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November 22, 1976 — USC received $1,250 from Shell Companies Inc. to renew a “Shell Unit” at the uni versity. The Blue Dogs' tour stops in Columbia by Brock Vergakis News Editor The Charleston-based band The Blue Dogs is ready toJireak inti the big time with its latest release, Letters From Round 0. The contemporary roots-rock band is on a grueling tour promot ing its album, and playing Saturday night at Pavlov’s after the Caroli na-Clemson football game. Greg Walker, drummer and percussionist for the band, said th band has received a lot of success with the new album. “In our first week, we were in the lop 20 in CD sales. We’ve al so gotten a lot of national radio air play,” Walker said. The group’s first release, Isabelle, has been added to the play lis of 19 different radio stations, and the list is growing. With a traditional stronghold in the Carolinas and Virginia, Thi Blue Dogs are also getting a lot of support from other markets, as well “We killed up in New York and in D.C,” Walker said. “We also travel out west to places like Colorado, too,” he said Traveling is something the band does a lot of. The Blue Dogs havi played more than 800 shows at more than 200 different venues na tionwide. The band might also be playing in Europe next spring ti kick off a party that will celebrate the first direct flight from German; to Charlotte. The only thing lead guitarist David Stewart thinks can hold th< Blue Dogs back at this point is their van. “We’re ready for it [success]. We want to take it to the next lev el. We’re working hard as a band, and if we keep writing and the en ergy is happening, we’ll succeed,” Stewart said. “We find ourselves having fun as soon as we get to our show, / lot of people get what we’re trying to do with our music.” Their ability to play to the crowd has been part of the reasoi they’ve attracted such a loyal following. Jennifer Hawkins drove t< Columbia from UNC-Wilmington to watch the band play. “I can’t help it. I love them. They have such great eneigy. They’re one of the best bands in the country, and some 1 of the nicest guys. This is the fifth show I’ve been too, and each one is differ ent, and each one keeps getting better,” Hawkins said. Stewart said they aren’t the type of ; band that will deny a reqtiest from fans or ignore them. “We’re nptgoing to look down and avoid eye contact with people who have 1 requests. We’ll do our show in the di rection we want logo in, but we’ll make : them happy,” he said. “We like to keep • it interesting. We might do the same songs five nights in a row, but they won’t ■ be exactly the same.” Songs off Letters From Round 0 dominate the majority of their shows, 1 but the band does play crowd favorites such as “Walter” from their other al bums. “We definitely play a lot of new tunes, but it’s always going to be a great est hits night,” Walker said. i lie Diue uogs nope more 01 meir new songs will become crowd favorites, and they enlisted the help ‘ of David Lowery to do that. Lowery recently produced the Counting Crows album, This Desert Life. The result is an 11-track album that 1 fans can’t get enough of. Erica Southern bought Letters From Round * 0 two weeks ago, and she hasn ’t stopped playing it since. “This is the best [album] yet. I can’t wait for these guys to make it, and [I can] say I saw them way back when. My roommate hates me because I play their CD non-stop, but I don’t care,” she said. “My favorite part is the lyrics. Ever since I read them, 1 can’t get them out of my head, and I don’t want to.” Special to The Gamecock The Blue Dogs playing during their Northeastern Tour of 1998. Mormon Church flourishes in South by Amy Frazier Associated Press Atiawia—When Chloe Belle Hodge was baptized in 1939, most of the Mormons around Raleigh, N.C., were members of her family. It wasn’t rare for some Southern Mormons to go half their lives without setting foot in a temple. “1 couldn’t even dream of a time when we would have a church building,” said Hodge, 83. But she’ll soon be able to visit a temple when ever she wants, as Raleigh is one of seven Southern cities scheduled to complete temples by the end of 2000. “The blessing to have a temple right here at our elbows is almost beyond comprehension,” Hodge said. “I plan logo once a week.” It’s a drastic change in less than two decades for Southern Mormons. Until 1983, when a temple was built in suburban Atlanta, Southern members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had to travel to Washington, D.C., or out West to have their marriages officially sealed by the church. The church is now working to increase temples in areas with growing membership. Many Southern states have seen their Mor mon population grow by 80 to 100 percent since 1980. The growth is primarily to because of an in flux of Mormons from other regions and because of the church’s efforts to increase its visibility in the South, said Nancy Eiesland, a professor