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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
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issues such as racism, educaFoundatioi]
features editor JENNIFER STANLEY
Susie McGrane is someone who
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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.
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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
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"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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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Friday, February 27, 1998
Former
model
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weight
lecture
staff writer FEUCIA BROWN
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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
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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.
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