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Quote of the Day “I am free of prejudices - I hate everyone equally." -W. C. Fields « J Wie Gantcsdt Thursday, August 24,2000 * Art of kissing comes to Russell House Carolina Productions holds kissing seminar in Russell House by Jennifer Bowen The Gamecock Remember your first kiss? If it was sweet, ro mantic, or something went terribly wrong, we all remember it. What is kissing, anyway? Adam Phillips, a British psychologist, says kissing is some of the pleasure of eating with the absence of nourish ment. Sigmund Freud described kissing as a “per version.” Whatever your definition is of kissing, “The Art of Kissing” showed students 30 other ways to do one of the world’s favorite pastimes. Carolina Productions sponsored this event with the hopes of reaching out to a diverse crowd and to do something different and exciting here on campus. The night started with Ron Cohn, the coordi nator of “The Art of Kissing,” rallying people out side of the Russell House to come to the show. Afterward he explained that the author of The Art of Kissing, William Cane, was not only going to tell the audience the different ways of kissing, but was also going to show us. Twelve students voluteered their time and lips to demonstrate all of the featured kisses. The stu dent volunteers demonstrated 30 different types of kissing, including the spanking kiss, the den tist kiss, and an eye kiss. Many of the students were very excited about the seminar. One student, Jeremy Wolf, said he and his friends were here to get more educated on the subject. “I think there are infinite ways to kiss, but I know around twenty,” Wolf said. William Cane, an English professor at Boston University, was the guest speaker at the Carolina Productions seminar. He wrote “The Art of Kissing” in 1991 and started touring different colleges around the coun try. The only condition that he holds for the uni versity is that he must have volunteers to demon strate. “If people can’t see strangers kissing and en joying themselves, they will never believe that they should try it with their partner,” Cane said. Cane talked about the different ways to kiss, and the different opinions of men and women. The majority of men don’t mind lipstick but about 25 percent of them don’t like it. “Women usually don’t like to kiss men with the beginning of the beard, but one out of three , women prefer it,” Cane said. Cane also said if it is done right, most men and women enjoy the french kiss overall, because it was the most intimate and passionate. « • According to Cane, the french call it the ‘soul, ' kiss’ because if it is done right, your soul will emerge and connect with the other person. Different kinds of kissing included the usual french kiss, neck kiss and the ear kiss. The vol unteers also showed more unique kisses, such as the electric kiss, which entailed rubbing your feet on the carpet and then shocking your partner by kissing them. The spanking kiss and a South Pacific kiss were introduced to the crowd. One of the more interesting kisses was the geometry kiss. 'You first kiss your partner on the lips and then move to each eye, forming an isosceles triangle. As Mr. Cane put it, “This is why you want to take geometry, folks!” “The Art of Kissing” turned out to be a great success with the crowd. Students were talking among themselves, saying it was extremely fun ny and how they were going to try some of the techniques. Mr. Cane said he was very happy with the way the seminar turned out and that he hoped he ed ucated people for the better. After all, you can’t ever kiss the one you hove L”. enough. The Spotlight desk can be reached at gamecockspot Iight@hotmaiI.com i£>\. -—-■ ■' ■ - ■ . . . "! 1 UbL removes Bigwords.com from campus ^ by Mackenzie Craven The Gamecock Bigwords.com was asked to leave campus Wednesday by Russell House reservationist Jennifer Barrineau. Bigwords.com offers textbooks to students at discount prices along with clothing and other college ac cessories. They came to campus Wednesday to perform some fashion makeovers but they weren’t able to stay long be cause they were breaking a state con tract. “For the bookstores, it’s their busi ness, so we are cutting into their prof its,” said Kim Sinclair, Bigwords.com’s ^ regional manager. * “The reason why we are out here is to save college students some mon ey, and college is expensive enough as it is,” Sinclair said. “1 think actually the student union itself had pulled all the dot-coms from being able to have tables they slipped through at the last minute,” Sinclair said. “They waited until yesterday to say we couldn’t have a table, probably in 1 _A YYt nrv/uiuil v wv MW Ullj thing, but instead we just took the oiganization Alpha Tau Omega and just walked around campus,” said John yjates of Bigwords.com. However, according to Russell House Director Carmela Carr, they never had permission to be on campus. The student representative turned in the request for space early on Tuesday afternoon. The reservationist called the contact name late in the afternoon and informed him that the reservation fwas denied. ' ‘ ‘The vendor cannot go beyond their table. They have to stay seated at their table,” Carr said. “Students have to freely approach your table.” The reservation was denied because according to a memo sent from Busi ness Affairs Director Richard Wertz, the only book company allowed on campus is Wallace Company. The V H I . I ' memo cited a policy instituted in 1997 by the university. The proposal indi cated only Wallace Company would be