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STRIPI ?: f/O / "" USC students by working at ( By SEAN MCGUINNESS s; Staff Writer h ^ She could be a singer in the e ^ local choir, the girl next door or a ^ customer next to you in line at the neighborhood grocery store. ^ She also has a job with a contro- ^ versial reputation in the Bible-Belt. The job is exotic dancing, com- ? monly called stripping, and it financially helps several young ^ women attend USC. "I can work three nights a week h and pay all the bills and tuition and a have time to study ... I make good grades," Ginger said. (To protect P the identities of the dancers cited in this story, their real names are 1 not used.) Both Ginger and another dancer, h Roxanne, work at Columbia's d' Chippendolls, a strip bar on a: Rosewood Drive. Chippendolls ai employs about 30 dancers, about six of whom attend USC. R Both students said exotic danc- n ing helps pay for their tuition f? because they could not afford * school if they had "regular" jobs. ir "My parents couldn't afford college, and I didn't want to spend the 12 rest of my life paying off a student m loan," Roxanne said. "Working at si Chippendolls pays my way through re college." Ginger said another s? Chippendolls dancer has been tc accepted to the USC law program. C Chippendolls owner Roy Beck st Walkfest The Amer Ua Saturday No | tO DG held Walkers c for diabetes pledges for d treatment n iS,athffou n Some diabetes _ patients take insulin \ [ I?T injections / W \l?4 t0 regulate ' : \kjlj the disease. C~ xZ) T < li iir UNDERGRA^^TES! Make a $1000 Difference . for Someone Who Made a " Difference For You Nominate Your Favorite Academic Faculty Advisor for the ADA B. THOMAS OUTSTANDING FACULTY ADVISOR I AWARD Nomination forms available at: ? Your College Dean's Office ? Student Government Office ? Russell House Info Desk ? Division of Student Affairs Deadline is Thursday, Dec. 10. Sponsored by The Office of ^ the President & The Student Alumni Association ( V PING I^N VJ defray costs Zhippendolls aid the dancers are protected from arm by bouncers and are also scorted to their cars to protect lem from strangers after the show. "I feel safer at Chippendolls tian I do at any bar in Five 'oints," Ginger said. "The bouncers offer protection," Seek said. "Customers can't touch le dancers. They get thrown out if ley do." Roxanne and Ginger said they aven't received much negative ttention because of their job. "I get recognized at the strangest laces," Roxanne said. "I don't "el like I'm treated differently, m treated positively." Ginger said, "I've met girls who ave the opinion that stripping is egrading, but you can't formulate 11 opinion until you go in there iid watch what happens." ( "It's safe, adult entertainment," , oxanne said. "The type of crowd inges from college students to unous politicans." Student opinions at USC are lixed. "I have no problems with people iking their clothes off for money," tedia arts major Adam Learner iid. "I can't really get behind the :actionary Puritan movement." Art studio major Wayne Burrows , iid, "I have no personal objections ) it, but irf the majority of , olumbia residents object, then the ] rip bars should be shut down. This ican Diabetes Association Walki v. 14 at the South Carolina State >n the 16 kilometer and 8 kilom liabetes prevention and treatment ; a disease characterized by high rth leading cause of death by d M Special ||| urine test li strips help diabetics \fTj\_^ monitor q^J~" their blood I / sugar level. PARK ONE< UNDER* sis f TIC K / LAY-AWAY NOW FC ST. ANDREWS RD. CYCLE a RUSH'S CENTER | 3 o a CO T20 2719 Broad River Rd. 6 Sales & Service 798-7799 (C I Wi l r. k B,.-?rlr< orpomlion larolina! iieel - JPlr ^^pppP^ ii J /> -i jil One of the exotic dancers at Chipp of her act. USC students have vary is America. The majority rules." 1 Many female students said they t believed stripping to be immoral. i "I think it's diseustine and _ G f-J pathetic; their self-image must be < so bad," one student, who did not i want to be identified, said. s "It's not much different from t prostitution," another student, who also did not want to be identified, i said. ( Roxanne said she feels exotic dancers are stereotyped and i believes stripping is not "sleazy." "If they (the critics) don't want \ "est will begin at 10:00 a.m. Museum. leter courses will be raising levels of sugar in the blood, isease in the United States. Following a f prescribed diet is an important part of diabetes treatment. Chris Muldrow The Gamecock OF THESE i TREE. 19m' ' /, )R CHRISTMAS! rREKusA ?1 ?? HHi,. M campus .cjSt. w I / harden q TWcycle" i "center 16 Harden Street (5 Pts) Sales 256-0557 Service 256-0804 orner of Blossom & Harden) Ken I s I A rxeiiy uuiiii^uii/ i lie vjdiiieouurs. endolls demonstrates a portion ing opinions about stripping. :o do this, then they don't have o," she said. "They're putting their norals on us." Despite some negative reactions md the closings of some strip bars n Columbia, the exotic dancers >aid they love and take pride in heir work. "I like being in contact with and elating to so many people," jinger said. "It's not degrading, it's not pornographic at all," Roxanne said. 'I'm getting paid to do this, I'm profiting from this. Hm W ws&smi1 ": %^f"l? r* i The Q use 1 Tuesday, \ Novembe Many new styles "BIG BUCKS" Stop by the Display ai use BOOKSTORE RUSSELL HOUSE 11 mn a WiL r>IH? Jff9 ^ m r^| ioK . JJP "WM m P - y JB^ft W Bl ^S^Effrs H^ZJh - .* HjKL " ? Kelly Johnson/The Gamecock group of Chippendolls' dancers smiles for the camera. 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