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Sundays
PALM Campus Ministry,
Worship and Dinner, 5:30 p.m., 728
Pickens St.
Cabinet, 6 p.m., Witten Rm.
Mondays
fraternity Council, 4:30 p.m.
Peer Conduct Board, 7:30 p.m.,
RH303
Homecoming Commission, 630
p.m., RH 348
Sorority Council, 5 fym.
Tuesdays
AAAS, 6 p.m., RH Theater
Bodybuilding & Fitness Club,
7 p.m., Blatt 135
Phi Sigma Pi, 8:30 p.m.,
Nursing 127
Oxfam Carolina, 4 p.m., the
PALM Center, 728 Pickens St.
Newman Club, 7 p.m., St.
Thomas More Center
Literary Roundtable, 8 p.m.,
RH 201
Carolina Cares, 7 pjn., RH 201
Hillel, 7 p.m., RH 203
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Leadership Team, 4:15 p.m:
Campus Judicial Board, 3:30
p.m.
Student Government Senate,
5 p.m., RH Theater
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Semiconductor Group vice president and
worldwide DSP manager, said, "TI's
continued sponsorship of the '97 TI
Challenge is an example of TPs strong
commitment to the DSP industry's growth
and the advancement to DSP technology
in the university community." Hames
commented, "We expect that this
competition will motivate the best and
brightest next-generation engineers to
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Scuba Club,
5:30 p.m., Blatt P.E. Center
PALM
Ministries, Body & Soul, 5:30 p.m.,
728 Pickens St.
Intervarsity Chapter Prayer,
7:15 a.m., RH 315
Women Student's Association,
8 p.m., RH
American Marketing
Associations, 8:30 p.m., BA 002
Fellowship of Christian Athletes,
9:15 p.m.
Homecoming Participation
Meeting (mandatory), 7 p.m., RH 322
BGLA, 8 p.m., BA 436
Into the Streets, 4 pm., Preston
Seminar Room
Carolina Productions Concerts,
7 p.m., RH Witten Room
Carolina for Kids, 8:30 p.m.,
RH 302
College Republicans, 7:30 p.m.,
Gambrell 250
International Students
Association, every other week
Mountaineering and White
Water Club, 7:3- p.m., RH 205
Student Legislature, 8:30 p.m.,
Gambrell Hall 151
Thursdays
Intervarsity Christian
Fellowship, 7:30 p.m., RH 322
BSU, Heart to Heart, 7 p.m.,
Baptist Student Center
Undergraduate ACS, 5 p.m.
Campus Crusade for Christ,
Prime Time, 7:30 pjn., Nursing 127
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signal processing which will lead to new,
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For more information about the
worldwide competition, students can
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hang like hoods over students' heads,
and the pungent aroma of smoke
permeates the room.
University of Iowa junior Ryan
Lumsden lights up an Arturo Fuente, a
premium cigar hand-rolled in the
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"You don't inhale a good cigar. Ifs
for the taste in your mouth," explains
Ryan Lumsden, executive president of
the UI Cigar Society.
Ahh, the bouquet, the aroma, the
flavor of a good cigar. Once considered
an accoutrement of the cognac-sipping,
Florsheim shoe-wearing set, cigars are
gaining new fans among twentysomethings,
in fact, college students
have discovered a new-found passion for
puffing, which has led to the formation
of cigar clubs on campuses nationwide.
According to Cigar Aficionado, a slick,
4-year-old magazine credited by some
for helping to reignite the smoky trend,
the oldest collegiate club is the Cigar
Society at Florida State University.
"I think university clubs are becoming
more common," says Elizabeth Zajac,
an FSU senior and president of the Cigar
Society at FSU, which started in 1994.
"I got a call [recently] from a student at
the University of Florida wanting to start
a agar club there. The more, the merrier.
We're glad there's other cigar smokers
out there."
An estimated 10 million Americans
are firing up stogies, and sales are up
for the first time in 23 years, according
to the Cigar Association of America.
Moreover, cigar smokers are getting
younger more men in their 20s
are taking up cigars, although the highest
concentration of smokers remains
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Taylor and Kaiser agreed that a
leadership panel, which was held a week
ago, provided an example of the next
step freshmen can take after the course.
The panel consisted of USC organization
representatives that answered any
questions the 50 ELP students may have
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Since the UI Cigar Society won official
student-club status in January,
membership has increased from 12 to
70, says Lumsden, who started the club.