allowed to sell books on campus. This contract became a state and USC con tract. “It seems like it’s minimizing students’ rights to not let somebody market for something they obviously need. To give textbook stores the mo nopoly on that seems so unfair to me,” Bates said. “They have exclusive contracts with the outsource bookstores. Not a lot of money goes to the school, and yet the school won’t let the students have the choice,” Bates said. “They gave us a permit and then they called us up last minute and left a message for somebody, and they just came and asked us to leave,” Bates said. “If they wouldn’t have given us a per mit and let us know beforehand, then we wouldn’t have marshaled so many people to come here.” However, Carr said there is no type of permit issued. Once a request for a reservation has been approved, the holder of the contract receives a con firmation. “That student organization neeui iu nave a wriiieii ujiunuiauuu in hand, fully signed and executed that’s on our books,” Carr said. They solicited all around campus. According to the Columbia Campus Policy, solicitation involves distrib uting advertising or other materials. If they had permission, they would on ly be allowed to distribute information from designated tables on Greene Street and the Russell House Patio. They also broke the policy when they hung flyers on trees, violating the distribution of literature rules at USC. Bigwords.com is frustrated with the situation. “We received informa tion that allowed us to be on campus. As far as the school is concerned, they were correct,” Sinclair said. “We were acting completely unknowingly.” The Spotlight desk can be reached at ganie cockspotlight@hotniail.com 1 Sean Rayford The Gamecock Brent Gould paints logo on the wall at the Elbow Room. A friend of Gould’s manages Ihe Elbow Room and Gould painted the logo in return for admission to the shows. Students paying more for technology College Press Exchange CHAPEL HELL, N.C— Colleges and universities have found at least one way to combat their struggle to re main up to date on the latest technology: make students pay for it. Increasingly, incoming first-year students are being required to purchase and schlep around their own lap top computers. Small schools — such as Hartwick College in New York and Clayton College & State Uni versity in Geoigia — have had computer requirements for several years, but the trend now has reached even the nation's largest state universities. Take, for example, the University of North Caroli na at Chapel Hill, which is requiring all first-year stu dents entering this fall to purchase IBM laptops. UNC is the largest institution in the nation to implement a single-vendor program that affects all students and faculty. The program, dubbed the Carolina Comput ing Initiative, allows students to buy computers for as much as 40 percent off of retail prices, and faculty mem bers are provided free computers. "It's a bold stroke to move the entire campus to a mobile computing environment with a common plat form," said Jerry Lucido, UNC's director of admissions. "But the potential it has to enable communication and to have students teach out and bring the Internet into studies is tremendous." That's not to say UNC's program didn't meet some opposition. The university collided with some of the same problems run into by other schools mandating stu dent computer purchases. For starters, UNC, like oth er institutions with campuswide purchasing programs, doesn't accommodate students' individual preferences. For example, the UNC program doesn't support Mac intosh computers. Critics also cited the program's cost, contending that one machine - an extra $3,000 a year for students faced with a purchasing mandate at Wake Forest University — is too much to expect some stu dents to pay. While universities are increasingly winning their contention that mandatory purchasing and the sacrifice of personal choices are unavoidable if the technologi cal playing field is to be leveled for all, they're still un able to prove - even to themselves — that they'll have the support services needed to support all the com puter use on campus. A 1998 survey conducted by the Campus Com puting Project showed that even though more col leges are using e-mail, the Internet and distance learn ing in their courses, assisting faculty with technology ranked as the top concern for college computing ad $ A ministrators. Concern about user support ranked sec ond. Most schools offer online or on-campus computer training for those who seek it, but few schools require students to know how to use the computers they've been forced to purchase, and fewer still require that faculty members be competent users of the new technology. At Wake Forest University, where students have been required to have laptop computers since the fall of 19%, a brief computer-training course is offered during fresh men orientation. "It’s informative," said WFU sophomore Hillary Thompson. "But there are so many tilings on your com puter that you don’t even know you have. You just have to figure it out as you go along." At UNC, there is a 24-hour computer help desk, computer support in each on-campus residence hall, and nearly 400 online training courses. The university's Center for Instructional Technology helps faculty tai lor their classes to the computer or Internet, but there is no mandatory training. "There are all kinds of things out there in terms of getting training, but there is no incentive," said Lori Casile, assistants the vice chancellor of information technology. f* 1