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4 Mike ma to please By ANTHONY HODGE Staff Writer Regardless of the score of USC football games, Anthony Rakis ? alias "The Microphone Man" ? will continually presuade the crowd to get involved. Microphone Man has become an in ets are $10 for the public ana Sb tor stuaeni The Boys' Choir is performing in Colui as part of American Music Week, a nation1 celebration of American music. The cho known throughout the world, having perfoi all over the United States, Europe and Asia. Got a news ti\ <?I?i r?f-?rFrppp?r?p"?.?-i rrrr rr rr rr rrrr rr<~rrr rrrrrrrrrrr DUI-IFTOUTIE r'Vr'V'VV S S S S S S S S S S S S rF S SS S S S, | ^ r r r r - r r r r r r r r r r r r r r1 r r rrrrrr / n " SUNGLASSES BY BAUSCH & LOMB The world's finest sunglasses SALE Large Metal I Reg. 6' Large Metal II Reg. 61 Outdoorsman I Reg. 7Outdoorsman II Reg. 7> Wayfarer Reg. 5! All Other Rayban Sty Only G-15 Lens-no othe QIINftl A.Q.QF.q J 5 Pts. Next to Groucho's ( 256-3507 Follins Vision Center Boozt I S.C. largest Ray-Ban C All Merchandise disc tegral figure with Gamecock football by leading the cheers. "As I stand on the platform with the microphone and two large speakers on both sides of me, my main concern is trying to motivate the crowd," Rakis said. "I consider myself a middle-man whose job is to keep the crowd alert and into the football game. "Friends on the cheering squad encouraged me to try out," Rakis said. "When I tried out, the other guys had actual routines. I really didn't know what was expected of me, so I basically adlibbed the entire tryout and, to my surprise, I was chosen." "Anthony showed a lot of enthusiasm and emotion, while also being quite loud," cheerleading coach Bill Boggs said. . "Yes, I can be loud," Rakis said. "But I am also very friendly. "Initially, I had apprehensions and became somewhat nervous after I'd been \SUUIVIS [JU By ELISABETH TANGUY Staff Writer Quilters, a play portraying the lives of se eer women on the great prairies between 1900, is being staged at Workshop Theatre 1 4. The play, written by Molly Newman an Damashek, derives its inspiration from sev( about quilting, as well as from true stories. It is an evocation of the frontier life. The tell about their joy, despair and struggle to s the great prairies. "I just fell in love with the show," sai< Donna Wilson-Kerenick, who saw the play and decided to stage it in Columbia. Quilts are omnipresent in the play. They s keep warm in winter, as gifts to relatives ai Boys' Choir of By SUSAN NESBITT , Staff Writer Columbia can experience Culture Shod Tuesday night with a performance of the B Choir of Harlem. Carolina Program Union's Cultural Committee is sponsoring the concert as pa this year's cultural entertainment series. The show at the Koger Center for the will offer a combination of classical, jazz, pel and pop music. It begins at 8 p.m., and n' wants crowd selected because I wanted to perform well," Rakis said. "Later on, I gradually started to relax after receiving favorable comments concerning my performance at the eames. "I see myself as being more of a heckler than a cheerleader," Rakis said. "Anthony is incredible. He's a good motivator and works well with the crowd," Gamecock cheerleader Casey Ward said. "He's brought a lot of excitement into the crowd." Rakis said he enjoys not having to wear a specific uniform. "This allows me the freedom to use several disguises," Rakis said. "I also feel that the crowd can identify with me better without a uniform." As far as personal motivation is concerned, Rakis said Microphone Man has given him the opportunity to become the center of attention. "I get off on the crowd," Rakis said. "At times, it's hard to get into my job, especially when the fans are nonchalant," Rakis said. "When I'm out there, I don't want to sound stupid to the crowd. This is why I try to get the fans involved." "You Ain't Going Nowhere, Nowhere," "Shake What You Got" and "Get Buck Wild" are three of Rakis' more favorite chants. >rtrays life a, Thpnte wen pion- I I 1850 and until Nov. T^% a,^, Revieu >ra1 hnnlrc or even to put out a fire. Also characters tured iike a quilt. Each scene ii survive on rent block ? or patch ? in I with a particular event. 1 Director As the plot unfolds in a line in Indiana goes through the different stag (birth, childhood, marriage, m ire used to and through some key events < id friends, journey in the wagon and the t Harlem to 'she The group, founded by Walter Tu gan as a small church choir in 1968 c on Church in Central Harlem and has oys' come a major performing arts instil an international reputation. 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Read what's written in it. ar manner, the audience diread of someone s life running int es of the women's lives beginning of Act One, the otherhood and old age) verY simple set made up of a w af their existence ? the stools* a bucket, a windmill and a milding of a log cabin. the house. ?ck' Koger Center irnbull, be- manding schedule, though. Amidst numerous atEphesus rehearsals and performances, including worlsince be- " dwide travel, the singers are expected to maintution with tain a 'B' average in school. This shows in the 98 percent of the Boys' Choir graduates who go rigfall said on t0 c?dege. to see the r^ie ??ys' Choir's performance at USC is the / the choir second event of CPU's Culture Shock series. Still to come in the series are Dream Girls Feb. zing to see folk/blues singer Taj Mahal, April 26 and in Harlem gao j)a0) March 19 he said. 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RECEIVE $20 FOR YOUR FIRST DONATION THIS SEMESTER Stompfest 4 8 raises scholar By JEFF WILSON A Assistant News Editor tc Music, dancing,-cheers and sy- K chronized choreography that would ci make M.C. Hammer and Paula Abdul stand up and take notice fi helped to make the second annual ai Stompfest a crowd pleaser. T Thirteen step teams from across ti the Southeast participated in the ti event sponsored by USC's chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. cl and the Minority Alumni th Association. si The proceeds from Stompfest p< '89 will go to the Richard T. fr Greener Minority Scholarship Fund. "At this time last year, the Ri- n chard T. Greener Scholarship was q the only minority scholarship at ? USC," Pamela Martin, president of ^ USC Delta Sigma Theta sorority, tc said. "We thought that it would be a good cause to raise money for. The money probably would only P pay for two or three students, but that would be two or three students P that wouldn't have had a scholar- v ship at all." - ? d One after the other, the step fi teams dazzled the crowd. a Phi Beta Sigma fraternity from ri North Carolina A&T had the c; crowd to their feet when they did g one of their steps blind folded. The o Claflin College chapter of Kappa s; Tidwestern m in art and a tradi- The costumes are leration to genera- set and the costume: eat pride. A good lives of the pioneer v wen stitches to the A special mentior the scrap bag, full performers, who suci id fabrics, saved ing the audience inte thing more than a fe\ This is possible Ix ;lse, is a woman s enthusiasm and their </, the mother tells as wep as 0ld wonr quilt. 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