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Robins Cradle, today, Sundance Grill Spoonful, today, The Libra Back Doors, today, The Elbow Room Music Hall Page A2 mm; : x g MBBafetefe > '^g liteilP^ wl ^ P-'' :r^|0 I pte - M^MIW ^^^K::$?....; .... .;:i:'.. Bg5gwx*x-.-.-.-. ' ' ' ' ' '*'***t^^^^^^^^^[ F: iiL *fe?8^SO^&wPs8BSHl yBHn: = vv ' (left) Martin Luther King Jr, Clevel other person in the movement, hat USC prol asst. features editor KRISTIN FWEESTATE When Cleveland Sellers talks about the 1960s, he doesn't say much about psychedelic colors, drugs or going to San Francisco with flowers in his hair. Instead, he talks about footprints. Through the movement experience, Sellers said, there was an affirmation for students "who may be interested in...becoming aware of what their roles and of what their footprint in the sand will be like, the legacy that they leave as students." Sellers, a professor of African American Studies, began to leave his own footprints in the early '60s at the age of 19 when he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an organization that grew out of the student movement, as a field secretary. Although SNCC began as a tempo rary organization, its members soon realized the need for students to work within a more organized structure. "They decided that it was important to have a coordination of the student and youth activities, but also to begin to look at the possibility of having an impact of some permanence in relation to the civil rights movement," Sellers said. "Students wanted to be involved, but they didn't want to be involved through the existing organizations and the existing structures." "Some people saw it as an organization on the cutting edge," Sellers said, "an organization that challenged the old, traditional Negro leadership, an organization that challenged the stafun miA O V\ AWTftTM Trtfl AT% /I O f A iuo ijuu, an uigaiiiiiatiuii mat uaicu tu be different." SNCC offered students the opportunity to make such a challenge by confronting issues such as racism, educaFoundatioi] features editor JENNIFER STANLEY Susie McGrane is someone who wonlH Ho anvthincr for anyone Some one who would never say no to anyone. And now the Columbia community isn't going to say "no" to her. Columbia's Save Our Susie Foundation is raising money to help McGrane's struggle with cancer. McGrane, a 30-year-old USC graduate, was diagnosed with breast cancer in September. Since then, McGrane's friend Margaret Neville said, there has been overwhelming support from the community. m 1 1 ' I ry "j vs <s. \ \ v y* land Sellers and Bernard Lee particij 1 the vision of the beloved communi fessor rec tion reform I ' and class jft/KBSaki discrimina- ^ tion in ,. ' :.:.ip hopes that society would examine and wjM improve itselfbyrais I ing the I standard. I raise the is- I sue of em- I powering I people who I have been putting them in po- (left to right) Cleveland s i t i o n s their heads during a i where they Massacre, can take a certain amount of control over their own destiny; that is, taking ordinary citizens and assisting them with becoming leaders and organizers in their communities," Sellers said. The goal of SNCC, according to Sellers, was "rather than going in and running the campaign, you go in and identify the people and organize those people who are going to run that campaign...and to point out the contradiction through some kind of tactical device" about social issues such as the Vietnam War. Sellers stressed that, above all, SNCC strove for the enforcement of preexisting laws and for the creation of new laws necessary "to ensure equity i to raise m "People call from out of no where and offer help...things to auction," Neville said. Since the initial diagnosis, McGrane has undergone a double mastectomy and five months of chemotherapy. And in the coming months, she will receive a $150,000 bone marrow treatment followed by radiation therapy. To cover the cost of the treatment, five local bands played at Jungle Jim's in Five Points Tuesday and raised more than $3,000. SOS will sponsor a wine tasting, food sampling and auction from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday at Saluda's restaurant in Five Points. Admission is $50 a person. 1 17 Ju The Gai :. :'. -. j]||l w||||pp 5:>: S ' JMBW v '.W W/ : : ' * I i% * ' ? ivv'/^f . r i f.. -:? 4 wmf^ m ?wm pate in the Mississippi Meredith Mart ty." alls his fi) m * pHpMMM L Sellers and his son, Macel Nance ar nemorial service for the students k and justice and freedom for African Americans and other minorities, including the poor-and that part should never be left off. SNCC was concerned about the poor and the community, and that crossed racial divides." Sellers described the '60s in terms of both the civil rights and student movements. "There was a kind of euphoria also because people could actually begin to believe that there was a possibility that America could stand up to and live by certain principles of the U.S. Consti tuuon. Amidst this euphoria, however, lurked a solemnity and a sadness. Many SNCC members and Sellers himself oney for br( Neville also said there will be a golf tournament in April, and bars will be donating money from St. Patrick's Day sales. McGrana crrarhi atari with a dacrraa in Media Arts and was a member of Delta Gamma sorority. She photographed Hootie and the Blowfish before they became a national hit. In addition, she was the manager of Group Therapy and took pictures for the USC Athletic Department. Her photographs hang in various bars throughout Five Points. To make a