The faculty development office is secluded below the main level of the library, but Dr. Mildred Pearson keeps it tidy and structured despite being located in an area of low traffic. Among her neat piles of paperwork and her family pictures sits a wooden sculpture. (0) comments
Whether Charleston can form a Human Relations Commission to hear discrimination complaints from citizens depends if the city has home rule authority. The People's Ordinance Committee met on Thursday, May 29, to answer any questions the public may have about the ordinance or the commission. (0) comments
Chemistry major Rebecca Grove was named a 2008-2009 Barry S. Goldwater Scholar for her findings in a recent research project. Grove, who just finished her junior year, studied the crystal growth of organic compounds and viewed their individual atoms with X-ray diffraction. (0) comments
Josh Boykin had little interest for politics in high school - he liked to keep up with the main issues, but that was it. But after Boykin, a junior English and economics major, was nominated to attend the American Legion's Premier Boys State Camp at Eastern, his interest grew a little. (0) comments
The city's property insurance appraisals will have to wait a little longer. The three-year contract with Industrial Appraisal Company has been placed on file for two weeks for public inspection not enough voting members attended last night's City Council meeting. (0) comments