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Discussing multicultur "W js 1* Julia Hare, a clinical psychologist 1 turalism Wednesday night in the R AAAS sponsors s By JENNIFER FULLER wi Assistant Carolina! Editor An The Association of African- an< American Students is sponsoring the second annual Blockfest today ^ from noon until 5 p.m. on Greene p? Street. Na Blockfest was created to share gn and express African culture, AAAS or, President Brian Black said. Nu Blockfest features 23 booths by campus organizations and African fur goods merchants. Entertainment pai THE GAMECOCK Stu is printed, in part, on Do your part and take you\ est recycling drop-off locati point is the white dumpste near the corner of Blossom. |rt|RBn| fi H K1CB& alism Jf) m ~ ^ ^ ^ H * ? j2?? ' ? J/Kk Lea Clayton/The :rom San Fransisco, spoke to a crowd of 200 about r ussell House. lecond annual Blockfest 11 be provided by African- neighboring colleges, aerican singing groups, artists The African mei 1 a storyteller. Blockfest come not onl Student organizations repre- to explain the cultural ited at Blockfest include the of their goods. Black ^.ACP, Minority Assistance students are interested er Program, Umoja, the culture and attire, sue itional Society of Black cloth, but many do not gineers, the black Greek-letter their meanings, ganizations and the Black Black, a business rses Association. senior, said the suco Benedict College will have a year's Blockfest help id-raising booth at Blockfest as Friday's program. Last; t of AAAS efforts to work with attracted over 600 peopl dent Newspaper recycled paper, pf r paper to the near:o/i. USC's Drop-off *' ' hp ' ppmMU lL....s ^HHH U2 I Continued from Page 4 renegade technopop of current times. In doing so, the band has | added new twists to all its songs, ? especially utilizing guitarist The Edge's technical wizardry and imagination to bring a brazen quality to the music. Bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen almost drowned out Bono's vocals at times with their high-voltage million-watt sound system. The stage took over 40 hours to assemble, and the buzz about the concert was the modern day version of the circus coming to town. At one point in the show, Bono || ^1||| made a live telephone call to the White House but received a busy i signal in each of his two attempts. ? In reference to the 1992 election,* Li Bono said, "I hope you find what you're looking for." g| The definitive mark of irony about the state of the world was offered by images of George Bush i Gamecock on screen programmed to sing nulticul- "We will, we will rock you." tsono s lyrics, "You miss too 1 much these days/If you stop to - think" allowed the audience to ' tOCl3,V understand U2's apparent disilluJ sionment with government and the media. chants at Despite the multimedia spectacle y to sell but ?*" ^2's son*c camival, occasional significance references to their roots were said many apparent. Larry Mullen's solo of in African Irish sone "Dirty Old h as Kente Town," delivered in his thick understand native accent, seemed almost an anachronism but was nevertheless education effective in the synthesis of the old ess of last new ^2. . . . . 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