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Founding
staff wnter RUTH NETTLES
Three years ago, USC opened Pre
ston Residential College, the first in
stitution of its type at the university
Today, Preston houses^240 student!
who live together in a residentia
community. They form committee!
for special projects and eat dinner to
gether four times a week.
About 35 to 40 facultv associate!
from the university participate in col
lege activities, sponsor seminars anc
eat in the Preston Dining Hall.
Since it opened, Kevin and Beck]
Lewis have been the principals of Pre
ston. At the end of this semester
however, the Lewises will leave, am
Ken and Margaret Perkins will tak<
their place.
Ken Perkins, from the history de
partment, and Margaret Perkins, fron
the English for international student
program, learned last week they.taki
the position.
Seven faculty members and tw<
residents choose the new principals fron
a group of candidates.
In choosing, they considered, amonj
other things, tenure status, teaching
Symphony
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The USC Symphony will perforn
Jan. 23 at the Koger Center, under
guests The Diamonds will be featui
In 1956, The Diamonds began
Fools Fall In Love." One year latt
soaring to the top of the charts in
the "National Anthem of Rock 'n' R<
worldwide. Other Diamonds hits inc
and "Ten Thousand Miles Away."
The Diamonds are Bob Duncar
Owens. They have enjoyed active <
group, appearing on The Tonight SI
ers.
Tickets are available at $13 (reg
dents) through the Carolina Colisei
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skills. The term is for three
years and can be renewed upon review
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The position comes with a variety
3 of responsibilities from acting as ad1
ministrator and living in Preston
3 with the residents to work toward cultural
diversity and artistic expression. ,
Kevin Lewis, one of the current prin3
cipals, was complementary of the new
principals.
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a long time," he said. "Their strengths
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, Most of Preston's residents have not
1 yet met the new principals but are ex2
cited to do so. They are curious about
what will be different in the future.
First-year resident Lee Koon said,
i "I'm interested in finding out what
s they're going to do and see how they're
3 going to improve Preston. Maybe they
will bring in outside people to give us
3 a broader educational experience."
i Margaret Perkins said that she sees
this job as a role through which to fal
cilitate the Preston community. But on
y the whole, she views it as a long-term
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careers of their own before forming the
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job with the hope of expanding the sense
of community into USC and Columbia
through Preston residents who get along
and work together.
The Perkinses have experience in
line with their goal of fostering community.
On many occasions, the couple
have lived overseas, where they learned
to build relationships and work with
the surrounding community.
Their overseas experience will perhaps
bring some new perspectives into
Preston as well.
"I believe that although we will miss
Kevin and Becky, the new principals
will bring a different point of view
and new life into Preston," said
Stephanie Cole, who has lived in Preston
for the past two years.
The Perkinses believe Preston has
been working well. For the time being,
they plan to shadow the Lewises, and
then they will listen to the students to
see what changes they desire for the future
of the residential college.
New residents will be admitted in
the fall through an application process.
Call the Department of Housing for
more information.
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NEW YORK-Actress Neve Campbell
says she remembers the first
time she ever did a screaming scene.
"I realized I'd never actually
screamed before. It felt really good. It
felt really good to be somewhat aggressive
and to actually speak my mind.
I sort of grew up never feeling it was
OK to share emotions," she says.
By now, Campbell has no trouble
showing her emotions on screen, be it
as Julia in Fox's series, "Party of Five,"
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crative horror film ever produced,
"Scream."
In fact, she is back to scream and
scream again in "Scream 2," the sequel.
All the characters who survived the
first bloodbath return for more, including
Campbell as the heroine, Sidney; Courtney
Cox as reporter Gale Weathers;
David Arquette as the lovable Dewey;
Jamie Kennedy as Sidney's pal; and
Liev Schreiber as the guy Sidney wrongly
accused of killing her mother. Joining
the fray for the follow-up are Sarah
Michelle Gellar, Jerry O'Connell and
Jada Pinkett.
The plot? Sidney's story has been
transformed into a movie called "Stab,"
based on Gale's trashv tell-all book about
the events depicted in "Scream."
At the film's premiere, held in a
movie theater near the college Sidney
now attends, the vicious masked boheir
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Though it all sounded great, Campbell
wasn't exactly enthused about committing
to another horror outing, despite
the fact that "2" also re-teamed
"Scream" director Wes Craven and
scribe Kevin Williamson.
"I was contracted to do 'Scream 2,'
but I was apprehensive," admits the
friendly, raven-haired actress during a
conversation at a Manhattan hotel. "I
was apprehensive only because the very
reason a sequel is made is that the first
film was so good. So, it's a huge challenge
to make a sequel as good as the
first film. But I was extremely happy
when I got the 'Scream 2' script and realized
Kevin had carried that throughline
of being able to laugh at one's self.
That's what I thought made the first
film so unique. I also thought 'Scream
2' was as funny and as scary as the first
one. We also kind of protect ourselves
by saying within 'Scream 2' that sequels
suck."
"I remember feeling insecure on the
first film. Everybody around me was
being goofy and being funny and had
these great one-liners, and I seemed so
stoic in some ways. But I came to realize
that if the audience couldn't see
the movie through my eyes, then they
wouldn't see it at all.
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I expressed myself. Now, it's film. And
it helps a lot."
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bell's stint on "Party of Five" should for- *
ever keep her out of therapy. These days
on the angst-driven series, Charlie has j
cancer and Julia's (Campbell) dealing {
with the realities of married life.
"I do feel the show is a little melodramatic
now," says the actress, who's ^
in the process of divorcing her reallife
husband, Jeff Colt. "They've cho- s
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ieavy as ours is right now. It's hard
;o keep it lighthearted."
Campbell fills every second of downline
with even more diverse work. She
days a 1970s soap star in "54," a feaure
about Manhattan's infamous dis:otheque,
Studio 54, and assays a drugiddicted,
ex-convict bisexual in the
steamy drama "Wild Things," with Matt
Dillon and Kevin Bacon. | t
Campbell co-produced the roman1c
comedy "Hairshirt," an independent
'eature set to hit the festival circuit
sometime in the new year.
"It stars Rebecca Gayheart, David
DeLuise, my brother and a lot of othsr
newcomers and friends," Campbell
lotes. "It was just very incestuous. I
lave a very small role. It was a great f j
sxperience, like putting a big jigsaw J %
mzzle together. I learned a lot about
jatience from doing it."
It's all part of Campbell's ambitious
fame plan.
"I want to act in movies after the
show ends," she says. "I want to be in
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lepend on executives, on studio people,
;o grant me my fate. I'd rather hold on?that
myself and craft my own career."
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