■ Inside
T
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Getting to know
you: Dinner
Dialogues as a social
networking site.
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Card catalog castoffs
become works of
art. Live Oak Tree,
right, by senior Paige
Duvall takes first
place in the contest.
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December 10,
10 2009
A publication for faculty, staff, and friends of the University of South Carolina
Columbia
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■ MLK Day
Breakfast set
for Jan. 15
The University’s annual Martin Luther
King Jr. Day Breakfast will be held at
7:30 a.m. Jan. 15, 2010, at The Zone
at Williams-Brice Stadium. The guest
speaker will be announced. The cost
of the breakfast is $8; tickets will be
available beginning Dec. 11 in the Russell
House and at the Coliseum box office.
Bobby Gist, executive assistant to
the president for equal opportunity programs, will
make opening remarks
and introductions.
President
Pastides will
welcome the
audience on
behalf of the
University.
Meredith Ross, president of USC
student government, will lead the litany.
Caryn N. Wells, a student at Richland
Northeast High School, will present a
musical selection.
Pastides and Carl Wells, director of
access and equity/diversity training,
will present the annual Social Justice
Awards to a faculty member, staff member, and student. The awards recognize
individuals who have exemplified the
philosophies of King through random
or on-going acts of community service,
social justice, or racial reconciliation.
The 13th-annual Martin Luther King
Jr. Day of Service will be held from
9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Jan. 18, 2010.
Every January, hundreds of University
students take part in service projects
around the Columbia community.
Sponsored by the Carolina Service
Council and Community Service
Programs, the event gives volunteers
the chance to work with nonprofit
organizations such as Habitat for
Humanity, Salvation Army, Home
Works of America, and Reliant Hospice.
To register to volunteer for the Day
of Service, go to www.sa.sc.edu/
communityservice/mlk.htm.
Beaufort
Be fortt
Beauf
Lancaster
Salkehatchie
Sumter
Union
Upstate
■ State budget
Latest cut is within
anticipated reduction
By Larry Wood
Blue—and gold—Christmas
Kim Truett
Roommates Melody Dawson, top, a senior biology/pre-dental major from Florence; Samantha
Lake, a junior exercise science major from Easley; and Maria Scalici, a junior nursing major
from Birmingham, Ala., put the final trimmings on the Delta Delta Delta House Christmas
tree. Alumnae of the chapter hand painted many of the ornaments with designs in blue and
gold, the sorority’s colors. At the beginning of each holiday season, the chapter invited alumnae
to help decorate the tree as a way to get to know their sisters who have graduated.
The University’s budget will be cut another 3 percent when
the state Budget and Control Board meets Dec. 15, but the
cut is still within the 10 percent funding reduction anticipated for this year.
The 3 percent reduction will translate to a loss of
$4.9 million for the University system and a little more than
$4 million for the Columbia campus
alone, said Ted Moore, vice president
for finance and planning, at the Faculty Senate’s Dec. 2 meeting.
“With the additional 3 percent
on Dec. 15, we will still be within
the budget that we calibrated for the
institution,” Moore said. “We anticipated a 10 percent state budget cut
cumulatively for the year.
“We’ve got a little more room, but
Moore
we do expect, frankly, that there will
be additional cuts in the spring. We
don’t expect them to exceed the cumulative 10 percent, at
least not extremely, but we’re prepared for that. Our president and all of us are working hard to get some of that back
in the near future if we possibly can.”
So far this year, and going back to about 18 months ago,
the University system has lost about $67 million in recurring
money from the state budget. For the Columbia campus, the
reduction is $55 million.
“That translates to about a 30 percent reduction in our
state appropriation over the past 18 months,” Moore said.
“The cut on Dec. 15 will translate into about a 33 percent
reduction over the past 18 months.”
Moore also outlined how the University system will
use the $29 million in one-time federal stimulus money it
received this year. The Columbia campus and the School of
Medicine received $20 million of that amount.
“This is one-time money for two years, assuming legislation is enacted next year to receive it again,” Moore said.
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■ Gift to Family Fund keeps on giving
Looking for the perfect gift this season? You know, one that won’t be tossed aside by
the recipient? When you designate your Family Fund gift to the area of your choice
(maybe even your own department), the participation in your division gets a boost.
Plus, you’ll feel good about making a gift that helps Carolina students succeed. Go to
www.sc.edu/familyfund to check out your division’s participation and make a gift to the
academic area that means the most to you.Your participation makes a difference to
faculty, staff, and students year-round.
Harrell to speak at fall commencement Dec. 14
Robert William “Bobby” Harrell Jr., Speaker of the S.C.
House of Representatives, will deliver the commencement
address at fall graduation exercises and will
receive an honorary degree of doctor of public
service.
Claude Bouchard, a biomedical scientist, will
receive an honorary degree of doctor of science,
and Joe Barnett Huddleston, executive director
of the Multistate Tax Commission in Washington,
D.C., will receive an honorary degree of doctor of
laws.
Commencement exercises for baccalaureate,
master’s, and professional degree candidates will
Harrell
be held at 3:30 p.m. Dec. 14 in the Colonial Life
Arena.
The University expects to award more than 2,400 degrees
to candidates from all campuses, including five associate,
1,156 baccalaureate, five law, 20 graduate certificates, 434
master’s, and 11 specialists from the Columbia campus.
The University also will award 177 baccalaureate and five master’s degrees from USC Aiken;
three associate and 68 baccalaureate degrees
from USC Beaufort; 25 associate degrees from
USC Lancaster; 18 associate degrees from USC
Salkehatchie; 10 associate degrees from USC
Sumter; four associate degrees from USC Union;
and 452 baccalaureate degrees from USC Upstate.
The doctoral hooding ceremony for 86
doctoral degree candidates will be held at
1:30 p.m. Dec. 14 in the Koger Center. John
Dawson, Carolina Distinguished Professor of
Chemistry, will be the speaker.
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Carolina Cares celebrates
40 years of compassion
What started as a project for the entire freshman class 40
years ago has solidly stood the test of time.
Here’s proof: for this holiday season, Carolina Cares
organized and collected more than 1,200 stockings stuffed
with toys and personal care items
given by University faculty, staff, and
students. The stockings were donated
to the Salvation Army for distribution to area children in need.
“Carolina Cares is an opportunity
for the Carolina community to care
about and help its neighbors,” said
Jerry Brewer, a Carolina graduate
who participated in Carolina Cares
as a student and is now associate
Brewer
vice president for student affairs.
“Helping people in places around the world—like Darfur, for
example–is wonderful. But there are so many people that we
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Briefly
STUDENTS WIN PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY
CONTEST: Twelve University students won Public Anthropology Awards for a national writing competition that involved
more than 4,000 students from 28 universities.The student
winners are from Jennifer Reynolds’ “Understanding Other
Cultures” class.They are Chelsea Rzepkowski, Brook Burroughs,
and Alexandra Phillips, Charleston; Billy Mathison, Aiken; Carson
Lamb and Amanda Ginsburg, Columbia; Jake Williams, Irmo;
Michael Ellis, Conway; Kristen Hendrix, Atlanta; Diana Delmontie,Wendell, N.C.; Jeff Pfeffer, Davidson, N.C.; and Marc Guest,
Anderson.The competition is part of the Community Action
Website Project, an online community in which students taking
public anthropology courses at universities nationwide can
learn about ethical issues facing communities in the world today.
For the competition, students learned and wrote about the
Yanomami Indians and their fight to have blood samples of their
ancestors, which were used for research, returned to them.
STUDENT PUBLICATIONS WIN NATIONAL
DESIGN AWARDS: The University’s student-run newspaper and Garnet and Black magazine were cited for excellence
in a national competition among student newspaper, magazine,
and yearbook publications.The Daily Gamecock placed third
overall and first place in the “best nameplate and standing
heads” category in the annual Best of Collegiate Designs competition sponsored by College Media Advisors Inc.The Garnet
and Black received fourth place in the “best content pages
spread” category. Staff members from the two publications were
recognized at the National College Media Convention Oct. 28
in Austin,Texas. Nearly 1,300 entries were submitted from 77
colleges and universities nationwide.
SCHOLAR WRITES ON THE IMPACT OF
DOCUMENTARIES: A special issue of the journal Mass
Communication and Society will feature an article by University
professor of political science David Whiteman on the impact
that film and television documentaries have on society. Whiteman’s article, titled “Documentary Film as Policy Analysis:The
Impact of ‘Yes, In My Backyard’ on Activists, Agendas and Policy,”
focuses, in part, on the documentary Yes, In My Backyard,
which looks at the impact of rural prisons.The journal features
articles on documentaries as commercial enterprise on forprofit cable television networks and the Internet and as a tool
to mold public opinion and shape policy.