The.reason we began is. I've been
enjoying smoking cigars for a number
of years," he says. "Once you start talking
to other people-'Oh, you smoke cigars
too?'-you [realize] maybe there's more
cigar smokers than you think. Fine cigars
are very vogue now."
The group, which receives money
from the UI student government, holds
two meetings a month: a casual gettogether
at a local restaurant, and a
more informational meeting at a tobacco
shop.
Lumsden says the UI Cigar Society
adds a little flavor to the campus. "Iowa
prides itself on its diversity," he says.
"[The society] is not ethnic or about race.
If s diversity by interest."
The club, he says, is for "anyone who
enjoys smoking cigars to get together
and enjoy themselves."
Fifteen women have joined the club,
which Lumsden attributes to the changing
image of a cigar smoker. "We're not just
trying to be a male-elitist type group,"
he says.
Cigar Aficionado magazine has made
it trendy for women to smoke stogies by
featuring supermodel Linda Evangelista
and, most recently, Demi Moore, on
its cover, Lumsden says.
"I think it gives females the go-ahead:
*We can do this, too," he says. "In the
beginning, there was veiy little [female
membership in the club]. Once other
women found out that other women were
doing it, they weren't afraid to come."
Despite the recent hype, however,
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for only about 2 percent of cigar smokers.
on campus.
The panel left me with the feeling
that it was not over after the ELP
graduation. By asking questions I was
able to know my next step was after
ELP," Kaiser said.
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Still countless magazine newspaper
and articles have tried to dissect why
more women are taking up cigar smoking.
To some, it's the next great leap for
women's equality.
In 1916, or so the legend goes, women
fighting for the right to vote began to
smoke cigarettes as "symbols of
emancipation."
Years later, they would bum bras as
a sign of liberation. Some theorize that
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independent women clamp stogies the
size of polish sausage between their teeth
as they infiltrate the ranks of Old Boys
Clubs.
Not so, say women college students
who smoke cigars.
"A lot of women enjoy it for the same
reasons men do," says Gretchen Heeren,
a UI junior and a member of the UI Cigar
Society. "If I have a good cigar, it's
enjoyable. Thafs why I do it."
She likes to puff on an Island
Amaretto. "It's really sweet and light
and has a really good flavor," she says.
"If s not harsh like some cigars."
Zajac, of FSUs Cigar Society, says
she rejects the notion that cigar smoking
is an extension of the women's rights
movement.
When she accepted the presidency
at a cigar dinner last year, "my teacher
was like Women's Lib!' and she got cra2y
over it," she says. "I didn't see it that
way. Fm a liberal, and I didn't see it that
wav."
Zajac admits, however, that she has
gotten mixed reactions to her passion
for cigars. Tve gotten a lot of eyes rolled
at me," she says. Tve had, What is the
world coming to,' and the other side, If s
very sexy to see a woman with a cigar.'"
*1 get irritated," she continues. "Why
can't I just enjoy my cigar? Why does
it have to be an issue? I'm tired of it."
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whole experience.
Taylor and Kaiser, along with
approximately 50 of their peers, will
graduate from the program on
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Conwwiily service comwUliuii
set to begin on Monday
Into the Streets and the
Residence Hall Association are
sponsoring a community service
competition in conjunction with
Clemson University's RHA, from
Nov. 18-22.
Students are asked to donate
personal nygiene items, sucn as
soap, shampoo and toothpaste.
Students can drop off their
donations in the boxes located in
Residence Hall lobbies. All collected
items will be donated to the
Salvation Army.
Philosophy to hotel two lectures
Garry Hagberg will speak at
4 p.m. Nov. 22 in Gambrell Hall
room 152. He will be speaking on
"Apollo's Revenge, Nietzsche and
Beethoven." A reception will
precede the talk at 3:30 p.m. in
the Humanities Office Building
reading room 615.
Also, Barbara Ainsworth will
talk at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 20 in
Gambrell Hall room 250.
"Women's physical activity
patterns: The myth of the
sedentary lifestyle" will be the
topic of the lecture. A reception
will follow at Women's Studies
oh 1710 College St.
Bieethics presents lecture
Martha Montello of the
Harvard Medical School will talk
from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 26 in
Gambrell Hall room 258. The USC
Center for Bioethics is the host
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