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CAROLINA
This Week
Students can buy
discount tickets
USC students can buy discounted movie
tickets to area theaters and city bus
tickets through Student Government, business
office manager Jackie Westbury said.
"We sell about 2,000 Roth Theatre
tickets in a fiscal year and about the same
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The tickets for Roth Theatres are $3.25
and General Cimema tickets are $3.50 if
purchased through the USC business office
on the fourth floor of Russell House,
Westbury said. Regular admission is $5 at
Roth Theatres and $5.50 at General
Cinema complexes in Columbia.
The tickets are good anytime of day,
but will not be honored for the movies
"Batman" at Columbia Mall and "The
Abyss" at Bush River Mall.
Booklets of 10 South Carolina Electric
& Gas city bus tickets sell for $4 rather
than the regular $5 price.
Tickets are sold noon-4 p.m. Monday
thru Friday.
Fraternity wants
to come to
Representatives from the Kappa Alpha
Theta women's fraternity are USC looking
for interested women in helping establish
a chapter here.
Officials will meet and interview interested
women beginning tonight about the
colonization of the group. More information
can be obtained from the office of
Greek Life at 777-8580.
Meanwhile, 736 women rushed sororities
last week on the USC campus during
the regular rush period.
"I think it went really well," rush
counselor Rita Romano said. "It went as
good as past rushes."
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day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The museum
is closed Mondays.
...coming soon
Four classical music concerts will be
performed this fall by USC music professors
in the annual September concert series
Sept. 19-29.
"We're focusing on more major classical
works this year," Christopher Berg,
the USC music professor coordinating the
series, said. "We want audiences to hear a
well-balanced program of classical music
performed by outstanding faculty artists in
the School of Music."
Maternity rusn oegan last mgni wim a
forum in Russell House and will conclude
at the end of the week.
Voyager
II passes Neptune.
Museum shows
Voyager images
By MELANIE MIMS
Staff writer
For 12 years, NASA's Voyager II
spacecraft has traveled through the galaxy
and is now about 2.8 billion miles away
from Earth passing the planet Neptune
and its moons.
Gibbes Planetarium at Columbia Mu
seum of Art, along with WIS-TV and
Earth Stations of Columbia, is sponsoring
viewing of Voyager IPs satellite transmissions
from the far reaches of the galaxy at
the planetarium.
"Scientists fully expect to learn more
about Neptune during Voyager IPs encounter
than what has been known of
Neptune since its discovery 143 years
ago," planetarium Director Richard
McColman said.
Mac Williams, assistant director of operations
at the museum, said the "turnout
for the exhibit has been wonderful." He
said in a one-hour period Saturday, 154
people viewed the pictures from Neptune.
It takes four hours and six minutes for
Voyager's transmissions, traveling the
speed of light, 186,000 miles per second,
to reach Earth.
"We are very excited to bring the
public the opportunity to see history in
the making," McColman said.
Admission is free, and the last day visitors
can view thp. transmissions is Tues
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By ROBERT THOMAS
Carolina Life Editor
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Kesiuence nam auu apaiuiicuus pitstui students
with two major problems ? lack of
space and a desire to convert the area into
something more like home.
After moving into their rooms last week, students
began the task of decorating their rooms
with everything from new caipet, new curtains,
and bunk beds to posters, pictures and new
coats of paint.
However, some of the things students are doing
to their rooms may not make a small area
look larger or utilize the space effectively.
"You should avoid using dark colors because
it makes the room look smaller," senior retail
management major Tara Alley said. "A nice
room looks better, but you should not put too
much stuff in the room as it will make it look
cluttered."
To make the task of turning your room into a
more habitable area, Alley offers these tips:
Only use pastels and bright colors in the
room, as they help to open up the area, while
dark colors seem to enclose the area.
Use your bed as a sofa during the day to
avoid taking up more space by bringing one
into the room.
Utilize all the shelf space and examine
how to add more, if possible. Try to buy or
build end tables with storage space underneath.
