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Takin'it
Students get i
By CHRIS MULDROW
Staff Writer
Over 100 USC students 1
"Into the Streets" Saturday to
service to Columbia groups.
'"Into the Streets' is a comn
ty service initiative," program <
dinator Kim Lovelace said,
part of a national program."
Lovelace said teams of USC
dents went to 11 sites arc
Columbia to work for groups
help the community.
"The name of the prograi
actually more symbolic than 1
we're actually doing," Love
said. "The idea is for students t
out in the community, to worl
social issues and social change,
believe that by doing service
can initiate that social change."
"The program gives studen
chance to leave their environr
and establish partnerships and i
tionships between corporate
community leaders and cam
leaders," Lovelace said.
"It was nice to leave campus
get out into the Columbia com
nity," freshman Julye Johns s
"It felt really good to give
myself even if it was only for
day."
Lovelace said many diffe:
campus groups join in a plani
coalition to prepare the sen
activities.
"We have faculty representa
Recovering
By SUE BUSH
Staff Writer
Four women shared their f
hopes and experiences of ale
abuse during an Alcohc
Anonymous panel this
Wednesday at Wade Hampton
dence hall.
Elizabeth, the first spea
belonged to a family where di
ing was acceptable. She be
drinking when she went awa
college, and soon alcohol becai
major part of her life.
During her freshman y
Elizabeth gained 100 poui
When spotted bruises begai
appear on her legs, her mother
her to see a doctor.
Althonoh Fli7ahpth HiHn't ri
for 18 hours before her appoi
ment, the alcohol level in her bl
was so high that the doctor o
have pronounced her legally det
The doctor told Elizabeth th;
she continued to drink, she w<
die before she was 30 years
Elizabeth kept drinking until
was 21. Her friend took her tc
AA meeting, but she drank for :
more years until she ended up
mental hospital.
Elizabeth was in the hospital
two weeks because she had ho
cidal tendencies. She begar
change her life in the hospital.
The second recovery spez
was Sparkle, who took her 1
DRES
to thestreet
nto Volunteer Spirit
along with honor societies, minori
ty groups, programming groups and
ivent political groups," Lovelace said,
give "That gives a bunch of different
people, ideas and voices to plan the
luni- project. That insures that we cover
;oor- aN the different issues and angles."
"It's Lovelace said groups will work
in diverse areas of service, coverstu
problems like homelessness,
,un(l hunger, domestic violence and the
that elderly.
"We had a group working with
n is the Council on Aging," Lovelace
what said. "They winterized an elderly
iace man's home, so he doesn't have to
o be move into a nursing home."
c on "I was a team leader with Sister
We Care, a shelter for battered women
we and their children," said senior
Faith Lawrence. "Our team helped
ts a with yard work around the shelter."
nent "We painted a room for the
rela- Logan School, an adult literacy
and school,"said Johns,
ipus Lovelace said the program's goal
is to show students that service is
and an option for social change,
mu- "'Into the Streets' gives people a
aid. sneak preview of what service is
i ot like," said Lawrence. "It gets peoone
pie over the first step and lets them
see other people get involved, so
rent they make a commitment to serling
vice."
/ice "I really want to get involved in
community service all year long,"
tion Johns said.
I alcoholics share
drink at age 13. She came from a
Southern Baptist family and was in
ears, her church's youth group,
ohol "I felt pretty when I drank," she
>lics said. "I felt that I could do anypast
thing." Sparkle was in an accident
resi- when she was 16 years old and
vowed never to drink again. But
ker four years later she began to drink
rink- heavily again. By this time,
'gan ___
y to
J tern # - . -
ne a i Ten pretty wnen I
ear drank; I felt that I
nds! could do anything."
1 to
sent -Sparkle
rink
nm- Sparkle could out-drink her older
lood brothers.
Duld Sparkle's family and friends sugid.
gested she attend an AA meeting,
at if and she decided to go. There she
3uld discovered alcoholism was a dis0ld.
ease and realized she had to take
she one day at a time.
) ^ Patti, another speaker, couldn't
four express the problems she was hav- i
in a *n8 at home so she suppressed i
them with alcohol.
for At age 13 she had blackouts and
mo_ couldn't function without drinking. ]
i to When she was 17 she joined the I
Army, but her drinking problem ]
deer continued. <
first She was on a softball team while l
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Japanese anj
By SEAN MCGUINNESS U
Staff Writer
Japanese cartoon animation is an w
art form beginning to catch on in 111
America with a furious passion. ^
Japanese animation, or "japanimation"
or "animee'," (an-uh- tc
MAY) is so woven into Japan's cul
ture that entire schools are designed
to teach aspiring artists how to draw
in the japanimation style.
The japanimation is an actionpacked,
slapstick and sometimes
spicy viewing pleasure enjoyed by
millions of Americans everyday.
