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^ GAMECOCK ONLINE Visit the Gamecock's Home on the World Wide Web http://www.gamecock.sc.edu GAMECOCK INSIDE : j WEATHER j INDEX VIEWPOINTS Read about one colum- m a ? T0DAY j Viewpoints 3 nist's weekend in Myrtle Beach. 3 : /lj || M ^ |T% IT ^ fl j Etc. ? ETC. Find out about the BlattRE. I wilt I j V|( I I I I 1/ I III MT i ^ Lew" Comics 5 Center's aerobic program. 4 j ? W f i I I I 1 III || I Thursday j Sports 6 SPORTS Sports columnist discusses i M & ^ B | 1 HL H 1L ! Hich"^7 Classified 8 ? basketball season's start. 6 / ^ ^ ~ ^ W : : ; Serving USC since 1908 j GAMECOCK BRIEFS Tickets for the Carolina-Clemson football game still available Those students who didn't sign up for the lottery for Carolina-Clemson football tickets may still pick up stu^ dent tickets in Russell House room 203 ^ from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. today. Tickets are also still available for Saturday's Carolina-Florida game. Anthropologist to talk on Mayans rv n i T / TN ? J ut. urant dones, irom uaviason College, will lecture at 3:30 p.m. today in Gambrell Hall, room 152. The lecture is titled "The Spanish Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom." ^ Red Cross Blood Drive coining The Richland County Administrator's Office is holding a Red Cross Blood Drive from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday at the Richland County Administration Building at 2020 Hampton St. Contact Debby Porter at 7484926 for an appointment. Tailgate party set for Saturday A tailgate party sponsored by the USC Office of Alcohol and Drug Programs starts at 10 a.m. Saturday at the State Fairgrounds in front of the Cattle Arena. Carolina Productions to sponsor 1997 games tournament Sunday Carolina Productions is sponsoring a spades and nine-ball pool tournament at 1 n.m. Sundav. Registration ^ forms and information are available at W the Russell House information center or room 235. Any questions or concerns, please call David Gellis at 777-7130. Carolina Spirit Week is Nov. 17-21 Carolina Spirit Week will lead up to the USC-Clemson football game Nov. 21. Events start with the kickoff at noon Nov. 17 on the Russell House patio. Build a cardboard castle Volunteers are needed to build a house of cardboard boxes at 2 p.m. Nov. 17 on the Russell House patio. The program coordinates with National Hunger and Homelessness Week and is designed to help students understand the living conditions of the homeless. For more c j.: li r\az uuurmauuii, tau uie uuiw ui vamuiuunity Service Programs at 777-8402. Sleep-out on Russell House patio The Office of Community Service Programs is sponsoring a sleep-out at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 17 on the Russell House patio. Donations of old blankets will be accepted. For more information, contact the Office of Community Service Programs at 777-8402. Discover the cultural and religious W views about world hunger The 1997 Oxfam Campaign Against World Hunger will sponsor campus-wide Day of Fast on Nov. 19. Sign up to fast (give up a meal, junk food, etc.) and Marriott will give the value to Oxfam America. There will be the annual Hunger Banquet at 6 p.m. in the Capstone Campus room. For more information, call 799-7363 or 799-0212. ^ "One-Shot" opportunity offered The Office of Community Service Programs is sponsoring a "One-Shot" volunteer opportunity from 2:30-5 p.m. Nov. 21 at the Hunger and Homeless Shelter. For more information, contact the Office of Community Service Programs at 777-8402. Industrial Hygiene Graduate Fellowship applications due Jan. 26 Tanking for an opportunity to be come a professional in a rewarding position? If so, the Industrial Hygiene Graduate Fellowship Program may be an opportunity. For application materials or additional information on policies, procedures and guidelines under which the program operates, please contact Mary Kinney at (423) 576-9655. Q^Gamecock Briefs is a service of The Gamecock. Organizations are welcome tn suhmit hripfs tn thp npuis Pfiitnrs hut the newspaper is by no means obligated to print submissions. The editors reserve the right to determine what is published and when it is published. compiled by Carrie McCullough t * i CP nabs ! KRISTIN RICHARDSON Asst. News Editor Carolina Productions will host Thi Wallflowers live in concert Thursday one of the largest concerts in USC'i history. j Carolina Productions, USC's stu j dent-run programming board, had ti : compete against two other major con I cert promoters to get The Wallflower I to consider its promotion. "When we had ideas this summe to have a big concert, The Wallflower were one of our choices," Concert Com | missioner Cedric Scott said. "We sen j in an offer, along