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WHAT'SUF Guide to Arts AUDITIONS Palmetto Mastersingers is holding auditions for male singers for the 1994-95 concert season. Contact Donald Gray at 777-298^ or 790-1734 to arrange an audition CONCERTS Widespread Panic Friday at the Township Auditorium. Sheryl Crow will make a surprise appearance at Character's in Greenville Saturday at 9 p.m. Tickets will only be available at the door for $10. The Toadies and Samiam are playing Rockafellas' Monday. The Columbia Community Concert Band will be performing Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. in the Columbia High School Auditorium. The concert is free. The Koger Center presents blues and gospel singer Delia Reese at 8 p.m. on Oct. 14. Tick ets are $16 for adults and $12 foi students. For more information call 777-7228. The Koger Center presents "A i-esuvai or airings ai /:ou p.m. on Oct. 23. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students. DANCE "Visions of Dance," at Drayton Hall is the Fall Dance Concert featuring the (JSC Dance Comp? ny, at 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday. Tickets are $10 for the public, $8 for senior citizens and military personnel and $6 for students. They can be purchased at the Longstreet Theater box office or by calling 777-2551. I C/^TI IDC LLV/ I unt "Rainforest Conservation and th< Search for New Jungle Medicines" will be presented by Mark Plotkin, author of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice," Monday, Nov. 21 at 6 p.m. in the USC La\ School auditorium. MOVIES "Europa, Europa," is the second film in the International Program! for Students "Cinema du Monde & Entertainment Film Festival," Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in the Belk Auditorium. MUSEUMS /GALLERIES I McKissick Museum Recently opened exhibit "Natural History Prints" is a presentation of 33 beautiful natural history paintings of flora and fauna from 18thcentury South Carolina and east Florida. The exhibit runs through Nov. 13. Running through Oct. 23, "The Legacy of Jugtown," is a look at the founding and influence of the w Jugtown pottery in Seagrove, N.C. a "Of Earth and Cotton" is an offsite exhibit at the old Gibbes showroom on the comer of Bios- som and Assembly streets. The exhibition joins contemporary e; artist Jackie Brookner's environ- h mental sculptures with curator Su- 1 san Edwards' selection of 40 a Farm Security Administration photographs. k r ON CAMPUS t] "Nothing Could Be Finer..." is the f Homecoming Celebration theme, which kicks off tomorrow at 6:15 ? p.m. at the South Carolina State * Fair with the 24th-annual Cockfest pep rally featuring coach i( Brad Scott, members of the football team, cheerleaders and the marching band, as well as skits | Dy UbU organizanons, oocxy ana comedian Jaz Kaner. Cockfest i- tickets are $4 and can be purchased at the State Fair entrance. * TELEVISION 1: SCETV presents T rading Atti- \ tudes," a look at the myths and o stereotypes Americans and j Japanese hold abut each other, at 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 21. 3 THEATER Chapin Community Theatre "Say It Ain't So, Pharaoh!" will open Oct. 13. All performances are at 8 p.m. and are: Oct. 27-29, * n November 3-5 and November 1012. 1 Town Theater 1 "Fiddler on the Roof will run i 5 through Oct. 22 at the Town Theater. i g hp ^ S?l f / Jx t lembers of Delta Delta Delta and Sigma ^ockfest dons r REG RICKABAUGH Staff Writer fori Cockfest has been reshaped and enrgized this year as the State Fair plays ^ ost to the annual event at 6:15 p.m. hursday, featuring REO Speedwagon *%/! Tr?f? \Zor?A?? ^ 11U uuuicuian u cui . . A $2 student ticket, which can only e purchased at the Information Desk on tie second floor of the Russell House, cov- a rs Cockfest, State Fair admission and he concert by REO Speedwagon. Adlission is $4 if purchased at the State . 