Political Science Professor Michael Bitzer recently spoke to WSOC-TV about the local health-care challenge by a Charlotte area lawmaker. Bitzer said the bill may have no effect on health care, that federal law trumps state law and that the health care law passed by Congress will stand unless ruled unconstitutional. Read more...

By Susan Shinn, Catawba College News Service. They came in groups of twos and threes and more than that, chilled by the bracing January night. Things heated up quickly inside the Crystal Lounge, however, during the annual Winterfest semi-formal dance at Catawba College. Held consistently for the past decade, the dance is attended by some 500 Catawba students. It's sponsored by the college's Helen Foil Beard Society, a service club for young women.

One hundred and sixteen students took online classes or traveled abroad during Catawba's winter term this year. Enrollment in the "J term," as the December-January time that coincides with Christmas break is known as on campus, doubled since it was initially offered in 2009-2010, and so did the courses offered during the period.

Catawba College has produced and will air several television commercials in select cable markets during the first quarter of this year. The 30-second commercials, which feature Catawba students as talent, will run during select programs on the cable systems serving Lancaster, Lebanon, York and Harrisburg, Pa., Roanoke, Va., and Jacksonville, Fla., markets.

What happens when holy matrimony becomes anything but? Come find the answer in Catawba College's production of "Fatal Matrimony," presented at 6:55 p.m. on Tuesday, February 8, and Wednesday, February 9, and at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, February 10–12 in Hedrick Little Theatre on campus. "Fatal Matrimony" is a collection of two one-act plays: "Recklessness," by Eugene O'Neil, and "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell. "Recklessness" tells the tale of a wife, stuck in a marriage where she foreve

Catawba College's Mathematics Department will be sponsoring the ninth annual North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics Contests on Thursday, March 24, 2011. Catawba will be a qualifying site for the Algebra I, Geometry contests, and local students who are in (or have taken) Algebra I or Geometry during the 2010-2011 academic year are invited to participate.

Educator and author Ruth Anderson, who serves as executive director of The Servant Leadership School of Greensboro, will be the keynote speaker for Catawba College's eighth annual Lilly Colloquium on Tuesday, February 22. Anderson's visit to campus is sponsored by Catawba's Lilly Center for Vocation and Values and Catawba's School of Education.

The 2011 Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame is set for April 29-30! A brief schedule is available below. More information will be released later this spring.

Catawba College and the Community Blood Center of the Carolinas (CBCC) completed their first blood drive together on January 20, 2011. The drive, held in the Cannon Student Center on Catawba's campus, was coordinated by Sarah Rossini, Director of Housing at the college. After a week of recruitment by housing staff, 105 students registered to give blood.

"Students say they come in for proofreading, but it's always a lot more than what they come in for," explains Catawba College Writing Center tutor Chelsea Starr, a sophomore from Weston, Fla. "The biggest thing I see is at the organizational level. There is a disjuncture between the argument and paragraph topic. Sometimes you have an introduction and then the paragraphs are not relevant to the thesis," notes another Writing Center tutor, Lizzle Davis, a sophomore from East Bend, N.C.

Simone Grant Timoney, a 1983 alumna of Catawba College, died in November 2005 after a six-year battle with breast cancer. Her thoughts and words will live again on Feb. 3 and 4 on campus when theatre arts students at her alma mater perform a reading of Timoney's original play, "Tough Titties: Surviving Life, Love, and Death."

By Jill Doss-Raines, The Dispatch - A person with such a rich and long background in theater as Reid Leonard '76 would likely make one assume he has been involved with local plays and had aspirations to be involved with theater from a very young age. Read More...

Source: Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011, CharlotteObserver.com - There are a lot of resources to help with a genealogical search; the library is a good place to start. I've yet to meet a person who embarked on a family-history search and didn't become mesmerized by his own bloodline. It doesn't even take the discovery of somebody famous (or infamous) in the lineage. Just finding out that great-great-grandpa and great-great-grandma Jones were farmers, owned a couple of acres and raised corn and kids is eno

Acclaimed fiction writer Michael Parker will read his work on Monday, February 7, at 7:30 in Tom Smith Auditorium on the campus of Catawba College. A professor in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Parker is the author of five novels.