with Cellar Door an< C&C Concerts, to bid on which orga I nization would promote the band. : Photos by Tori : Assistant Phoi ! The Jeep Collegiate Hea j Tour visited USC's Russ I Monday and Tuesday to ness on the importance of ! lifestyle. Above, Freshm majors (L) Barton Bailey ! Singh race on the Bunget j Charlie Nardiello, Fres S Science major becomes i ; the Sticky Wall. All activit ! charge. j Oxfam cam : JESSICA VANEGERN Staff Write ; The fifth-annual Oxfam campaigi against world hunger will be held Nov : 17-19 at use. Students will be able to contribub \ even more toward the fight agains I world hunger by donating a meal fror their Marriott food card. Students in j terested in participating should inforn ; a cashier at a campus dining facilit; they wish to donate a meal. Marriot I has agreed to donate $5 for each mea students chose to donate. I "I don't think giving up one mea is asking too much of people," said Ed I ward Wadford, a student volunteer fo ! rv o n l* UAH. j* t? ; uxiam Carolina. Alter spending urn in the service and seeing how peopl I live in Haiti, Somalia and Honduras ; I realize how lucky we are to live ii the United States." i Booths also will be located in tb dining facilities at Bates House, Pat I terson, Capstone and the Russell Hous : for students to donate money to Ox fam America. Oxfam Carolina will sponsor i ; Hunger banquet Nov. 19 at 6 p.m. n I the Capstone Campus Room. Ticket ; can be purchased at the door. The cos V The Wal Scott said these organizations are actual promoters who work with groups throughout the nation and promote B bigger shows. "We competed against people whc 3 are doing this for a living and have more experience," Scott said. Scott said Carolina Productions 3 had known The Wallflowers were go ing to be touring through Columbia, st s they tried to get in touch with theii agent. r "We all had to devise a productior s package, which made each particula] - organization stand out," he said. "The t Wallflowers' agent called us on the i deadline date to accept our offer." One reason Scott said he thinks " Carolina Productions got the show is mmmsmm O'Hara, Xfer.; to Editor iaMMJ 1th and Fitness ell House patio heighten aware leading a sound en Engineering and (R) Erick RH hmen Political i human fly on lWN|j||H|iH ies were free of ipaign cumin r is $3 for students and $5 for the public. "This is a great opportunity for students to feel the effects of hunger," the Rev. Tom Wall said. "It is impore tant to raise awareness in the comt munity. One way this can be accomn plished is if individuals can refrain " from eating, smoking or even watch11 ing television for a day." y People attending the banquet will j be given a ticket. Whether the meal participants receive is representative of how people eat in a first, second or third world country is determined by the color of the ticket. r e Wall said 1.2 billion people worlde wide live in poverty. One-third of the , grain grown in the world and one-hall 1 of the fish caught are fed to animals in wealthy countries. e Donating money to Oxfam America, an organization that has been help_ in/r r\AtTA??f ir of??i r*\r r\v\ i A^nn^iinla in g 1115 puvciuj-au itACii niuiviuuaio 111 more than 28 countries for the past 25 years, enables students to taken an a active role in helping world hunger. a "We need to remember that we s are the minority," said Theresa t Garwacki, a volunteer for Oxfam Car? lflowers o i because they could offer students low-, ca j er ticket prices. we 5 "The other promoters wanted money," he said. "Carolina Productions coi > wanted to have a good, quality show. > We were able to lower ticket prices and h" still give the band a big check." i Scott said The Wallflowers' agent no liked Carolina Productions because > their offer stood out. "We can make the fans happy, as well as make the band happy " he said. e ! "We were lucky for that." ^ r This will be the largest single event ti\ ; in Carolina Productions' history. an "A lot of our stuff had been falling so through last year," he said. "We had Pr 3 Widespread Panic in concert in *96 and 3 112 for Cockstock in an off-campus lo- dii ' ' ; :: ___ ...... ,. g next week I nlino <rE\ran fVinnrrVi wn rlnn'f can rvtirnr*. UUiiU. IdXUUgli f T V# UUXl \J OW l/l ty on a day-to-day basis, that doesn't mean it does not exist". Garwacki also is a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. Because of her efforts, 14 social sororities on campus also will be taking an active role in the effort to raise money for Oxfam. The sororities will be competing against each other to see which organization can raise the most money by Nov. 19. * Because of the efforts of Oxfam . and other charity organizations, the fight against poverty is making