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USC will present the "Battle of the Big
Bands" at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are
$8 for students. The program will feature
swing music and romantic ballads
from four of America's greatest bandleaders:
Benny Goodman, Harry James,
Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller.
MOVKS
Nickelodeon Theatre will present "The
Advocate" today and Wednesday. Show
times are at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.
MffUWHB
"Madness in America: Cultural and Medical
Perception of Mental Dlness before
1914" will be on display through March
19 at McKissick Museum.
IMAIDI
Workshop Theatre's production of "Some
Enchanted Evening" will continue through
Saturday. Call 799-6651 for more information.
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BEN PIIOW Asst. Features Editor
The Fiji Mariners and the Grapes will
play tonight at the Elbow Room as the
bands kick off a five-week, 20-date Tour
De Farce" throughout the Southeast.
The Atlanta bands are touring in support
of recent releases, the Grapes for its
January Intersound release "Private
Stock" and the Fiii Mariners' Col. Bruce
Hampton for his Landslide release
"Strange Voices: A History 1977-1987."
CoL Bruce Hampton said the two bands
have never toured together, but because
they share the same management company
and basic musical style, the grouping
was possible now.
"We're more blues, jazzy, rock-styled,
and the Grapes are just good rock h' roll,"
Hampton said.
For Hampton in particular, this latest
tour continues a long career of what
he calls "constant touring." Since the national
emergence of the Hampton Grease
Band more than 20 years ago, Hampton
has fronted such groups as the Late Bronze
Age, the Aquarium Rescue Unit and his
30I0 Col. Hampton B. Coles act.
The vocalist and guitarist teams with
'Dr." Dan Matrazzo on keyboards and
percussion in the Fiji Mariners, the latjst
chapter in Hampton's musical life,
along with a revolving roster of other musicians.
As for the Grapes, while the band may
lot have 20 years of experience, six years
>f relentless touring and two indepenlent
releases have spawned comparisons
vith the Black Crowes and Widespread
Panic.
Chicago-born bassist and singer Charie
Lonsdorf founded the group, which
ncludes Steven Fink on keyboards and
vocals, Ted Norton on guitar and vocals
ind Rick Welsh on drums.
The band started as an almost exclulively
Grateful Dead cover band, and the
Drapes took a heavy influence from the
Dead on its first record, the 1991 release
Water to Wine." From there, the band
ook a harder direction on the 1993 reease
"High or Low."
"People have said we sound like the
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"Prescription: Murder" will open at 8
\ p.m. Friday at Town Theatre and will
i run through Feb. 18. Tickets are $8 for
students. Call 799-2510 for more infori
mation.
MBCBIAMEOQS
Riverbanks Zoo will offer free admission
every Friday during February.
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Allman Brothers meeting Seattle grunge," |
Norton said in an interview earlier this I
year.
So while the Grapes look for contin- |
ued exposure and fanfare in the wake of I
its first major-label release, one might J
think Hampton would be after the same |
thing with this tour, considering the Fi- l
ji Mariners is a relatively new band. But J
after you've been doing this as long as j
Hampton, priorities change.
"I just want to make it through safe- *
ly," he said.
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CUFTON CHESTNUT Staff Writer
The Office of Community Service Programs
is sponsoring the MATCH. mentoring program
to benefit children of working parents by providing
them with meaningful afternoon activities.
MATCH, an acronym for Making Advances
and Teaching Children to Help, pairs USC students
with Spring Valley High School students,
who in turn work with children from two elementary
schools in Spring Valley.
The program began last semester as a way
for USC students to give back to the community
by getting involved in the lives of high school
and elementary school students. MAT.C.H. coordinator
Tricia Moser said the program requires
a one-hour-per-week time commitment to the
children and weekly training sessions.
"We usually hang out with the elementary
kids for about an hour," Moser said. "The program
at North Springs Elementary School lasts
until about 6 o'clock, and some of the high school
students decide to stay that long, but they're not
required to. We usually work with a group of
about 15 to 20 first-, second- and third- graders."
Moser said the program's structure revolves
around using books as instructional materials
for the high school students and the younger children
as well.
"Last semester, we changed our structure
from doing activities that we came up with to
having a weekly book," she said. "We would present
those books to the hierh school students and
ask them to come up with some ideas as well to
Pl||P^k -
Tho S.C. Philharmonic Orchestra will pert
aft 8 tonight aft the Koger Center.
West Side' at
Staff Reports ing with the se
A fully staged version of d33068 featurinj
Leonard Bernstein's classic ??own sPngs,?1^
"West Side Story" will be per- "Somewhere, %
formed at 8 tonight at the Koger ble,_
Center. Expect to bi
Complete with a live or- where between
chestra, amateur and profes- r*e ?an? v*
sional local actors and a dynamic Sharks and thl
set, Jeanette Arvay directs a tw? ?tar~ cross<
production, accompanied by con- ana mana.
ductor Nicholas Smith, that _
brings the bustling city of New Heberca^Eadqy
York to life before your eyes. mth K^e CoLlbr
This combination of theater ?r
and music performed by the S.C. Rowland as Raf,
Philharmonic Orchestra re- it-w-iti
suits in explosive performances.
