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Serving i Tina Morgan Keith Boudreaw Edftoi Chris Dixo ? Ryan Sims, Cece voi New fee m mwuww w w Technology is an |^^_| important tool and as the leaders of tomor- T h row, it is important to learn on the best equipment possible. BTfTTT Our university has realized this. Fee I On June 13 the sti Board of Trustees fin- in the ished plans to add a $35 "technology fee" to the general university bill per semester. In a year, the fee will increase to $50 a semester. Usually, students bitch about rate increases. This time, let's rejoice. The fee will support increasing the number of e-mail access lines, provide more lines for direct access in the residence halls and and replace worksta ?t5a Tina Morgan John I Editor in Chief Copy De Keith Boudroaux Ryan Viewpoints Editor Online Cece von Kolnitz Robert News Editor Photo Chris Dixon Jason I Features Editor Carto Achim Hunt Sue Mc Sports Editor Graduate The Gamecock is the student newspaper of The 1 Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday the fall and spring semesters and six times durin the exception of university holidays and e Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are thosi author and not those of The University of S The Board of Student Publications and Coir the publisher of The Gamecoci The Department of Student Media is its pare The Gamecock will try to print all letters n should be 200-250 words and must inclu professional title or year and major of a si must be personally delivered by the Th* Clnmfimrk nrwcrnnm m RikcpII Hm The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all possible libel or space limitations. Name withheld under any circumstan Wednesday, June 19,199 Ik j. rack JSC Since 1908 i, Editor in Chief i, Viewpoints Editor J_J ?*? DUfliu m, Achim Hunt i Kolnitz, Robert Walton N I 0 N | eets needs tions on campus. This can only mean OlogyFee better service for everyone. E-mail is the !T5FTT!FB lifeblood of students UlidB can't afford televill serve phone bills. It is the 'jdentS most direct way of 1 long run communication when vnii rannnf rot?/?V? J?? 1 someone on the telephone and, it is a place to share information and keep up with friends. Although we will the crunch when it is time to pay our bill, we can benefit from the improvements. We need to keep an eye on how the money is being spent, but the need for improved technology outweighs any complaints. fficock Lyons Chris Carroll sk Chief Director of Student Media Sims Marilyn Edwards Taylor Editor Marketing Director Walton Laura Day Editor Creative Director Samba Jeff A. 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Fu 777.6482 | Uu57 lis to l $0, do Art , M OLD I (tfi sM -r I QUOTE, UNQUOTE "This has been a very, very c lose momenti University Pre Lollapalooza t( I LARRY I For WILLIAMS music lovers < KjTfnTFJWBM everywhere, it appears 1 this summer could be quite a treat. ; For those lucky enough to 1 escape the wrath of the Business Administration building, Gambrell Hall or the dreaded < Coliseum, there is a smorgasbord ; of music that will be offered 1 throughout the country. i There is the H.O.R.D.E. tour, which is also known as Lollapatchouli. This year's ! H.O.R.D.E lineup is probably the Koat on far With powerful acts Blues Traveler, 311 and Dave Matthews Band, the tour should be a blockbuster. Rusted Root and Sun Volt, two less wellknown acts, will also be featured. Competing for attention with the H.O.R.D.E. tour will be Lollapalooza. This travelling circus is in its sixth year and should be even bigger than ever. The tour has recently been nicknamed "MetalDalooza " and will one of the harder tours to date. The lineup includes Rage Against the Machine, Rancid, the Melvins, the Ramones, < Soundgarden, and the torchbearers of metal, Metallica. The lineup is not for the elderly, and yes, it does resemble those "Monsters of Metal" tours that were popular in the late 80s. The Gamecock mi) d nX6<o TtiyM o o* I Vf/o h $E ,o Eve. ?*< I ) it m "N "N o ^ * > r r r lifficult budget to face and t im, but we will not gain it a \ jsident John Palms, on the Univei vq fnr tnnnp ^uiu ivyi JLxivyi.i\w Some alternative "purists" are complaining that Lollapalooza isn't alternative anymore, but they are arguing a lost cause. It's possible that, in its inaugural year, Lollapalooza might have been alternative. Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, Butthole Surfers and Body Count, none of whom had achieved Top-40 fame, were featured, and no one was ^omplaining. Now, people are grumbling. "Where's the alternative?" they say. "I don't want a bunch of metalheads corrupting myLollapalooza." T^nr ftinco wlin weren't aware * VI ""V "VIV11 v UVTU1V, here's a little secret: alternative is dead. What used to be considered cutting edge or alternative is now in heavy rotation on MTV and alternative rock radio stations. The musical ideas of the grunge movement in Seattle have been milked dry by today's so-called alternative bands like Bush, btone iemple rilots, the Offspring and Goo Goo Dolls. If bands like Soundgarden and Nirvana gave birth to grunge, then "artists" like Bush and Oasis are the afterbirth. Bush has ripped off the same chord progressions, vocal tones and harmonies of Seattle bands, and yet, they are played incessantly on the radio. The depressing fact is that bands like this with no originality can actually become very pop . t i t < 7 >vb! p o put together. We will not great deal." sity Budget y, not music ular. What a sad reflection on America's musical horizons. Those who want an alternative Lollapalooza want their kind of alternative: Bush. Green Dav and the Offspring. The fact is that, with a moneymaking giant like these, the directors who book acts do so with one particular goal in mind: maximizing profits. This makes it impossible for musical integrity to have anything to do with something so large as Lollapalooza. Perhaps Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil said it best during a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine. He said, "Lollapalooza was a big alternative lie to begin with. They had a definite target demographic, and they hit that very well ? white suburban people aged 18-24 ? which doesn't seem very alternative to me. If you go to a Metellica or Guns n' Roses show, you'll see that the audience is actually more diverse, socially and economically." Clearly, one could argue this year's Lollapalooza lineup has had its share of pop fame as well. Metallica, once a cutting edge thrash-metal group, are and have been an extremely popular group. And yes, Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine aren't doing too poorly on the Billboard charts. However, on a million-dollar tour like this, these acts are as alternative as thev come.