Animee's start out as a comic
book, or "manga." Some of the
more popular authors include
Rumiko Takahashi, Johji Manabe
and Masamune Shirow.
Mangas are books several times
thicker than American comics, and
Japanese consider them literature.
"The animation flows with no
catches, and the words follow the
mouths," Tillman Smoot said.
Smoot is an employee of the
Knox Abbott location of Silver
City comic book shop and an avid
japanimation collector. He said animee'
is the wave of the future and
will continue to flood the U.S. market.
Japanimation, however, is not
just for kids. The cartoons are
shown during Japan's prime time,
around 8 p.m., when adults watch,
and things tend to get a little spicy.
Japanese obscenity laws are different
from American laws. The J a
rules for sex on live action shows fa
are "anything goes," but penetra- in
^ experiences
in the Army, and the sargeant
would promise the winning team a
keg of beer. Patti never got caught
for being an alcoholic because she
knew when the blood tests were
going to happen.
Patti began to use drugs as well.
She began to have health problems,
like bladder infections. Four years
ago, when Patti was lying on her
bed after throwing up, she decided
to become healthy again.
Anita, the last speaker, began
drinking when she was 14. Anita
thought drugs and alcohol were the
cure to her problems. She felt bet- /
ter when she drank.
Alcohol was Anita's best friend.
Soon her friends didn't want to be
around her. She knew she was an
alcoholic, but she didn't want to
stop drinking.
Anita's parents sent her to an
alcohol rehabilitation center in
Hazeltown, Minn. When she
returned home she joined AA and
stayed sober for four months.
Anita tell into tier old habits
while participating in AA. It wasn't
until she was in a car accident and
taken to jail that she decided to
stop drinking.
These four women shared their
lives with others to prevent them
from making the same mistakes.
Elizabeth, Sparkle, Patti and Anita
liscovered that life was much better
without alcohol.
;oess
snts withP
sent a valid J|||
lina!
imation becoming A
on is not allowed. can show full frontal nudit
For animee's, there are no rules the prime time slots, bui
hatsoever, but some animators show said viewers should not be,
lore discretion than others, some- aged by it.
nes pixelizing the "sensitive shots." Animee's shipped to i
As a result of these laws, car- are usually subtitled or
>ons like "Ramna Nibunnoichi" over so the English-speakir
i lation can enjoy the dialogu
/my j f)\ Subtitling involves p
translations at the bottom
I ') . (/ screen, while dubbing ha:
^1 1= speaking the character's
/MvL "Dubbing can kill a ci
IrvlL^Si^' Cecil Davis said. "The
V writer handpicks the acti
/ = actresses for the cartoon t(
i' how each person feels the
\/\y ' ( ters should sound."
^ \ L? Davis is president
( x&" Japanimation Club, a gi
) AWE" friends who make a hobb>
( Zex? )\ \ f/XT collecting animee's. If the
\ \ /J are not right, he said, it c;
\ \ yM the death of the cartoon.
^ \ |( fiT/ "I prefer subtitles," Smc
V jj h ' "Dubbing has poor voices
P/C (? f /ivMf C-- dont match characters,
? T actors seem like they're re
FMpv. script?real monotone."
0 1 According to Davis, a
^ tifty pr knowledge of the Japane
guage aids watching a vide
out subtitles or overdubs, t
J "On the whole, the pi
J pretty simple," Davis said.
J "For Americans, the stor
**?happy, a crisis develops <
ipanimation often features solved by the program's
cial exaggerations, as shown Davis said. "But in Japan, tf
l this scene from "Lum." starts with a previous pr
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Animee's often run the series
\merica finale without wrapping up the
dubbed final conflicts and problems, Davis
ig popu- said.
e. The most popular japanimation
irinting is "Lum," known in Japan as
t of the "Urusei Yatsura," which ran over
s actors 218 episodes, seven movies and
lines in countless mangas, Davis said.
The only animee' coming close
irtoon," was "Ramna Nibunnoichi" and its
manga series sequel "Ramna Nettohen."
ors and "Ramna" closed with 180 episodes,
3 match one movie and another on the way,
charac- and a score of comic bodes, Davis
said.
of the For the beginning animee' coloup
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r out of the japanimation section of
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said, tions as a cheap way to get videos.
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and the looking for japanimation are out of
ading a luck unless they have friends with
connections to the market. Cities
neanny nice Dallas ana san Francisco are
se lan- known hot spots for video trading
o with- and selling.
>ut it is Both Smoot and Davis suggest
"Bubblegum Crisis," "Ramna,"
ots are "Lum" and "Outlanders" for beginning
collectors,
y starts "I could go on for days talking
ind get about japanimation!" Davis said.
: end," "It's a whole culture concept; they
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