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Career Fair to display job choices By SUSAN SIMPSON Staff Writer Students can shop around foi more than 100 jobs at the 14th an nual Career Fair tomorrow. The fair, which is sponsored bj the Career Center and the Offict of Minority Student Affairs, wil have representatives from 126 bu sinesses, industries and govern ment agencies around the country. Graduate schools will also be there for students who are planning to continue their education. "It is a great chance for students to obtain information and talk one on-one with professionals front: various occupations," Career Fau Director Elisha Mobley said. 'The fair is an experience from which all students can benefit even freshmen, because they car become aware of the career paths within each major," Mobley said. Sophomores and juniors can reevaluate their field of study and begin learning the educational background and personal skills each hiring agency is looking for, she added. Most importantly, she said, seniors are informed of the career opportunities within each organization and what their admission process involves. Students who attended the fair last year gave it high marks. "I was impressed with the variety of careers represented," applied professional science junior Eric Parsons said. 'The people were extremely helpful and well informed." Representatives will be on hanc tomorrow from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the Russell House Ball?oom. MTV zips 4. J ' ; : < By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS los Angeles ? The 1980s t of fads, but MTV: Music Televis join the trendsetter trash heap. Growing stagnant, MTV and its have been revamped from top tc emerged on its eighth anniversary sion's more robust and diverse ente In the wake of a two-year ovei MTV and its two affiliated chan Nickelodeon-Nick at Nite ? M' features a mix of game shows, cl newscasts, dance shows, sitcom rer MTV's archly irreverent "Ren show has become so popular that i TV syndication market Nickelodeon, jammed with c I Ame Red Blood Mo: M septei llsC ui 3:01 Russel With shops, boutiques and sa j ray of establishments to visit. j^HHf Stude ; y~\_^: P [ By SCOTT PRUDEN Staff Writer The Five Points msytique is not something that can be easily pinned down. It's as intangible as the reason the swallows annually return to Capastrano, or the reason your mom and dad always look at each other that way when "A Summer Place" comes on the radio. It's not just because that's where the bars and clubs are. It's not just because it's close to campus. The roots of this phenomenon lay somewhere in Columbia history, back when ducktailed guys and poodle-skirted girls hung out at the burger joint where the past music ifpt _ . shows, will delive ?urned through a lot crease of more thai ion has refused to After losing abo MTV Networks n( music-video format of 125 million vie> i bottom and have lowing overseas. / as one of televi- through the secon irprises. percent from a yea rhaul spread across All the same, VI nels ? VH-1 and times, and the futi rv Networks now after a redesign, s hildren's programs, audiences. And Ni uns and rap music. than a rest home ft rote Control" quiz In the coming i t's now a hit in the Office will introdui "We think a coi )ffbeat children's step for us," said 1 ( srican Cross 1 Drive nday nber 11 10 AM itil OPM 1 House XWW*" ^ ^ ^ f ^ mm JAMES NEntESlThe Gamecock tlons, the village offers a wide arnts find fun at the ige down the hill oints * music/video store Tracks now so stands. the But alas, those were not our Col times to experience. / Instead, today's youth of Col- ma] umbia migrate to Rockafellas' feel and Group Therapy, where the f beer is cold and the music is Stic loud. ing They venture down Greene hel] Street to pick up trendy little atm trinkets at the Joyful Alternative, pul; or wander through the unique dor shops that line Saluda Avenue. dre1 They stop for late night snacks " at The Breakfast Club or just Grc stroll along beneath the street say: lights. trici Whereas downtown is the up- mo: wardly mobile Columbia, ex- wi panding vertically with a new prei skyscraping bank building ever? 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Pr0 ut $50 million in its first two years, sun )w has a combined subscriber base ^ vers, MTV says, and a growing fol- call' Earnings for the three channels d quarter of this year were up 21 and r ago, to $17.9 million. cab [TV's evolution has been clumsy at Dici iiv* ic finftpH with phiillpnffM Pvpn 41V lj UVUWt Tf VllUllVll^Vkll JUTVII ? oft-rock VH-1 still attracts meager will ck at Nite has yet to become more fror >r old sitcoms. - met nonths both MTV and Home Box con ce all-comedy cable channels. mie; medy channel is a real logical next ^ bm Freston, MTV Network's presi- VHRow Comfoi On ven after dusk, people head to Fr often, Five Points represents living, breathing, youthful iumbia. ^nd don't think those who Ice Five Points what it is don't ] t it 7ulton Campbell of J.D. :ky's says being within walkdistance of campus certainly ?s, but "it's really the relaxed losphere that makes it so poar, besides the fact that you 1't have to drive to St. Anws to get here." The variety is part of it," iup Therapy's George Meares ! "Tt's not like a hiisinoss riis t, there's more of a village at>phere. Five Points is homey thout being slick or ( entious." ind he's absolutely right. "eate broa t and chief executive officer. "But bably will see only one (con riving." yith HA!, as MTV's comedy cl ed, MTV will be chasing the compt I think what we're doing is unique what they're doing is already avt le channels," HBO's Comedy Ch; k Beahrs said. he Comedy Channel, which debut; be composed of brief comedy ; n movies and nightclub perform; ited by occasional feature-length is. HA!, using longer-form program res April 1. ITV's other channels continue tc 1, now 4 years old, faces perhaps sit# FALL] October 14 -1 The Low Price of ndtrip transportation < mt Inn East. 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Tim Smith, owner of the used record store, Papa Jazz, says topography is important to Five Points' success id-based r I think that you cult battle, ledy channel) Freston labels , cable operators lannel will be unnecessary, 'tition. When the Cor and innovative in April> , lilable on other ^ make room at annel President according to CN . t to 250,000. s in November, vh-1's proble sketches culled dock for MTy fl( inces, comple- thing MTV didn' films and sit- stjd] has a way to , , Enya, Fine You , be reworked. Edie Brickell & the most dtffi- VH_, promiseSi a Y? // y.' * ' 'J IT.ANDC BREAKr October 17 $65.00 includes & 3 Nights at luxuriou Disney World & Sea Wc fOW! September 22 n onn use rvuum &\jxj ion call 777-7130 TSL & TOURS dent Affairs SI jflSS v - ' *r JAMES NEHTLESIThe Gamecock ie village offers them. as well. "It sounds kind of silly, but I think being downhill from the university helps a lot. I mean, it's a lot easier to walk downhill, and it's especially good for our location." Smith also notes the environmental differences from the typical late-'80s gathering place. "Five Points has a different atmosphere from something like a mall. It's not as plastic, the buildings are older and have a different look, but you still have a lot of different things close together." The potpourri of USC students and faculty and the Columbia locals also makes for a diverse mix of people, Smith says. "It's the closest thing Columbia has to Greenwich Village," networks VH-1 "a work in progress." A few i have called it something else: lsumer News and Business Channel several cable systems bumped VH-1 a cost of nearly a million subscribers, BC. MTV, however, says it's closer m is that it is still seen as the dryDtsam. "It was a repository for everyt want to play," Freston said. "And it go." lys offers a blend of artists such as ng Cannibals, 10,000 Maniacs and New Bohemians. 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