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Unique Ballet Comes To Koger Center: Ballet Chicago will amuse, frighten, delight and entertain audiences at the Koger Center Saturday. The ballet was founded in Chicago in 1987 and has received outstanding reviews both at home and on tour. Ballet Chicago has assembled a diverse repertoire of 40 classical and contemporary ballets. The performance will feature "By Django," an original work with a jazzy score and a "Great Gatsby" t-v 55 _ _i i_ i h : i Mendelssohn were actually the work of his sister Fanny. There has been a recent surge of interest in women composers of the past, said John Adams, a music school professor who will perform two Clara Schumann piano compositions. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. It will also include brief biographical introductions and slides on each composer. I vAjriuivj Jwn ivn niLnim. I rmmn caam ta a tucatdtj reel, along wun square uance, a classic piece uy rcussiaii-uuui American choreographer George Balanchine. The ballet will also perform "A Hairy Night on Bald Mountain," a campy spoof of the movie "Night of the Living Dead." The performance begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 and4$ll for adults, $10 for students and $5 for children and are available at the Coliseum box office. To charge by phone, call 777-7228. McKissick To Sponsor Southern Film Series: A free film series on Southern life and culture will be shown at McKissick Museum starting Feb. 21 and running through April 18. The series will feature recent popular films as well as established classics. "Fried Green Tomatoes" kicks off the series on Feb. 21. Academy-Award winners Jessica Tandy and Kathy Bates star with Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary Louise Parker and Cicely Tyson in this tale of family, friendship and murder in rural Alabama. "To Kill A Mockingbird" will be featured March 7. Gregory Peck stars in the account of a child's reaction to an adult world when her father defends a black man accused of rape in the Depression-era South. "The Color Purple," starring Whoopi Goldberg in the drama about the struggles of one black family in the rural South, will be presented March 28. "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Daughters of the Dust" will be showing in April. In "Streetcar," Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh star in the screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about a southern gentlewoman who cannot accept the realities of poverty and almost destroys herself and her family trying to recapture her past. "Daughters of the Dust" explores the changing structure of a Lowcountry family on the verge of moving to the South Carolina moinlonH 1I1CU111UI1U. USC Music Professors Present Works By Female Composers: Six music faculty members at USC are joining forces to present works by Robert Schumann's wife and Felix Mendelssohn's sister. The concert, 'Two Kindred Spirits," will feature piano and choral arrangements by Clara Schumann (18191896) and Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) Feb. 23 in Gambrell Hall auditorium. According to Laury Christie, a music school professor and soprano vocalist who will perform in the program, the two women composed music that was often mistaken for that of their more famous Hn Rpcparrh has ?hnwn that some scores credited to Felix Rain reca i > I T* * | CHRIS ' 1 M U L D R O W I All the rain that's been, well, J raining down on Columbia lately has stirred memories of some of , the most interesting and educational times I've had. You see, I was a j Boy Scout, and drenching, pouring, droning, soaking, flooding rain was ^ the one constant we could expect ( on a camping trip. In fact, with the rain and other factors that usually afflicted our troop's camping trips, I'm sur- j prised I survived to see my high j school graduation. I'm convinced that some ancient curse took hold of the world every time I pulled out the old American Camper J dome tent and frame backpack to hit the outdoors for a weekend. The rain was the first indication < jiigig IB BP I yff A JBHBA SUbB iNEARYOul ills camp he curse of the woods was attackng. Camping in the rain makes ^ou discover a whole lot of things ibout the world that you'd rather tot know. For instance, I learned that tent loors are not actually fully waterproof. All tent manufacturers purposefully leave the waterproofing pff one small corner of the tent loor. This corner is strategically ocated so you will always place it n the direct line of the most ntense rain runoff in the whole ;ampsite. The corner is also carefully rained to tell the water to wait for /ou to go to sleep before it starts eaking, so you will drift off to deep thinking, "What a sturdy, .veil-designed portable home this ent is," and wake up the next norning thinking, "Did I accidenally set up my tent in the lake last light?" I started strapping into a lifejacket before I went to bed to teep from drowning overnight. The second part of the curse of the woods was a clever plot by >ome clan of deceitful forest elves to sabotage every bit of food we attempted to cook. On the scale of sating enjoyment, Boy Scout cook f *" f to all th< for tl coi resit Universil m^The ?? * i?* tulVo +- *- /-v t*? ** W w vu Still not f4j With Vis; places, nec ing horro ing rates slightly below wet paper towels and slightly above McDonald's Chicken McNuggets. We could never get any of the cooking to work right. Eggs ran all over the plate. Sausage ended up looking like small pieces of burned cedar. 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Some couldn't figure out how to set up a tent correctly, so the rain would come and knock their tent down, forcing them to move in with me (of course, that gave me seooseoooooooooooo Two thui e Resident ^ leir outstan Attributions i:cA iviivv iiAv ai* ty of South 1 National Residence Ha < ^ : " : . ? m r*1r\?kr> ?rn?i|r <" <ar? ? m> A * J ? w %?*.m Qjpbed L,ut your ; * *f * *' f i?| , v "!i m--4 , ITj 2 K7H mmmM | ^wmm , i? you'll be accepted at more thar trfy three times more than Ameri< And that's not a misprint. Visa. It's Everywhere You Want To B r stories extra hands to bail out the tent at night while I slept). The worst part of the camping curse came when we got home. The entire troop had to stick around the church where we met until all the gear was unpacked, cleaned and put away. We also had to make sure the bus was clean, a job usually reserved for the Scout who pulled the most criminally stupid stunt of the weekend. n s not pieasant trying to scrape two-day-old egg debris off the bottom of a metal cooking kit as you're waiting for the world's most stupid Scout to sweep all the accumulated dust off an ancient bus that probably grew dust particles as a hobby. We usually hung around that church at least three hours after each trip, excavating cooking gook off dishes and watching our Mr. Intelligence Of The Month try to figure out which end of the broom removes dust the quickest. Yep, Boy Scout camping was horrible. But you know, the weather has been clearing up...and I've got a new recipe for some Dutch oven cooking...and I just bought a cool new lighter and some matches...wanna go camping with me? tnbs up! i Ldvisors ding to the Carolina : ill Honorary I Hp as nap t 1 1 # - * 'I > ^Wflpj' %%$&' ]'<' v|| ; i Wl- ',1 I 3 - :!W - *< |i '? "> '- - ?& S fJ -' ? 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