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Stellar Jazz
By JENNIFER JABLONSKI
Assistant Copy Desk Chief
Every note of the music is a
pearl, and if you're not concentrating
on sounding every note, you're
missing a few pearls.
That's the advice jazz composer
Bill Holman gave to a student jazz
ensemble rehearsing one of his
pieces Thursday for the Stellar Jazz
Festival VII concert.
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"These are tough charts. Some of
the toughest, but some of the best
I've played in the four years I've
played in this group," said music
education senior Tim Deyton, who
played trumpet in the concert.
World-renowned jazz writer Bill
Holman of California was in Columbia
last week as the guest artist
for the festival, which started Wednesday
and ended Friday night at
the Koger Center. Friday's concert
attracted several hundred people.
"Holman's been hired by everyone
who's anyone in the jazz world
to write for them ? 'The Tonight
Show' band, Natalie Cole, Woody
Herman and Count Basie are just a
-Carolina Cat
freshmen for
- By STEPHEN BROWN
Staff Writer
What do you plan to do with
your life?
For incoming freshmen, questions
about the future may create
unnecessary stress or terror, but
counselors for this summer's Carolina
Camp hope to help set the
new recruits on a clear and painless
course.
Carolina Camp is an extended
orientation program offered in addition
to the one-day program students
are expected to attend. From
June 23 to 24 trained counselors
who are current students will assist
the rising freshmen in getting their
bearings on a large-scale campus
and in making good judgments about
career decisions.
Amy Prosser, student director
for Carolina Camp, said, "We hope
to teach students how to incorpo
rate classes ana organizations into
a secure major. One of our projects
is a dream resume in which students
will include what they hope
to have accomplished during their
college years."
During a time when career options
are very specific, and more
students are constantly changing
majors, camp counselors hope to
impress upon new students the
value of choosing a direction.
Career tests like the Strong Interest
Inventory and the MyersBriggs
Type Indicator will be administered
to Carolina Camp participants.
These tests aid in the
career decision process.
"We encourage students to seek
out career-related experience,"
Carolina Camp adviser Viki Sox
said. "Carolina Camp will be a
launching ground for future involvement
as we explore the leadership,
social, resource and faculty
components of the university
experience."
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and 23 percent of science and
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By GREG RICKABAUGH
Carolina! Editor
USC alumnus Chris Knetsche is
one of the nine best bikers in the
state. Thanks to him, though, the
other eight are part of his team.
Knetsche rounded up the best
bikers in the state and has been
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Cycle Center to get sponsorship
for the team.
"Those nine guys will win at
least two or three state championships,"
Knetsche said.
The Cycling Team, made up of
a majority of USC students, races
all over the Southeast, bringing
home top finishes almost every
time.
Buser, who is team president,
said the bikers' team status makes
it is easier for them to get
sponsors.
"What this team has enabled me
to do is go out with a resume and
get them some sponsorships,"
Buser said.
But the main thing Buser is
thinking about is the big Columbia
race planned for October of this
year.
"It's great for Columbia, be
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sistant professor of USC's Jazz Stu- growing
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Bank Big Band, divided Holman's Tonight
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The concert was a combined per- clarineti;
formance of USC's Left Bank for the i
Group Combo, directed by Ligon, 20-meml
and the Left Bank Jazz Ensemble. phones,
Holman, 64, said he usually mmm
doesn't work with college groups,
but he's impressed with how proficient
they are on their instruments.
"However, I think they're a little
weaker on the conception end of
jazz, but I think that has a lot to do \
with the fact that jazz isn't Top
40' music anymore and they might
mp prepares
college life
lared majors. Carolina Camp seeks
to help lower these rates by helping
students make wise choices.
The Career Center has selected
nine diverse counselors for the
camp, and they have completed
four sessions of training.
"A counselor is basically an RA,
a friend, an educator and an example,"
counselor John Arnold said.
"We have studied the Carolina
Creed, planned our teachings,
learned how to administrate career
tests and generated ideas to make
the experience fun."
Counselors have donated their
time to make the transition to the
university easier for others. Arnold
said, "I enjoyed my experience at
Carolina Camp, and I hope to
show new students the possibilities
available."
Students went through two
rounds of interviews to be selected
for a counselor position. Judging
from the large number of applications
the Career Center received,
the camp staff positions are attaining
much popularity.
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Camp staff has been to not overlap
with the programs of Preview
Week, orientation and University
"We try to take the freshmen to
places to which they would not
normally have a chance to go,"
Prosser said.
Camp participants will have a
tour and eat lunch at the football m
stadium, and Athletic Director
King Dixon will speak about spirit
and the responsibilities of athletes.
Also planned for the camp schedule
are a dance, a luncheon with
a faculty forum and a leadership
session.
Carolina Camp provides a support
network of friends in a re- H
laxed atmosphere. Students from
out of state gain lasting friendships
to smooth the transition to college
life. "I'm now best friends with a
person I met at camp," Prosser
said.
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ist in state I
cause Columbia doesn't have
another race," he said.
The race is called "The Children's
Hospital of Richland Memorial
Criterium," and is expected to
have a $10,000 purse. The hospital
sponsors the team because the
members often give safety seminars
at the hospital. In addition,
the team promotes health and gives
seminars to businesses, schools
and other hospitals around
Columbia.
The site for the race has not
been decided, but Buser said he
expects more than 200 riders to
participate.
The Cycling Team started competition
last week as the racing
season opened. They plan to compete
in about 50 races throughout
the summer.
The team is known for placing
in the top positions in most of the H
races it enters. In fact, Knetsche
said the team has a resume three
pages long and growing.
Besides Knetsche, the team includes
Bill Dominici, Rob Reed,
Jeff Corbett, Jason Selong, Andre
Mesa, Tom Falter, Spencer Leuders
and Allen Pritchard. ^
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up with a title for a jazz com- I
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think of them," he said.
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Left Bank Jazz Ensemble
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