The story harnesses three Sir
themes: urban violence, youthful
delinquency and young where Koger Cer
love destroyed by gang ha- when 8 p.m. Toe
tred. All of which energize how $26,
audience emotions, escalat- wmmmmmmmmm
pgram teaches
letter role models
get them more involved. That was our role with
them. Then they took those activities and spent
time with the elementary school students."
Moser stresses that the role of the college students
in M.A.T.C.H. is to advise the high school
students about techniques used with the elementary
school children.
"The USC students went and met with the
high school students eveiy other week," she said.
"We do have direct contact with the elementaiy
school students, but our role is to be the trainer
and the mentor to the high school student. I would
like for it to be a one-on-one thing."
Rachelle Lehner, coordinator of Community
Service Programs wand adviser for MAT.C.H.,
believes the support USC students offer to the
teen-agers will help them learn the value of community
service.
"This program is a good program because it
is teaching two generations the value of serving,
and hopefully role modeling that for a third generation,
the young elementary school children,"
Lehner said.
"I think that the high school students, while
they think it might be a good thing to do, have
never been taught community service, and thaf s
what this program is all about ? teaching high
school students how they can make a difference."
More information on the MAT.C.H. program
can be obtained by calling the Office of Community
Service Programs at 777-8402. Organiza- .
tional meetings are every other Tuesday beginning
today at 8 p.m. in Russell House 304.
wtti Leonard Bersteln's 'West Side Story'
ITA^AH f At1irfVl"f
ivugci turngui
t of symphonic Toomer as Bernardo, Kimi Bar%
the most well- wick Daly as Anita and Kim
eluding "Maria," Atencio as Chino. Additional
>001" and "Rum- cast talents shine as they appear
as gang members of the
e caught some- Jets and Sharks and the Jet
the madness of Girls and Shark Girls,
ice of Jets and The S.C. Philharmonic Ore
tragic love of chestra is under the musical di
3d lovers, Tony rection of Nicholas Smith, and
Cindy Flach is choreographer,
is showcased as Carolyn Sawyer of WIS-TV will
portrays Maria, present the performances and
is as Tony. Oth- provide educational narration.
a inrlnrlo Aorvin Arvnv's TYrnfinasinnnl Hirprt,
Gregory LeHoy ing career began in graduate
school directing operas for
nHpHMMK^? the University of ColoradoBoulder,
where she received
her master's of music in vole
Story cal performance. She has di^ter
rected various productions
, for Workshop Theatre.
^ Tickets are $26, $21, $17 and
$21, $17, $1 i student discounts are
gJ available. Call 771-7937 for
One Shot pr
offer commi
service oppc
STEPHANIE SONNENFELD Ass
If you're from the old school and
too much of your precious time, si
cause USC's One Shot programs ai
tions.
Begun two years ago, One Sho
nity that is exactly what it sounds 1
volunteer for just one day, general]
"One Shot programs basically i
do some volunteer work without hi
commitment," said Margaret O'Gor
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to do is sign up and show up."
Past One Shots have include
the Boy's and Girl's Club of the Mi
tirees at local retirement homes ai
at the This, That and the Other Ca
"It is taking a soup kitchen z
taining the dignity of the people," (
The latest One Shot, which toe
students bowl with children at the E
Freshman Ami Abramson, i
tended this event along with two (
mester.
"It is a really great way for st
to get together and do one really goo
"The best part of Friday's One Shot
up to you at the end and gave you i
to come back and visit them."
Finding students to volunteei
ate with the One Shot program isn
said, on average, 50 students sigr
"Because of the relationship t
Service has with agencies in the ci
hard for us to set up the One Shot <
said. "Most agencies are willing to ha
in and help."
OTxorman, a graduate of Xai
understands the benefits of voluntt
graduate school at USC, she was dii
the Big Sister/Big Brother Program
During her undergraduate st
teered with College Friends, a proj
lege-age mentors for sixth graders,
"I think college students will
they put into it," she said. "People hi
sons for volunteering. There's no wi
"Whether if s something they
they feel if s the right thing or it's ?
do for experience on their resume, th
sons.
"If s hard to say whafs the be*
volunteering," she said. "You're alwi
thing from volunteering as long as;
meeting other people and other arei
pus."
If you would like more inform
Shots, contact the Office of Commur
777-5780 or visit the office in the b
House.
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The Associated Pr?
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP)
the ocean one day, let history record
a winding, dangerous, breathtakii
the Pacific Coast Highway.
The biblical rains flooding the st
the cliffs south of San Francisco int
begun sliding into the sea inch by
highway with it a week ago.
In closing the road above Half 1
opened a 30-year battle between s
rials and residents of several small i
sulated from urban San Francisco 1
of notoriously unreliable two-lane 1
The state wants to build a 4.5-mi
ting through a state park and a moi
Slide, which sits 150 feet abc
the Pacific.
The vast majority of about 20,00
Moon Bay, Montara, El Granada i
nities below the cliffs fear the bypas
development, with mushrooming su
houses replacing farm land, coastal \
tainsides.
"The whole coast is at stake," s
Sierra Club chairwoman who has
with lawsuits. With the bypass, "th
to a Long Beach or a Los Angeles er
our bluffs with houses."
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was when the kids cami
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rier University in Ohio
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sector of development fo
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