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By OCTAVIA WIGHT
Staff Writer
Black greeks from all over the
Southeast will be "stepping
out" for scholarships at Stompfesl
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for prizes of up to $500 takes
places at the Township Auditorium
Saturday.
The stepshow, co-sponsored by
Delta Sigma Theta sorority and
USC's Black Alumni Council, will
raise money for USC's Richard T.
Greener Minority Scholarship.
Several Southeastern colleges,
including Clemson University and
Winthrop College, will participate.
There are many reasons for the
popularity of stepshows, participants
said.
"They are like a social outlet for
African-American students here at
USC," psychology senior Pamela
Martin, president of USC's Delta
Sigma Theta chapter, said.
The programs have been used as
fundraisers for charities such as the
United Negro College Fund, Sickle
Cell Anemia Foundation and Afiricare,
which is a sponsorship of an
an African village on a national
level, Alpha Kappa Alpha President
Gail Barrett said.
Stepshows weren't always organized
as fundraising events and
for sheer pleasure.
"Stepshows got started as a result
of shows performed by fraternities
and sororities while they
were on line," former national
Omega Psi Phi Vice President Tyrone
Gilmore said.
Gilmore finished college in the
mid-1960s, a time when the idea
of stepping was a little premature.
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"I think that steppin' reached its
height in popularity in the early
'80s. It was so different from the
way it is today. Groups have added
in the areas of costumes, and participant
numbers have increased,"
Gilmore said.
The practice for a stepshow can
start anywhere from a month to a
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of the stepshow, Clemson University
Kappa Alpha Psi member Gabriel
Parks said.
"Costumes can range anywhere
from $150 to $300," he added.
There is a reason for the high
amount of costs and time. "If an
organization can really step, it becomes
more popular and attracts
people to the organization, Alpha
Phi Alpha member and USC psychology
junior Jezreel Sweat said
Even though stepshows are fun,
some people find the acts
offensive.
"I think there's a misconception
that people have about stepping.
Some think that it's vulgar and socially
unacceptable. That's not
true. Stepshows can be noble and
uplifting. It's a beautiful thing
when done in its proper tone," Assistant
Dean of Minority Student
Life Ralph Johnson said.
The doors open at 7 p.m. and
tickets are available for $6 at The
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By SCOTT PRUDEN
Staff Writer
Pickled eggs on a stick. Let's
ponder that thought for a moment.
The thought of someone, presumably
a pretty down-to-earth person,
taking an ordinary egg and
boiling it
Fine.
But then this person goes out of
his way to do something definitely
out of the ordinary. He takes this
plain old boiled egg, a perfectly innocent
egg that wasn't bothering
anyone ? ready to be eaten with a
liule salt and maybe some Tabasco
sauce, or maybe chopped into a
chef salad ? and he mercilessly
plunges it into a jar full of some
vinegar concoction.
But the evil egg molester
doesn't bother to stop there. In an
effort to perhaps push the outside
of the egg experimentation envelope,
he subjects the poor little
spheroid to the ultimate indignity.
He puts it on a stick.
Yes, an ordinary mini-tongue
depressor or popsicle stick, to be
sold to some famished, but no
doubt, deranged State Fair goer.
While intelligent humans are out
shouting down those who test cosmetics
on bunnies, there are those
in the world who spend their days
dilligently immersing helpless eggs
in pickling juice and then ramming
wooden sticks through their white
little bodies.
And imagine, that's only one of
my more pleasant memories of the
Slate Fair.
I suppose when you refuse to go
on fair rides or you are too cheap
to shell out the two bucks a pop
for the game where you try to be
the first Bcatle to get squirted to
the top of the pole it's tied to and
would rather spend time watching
people strolling by looking inbred,
eating is the only obvious
alternative.
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the distinctive odor of funnelcakes,
com dogs, french fries, polish
sausage and, of course, pickled
eggs on a stick, all swirling
together on the chilly October
breezes.
And the truly bizzarre thing is
that it actually smells good. I went
to the Southern 500 in Darlington
this year and smelled the same
thing, and as smells have a way of
doing, it conjured up vivid memories
of a cool October night at the
fairgrounds.
How a jillion redneck race fans
grilling steaks can smell like funnel
cakes and pickled eggs beats
me, but the similarity was
amazing.
What really amazes me, however,
is that with all that greasy
air, the walls of Williams-Brice
don't become impregnated with
fair smell. Then again, I've never
strolled up to the superstructure at
the stadium and given it a good,
hard sniff.
Either I'd end up with permanent
nasal damage or pick up the
faint, lingering odor of a polish"
sausage smothered in onions and
peppers. Or I could discover that
snorting Williams-Brice dust has a
powerful hallucinagcnic effect, and
either football games would be a
lot more fun or absolutely everything
would be banned there.
Maybe someone at the fair was'
doing Brice dust when they;
thought up the idea of strapping a'
John Lcnnon doll to a poll and
having people try to shoot him to
the top with a squirt gun.
It's amazing what some people
will do to win a giant inflatable
sheep.
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