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Features
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Editor's note: A quick note of
congratulations to WUSC-FM,
which continues to garner national
attention. The station is
listed in America magazine (currently
in boxes at residence halls
and buildings throughout campus)
as one of the top eight col
lege radio stations in the country.
And now. . .
The Cult, Electric, Sirc-Warncr
Bros. Records
For those of you tired of pretty
bands with pretty synthesizers
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rock along the lines of AC/DC
and Led Zeppelin, your day has
come.
The Cult is here with an album
chock full of the grittiest, dirtiest
and loudest hard rock to come
out in years. Produced by Rick
Rubin, who also worked with the
Beastie Boys and Run-DMC, The
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will place the band in the
spotlight as the music world's
favorite new guitar-slingers.
All of this is fairly predictable
considering the talent involved,
and Electric could easily be confused
with earlier AC/DC or
Zeppelin releases if it weren't for
the more pristine production and
the vocals of Ian Astbury.
While listening to Electric, you
get an almost frightening sense
of deja vu: it's as if you've heard
those same guitar riffs before,
and you're right. Producer Rubin
is a master at using bits from rock
classics to build songs around, as
he did with the Beastie Boys, and
his influence is evident here.
There's even a terrific cover of
Steppenwolf's "Born to be
Wild." But it's the sheer guitar
firepower of Billy Duffy thai
really powers Electric, making il
what is without question, THE
guitar record of the year.
XTC, "Dear God," Geffen
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outstanding with or without it.
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the hit list of any number of
gung-ho evangelists and other
would-be censors.
The lyrics don't sing the praises
of Satan, premarital sex or the
usual controversial topics. Instead,
they're a fairly innocent
questioning of the existence of
God: "The wars you bring, the
babes you drown/Those lost at
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perceive/That my heart's here
upon my sleeve. .
The lyrics are straightforward
and simple, but when put to vinyl
by this highly talented trio, they
gain a heartfelt power that has
phones ringing at commercial
radio stations that have had the
courage to play the song.
However, it'll be a while before
it's heard in Bible Belt Columbia,
where one local Top 40 station
even refused to play Kate Bush's
hit, "Running Up That Hill,"
because it had the word "God"
in it.
If you'd like to hear XTC's
"Dear God," run out and buy a
copy of the album or single. Or
keep the radio dial tuned to 90.5,
wherp tho snno has heen doint?
quite well.
John Van Citters is better
known to WUSC-FM listeners as
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Annual controversy mars a
'LIPS '87' hs
By MICHELLE SCHOHN
Features reporter
The Gay and Lesbian Student Association
will sponsor the third annual "LIPS '87"
Tuesday evening. The event, which stands for
"Lip-Synching in Professional Style," is
GLSA's only fund raiser of the year, and it is
once again marred by controversy.
The show will consist of performances by
Martina Desiree, Jamie Lee, Nichole Lewis,
Amaker Mickle, and Sophie Ritz. All five ?
female impersonators who perform regularly
at several Columbia nightclubs ? are
donating their time to aid GLSA. The performances
range from lip-synching popular hits
in their own costumes to closely impersonating
stars such as Madonna, Nina Hagen
and Pat Benatar.
Controversy seems to follow the show. Two
iinarc ann tlio firct chnuj ran cmnnthlv
However, a campus religious group protested
the 1986 show. The group initially picketed,
and insults were later hurled between
demonstrators and those who had come to the
Graduates ar
By PATRICK JEAN wanted tc
Assistant features editor something
Those few groggy USC specialize i
students who wake up early for Spiller s
their morning classes and turn on ested in joi
the television for the news may parents an
just see a familiar face. news were
Two USC graduates arc the said.