PICKING UP MAIL DURING THE HOLIDAYS:
The University Postal Service at 1600 Hampton St. will receive
and sort inbound U.S. Postal Service mail throughout the holiday
break. Outbound mail processing will resume Jan. 4, 2010. Mail
will be available for departments to pick up between 9 a.m. and
10 a.m. on Dec. 23, 28, 29, and 30. Departments that will be
open during the holiday break can call the USC Postal Service at
7-3168 or send an e-mail to postoffice@sc.edu.To pick up mail,
use the Post Office loading dock entrance in the 1600 Hampton
St. parking lot. Mail will be distributed in whole department
bundles and only released to staff members who present a valid
University ID.
HAVE LUNCH, BRUNCH IN THE SKY: The Top of
Carolina, on the 18th floor of Capstone House, is offering a
buffet featuring barbecue pork, pulled barbecue chicken, green
beans, rice, macaroni and cheese, coleslaw and seasonal salads,
rolls, banana pudding, iced tea, and coffee every Friday during the
academic year.The buffet is served from 11:30 a.m. to
2 p.m.The cost is $9.86 plus tax.The Top of Carolina will serve
brunch Dec. 13 and re-open Jan. 17, 2010.The restaurant is
open to the University community and the public. Reservations
are suggested for Friday and Sunday by calling 7-9848. For more
information, call 7-7919 or go to sc.edu/dining.
CHOOSE TO LOSE: Choose to Lose, a free eight-week
weight management program, will begin Feb. 2, 2010. Registration will begin in January.The program features:
• registered dietitian consultation
• body fat percentage analysis
• tailored work-out plans
• bi-weekly exercise classes
• weekly weigh ins
• support group.
For more information, call 7-6518.
EXHIBIT FEATURES WILSON’S HOLIDAY
CARDS: The 2009 card exhibit, “Christmas on the Potomac,”
will be on display at the Thomas Cooper Library, outside the
East Gallery, through Jan. 15, 2010.The exhibit features Christmas cards received by Congressman Joe Wilson from members
of Congress, foreign dignitaries, and businesses and organizations within and outside his district.The exhibit also will include
President and Mrs. Pastides’ 2008 card and, if available, cards
from President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
CAROLINA TOPS CLEMSON IN ANNUAL
BLOOD DRIVE: A record number of donors contributed
to Carolina’s victory in the 25th-annual Carolina-Clemson
Blood Drive.The drive exceeded its goal of 4,500 donors, and
Carolina topped Clemson by almost 1,000 donors.The total
number of donors for Carolina was 4,542, and the total for
Clemson was 3,480. Carolina received the blood drive trophy at
the Carolina-Clemson game Nov. 28.
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December 10, 2009
Pharmacology professor lands $1.6 million grant
Georgi V. Petkov, an associate professor of pharmacology with the S.C. College of Pharmacy in Columbia, has won a five-year, $1.6 million grant from
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop
therapeutic strategies to control overactive bladder
syndrome. The grant is the largest ever awarded
to the S.C. College of Pharmacy on the Columbia
campus.
The grant, funded by the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases,
seeks to understand the mechanisms that regulate
Petkov
human BK channels under normal and pathophysiological conditions. The BK channel is a major potassium ion
channel that controls the contraction and relaxation of the
urinary bladder smooth muscle.
About 17 percent of the U.S. population suffers from overactive bladder with an associated
economic cost of more than $26 billion per year.
The results from the study will have a significant
impact on urological research with a strong potential to provide novel therapeutic approaches to
help a large population of patients suffering from
overactive bladder and urinary incontinence.
Petkov has several other active grants related to
urinary bladder function and regulation, including
another NIH grant, a Pfizer international award,
and a S.C. Clinical and Translational Research Institute Discovery grant.
Verizon helps fund Cocky’s Reading Express
Verizon Communications
has increased its support
of Cocky’s Reading Express
with a gift of $24,500, the
largest gift to date to support
the University’s student-led
literacy program.
“We at Verizon support
Cocky’s Reading Express
because we appreciate
unique educational initiatives
like this,” said Stan Bugner,
Verizon vice president for
public affairs, policy, and
communications in South
Carolina. “And we think that
the excitement that Cocky
and the University of South
Carolina students bring to
young readers is a great way
to foster interest in reading.”
Bugner said Verizon has
“supported literacy programs
all over the country for more
than 20 years, and this is
Kim Truett
Ashley Wood helps Cocky read The Little Red Hen to students at East Elementary in Dillon during a trip to the
one of the most unique apI-95 corridor in January 2008.
proaches we have seen.”
The gift will support visits by Cocky, the University’s mascot, and his student friends along South Carolina’s I-95 Corridor, as
well as in the Midlands, Upstate, and Lowcountry.
Student-government leaders founded Cocky’s Reading Express in 2005. Part of the literacy initiative in the School of Library
and Information Science, the program has taken the message of early literacy and delivered books to more than 11,000 elementary-school children in South Carolina.
For more information on Cocky’s Reading Express, contact Ellen Shuler Hinrichs at 734-8207 or ellenh@sc.edu, or go to www.
libsci.sc.edu and click on “Cocky’s Reading Express.”
Carolina recognized as
Fit-Friendly Company
The University has been recognized by the American Heart
Association’s (AHA) Start! program as a Fit-Friendly Company
for 2009.
The AHA designation recognizes employers that offer
programs and incentives to its workers that promote health
through walking. The University has several programs that encourage the campus community to walk for improved health.
Walktober is a pedometer-based walking program that
takes place each October. The 217 participants in 2008 recorded 30,191,352 steps, equaling more than 15,000 miles.
In the UWalk program, participants log the steps they
walk to gain “mileage” toward a T-shirt from the college or
university of their choice. The program fosters a competitive
spirit, and participants have logged more than 173,800 miles
in virtual walking to places such as UCLA, Ohio State, and the
University of Miami.
The Fit Walk Paths Program establishes walking routes
around the scenic campus for faculty, staff, and students.
The trio of walking programs is part of Healthy Carolina, a
University initiative to make healthy choices simple.
Proposals open for SLDC workshop
Presentation proposals are being accepted for the 24thannual Student Leadership and Diversity Conference
(SLDC) to be held Feb. 6 at the Moore School of Business.
Workshop proposals should fit the following categories: leadership development; diversity; organizations
and training; and values. At least one presenter must be a
full-time professional staff or faculty member. Proposals
are due by Dec. 14 by on-line submission at www.sa.sc.
edu/leaders/diversity.shtm.
The SLDC is a one-day, regional leadership and
diversity conference sponsored by Leadership Programs
and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs at the
University. The conference provides an opportunity for
networking and interaction among regional faculty, staff,
and students. The goal is to create a dialogue about the
various leadership and diversity topics affecting college
and university campuses today.
This year’s theme is “LDTV: Leadership & Diversity—
Teaching Values.” For more information, contact Melissia
Brannen at brannenm@mailbox.sc.edu or 7-4806.
Students will get new e-mail system in spring
A new student e-mail system will be in place beginning in the
spring 2010 semester.
The system, Outlook Live@edu, will offer students a much
larger inbox, with optional features such as online storage, as
well as collaboration and social networking tools. Students
will begin using their new e-mail on Jan. 5, 2010.
As part of the change, students will have new e-mail address: [NETWORKUSERNAME]@email.sc.edu (substituting
the network username). Any e-mail sent to an @mailbox.
sc.edu account will be forwarded to the @email.sc.edu account
during the spring 2010 semester. Students will need to change
their network username password before using the new system. Changes can be made through VIP–Technology tab.
Students can log in to their new student e-mail accounts on
Jan. 5 by going to www.sc.edu/studentemail.
The new e-mail system for students will have several new
features, including a 10 GB inbox and multi-browser support.
Optional features are 25 GB online storage, blogging and
photo sharing tools, and collaboration tools.
Students who also work at the University will retain their
@mailbox.sc.edu mail for work and should begin using their
Outlook Live@edu account for student correspondence.
E-mails sent to @mailbox.sc.edu will not be automatically
forwarded to the new Outlook Live@edu account.
The University faculty and staff e-mail system and e-mail
addresses will remain the same: @mailbox.sc.edu.
Instructions and information are available at www.sc.edu/
studentemail. For more information, contact the University
Technology Services (UTS) Help Desk at 7-1800 or e-mail
helpdesk@sc.edu.
University’s ‘Genesis 2015’ plan to create petroleum-free fleet
The University unveiled its “Genesis 2015 Initiative” Dec. 1.
The plan will create a college campus with 90 percent fewer
carbon-dioxide emissions from its fleet of vehicles within five
years.
The plan puts Carolina among the nation’s first campuses
committed to reducing its dependence on petroleum by
introducing alternative fuels to power the buses, cars, trucks,
motorcycles, and maintenance vehicles needed in the everyday
life of the University.
The comprehensive plan is ambitious but doable, President
Pastides said.
“Today, we are making a commitment that will drive Carolina into a new era of environmental responsibility,” he said.
“This is another important initiative supported by our faculty,
staff, and students to create a campus that will be climate
neutral.”
The University has about 400 vehicles that are used for
business, maintenance, and transportation of students, said
Derrick Huggins, associate vice president for transportation.
Within five years, all vehicles on the Columbia campus
will be powered by ethanol, biodiesel, liquefied petroleum gas
(LPG), electricity, or hydrogen fuel cells. A hydrogen hybrid
bus will become part of the University’s shuttle service in
January.
