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[PEOPLE PL/ Columbia's own Fiascos played a Fla.'s MagaDog and Chemlklll ft Concert ha TINA MORGAN Staff Writer Having seen them play twice, on has to wonder why the six member of the local band The Fiascos chos such an inappropriate name. With Gregory Perez banging on th drums and blowing his whistle in sue songs as "Goodfellas" to the toilet Wei ley Joyner uses as a keyboard stant the band jams its reggae/)azz beat wit style. Last semester Perez, Joyner alon with Drew Sentivan on guitar, Tor Harris on bass, trumpeter J.D. Musi er and Mark Curley on sax played ? Senseless Beauty. Monday night the gave a crowd at Annie's another hig power performance with numbers sue as "Don't Touch the Head" and th band's rendition of "You Be Illin' Was it a fiasco? Hardly. Even har rocking illiterates, like myself, can t drawn to the band and its energy Thinking that the compilation con pact disc "Ska Gone South" was pui Fiascos fun, I headed down to my li cal place of music business last s< H 'iiiQ Justice Clarence Thomas, whose 1991Sen^con haia^ TOWn^preBident o VOICE: The Committee to Advanc ministrators at the Mormon schoc Wednesday to invite Hill or anoth er woman to speak and said invitanj Thomas was "a stupid thing politi cally for BYU to do." During the moot court, VOICI members plan to display abarrne reading, "Welcome, Clarence Thomas Now we want to hear fixm Anita Hill! Kerrigan's on a roil LOS ANGELES (AP) - Nancy Kei rigan is teaming up with Arctic Ca and Tigershark. The Olympic figure skater frori Stoneham, Mass, confirmed Wednee day that she has signed a deal to en 1000's of I CD's, Tape: ALL KIND! POP, ROCK, URBAN, R&B We Buy s Used CD s, its' Tapes, LP's, . Everyday \ Open 11-7 Mon - Sat PAPA 1:30 - 6:30 2014 G Sun Columb Most Used C[ <CES M WHATNOl TINA MORGAN The Game< a night of ska at Annie's with Tam| em Baltimore, Md. rdly a fiascc moafa?? D1ir\^n<^ k?r kotrinrr fko m mcoici. Liiuiucu uj iiaviug wic n ~ derful "What Gives, Louis?" in ha ,g I failed to notice it was the only Fi e co song on the list. Heartbroki Ashamed the piggy bank was brok [e Heck, no. Sometimes you gotta bra h out3. The Fiascos are the perfect trai j tional band for music- loving but c h servative people who wish to wall* the wild side. Do they have piza g The toilet keyboard stand and pla y praying mantis prize for best dar s_ say it all. And did the crowd dance? Well, iy faithful follower took it a little too 'h riously (can you say sweat factory), ^ the majority of us bobbed our he? e tapped our feet. But hey, the sw ? ball won the prize and had fun. An ^ the Fiascos can conjure up a hap ^ go-lucky attitude in a conservative y me late, late at night then someon ^ doing their job. .e The Fiascos? Call them what want but these guys mix horns, 1 a_ board, drums and guitar for even most wary of listeners. s dorse Arctic Cat snowmobiles an - Tigershark watercraft made by Mr - nesota-based Arctco Inc. t Kerrigan won at last year's Wir ter Olympics in Liliehammer, Noi 5 way" J Carter tricplgaiii for Nobe Carte f former presidenUnmed-diploraati e troubleehooter, has once again bee - nominated for the Nobel Peace Pria 1 It marks the fourth time that retire - Antioch College history professor h I win Abrams has nominated Cartel The deadline for nominations is Tues day, S Abrams said Wednesday his non ** ination highlighted the 70-year-ol t Carter's peacemaking efforts las \ year in Mrth Korea, Haiti aisiBoenii Hie winner will be announced in O tober. t Carter was first nominated i a 1978 Israefi-Egyptian peace accort Jsed & New 5 & Records S OF MUSIC , CLASSICAL, BLUES & JAZZ ,e?' amR * JAZZ RECORD SHOPPE reene Street Telephone >ia, SC 29205 (803) 256-0095 )'s from $4-$8 Deo I \U ( Virtual reality is no long< in the movies. What us< v ! exist only in comic book a . the imagination came t( J , Russell House Monck 1 1 T ^ ^ | presented Dy i>ru. I? Deanna McLend J Staff Writer tepping into the Russell arouni A House Ballroom Monday ted wi I Jwas like stepping into Won- screen, | d derland. Those of us who and a suffered from acute com- a