Fix up your room with a small fish aquarium,
plants, pictures and stackable shelves
available at most discount stores.
During a four-day period last week, the USC
Bookstore sold over 200 rolls of carpet to students
wanting to make their rooms more intimate,
bookstore employee Angie Newton said.
"It seems since some of the dorms are not
carnefed. students are reallv concerned about
carpeting them," Newton said. 'They are also
really concerned about color coordinating their
rooms.
"We've even had people come down here
with pillow cases to match up the colors," she
said.
The most popular colors, according to New- T
ton, are mauve, dusty rose and green, with fe- ^un
male customers outnumbering the males two to
one.
"Guys buy dark colors like navy, brown and JJP
gray," Newton said.
"Patterned rugs are another way to spruce up
a room rather than solid-colored carpeting," sophomore
art major Chloe Harrington said. 'The
designs seem to make the room come alive, especially
if you can coordinate it with the bedspreads
and curtains."
Furniture helps make rooms feel and look
more like home while plants help to do the
same, DeSaussure Resident Adviser Felicia
Cunningham said.
"Framing pictures and posters give the room
a more classy look," Cunningham, a senior business
major, said.
A Five Points art and frame shop has noticed
a marked increase in business since USC students
began moving in. "They are giving thenposters
a more finished look than a contemporary
one," Deck the Walls Manager Jeannie Cantrell
said about the trend toward framing
posters.
That store has sold pictures, frames and art to
students with final cash register receipts reaching
as high as $300.
"It seems like the students have more money
this year to get the good stuff or the more expensive
art," store employee Kwantip Ronakara
said.
"Guys are concerned with what they like, and
girls are more concerned with coordinating their
entire rooms," Ronakara said.
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Nearly one hundred USC students were
troduced to educational opportunities ai
verbanks Zoo Friday as part of Carolina
eview week.
"We would like these students not just tc
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of education at the zoo.
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e past 20 years, the zoo is South Carina's
largest public attraction, with exhits
featuring more than 800 animals.
The zoo's education department offers a
riety of educational opportunities by inrpreting
the exhibits and teaching aboul
iman relationships with the animal world.
Saturday classes are offered for all ages
d focus on conservation, endangered spess,
animal behavior and special animal
aptations.
Some special features of the zoo include
a lion and penguin feedings, a tropical
instorm featuring thunder and lightening
the birdhouse, as well as milking demonations
at the farm.
"I like the cows best because they give
milk to drink, and I like milk," said
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Moving away from home for the first time
ovides students with independence, extra relonsibilities
and a lot of social adjustments to
ake.
Although it is seldom admitted, many stu;nts
experience homesickness some time or
lother. Whether they miss a boy- or girlfriend
ick home, or just the smell of mom's clean
undry, USC does provide support.
Last Sunday, some teary-eyed mothers kissed
eir babies goodbye, then headed home with
omises for lots of letters and calls.
These "babies" are USC newest editions ?
eshmen.
"I feel a little homesick, but what they say
>out Southern hospitality is true," freshman
inya Evanina from Pennsylvania said.
She spent her week meeting people and findg
out where her classes are. "Everybody I
ive met is really nice," Evanina said.
Student Orientation began helping students
ake the transition from home-life to college'e
last week with its Carolina Preview events
keep freshmen busy.
These events taught incoming freshmen what
expect and what is expected of them at USC,
id Harrison Greenlaw, director of student
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8-year-old Jasmine Rutherford.
"I like the polar bear because he came
5 down to the window," said 3-year-old
t Tierica Johnson, who was able to observe
i the bear in the cooling pool through an
underwater window.
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, their ability to adapt to hot climates. It may
5 seem strange that Arctic animals can suri
vive South Carolina summers, but, accord
ing to zoo personnel manager Bill Clark,
they adapt very easily.
The exhibits are naturalistic, providing
: animals with shelter they would seek in the
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exhibits for USC students. Some other adt
vantages are part-time jobs, academic internships
and the use of the zoo's resource
; library, Rhoades said.
The newest exhibit at the zoo, the Aquar1
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