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4 WHAT'SUP Guide to Arts & AUDITIONS Chapin Community Theater will hole auditions for "Mama'hTEm" at 7 p.m Dec. 4 and 5 in the Chapin Commu nity Theater, 107 Columbia Ave, ir Chapin. Available roles for five womer and four men ages 35-80, must be able to do a convincing upstate Soutl Carolina accent. For more informa tion call 772-3720. Town Theatre will hold auditions foi "Prescription: Murder" at 7:30 p.m Dec. 5. Roles are available for foui men and three women, ages earl) 20-3 to 5(ys. Perusal scripts are available. For more information, call 7992510. CONTESTS USA Today is beginning its annual search for the nation's best college students. Sixty will be named to the 1995 All-USA Academic Team. The key element will be a student's outstanding original academic or intellectual product. The judges will be influenced by the student's ability to describe that endeavor in their own words. For more information, call Carol Skalski at (703) 276-5890. Blackboard Entertainment Inc. presents "The America's College Video Competition" sponsored by Levi's 501 jeans. Calling all college students: grab a camcorder and do something. Speak out on issues of your generation for $10,000 in cash awards. Create an original short-length video that tells your story. Be funny, serious or stupid, but most of all be creative. Deadline is March 15,1995. Call (415) 974-6844 for information. Evian invites amateurs and professionals to submit a design or toast that conveys the theme, "Evian Toasts the Culinary Arts." The winning artwork and toast will appear on a limited edition glass bottle of Evian Natural Spring Water available to restaurants next spring. Entries must be submitted to Evian, c/o Ketchum, 220 East 42nd St., 12th floor, New York, NY 10017 by Nov. 30. All entries with proper adress and information will be returned. For further information call 1-800-633-3363. Mangajin Magazine presents the Fourth Annual BABEL International Japanese/English Translation contest open to any resident of the UnitE' goo Pick up yoL Tl Entertainment ed States or Japan whose name has 1 never been credited as translator or co-translator in any publication. To participate, entrant must translate 1 a one-page essay from Japanese to 1 English. The essay to be translated } can be found along with complete inl .formation in issue #39 of Mangajin magazine. For more information, contact the Kawamura Cultural Foundation at (212) 808-5335 or fax (212) 697-4738. - LECTURE r "Rainforest Conservation and the Search for New Jungle Medicines" will be presented by Mark Plotkin, author of "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice," today at 6 p.m. in the USC Law School auditorium. I ? MUSEUMS/GALLERIES i McKissick Museum i The USC art department faculty show is leaiunng aooui 4U receni worxs 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. Tl. This is the first traveling exhibition surveying the print work of photo-realist Richard Estes. Admission is free. South Carolina State Museum The museum has introduced "Brain Teaser," a new exhibit which includes a puzzle so difficult the curator is offering a free museum membership to the first visitor who can solve it. PLANETARIUM "Season of Light" at the Gibbes Planetarium is open. The show begins with the winter solstice and examines how ancient cultures celebrated this dark time with their warmest and brightest holidays of the year. It snows oaiuraay ana ounaay aiternoons. TELEVISION "The World of Jim Henson" is a tribute that looks at all the dimensions of this puppeteer's work, from his Muppets?Miss Piggy, Kermit the Prog and Big Bird?to his other fantastic creations for film and TV on SCETV at 9 p.m., Nov. 23. verytt H tho c jr copy at the Russe lie Gamecock Br eh USC professor Bruce Kon He wakes in the predawn light, stretches and grabs his bags. The clicking of his bike as he walks to the road is the only sound that disturbs the empty stillness of the dew-covered morning. The bikes creaks softly as he mounts and starts to peddle. The road begins to hum beneath his tires as a cool morning wind dries the sweat trickling down his face. The odomoter clicks. One mile down. Only a few thousand more to go. It is a scenario professor Bruce Konkle knows well as a cross-country cyclist. Konkle first started logging biking miles in 1974 while at Ball State University in Indiana where he was a part of a six man bike-a-thon team. Since then, Konkle said he has biked an estimated 140,000 miles and criss-crossed the country about 20 times on trips avci aging u\j\j niiico. "Now that I am getting older though," said the 40year-old Konkle, "I am keeping my trips shorter." Of course, his idea of a short ride is getting on his slate grey Schwinn Voyager one morning and peddling over to Sumter. Thafs a 40 mile trip. One way. ling sho second )uart: c GBQ No. 2 has hit Caroline II House and most ciassroo GBQ. Required I A! Monday, November 21, 1994 KING kle takes cross-country bikinj By Michh Ponce Or, if he is feeling a bit ambitious, he may ride down to the Battery in Charleston. il The Charleston trip is about 120 to 125 miles long, d Ifs a nice day trip if you plan to spend the night," Rankle said. t ti "For me. the mileaije is not as important as what p ore pno to see or whop i meet afono the way." USC professor Bruce Konkle J _ r Konkle doesn't always keep his trips short, however. He attempts to complete cross-country rides about every five years. ^ "The advantage of taking a bike across country over a car is that you get to see the country mile by mile," 11 Konkle said. "Of course, sometimes is feels like inch by inch." e Konkle attempted a cross-country ride in 1991 and planned to go from Spokane, Washington to Wash- n ington, D.C. He had to give up, however, when his bike, ir a Schwinn Paramount, broke down in Aberdeen, South Dakota. c< >u Id be 1 time ar ERLY j newsstands! m buildings and residence i I reading. ETHAN MYERSON The Gamecock Rhhv g to new personal levels "Now, I don't have anything against Aberdeen, but fs not exactly the place I wanted to spend a week if I iidn't have to," Konkle said. Although he doesn't have any definite rides set for he future Konkle is thinking about finishing riding he Blue Ridge Parkway. "I don't have any real idea of where I would go for ly next cross-country trip," he said, "but I have always ranted to ride through Vermont in September so I ould see the leaves during autumn." Why go on a grueling ride just to see some leaves? "For me, the mileage is not as important as what ou are going to see or who you meet along the way," [onkle said. "One memory that I will always treasure is my ride tirough Nova Scotia in 1989. The northeast coast of laine has a very rocky beauty," he said. "Combine hat with the small population, and you feel like youVe idden 25 years back in time." On his Portland trip he stopped at a roadside dinr and fell into conversation with a Native American. "We talked for three hours," he said. "I had never let a Native American before, and if I hadn't been ridig my bike, I don't think I ever would have." "Thaf s the one thing I love about biking. It's the mnection to people that it gives you," he said. this ound. halls campuswide.