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[PEOPLE PLAC on the town CONCERTS 4 Tha People, a hip-hop alternative group, will play Wednesday at Pug's in Five Points. Hie Koger Center will pre- ,^^=== sciii an aii-iuiaiAv/Toivj i program at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The performance I will feature the USC Sym- HI phony Orchestra and pi- ^ anist Benedetto Lupo. Tickets are $6 for students. I Deloris Telescope, a band im from Tampa, Fla., will play BfiSHI Thursday at Annie's on mpo Rosewood Drive. A gospel sing-out will be one of the events to wrap up Black History Month events at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Russell House Ballroom. Tickets are $2 for members of the Association of African-American Students and $3 for nonmembers. MIICTIIMC A memorial exhibit highlighting Columbia artist Vincent Suttles will be on display through Sunday at McKissick Museum. "Josiah Wedgwood: Experimental four times a week -?c The nee If you have le< i ; 7 0 GPA and \ I I 1 Vice-Pn a Membership, o Appli ! descrif i in th Ru sseI | Call 777-7" I ES WHATNOT] I I I Potter" will open Sunday. The exhibit includes more than 70 pieces I of Wedgwood pottery and chronicles how he influenced ceramics as decorative arts. " "Madness in America: Cul- . tiiral and Medical PerceD I tion of Mental Illness be- | s I fore 1914" will be on display 1 Jffl through March 19 at McKissick Museum. I ^ W The work of 19..new and I emerging artists will be on * display through May 31 in | ] the S.C. State Museum ex- . hibit "Triennial 95." " i THEATER . ' The Learned Ladies" will run through Saturday in Longstreet Theatre. Daily shows begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $6 for students. Call 777-2551 for _ more information. ' I MISCELLANEOUS Riverbanks Zoo will offer free ad- 1 _ . - - ? - mission Fridays during February. | Free tours will be offered at 1:30 pm. Saturday and Sunday at the Congaree Swamp National Monument. Call 776-4396 for more information. CtCaj ?w e in The Gamecock | arolii (USCs new bo; ds office dership experien iave paid your sti ies, then get with esidents of Financ< ind Internal Affair* cations and pc Dtions are avai e program offi I?I cm i c o Pnn m I I I W u J ^ l\W V III 130 for more ir Officers < Commissione Pai Travel down memory lan superhighway with USC Pr By Ben t Asst. Features USC history Professor s David Chesnutt is head- a ing a joint effort to put a U.S. historical documents, t including the papers of U>raham Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady s Stanton, Henry Laurens and Susan a I. Anthony and the documentary his- c ory of the ratification of the Consti- a ution, on the information superhigh- t vay. J Chesnutt, a professor at USC since c L970, is serving as director of the Mod- f si Editions Partnership project with e :o-coordinators Susan Hockey, direc- e or of the Rutgers-Princeton Center or Electronic Text in the Humanities, v md Michael Sperberg-McQueen, ed- r tor in chief of the Text Encoding Ini- ? ;iative at the University of Illinois- t Chicago. \ They are working to make count- r ess historical documents available to students and the public via the Inter- t let. { Chesnutt said the idea for the proect emerged as a natural progression ? ivith the development of technology, t "We started using the computer c aack in the mid-1970s here at the uni- i /ersity to help us with our work," Ches- i nutt said. "When word processing came t along in the late '70s, we decided it t would be really helpful if we could use word processing in preparing our vol- ( Limes. c "By the early '80s, we had become little 0 MATT HORGAN Staff Writer < Are you sick and tired of the Seat- ' tie grunge sound? Does every metalmrtmant nf liofnninrr fn Pnolf QQ R ' lit lliv;ilitlll< \J 1 110VtlUXlg WV XWV1V WV.V make you want to retch? Well, then, 1 let me recommend a little musical 1 remedy, the likes of which will get your toes-a-tappin' and leave a warm feeling in your belly. Jump Little Children, a quintet from Charleston, will bring its acousticbased musical stylings to Rockafellas' this very evening. The group, consisting of lead singer Jay Clifford, cello player Ward Williams, bass playPresen new pro ai?d ?rs! ce, at least a I ident activity the program! < ?, Marketing, ? are needed. >sition i lable ce, 235. I iformation. application on March t applicati Dn March ^ d for, in part, with s e on the information ofecsor David Chesnutt >illow ; Editor ort of a national model for computer pplications in documentary editing, nd we just kept moving forward as echnology developed." After attending a conference at Vasnv in 1QQ7 f/v>naon r\n ootfinrr lin C-U. 