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EVENTS "A Choral Evening," 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Roger Center. USC Concert Choir and University Chorus performs Poulene's "Gloria." Tickets at Coliseum box office. Monday, April 12, 1999 i Where ai the Ho( heads Record sales have gone down, and radi< stations seemingly nave forgotten them Is the mega-million era over for Hooti< and the Blowfish? - . But Felber says he s not convinc Associated Press Hootie's time in the spotlight is finishe "I think people keep forgetting th we've quietly sold a million records wit The eye-pleasing videos, the ap- ?ut the helP ra??u 1 ^ we pearances on "Late Night With David done'.r wouldn sellm^ album! Letterman," the Grammy Awards, the e sa ' , ?. _ , , staggering record sales-they seemed ... Hoote s first album Cracked Re like they would never end for Hootie View sold more than15 million cop and the Blowfish. worldwide. Their third disc Music Now, two years later, the band has ChaJTs- bf s?k\abouti nu,lhon' .. trouble getting radio airplay. Blowfisb f/ thaY taew thl "Youcan't always control what hap- would,never se" 15 mlllion copies pens," Hootie and the Blowfish bassist any a. Vm afam' . Dean Felber said. 'You can try, but in ? ,tWe been a live band the -90s, it's just too hard. People are felber sald ?f b self and his mate just too fickle; they're too hot and !e,ad, s'nSer Da"uf Rucker, guitan cold. They don't want yesteiday-s band; Bryan and drummer Jim Son thev want today's band " feld" That s going to keep us going y y The band will blow out The Tow ship today for a concert connected wii Titanic boardii /% u+s. ^ N. /-V sells tor $1U0,< ^?_^^ ~?^^ The Features Roundup had "kept it for a while, so I may, too Associated Press he said. The document ? an undamage SEATTLE ? An $8 Titanic boarding immigrant inspection card that serve pass that survived the ill-fated voy- as a boarding pass for Titanic's thin age along with its passenger has fetched class passengers ? is believed to be tl $100,000 at an auction. only such ticket in existence. Its pri< The buyer was Jeffrey Trainer, an on Saturday makes it among th Allentown, Pa. collector who is in the m0st valued of the ship's memorabili; trading card business. Sjoblom, of Finland, had pinned tl The price began at $5,000 on Sat- boarding pass inside her jacket fc urday and zoomed to $ 100,000 in less the 1912 voyage. She had borrowed tl than a minute, said Cheryl Gorsuch, $8 Titanic fare after she and thn co-owner of the Tacoma antique store friends were bumDed from the Adria where the auction was held. iC) another ship in the White Star Lin Trainer said he would "'hoard the Titanic sunk on Sjoblom's 18th birtJ ticket for a little while and enjoy it." day. She made it onto a lifeboat that a Write for I Call 777-7 Et The Gai re all )tie ;? its "Monday After The Masters" golf 3 tournament. It brings them back home after a ' worldwide tour that took them to mil? itary bases in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Bosnia in December, where they saw the horrors of war. Felber said a couple of soldiers at one base found a shallow grave with 15 bodies in it. The victims were blinda folded, hands tied behind their backs and bullets in the backs of their heads. T9 "That was eye opening," Felber said. s' While the band went to New Zealand, Australia and Japan to tour ar in February, Musical Chairs disappeared from the charts. Two singles, "I Will Wait" and "On- J ly Lonely," failed to catch on at radio, even though the album received some of Hootie's best reviews. , ? "It's the most bizarre thing in the ' world," Felber said. "Programmers at IS' rock 'n' roll radio who got us started won't even touch us now." e,~ Felber said about 80 percent of ' [ ~ 1~ A* uic ucuuic xiuuuc wuiacu vviLii ami* n- I th lg pass 000 ? so reportedly carried White Star Line h chairman J. Bruce Ismay. The pass, still pinned inside her jacket, stayed 1 drySjoblom's three friends died. I When she arrived in America, Sjoblom headed west with her uncle, finally settling in Tacoma. She married and raised two children in Olympia, and died in 1975. Her pass had been packed away with old photographs and postcards until a widower of Sjoblom's grandniece sold it to the antique store about six months ago, Gorsuch said. She would X 1 _1_ _1 J iV inoi say now mucn sne paid or anyuung else about the seller. But how it got to such a distant relation has left Sjoblom's direct descendants perplexed. Their varying theories have the pass vanishing long ago a with Sjoblom's first husband, or being ? taken by a curious high school student ' whom Sjoblom lent a box of voyage keep^ sakes sometime in the 1960s. ^ "We never saw him again," said j Sjoblom's daughter, Evelyn Henie drickson, 84, who attended the auction. Relatives considered making a bid 'e to bring the ticket back into the famia ly, but William Hendrickson, Sjoblom's ' grandson, said the family couldn't af)r ford it. "Sometimes I think all the luck in ;e our gene pool was used up when my t grandmother got on that lifeboat," he e told The News Tribune of Tacoma. liil itc. 726. :c. necock {WIB ffl Hootie and the Blowfish with Stevie Wonder at the 19 group. Hootie's record sales have gone down considerably ly getting any air play at the same stations in the soutt ning. lantic Records were let go during the And Hootie will band's first two years there. ters again by releai But don't feel bad for the guys just their next single. irof TT-ioxr cnlrl nnt fxirn layrro l^lrvmrla rmf_ "Wo'ro rrninnr ir\ A/ jut. X 11U Y CJU1U VUt tTVU XtUgU X XU11UU UUt ?l U iU 5^111^ uu uv door shows three weeks ago and should to see if rock radio w be a good draw on the summer concert the Blowfish," Felbe circuit. "Now we don't have to convince them that we can sell out their shows. "P^nnlp o "Now we can just say:'Call the pro- P moter who booked us in Florida.'That WZHlt yeSl