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By JENNIFER FULLER
Carolina! Editor
International Programs for
Students is holding its International
Festival today.
This semester's celebration will
feature local reggae band
Judgenot. There will also be international
.displays and performances.
"Around the World in a Day" is
the theme for this International
Festival. IPS graduate assistant
Mactaru Kabba said this semester's
USC studei
By HOLLY LIBOFF
Staff Writer
USC's annual art auction will be
held at 8 p.m. in the Capstone
Campus Room.
Auction coordinator Boyd
Saunders said this is the 38th year
the auction has been held. "It's a
wonderful tradition," he said.
There will be a variety of works
produced by emerging students and
established faculty artists.
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a.m. to 3 p.m. on Greene Street. Accc
Judgenot will kick off the festival, tant
and the USC Steel Drums Band samp
will perform later. Also planned for ally
the day is a table tennis challenge $2.5(
and a Colombian dance perfor- Tc
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One of the festival's biggest Colo
attractions is the food, which is p.m.
its, faculty au
Sculpture, paintings, watercolor^, artist
prints and ceramics will be auc- each
tioned off to the highest bidder. he Sc
Saunders, an art professor, said Ai
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rding to IPS graduate assis- cultures. "There are a lc
Mactara Kabba, the price for dents here from other ci
ding international goods usu- he said. "It (International
ranges from 50 cents to gives home students a c
3. see how other people
night at 7:30 there will be a dress."
imentary on modern-day In case of rain, the fe:
mbia. It will be followed at 8 take place in the Russe
by the movie "Mississippi Ballroom.
ction creative wor
s and their work. "They meet ty. At the party, people
other and have a good time," the art being auctione
iid. refreshments will be sei
jctioneers will be local attor- the musical group Render
Jim Guignard, MacArthur play.
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ducation, WSCQ radio person- there from 1-8 p.m. to
Gene McKay, art department auction is sponsored by
rman John O'Neil and department. The proceed*
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ns, there will be a preview par- fund.
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From The Associated Press
Three people who work
White House were bom in a
I called Hope: the presiden
chief of staff and 19-year-old
Griffin is the youngest of
young White House staff, in
dozens of people are 20-somi
and people in their 40s at
seem like elder statesmen.
In the months since Pre
Clinton took office, the fresh
new crew has stirred up it
roundings, from its fashion se
its sense of humor. The youn
ill sport bright, cartoon-like tit
H women wear short skirts, an<
way conversations are co
dorm intimate ? full of nick
H and inside jokes.
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Hr Secretary Lorraine Voles, 6
" pie in the White House si
about 450 are 24 and under
** the 46-year-old presider
Wmm I noticed.
"I've got a Cabinet that
like America and a staff thai
like a Head Start program," (
quipped at the annual Gridirc
ner, after Republican Sen
File Photo Dole said of the White Housi
Chinese "Chelsea's got to have some
play with."
In the lower press o
wn in the where Griffin works, the ?
Business phere sometimes verges o
dy. Staffers use the press
important ation's public address s
give stu- not just for official annt
different ments but to ham it up a
)t of stu- each other publicly,
auntries," "Chad just got a new h?
Festival) was one recent proclam
:hance to "Jeremy's got a very imj
eat and lunch date," was another.
But the earnestness of the
>tival will staff runs deep, too.
:11 House "We were all in awe wl
first got there, and we still a
way," says 24-year-old
1 McKiernan, a press assistai
had never even laid eyes
White House before it beca
new office on Inauguration I
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? lem keeping up with their
ived, and holic big boss, and they neve
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place really nice," said Voles. "They
t, the work really hard and they're very
I Chad productive, but they're also fun ?
which is important when you work
a very *be kind of hours we work."
which Most of the young workers who
sthins, now flash their passes at the White
times House gates eacn morning put tneir
lives on hold months ago to join
sident the Clinton campaign,
i-faced Jeremy Gaines, a 22-year-old
s sur- fr?m Los Angeles, sneaked onto a
mse to press charter plane headed for
g men Little Rock, Ark., hoping there
is, the would be a job for him when he
d hall- got there.
liege- McKiernan, of Framingham,
names Mass., left her job as a reporter,
arrived in Arkansas suitcases in
Press hand, and went straight to Clinton
3 peo- headquarters, where she was
aff of answering phones within minutes.
. Even Griffin put in countless hours as
it has a volunteer in Litde Rock last summer,
and then dropped out of
looks Ouachita Baptist University in
t looks Arkadelphia, Ark., where he grew
Clinton UP> to follow the president to
>n din- Washington.
i Bob The friendships between staffers
e staff: are strong, Gaines said. "It's like
:one to we were aH freshman the same
minute. We've been through a lot
ffice, together," he said,
itmos- They speak of the president with
n gj(j. something like reverence, and cher0per
ish the memories of the times
ystem they've made eye contact.
)unce- "It was about three weeks ago
nd rib and I saw him in the hall and I said
... "Good morning, Governor,"'
lircut," Griffin said in his gentle Southern
lation. twang. "Then I realized what I had
lortant said and I corrected myself. He
didn't take offense, I think."
young Many of the fresh-out-of-school
young aides work in press and
len we communications. They put in long
ire in a hours and do a lot of grunt work ?
Kathy from answering phones to checking
it who facts to making copies of press
thp releases. The pay is in the low- to
one her mid-$20,000s.
>ay Clinton doesn't know many of
3 prob- the young aides personally, not
worka- even Griffin. But that doesn't mat5r
com- ler> Griffin said. Just being near the
president, and a small part of histonse
of fy>is enough.
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