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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
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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.
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? 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.
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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.
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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
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as what p ore pno to see or whop i
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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
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"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.
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