sets us up for the summer, and if our todav'S t>! first few shows in May are good, then ^ that means we'll be booked up in August and September," he said. Christianity b< by Raymond McCaffrey Knight-Ridder Newspapers COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. ? There was a laundry list of reasons why Randi Wilkerson drifted away from church when she went to college. First, she fell in with a wild crowd that loved to party. Second, she moved away from home - and her Christian parents. But mainly, like others her age, the 23-year4-1, u U1U UlUUgliL CI1UIL11 WdMl t tuui. "People think it's boring," Wilkerson says. "That's why I was rebelling. All the guys who went to my church were dorks. I thought, 'Is this what I'm going to have to marry?' I'd never been exposed to cool Christian people." The term "cool Christians" might seem like an oxymoron. But for many people Wilkerson's age, being Christian and going to church is the "It's because ct hip thing to do. f. little hit College-age students are 8 ttie Dll undergoing a spiritual reawak- modern. They'i ening, experts say, and in turn, tional " churches are scrambling to reach them. The result: More and more college poster children of the so-called Generation Y, the "millennium generation," are dancing away Friday nights at Christian socials and spending Simday mornings at worship services geared to them. "It's because churches are getting a little bit more postmodern," .says Wilkerson, who's part of Crossroads, the college-age ministry at Pulpit Rock Church in Colorado Springs. "They're not so traditional. That's what drove me around," she says. "I think people are getting involved because they realize how fun it can be and that people who are Christian are not boring. "They're not dorks," says Wilkerson, a stock supervisor at a Gap store. The spiritual reawakening among today's college students also constitutes a resurgence of the so-called Jesus movement on campuses, which began in the late 1960s and proceeded through the '70s, says Tom Yeakley, director of The Navigators' U.S. Campus Ministry, based in Colorado Springs. But by the early '80s, campus ministries that once had 1,000 members were down to about 50. "We saw a very spiritually apathetic college student in America," Yeakley says. The decline continued until 1994 when "we saw an uptake again in spiritual hunger," Yeakley says. That spiritual hunger was initially gauged by the individual campus ministries and confirmed in surveys The Navigators handed out to more than 50,000 college students in each of two years. In the '80s, only 10 to 15 percent of college students polled answered "yes" or "maybe" to one or both of the following questions: I I {l JI [{'J II SITE OF THE PAY A site designed to make you think. ? http//www.moron.com Page 4 m0$s?!^ Courtesy of Hootie and the Blowfish official Web site 97 Grammys, at which Hootie won best new musical 1 since then, with the new album, Musical Chairs, hardleast that helped make the band popular in the begintest the radio wa- Felber said the important thing is sing "Wishing" as connecting with people and sometimes that takes work. 3 it in a subtle way "The same stuff was happening ill play Hootie and when we started. It's not easy street," r said. he said. "If you sit back, you're not going to get anywhere. It's just going to ire just too fickle. They don't terday's band; they want and." Dean Felber bassist, Hootie and the Blowfish ecomes cool "Would you like to be in Bible study?" and "Would you like to talk to someone about your spiritual life?" Over the past two years, 40 to 60 percent of college students have answered yes to at least one. Jim Rottenborn, director of the college and career ministry at Woodmen Valley Chapel, witnessed the boom in the size of campus ministries while he was working with students at Miami University in Ohio. "It just seems there's a definite growing interest among students in spiritual stuff," Rottenborn says. "In '91... the biggest group on campus had about 300 kids showing up. When I left in '97, they had about 1,200 showing up." Yeakley says he doesn't think anyone really understands why there's a spiritual reawakening "other than God is at work again in the lives of this generation of students." That would be Generalurches are get- '!onJ'which actcor^"g 10 ? Yeakley, consists of those UlOrC pOSt- born in 1980 or later - al re not SO tradi- though some gauge the starting point as 1982. "This is the leading edge of Randi Wilkersotl Generation Y, the millenni: student, Colorado Springs um generation," Yeakley says. "They are different than Generation X... They're hungry spiritually." The common assumption is that the booming economy in the '80s prompted Generation X to focus on getting high grades so they could "get a good job and earn a lot of money," according to Yeakley. Church wasn't in the picture. New methodologies are being used to draw Generation Y to church. At Woodmen Valley Chapel, for instance, there's a special Sunday-night service at which Rottenborn focuses on a message from the Bible. However, students lead the worship, as well as gather to play games and just hang out. "It's a lot more of a coffeehouse atmosphere," Rottenborn says. However, Rottenborn maintains that the most important part of his ministry involves one-on-one breakfast or lunch meetings with students. "The idea is that I give time to the oldest eruvs in the ministry so that they can take on one or two younger guys," he says. First Presbyterian Church has a Sunday school class designed expressly for college students. The church also has students and adult leaders who preside over on-campus Bible study groups at Colorado College and the Air Force Academy. "I would say that's a scriptural kind of principle," says Mark Epperson, director ofYoung Adult Ministries at First Presbyterian. "Jesus met people where they were, and that's why he was so effective," he says. I t