiken
■ “When I was in middle school, my parents surprised me on
Christmas morning with a quarter horse. They had wrapped up boots
and hats and other things [to open indoors] and then had me walk
outside where they had the horse standing with a red ribbon on it. I
was 12 then, am 23 now, and I still ride him. His name is Hank, and
he’s my baby.”
—Shana Funderburk, public information officer, USC Lancaster
■ “I’d rather spend some time with somebody than anything he or
she could buy me. That was the gift from one of my two sons when
he put a piece of paper in a box, wrapped it up, and gave it to me. The
paper was a note saying he was giving me a night of his undivided
attention doing whatever I would like to do. We went out to dinner and
talked for a long time. That was three years ago when he was about
27 after he had moved to Minnesota. I never told him that’s what I
wanted for a present. I guess he knows me pretty well because he
couldn’t have given me anything I liked better.”
—Ama Miller, administrative assistant, Department of Sport
and Entertainment Management
■ “When I was 9 or 10, a broken down and worn-out go-cart my
brother had ridden went missing from the house a couple of months
before Christmas. I wondered where it was, and then got the idea
Santa Claus might be fixing it up so I could use it. When I got up on
Christmas morning, I looked inside and out but didn’t see it. I was
kind of bummed out about not getting it, but about an hour or two
later it magically showed up in my front yard. My father had taken it to
a repair shop and reworked it, then he snuck away Christmas morning
and came back with it. I had it two years, took care of it, and rode the
wheels off it on my grandmother’s farm. That was the best Christmas
I ever remember.”
—Neal Smoak, director, lecturer, McCutchen House
■ “The worst Christmas gift I have ever received was a small blue
bud vase. This was when I was about 11, and my rural church had a
Christmas tree. Someone wanted to make certain that there was at
least one gift under the tree for all the children, and she wrapped up
small items for all of us. The thought was good, but a boy does not
want to open a present and find a blue bud vase with a small pink
flower on the side of it. Obviously, I still have issues to remember this
almost 50 years later.”
—Kenneth Bradley, adjunct instructor of history, USC Upstate
■ “When I was a little girl I had a sock monkey, a funny little creature
made from a man’s sock, which made me laugh. Many years later,
when I was in my 20s, my mother gave me another one for Christmas
that she had found somewhere. I was really surprised, and it meant a
lot to me because it brought back my childhood. I had forgotten completely that I’d ever had one because I hadn’t seen one for years. They
must have made a comeback and were being produced again because
my mother happened to find one, and I thought it was pretty cool that
she remembered I even had one. I eventually gave it to my son when
he was 2, and he still has it. I also discovered that kits for making
these toys were available, and I started making them and giving them
to other people. I feel as though I’m passing on a tradition.”
—Sue Woods, administrative assistant, MERM Program,
School of the Environment
■ “The best gift I ever received was a trip to Germany, Austria, and
Italy for the Christmas holidays. It was such a picture-perfect setting.
I spent Christmas Day in the German countryside and New Year’s Eve
in Salzburg, Austria.”
—Tammy Whaley, director of University Communications,
USC Upstate
■ “The best gift I’ve ever received was from my parents, and really it
is a culmination of several years’ trips to North Dakota to spend the
holidays on my grandparents’ farm. Since we all live in various places
in the Midwest and northern Plains, it was so nice to spend that special time together. My grandparents would often talk in Norwegian and
Swedish, teaching us grandkids different phrases, as well as telling
stories of what it was like when they were growing up. My grandfather
passed away last November, so those Christmas Day memories mean
so much more as time goes on—they really are the gifts that keep
on giving. The worst gift I ever received was in third grade. A relative
gave me a handmade, crocheted sweater-coat with a deer on the back.
Most of the coat was white, and the deer was dark brown with black
eyes. My parents actually made me wear it, but there were definitely
days I’d rather go cold than walk to the bus stop in it. God bless
grandmothers!”
—Jill M. Bratland, public information coordinator, USC Beaufort
■ “Approximately 15 years ago, I saw a clock hanging at the former
Red Cross office on Shirley Street, and it was an old advertisement
clock from the mid-1950s of my grandfather’s former jewelry store
on Sumter Street here in Columbia (Epting’s Jewelers). I happened
to mention to my husband how I wished I had it myself, and several
months later I unwrapped it on Christmas morning. My husband
had approached the Red Cross, bought a replacement for them, and
had the clock cleaned and refurbished. It now hangs proudly in my
kitchen.”
—Gaye Betcher, nurse practitioner, Thomson Student Health Center
■ “The Christmas of my junior year in high school my aunt bought
my sister and me gifts from England. My sister, who is 20 months
older than I, received jewelry and a picture book on London’s theaters.
I got a plastic tea set and a T-shirt that simply said UK. That was my
worst Christmas gift. My best Christmas gift was my first camera. It
was purple, and I mostly photographed the cat and trees.”
—Suzan Collier, admissions counselor, USC Upstate
■ “My worst was a set of holiday paper coasters in a tin that a
colleague purchased at MY garage sale. It was during a Chinese gift
exchange.”
—Lisa Anderson, assistant professor of art and graphic design,
USC Upstate
■ “Thirty-seven years ago for our first Christmas together, my husband gave me a West Highland White Terrier. Her name was Christie,
and she lived 10-and-a-half years. My husband has always tried to
top that one; he’s bought me a lot of expensive jewelry and other nice
gifts, but I’ve told him, ‘No matter how many emeralds and diamonds
you give me, you’ll never top that dog.’ I’ve owned several other West
Highlands in the years since then, and I work with a group now that
rescues Westies. A word of advice, though: Never give a dog as a surprise present. There’s too much going on during the holidays, and you
need to devote a lot of time to training them as soon as they arrive.”
—Barbara Salmons, Board of Trustees office
■ “My best present came from my husband, and it was a cat named
Buffit. She’s the light of my life and the only orange thing in my
house. My worst gift was a crocheted toilet paper doll—you know, it’s
a cover for a toilet paper roll. I kept it in a closet until the aunt passed
away.”