local morning news anchors on "Our f;
competing stations: Suzel Spiller ested in n
on ABC affiliate WOLO-TV, current ev<
and Emily Calloway on NBC My dad w
affiliate WIS-TV. on gramm
Although both currently have stuff lil^ 1
similiar jobs, their backgrounds, She ent<
degrees and goals are different. 1982 as ar
After wav
Suzel Kay Spiller
past August
a B.A. in political
science. The Green- JPp
wood native, now a r<-\ \
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was never interested
in majoring in it. 1^'v*' Mffc
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is something that can Suze| Splller
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for four years in school, especial- Spiller
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show. Security eventually forced the protesters
to leave, and the show went on as fi
scheduled. 1>
This year, a cloud of controversy hangs n
over the show once again. GLSA had been o
looking forward to the event becoming a
"Carolina Tradition," having met the re- ic
quirement that an event be held for three con- tc
secutive years. ci
However, Jon Brock, co-chairman of a
GLSA, received a letter this past Tuesday tl
from USC, informing him whether or not an
event becomes a "Carolina Tradition" is at a
the university's discretion. The group had to w
sue USC for licensing after forming in 1979; it h
may now have to fight for the right to be 1<
treated equally, he said.
"GLSA certainly hopes that there has been h
no discrimination, implicit or explicit, upon c
lesbians and gays by the administration and h
will be meeting with officials to discuss these c
matters in the near future," Brock said.
USC officials could not be reached for i
comment. S
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) get my major in tial: news reporter Johi
that I plan to probably and assignment edit<
n later." Crawford.
aid she was first interjrnalism
at age 12. Her "John took me under
d the evening network and really went out of hi
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a problem. . . Bob wai
amily was very inter- mental in making the ii
lews; we'd talk about what it should have b<
;nts at the dinner table. learning experience," sh
as very much a stickler Spiller stayed in
ar and vocabulary and through the fall of 1!
hat." interned at Cable News
:red USC in the fall of and WTBS-TV.
i undeclared freshman. She said she did a v
ering between English work there ? filming, r
cal science, she chose editing and assigning st
with a minor in jour- basically did whatever I
nalism. A few intern- my hands on."
ships lengthened her
studies Returning to U
Spiller worked as
an intern at WXAI- After completing her
TV, Atlanta's NBC internships, Spiller reti
affiliate, in the USC for the 1985 spriri
summer of 1984. This ter. She began her first
first internship was a WOLO as an intern,
great experience that She said she got this i
confirmed her career the same way she rec<
interest in television others: by calling them
1, she said. went over and told them
said two people at two internships ? I kne
;re helpful and influen- shoot; 1 knew how to edi
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Even advertising the event has been difeult.
Flyers have been ripped down as quick- ^
as they were posted, and one GLSA
icmber said he had a run-in with a member
f the Carolina Program Union.
The GLSA member, who asked not to be
lentified, said he and other members wanted
) post advertisements in the CPU display
ase near Golden Spur. He said he was told by
CPU representative, "I don't have time for
lis spittin' sh--, especially for you."
CPU President Shawn Sink disagreed. "We
re a professional group. No one on our staff
fould say that," she said. "If they (GLSA)
avc a complaint, they need to come in and
3dge it so we can deal with it." A
Controversy or not, the show goes on. "I ^
ope people understand and appreciate the
ntprtainino nnH the nrtino." Lewis said. "I
lope they use the show to understand the art
>f female impersonation better."
"LIPS '87" will be held at 8 p.m. Tuesday
11 the Russell House Ballroom. Tickets will be
i3 at the door.
irning news
l Sherik I please come by and spend some ^
]>r Bob time there and do whatever you
need me to do?'"
Spiller said she worked many
his wing late hours, often filming, reportis
way to ing and editing evening news
; if I had stories on her own.
s instru- She said somewhere along the
iternshio way, she went from an intern to
jen ? a an employee. She left WOLO in
e said. February 1986 to concentrate on
Atlanta her studies. After graduating in
?84. She August, she returned in October
Network when she heard the station
needed a morning anchor.
ariety of "I heard about it and went ?
eporting, over immediately, because that's
ones, i exacuy vvnai i wanieu iu uu ? i?j
could get get a little bit of anchoring
experience to help myself relax in
front of the camera," she said.
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Happy to learn
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Lirned to Spiller's daily routine involves
ig semes- getting up at 4:45 a.m. She does
work at three-minute live reports at 7:25
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nternship ABC's Good Morning America 1
jived the program. She also tapes a news
. "I just brief for later in the morning and
I'd done covers a story for the 6 p.m.
w how to broadcast.
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