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chairwoman of the Southeaster
will present "Double Jeopardy:
Sexism in the 90s."
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concludes Saturday. The sororit;
presented by Carolina Styles ant
House 332. The show will feati
as image consulting.
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Street for the Multiple Sclerosi:
present a Greek Family Feud al
will be a Blockfest on Greene S
and the week will end with a Sal
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Bash at the Township Auditor
event, produced by BWI/Brian
tures music by AC/DC, Guns
Scorpions, Ozzy Osborne, Def L
The Headbanger's Bash feati
and a bank of computers and la
jects full-color laser images on
lasers shoot beams out over die
tal mirrors throughout the room
Fog jets, mirror balls, mirror c
complete the effect.
Tickets are $10.50 in advanc
and are on sale at the box office
D glasses are available at all sho
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By KRIS HOFFMAN
Staff Writer
Students for Choice is an organization
that wants to be an oudet
for students who want to protect
women's reproductive freedom.
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because we were frustrated and
scared. We felt reproductive rights
of women were being taken away
right under our noses," said Linda
Brown, public health graduate stui
dent. Brown is the president and
co-founder of Students for Choice.
The organization has developed
into a campus activism group.
"The university atmosphere is
conducive to learning about the
issues," Brown said. "Students
can often be louder than other
groups."
International studies junior
Kerry Reese said, "The thing that
impresses me most (about
Students for Choice) is it gives an
academic atmosphere about what
they can do. Students for Choice
provides legal and academic
access to legislation."
Students for Choice has devel
opeu as a icmjuicc icuici iui legislative
monitoring. The national
Freedom of Choice Act wanted by
pro-choice groups would prohibit
the restriction of women to choose
abortion. Students for Choice supports
this legislation.
The S.C. Women's Right to
Know bill would require a woman
to be presented with abortionalternative
materials 24 hours
before her abortion. Although she
wouldn't have to read the material,
she would have to wait the 24hour
period before undergoing the
procedure.
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s Foundation, and Thursday it will
7 p.m. in the Golden Spur. There
treet from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday,
turday party at Secrets.
.5 presents the Laser Headbanger's
ium Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. The
Winthrop International, Ltd., fea&
Roses, Metallica, Van Halen,
eppard, Queensryche and more,
jres two high-power laser systems
ser projectors. While one laser proa
500-square-foot screen, the other
audience. The beams then hit crysto
form a 3-D spider web of lasers,
ans and custom computer graphics
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and all ticket outlets. Diffraction 3ws
for full laser effect.
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by pro-life groups, and the S.C. Pre
by pro-choice groups.
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made available to seeks abortion
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waiting period is in effect.
According to Brown, it has been
shown that "anti-choice" groups
will follow the women from a
clinic to change their minds.
"This bill is coercive in nature
because it postpones the choice,"
Brown said. "Anything that causes
a barrier to access will lower the
number of abortions, and this is
all the anti-choice groups care
about."
Students for Choice supports
the S.C. Pregnancy Information
Act, which would also give information
to women, but at the time
pregnancy is diagnosed, not after
the decision to abort has already
been made, Brown said.
"This is a viable alternative,"
Brown said. "It will make information
available to more people at
an earlier time."
Members of Students for
Choice attend legislative hearings
and conduct letter-writing campaigns.
"It is vitally important that all
pro-choice students act now,"
Brown said. "Complacency is a
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By JACK DUNN
News Editor
After months of speculation that
something big was coming to
Williams-Brice Stadium, Cellar
Door promoters announced Paul
McCartney will bring his world
tour to Columbia and the stadium
Friday, May 7.
Wilson Howard, president of
Cellar Door of the Carolinas,
announced the event in the
Letterman's Lounge of WilliamsBrice
in a press conference
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dangerous thing, and students
must make a stand. Doing nothing
is the same as advocating taking
away women's rights."
Both men and women are
involved in the cause for reproductive
rights. "The reason I got
involved is because the basic,
most fundamental right is that of
choice," said English senior Brad
Brannon. "No one in Students for
Choice is pro-abortion, but they
believe in the right to choose, to
have options."
Students for Choice holds abortion
clinic defense training to protect
the clinics from pro-life
blockading. According to Brown,
tne local uperation Rescue is
becoming aggressive. A man
chained himself to a clinic door
and someone put pictures of
aborted fetuses inside pamphlets
in a local clinic, she said.
Brown asks that students
become more involved and write
to their legislators. "The parental
consent and 24-hour waiting period
may be a hurdle to some, but it
is a brick wall to others," she said.
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Wednesday. He explained how
Columbia got the newest tour date.
"About six to eight months ago
they started planning a stadium
tour," Howard said. "We saw there
were holes in the Southern tour,
and we simply made them aware of
that."
Howard said he made
McCartney's management aware of
Columbia's ability to put on stadium
shows.
Tickets are $32.50 and go on
sale Saturday, March 27. Howard
said the high cost was because of
' SteelMagnol
By STEPHEN BROWN
Staff Writer
The touring Broadway company
or the play Meet Magnolias will
perform 7:30 Tuesday at the Koger
Center.
Robert Hailing's play is an ode
to small towns, good times and
lasting friendships. It has become
one of die favorite stories of the
South, full of ensemble characters
with electric performances.
Set in Trudy's Beauty Parlor in a
small Louisiana town, the play
depicts women who seem quirky
on the outside, but their "steel"tough
abilities to survive any challenge
and to support each other
through times of laughter and
hagedy provide compelling material
for this very popular piece of
entertainment.
Much of the humorous dialogue
comes from the women's gossip,
one of their greatest talents.
One of the characters explains,
using Alice Roosevelt's immortal
line, "If you have something bad to
say about somebody ... sit down
right here beside me!"
Like other comedy/dramas with
similar appeal, such as "Terms of
Endearment" and "Fried Green
lomatoes, the one-liners provide
outrageous humor, but the story
never misses a beat.
Director Cuit Wollan called it "a
locker room play for women."
"The play's beauty parlor is a
place where the women can stretch
out and tell things to each other
they wouldn't tell anyone else,"
Wollan said. "It is certainly a testimony
to strong women everywhere."
Wollan enjoyed directing this
version of the play because it is a
slice of life with actresses who are
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May 7. Tickets go on sale Satur
the show's size.
"It's a big production ? one ol
the biggest ever," he said. "It's no!
like it's $25 in Atlanta and $32 in
Columbia. It's the same in ajl
cities."
Representatives from local media
and city government, who will help
sponsor the event, were on hand tc
give their expectations of the business
this event will bring tc
Columbia. They expect an attendance
of 40,000 to 45,000.
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"Over half of these women are
housewives, mothers or grandmothers
themselves and are content witf
traveling and telling their story," he
said. "It has a very calming effect
on stage to see such realistic por
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[ "It takes a lot of effort to put on
a production like this," McKinney '
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"We usually have to draw skilled
> steel workers from all over the
state, and they can only work for a
few hours at a time in the heat,"
[ she said. "It's quite an ordeal."
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