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3 Rivers profits despite financial woes BY CARRIE PHILLIPS THE GAMECOCK The 3 Rivers Music Festival was a financial success, despite worries that the festival might end in the red for the third year in a row. The festival met its fi nancial goals for 2002. “The 2002 3 Rivers Music Festival met its operating ob jectives,” festival Chairman Fred Monk said. “It was an ex hilarating event, and it also touched more than 120 local business and nonprofit organi zations.” This year was financially cru cial for the festival. If it hadn’t made any money this year, it wouldn’t have had the funds to continue, and 2002 would have been its last year. The preliminary numbers, re leased Tuesday, show that the festival made enough money, however, to plan for another in stallment in 2003. The final num bers won’t be available until lat er this year, but tentative dates for next year’s festival have al ready been set for April 4-6. According to Ticketmaster and other reports, tickets for this year’s festival were bought by res idents of Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Between April 1-7, the festival’s Web site received 273,813 hits, 60,000 hits more than the same period last year. More than 160 media representatives attended the event, and some traveled from as far away as Illinois and Ohio. The festival played host to more than 80 bands over three days. It was held in the Vista and brought national acts such as OutKast, George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic, and Joan Jett. The festival is run by the volunteer board of the Three Rivers Music and Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit orga nization organized to promote, preserve, perpetuate and en courage music, arts, culture and heritage indigenous to South Carolina. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockmixeditor@hotmail. com “It was an exhilarating event, and it also touched more than 120 local business and nonprofit organizations.” FRED MONK FESTIVAL CHAIRMAN PHOTO BY AARON HARK/THE GAMECOCK Crowds at 3 Rivers Music Festival this year packed in to see headlining act OutKast. Banana CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 tertainment; she failed to get a coveted internship on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” But the disappointment hasn’t hindered her. After graduating this May, she plans to return home and tend to the family co coa farm. She might enroll in classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City. She hopes to work in radio in a larger market and be a pro fessional comedian. Verbal Banana, which is com ing off a two-week suspension for improper language this week, got its name from a similar situation. “It was going to originally be Verbal Prostitution... because, you know, you’re prostituting your words and your views and your ideas,” Connolly said. “What you have to say, and then I was like — verbal prostitution — No! (It’s) probably not good for the community, you know. I was thinking about the commu nity. “Banana oil means nonsense. So, Verbal Banana, and the fun niest fruit is the banana.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockmixeditor@hotmail.com ITS COMING... APRIL 24th SAY THAN K YOU TO THAT SECRETARY OR OFFICE WORKER In observance of Secretary's Day we want to invite all "bosses" to use the Gamecock to thank your secretary/office worker, etc. Your acknowledgements will printed in our April 26th edition. t. .\ The cost will be $5.00 for an ad, no more than 5-6 lines. If you would like to send an acknowledgement from your department, you can e-mail sholmes@gwm.sc.edu or fax your ad to 777-6482. Please be sure to let us know how you will be paying. OH - did we say that for the best acknowledgement your secretary will receive a special gift that day? So don't procrastinate! Send us your ad today! _ 4 Deadline is April 24th at 12 noon. Wanda, We all want to tnanK you for the support you've given us. Your untiring devotion to our debt is remarkable, but that's the kind of person you are! From the Correspondence Lab. EXAMPLE THE GAMECOCK is now accepting applications for summer and fall staff positions. Stop by Russell House room 333. Thursday, April 25, 7:30pm TOWNSHIP AUDITORIUM