Dr. W. Craig Turner, president of Catawba College, has informed the College Board of Trustees that he will not seek to have his contract as president renewed when it expires May 31. President of the College since June 1, 2008, Dr. Turner's letter to the board said that "It is with genuine sadness that I inform you that I will not seek renewal of my contract with Catawba College that expires on May 31, 2011. While Annette and I have made a number of friends here and have enjoyed many very special

by Lauren Ebersole '07 - 2010 has been one of the more interesting years of my short life, filled with more emotions than I usually care to feel or acknowledge. So here's the review of 2010: A year ago I was working at STAR Community, a residential home for developmentally disabled adults. While there I met and worked with an amazing group of people and learned that I might be capable of doing things I never imagined I was.

The Finding Your Voice Festival, originally scheduled at Catawba on Jan. 16-17, has been canceled. The recent inclement weather has played havoc with school calendars and many high school students and their teachers who had planned to participate in the event will be unable to because Monday, Jan. 17, is now a make-up day for them in their school districts. For more information, contact the Catawba College Music Department at (704) 637-4345.

During Catawba College's first annual Finding Your Voice Festival and Vocal Scholarship Competition, Jan. 16 and 17, high school students will be celebrating new concepts of "vocal freedom." These students will travel from all over the region, state, and from other states to study and perform on campus.

Have you made a New Year's resolution? Have you already broken one? Catawba College Business Professor Pam Thompson is betting you can make a promise, not a resolution, and stick to it while "making the world a better place one promise at a time." Thompson is launching a business venture that depends on people making a promise and going public with that promise with a bracelet and social networking. She has spent most of the last three months "learning about starting a product-based business ra

The Catawba College Community Music Program is now enrolling students for spring classes that begin the week of January 24. Since 1984, the program has provided a variety of quality musical experiences including private lessons, music classes and performance opportunities to help students of all ages and abilities in Salisbury and the surrounding areas develop lifelong musical foundations and skills.

By Susan Shinn, Catawba College News Service. Did you see the article in the "Salisbury Post" on the 10 to Watch for 2011? Did you know that five people on the list have a Catawba College connection? Four of the five are Catawba alumni and one is a Catawba professor.

A group of Catawba College's first-year, first-generation students are visiting Washington, D.C., this week before spring semester begins thanks to a $100,000 CIC/Walmart College Success Awards grant. Seventeen first-year students, all first-generation college students and members of this fall's NextGen first-year seminar, departed for the nation's capital Tuesday, January 4.

A total of 273 students have been named to the Dean's List for the fall semester at Catawba College, according to Dr. W. Richard Stephens, Jr., Provost of the College. Students named to the Dean's List have achieved a 3.5 grade point average in 15 or more semester hours.

Author Dave Eggers' "Zeitoun" will be the common summer reading for the incoming class of first-year students at Catawba College this fall. These students should be prepared to discuss this text during orientation and in their first-year seminar classes. Eggers won the American Book Award for "Zeitoun" which is the story of Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun, New Orleans residents whose lives were irrevocably changed by Hurricane Katrina.

The old maxim, "nothing is more permanent than change," is particularly apparent in world politics today. Change is taking place on the global level, no less than on the national one. The nature of international relations is undergoing a quiet revolution. Globalization and the accumulation of economic resources are rapidly replacing the old conception of power as a mechanical force. At the next Catawba College Community Forum, Dr. Sanford Silverburg, senior professor of Political Science at Cata

The San Francisco 49ers had a 38 to 7 win over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, Jan. 2, and much of the credit for that goes to the 49ers interim head coach Jim Tomsula, a 1990 Catawba College alumnus. Tomsula's appointment as interim head coach was announced during a press conference on Monday, Dec. 27, and came on the heels of the firing of the 49ers' former head coach Mike Singletary.