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I . # , J a nlhe( = nspu ntheC :nspu ntheC INSPUR In I nMMi ( OlLdi > pay off in dai vin trip i By SHANNON BAYNHAM Staff Writer Two USC students won a dance c station WNOK and within 24 hours, tl Video Awards. Angel Tolentino, a broadcast senioi engineering student, had no idea they the Columbia Sheraton and later rub e sal Amphitheatre in L.A. Tolentino heard announcements on ments for the dance contest in The Gi and goes out often to Pugs. This tim( test Tolentino persuaded her boyfriem After winning the first round, the c left the Dance Factory and practiced then called a friend and said, "If I'n we've left." Needless to say, practic* nells. They went back to the finals anc Class was probably the last thing ( plane. WNOK awarded Gunnells ar weekend stay at the Hyatt Regency i Video Awards. The couple's only pers car they rented and a $25 phone bill. Once they arrived in Los Angeles, cords met Gunnells and Tolentino wit went directly from the airport to the ai Tolentino commented on how strar Crawford and Martha Quinn in persoi big deal ? Cher,' but stars were e1 from afar and decided to act cool," To Their tickets were in the upper bal ceedines from above. Both Tolentino organization and smooth production/ act for about two minutes," Tolentim After a trip to Universal Studios ar and Gunnells returned to class. Work messages blinking on their answering They returned on Sunday with a lol day, they had danced, listened to mus ? not a bad weekend for a couple of n Sting From staff reports Ahhhhhhhhh!!!! That is the feeling USC student Erin Mowrey and her roommate ?Stf^>a?'a^WeMbFoek?ejfpf>o9sed -at 7:15 a.m. Monday when they found out Mowrey had won tickets to see Sting this Suntfay* hr" Charlotte. As part of a weekend promotion, FOX 102.3 gave away Sting CD's to callers every hour. Winners were then registered for the grand prize. Mowrey and her roommate had both been the 10th callers at different times during the weekend so by Monday morning they were both registered for the concert tickets. "We stayed up all night long so that we wouldn't miss it," Mowrey said about the early morning announcement of the winners over the radio. "We just had this feeling," she said. When the radio deejay called their Columbia Hall phone, Moun I MM iheGOllbi MEMBEl M. lA IR20 SEA ):? VDENJ mtiml M. "Uw Ulm ):(* DENS I SER ER201 M. Inthj iMBEff Wll ):0I Aden? io September a 1 u JL IJ RFPTFMfift ):Ol nr it i xy, Septcmhci 20 u 9:00 fi.n This program is paid for, in pari ice contest to MTV I ontest Sept. 4 sponsored by radio tiey were sitting at the MTV Music r, and Brian Gunnells, a third-year would leave the Dance Factory at lbows with the stars at the Univer the radio and had seen advertiseamecock. Tolentino loves to dance j she needed a partner for the cond, Gunnells, to enter. ;ouple started to get nervous. They j a routine for the finals. Tolentino i not in class by 9:05, that means i i paid off for Tolentino and Gun1 won by audience applause, in their minds as they boarded the ' id Tolentino two plane tickets, a 1 md two tickets to the 1991 Music jonal expenses were the convertible ' a representative from Capitol Re h their program tickets. The couple Tiphi theatre. ige it was to see people like Cindy i. "The L.A. people were like 'Oh, verywhere. We just admired them lentino said. cony where they watched the proi and Gunnells were amazed at its 'There was chaos in between each ) said. id Hollywood Boulevard, Tolentino was waiting for them as well as 16 machine. ; to tell their friends. Since Wednesic and "hob knobbed" with the stars college students. tickets wrey and Westbrook could hardly contain their enthusiasm. After "screaming at the top of our lungs," they said they went room to room on their floor at Columbia Hall and shouted the good news. "They weren't too excited be>cause?ljb?y .were still asleep," Mowrey recalled. Mowrey had won two tickets to the concert at Blockbuster Pavillion, two tickets to Carowinds amusement park, hotel accommodations in Charlotte and the entire Sting and Police library on CD. t>..? r~?i: _r oui uit iccmig 01 winning was not an uncommon one for the USC junior. In fact, it was just this past spring when she won front row tickets and backstage passes for the same Sting Soul Cages concert which played here in Columbia. The tickets were also part of a local radio station promotion. "I'm still excited," Mowrey said about going to see the concert again. "(Sting) is so fun. His British accent makes him so cute." ^UP! im? 1P.M. FREE IP.lA 9:01 k 9:00 \ 1P.M. / FJ )P.\ A 9:01 ~ ! \l\ I PI f f V \ FREE! 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