progress. In the past 50 years, average real income in the developing world has doubled. ! I : Child death rates have been cut in Vmlf and avpratrp lifp PYnprtanrv I has increased by one-third. Oxfam Carolina is a student coalition on campus. Members volunteer time each fall specifically for the Oxfam campaign against world hunger. The Oxfam campaign is support1 ed by Palm Campus Ministry, the Neuman Club, Office of Community Sers vice Programs, Carolina Productions i and the Presbyterian Student Center. vcr l pn tion, which had less people than < (anticipated." i Scott said one of his goals as ^ acert commissioner was to implejnt three major concerts throughout i i year in Carolina Productions. ! "We have The Wallflowers, and 1 w we are planning a concert to be Id in January or February and, of 1 urse Cnrkstnr.k." hp said. "The Humpday House Party" will J held at the University House i ednesday at 8 p.m. It will feature oups such as the Tantrums, Primi- , re Magic from Los Angeles, Calif., j d Robin's Cradle. Danielle Howie alwill be performing at this opening e-party. 1 "This is the first step in the right ection," Scott said. "We have planned 1 |H Housing provide: I -i 1 " II delegate PEBRA MITCHELL Sta Twenty-one delegat in Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 7-1 SAACURH, the So Universities Residence 1 ference held to bring al .Region together to comi residence halls the best There were over ? from 10 Southeastern s1 man and Winthrop we: Unnn fUn \ I -Liana. iutivci, uic i' for RHA, and Chinaye r ganized the trip to SAA Danielle McDonal< ference as advisors. The sole purpose gates to attend the proj and to gain knowledge USC to improve on-cam "I enjoy attending t so much personally," M< "You learn a lot a I tending the programs fs For some of the del( they had the privilege c Parker it was an excitii "I had a great tim< people," Parker said. All of the schools p spirit and the programs la Wilonn Ddall McPhoi !Top 15 programs for SA award at the conference The Gamecocks a This is USCs second con something the delegate: "These conferences tion, having fun and leai er, who helped organize "I am really lookin with the delegates for ft USC in the best way we Although SAACUE the delegates said they "T hone tn attend ne a lot on making life in o ________ memorable." ?rom L-R, Susanne Newman, Kath ead students Tuesday night in a "Sal vas designed for students to walk ar o make the campus safer for student 4 Miioters everything from the basic idea to the actual performance without any professional help." Scott said Carolina Productions is on the right track to becoming consistent in getting national acts to come to USC. "We actually competed and beat the real promoters at their own game," tie said. "The students will benefit from lower ticket costs and the band wilT get more out of our promotion." The doors at Carolina Coliseum will open at 6:30 p.m. and show time is at 7:30 p.m. Student tickets are $15 and may be purchased at the Russell House Information Center. Tickets for the general public are $20, and tickets the day of the show are $22. To charge tickets by phone, call (803) 251-2222. ; conference s new ideas, s win award iff Writer es from USC traveled to Georgia Tech ) to participate in SAACURH '97. uth Atlantic Affiliate of Colleges and lalls, is an annual Residence Hall Con1 of the schools in the.South Atlantic e up with new ideas on making their they can be. )00 delegates representing schools tates. USC, Clemson, Newberry, Furre South Carolina's representatives. lational Communications Coordinator rurner, the NCC in training, both orCURH'97. i and Chris Zupko attended the conof this conference was for the delejrams presented by the other schools on how to implement these ideas at ipus housing. hese conferences because you can gain elver said. bout growth and development by aticilitated by your peers." jgates this was not the first conference >f attending, but for freshman Regina lg, as well as educational, experience. i, and I especially liked meeting new larticipated in a competition of school 3 they presented. USC delegates Gesrson and Keisha Mouzon placed in the A.CURH '97, the highest programming 1 lso won the spirit award this year, secutive year winning the spirit award, s worked very hard on. 3 are all about interaction, participa ning for everyone," said Chinaye Turni the trip. g forward to organizing and working iture conferences in order to represent i can." HA '97 was an educational conference, enjoyed themselves. xtyear, Lakeya Nesbit said, i learned ur residence halls more enjoyable and \*r M Mlill^1' J*MSa H|iB >KVN K\U'U|<I> In, t^.nr.n.k ryn Henderson and Apple Shippey fety Walk" across campus. The walk ound campus and make suggestions 18. 4