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/ WHAT'SUF Guide to Arts & Enti CONCERTS Flyin' Mice will perform at Annie's to Museum. Libby Larsen, one of America's foremost composers, will give a public lecture at 1:30 p.m., Nov. 16 in Fraser Hall in USCs School of Music. Her lecture will feature discussions about her compositions and the art of music writing. After the lecture, Larsen will visit with USC music students to provide critique and commentary of their comrv\nfiAr* e |AAJlWIUO* "Rainforest Conservation and the Search for New Jungle Medicines" will be presented by Mark Ration, author of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice," Monday, Nov. 21, at 6 p.m. in the USC Law School auditorium. MOVIES Nickelodeon theatre presents "Southern Circuit" featuring filmmaker Allie Light in person, 8 p.m., Tuesday. The department of media arts is bringing "Twogether" from the Charleston ft UN morrow with King Cotton. The USC University Chorus will present concerts at Northeast Presbyterian Church, 601 Polo Rd., Sunday at 7:30 p.m. and at Shandon Methodist Church, 3407 Devine St., on Nov. 16 at 6:15 p.m. The USC Symphony Orchestra will perform their fall concert at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 17 at the Roger Center. LECTURE The Honors College is hosting "An Evening on Lake Baikal" today at 7:30 p.m. in the Gressette Room (3rd floor of Harper College). Nobel laureate KaryMullis will speak at 4 pjTL today in Gambrell Hall Mullis has rejected the commonly held assumption that the human immunodeficiency virus directly causes AIDS. He is expected to elaborate on his theory during his address. Paleontologist Dr. John R. Horner, the model for the hero of Jurassic Park, will speak and sign copies of his books on Saturday at the South Carolina State The i attainment International Film Festival to USC Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in the Russell House Theater. Admission is free, and a His/mccirm witVi film /-finvtrir Anrlnow Chiaramonte follows the screening. MUSEUMS / GALLERIES McKissick Museum "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 Sunday. The USC art department faculty show is featuring 40 recent works in a variety of media, including paintings, drawings, mixed media, printmaking, photography, watercolors. jewelry and sculpture. The exhibit will run through Feb. 12,1995. Columbia Museum of Art "Richard Estes: The Complete Prints" will run through Dec. 11. This is the first traveling exhibition surveying the print work of photo-realist Richard Estes. Admission is free. South Carolina State Museum The museum introduced a new exhibit, "Brain Teaser," that includes a puzzle so difficult that the curator is offering a free museum membership to the first visitor who can solve it. PLANETARIUM "Season of Light" at the Gibbes Planetarium opens Saturday. POETRY READING The third annual Benefit Poetry Reading featuring poets with local roots will be held at the Nickelodeon Theater 7 p.m. Nov. 16. THEATER Chapin Community Theatre "Say It Ain't So, Pharaoh!" is playing Thursday-Saturday at 8 p.m. Drayton Hall Theatre USC will present "Eastern Standard" Nov.l7-Dec. 2. WORKSHOPS Irina Kolpakova will lead a classical ballet workshop Nov. 18-20. V5?H 44m | , ,,X5=88Kwmw * ''''' ISiore*! rii. 2:3 drlrfc ? m ^ J J* T c3<s>< A SB Gamecock CAFjllil ? x,.-:-::,;;:,:-:;.-.- - plgf - , ' :~f iisfc'S ICl-,.'t ^ 1 v 1111 | < ; sm I ' By "Wolfgang Karg f -::;'"I FIVE YEARS have gone by since Berlin was opened to the West. USC faculty and students speak about Germany's past and future. 11"' ; 7 < : : : . :: i mmmrn bw S E I E ML 11 ^ ft **?* IH <cajjT *ny r Check oul IH?CQCQ<a[fcl 3(~D ^ MonZDQ>ll<a<3o aaoa[ bw NLY FULft in 5 P< ITER 1 IA! Wednesday, November 9, rn this week, Germany counts its fifth anniversary as a reunited country but is still struggling to bridge the gap between its people in East and West as well as the rise of xenophobia and racism. The freedom move ment in the communist-German Democratic Republic in 1990 was first regarded as a symbol for freedom, democracy and global change. But it also stirred old fears of a united Geimany, becoming a threat to its neighbors again, as both World Wars and the Holocaust are still present in peoples' minds. E"It is fair to remember; what would be unfair is to forget," said Brigitte Guillemin, instructor at USC's French language and literature department. "There were not many other events in my life that moved me in such a way as when the wall came down," said Prof. Wolfgang Elfe, Graduate Advisor at Department of German Language and Litera ture at the USC. "I was crying in front of my TV set; I had done an internship in Berlin before," GINT professor Kristia Finnegan said. Finnegan had experienced the I division of Berlin and the country during an internship in the German capital. "There was so much hope in that event, bringing two peoples together," Guillemin said. Guillemin was born and raised in Alsace in France, which Germany had tried to invade three times in a hun dred years. People there are still very sensitive about their German neighbors today; the human suffering in the three wars and the German war crimes are still present in the back of their minds. "They are not anti-German, but antipainful memories," Guillemin said, remembering the priest in her hometown saying "sometimes I still feel anger." Teaching Assistant Sebastian Hierl studied in Paris when the East German people brought the wall down in late 1989. "People saw the fall of the wall as a wonderful symbol for freedom and democracy," Hierl said. "Nobody realized at that point the immense difficulties that will emerge," Elfe said about the aftermath of the unifica tion. One of the problems that Germany currently has to face is a jobless rate of rrkaEMV%Di liriiT PHwxl thu t more ocs^taOsa J ' Fri IS i -3 . SERVK OINTS AM II 1994 5 I I 7.9 percent in the West and 13.8 percent in the East. "But under the surface there has also been a lot of solidarity," Elfe said. Finnegan, who concentrated her studies on the West German Party System, is not afraid of Germany becoming a military threat again. "Their desire is not military hegemony but an economic growth and European integration," Finnegan said. Dpsnitp ClnmTrmniflts Keinrr mnrocon+orl in the German Parliament again, Finnegan is worried that Germany is "going East" again. - "Germany accepted the responsibility not to go back to establish such an axis," Finnegan said. "It won't throw its Western European ties into the trashcan." "If they work toward the integration of Europe, that will alleviate the old fric tion between Germany and its neighbors," Nevertheless the r6dJiz6(l a?t main concerns of Ger- that point the man politicians at the . ..... ... moment are also the frio- 111111161186 fllfflCllltl6S ! tions in the German s?- that will emenre. but ciety itselr. , . _ i think that both under the surface parts of-Germany have there has also been a to grow together, but one - ? has to be more careful lOt Of 80110111*1 tV about East German senProf. Wolfgang Elfe the West in 1956. Most Germans were relieved when right wing parties could not exceed the 5 percent margin necessary to bp renresented in the Parliament They are much of a minority, but for a long time the German government has not been as engaged against xenophobia and racism as it should," Finnegan said. I Wolfgang Harg is a journalism graduate student mho is on international exchange from Germanq. i i t ' i i i \ ' N '% ' VA i I I I I a OPEN L 3:OOam M P.* ? m V r id civ ' ^ ce m B * > l3LkuuJ?