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"The Odyssey," 7:30 p.m. Tu day, the Koger Center. Tickets av able at the Carolina Coliseum I Office and all Capital Ticket 0 lets. To charge, call 251-2222. Writers staff writer AUA AKKAM A diverse collection of renowned contemporary authors in the genres of fiction, poetry and nonfiction, including Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier, will unite for a three-day Writers Festival, beginning Oct. 1. The festival is "unique both in quality and quantity," said Robert Newman, chairman of the English department, emphasizing'the variety of perspectives that'll be presented by the event's featured writers. Those writers include Frazier, USC writer-in-residence Robert Coover, Reynolds Price, W. S. Merwin, Barbara Ehrenreich and Marilyn Nelson. "We want to celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of writers who are speaking to the soul of the country and who represent the aspirations and frustrations of contemporary life with the most powerful words they can muster," said John MacNicholas, USC's playwright-in-residence and festival coordinator. Frazier will launch the festival with a public reading at 8 p.m. Oct. 1 in the Koger Center. A question-and-answer session and book signing will follow. A Cold Mountain symposium, with a discussion led by Newman that will be videotaped for broadcast, will highlight the second day of events. Featuring Coover, Price and Merwin, the Alternate staff writer PHIUP BURT A few USC students won't be breaking anything this fall; instead, they'll be building up. This chance comes from the Alternative Fall Break program, which will be held Oct 10 to 13. UbC began the Alternative Spring Break program three years ago. The idea for the fall break has existed at campuses has sine for four or five years, but this is Jun the fiist year USC will be doing the Roj it. "It \ "The idea is that anytime Bush ss there is a break, you can do about i community service," co-chair future.' Robert Galop said. ^he The decision to form an alternative fall break occurred pjeasan alter an alternative spring break ? , trip to Royal Retreat, Va., in which students worked with , ,U/ poor people and the elderly and "e built homes. leisure will be a F mi .5 Q6T C , OL1 kr Sj. | ^ w o" ^ hi _ . (tool V s THS JS SO Fl IS ^VV.v m 22* ' & pi Cl w IS U U JZZ {J ~ Al ^ * Bl w < i qj J 1 a? a phtn I L esail Jox utl^noflTTol t rtoiiv cti \ "We want to represer community and natio to creative writing an panel will explore Frazier's novel as a work of literature. The symposium will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon Oct. 2 at Drayton Hall. Drayton Hall will also serve as the site for the remaining activities of the day: Nelson, Coover and Price will read from their works at 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., respectively. Ehrenreich will give a public reading at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3 at Drayton Hall, followed by a reading from Merwin at 9 p.m. The festival will end with a reception at 10 p.m. Oct. 3 in the South Caroliniana Library. All events are free and open to the public. Each of the authors' books will be on sale Oct. 1 at the Roger Center and Oct. 2 and 3 at Drayton Hall. Newman hopes the festival will strengthen the university's national profile in academic programs and sponsored events. "We want to represent to the college, community and nation our comre fall bre; I Sunday morning ^jT' ^ Participants) the chance to refit \jt experiences," coor ^ Janes said. Fifteen peopl to attend this trip Altem^reBreakST bre^th^'fb. e received more publicity. rf ior Erin Bush attended "There wa ral Retreat trip. ^ personalities in th vas a neat experience, j wen^B gush sai lid. "It got people excited Participants d doing services in the haVe tog( "Everyone gets alternative fall break other and become elude a trip to Mount chair Jennifer ft t to look at rural poverty. ABC is differei ts will have the chance shot volunteer act 1 and fix houses. Time said it's more inte reserved at nignt ior DreaK project, activities, and students "What mai able to go to church on programs unique i < W All THIS UONkT^^^S ??5eve^weWTHIS SP?"^ \SUTTW? KITCHEN SI... SS^ v rlHT^n ) { ^ o ^ Kec-. I ? cKr/A omtnoKv ) | > A- HI(.AH^[_i^... Cg ? 17 E :omes to it to the college, ?n our commitment id the arts." Robert Newman, English department chairman mitment to creative writing and the arts," he said. USC creative writing students in the MFA program have helped coordinate the festival, and several students who have been reading Cold Mountain in their English classes, will attend the public reading for further insight. Through the public reception and the question-and-answer sessions and book signings after each reading, the students and community will have the opportunity to interact with the writers. Newman thinks that this "dialogue as well as a series of readings presented" will be a much more enriching experience for the public. The scope and number of writers the festival has attracted is a rare distinction for USC, Newman said. Frazier, who got his Ph.D. in literature from USC, earned the 1998 National Book Award for his first novel, Cold Mountain, which remained on the New York Times best-seller list for 59 weeks. Recently, a paperback edition was published, and plans for a movie ik begins vill also have Bet during the ML ibout our Xm dinator David : b will be able W L ). rnative spring t^e ^ picture," Malizia sen a diverse . wav t0 Mt to kn "q a m i Y n f community really well." e group when Tfe alterative spring I this year will focus on three lo'oprvirp Pat instead of only one, inch ither the Tennessee mountain* to know each Washington, D.C. i a team " co- The third site has no falizia said, been determined, but De it from a one- Mich., is a possibility, avity. Malizia The Tennessee trip mse during a involve cleaning and rebui trails in the mountains an< kes break focus on environmental is s that you see During the Washington Co "BECAUSE, NOW"" FJH69 STi WHEN SHE SINKS THERE, HER TEETH fNTD I A STEAK,,. I IT j^L 11/s - 1rCS23 L^*) $ campus by The English Patient" director Anthony Minghella are underway. Coover, a visiting professor at USC this fall, is a leader in hypermedia and post modernism. Best known for The Public Burning, his Origin of the Brunists also earned him the William Faulkner Award for Fiction. Price, who won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986 for his novel Kate Vaiden, is Duke University's writer-in-residence. He's written more than 30 books, including Roxanna Slade and A Whole New Life, a personal account of his recovery from spinal cancer. Merwin a 1071 Pnlitvpr Pri?p win. ner for The Carrier of Ladders, is a leading Levine poet and recently earned the prestigious Lilly Poetry Award. Ehrenreich, an essayist known for her feminist viewpoints, has received the National Magazine Award for Excellence in Reporting, and Fear of ' Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class earned a nomination for the National Book Critics Award. Her other works of nonfiction include The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed. Nelson, who is the author of five books of poetry and two collections of children's verse, was a 1991 National Book Award finalist for The Homeplace and the 1992 recipient of the Annisfield-Wolf Award. t this year trip, students will help the homeless and go out with them ^ to learn what homelessness and urban poverty are like. The trip to Detroit would be to work with the school programs. Participants in the ABC have said pay a $100 fee, and the rest ( ow a *s by sponsors. Student organizations, areak students and faculty members s sites are invited on the trips, iding "Organizations can come, j 3 and if anyone wants to lead a trip, they are welcome," Galop 'yet said. troit, Today is the deadline to will apply at the Office of Community lding Services. To get more i will information on ABC, check out eC< sues, their web site: ' , D.C, www.sa.sc.edu/ocsp/ocsp.htm. MICS Dtat- W TMburw M*dU $****>> l**-, rHERE'S OF THOSEj ' iSt^m - 55 E ( P kic ~h a Qvt rod d pl<j pi . 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