“We have 156 vehicles that we can convert to alternative
fuel right away,” Huggins said. “This plan underscores the
fact that the University of South Carolina is a leader among
colleges and universities in sustainability efforts, including
transportation, which is a key source of carbon emissions.”
The University earned top green ratings from the Princeton
Review and the College Sustainability Report Card this fall,
placing Carolina among the greenest universities and colleges
in the Southeast.
Kim Truett
President Pastides announces USC’s plan to make its vehicle fleet cleaner by 2015. Many of the University’s alternative fuel vehicles played a
starring role at the Genesis 2015 press conference.The plan calls for 90 percent fewer carbon-dioxide emissions from USC’s vehicles within five years.
Michael Koman, the University’s director of sustainability,
said Genesis 2015 will reduce Carolina’s carbon-dioxide emissions by more than 2,000 tons.
“This is a major initiative to have cleaner air and to develop
a clean fuel-supply system,” he said.
Moreover, switching to alternative fuels might boost the
agricultural economy across the Palmetto State.
“Farmers could plant crops to meet fuel and food
Faculty team lands grant to explore computer gaming
By Marshall Swanson
An interdisciplinary group of faculty at the University has won a $232,000 grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to explore
how serious computer gaming technology can be
used in teaching and research.
Duncan Buell, a professor in the Department
of Computer Sciences and Engineering, is the
principal investigator for the grant that includes coBuell
principal investigators Heidi Rae Cooley, assistant
professor of new media studies; Randall Cream,
post-doctoral fellow in digital humanities and associate director of the Center for Digital Humanities;
and Simon Tarr, assistant professor of media arts.
The grant, from the NEH’s Institute for
Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, will
fund a three-week institute at USC next summer.
The institute will familiarize some 20 faculty
members and advanced graduate students from
Cooley
colleges and universities in the Southeast and
nationally with game building, good applications
of gaming, and what can be learned from a
gaming experience. Institute participants will return
to their host schools to implement what they learned
in Columbia.
During the spring 2010 semester, Buell and the
other professors taking part in the project plan to
develop three fairly well developed prototypes of
games—two for mobile phone platforms and one
Cream
for a desktop platform—that will help give institute
participants a head start with their gaming activities
during the May institute.
Buell is hoping to enlist a core group of students
from the University who will know the platforms
technically and can provide examples of already
developed games to institute participants.
The technology from multi-player games and
first-person shooter games such as war games is
known as serious gaming and is already used at
Tarr
some colleges and universities for educational
purposes, Buell said. Those uses typically create environments
that gamers can see, similar to virtual reality.
For example, UCLA has already created a rendition of King
Tut’s Tomb that students can explore, and IBM has a guided
tour of the Forbidden City of Beijing.
Buell and his digital humanities colleagues are interested
in how they can translate the technology into other viable
educational experiences.
“Part of it is having the software that builds the environment appropriately, which is where the computer scientist
comes in,” he said. “The other part is a good application of the software, which is where the humanities people come in. For example, how would you
do a history game, a virtual reality kind of history?”
The other part of the technology of interest to
the digital humanities group, Buell said, is what
players or students learn about themselves as a
result of their participation in a game.
The nature of gaming technology that makes
it an effective learning tool is that it can more
effectively fire a student’s imagination and can be
more engaging in learning situations or a research
setting, he added.
“If you can get a game that works properly,
students learn better because they are actually
involved in the process and are more interested
in being part of it instead of simply memorizing
something,” Buell said.
“Part of it is getting students hooked. If you can
make the educational game work so that it isn’t
just fun, but actually conveys a message, it is an
excellent educational tool because you’re providing something like an internship or an experiential
learning experience.”
Gaming technology can be used in research on
several levels, including in psychological or management studies where people who are interacting
with others can be studied in other than face-toface situations. Other applications might include
ways to study how people react to the introduction
of new technology into organizations.
The use of gaming technology will be only one
part of education’s future, Buell said, although he
notes that it is similar to technology that allows
for anatomical renderings of human beings that
can “look beneath skin and muscles and watch
blood flow, which is transforming education in all
disciplines.
“I got interested in the digital humanities on
campus because I thought it was a nice new market
for technology,” Buell said. “One of the advantages of being
in computing is that you get new technology very rapidly, and
then somebody thinks of new applications for it.
“With the coming WiFi access for the entire Columbia
campus, we’re looking at how we can use that capability, and a
lot of proposals are coming from the humanities,” Buell said.
“There are a lot of people in my discipline, and others who
look at my discipline, who are interested in the question of
how we can use these things collectively.”
demands,” Koman said, adding that soybeans, corn, and
switch grasses have the potential to generate extra income for
farmers.
Pastides said that student input has been critical in the
University’s commitment to making Carolina healthier and
greener. “Sustainability is part of the fabric of life here at the
University, and Genesis 2015 will move our transportation
efforts forward,” he said.
Stay fit this
holiday season
As much fun as the holiday season is, it can be rough
on your fitness program. Bad weather, stress, and lack
of time can sap your motivation, while parties, visitors, and vacations can distract you from your workouts. It’s no wonder so many people gain unwanted
weight in November and December.
But it doesn’t have to be that
way. You can keep up or even
improve your fitness level, stave
off weight gain, and enjoy the holidays as much as ever. Just stick
with the following guidelines.
■ Manage your time. Schedule
your workouts in advance. Your
free time is sure to get filled up
with other activities, making it
easy to forget about working out.
On the other hand, if you schedule
your workouts just like other
appointments, you’re much more likely to do them
when the time comes. If you absolutely can’t find time
on a particular day, mark it as a recovery period, and
make sure you have a workout scheduled for the next
day.
■ Keep up your energy. If your holiday period
is marked by flurries of frantic activity followed by
a worn-out feeling, you’re not alone. But you can
shorten those “dragging” periods with healthy habits,
such as sticking to your food plan, avoiding highcarbohydrate holiday treats, taking time to relax, and
not skipping workouts.
■ Travel right. If you’ll be traveling on a plane, pack
a meal or snack in advance and make sure you drink
plenty of water. Watch out when eating out. Try to
find restaurants that serve high-quality meals, or, if
that’s not possible, order the best of what is on the
menu. Organize healthy activities. If you’re traveling
to an unfamiliar city, find out in advance what you can
do that requires a little movement. If you’ll be staying
with family members who prefer life on the couch,
suggest some outdoor games—or, if the weather isn’t
cooperative, healthy indoor activities. Even a postmeal walk will get everyone’s blood pumping. Or take
your workout with you. One of the many benefits of a
DVD workout program is that it’s portable.
■ Take care of your health. Nothing can derail
a workout program like getting sick. And you might
be extra-vulnerable to illness at this time of year,
when stress and bad weather collide with cold and flu
season. But a few basic precautions can improve your
odds, such as washing your hands frequently, avoiding germs, getting plenty of sleep, drinking plenty of
water, and maintaining healthy eating habits.
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December & January
Calendar
■ Theatre/
opera/dance
Jan. 11–12 Koger Center:
Broadway in Columbia presents
The Wizard of Oz, 7:30 p.m. For
more information, go to www.
broadwayincolumbia.com.
Coming in the new year
A major exhibition that parallels the history of coiled basket
making in South Carolina and Africa opens at McKissick
Museum Feb. 13. Featuring more than 200 objects, Grass Roots:
African Origins of American Art contains baskets, paintings,
sculptures, agricultural implements, historical documents and
images, and new video footage. An article about the exhibit will
appear in the Jan. 21 issue of Times.
Jan. 15–17 USC Dance:
Sponsored by the USC Dance
program,Youth America Grand
Prix Dance Competition, a
national American ballet and contemporary dance competition for
students ages nine to 19, free and
open to the public. For information, go to www.cas.sc.edu/dance.
■ Sports
Dec. 13 Women’s basketball:
N.C. State, 2 p.m.,
Colonial Life Arena.
Dec. 16 Men’s basketball:
Richmond, 7 p.m.,
Colonial Life Arena.
■ Miscellany
Dec. 10 Professional development: “Use It or Lose
It: Cognitive Health Skills,” workshop will teach tips for
memory improvement and explain how bio-psychosocial
factors such as lifestyle and aging affect overall cognitive
health. 11:15 a.m.–1 p.m., 1600 Hampton St., Room 101.
Free. For registration and information, go to http:hr.sc.edu/
profdevp/classes/useitorloseit.html.
Dec. 10 Speaker @ The Center: Authors Mike Creel
and Lynn Kelley will discuss their newly-revised The Boykin
Spaniel: South Carolina’s Dog, and storyteller Ben McC. Moise
will discuss Ramblings of a Lowcountry Game Warden. This
fall’s events will feature new releases from the University of
South Carolina Press. Books will be available for purchase
and autographing. Noon–1 p.m., S.C. State Library, Administration Building, 1430 Senate St., Free and open to the
public. Participants are encouraged to bring a bag lunch.