— Pam Pope, Research and Health Sciences division
■ “Years ago on Christmas my husband gave me an envelope and a
certificate. The certificate said, ‘This money is to be used by Floretta
Miller and to be used only on Floretta Miller because she never buys
herself anything.’ I opened up the envelope, and it was quite a few
$20 bills. It was $200, and I was so happy because there were some
things I needed for myself, but I always made sure my kids had everything they needed and mostly wanted. It made me cry that he did that,
and I felt so special and loved. Every Christmas he gets me a lot of
good gifts, but that was the best one. Normally I don’t like money as
gifts. He knows this, but he said that he would just give me the money
so I could go catch after-Christmas sales and get more stuff. With that
money, I got plenty of stuff, and I spent it all on me. This was the best
Christmas gift I have ever received.”
—Floretta Miller, Police Department, USC Upstate
■ “My worst gift was a letter opener made from a cow’s horn that
both ends could be used as a lethal weapon! It was put in a safe place
AWAY from children! My best gift, almost 18 years ago, was my son
Wesley, born on 12/26/86! What a great Christmas gift!”
—Nancy Callicott, administrative assistant, USC Upstate
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Staff spotlight
■ Name: Polly Brown
■ Title: Administrative assistant and conference coordinator
■ Department: Richard L. Walker Institute of International
and Area Studies
■ How long have you worked at USC? Since 1973. I
started in the psychology department from 1973 to 1980. I
was in the history department from 1980 to 1994, and then I
came to the Walker Institute.
■ What are your job duties? My
major responsibility is to provide administrative duties for Asian Studies,
Latin American Studies, Consortium
for Latino Immigration Studies,
Islamic Studies, Russian Studies,
and African Studies. I maintain their
budgets and their daily administrative activities, and I also coordinate
conferences, seminars, and events
for those six programs. I have just
Brown
finished working on my sixth conference of the year, an international calligraphy conference that
was held in New York City.
■ What has happened in your area this year? Gordon
Smith is the new director of the Walker Institute, and he
has been very supportive of the area studies programs. In
March, we did a conference in Mexico on the migration of
Mexicans to South Carolina. In April, we co-sponsored a
conference with Clemson University, and we convened an
international conference on democracy in Confucian societies. We also held a conference on the presidential election
of 2004 and its aftermath in Taiwan in September. And
there will be more conferences and fund raising continuing
through the end of the year.
■ What do you like about your job? Each of our areas has
so much going on, which is exciting. And these are international conferences that bring in interesting people from
around the world. I also get to travel a bit. In July 2002,
I was acting principal investigator for a Fulbright group
going to South Korea for a month. There were 18 of us, and
it was my job to manage the daily budget and activities for
28 days. We visited a lot of national museums, palaces, war
memorials, temples, cities, parks, and the Demilitarized
Zone along the North Korea–South Korea border. The
Korean people were overwhelmingly friendly and inviting.
During the trip, I was in a tailor’s shop, and on the wall there
was a photograph of Walker Institute founder Richard L.
Walker—he was U.S. ambassador to Seoul for years, and he
had gotten his clothes made by this tailor. I was proud to be
there. Earlier this year, I went to Mexico in March to help
with registration and other conference-related duties for a
Latin American Studies conference.
■ Do you do any traveling on your own? My husband and
I travel to New York City a good bit. I love New York, and I
love the theater. My son David is an actor there. He has been
appearing in the play The Exonerated. He is also wrapping
up a movie version of The Exonerated and is producing a
documentary about some of his childhood friends. Recently
I attended a conference in Caracas, Venezuela, with a group
from Benedict College. I was invited by Dr. Norma Jackson,
the director of the Institute of International Studies, to a
conference on slavery. I did not realize that so much of the
population—40 percent—is still black, and these people
have maintained their African roots. While I was there, I met
President Hugo Chavez and spent the day with him and his
Cabinet members. I also met Cuban doctors who were giving
free medicine and help to the country.
Other campus event information can be found on the USC
Calendar of Events at events.sc.edu.
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should include a name and phone number so we can
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If you have questions, call Kathy Dowell at 7-3686. The
deadline for receipt of information is 11 business days
prior to the publication date of issue. The next publication date is Jan. 20.
If you require special accommodations, please contact the program sponsor.
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DECEMBER 9, 2004
Yuletide greeting cards on display in library
BY MARSHALL SWANSON
card sent by University President and First Lady Andrew and
Donna Sorensen.
Modern Political Collections of the South Caroliniana Library
The cards reflect a wide variety of designs and senders,
is continuing a Yuletide tradition it started about 10 years ago
ranging from Congressional colleagues to industry groups,
by displaying holiday season cards sent to members of the
educational organizations, and governmental entities.
S.C. Congressional delegation.
They draw on family photos, children’s drawings, and
This year’s exhibit will showcase cards sent in 2003 to
photos of homes, buildings, and
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, who will
industries, and also scenes of
deliver the December commencement
foreign countries. Some of the cards
address. The cards are in three cabinets
have religious themes; others tout
on the first-floor lobby of the library
companies or groups. One expresses
through Jan. 15.
a sentiment about current events:
“We do this exhibit every year,
Santa Claus throwing pieces of coal
trying to keep in mind cards we think
at terrorists from his reindeer-drawn
people would be interested in,” said
sled.
collections curator Dorothy Hazelrigg.
Photos of family gatherings
“This is a great idea for an exhibit
appear on many of the cards sent
during the holidays because the cards
by politicians, including pictures
are so cheerful and everyone seems to
of weddings and other occasions in
enjoy seeing them,” added Kate Moore,
which multiple generations of wellthe collections’ processing archivist
known individuals’ families are
who worked on the exhibit with
Dorothy Hazelrigg, left, and Kate Moore of Modern
pictured in groups. “It’s always fun
Hazelrigg,
Political Collections, go through the cards that will
to look at pictures of public people
This year’s exhibit will include
be featured in this year’s exhibit of Yuletide
you see on TV in a family setting,”
cards sent in 2003 by the president
greetings sent to Sen. Lindsey Graham.
said Hazelrigg, noting family picand vice president, as well as the 2004
tures of North Carolina’s Sen. John Edwards, Arizona’s
Sen. John McCain, and Utah’s Sen. Orrin Hatch.
The exhibit will feature one display case of cards
from Congressional and Senatorial colleagues, along
with cards from President and Mrs. Sorensen and Gov.
and Mrs. Mark Sanford. A second case will include
cards with views of Washington, D.C., while a third
case will hold interesting Yuletide greetings from other
miscellaneous groups and individuals.
