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Abroad CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 ible than they are for semester and year abroad programs,” Maddox said. If fhe cost of the trip is a con cern, financial aid is available for summer study through federal and state programs “as long as the program is approved by your academic department and the study abroad office,” Maddox said. If the notion of broadening your horizons both academically and socially sounds appealing, make your way to the Study Abroad of fice, located on the sixth floor of the Business Administration Building. Info sessions are held every Monday and Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Career Center on the same floor or call to make an appoint ment. For students curious about the opportunity and look forward to getting a jump-start on planning for a future program, a Study Abroad Fair is set for Sept. 28 at the Russell House. Summer study abroad can be a remarkable experience, and with so many options available, anyone can participate. “If you have an open mind, are curious about other cultures, and are willing to do the work as well as play, this is for you,” Maddox said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockfeaturestwgwm. sc. edu Perry prepared for life after Chandler BY JOE NEUMAIER KRTGAMIHIS Matthew Perry said he had to fight back the tears when it came time to say goodbye to wise cracking Chandler Bing. “I didn’t cry, but I felt like I was about to for like seven hours,” the 34-year old “Friends” star said in an in terview. “There was a sweet moment where my girlfriend (fashion stu dent Rachel Dunn) and I went for a walk on the stage. No one was there. We just held hands and walked around. It was sweet.” Perry — and the rest of the cast — knew what they were leaving behind when TV’s No. 1 comedy taped its concluding episode, set to air May 6, sever al weeks ago. “None of us will probably be in volved in anything as successful as ‘Friends’ again,” he said. “That’s something we just have to deal with. “We can have big successful movies, but nothing will ever be that first time again, and nothing will likely span that long a peri od of time. So we look back, and kind of smile, and move on.” For Perry, moving on starts Friday with “The Whole Ten Yards,” the sequel to “The Whole Nine Yards,” playing hapless den tist Nicholas (Oz) Oseransky, who has to recruit his former neighbor, Jimmy the Tulip (Bruce Willis), and Jimmy’s wife/fellow assassin, Jill (Amanda Peet), to rescue Oz’s kidnapped wife. “It’s tough to have a movie-star persona when you’re on a show as successful as ‘Friends,’” Perry said. “There was talk the first few years about a curse for us movie wise. But I don’t think any of us will crash and burn now. I think we were very fortunate. “If I never work again, that’s not crashing and burning — that’s called already making your mark. “And, without the safety net of the show to go back to, I guess we’ll all be a little more careful picking movies!” Before “The Whole Nine Yards” in 2000, Perry’s movies — including “Fools Rush In,” “Unsung Heroes” and “Three to Tango” — were not successful. In fact, it was while filming 2002’s “Serving Sara” with Elizabeth Hurley that Perry had a relapse of his addiction to painkillers and wound up in re hab. The actor had spent time at Minnesota’s Hazelden clinic in 1997 for a dependency on Vicodin. The press reported several re lapses — along with an unrelated incident in which he crashed his Porsche into a house in the Hollywood Hills — which he said are over now. “For me, it was never a ques PHOTO COURTtSY OF KRT CAMPUS Bruce Willis, left, and Matthew Perry star in the crime comedy “The Whole Ten Yards." tion of breaking the law — it was a guy facing his private demons. So I was lucky. People seem to be behind me. The fact that every one understood helped a lot.” His varying weight over the years was also “part of the strug gles I went through,” he said, adding: “I’m far away from the hellish parts of all that.” He still smokes, but is in great shape — though, contrary to re ports, Aniston didn’t act as his personal trainer. “No, she offered to help me dress! I’m a T-shirt and jeans guy, and Jennifer wanted to help me be a better dresser. Not be my trainer — she’s got better things to do.” Born in Williamstown, Mass., Perry moved to Ottawa, Canada, as a kid, then got into acting after his first career choice — profes sional tennis—didn’t pan out. He got roles in TV movies (he played Desi Amaz Jr. in the Patty Duke biopic “Call Me Anna”) and failed sitcoms, then was the last actor to be cast for “Friends” in 1994, which ended up with each cast member making $1 million per episode. “It was a bit like, ‘Do we really deserve this?’ But without sounding weird, everybody made so much money off the show — the producers, the net work — why shouldn’t we be a part of it? is pun - time: we'll pay you $50 to travel abroad l* HTRAVEL CUTS little as $75 a day! See the world your way .receive $50 cash back when you book by March 31! 800-592-CUTS (2887) Jfc www.travelcuts.com I Grassroots music-lovers battle industry BY JOHN JURGENSEN KUT CAMPUS Many of the people involved in the guerrilla war against the mu sic industry are simply out to get free staff. They are de facto com batants, downloading songs in anonymity — unless, that is, the industry flushes them out with a lawsuit. Then there are individuals who stage more conspicuous offen sives. People like 24-year-old Holmes Wilson, who stepped into the role of music activist last August, when he and friend Nicholas Reville started a legal de fense fund for file swappers sued by the Recording Industry Association of America. • Out of a home office in Worcester, Mass., they run Downhill Battle, an advocacy group that wants to rid the market of what he calls the “oligopoly” of major labels that dominate the recording industry. From simple sticker campaigns to a subversion of a music-based Pepsi promotion, Downhill Battle has built a reputa tion through grassroots multi tasking. On March 24, the group launched its latest effort, BannedMusic.org, a free source for music that the major labels consider illegal and onerous. One of the recordings available on the site is the creation of a Los Angeles producer and DJ that touched off a major controversy at the beginning of the year, solidi fying Downhill Battle’s role as an organizational force in an in creasing battle over online music. By painstakingly melding the vocal tracks from rapper Jay-Z’s “The Black Album” with musical swatches from the Beatles’ “White Album,” DJ Danger Mouse concocted his own “Grey Album.” He pressed only a few thousand copies, but as under ground acclaim erupted, the Beatles’ publisher, EMI, re sponded with a storm of cease and-desist letters. 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