Presented by the S.C. Center for the Book, a cooperative
project of the S.C. State Library, the School of Library and
Information Science at Carolina, and the Humanities Council of S.C. For information, go to www.sccenterforthebook.
org/6/12.html.
Dec. 10 Book signings: Authors Jack Bass; Stephen
Hoffius; Tom Moore Craig; Ben McC. Moise; Nathalie
Dupree; Janet Hudson; Lacy Ford, chair, Department of
History at Carolina; and Wilmot Irvin, 5:30–7 p.m., South
Caroliniana Library, Reading Room. Free and open to the
public.
Dec. 10 Book signing: Holiday coffee and book signing
event for South Carolina authors Jack Bass and Nathalie
Dupree, 10:15 a.m., Thomas Cooper Library, Graniteville
Room. Free and open to the public.
Dec. 17 and 18 Professional development:
“Assertiveness at Work,” two-part workshop for employees who want to enhance their self-confidence and professional rapport with others. 8:45 a.m.–noon, 1600 Hampton
St., Room 101. Free. To register, call 7-6578 or e-mail
hrtrain@mailbox.sc.edu.
Jan. 20–22 Professional development: “Weight Loss
Skills,” workshop will introduce the basic science of weight
loss and provide a set of tools for reaching a desirable
weight and maintaining it long-term. 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m., 1600
Hampton St., Room 101. For registration and information,
go to http://hr.sc.edu/profdevp/classes/weightloss.html.
Jan. 25–April 21 Center for Teaching Excellence:
“Accent Reduction Short Course,” an intensive short
course to help non-native English speaking faculty to improve their ability to communicate with students. One-hour
sessions twice a week. 5–6 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays.
No classes March 8 and 10 due to spring break. For fulltime faculty teaching at any USC campus; free. To register,
go to www.sc.edu/cte/accent. For Information, contact the
Center at cte@sc.edu or 7-8322
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Dec. 17 Women’s basketball:
Wake Forest, 7 p.m.,
Colonial Life Arena.
Dec. 21 Men’s basketball:
Furman, 7 p.m.,
Colonial Life Arena.
Jan. 2 Men’s basketball: Baylor,
1 p.m., Colonial Life Arena.
Jan. 3 Women’s basketball:
LSU, 3 p.m.,
Colonial Life Arena.
Jan. 5 Men’s basketball:
Longwood, 7 p.m.,
Colonial Life Arena.
Jan. 14 Women’s basketball:
Kentucky, 7 p.m.,
Colonial Life Arena.
Jan. 16 Men’s basketball: Vanderbilt, 6 p.m.,
Colonial Life Arena.
Jan. 17 Women’s basketball: Auburn, 3 p.m.,
Colonial Life Arena.
The national Broadway tour of The Wizard of Oz comes to the Koger Center
in January.
■ Exhibits
Through Jan. 9 McKissick Museum: The Biennial Department of Art Faculty Exhibition. Second floor, South Gallery.
Jan. 26 Men’s basketball: Kentucky, 9 p.m.,
Colonial Life Arena.
Jan. 15–Feb. 23
McMaster Gallery:
Sticks, Straws, Sleeves,
and Leaves, work by
Jonathan Brilliant, a
Columbia artist.
Jan. 28 Women’s basketball: Mississippi, 7 p.m.,
Colonial Life Arena.
Jan. 30 Men’s basketball: Georgia, 7 p.m.,
Colonial Life Arena.
Through Jan. 16
McKissick Museum:
Urban Archaeology in
Columbia. Third floor,
Lobby Gallery.
Jan. 31 Women’s basketball: Tennessee, 2 p.m.,
Colonial Life Arena.
■ 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@mailbox.
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 business days prior to the publication
date of issue. The next publication date is Jan. 21.
■ Online calendar
USC Calendar of Events is at http://events.sc.edu.
To add events here, contact Cassandra Pope at
popecl@mailbox.sc.edu or 7-0019.
If you require special accommodations, please contact the program sponsor.
When Jonathan Brilliant brings his Have
Sticks Will Travel Tour to McMaster Gallery
in January, he will use coffee stirrer sticks
to create a massive suspended sculpture,
like the one above.
Opening Jan. 22
Thomas Cooper
Library: Southern
Naturalists–Audubon in
Context, exhibit opening and reception, The
Sandcastle on Kiawah
Island.
Through Jan. 23
McKissick Museum: Southern Satire:The Illustrated World of
Jak Smyrl. Second floor, North Gallery.
Through May 2010 Coleman Karesh Law Library:
An Eighteenth Century Law Library:The Colcock-Hutson Collection, School of Law, S.C. Legal History Room, Main Level.
Through August 2010 Coleman Karesh Law Library:
Memory Hold the Door, a new exhibit highlighting four past
honorees of Memory Hold the Door, a program of the
USC School of Law and the S.C. Bar Association. School of
Law, Main Level.
■ Around the campuses
Dec. 10 USC Beaufort: Lunch
with Authors, Children’s Literature,
panel of children’s authors with S.C.
Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth;
artist illustrator Leslie PrattThomas; silhouette artist, author, and
songwriter Clay Rice; and children’s
author Margot Theis Raven. Noon,
Country Club of Hilton Head,
Hilton Head Island. Reservations
are required by contacting 843-5214147 or kingsley@uscb.edu.
By Courtney Mirenzi, AmeriCorps VISTA for Service-Learning
Wentworth
Dec. 12, 19, 22, 26, 29 USC
Aiken: “ ’Tis the Season,” DuPont
Planetarium Show, 7 and 8 p.m.,
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center. For information, call 56-3769.
Dec. 12 USC Aiken: Concert,
“Home for the Holidays,” Aiken
Symphony Guild, 8 p.m., Etherredge
Center, Main Stage. For information,
call 56-3305.
Learning non-violence through community engagement
Rice
Dec. 19 USC Aiken: The Nutcracker, Aiken Civic Ballet,
2 and 7 p.m., Etherredge Center, Main Stage. For information, call 56-3305.
Jan. 14 USC Salkehatchie: Leadership Bamberg meeting,
9 a.m., Salkehatchie Leadership Institute, West Campus. For
information, call Anne Rice at 51-3446.
Jan. 21 USC Salkehatchie: Leadership Barnwell meeting,
9 a.m., Salkehatchie Leadership Institute, West Campus. For
information, call Anne Rice at 51-3446.
Jan. 21 USC Beaufort: Lunch
with Authors, Maryann McFadden, a
novelist whose first book My Richest
Season was highly acclaimed when
it debuted in 2006. Her latest is So
Happy Together. Noon, Dockside
Restaurant, Town of Port Royal. Reservations are required by contacting
843-521-4147 or kingsley@uscb.edu.
Jan. 22 USC Salkehatchie:
McFadden
Student Government Student Forum, 1 p.m, East Campus, Room 111. For information,
call Mitch Smith at 51-3446.
■ Concerts
Dec. 11 Colonial Life Arena: Martina McBride, Shine All
Night Tour, with special guests Blake Shelton and the Lost
Trailers. 7:30 p.m. Tickets range
from $35 to $60. For information,
go to coloniallifearena.com.
Dec. 16 Trinity Cathedral: Midday series, Community Carol Sing,
12:30 p.m. Averyt Hall, Sumter at
Senate streets. Half-hour concert is
free; lunch is available for purchase.
Dec. 18 Sandlapper Singers:
“American Graces Christmas
McBride
Concert,” more than 100 voices
from Satchel Ford Elementary School, Crayton Middle
School, and the Falcon Singers from A.C. Flora High School
sing Christmas songs joined by the Sandlapper Singers
instrumental ensemble. 7:30 p.m., Dreher High School
Auditorium, 3319 Millwood Ave. Reception follows concert.
Tickets range from $5 to $15. To purchase, go online to
www.sandlappersingers.org or call 381-5481.
Jan. 20 School of Music: Guest artist saxophone recital,
Philippe Geiss, saxophone instructor at the Strasbourg
Music Conservatory in France, 7:30 p.m., School of Music,
Recital Hall.
Jan. 24 School of Music: Faculty viola recital, Constance
Gee, 3 p.m., School of Music, Recital Hall.
Jan. 26 School of Music: Faculty piano recital, Charles
Fugo, 7:30 p.m., School of Music, Recital Hall.
Jan. 31 School of Music: Faculty flute recital, Jennifer
Parker-Harley, accompanied on piano by Lynn Kompass.
3 p.m., School of Music, Recital Hall.
volunteers help provide everyday care for abandoned cats and
On a chilly Sunday evening in November, students taking the
dogs.
course “Learning Non-Violence from Gandhi and Friends”
Kaleigh Reno, an Honors College sophomore majoring in
walked the footpaths of the University’s Belser Arboretum.
chemical engineering, and Lauren Wilson, an Honors College
Three students led their classmates on a tour and pointed out a
senior majoring in political science, had the opportunity to
Zen Garden they recently constructed.
volunteer at the Fur Ball, Project Pet’s annual major fundrais“Learning Non-Violence,” taught by Hal French in the
ing event. This event alone raised more than $250,000 for
Department of Religious Studies, is a service-learning course
Project Pet.
in the Honors College. It isn’t the first time French has taught
the course, but it is the first
time it has been offered
with a service-learning
component.