“We’ve tried to pick a variety of cards, including
those from well-known people who will be easily
recognizable or interesting and unique cards the public
is not likely to see anywhere else,” Hazelrigg said.
Caroliniana Library is open from 8:30 a.m. to
5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; 8:30 a.m. to
8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. For information about the exhibit, call 7-0577.
Yuletide cards received by Sen. Lindsey Graham range from
one sent by the Turkish-U.S. Business Council, left, to greetings from county school systems, above.
cal e n d a r
around the campuses
■ Through Dec. 10 USC Upstate: Exhibit, recent oil paintings by Michael
Brodeur, Furman University painting professor, FOCUS Educational Gallery, Humanities Performing Arts Center, free. For more information, call
Jane Nodine, gallery director, at 52-5838.
lectures/seminars
Engineering/Math/Science
■ Dec. 15 Bioinformatics, Phillip Buckhaults, Department of Pathology,
12:30–1:30 p.m., Coker Life Sciences Building, Room 202. Free pizza will
follow for all participants.
Liberal Arts
■ Dec. 9 Philosophy, “Post-Academic
Nanoscience: The Battles Ahead,” Thomas
Vogt, Department of Physics, Brookhaven
National Laboratory, 12:30–2 p.m., Sumwalt
College, Room 102.
Women’s Studies
■ Jan. 20 “Women and HIV: A NeurobiologiBooze
cal Perspective,” Rosemarie Booze, psychology, 3:30 p.m., Gambrell Hall, Room 429. A reception will follow.
exhibits
■ Dec. 10, 11, 17, 18, 20, 21, 27, and 28 USC Aiken: “‘Tis the Season,”
Dupont Planetarium show, 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., Ruth Patrick Science Education Center. Tickets are $4.50 adults, $3.50 senior citizens, and $2.50
children ages 4 through 12th grade. To make a reservation, call 56-3769.
■ Dec. 11 USC Aiken: Holiday Pops’ “Sounds of the Season,” featuring
the Augusta Symphony, Masterworks Chorale, and soprano Catherine
Stapleton,
8 p.m., main stage,
Etherredge Center.
Tickets are $30
for adults, $15 for
children. For more
information, call the
Etherredge Center box
office at 56-3305.
miscellany
■ Dec. 9 Workshop, “Reel Emotional Health,”
led by Jason Young, 2–3:30 p.m., Counseling and Human Development Center, Byrnes
Building, Seventh floor, free. To register, call
7-5223.
■ Dec. 15 Workshop, “Laughter and Play as
Tools for Stress Management and for Healing,” led by Ruthann Fox-Hines,
9:15 a.m.–noon, Counseling and Human
Development Center, Byrnes Building, Seventh
floor, free. To register, call 7-5223.
Fox-Hines
■ Dec. 20, 21,
27, and 28 USC
Aiken: “Digistar Virtual Journey,” Dupont
Planetarium show,
9 p.m., Ruth Patrick
Science Education
Center. Tickets are
$5.50 adults, $4.50
senior citizens, and
$3.50 children ages 4
through 12th grade.
To make a reservation, call 56-3769.
■ Through Dec.
17 USC Sumter:
Exhibit, “1,000 Beautiful Things,” works
by photographer
Kathleen Robbins, University Gallery, Anderson Library. Gallery hours are
8 a.m.–8 p.m. Monday–Thursday, 8 a.m.–1 p.m. Friday, and 2–6 p.m.
Sunday. Closed Saturday. For more information, call Laura Cardello at
55-3858.
■ Jan. 14–Feb. 11 USC Upstate: Faculty art exhibit, University Gallery.
Artist lecture will be held at 4 p.m. Jan. 20 in the gallery. A reception will
follow in the Humanities and Performing Arts Center Lobby. For more
information, call Jane Nodine at 52-5838.
The Hallelujah Singers perform at the Columbia Museum of Art Dec. 11.
■ Through Jan. 9 McKissick Museum: “Brothers on a Journey: The
paintings of Eldridge Bagley and William Clarke,” featuring 60 works by
self-taught artists Bagley and Clarke. The museum, which is free and
open to the public, is open 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday through Friday
and 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Saturday. The museum is closed Sunday and all
holidays. For more information, call 7-7251 or go to the museum’s Web
site at www.cla.sc.edu/MCKS/index.html.
■ Through Feb. 13 Columbia Museum of Art: “Rhythms of Life: The
Art of Jonathan Green,” features more than 35 paintings from both
public and private collections. Corresponding events include a gallery
talk with the artist at 12:30 p.m. Dec. 9 and a holiday concert by the
Hallelujah Singers at noon and 3 p.m. Dec. 11. The Columbia Museum
of Art 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.–5 p.m. Friday; 1–5 p.m. Sunday. Closed
Monday and Tuesday. For more information, including admission prices,
go to www.columbiamuseum.org or call 799-2810.
■ Through Feb. 26 McKissick Museum: “Courage: The Carolina Story
That Changed America,” explores the origins of the landmark case Brown
v. Board of Education.
■ Jan. 11–March 1 USC Sumter: Exhibit, digital images by USC Columbia art professor Chris Robinson, University Gallery, Anderson Library.
Gallery hours are 8 a.m.–8 p.m. Monday–Thursday, 8 a.m.–1 p.m. Friday,
and 2–6 p.m. Sunday. Closed Saturday. For more information, call Caralin Getty at 55-3727.
■ Jan. 21 USC Aiken: Carmen, performed by Bulgarian opera company
Opera Verdi Europa, 8 p.m., main stage, Etherredge Center. Tickets are
$40. For more information, call the Etherredge Center box office at 563305.
■ Through Jan. 31 USC Sumter: Exhibit, abstract paintings by Sumter
artist Mary Ann Reams, Umpteenth Gallery, Arts and Letters Building.
Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday, closed Saturday and
Sunday. For more information, call Cara-lin Getty at 55-3727.
■ Through Jan. 31 USC Sumter: Exhibit, oil paintings by Sumter artist
Rex Deaton, Upstairs Gallery, Administration Building. Gallery hours are
8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday–Friday, closed Saturday and Sunday. For more
information, call Cara-lin Getty at 55-3727.
concerts
Current art exhibits in USC Sumter galleries include digital images by
USC Columbia art professor Chris Robinson, far above, “Ontogeny,” and
oil paintings by Sumter artist Rex Deaton, above, a still life, “Scan 633.”