'air. in? The pep rally's highlights include soror- org ty/fraternity skits, Carolina band perthe PiiRqh nvnuf UUUU11 VApuii VOLFGANO KAWQ Staff Writer an< Andres Pumariega was only nine when le fled from Cuba with his family in 1962. the Jnlike the Cubans who left their island m dangerous little rafts some weeks ago, nei himariega's family left Cuba by plane, ing lisks, however, were high for them, too. A stamp by the Cuban Ministry of me [Vansportation, necessary to leave the bla ountry, was missing on his father's pass- to i ?rt, leading to an immediate imprison- th< nent if recognized. He took the risk to nej jet his family out. "We had very little when we came 0fs iere," said Pumariega, director of the ^ JSC William Hall Psychological Insti;ute, remembering very well their relief ifter arriving in Miami. inr Having lost their pharmacy business ^ n the Cuban city of Matanzas as Castro Dn seized more and more small businesses p 11 aJ]U= <3 ? ? m r Ml II : # i GREG RICKABAUGH The Gamecock Chi work on their float Tuesday. lew feathers nances, and visits from the USC foot- 'j 1 team, Coach Brad Scott and Cocky. 0 Speedwagon is expected to follow :kfest from 8 to 9 p.m. 1 Freshman Aubrey Campbell said she Doking forward to enjoying both the g0 and the pep rally at the same time, da; Tve been going to the fair since I was da id," Campbell said. Gil Campbell is a member of Alpha Delta urVi/\ will Via naffarrninrr ana nf tViraa "liW "AAA va .,*** ww ts at the event. Campbell will be join- jje her sorority sisters in supporting their ma anization. "We're stoked about going ? if thafs it word," Campbell said. riate predic 1 exerted more political suppression, of j mariega's father decided to be one of "Bi first to leave the country in the 1960s, pie "I still remember a Christmas din- hel Pumariega said. "We were sneaka pig into my family's house." pol Rnast nitr is the traditional Christmas Cu al for Cubans. As the pig was from the ck market, Pumariega's family got in- pa: serious trouble. They were watched by en i political block supervisors in their th< ghborhood. "Nevertheless, Castro had a great deal pei support," Pumariega said. "His main Pu :ology is him." coi Also in the 60s, American foreign pol- thi played into the hands of Castro, unit- ha \ the Cuban population with their at- coi opts to impose American polity at any ce. Pu Tm very much of two minds as a lot pe hi hi in 1551 iii i?l SI * v i ifn | ; l| ||1 phomore Tyson Pettlgrew helps build tl y's Homecoming parade. Float building y night, when a local band will enterts >bes Property. Kaner will emcee the event as well as Coi form a comedy bit. He uses a unique the nd of music and comedy to entertain lan ny college audiences. Kaner has appeared on MTVs Half frai ur Comedy Hour, Comedy on the Road, Fai ts difficult ti Deople suffer severely," Pumariega said cal at it is criminal behavior having peo n x TIT I 1 J i siuing in uuaiiianaiuu ... we snuuiu pec P them." am Instead of outsmarting Castro, U.S. iticians are not very creative in their a ^ ban policy, according to Pumariega. "They are people who can't let go the 3t," Pumariega said. "Our crazy lead3 are complicating things by scaring ^ ; hell out of them (the people in Cuba)." Cubans fear difficulties similar to the Dple in East Germany after unification, imariega observed. People of the west lid claim their old properties and throw ke< Dse citizens on the street who already ^ d to suffer from the transition from ter nmunism to capitalism. "We have to forsake our property right," no marina said, which would give Cuban Pu ople a decisive boost for a new politi 13 mm i k GREG RICKABAUGH The Gamecock lie CPU-AAAS pirate float for Fri; continues after Cockfest Thursiln builders and students on the nic Strip Live, and was featured in film, "The Adventures of Ford Faire." Cockfest is sponsored by Pi Kappa Phi ternity and will be held on tne state r Grounds. unsitioii start without Castro. In Pumariega's view, only the Cuban pie should decide about their future 1 political system. "I don't believe that there will be such ling as a peaceful transition in Cuba," mariega said. But it would be presumptous, in mariega's view, to impose a foreign cul e by military actions. "ItTl make Haiti look like a picnic, too," mariega said. He cautions American politicians to sp out of Cuba, in order to give them i chance to choose their political sysq and to fight for it. "Cubans have to decide their future? t the Americans and Cuban exiles," mariega said.