During the semester,
students in the class explore
strategies of non-violence
and engage questions of
how non-violent positions
can be applicable in their
communities and everyday
lives. Service-learning projects are integrated with academic course work, giving
students the opportunity to
address and apply the skills
they are learning in class to
community needs.
“The service-learning
component gives opportunity for direct, practical
expression to Gandhian ideals,” French said. Servicelearning is a distinct form of
engaged learning that gives
equal weight to both service Distinguished Professor Emeritus Hal French, far left, and his students pause outside the Carter Center in Atlanta.
and learning goals.
Students in “Learning Non-Violence” serve with three
“Working with Project Pet has educated me on the vast
community organizations in the greater Columbia area. For
problem in Richland and Lexington counties of the volume of
this first class, the organizations were Belser Arboretum,
homeless dogs and cats in shelters and how many dogs and
Waverly Center, and Project Pet.
cats are euthanized in these two counties each year,” Reno said.
Located in the Rosewood neighborhood, the Belser Arbore“My time at Project Pet has made me realize how important
tum is a 10-acre tract of undisturbed forest that was deeded to
animal rights are and has made me committed to continue to
Carolina in 1959. In addition to the Zen garden, students also
serve at Project Pet and similar organizations after this semescleared footpaths. The Waverly Center is a student-led after
ter is over.”
school education and enrichment program for underserved
Students in the class also visited Atlanta, where they
elementary school students. Undergraduates tutor, mentor,
learned more about the historic figures they studied in class.
and act as role models for the young children. Project Pet is an
During their trip, the class visited the Carter Center, the Martin
animal shelter in Irmo with the mission to reduce high animal
Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, and Ebenezer Baptist
euthanasia rates in Richland and Lexington counties. Student
Church, where King preached his ministry of nonviolence.
Dinner Dialogues preps students for the real world
Kathy Roberts Forde was leafing through her new faculty information packet when she pulled out a single sheet of green paper.
“It was a one-page flyer about this program where the University pays for you to have students come to your house for dinner,”
said the assistant professor in journalism and mass communications. “I thought, ‘Wait, the University pays for you to have students
come to your house for dinner?’ This was a great thing, and it could help me begin to understand South Carolina students.”
So Forde, her husband, and their 8-year-old daughter invited students from Journalism 302, History and
Philosophy of Mass Media, to enjoy barbecue at their home in October.
Forde is no stranger to continuing the learning process outside the classroom. She taught high school
English for more than 11 years and took her classes to readings, to bookstores, and on other field trips. After
completing a Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, she continued the tradition by holding
class discussions in coffee shops and other thought-inspiring venues.
But a University-sponsored dinner?
“The teacher-student relationship can be richer than what it sometimes is,” said Forde, who previously
was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota. “Dinner Dialogues allows you to speak to students as
peers, in community with others, and it helps break barriers.
“Dinner gave me insight into who my students are,” she said. “I try to see what my students’ lives are
Forde
like beyond the classroom, and what stresses they have. Soon they will be in the real world, and I think it is
important that they start to see authority figures as real people.”
Getting the event scheduled and funded was a breeze even though Forde had been at the University a mere three months.
“It was so easy,” she said. “I filled out a form I found online and then sent it to Melissa Gentry in Parent Programs. That was it.”
What did she learn from the experience?
“Most of the students in the class are from the Eastern Seaboard,” she said, “and we spent a lot of time finding out what brought
each of them to Carolina. It is fascinating to me that they come from such very different backgrounds. Next time, I think I may tie a
book or part of the course to a discussion as the evening’s centerpiece.”
Outside the classroom, Forde is working on her second book, which is about the social protest articles written by American
writer and Civil Rights activist James Baldwin. Her first book, Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First
Amendment, a probing analysis of the meaning and implications of a celebrated libel case, was published in 2008 and won the AEJMC History Division Book Award for Best Book on Journalism and Mass Communication History, and the Frank Luther-Mott-KTA
Award for the Best Research based book in journalism and mass communication for 2008.
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Árpád Darázs Singers to celebrate holidays with songs
Briefly
SALKEHATCHIE GOES WIRELESS: Through a grant
funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural
Utilities Service’s Distance Learning and Telemedicine grant program, wireless access has been provided on both the Allendale
and Walterboro campuses of USC Salkehatchie.Wireless coverage includes areas used by students as well as in distance education classrooms and labs.The USDA in support of Salkehatchie’s
distance education classes funded the wireless coverage. Students can use distance education to complete four-year degrees
(in partnership with sister USC campuses Columbia and Aiken)
in nursing, liberal studies, technology support, elementary education, and organizational leadership. “We are very excited about
going wireless,” USC Salkehatchie Associate Dean for Student
Services Jane Brewer said. “This is something we have wanted
for our students for a long time, and we are delighted to be
able to provide this service for them. In particular, this access
will help our nursing and other four-year degree students with
access to their professors on our partner campuses.”
SCHEDULE A HEALTH SCREENING: A Campus
Wellness staff member is available to visit departments and
offices to conduct free blood pressure and body fat screenings. Brochures on various health topics also will be available.
A minimum of six people is required to schedule a screening.
For more information, contact Campus Wellness at 7-6518 or
sawellness@mailbox.sc.edu.
HAVE A B.L.A.S.T. GETTING FIT: Campus Wellness
staff is available to visit offices and give a brief demonstration
of easy office exercises using resistance bands.The program
is called Break time, Lunchtime, Anytime Strength Training
(B.L.A.S.T.).To schedule a visit, call Campus Wellness at 7-6518.
HOLIDAY DINING SCHEDULE SET: Most dining locations on campus will remain open through Dec. 14, the last day
of exams. Hampton St. Café and Preston’s at Noon will remain
open Dec. 15–22 during the following hours: 7:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
Hampton St. Café, and 11:30 a.m.–2 p.m. Preston’s at Noon. For
more information, go to http://sc.edu/dining/main.html and click
on Holiday Closedown Schedule.
NOMINATIONS SOUGHT: The Harry M. Lightsey Jr.
Society of the S.C. Higher Education Foundation is seeking
nominations for 2010 inductions into the S.C. Higher Education
Hall of Fame. Nominations will be accepted through Dec. 15 for
consideration of the 2010 laureate.The Hall of Fame recognizes
and honors worthy individuals for outstanding achievement on
behalf of higher education in South Carolina. Lightsey was the
inaugural inductee. In 2008, the society honored U.S. Secretary
of Education Richard Riley as the second inductee.The society
will hold a banquet in fall 2010 to honor the next laureate. Information on selection criteria and a nominating form is on the
Web at http://schighered-foundation.org. For more information,
contact Julie Carullo at 737-2292 or jcarullo@che.sc.gov.
LOOKING FOR LEADERS: The University 101 Peer Leader
Program is accepting applications for fall 2010 through Jan. 19.
Peer leaders are outstanding juniors and seniors who serve as
mentors to first-year students. For information, go to www.
sc.edu/univ101.
Commencement
The Árpád Darázs Singers will present their holiday 2009
program, Sing We Now of Christmas. Selections include
sacred offerings such as Bach’s Hear the Joyful News and the
contemporary Mary, Did You Know, along with lighter pieces
such as John Beck’s Christmas Welcome and the popular classic Silver Bells.
The Árpád Darázs Singers began singing in 1987 as a
tribute to and in memory of the late USC choral conductor.
The choir, made up of members from the University and the
community, strives to bring his tradition of choral excellence
to the Midlands.
■ 7 p.m. Dec. 10, St. David’s Episcopal Church, 605 Polo Road,
Columbia
■ 4 p.m. Dec. 13, First Presbyterian Church, 650 Summers
Ave., Orangeburg
■ 7 p.m. Dec. 17, Zion Lutheran Church, 226 Corley Mill Road,
Lexington.
Aiken to hold convocation ceremony Dec. 10
USC Aiken will hold its December convocation ceremony at 7 p.m. Dec. 10 in the Convocation Center. More than 155 degree candidates are eligible to participate in the ceremony.
Gerald A. Maree, an attorney and an alumnus of USC Aiken, will deliver the commencement address. Originally from Walterboro, S.C., Maree graduated in 1988 from USC Aiken with a bachelor of arts degree in political science. His practice, Maree Law
Firm, P.A., specializes in tort and workers compensation litigation in the Lowcountry with offices in Walterboro and Charleston.
Maree lives in Charleston.
Misty N. Kelley, of Aiken, was recently named the Outstanding Senior Student at USC Aiken and will deliver remarks on behalf
of the class of 2009. Kelley is graduating Magna Cum Laude with a BA in communications.
In spring 2009, Kelley was named a Magellan Scholar. She was the first Magellan Scholar to be named from USC Aiken’s
Department of Communications. Her research project focused on communications as a tool to increase visibility and knowledge
of a local area non-profit. In addition, she is involved in multiple campus organizations, including Lambda Pi Eta communications
honor society, Pacer Times student newspaper, USC Aiken Dance Marathon, and Omega Phi Alpha, national service sorority.
