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homemade.
The trip leaves at 10 a.m. Dec.
14 from Adventure Carolina. Wildlife
you may see on the trip includes whitetail
deer, river otters, owls, herons,
hawks and woodpeckers.
Cost is $25. Call 796-4505 to register
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Coliseum
Fleetwood Mac, 8 p.m.,
Saturday, Lakewood Ampitheater
(Atlanta, Ga.)
Buju Banton, TBA, Nov. 18, The
Music Farm (Charleston)
Tonic, TBA, Nov. 19, The Music
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Nov. 21, Rockafellas'
Shades of Grey w/Tinder Idols,
11 p.m., Nov. 22, Rockafellas'
Hobex, TBA, Nov. 27,
Rockafellas'
Crystal Method, TBA, Nov. 28,
Masquerade (Atlanta, Ga.)
311 w/ Sugar Ray, 7:30 p.m.,
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Christmas cookie canoe trip
The Adventure Carolina Congaree
Swamp canoe safari takes on a new
twist to get in the spirit of the holidays.
Bring a sampling of your favorite holiday
cookies to share with other people
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Students try t<
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r<oug-uis tance reiauuusmps are
often characterized as ones where the
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Sophomore Lang Sheorn has visited
her boyfriend in Florida twice since
the beginning of the semester.
"Dave goes to school in Daytona ^
Beach, Florida," Sheorn said. "I wish
I could see him more often, but traveling
there takes a lot of time and money.
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ways of communicating." n
Long-distance relationships also
can be very expensive. Senior Tricia fi
Phillips explains the cost of her rela- fi
tionship. fi
"My boyfriend, David, and I have
very high phone bills each month,"
Phillips said. "I just have to hear his
voice at least every other day and call- n
ing to Virginia isn't cheap. I also love S
to send him cards and cookies that I lc
bake for him. The post office can be it
pricey." ^
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to Virginia from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. usu- A
ally costs $5. She said this is one of the fi
cheaper times to call, but she often calls tl
her boyfriend at more expensive times
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cost more than $8 or $9 per call. b
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that e-mail is a cheaper way to com- ti
municate,but it's less personal.
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the same as hearing Dave's voice," si
Phillips said. "Sometimes, hearing him a
is the only way to help a lonely ci
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ndure," Williams said. "School may
eem harder to face because that speial
someone is not always there. Homework
is often put aside because of an
ching heart. But if the relationship
works, the couple knows they have faced
great odd and succeeded."
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who seek professional psycho
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all the pressures, especially longistance
relationships.
Students who are not, or never
ave been, in a long-distance relationhip
think one would be difficult to enure.
"If my girlfriend and I weren't in
he same town, I don't know if I could
lake it," junior Jeremy Smith said.
Smith said that he and his girliend
have been dating since they were
eshmen, so they have never had to
ice the possibility of being apart. He
aid he is concerned about what will
appen when they graduate.
"When Laura and I graduate, we
lay have to go our separate ways,"
mith said. "I'm sure we could have a
>ng-distance relationship, but I know
, would be hard."
Some students have kept relaonships
since they were in high school.
Jthough the couple chose to go to difsrent
colleges, they decided to stay in
ae relationship.
College of Charleston senior Anela
Johnson has been with her
oyfriend since she was a senior in high
chool. She said she finds her relaonship
more rewarding many times.
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arely," Johnson said. "So when we do
ee each other, time is more valuable
nd precious. I like this relationship. I
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nd I don't worry so much about what
cott is doing. I know he is faithful to
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Special to the Gamecock
Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Hole an
Soundgarden are the bands that com
to mind when one thinks of th
Seattle, Wash., music scene.
Rising from this scene is a han
called the Laura Love Band, fronte
by Laura Love, whose sound differ
from those bands with a positiv
folk energy and diverse sources.
Love, who calls her
brand of music
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leased her seventh al- I
bum, the first for I
Mercury Records, called I
Octoroon. The title of the I
album is an old slave I
term that labels anyone
with one-eighth African I
ancestry.
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tality, is the well from I
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title track, "Octoroon," I
describes the delicate I
balance of being an oc- I
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the cracks: "Octoroon be I
quist / Octoroon be en- I
tertaining/ Octoroon be V
sorry."
Recently, Love performed
in Columbia at Mercury
Characters, opening for Columbu
Rusted Root.
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being outside wherever you go. I wen
to a Catholic school as a little gir
where all the kids were white. Wi
were the only black family in the neigh
borhood. Everyday we got called name
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black neighborhood. There they said
'Aw, you think you're so cute. You tiyii
to act white.' I was like, 'How's that
I just like to be myself and be re
spected."'
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race lines are so etched that to b<
blurred between them creates an "out
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sic is a jubilant and positive exprese
sion of the human spirit. Her
music does not attempt to pigeonhole
d itself. Instead, it relishes in Love's
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Caribbean and Jamaican rhythms,
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Beatles and "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Also, Love covers Nirvana's
"Cone as You Are" on the new album.
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does a lovely rendition of this moving
song
Furthermore, she covered the traditional
hymn "Amazing Grace" and ^
a traditional AfricanAmerican
gospel folk
song, "Blind Bartimus,"
in which Love supplies
all of the vocals on this
a capella version.
Throughout Love's
performance, one can
see the cast of her personality.
She is eclectic,
yet not weird, highFly
energized but not %
frivolous and sincere
but not insipid.
After every song,
her warm, rich laughter
fills the room. As
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her music and band,
bounces around to
her infectious rhythms
and earthy rocking by
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performed pouring the country
promoting the album
' Octoroon. She has yet
to hit the airwaves,
although it's rumored her first single
will be "All the Pushin'." This song
is about the frustration of being in a
relationship where one person does
all the work, a situation to which each
of us can relate.
As groups sich as Foo Fighters, ^
the Presidents ofthe United States of
America and Candebox have emerged
from Seattle and make a name for
themselves, hopefilly the Laura Love
Band will do the sime. In a world of
angst and apathy,perhaps the Laura
Love Band can provide the light
and optimism missing from today's
music scene.
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Recording artist Laura Love recently
a at Characters. Her new CD is called Ocl
'f Celtic, African-American and Apt
palachian mountain melodies. She us1
es instruments such as the fiddle, ace
cordion, tongue drums, congo, cello,
" tabla and maracas in her music. Her
s vocalization pulls singing techniques
- from Southern and African-American
I gospel traditions, Celtic traditions and
1 yodeling.
The craftsmanship of her lyrics
is equally diverse. While all original
son ps are written bv Love, she em