111 Xt/WI idiuv iwuuvu vii wvvvnig i system allowing scholars in foreign ountries to exchange texts with scholirs in the United States, Chesnutt earned up with Hockey and SperbergdcQueen in launching the Text Enoding Initiative, an international efort that developed a markup scheme snabling scholars to exchange data lasily. "Everybody's using different hardvare and different software," Chesmtt said. We ought to be able to find i way to exchange texts so people on his side of the Atlantic can take adrantage of what has been done in Europe and vice versa." Chesnutt said the importance of he project lies in its ability to reach jeupie wiiere [JMIIL UUCS IIUU "Printed documentary editions probibly go into less than 500 research lirraries," Chesnutt said. "I want these locumentary editions to be available n public libraries, school libraries and n college libraries all over the counry, and the way to do that is to use he Internet." Chesnutt said the project unloubtedly will serve teachers and stuients the most. "Documents are really the basis of hildren \vi sr Jonathan Grey, Evan Bivens on drums and brother Matt handling the tiarmonica, mandolin, and various other whistles and bells, is a mainstay in the Charleston area. The band is a regular at King Street Station, and it also frequently plays unplugged 3hows at the Horse and Cart. Jump Little Children, in its present form, is still a relatively young band, having formed only a year ago. The band members themselves, however, go farther back, as all of them but Grey (a defector from the band Big Stoner Creek) went to school together at the North Carolina School iting: rodu Oram b com If you have lea< 2.0 GPA, and h activity fees, th There are sever available: Blacl Concerts, Ideas c :_i c opetiui s are due 3, 1995. ons are du 20, 1995, tudent activity fees _bTH] fu 0101010101111 111000010101 1110100110011 101110000011 ^111010010100 yioooioioiiio 101010101010 010011010110 J IUIUIUIUIUIIIIBUIIIUUUV 111010011001110101110 a 11101001010011100010! I 101010101010 10100110 ? OF Histc history, so we ought to make the doc- 1 uments of the past as widely available as we can," he said. However, doing this is no easy task. 1 Chesnutt said the most important is- 1 sue is trying to answer the problem of 1 how to make electronic additions as 1 * * *. ?1 _ accessiDie as current, pnnieu euiuons. "In a printed edition, you have an i index, which means you can quickly get the information you're looking for," Chesnutt said. "The index is the tool to gain intellectual access. The first i thing we're going to have to do is develop new tools to create the same intellectual access in our printed ediII make yoi for the Arts. At that point, three of the fellers were in an Irish folk band. Now that all five of them have come together, the band retains some of the Irish folk influence but also has expanded to encompass other genres. A typical Jump Little Children set / i /? av T9 \ ___:n (judging rrom ine ones 1 ve seen; win showcase ballads, traditional Irish songs, rap, and upbeat, catchy "la-la" pop songs. "We really like to be as eclectic as possible with our music," drummer Evan Bivens said. The group also has an engaging and entertaining stage presence, ranging from energetic to ction oard) wv board misisiioni dership experien iave paid your si en get with the | i commissioner p k Cultural, Ciner i & Issues, Perfor and Traditional I A by 4pm e by 4 pm ITURE iSY tions." Another problem exists in that it will be "like going into a library with no card catalog," Chesnutt said, adding that this is an inherent problem with the Internet. Despite these obstacles, Chesnutt is hoping the project will be the first step toward a nationwide pool of historical resources. 'If it works as we hope it will work, it will lay the foundation for a national database of historical editions," Chesnutt said. "That's our ultimate goal, and we really do want to put history on the highway." i jump borderline hyperactive. "It's like a fiveman party up there," said Bivens. "We try to be positive so that the audience has a good time, too." The band recently returned from recording some new material in Nashville at the Polygram Music Publishing studios, and hope to have a CD out by late March. So if you'd like to hear some of the best acoustic music in these parts and have a rollicking good time in the process, come on down to Rockafellas' tonight The show will start between 10:30 and 11, and ticket prices are 5 bucks for 21 and over, 6 bucks for everyone else. Salut " p ? ? f a i [ needs ers! ce, at least a -"1 i - *** 4 L I J. ruaem program! ositions 1! - A - ncmc Mils, ming Arts, Events. 1,1 . ? Uf ...v. ..n k IJ Ullli CM