Following graduation, Kelley plans to pursue a career in hospital public relations, preferably within a pediatric department or
children’s hospital. She also hopes to provide her public relations skills to nonprofit agencies as a service.
Upstate convocation
to honor December grads
USC Upstate will hold its convocation ceremony honoring
December graduates at 7 p.m. Dec. 15 at the Spartanburg
Memorial Auditorium. The campus will graduate more than
450 students. This graduating class will bring the alumni base
to approximately 18,000 graduates.
Stewart Spinks, founder and CEO of the Spinx Company,
will give the graduation address. He founded the Spinx Oil
Co. in 1972 with a heating oil home delivery company and
one gas station in Greenville. In 1977, Spinx opened its first
independent store, marketing petroleum products under the
Spinx name. Spinx became an Amoco petroleum jobber in
1984 and subsequently added the Exxon, Conoco, and Sunoco
brands to the petroleum offering of the company. These major
brands and the SPINX private brand allow the company to
supply more than wholesale dealer accounts in the Carolinas
and Georgia.
Spinks serves on many boards in the Upstate, including the
NACS (National Association of Conveniences Stores), the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers Association (SIGMA),
Greenville Tech Foundation, The Urban League, the Boy
Scouts of America (Blue Ridge Council), and S.C. Independent
Colleges and Universities. Spinks earned a bachelor’s degree
in marketing from the University of Tennessee in 1968.
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Harrell earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University in 1978. While a student, he served
as a page in the S.C. Senate and learned first-hand how the
legislative process worked.
Harrell was first elected to the House of Representatives
in 1992, representing District 114, which includes portions of
Charleston and Dorchester counties. He was elected Speaker
of the House in 2005 and has served in that capacity since.
He also has served as chair of the Economic Development
and Public Education Subcommittee of the Ways and Means
Committee.
Bouchard’s academic career started at Université Laval
in Canada where he began as an assistant professor and
eventually was awarded the Donald B. Brown Research Chair
in Obesity. In 1999, Bouchard retired from that institution
and became executive director at the Pennington Biomedical
Research Center, Louisiana State University System, in Baton
Rouge, La.
Robert Neese, a former student of Darázs, has directed the
group since its inception. Concerts are free and open to the
public. Contributions toward the choir’s operating expenses
are accepted. The schedule for the holiday concert program is:
Bouchard’s research has focused on the genetics of fitness
and of body composition, obesity, and related metabolic disorders. He was the first researcher to systematically investigate
the role of genetic differences in adaptation to exercise.
Huddleston, a lifetime member of the Carolina Alumni
Association, received his bachelor’s degree in political science
from the University in 1971 and worked as an officer with the
Internal Revenue Service in South Carolina and Tennessee
before receiving his law degree from the Nashville School of
Law in 1982.
Huddleston joined the Multistate Tax Commission in August 2005. The commission is an organization of 47 participating state governments that works to promote equitable and
efficient administration of tax laws that apply to multistate
enterprises. The commission regularly advises Congressional committees and individual members of Congress on the
impact of state tax on federal legislation, and Huddleston is a
nationally recognized speaker at state tax forums.
Carolina Cares
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pass on the street here in Columbia who need a little help, and
that is what Carolina Cares is about.”
Students began the effort in 1969 and they continue to
drive it.
“Steve Cannon, president of the 1969 freshman class, was
instrumental in starting Carolina Cares,” said Michelle Peer,
program advisor for Community Service Programs. “Over the
years, the effort has focused on many things, including fundraising, food drives, and Christmas gifts for entire families.
And now Carolina Cares is sponsored by Community Service
Programs and the Carolina Service Council.”
International business and finance junior Jennifer Conner
is director of Carolina Cares this academic year; she has been
involved with the Carolina Service Council since she was a
freshman.
“Carolina Cares gives students and student organizations
the chance to help members of the community during the
holidays,” said Conner, who will plan a series of events in the
spring in observance of National Volunteer Week. “The activity culminates with the Carolina tree lighting ceremony on
the Horseshoe. This year at the tree lighting, we had speakers
from the Salvation Army and the Nurturing Center, the two
groups we are working with this season. We’re also participating in Adopt-A-Family, a program sponsored by the Nurturing
Center.”
During its 40 years of generosity and compassion, Carolina
Cares has been energized by countless students, faculty, and
staff.
“There’s been a lot of really good people who have been
involved in this over the years,” Brewer said. “Carolina Cares
always brings together people from different areas of the
University. We’re a diverse community, but we can all agree
on this as a worthy project.”
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The money will be used strategically to support systemwide
goals initiated by Focus Carolina as follows:
■ 18 percent will be dedicated to research and creative achieve-
ment. “A significant part of that is a substantial review and
revamping of the research computing system, which we no
longer will do,” Moore said. “That will be translated into some
realities that you will be hearing about in the next few months.”
■ 37 percent will be devoted to teaching and learning. “Be-
cause the stimulus funds are nonrecurring, they are not appropriate for faculty salaries, but they are appropriate for fixing
things and making things better, such as our classrooms,”
Moore said. “You’ll find that a major part of the 37 percent will
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be dedicated to improving our classrooms, improving distance
education capabilities, and so on.”
■ 39 percent of the stimulus funds will be used for quality of
campus life to improve safety on the campuses. “We will be
increasing the number of sprinklers in the residence halls,
improving the fire alarm system, and continuing asbestos
abatement in major buildings,” Moore said.
■ 6 percent of the systemwide funds will be used to improve
the University’s recognition and visibility. “That includes
improving our branding,” Moore said.
The next Faculty Senate meeting will be at 3 p.m. Feb. 3,
2010, in the School of Law Auditorium.
Photographers: Michael Brown mfbrown@mailbox.sc.edu
Kim Truett ktruett@mailbox.sc.edu
To reach us: 7-8161 or larryw@mailbox.sc.edu
Campus correspondents: Office of Media Relations, Columbia;
Jennifer Conner, Aiken; Shana Funderburk, Lancaster; Jane Brewer,
Salkehatchie; Misty Hatfield, Sumter; Tammy Whaley, Upstate; Terry
Young, Union.
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persons on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age,
disability, sexual orientation, or veteran status. The University of
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Equal Opportunity Programs. The Office of the Executive Assistant
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Faculty/staff news
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@mailbox.sc.edu.
■ BOOKS AND CHAPTERS
Katherine Chaddock, College of Education, and Carolyn Matalene, English, Vital Signs in Charleston:Through
the Centuries at the Medical University of South Carolina, The
History Press, Charleston, S.C.
Gail V. Barnes, music, and Stacy Wiley, “An Online Community for String and Orchestra Teachers,” Collaborative
Action for Change, Margaret Schmidt, editor, Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md.
María Cristina C. Mabrey, languages, literatures,
and cultures, Luzmaría Jiménez Faro o el canto de la luz,
Ediciones Torremozas, Madrid.
Ed Madden, English and Women’s & Gender Studies, “The Language of
Flowers: Teaching the 1890s,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, The
Languages of Modernism, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Douglas Sain, S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, “A Comparative Analysis of Clovis Blade Technology from the Topper and Big Pine
Tree Sites, Allendale County, South Carolina,” Southeastern Archaeological
Conference, Mobile, Ala.
■ Lighter times
■ ARTICLES
Karen L. Mallia, journalism and mass communications,
“Rare birds: Why so few women become ad agency
creative directors,” Advertising & Society Review.
Dana DeHart, Center for Child and Family Studies,
social work, “Cognitive restructuring through dreams and
imagery: Descriptive analysis of a women’s prison-based
program,” Journal of Offender Rehabilitation.
Sara Wilcox and Steven P. Hooker, exercise science,
Deborah Parra-Medina and Ruth Saunders, health
promotion, education, and behavior, M. Bopp, M. Laken,
K. Butler, E.A. Fallon, and L. McClorin, “8 Steps to Fitness:
a faith-based, behavior change physical activity intervenNo, Rusty. When I asked for speculation on the proposal,
tion for African Americans,” Journal of Physical Activity and
I didn’t mean spit.
Health.
Ronald Pitner, social work., C. Schmitz, B.J. Bryson,
P.W. Saleeby, S.H. Starks, and M. Tijerina, “The intersectionRozalynd Anderson and Steve Wilson, medicine library, “Tutorial Design:
ality of diversity: Strengths, costs, and building blocks for change,”
Is Interactive Better Than Passive?” Southern Chapter of the Medical Library
Council on Social Work Education, San Antonio, Texas.
Association, Memphis, Tenn., and, same conference, “Creating a Disability
Olga Ivashkevich, art education, “Children’s drawing as a sociocultural
Information Portal for a Support Network for Families.”
practice: Remaking gender and popular culture,” Studies in Art Education.
Brent Burgin, Native American Studies Archive, Lancaster, “Archiving
Steven N. Blair and Timothy S. Church, exercise science, C.R. Mikus, and
Diversity: The Native American Studies Collection at USC Lancaster,” S.C.
