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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
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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
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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^%
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>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.
Arts Political science junior Lynette W
rt she wouldn't miss the opportunity
choir perform. "Because I know hov
started and the background, it is ama
tick- ^ow came fr?m a small choir
and became internationally known," s
mbia Tte youths in the choir range ir
wide ?ine 18 years old. Only 100 meml
ir is cepted each year from a pool
med applicants.
Being selected is only the beginni
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TEDDY LEPPIThe Gamecock
Senior Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism major Anthony
Rakis, better known as Mr. Microphone, cheers
on the football team at Saturday's game.
nd art of seven M
At that time, quilting was both i
rtion, carefully transmitted from ger
tion, and in which women took gi
quilter, for example, could make eh
inch. And in every family there was
;of scraps of all colors, sizes ai
throughout the years.
...
, the play itself is struc- . But a <luilt> more fhan fything (
s symbolized by a diffe- diary. At the beginning of the pla]
he quilt and each deals ^er s*x daughters, This is. my last
gacy. 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. Tickets can be purchased at the Carolina Coli
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of a de- formation, call 777-5111.
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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." - ?
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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. It is my le- formed on the stage <
Each block has a Quilters is not an
o it."
5 curtain rises on a den intellectual mes:
ooden bench and tumes and special e
board symbolizing evocation of the fro
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Jpha Psi's fancy foot work and
)ssing and twirling of canes, a
^appa tradition, was another
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len. The live music that is perilso
brings a lively note,
avant-garde play with a deep hid
sage. It does not have striking cosiffects.
But it is a very charming
ntier life at a time when "you had
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