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0' "Joseph and the Amazing Techj color Dreamcoat," 7:30 p.m., Apri to 9, Koger Center. Tickets cost $ or $28 and are available at the C< olina Coliseum box office and all Ca tol Tickets outlets. 251-2222. Monday, April 6,1998 Festival: staff writer JAMIE BOWMAN Music Midtown, an Atlanta festival, is set to kick off its fifth anniversary May 1 to May 3. The festival is organized by Alex Cooley and Peter Conlon who organize events from talent buying to marketing. It began as an attempt to unite culturally and demographically diverse people in celebration of the arts. Since Music Midtown's debut in 1994, attendance has nearly tripled with a turnout of 200,668 in 1997. New this year is a tent-covered main stage to allow for a more intimate setting for folk, jazz and Cajun artists. This year's line-up includes such artists as 2 Skinnee J's, Blue Mountain, Boys Choir of Harlem, Paula Cole, a Foo Fighters, Fuel, God Lives Underwater, Indigo Girls, Etta James, Jolene, Letters to Cleo, Morphine, Pain, Sqwzbxx, Tonic, Violent Femmes and many more. Other festivities include an Artist's Market featuring handcrafted items by Southeast artisans and a children's area. There will also be food and beverages available on-site from Atlanta restaurants such as Ben & Jerry's and Taste of New Orleans. ? Tickets cost $20 for a one day pass or $30 for a three day pass and can be purchased through TicketMaster outlets or charged by phone at (404) 2496400. Anypne interested in volunteering should call the volunteer hotline at (770) 723-6572 or visit the Music Midtown website at www.musicmidtown.com. OFFICE ( ENTRY LEVI The Office of Inspecto seeking several indivi Washington, D.C. The incumbents will be ^ activities relative to the \ with quantitative and ar appreciate working on personally and professi Reqi j ;red: A bachelors d competencies qualifies < with 24 semester hours c m Hiring at GS-05 and GS for candidates possess ($47,066). Interested candidates m General for Auditing " jffg CAF ^IKPI USC Alights Tue Anyone With o Ootid USC I.D. Witt receift 'I 1 1 The aipiO can W( t Class ring: Come by the Ru and ask about this gre; April 7th ai I f 1 (li- H 1 ' Ei The Game names music acts i t'g&i X '^^0 ...^ SEAN RAYFORD Asst. 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In a second- red floor flat in Ypsilanti, Mich., lives a woman named Delphine Abraham who the has provoked the biggest dictionary cug in America to make a significant til change, redefining hundreds of offensive words. as ] Among them: "nigger." phi That's the word Delphine looked es: up late one night last spring, just curious, during a break in her overnight bly shift as a computer technician. the Delphine paged through the dictionary on her desk, Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionaiy, which sells pet hundreds of thousands of copies sev each year, second only to the Bible. ^ That it was there at all surprised her. But the first eight words of the 12-line definition stunned her son even more: tha "1: a black person, usu. taken to be offensive." nig It took a second to think it through: nje A black person is not a nigger. There- }eg fore, a nigger is not a black person. COp Why would a dictionary print such a thing? . clu Countless other people have phi checked the same definition in the pa< same dictionary. ria If they were shocked, they didn't call home at 2 a.m. to say so, as Del- has phine did, rousing her mother from jug sleep to check her own dictionary, coh They didn't start a petition drive tak as Delphine did, paying Kinko's to azi j ITS NOT T< I You can still study J Come check out U! including: JVl Denmark Internat ; semester, spring s ] ^ r-1 International business ls\j taught in English. " University of Tees* Spring semester only [ ISEP Summer plac Sites available in Kore " For more ir ; Internationa] Department 01 Mudent Dev l(V i(V _I?"Ti^js. ? r is, transplant and (I : people who receive asma of donors like you. ^ ility and staff for your m Blood Resources asma Program. because siness INABi? The CXaity Souc* BioMedical Center 215 Assembly St. Columbia SC 29201 m E titions to ? 3 offensiv nt 1,250 petitions .and 1,250 fullor fliers ? calling for removal or lefinition of ^nigger." They didn't call the publisher of > dictionary time and again to dislr nrnhlpm as Dplnhine did. un , social science, numanities, >ide, England ements a, Finland, Thailand, Germ; iformation contact th [ Programs for Studen elopment- Division of Studer Qmdmark Specializing in Cond in the USC & Uptovs Let Us find You A Call Us For All Your Sales: 799-0859 c |||j| I USC Student; All Processinj One Hour Color Printing One Hour Slide Processing ? B & W Processing BTT Enlargements Duplicate Slides fmj Photo CD Scanning he no longer returns calls. They didn't spend close to $4,000, Delphine did, on long-distance tele3ne calls and mailings, and fat fax-, at $1 a page. If they were shocked, they probadidn't think there was anything sy could do about it. But Delphine did. That first Sunday, she carried her itions to a Detroit church, one of eral where she regularly plays the ims to accompany the choir. Everybody signed. "That's when I knew I was onto aething. Most people had never seen it definition, and were stunned." She left petitions at churches, htclubs, beauty shops and convence stores. She handed fhem to cole students, who made their own lies and passed out more. Thousands of people joined, hiding more white people than Delne expected. She's guessing she has ;sed on 10,000 signatures to Mer- . m Webster. Since it began last spring, Delphine > done 26 radio interviews, includtalk shows. Every big-name black imnist, and several white ones, has en on the issue. So have black magnes like Jet. Emerge and Essence. DO LATE! , abroad next year. 1 SC's programs ional Studies in Copei emester, or full academic y< t . 1 ... Vant to go to Vegas, but can't afford the trip. http://www.virtualvegas.com Page 3 change e entries The NAACP joined the campaign last fall, threatening to launch a boycott, and printed on its Web site Merriam Webster's E-mail address www.suggest@m-w.com. With every mention, Merriam Webster got more calls and letters ? hundreds of them. Some demanded the word be removed altogether. A few liked it defined just as it is. But most asked for some new definition that makes clear "nigger" is a slur ? not a person. Delphine's suggestion: "a derogatory term used to describe a black person." ' - . In just a few months, Delphine's campaign came to define who she is. Every day someone calls about it Each day's mail includes a petition or two, signed by 20 or 30 more people. All of it has changed her. And now it looks like it will change a dictionary. Merriam Webster this month conceded a new definition of nigger is "very, very likely" in its 1999 edition. 'We learned something significant" said marketing director Deborah W. Burns. "We learned our definition is not clear, or not clear enough." The Massachusetts company is paying about a dozen outside consul tants ? lexicographers and linguists, some of them black?to work with its all-white senior editors to come up with new format for defining not just the N-word, but hundreds of offensive and vulgar words nhagen ; *ar , and engineering courses J my, Mexico, and Nicaragua Z e office of its 777-7461 it and Alumni Services J a Resources 1 os and Townhomes rn Columbia Areas Senate Vlaza ~W/lshfre Jiouse Tark Circle Tlace on the Greene Barnwell Colonv Tlaza Centre Jiome in The City ' Real Estate Needs >r 888-799-0859 fi a & Printing 1111 | Quick S a?l i Pbotr* 2S22ilii. _ ed