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Rachel Oliver inspires

February 21, 2012 By Charleston Southern Leave a Comment

Charleston Southern University kicked off “Body Image Week” Monday with special guest speaker Rachel Oliver tonight at 5:00 p.m. in the Gold Room. Oliver shed 161 pounds on ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition last summer.

She inspired those in attendance to get healthy adding, “I am not done yet,” she told Good Morning America. “I am a work in progress. This is all about balance. That’s what I’m doing right now is finding that balance.”

At one point, Oliver weighed 399 pounds. She lost 30 pounds before the show and 161 more during her appearance on the show.

Charleston Southern’s “Body Image Week” continues all week. The schedule includes:

Tuesday: Free health screenings and “Boot Camp”
Wednesday: Zumba class
Thursday: Kinesiology Club Boot Camp

Follow Oliver is on Twitter at @EMWLE_Rachel.

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Video: Texting

January 17, 2012 By Charleston Southern Leave a Comment

Do you send text messages in class? This professor believes that texting while in a lecture hall is rude. Therefore, instead of letting it spread and become a class-wide problem, well, see for yourself …

Filed Under: Academics, Technology Tagged With: Charleston Southern University, CSU, Text messaging

Pics: Elevate Spring ’12

January 13, 2012 By Charleston Southern Leave a Comment

Tam Odom, director of women’s ministries at Charleston Southern, was in attendance at Thursday’s first Elevate of the Spring 2012 semester. She took some great pics from her iPhone and was kind enough to share them with us …

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Help me help you

January 11, 2012 By Charleston Southern 2 Comments

Good Morning! I am John Strubel, marketing and PR director at Charleston Southern University. One of our goals in 2012 is to build a community through CSUBlogs.com.

Our mission is to use CSUBlogs.com as a interactive arm of the university, sharing and discussing subjects important to you. So what are those subjects? Are there questions you have about CSU that we can answer and share with the community? We will answer. Do you need info you can’t find elsewhere? We will reply. There are no dumb questions.

Whether you’re a prospective student, a current student, an alum or a friend of Charleston Southern University, post your comments and questions below and we will use them to help you.

In the words of Jerry Maguire: “Help me help you!”