at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. Conversions and in-migration are related be cause as Mormons move to the area, they work to bring in converts. The church, based on revelations that Joseph Smith said were brought to liim in the 1820s by heav enly messengers, has more than 10 million mem bers worldwide and 52 operating temples. Another 46 are under construction or in the planning stages. Temples for the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat ter-day Saints differ from the chapels used for reg ular weekly worship. Certain basic ceremonies, in cluding eternal marriage and proxy baptisms for dead ancestors, can only be performed in the more sacred temple buildings. For yean, Southerners who wanted to receive such ordinances had to travel across the country. It wasn’t until 1974, with the completion of the Wash ington, D.C., temple, that one existed east of the Mississippi River. Until the Oct. 16 dedication of the Columbia, S.C., temple, the only other Southern temples were in Atlanta and Orlando, Fla. Ground has recently been broken on temples in Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., Birmingham, Ala., Baton Rouge, La., Louisville, Ky. and Raleigh, N.C. As a young woman growing up in North Car olina during the 1940s, Mrs. Hodge didn’t know whether she’d ever receive the sacred ordinances. “We were coming out of the Depression years. A trip to Utah was not to be thought of,” she said. In 1944, she hitched a ride with a woman trav eling to a U.S. Army post in Utah so she could go to fpmnlp It wasn’t until 1967 that before Dexter R No ble, 74, of Atlanta, had saved up enough money to fly his family to Salt Lake City, Utah to visit a temple. “I closed my shoe store for a week to go. That’s how important it was to me,” he said. Elder Monte J. Brough, the church’s regional president for most of the South, said he expects the church to continue growing in the region. The South has long carried a reputation for strict, family-oriented conservatism, which the Mormon church shares. “I think the reason we do so well is that we are very assertive in proclaiming family values,” he said. The church is concerned with “not only fam ily conduct and individual values, but the law of chastity and the sacred nature of marriage.... Part of that is very attractive to a lot of Southerners.” Although some traditional Bible Belt religions have spoken out against Mormons—Southern Bap tists used a 1998 annual convention in Salt Lake City to evangelize to Mormons, whom they do not con sider to be Christians — their perception as hard working, moral citizens has likely helped their es tablishment in the region, Eesland said. “In some ways, the family orientation of Mor mons makes them congenial to much of the Southern sunbelt,” she said. However, those congenial feelings might not ap ply to interchurch relations, especially since Mor mons and some evangelical denominations in the South are competing for converts. Both groups “draw from the same group of peo ple in terms of conversion — basically, the unchurched,” said Marie Cornwall, Brigham Young University sociology professor. “Put together the incredible growth in the South with the increasing anti-Mormonism rhetoric that comes out of the evangelical movement, and in the market place of religion, these two groups are in competition,” she said. i r1—- —i — Because of competition, the “strange alliance” between Mormons and Protestants will break down eventually, said Chris Graham, pastor of Church of the Savior Baptist Church in Roswell, New Mex ico. “Orthodox Christianity has some specific doc trines that are important, and Mormon also has spe cific doctrines that are important to its story. And 1 think they are potentially conflictual,” he said. Brough recognizes that some Southerners still hold negative feelings toward the church, but he said he thinks Mormonism is becoming more accepted in what was once a hostile environment. In 1884, a mob fatally shot four members dur ing church services in Lewis County, Tenn. u was a nara place 10 oe in arouna me uvu War,’’Brough said. Orlando Henderson, 43, of Atlanta, left his Bap tist upbringing in 1994 to join the Mormon church. It’s hard for Southerners to leave their family’s church, he said. “Most everybody followed their family with religion,” he said. “Now, there’s a broader base of knowledge with different truths.” With the addition of more Southern temples, the church hopes to spread its beliefs far beyond Utah, Eeslandsaid. “They do not want to be seen as a regional re ligion,’’she said. “They want lobe seen first as a na tional religion, and then as a global religion.” ‘I think the reason we do so well is that we are very assertive in proclaiming fami ly values. Not only family conduct and individual val ues, but the law of chastity and the sacred nature of mar riage ... Part of that is very attractive to a lot of Southerners." ’ Elder Monte J. 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