For more information about these free exhibits, consult the dates at left.
■ Jan. 18 School of Music: Charles Fugo Faculty Piano Recital,
7:30 p.m., School of Music Recital Hall, free.
DECEMBER 9, 2004
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■ DIVERSITY DIGEST PROFILES USC UPSTATE: The Association of American Colleges and Universities
(AACU) profiled USC Upstate as a model of excellence and diversity in the November issue of Diversity Digest.
AACU is the leading national association concerned with the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal arts education. Upstate has a minority enrollment exceeding 30 percent, and its minority faculty representation has increased to 14 percent. The campus is cited as an example of interracial cooperation, cultural
pluralism, equal opportunity, access, and equity. Of the 4,500 enrolled students, 71 nations are represented,
reflecting Upstate’s international character. “This institution is firmly committed to diversity among its students,
faculty, and staff,” said Chancellor John C. Stockwell. “It is our duty to prepare students to succeed in a pluralistic society and global economy.”
■ UPSTATE SETS CONVOCATION FOR DECEMBER GRADUATES: USC Upstate will hold a convocation to
honor December graduates at 7 p.m. Dec. 15 at the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium. USC Upstate expects
350 students to graduate. Ingo Angermeier, chief executive officer of Spartanburg Regional Healthcare
System, will deliver the convocation address. For more information, call Frances Krydynski at 52-5221.
■ DEADLINE FOR MICHAEL J. MUNGO DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR AWARD IS MARCH 5:
Nominations for the Michael J. Mungo Distinguished Professor of the Year Award are due March 5. This
award, which replaces the Amoco Teaching Award, provides $10,000 to the recipient. Any full-time, tenuretrack faculty member who teaches undergraduate courses on the Columbia campus may be nominated.
The award is named in honor of and is funded by Michael J. Mungo, a member of USC’s Board of Trustees.
Current faculty members who have received the Amoco Teaching Award in previous years are ineligible for
nominations. Nominations should be in the form of individually signed letters and include a statement in support of the nominee. A selection committee, composed of students and faculty, will review the candidates.
Send nominations to Richard Showman, Michael J. Mungo Distinguished Professor of the Year Selection
Committee Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia campus.
■ JAN. 21, 2005, IS DEADLINE FOR THOMAS AWARDS: The deadline for nominations for USC’s Ada B.
Thomas Faculty and Staff Advisors of the Year Awards is Jan. 21, 2005. Any USC student, faculty, staff, or
graduate can nominate an advisor for the award. To nominate, go to http://129.252.140.197/ADA/index.php.
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Research campus
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dedicated to it, it will happen.”
Sorensen’s vision for the research campus is of “an intellectual ecosystem intertwined with the city, consisting
of research labs, office space, mixed-use retail facilities,
residential housing, and cultural amenities that become a
center for innovation and job creation.” That vision will
begin to take shape at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 15 with a groundbreaking for two new buildings in the block bounded by
Assembly, South Main, and Blossom streets. The new
buildings will house offices, dry labs, and high-tech labs,
Pastides said.
In early 2005, the University will announce progress
on a nearby biomedical research building in a different
part of the research campus.
“It’s my hope and truly my expectation that there
won’t be any period in the next 10 or 20 years where you
don’t see rapid progress, and I mean construction taking
place in the area between the Horseshoe and the Congaree River,” Pastides said.
The Research Campus Initiative includes a strategy Pastides described as the three F’s: more focus on
maintaining the high quality of the faculty while building
facilities the University needs.
USC’s Faculty Excellence Initiative will recruit about
150 new tenure-track faculty members, and the Centenary
Commencement
Plan will bring in 100 new research faculty. Another 350
faculty members are retiring and must be replaced during
the next several years. Sorensen added that the University
soon would announce a program to increase the number
of faculty in the arts and humanities.
The new research campus will include office and dry
lab structures, wet lab and bench-type lab buildings, and
engineering-oriented laboratories. The research buildings
could allow private companies to conduct research and
development in the same buildings in a mission-appropriate basis with USC faculty and students.
Craig Davis Properties of Cary, N.C., which helped
develop N.C. State’s Centennial Campus, is working
with USC to plan its research campus and attract private
investment capital needed for construction.
The buildings will be financed under an arrangement
in which USC will lease space from a developer for a set
period of time after which the property would revert to
the University. USC anticipates the availability of a portion of $220 million for construction of research facilities
approved by the Legislature under the Life Sciences Act.
Faculty and staff members are encouraged to submit
questions about the research campus by sending e-mails
to researchcampusideas@cnsg.com and to visit the Web
site sc.edu/research/.
DECEMBER 9, 2004
Base during the first Gulf War and received a commendation medal for
preparing troops for deployment to the Gulf region. Having continued
his service in the U.S. Air Force Reserves since 1995, Graham is the
only U.S. Senator serving in the guard or reserves and now is a colonel
assigned as a reserve judge to the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals.
He received the Meritorious Service Medal for Active Duty Tour in
Europe after serving at Rhein Mein Air Force Base in Germany from
1984 to 1988.
Graham has received many awards, including Home Health Care
Legislator of the Year in 1992. He was appointed by the chief justice of
the United States as the S.C. House of Representatives’ member of the
Judicial Arbitration Commission. As a Congressman, Graham also was
one of the managers who presented the case of the House of Representatives during the Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton.
NBC Nightly News producer
visits School of Journalism
Electronic journalism students in USC’s
School of Journalism and Mass Communications had a chance to learn from an industry
professional when Steve Capus, executive
producer of NBC Nightly News, spent a day
teaching and talking to students.
“Steve Capus was shaping the lead for the
NBC Nightly News—Colin Powell’s resignation—even as he was evaluating our students’
nightly Carolina News,” said Charles Bierbauer, dean of the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies. “It gave
our students a sense of front-line journalism
that’s hard to match.”
continued from page 1
We believe in Carolina.”
While the 2004–05 Family Fund campaign wrapped up Oct. 15, gifts received
through June 30 will be counted toward the
total.
“I urge anyone who has not yet made a
gift through the Family Fund to be a part
of the tradition and help today,” said Ray
Tanner, head baseball coach and chair of
this year’s Family Fund campaign. “We’re
all here because of USC students, and these
young men and women are counting on our
involvement with their education.”