donation, call Neville at 771-8080 or write the Save Our Susie Foundation at P.O. Box 5322, Columbia, S.C. 29250. i rc. mecock :h of 1966. Sellers said, "I think that 1 ght for ch had to assume a , great amount of responsibility at a such as SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK fun(Jrajs id Sen. K. Patterson bow ing and illed in the Orangeburg sending people mio the field. "You had to deal with the issue of your own mortality and the likelihood of you creating and having to deal with a situation where somebody else ends up in harm's way," Sellers said. "We had to grow up real early, real quick." In spite of the responsibilities, however, Sellers said, "I don't think I would give anything for my experiences" because of the tremendous opportunities for personal and intellectual growth through talking with people like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X about their ideologies and their principles and the basis for those principles. Sellers knew King personally, "as a colleague, as almost like a brother, as a regular kind of ail-American, fun-lov iast cancer1 f CHIP J? ,?s8i?.. ' A W> /'^Ag^lf--/ iiifi% i?ix is E Ch h m?tr SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK Dr. King, probably more than any 1 1 j m rignis ing kind of guy. I think that Dr. King probably, more than any other person in the movement, had the vision of the beloved community." Sellers said he can see both the vision and the opposition of King in the '90s in the forms of change and of issues such as the elimination of affirmative action. Were King still alive today, Sellers said, "I think the opposition would still be as formidable now as it was then, but I think he would still be committed to the principles of justice, equality and peace." With the idea of such a formidable opposition even in the '90s, does Sellers think the civil rights movement is still going on? "While there has been change, the change has not been across the board. TViero are tViece little nnelrotc nf rocic_ tance that are still in place, and that simply means that the struggle will continue." In order to resolve such a struggle, Sellers believes that "people are going to have to eliminate those prejudices and those obstacles that dehumanize other human beings and press and restrict the growth of other human beings." Still, Sellers keeps his eyes to the future. He gives himself and others of his generation the responsibility of sharing their experiences during the '60s to encourage growth and action in the younger generations so that they, too, may leave their footprints in the "Twenty years from now, I would hope there would be another generation that will have stood up and talked about...creating a world where we can proudly live with one another and understand diversity and understand that we live in a much smaller world." victim, USC SEAN RAYFORD Asst. Photo Editor \ eckout gntertaiQment TV's web sire. ttp//www.eonline.com Friday, February 27, 1998 Former model gives weight lecture staff writer FEUCIA BROWN ks keaton pale, beautiful face framed with golden curls. Obvious of our eyes on her, she must know how we are sizing her up. Marie Keaton has been modeling for 15 years. She appeared at the Russell House Ballroom Wednesday to talk about body images presented in the media. Her presentation was one of many activities sponsored by USC's Health and Wellness Center, located in the basement of Thompson Health Center. When Keaton was 14 years old, a New York modeling agent told her she needed to lose 20 pounds to continue modeling normal clothes. She told the story of continuously trying to control her weight and her failure to do so. She said she remembers her first year as a USC student working out at the Blatt P.E. Center for four hours daily. After her body took all the damage it could, she had to stop. Despite her obsessive actions to keep her weight down, almost instantaneously she filled into a size 14. Accepting the body nature gave her took years of therapy. Keaton said she blames the me dia. The average woman in the United States wears a size 12-16, but the media don't cater to such images. An average plus-size model such as Keaton wears a size 10-12. She said that appreciation is needed most by the media. She said the public needs to be bombarded with positive messages about our bodies, not air-brushed covers of Cindy Crawford. Keaton gave suggestions about how the negative portrayal of women can change. Keaton said people should boycott magazines with inconceivable ads. She said that if you don't like a model in a pair of jeans, never buy those jeans. Write to the companies and tell them why you are dissatisfied with their images. Consumers are the sources of sales. Let them know their ads are nut wuiiung oil J'uu, anc saiu. On a slide projector, she flashed statistics, including: 75 percent of all American women are dissatisfied with their appearance. Fifty percent of nine-year-old girls and 80 percent of 10-year-old girls have dieted. Fifty percent of American women are on a diet. They see fat where others see normal and healthv. Wroner bodv images lead to eating disorders and disordered eating. If you need help with your body image, stop by the Health and Wellness Center in the basement of Thompson Health Center. alumnus tig Daddy Johnson was one of ive bands who performed uesday to raise money for Susie IcGrane's cancer treatment. Save tor Susie, a local foundation, is 'tannine other events to raise noney. o make a donation call 771-3080 r write P.O. Box 5322, iolumbia, S.C. 29250. t k