C.P. Earnest, “Heart rate and exercise intensity during training: observations
Library Association, Columbia.
from the DREW Study,” British Journal of Sports Medicine, and, same journal,
Christine Whitaker and Felicia Yeh, medicine library, “First Steps to
with Xuemei Sui and Gregory A. Hand, exercise science, and J.C. SievIncreasing Access to a History of Medicine Collection through Digitization,”
erdes, D.C. Lee, and A. McClain, “Physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness,
Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Memphis, Tenn.
and the incidence of type 2 diabetes in a prospective study of men.”
Stephanie M. Foote, academic success, Aiken, “In Their Own Words: The
Tena B. Crews, technology support and training management, and Kelly
Perceived Impact of First-Year Seminar Participation on Students Enrolled in
Wilkinson (Indiana State University), “Business report writing students’
the Course,” National Orientation Directors Association, Anaheim, Calif.
perceptions of their ability to succeed in an online environment vs. students’
Greg Barnes, music, S.C. Senior Region Upstate East, guest conductor,
performance in an online course,” International Journal of Information and
Spartanburg.
Communication Technology Education.
Dana DeHart, Center for Child and Family Studies, social work, “Off the
Steven P. Hooker, exercise science, Philip J. Troped, Heather A. Whitcomb,
beaten path: Helping girls journey beyond victimization & delinquency,”
Brent Hutto, and Julian A. Reed, “Reliability of a Brief Intercept Survey for
S.C. School Social Workers Conference, Columbia, and, with S. Osthoff,
Trail Use Behaviors,” Journal of Physical Activity and Health.
B. Richie, N. Jones, C.M. Wilson, and A. Bible, “Incarcerated Battered Women’s
Advocacy Project,” Ending Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Conference,
■ PRESENTATIONS
Lexington, Ky.
Albert C. Goodyear, S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology,
“Possible Exotic Metavolcanic Paleoindian Artifacts in South Carolina: Socio■ OTHER
Demograhic Implications,” Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Mobile,
Duncan Buell, computer science and engineering, named chair of the IEEE
Ala.
P1622 working group, whose goal is to develop a national common data
Debra Rae Cohen, English, “Intermediality and the Problem of The Lisformat standard for voting systems.
tener,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, The Languages of ModernJan Yow, instruction and teacher education, successfully renewed her
ism, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
National Board Certification.
Karen McMullen and Laura Kane, medicine library, “Safety First: How an
Terry A. Wolfer, social work, received the Council on Social Work EducaAcademic Medical Library Enhanced Security for Users and Staff,” Southern
tion Distinguished Recent Contributions in Social Work Education Award
Chapter of the Medical Library Association, Memphis, Tenn.
2009.
Karen L. Mallia, journalism and mass communications, “‘Women to Watch’:
Chuck Kwok, international business, named the 2009 International AdvoWhat do they say about media leadership in a time of change?” Convergence
cate, Campus Internationalization Award given by the University’s Office of
& Society: The Changing Media Landscape Conference, Reno, Nevada
International Programs for Students.
Janet L. Fisher, pharmacology, physiology, and neuroscience, “The Effects
Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, international business, has received the Interof Stiripentol on GABA A Receptors,” Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy: 30 Years
national Advocate, Study Abroad award from the same campus organizaLater,Verona, Italy.
tion. They were recognized at a ceremony held Nov. 18 at the Russell
Olga Ivashkevich, art education, with Mary Mohr and Kathleen Hall,
House during International Education Week.
“Un-layered: Art workshops for at-risk girls,” S.C. State Art Education
Gabe Madden and Jennifer Webb, Center for Child and Family Studies,
Association Conference, Myrtle Beach.
social work, won a silver Davey Award, given by the International Academy of
Barbara Koons-Witt and Emily Wright, criminal justice, and Dana
the Visual Arts, for print design.
DeHart, Center for Child and Family Studies, social work, “Companions,
Ron Benner, biological sciences, elected to the Einstein Professorship
coping, and criminality: The influence of prior victimizations, violence, and
Program by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
relationships on offending by women,” American Society of Criminology,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Catherine Keyser, English, “‘New York is My Instrument’: The New York
Satires of Mary McCarthy and Dawn Powell,” Modernist Studies Association
Conference, The Languages of Modernism, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Gail Barnes, music, Tennessee Eastern Region Middle School Clinic, guest
conductor, Jefferson City, Tennessee, also, Fulton County Senior High School
Honors Orchestra, guest conductor, Alpharetta, Ga.,
■ Job vacancies
For up-to-date information on USC Columbia vacancies
and vacancies at other campuses, go to uscjobs.sc.edu.The
employment office is located at 1600 Hampton St.
■ In memoriam: Albert Taylor Scroggins Jr.
Albert Taylor “Al” Scroggins Jr., dean emeritus of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, died Nov. 21. He was 89. A memorial service was held Nov. 24 at Forest Lake Presbyterian Church where Scroggins was an elder, Sunday school teacher, and superintendent.
Scroggins was dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications for 20 years,
retiring in 1985. Upon his retirement, he received the state’s highest honor, the Order of the
Palmetto, and an honorary life membership in the S.C. Broadcasters Association.
A U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, he served in the South Pacific and received his Ph.D. in
journalism from the University of Missouri. Before coming to USC, he held academic positions at
the University of South Florida, Southern Illinois University, and Samford University.
Scroggins is survived by his wife of 62 years, Lilla W. Scroggins; two daughters; four grandchildren; and one great-grandson. Memorials can be made to the building fund of Forest Lake Presbyterian Church,
6500 N. Trenholm Road, Columbia, 29206, or the Albert T. Scroggins Jr. Scholarship Fund at USC, 1244 Blossom St.,
Columbia, 29208. An online guestbook is at www.dunbarfunerals.com.
Mortar Board
honors faculty
The Alpha Chapter of Mortar Board presented its
2009–10 Excellence in Teaching awards to the following
faculty members:
■ David Barbeau, geological sciences
■ Nancy Buchan, international business
■ David Chappell, finance
■ Jason Carpenter, hospitality, retail, and sport
management
■ John Duffy, French
■ J. Larry Durstine, exercise science
■ Donald Fowler, political science
■ Hal French, religious studies
■ Patricia Jones, business
■ Thomas Klipstine, journalism
■ Vance Kornegay, journalism
■ Milind Kunchur, physics and astronomy
■ Laura Lambdin, management
■ Robert Lambdin, management
■ Mariah Lynch, accounting
■ Elizabeth McMillan, sports and entertainment
management
■ Nora Martin, marketing
■ John May, management
■ Kendra Olgetree-Cusaac, psychology
■ Lisa Sisk, journalism
■ Bradley H. Smith, psychology
■ James Stiver, philosophy
■ Courtney Worsham, marketing
■ Nicole Zarrett-Kivita, psychology.
Mortar Board is a national honor society made up of
seniors selected for their leadership, scholarship, and
service to the University community. Lucille Mould in
the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
is the faculty advisor for the Alpha Chapter of Mortar
Board.
Ellis awarded NASA grant
Jean Ellis, an assistant professor of geography, has been
awarded a grant from NASA to conduct research on the
history of landscapes and land use in Alabama’s Mobile
Bay from 1974 to 2008.
The two-year, $398,000 award calls for using images
from NASA’s Landsat satellites to understand urbanization and wetland-degradation trends in Mobile Bay
over the past 30 years and to identify opportunities for
conservation and restoration by the Mobile Bay National
Estuary Program. The research project is a collaboration
between scientists and coastal managers and builds on
Ellis’ previous research along the Gulf of Mexico.
Before joining the University’s faculty in 2009, Ellis
worked in the Applied Science Program at NASA’s John
C. Stennis Space Center after earning her doctorate from
Texas A&M University in 2006.
Glad publishes book on
Carter administration
Betty Glad, a professor emeritus of political science at the
University, has written a new book on President Carter’s
administration and U.S. foreign policy. An Outsider in
the White House: Jimmy Carter, His Advisors, and the
Making of U.S. Foreign Policy was released in December
by Cornell University Press.
An authority on political psychology, political leadership styles, and the U.S. presidency, Glad wrote an earlier
book on Carter, Jimmy Carter: In Search of the Great
White House. She also has written articles on the leadership styles of six recent American presidents, as well as
Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Wilhelm deKlerk, and
Nelson Mandela.
Glad is a former president of the International Society
for Political Psychology and vice president of the American Political Science Association.
The staff of Times wishes
the University community
all the joys of the season.
December 10, 2009
7
Professor: NAACP’s role in the struggle
for Civil Rights was transformational
By Marshall Swanson
Kara Penn created this nest complete with mother bird and four eggs for the card
catalog creation contest sponsored by Thomas Cooper Library.
Kim Truett
Entrants catalog their creativity
in library’s card competition
Winning was in the cards for several students and one faculty member who
used old library catalog cards to create new objets d’art in a contest sponsored by Thomas Cooper Library.