Family Fund donors receive a small decal
sticker for the backs of their University IDs.
Various merchants in the Columbia area
offer discounts to Family Fund donors. For a
complete listing of community sponsors and
discounts, go to www.sc.edu/development/
Family/FamilyFundBenefits.htm.
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Two USC students have won Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarships for study abroad. Katie Atkinson, left, a senior
international studies major from Orangeburg, and Karen Henderson,
a senior political science major from West Columbia, will pursue
studies in Costa Rica and England, respectively. Atkinson will study
language at the Centro Linguistico Conversa language school beginning in January 2006. Henderson, an Honors College student, plans
to pursue a career in diplomacy, and her Rotary scholarship will take
her to England for a year of study. Since 1994, 54 USC students
have been named Rotary Scholars.
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chology in 1977 and a law degree in 1981, both from USC.
Upon leaving active duty in the U.S. Air Force in 1989, Graham
joined the S.C. Air National Guard. He then entered the private
practice of law. In 1992, he was elected to one term in the S.C. House
of Representatives. In 1994, he was elected to the first of four terms
in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was the first Republican to
represent South Carolina’s Third Congressional district since 1877.
In 2002, Graham was elected to the U.S. Senate, serving in the seat
previously held by Sen. J. Strom Thurmond. Graham serves on four
Senate committees: Armed Services; Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; Judiciary; and Veterans’ Affairs. The committees exercise jurisdiction over a broad scope of policy related to military, national security,
education, labor, health, the federal judiciary, and veterans’ welfare.
Graham was a staff judge advocate at McEntire Air National Guard
Family Fund
Two win Rotary Scholarships
To print a pledge card to the campaign,
go to www.sc.edu/development/Family/ and
click on Pledge Form (PDF). For more information about the campaign, call Lola Mauer
in the Office of Annual Giving at 7-4092.
USC Sumter leads all campuses with a 95
percent participation rate in the Family Fund.
Areas reaching 100 percent are:
■ African American Studies
■ Alumni Association
■ Board of Trustees
■ Business Affairs
■ Career Center
■ Communication Sciences and Disorders
■ Continuing Education
■ Copy Center
■ Division of Business and Finance
■ East Campus-Capstone Area
■ Equal Opportunity Programs
■ Government Relations
Hospitality, Retail, and Sports Management
Housing and Judicial Programs
Housing Services-Family Housing
■ Institute of Southern Studies
■ Internal Audit
■ International Support for Faculty and Staff
■ Legal Residency Office
■ Media Relations
■ Office of the CIO
■ Office of the President
■ Parking Enforcement
■ Physical Education
■ Preston College
■ Special Events
■ University 101
■ University Advancement
■ University Development
■ West Campus-Bates Area
■ West Campus-Towers Area.
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Vol. 15, No. 20
December 9, 2004
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
Copyeditor: Thom Harman
To reach us: 7-8161 or larryw@gwm.sc.edu
Campus Correspondents: Office of Media Relations, USC
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Greer, Lancaster; Jane Brewer, Salkehatchie; Tammy Whaley,
Upstate; Tom Prewett, Sumter; Terry Young, Union.
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■ SIGN UP FOR DIRECT DEPOSIT: Effective Jan. 1, 2005, all employees must be enrolled in direct deposit.
The change was recommended in the 2003 payroll audit and approved by the Board of Trustees. To meet this
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participating in direct deposit must complete the enrollment process before Jan. 1, 2005. The Payroll Office
compiled a list of financial institutions that will offer a free account to any USC employee at busfinance.
admin.sc.edu/payroll/htmldoc/mandatorydirectdeposit.htm. For more information, go to busfinance.admin.
sc.edu/payroll/htmldoc/depositNov5.htm.
■ USC AIKEN’S BETA GAMMA SIGMA IS A PREMIER CHAPTER: The USC Aiken collegiate chapter of Beta
Gamma Sigma has been recognized as a Premier Chapter for its superior level of membership acceptance
and promotional activities during the 2003–04 academic year. The award recognizes the Beta Gamma Sigma
chapter’s high level of success in recruiting top business students into the society.
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Faculty/Staff
■ BOOKS AND CHAPTERS: Peter J. Graham, sport and entertainment management, Public Assembly Facility Management: Principles and Practices, International
Association of Assembly Managers, Coppell, Texas.
Jorge Salvo, Spanish, Upstate, La formación de identidad en la novela hispano
Africana: 1950–1990, Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, University of Alicante,
Spain.
Jeremiah Hackett and Jerald Wallulis, philosophy, editors, Philosophy of Religion
for a New Century: Essays in Honor of Eugene T. Long, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Dordrecht/Boston/London.
William F. Edmiston and Annie Duménil, languages, literatures, and cultures, La
France Contemporaine, third edition, Thomson/Heinle, Stamford, Conn.
Martha Thomas, Center for Business Communication, and Michael Barnes, “Can We
Talk? Cyberspace as Contact Zone for Business Communication Educators and Business ‘Content’ Faculty,” Association for Business Communication, Cambridge, Mass.
Ron Fulbright, informatics, Upstate, and Ric Routh, “How IT Professionals Keep
From Being Offshored or Outsourced,” Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, and, same conference, “Teaching
Critical Thinking Skills using PINE-TRIZ.”
Buford Norman, languages, literatures, and cultures, “Where Is the Norm? Where
Are the Exceptions?,” Society for Interdisciplinary Seventeenth-Century French Studies, Williamsburg, Va.
Rebecca Stevens, education, Upstate, “Diversity and Equity in the Teaching and
Learning Process: A Field Experiences Focus,” Southeastern Regional Association of
■ ARTICLES: Sonya Forte Duhé, journalism and mass communications, “ConverTeacher Educators, Orlando, Fla.
gence in North American TV Newsrooms: A Nationwide Look,” Convergence: The
Reginald Bain, music, “The ArtInternational Journal of Research
Science of Designing CAI Software
in New Media Technologies.
for Music Theory using Max/MSP,”
Bruce E. Konkle, journalism
Association for Technology in
and mass communications, “Dr.
Music Instruction, San Francisco,
Laurence R. Campbell: Mr. High
Calif.