pers ' puter cluelessness were himse | quickly absorbed into a parallel uni- in a cc verse, one where it wouldn't have been world at all surprising to see the disembodied charac I grin of the Cheshire cat float by. For 1 | those who were a little more in tune ^ ook ? I with the workings of cyberspace, the view :ock ' display was a blazing example of the ward. | extent to which technology has per- sce"e 1 meated society. . ^ Nonetheless, for anyone, whether vie>yer \ I computer jock or e-mail reject, who ^ a 9 | set foot into one of those futuristic _ pod-units, virtual reality became an 1 ?. on. actual reality. _j I ArrnrHinor t.n Rnhprt f)nkmnn a I1U, ? , - Jn ^ ias_ | computer science professor and au- mover en9 thorofThe Computer Triangle," vir- t^e ^ en? I tual reality consists of "an environ- jnem nch I ment created by computer technolo- ....u , . gy that combines visual, auditory and Lgj) ^ nsi- * tactile interaction to create multiple ^ ] :on- I senses at once. It creates the illusion ^ stu : on I of realistic objects and sensory expe- three-ci zz? riences for the user." Nightr stic I Simply by donning a set of wrapper | -; Paramount ke se- I but | ids, 1 College Pro? Service eat I It had been said by many a supposed exj id if | that the advent of cable television would resu] py- | the slow, painful death of network television. ? like 1 ply put, the experts were wrong. ie is | NBC, ABC and CBS are doing just fine, th; you. Meanwhile, the Fox Broadcasting Compj y?u on the air since 1987, has grown by leaps i [ey* bounds and most recently made news by snagf the | NFL football coverage away from CBS. I Now the launch of two new networks this mc ~U have added to the alphabet soup of the airwa ^ I Warner Bros.' WB debuted Jan. 11, followe "l | week later by Paramount's United Paramo Network or UPN. UPN hit the airwaves on Jan. 16 with the d | but of the eagerly awaited "Star Trek: Voyag ^| the latest Trek series with Richard Grieco { vouner man who must renav the debts left heV II by his dead father, and "The Watcher," a Las gas-based anthology series with rapper Sir R A-Lot as its mysterious host. It doesn't take more than a quick glance at | UPN's slate of shows to realize that the netw is going after television audiences in the allportant 18-34 age group, a demographic of pr I interest to advertisers. Within that demograf are millions of college students. "The college-age group is very important to especially with our programs," said Lucie Salhs | UPN's president and chief executive officer. "W | gearing towards that audience. We're trying to younger shows, younger casts, more action. ( I shows, so far, reflect that." | UPN's sitcoms, "Platypus Man," with fun d | man Richard Jeni as a single cooking show h it 1 and "Pig Sty," an ensemble comedy about five tw / I ty-something bachelors sharing an apartmen New York City, both began Jan. 23, following ^ ager." "If you look across the board (at the other r | works) at, for example, 8 p.m., you see softer f , I gramming, more female-oriented programmii Salhany said. "Well be a little more action- < e I ented, somewhat more male-oriented. That's | to say well be turning off women. "Voyager' is i i mj ui ii U i iters respond.. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ujTan^the Amanda BoK ? * ,lrto "Dactyl Nightmare" M moves skySpin around in a circle and the involved aiming and shootin spins too. image of another player, ther using a hand-held device, the ing both participants to inter can control the actions of a vir- each other from separate a rm. The twists and other ac- points. >f the wrist and fingers are im- Members ol the campus l on screen, producing the sen- Union, which brought the e: of actually existing within the the Russell House, seemed i laries of the projected scene, with the student turnout, the process of executing these "I've ^een herS since eigh nents, the viewer can witness UP>and there was a line out ids of spinning colors and dizzy- at 10" said Aipanda Bolt, CI otions that in the olden days sureJ- "l expect it to be like inly have been observed on an day." rip. And Bolt's