The library challenged participants to be creative with the now defunct
cards. The winners were:
■ Paige Duvall, a student who created a life-life live oak tree in green and
brown to win Best in Show
■ Karen Heid, an art education professor who designed a five-foot tall working lamp to take Most Functional
■ Ian Dillinger, a student who bought a Suzuki Trooper SUV and covered it
with catalog cards; he also created a video, which helped him win the Best
Card Catalog Video Ever Made. To view the video, go to http://www.sc.edu/
library/inthecards.html and click on “It’s All in the Cards”
■ Jessica Cooper, a student who designed three one-eyed creatures, one in a
scuba mask, for Best Series
■ Mallory Collins, a student who hand stitched a double-sided picture
book that, when viewed from one direction features sepia-toned images of
Thomas Cooper Library and when viewed from the other direction features
images of the Carolina campus to receive Most Library Like
■ Caroline Jordan, a student who created a vase with flowers to win Best
Free Form
■ Anjuli Grantham, a student who received the Most Fashionable award for
a purse with paper-clip straps.
Many of the contest’s 20 entries came from students in one of Heid’s
classes who entered the contest as their final project. Other entries included
a deck of playing cards with a literary theme, a magic fan, and a jet airplane.
Wally Peters and Jed Lyons, both mechanical engineering professors,
and Susan Weir, director of the Student Success Center, judged the contest.
Marilee Birchfield, a reference librarian at Thomas Cooper, said the
library is planning other creative ways to recycle its thousands of obsolete
catalog cards. At the beginning of the fall semester, the library asked entrants to build boats with the cards to float in the library’s reflecting pool.
To see images of all the entries, including the Best Card Catalog Video
Ever Made, go to http://ww http://www.sc.edu/library/inthecards.html.
■ Forecast for 2010
S.C. economy can expect growth
South Carolinians can expect job and income growth in 2010, according to a presentation made Dec. 2 by University economists at the Darla Moore School of Business’
29th-annual Economic Outlook Conference.
Douglas P. Woodward, an economist in the Moore School’s Division of Research,
presented the economic forecast for South Carolina in 2010 to business and government leaders who attended the conference.
After this year’s painful job losses, the job base in South Carolina is expected to
improve slightly, by 0.2 percent, in 2010, Woodward said. Personal income, another
broad measure of the state’s economic activity, should reverse course and climb by 3.3
percent next year, up from -1.4 percent in 2009, he said.
“The projected small rise in job growth will not be enough to make much of a dent
in the state’s historically high unemployment rate,” Woodward said. “We are again
entering the Christmas season with great concern about the economy.
“Yet many of our economic indicators suggest that South Carolina’s long recession
is now over. Continued growth will depend on moderate energy and fuel costs, a housing rebound, and a steady stock market. Consumers, who have been sharply cutting
spending, will have to get back in the market to have a vigorous recovery. It will be
important to see how retail sales perform this Christmas.”
It might take more than a year for South Carolina’s double-digit unemployment
rate to head back down, Woodward said. In 2010, the state’s unemployment rate
should average 11.2 percent. It could drift higher in early 2010 if spending by consumers and businesses remains subdued.
“There is still considerable economic uncertainty,” Woodward said. “Another
financial shock and the whole economy could be in trouble again. We could face a
relapse. Even so, we diagnose a healthy recovery for early 2010. The positive effects of
the federal economic stimulus will be felt through mid-year.”
Housing, office, and retail construction, a major source of growth in the last economic expansion, could start to show signs of life, Woodward said.
“Boeing will have an impact in North Charleston, but the state as a whole cannot
count on the construction sector contributing many jobs,” Woodward said.
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December 10, 2009
Most people today think of key events in the Civil
Rights movement as having occurred during the
1950s and ’60s with the march on Washington, the
Montgomery bus boycott, and passage of the Civil
Rights and the Voting Rights acts.
In fact, there were
many mile markers in the
movement decades before
then, going all the way
back to 1909. That’s when
three hundred people—
black and white—came
together in New York
City to protest the spread
of racism and revive the
Constitutional guarantees
Sullivan
enacted during Reconstruction.
It was the first meeting of what would become
the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP), which very quickly
became an interracial organization that 100 years
later would be credited in large part for the election of Barack Obama to the presidency.
Patricia Sullivan can’t think of another story in
American history that compares to the importance
of the NAACP in terms of its impact on the country.
“It was transformational,” said the associate
professor of history and the author of a new book
on the organization, Lift Every Voice: The NAACP
and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement,
published in August by the New Press.
“It laid the groundwork for the mass movement
of the 1960s and played a leading role in crafting and securing the legal and legislative changes
that ended Jim Crow in the South and expanded
federal protection of citizenship rights for all
Americans.”
That’s one of the reasons why Sullivan finds
it interesting that the story of the NAACP hasn’t
gotten the sort of attention she thinks it not only
deserves, but needs for the country to have a fuller
appreciation of the struggle for civil rights, the way
race has worked in the country, and what it has
taken to move the country forward.
Today’s students are apt to have a romanticized
view of the Civil Rights movement, Sullivan said,
a view that focuses on the dramatic protests of the
1960s. Her history of the NAACP turns attention
to what she calls the “foundational decades” and
reveals what it took to mount an effective challenge to an entrenched national caste system that
was not only structured legally, but also reinforced
with terror and violence in the North and South.
What kept the movement alive, Sullivan said,
was a commitment among a handful of people who
devoted their time and energy to the issue and
were insistent on bringing it to the attention of the
American people.
“As a teacher, I am glad I have an opportunity
to help bring this history into the broader story
of American history in the 20th century,” said
Sullivan, who uses the book in a graduate seminar
about the Civil Rights movement and discussed it
at the National Book Fair in Washington, D.C., in
late September.
She thinks of the NAACP’s history as many
stories about people, including major activists like
attorney Charles Houston, architect of the strategy
for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education
desegregation case, and scores of others like
W.E.B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, and Roy Wilkins.
“Many, however, are largely unknown, but come to
life in the pages of this book.”
One of the surprising things was how little
money the organization had, said Sullivan, who
did much of her research at the Library of Congress where the NAACP’s papers are the largest
collection on file.
“They did so much with so little. In the 1930s
their annual national organization budget was
something like $50,000 that included expenses for
sending out field workers, having a legal campaign,
and going to court.”
The lack of money forced the NAACP to
become improvisational by drawing on human
talent, resources, and creativity in the face of concerted opposition that was frequently deadly and
at times must have seemed overwhelming.
Hickey sets sights on Ironman challenge
By Chris Horn
As if climbing the world’s tallest mountains was not enough, nursing professor and Capstone Scholars
principal Patrick Hickey has set his sights on a formidable new challenge—competing in the Ironman
Louisville triathlon next summer in Kentucky.
Hickey, who will be 55 when the triathlon takes place
Aug. 29, 2010, said the idea of completing an Ironman
competition has always been in the back of his mind.
“Even while I was climbing Everest [in 2007], I was
already thinking about it,” Hickey said. “Lately, I have
been biking about 80–100 miles weekly and running an
additional 40–50 miles. Next up is to challenge my fear
of swimming—I’ll start training for that in the next few
weeks.”
Learning to swim well is a good idea for would-be
triathletes: the Ironman competition begins with a 2.4mile open water swim, followed immediately by 112 miles
of biking and a full 26-mile marathon. The entire event
must be completed within 17 hours. Hickey hopes the tips
he’s been getting from accomplished swimmers will help
improve his technique.
“I don’t have the correct kicking rhythm now, and my
arm strokes wear out my shoulders,” he said. “That’s got to
improve.”
Hickey’s wife, Carol Paulson, also an avid runner, won’t
be joining him on the triathlon. “But she will be a great
source of support during all of the training,” Hickey said.
Following his climbing quest of the world’s tallHickey’s training includes competing in local running
est peaks, Hickey wrote 7 Summits: A Nurse’s Quest to
events.
Conquer Mountaineering and Life. He continues to make
speaking appearances around the country to promote the book; all of the book’s profits are earmarked for
nursing scholarships.
“I’m not doing this to raise money for scholarships,” he said of his triathlon plans. “I’m just doing this
to push my limits and, hopefully, be a role model for my students. The more we challenge ourselves, the
more we can realize our potential.”
This year’s freshman Capstone Scholars know about challenges. As Capstone Scholars principal, Hickey
added a “personal challenge” component to the pledge forms each student completed this fall.
“I asked them to commit to stating a personal challenge and how they would go about meeting it,” he
said. “I pointed out that it didn’t have to be a physical challenge but might be conquering a fear of speaking
in public or something of that nature.”
Several students cited physical fitness as their personal challenge—and have gone backpacking or regularly hiking up flights of stairs as part of their action plans. Others said they were speaking up in class or
getting to know students from different cultures as part of their own personal challenges.
“Whenever I’m speaking about climbing Mt. Everest, I say that someone in the audience has a bigger
Everest to conquer—perhaps it’s cancer or some other health condition or challenge,” he said. “We all have
personal challenges to address. The thing is to focus on your strengths and not so much on your weaknesses. As I always say, if I can do it, you can, too.”