School Journalism’s Research
Lisa Hammond Rashley, English,
Continues to Get Noticed,” Adviser
Lancaster, “‘Notes from the DelivUpdate, Dow Jones Newspaper
ery Room’: Gendered Metaphors
Fund.
in Anthologies of Birth Poetry,”
Buford Norman, languages,
South Atlantic Modern Language
literatures, and cultures, “L’Univers
Association, Roanoke, Va.
nouveau de la tragédie en
Lou Matthews, education, Upmusique: d’Armide et Renaud à
state, “I’m Teaching with Touches,
Achille et Polyxène,” Littératures
Don! A Footballing Approach to
Classiques.
Teaching Black Men Successfully,”
J. Larry Durstine, exercise
Conference of the Bermuda Union
science, Michael J. LaMonte,
of Teachers, Devonshire, Bermuda.
Katrina D. DuBose, and Barbara E.
Suzanne Domel Baxter and
Ainsworth, “Fitness Modifies the
Elizabeth J. Mayer-Davis, Center
Association Between C-Reacfor Research in Nutrition and
tive Protein and the Metabolic
Health Disparities and epidemiolSyndrome in Racially Diverse
ogy and biostatistics, Caroline H.
Women,” Medicine & Science in
Ever since his hip replacement surgery he seems to shoot much straighter from it.
Guinn, Michele Nichols Center for
Sports & Exercise, and, same jourResearch in Nutrition and Health
nal, with Cheryl L. Addy, epidemiDisparities, Deborah Parraology and biostatistics, Gregory A.
Medina, health promotion, education, and behavior, and Julie Royer (USC public
Hand, exercise science, Katrina D. DuBose, and Barbara E. Ainsworth, “Leisure-Time
health
graduate
student),
“Middle
school
students’
interest in participating in
Physical Activity and the Metabolic Syndrome: An Examination of NHANES III.”
research studies: Results from focus groups,” S.C. Nutrition Summit, Columbia.
Gail V. Barnes, music, “Goal Setting and Persistence: Teaching Intuition and
Vytautas
Al
Pakalnis
and
Ramesh
C.
Tripathi,
ophthalmology
(medicine), and David
Research,” American String Teacher.
Johnson (School of Medicine ophthalmology resident), “Ocular Toxicity of Fireworks
Kenneth D. Phillips, nursing, J. Larry Durstine, Gregory A. Hand, and Christopher
Injuries,” International Congress, International Society of Ocular Toxicology, Dallas,
M. Bopp, exercise science, S.E. Burgess, and Wesley D. Dudgeon (USC exercise
Texas.
science doctoral student), “Effect of 5 Weeks of Aerobic and Resistance Training on
Gene Luna and Michael Koman, housing, “Effectively Deploying Green Buildings On
Health of HIV-Infected Individuals,” Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
Campus,” Webcast for Academic Impressions, Denver, Colo.
Carol Myers-Scotton, English, “Predicting and explaining codeswitching and gramPat J. Gehrke, English, “Is there a discipline to our history(ies)? The ethics and polimatical convergence across linguistic varieties,” Journal of Chinese Sociolinguistics.
tics of rhetoric in the 20th century,” National Communication Association, Chicago,
James A. Carson, exercise science, Joseph M. McClung and Tyrone A. Washington
Ill., also, same conference, same paper named Top Paper in Communication Ethics.
(USC exercise science doctoral students), James M. Reecy, Raymond W. Thompson,
William R. Stanley, geography, “Borderland Mentalities Transplanted—The North
and Larry L. Lowe, “Lactate dehydrogenase expression at the onset of altered loadAmerica ‘Melting Pot’ and Durability of Socio-Economic Biases of a Europe Left
ing in rat soleus muscle,” Journal of Applied Physiology.
Behind,” International Lodz Conference on Political Geography, Wigry, Poland.
Lyn Phillips, Institute for Families in Society, and Kathryn Leith, Center for Health
■ OTHER: Kevin Lewis, religious studies, chairs the three-person committee to
Services and Policy Research, “Exploring the Service Needs and Experiences of
decide the winner of the 2005 Article Prize competition offered by the NineteenthPersons with Traumatic Brain Injury and Their Families: The South Carolina ExperiCentury Studies Association. The prize recognizes excellence in published scholarly
ence,” Brain Injury.
studies on subjects from any discipline on any aspect of the 19th century.
Joshua M. Gold, education, and G.V. Pitariu, “Opening the eyes of counselors to
Michael F. Welsh, educational leadership and policies, and Terry A. Wolfer, social
the emotional abuse of men: An overlooked dynamic in dysfunctional families,” The
work, received the C.R. Christensen Award for the Outstanding Teaching Case from
Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education, and Development.
the North American Case Research Association at the association’s annual meeting
William T. “Ted” Moore, finance, Anthony K. Byrd (USC Ph.D. graduate now at
in Sedona, Ariz.
University of Central Florida), and Pradip Ramanlal (University of Central Florida),
Beth Bilderback, South Caroliniana Library, was named 2004 S.C. Archivist of the
“Another Case for Convertibles,” Finance Letters.
Year by the S.C. Archival Association.
■ PRESENTATIONS: Richard Clodfelter, retailing, “Pricing accuracy at retail stores
Vytautas Al Pakalnis, ophthalmology (medicine), has been elected as a founding
that use scanners: A different perspective,” Society for Marketing Advances,
member of the board of directors of the American Society of Ocular Trauma.
St. Petersburg, Fla.
Dorothy Payne, music, was awarded the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Prize for Lifetime
Peter J. Graham, sport and entertainment management, “Managing Public Assembly
Achievement in Music Theory, Teaching, and Scholarship at the joint American
Facilities: What’s It All About, Alphie?” International Conference on Sport and EnterMusicological Society/Society for Music Theory conference in Seattle, Wash.
tainment Business, Columbia.
Gail V. Barnes, music, was named conductor of the Lowcountry Junior Regional in
Deborah Fowler, Center for Retailing, “Visual Merchandising: la Promoción SilenBeaufort.
ciosa,” Congreso Internacional de Mercadotecnia, Guadalajara, Mexico, and “Are
Lighter times
Department Stores Losing Market Share to Mass Merchandisers in South Carolina
and the United States?,” Society for Marketing Advances, St. Petersburg, Fla., and
same conference, with Scarlett Wesley, retailing, “A Quality and Price Analysis of
Blue Jeans: An Assessment of Women’s and Men’s Specialty Store, Private Label,
and Designer Brands,” and, with Catherine Gustafson, School of Hotel, Restaurant,
and Tourism Management, and Heesun Seo, retailing, “A Comparison of the Quality
of Golf Shirts.”
