The Fount

Breaking Rules: As a young boy growing up in rural Georgia, I remember being taught many behaviors that were acceptable and many that were not.

U.S. News & World Report has named The Citadel the No. 2 best value in the South for 2007.

Professor Scott Lucas delivered two academic papers during the spring semester of 2006: “'Let None Such Office Take, Save He That Can For Right His Prince Forsake: A Mirror for Magistrates, the English Magistracy, and the Limits of Political Obedience, at the New College of Florida Medieval/Renaissance Conference, and “From Politics to Poetics: Thomas Sackville’s A Mirror for Magistrates” at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, March 23-25, 2006.Dr.

Keith Knapp, professor of history, was invited to participate in the annual Japanese Tale Literature conference, which was hosted by Bukkyo University in Kyoto, Japan. On June 17, in Japanese, he presented a paper entitled “Current Research on Accounts of Filial Children in North America and Europe.”

Thanks to the efforts of Maj. Gen. John S. Grinalds, former Citadel President, and Al Gurganus, Modern Languages Head, the American Society of the French Legion of Honor has granted the Modern Languages Department $15,000 to fund ten scholarships of $1,500 for qualified French majors and minors participating in The Citadel's Summer Study in France in 2007.

Terry Mays, Professor in the Political Science/Criminal Justice Department, published a book this Summer (2006) entitled The A to Z of Multinational Peacekeeping.

Dr. Steve Nida, Professor and Department Head of Psychology, was invited to participate in the Harvard Summer Institutes Management Development Program this summer 2006 at Harvard.