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drives bore
By SCOTT PRUDEN
Staff Writer
Thanksgiving is over, in case
you didn't notice everyone turning
green at the thought of yet another
turkey sandwich and Christmas decorations
startine to so un all over
the place.
For some people, that's the sign
that it's time to shift their minds
into Christmas spirit mode, which
usually entails being extra fast
when trying to grab that parking
space at the mall, or saying "excuse
me" when they muscle to the
front of the crowd trying to snatch
a Nintendo for their little video
hoodlum.
I, being a different sort of fellow,
have a different way of heralding
the arrival of the holiday
season.
I hop in my car, switch it to
automatic pilot ana arive ouu
miles up to Delaware for the traditional
Thanksgiving celebration.
Yes, I'm from Delaware, second
smallest state in the union, the first
to ratify the Constitution and seat
of the great, glorious, sprawling
DuPont corporate empire. But it's
not the goal of my journey that
moves me to transcend the everyday
world and start thinking about
Christmas.
It's the drive itself.
It's quite simple. A 600-mile
trek up 1-95 in an '85 Subaru is
perhaps the greatest test of endurance
ever created, especially if
you're not making the journey on
your own.
I usually make it with my sister,
who is a great companion because
we're enough alike that we enjoy
the same music and don't drive
each other absolutely insane, but
different enough to be able to keep
conversations going.
She also sleeps a whole lot.
We usuallly do okay through
South Carolina, North Carolina
and a bit of Virginia, pretty much
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Alpha Delta Pi - Toy & Stuffed
Alpha Tau Omega - Canned Foi
Chi Omega - Canned Food Driv
Carolina Program Union - Canr
Department of Student Life - A
Kappa Sigma - Nonalcoholic Mi
Law School - Canned Food Dri\
Medical Student Association
Drive
Sigma Gamma Rho - Guardian
Delta Sigma Pi - Canned Food 1
American Marketing Associatic
Monday, November 27
Kappa Delta - Baskets for Cana
Alpha Delta Pi/Delta Tau D<
Hospital
Tuesday, November 28
Chi Omega - Change for Charit
Delta Delta Delta - Drop in Te<
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Freshmen Council - Dib-For-AResidence
Hall Association - 1
Party
Zeta Tau Alpha/Sigma Alpha E
Wednesday, November 29
Carolina Cares 3rd Annual Ba
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Care for Emotionally Disturbed
Thursday, November 30
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Kappa Alpha Theta - Bake Sale
Friday, December 1
Student Personnel Association
umbia Mall
Carolina Program Union - Mo
Theatre
Saturday, December 2
Carolina Cares Day - Annual
Greene Street, 10 am - 4 pm
Delta Upsilon - Recycling Aku
Parking Lot
Sunday; December 3
Fraternity & Sorority Council
Golden Spur, 6:00 pm - 7:15 pn
University Tree Lighting - US
sored by Carolina Cares. Rain L
Association of Honor Student:
Tree Lighting, USC Honors Coll
Miscellaneous Activities Spon
Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Phi Alpha
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Student Alumni Association
Dliday trek
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Lifestyles |
because through those states the
interstate is a wasteland. No radio
stations, no scenery but sand and
pine trees, and best of all, very
little traffic.
That all ends when we hit Richmond.
Toll booths cause three
lanes of 65 mph traffic to seize up
and turn into a slowly crawling
parking lot. Anxiety starts to buna
because experienced interstate
drivers know that it doesn't get
any better from there.
And worst of all, there's always
some goofball from Quebec in a
Winnebago who suddenly decides
he doesn't want to be in the exactchange-only-lane.
He wants to be
in my lane. Sure I want to access
my foreign-language swear word
bank, but it's Christmas, so I control
myself.
It's a bad feeling, hating people
because they want to get in front
of you, because I usually let folks
in with no qualms whatsoever. I
always say the world would be a
little better if everyone would let
someone else in.
It's just that over the holidays,
everyone seems a little more eager _
to drive me off the road and see j
me burst into a flaming ball of m
vinyl and white painted aluminum. ^
From Richmond north is a
driver's nightmare. The speed limit B
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out 10 mph for the next 200 miles.
Those of us with stick shifts rarely 01
get out of second gear. If you do, ai
you run the risk of getting stuck up C
the tailpipe of the Mack truck in V
front of you.
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spirit zine or have ideas or information
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profes- Grondin said the best way for a
ser Don student to get in touch with the
make it Cola, staff is to send a letter of inne
than qUiry to McKinney at the College
azine." of Journalism,
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prog- vironment and crime," she said,
lat prog- "We want to do serious things, but
ssue of at the same time we also do hu'88,
and morous things such as anecdotes in
luced in Reader's Digest style and stories
on unusual things about Columbia,
lm is a as well as culture, sports and busi;Kinney
ness. We're a general interest
smester, magazine."
s an edi- In past issues, Cola, has done
semester such stories as "Why South Carolina
is the sexiest state in the Unthe
up- ion," a profile on Columbia native
of Cola. Lee Atwater and a story on the favill
have vorite restaurants of prominent
dinating Columbians,
ther edi- Instead of being issued to stuate
deci- dents, the magazine is sent free of
sine. charge to a list of 5,000 Columstudents
bians in the top-income bracket of
j editing $75,000 or more, McKinney said.
money, food
sir com- dents will be the Annual Student
es, and Chanty Drive on Saturday. For
o give," this Carolina Cares Day activity
students and the community are
Annual encouraged to bring any canned
rative of goods, toys and clothing to the
ght at 9 Russell House's Greene Sreet
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dzo Kin lected over $1,000 worth of goods,
Koval said.
Russell "It's fantastic to see what it can
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fSC stu- cially after Hurricane Hugo's damage.
The people are so thankful.
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ant and tourism senior and Carolina
Cares Day Chairperson Leslie
Minton. "It's great for the;
Christmas spirit."
Political science senior and Car-;
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John Singh says he looks forward
to seeing the results of everything
coming together after the band
benefit and Saturday's activities
S are complete.
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