Faculty/staff items include presentations of papers and projects for national and
international organizations, appointments to professional organizations and boards,
special honors, and publication of papers, articles, and books. Submissions should
be typed, contain full information (see listings for style), and be sent only once to
Editor, TIMES, 920 Sumter St., Columbia campus. Send by e-mail to: chorn@gwm.
sc.edu.
Theatre professor
honored with two
state awards
Distinguished professor emeritus Jim
Patterson recently received two statewide awards.
On Nov. 5, Gov. Mark Sanford presented Patterson with the Order of the
Silver Crescent, South
Carolina’s highest
honor for volunteer
and community service. Patterson volunteered on the staging
of “Honoring Valor,”
an event organized by
the S.C. State Guard.
“Honoring Valor” was
the first-ever celebraPatterson
tion to honor a state’s
recipients of the Congressional Medal
of Honor, the nation’s highest award
for bravery. The event took place in
September in Columbia’s new convention center.
On Nov. 13, the S.C. Theatre Association honored Patterson with a Lifetime Achievement Award at its business
meeting in Spartanburg. In accepting
the award, Patterson recognized the
life-changing effect teachers can have
on their students, dedicating his award
to the memory of the late L. James Wathen, one of Patterson’s undergraduate
teachers at the University of Florida.
Since his retirement from USC,
Patterson has completed Stage
Directing: The First Experiences, a
textbook published by Allyn & Bacon
earlier this year.
. . . . . . .
‘Save Sociology’ Web site
guards integrity of field
A USC assistant professor of sociology is maintaining a new Web site
that presents educational resources to
preserve the integrity of sociology as an
academic discipline.
The Save Sociology Web site at www.
savesociology.org has been maintained
by Mathieu Deflem
since last summer in
response to various
forms of political
attack on sociology in
recent years.
“In particular,
so-called public
sociology has brought
about an unscientific
Deflem
invasion on the basis
of political ideas,”
Deflem said. “Public sociologists have
rallied to the American Sociological
Association to have the organization
pass political resolutions against the war
in Iraq and against a proposed constitutional amendment on marriage.”
Other sociologists have begun to
organize opposition against these political developments, which they see as a
perversion of the academic standards
of sociology and an invasion of their
academic freedom and educational mission, Deflem said. Sociology education
and research at USC, Deflem added, is
resolutely committed to the ideals of
academic scholarship.
Deflem has published several accounts
on the developments in the Chronicle
Review and other outlets. He can be
reached at 7-6595 or deflem@gwm.
sc.edu.
DECEMBER 9, 2004
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■ COUNSELING CENTER OFFERS FACULTYSTAFF WORKSHOPS: The Counseling and
Human Development Center on the seventh
floor of the Byrnes Building is sponsoring
Between Semester Workshops for faculty
and staff in December. Remaining workshops
include: “Reel” Emotional Health (increasing
your self-understanding through movies),
2–3:30 p.m. Dec. 9, led by Jason Young,
and Laughter and Play As Tools for Stress
Management and For Healing (coping with
stress through humor, laughter, and frivolity),
9:15 a.m.–noon Dec. 15, Ruthann Fox-Hines.
For information or to enroll in the workshops,
call 7-5223.
■ TAYLOR IS MISS USC
UPSTATE: Autumn Taylor, a sophomore majoring in business, recently
was selected as the first
Miss USC Upstate and
will advance to the Miss
S.C. Pageant. Taylor,
who is from Greer, is in
the Honors Program and
is a member of the University Business Society. Taylor
For more information, call Laura Puckett-Boler,
assistant vice-chancellor for student and diversity
affairs and dean of students, at 52-5387.
■ FACULTY/STAFF INVITED TO SPONSOR DANCE
MARATHON PARTICIPANTS: Faculty and staff are
invited to sponsor student participants in USC’s annual Dance Marathon, which takes place February
18–19 and benefits the Palmetto Health Children’s
Hospital. Participants must raise $150 and remain
on their feet for the entire 24-hour event, in which
they play games, meet families and children from
the hospital, and, of course, dance. Last year’s
event raised more than $87,000, which supported
the Children’s Hospital’s child abuse clinic, neonatal
intensive care unit, the Reach Out and Read Program, and music therapy. For more information, go
to web.sa.sc.edu/dancemarathon/.
■ STRING PROJECT REGISTRATION IS JAN. 13–14:
USC’s String Project invites third- and fourth-grade
students, home-schooled children, and adults to register
for the spring semester. The String Project offers
instruction in violin, viola, and cello to approximately
120 students. Classes for the 12-week session will be
held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays for
beginning third- and fourth-graders; 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Thursdays for home-schooled students who are at the
third-grade level or above; and 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Thursdays for adults. All classes will be held at the String
Project Annex, 511 South Main St. For more information
or to register by phone, call 7-9568 or go to www.music.
sc.edu/Special_Programs/StringProject/parents.html.
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Trip to Taiwan leads
to artistic exchange
E-mail warning
Message requesting VIP account numbers
is not from USC Computer Services
BY LARRY WOOD
A working trip made by ceramic artist Virginia Scotchie to
Taiwan last summer led to an exchange of not only ideas and
techniques but also students.
Scotchie, an associate professor in USC’s Department of
Art, spent two and one half weeks teaching graduate students
at the Tainan National School for the Arts. This spring, Andrea
Moon, one of her students, will travel to the school for two
weeks to study while Mei-Yuei, one of the students Scotchie
taught in Taiwan, will come to USC to work.
“What I wanted to do was not just go to another country to
work. I was really interested in getting some kind of exchange
going,” Scotchie said. “Asia has such a strong history of
ceramics, and it values ceramics as a high art form. It’s a great
opportunity to have this exchange with Taiwan.”
In Taiwan, Moon will live in Mei-Yuei’s apartment and
work in her studio space, and Mei-Yuei will do the same in
Columbia. “It’s going to be just like that TV show Trading
Spaces,” Scotchie said. “It’s interesting because Mei-Yuei
translated means ‘Beautiful Moon,’ and my student’s name is
Andrea Moon. It was like it was destiny.”