personal reactk Monday's virtual reality exhib- virtual reality experience? dents could take part in two "It was just weird. When: Bmensional video games: "Dactyl it, you feel like you're not real] nare" and "Zone Hunter." Both UP- It's fun. I started sv though, and it fogged up," s eps network TV all RYAN US, . WJ ^ tainly one of the purest demographically split of ah e?rg all our shows. It will appeal to both young men ar get and women. "Marker' we think will be action-ad- T1 5m. venture against softer, older, female-oriented shows." fas ny. Another show that seems especially likely to ta] ost; pull college students to their TV is "Pig Sty," which of ren- features five handsome guys crammed into a small in< t in New York apartment. The guys are at that time to ^oy- of life where they're just kick-starting their careers, shirking responsibility, dating up a storm thi let- and for economic reasons, rooming together. Along Sa iro- for the fun is Liz Vassey as Tess, the sexy build- ar< lg," ing superintendent. One of the guys likes her, but an ori- Tess won't give him the time of the day. So, he en not keeps breaking things, forcing her to frequently Ar cer- visit the apartment. Of course, she wouldn't both- ali l&Tgjl TAI MT f-HB AT Hll psi-P SBSSBBB! ^?\ \ ? Igggyy^g ^_--?ir) yj<>jSH^REIT (BUM MOUSING nu^aTm! omwiuNHY sn ?n JTCC i I CD Photo Nkiotratloii ? BRIAN FRICK The Gamecock onday at CPU's virtual reality display. ig at the Other students shared similar exeby fore- periences. act with "It's pretty cool!" exclaimed sophorantage more Ricardo San Pedro. "I wish it would come out on video so I could Program play it at home." thibit to "It was strange," said junior Jeff satisfied Fitzgibbons. "Those games you sit in?that doesn't compare to this. It t setting felt a lot more realistic." J rv. it iv v i uie uuur iLven uiose running me caspiay no5U trea- ticed how it was affecting participants, this all Ryan Kramer, an employee of Kramer Entertainment Agency Inc., described in to the the students' reactions. "They come out disoriented. If you you're in watch their expressions, their eyes ly stand- are wide open" Kramer said. "It takes seating, a while for them to adjust back." he said. Too bad Alice missed it. ye and kicking coming to fix things personally if she didn't, sep-down, actually like the guy, but that's a subst to be tackled later. "I sort of balance out the testosterone level on e set and on the show," said Vassey, whom "ER" ns will remember for her roles as the nymphoaniac with a passion for doctors. "The guys are eat. I think the show is very real in its own way, real as a sitcom can get. Guys should like and able to relate to it. Most of the guys on the show ith me have lived with other men in a house, and ey say the show's stories are a lot like what they snt through. So, I'm excited, and I'm hoping that rtl catch on." Rob Long and Dan Staley, who previously teamed produce the last few seasons of "Cheers," write id produce "Pig Sty." Both men report that UPN is given them the freedom to push the envelope ia get away witn more man, say, "mends," an BC show not too dissimilar to "Sty." Also, they plain, because UPN is new, chances are the netirk will stick by the show even if it takes time find an audience. "We're trying to go for a classic-style ensemble medy," said Long. "We're trying to build a strong semble with a lot of group stuff, the type of show lere people have a favorite character or two. We anted characters we hadn't seen before, so we so wanted actors who were young, enthusiastic id who you maybe hadn't seen so much before, lat's what we got, and we're going from there." Behind the scenes at UPN things are moving st, as one might expect when an upstart tries to ke on the big guns. UPN, in order to be worthy being called a network, had to ferret out enough dependent stations around the country willing become affiliates and carry its programming. Now that UPN is up and running, Salhany is nking long- term. Beginning Jan. 23, UPN aired iturday afternoon movies from Par amount's drives. 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