Ceramics professor Ching-Yuan, an internationally known
artist, invited Scotchie to conduct the residency program at
Tainan, which offers graduate programs in the visual arts and
is based on the model of Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Tainan’s contemporary campus, surrounded by mango
orchards, is in southern Taiwan.
“All of my students were very talented, and they were all so
interested in the way I make work and had so many questions
about my ideas and concepts,” Scotchie said. “It was a very
nice dialogue. I was able to immerse myself in their program.”
During her first weekend there, Scotchie also taught a ceramics workshop that attracted 150 artists from around Taiwan. “It
was the first time I’ve ever given a workshop where I had to
have an interpreter,” Scotchie said. “I’d say something, and then
the interpreter would say something, and then people would
BY KIMBERLY STEWART SOUTH, USC COMPUTER SERVICES
Virginia Scotchie, right, art; her husband, Peter Lenzo, left; and son
Joseph, met Laura Bush at a reception for ART in Embassies.
start laughing. Then I’d want to know why they were laughing
because I hadn’t said anything funny. It was very entertaining.”
Scotchie donated a wall grouping of six pieces she created
while at Tainan to the Yinggi Museum of Ceramic Art in Taipei, devoted to contemporary and historical ceramics. “They
had a tea ceremony for me,” she said. “They are so respectful
of teachers. They were very warm, kind people and very generous with their time. It was a really great experience.”
Scotchie had another “great experience” last summer. She
attended a reception that celebrated the 40th anniversary of
the ART in Embassies Program at the White House, where
she; her husband, Peter Lenzo; and their son, Joseph Scotchie
Lenzo, met First Lady Laura Bush. That evening, they heard
former Secretary of State Colin Powell speak.
For two years, one of Scotchie’s ceramic sculptures was
on display at the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
South Carolinian Robert Royal was ambassador during those
two years, and he wanted the embassy’s exhibition to feature
artists from his state.
“It was definitely something very special to be asked to
participate in the ART in Embassies Program,” Scotchie said.
University will honor life of Martin Luther King Jr. Jan. 14–17
USC will commemorate the life and legacy of Martin Luther
At 3 p.m. Jan. 17, the USC Black Law Students Association
King Jr. with a number of events beginning Jan. 14.
will sponsor a program at the USC law school auditorium. A
This year’s program will mark the 22nd consecutive year
reception will follow the program.
the University has held a formal program to honor King.
The annual MLK Gospel Unity Fest will honor King’s life
“The University of South Carolina’s celebration is among
and legacy at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 17 in the Koger Center. Nationally
the state’s largest organized MLK celebrations and annually
known gospel artists Doc McKenzie and The Gospel Hi-Lites
attracts several thousand persons to the campus to observe and
will be this year’s featured performers. The Lake City gospel
commemorate the life and legacy of this great
group has won nine American Gospel Quartet
American,” said Bobby Gist, chair of the
Convention awards, including Quartet of the
University’s MLK Committee and executive
Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year.
assistant to the president for Equal OpportuTickets are available at the Carolina Colinity Programs.
seum Box Office; the cost is $6. Net proceeds
King Day activities will begin with a
from ticket sales will be used to support the
commemorative breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Jan.
I. DeQuincy Newman Institute for Peace and
14 in The Zone at Williams-Brice Stadium.
Social Change.
Brig. Gen. Abraham J. Turner, commanding
The Unity Fest is sponsored by the Uniofficer at Fort Jackson, will be the featured
versity in cooperation with the Martin Luther
speaker. The event is open to all faculty, staff,
King Jr. Holiday Committee; the College of
and students. The cost is $6 per person, and
Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management;
tickets are available at the Russell House
the USC Athletics Department; the USC StuBrig.
Gen.
Abraham
J.
Turner
Information Desk.
dent Government Association; and the Black
The University will continue its celebraFaculty and Staff Association.
tion Jan. 17 with the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of
For more information, call the USC Office of Equal
Service, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Russell House.
Opportunity Programs at 7-3854.
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DECEMBER 9, 2004
An e-mail circulating on the USC campus that requests
VIP account numbers is not from Computer Services. The
message is originating from a Hotmail account and has no
affiliation with VIP, USC, or Computer Services.
Faculty members
who receive the mesIT bulletin
sage should delete it
and should not give
out their ID or PIN. The message is being circulated by an
unknown user to extract personal information.
“Fraudulent attempts to gain access to passwords, credit
card numbers, PINs, and SSNs are on the rise at USC
and worldwide. This type of activity is called phishing,”
said Veronica Wilkinson, who is in charge of security at
Computer Services. “No one legitimate should ever ask you
for a password, a PIN, or a credit card number by e-mail,
especially unsolicited e-mail. E-mail is an insecure medium
of communication and should not be trusted for sensitive
information. Online services, stores, or USC should never
ask you for that type of information by e-mail.
“Common scams and more information on phishing can
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a request for personal information, please check the AntiPhishing Web site or forward that e-mail as an attachment
to abuse@sc.edu. Never respond unless you are absolutely
certain it is a legitimate request that you were expecting.”
USC Computer Services, a network manager, or IT
contacts will never ask anyone to send any type of personal information across e-mail as a matter of security and
protection.
If asked for this information, be very suspicious. Disregard
any type of message that may look phony (such as one from a
hotmail.com or yahoo.com address). Faculty who receive any
message such as this one should notify Computer Services as
soon as possible at 7-1800 or cshelpdesk@sc.edu.
The best advice: Never give out personal information
across the telephone or by e-mail unless you know exactly
where and to whom the information is going.
The following is a copy of the e-mail being sent to
various USC professors:
From: Rick Schroeder [mailto:rbschroeder_vip_sc_
edu@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 5:23 PM
Subject: VIP ID and PIN verification Urgent!
Hello this is Rick Schroeder with the VIP and Blackboard
services from USC-Columbia. It appears that someone
unauthorized is using your VIP account.
For the safety of your account, please e-mail your ID
number and PIN number back to this account so we can
verify your usage. If you do not e-mail us your account,
we will be forced to delete the account, and you will have
to begin to create an account, which could take days
and maybe even weeks. With the end of the semester
approaching quickly, we surely do not want to do this. To
avoid this trouble, again please send your VIP ID number
and pin number back to this e-mail address.
Thank you for your cooperation,
Rick Schroeder