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Sorority
searching
for more
members
by Mackenzie Craven
The Gamecock
Epsilon Sigma Alpha continues
their rush this week at 8 p.m. Thurs
day in RH 315. According to sorority
President Elise Tyndall, they are
having the final meeting to try to add
more members to their organization.
The sorority is looking for girls
that are dedicated and hard working.
They work with many organizations
in the area to raise money for the com
munity as, well as to support them
selves.
Last week, they had three nights
of rush for new members. The first
night the girls discussed philanthropy.
They were taught what the sorority
stands for and what their beliefs are.
According to Tyndall, their motto is,
“All for one and one for all.”
I hey told the sisters about the ser- |
vice projects they participate in. Sis
ters are required to commit to at least
50 hours of service for the semester.
Some of their major projects are with
“Babies R Us.” located on Harbison.
One of the events, “Rock-a-thon”
will take place Nov. 11. They will be
rocking in rocking chairs to raise mon
ey for St. Jude’s Research Hospital.
Before the event, sisters will have
people sponsor them for their time in
the chairs. Patrons can also add mon
ey to their bucket as they are rocking.
Another project taking place at
“Babies R Us” is the “Cutest Baby Con
test.” Sisters collect around 30 pic
tures, from infants to three-year-olds.
During the contest, money is dropped
into the bucket of the baby they be
lieve is the cutest. The child who is
voted the cutest wins a prize, donat
ed by local contributors. The money
in the buckets is donated to St.
Jude’s Children Hospital.
For Halloween, the sisters make
popcorn, cotton candy mid candied ap
ples for Children’s Epworth Home.
They pass the goodies out during their
carnival. They also help run the booths
for the carnival.
“The most rewarding thing for us
is to the see the children’s faces when
you give them a candied apple,” Tyn
dall said.
Tyndall recalls her experiences of
Halloween when going to the carni
vals.
“They are all dressed in costumes.
It reminds you of when you were a
child,” Tynall said.
The sisters also go to a neighbor
hood and, instead of trick or treating,
they accept can goods for the Harvest
Hope Food Bank. They will compete
against each other to see which group |
can collect the most can goods in two
different neighborhoods.
For Thanksgiving, the sisters con
tribute their own money and purchase
fruit baskets to donate to the Connie
Maxwell Children’s Home. Accord
ing to Tyndall, the sisters make enough
baskets for an entire cottage of chil
dren. They also send each child a gift 1
in a different cottage for Christmas.
During the spring they have sev
eral different events, one with WCOS
for the Radio Marathon. Callers can
pledge money to St. Jude’s Research
during this event. The radio DJ plays ^
stories from the children in the hos- ^
pilals. The sorority serves as the part
ner in hope.
They also help with Carolina Chil- (
drcn’s Home Spring Barbecue event, (
where the sisters help serve patrons (
from the community. The cost for all
you can cat bacbecuc is $4. <
Another event in the spring is j
the Dance Marathon. Last year, five ,
of the sisters participated and raised ,
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Musicians show off fashions I
at MTV Video Music Awards
by Samantha Critchell •
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The little girls are all grown up.
Britney Spears shed her wholesome teen queen
image at the MTV Video Music Awards Thursday
night, stripping off a man’s tuxedo to reveal a nude
colored glimmering bikini top and matching pants
as she performed a version of The Rolling Stones’
“Satisfaction.”
Spears, 18, also teamed with fellow teen pop
sensation Christina Aguilera, 19, onstage as pre
senters — and both wore sexy black dresses with
thigh-high slits.
The red carpet outside Radio City Music Hall
was a parade of stars, each trying to be sexier and
more daring than the other. Everyone was a candi
date for the most-talked about outfit at the awards
— a la Jennifer Lopez at this year’s Grammy Awards.
Lopez toned down her look from that memo
rable green Versace gown with the plunging neck
line and slit-up-to-there skirt, opting for a white
midriff-baring top and liiphugger pants made for her
by boyfriend Sean (Puff Daddy) Combs’ Sean Jean
clothing line.
Lil’ Kim, however, didn’t stray from her typi
cally shocking look. She arrived in a revealing
reddish-orange spider-web design that looked more
like lingerie.
Merle Ginsberg, entertainment editor for
Women’s Wear Daily, a leading fashion newspa
per, and W magazine, wasn’t impressed with Lopez,
Kim — or anyone else.
“There was a severe lack of fashion. People
were going for coolness instead of style,” Ginsberg
said.
But there was plenty of cleavage, bellybuttons
mid shoulders on display.
Aguilera’s asymmetrical dress was held up by a
shoulder strap on only one side, and two of the three
members of Destiny’s Child showed off bare shoul
_ p-"1
ders.
Destiny’s Child, winners for the R&B video
“MTV SEE PAGE 8
Top: Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera were presenters at the MTV Video Music Awards
both wore sexy black dresses with thigh-high slits. Bottom: Spears stripped off a tuxedo to
reveal a nude-colored glimmering bikini top and matching pants as she performed a version of
The Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction.”
Golden Spur once was popular nightspot
by Chris Tilly
The Gamecock
USC students often use the Res
ell House as a place to pick up their
nail, get a bite to eat and interact mo
mentarily with other students before
enturing back to their respective res
dence halls to talk about where in
nve Points they’ll later congregate to
[rink some beer. The Russell House
s not by any means the hottest af
er-hours hangout for undergraduate
iantecocks, but in the 1970s, things
t'ere a bit different.
The Golden Spur, that hidden area
djacent to the Pizza Hut on the scc
ind floor of the Russell House, was
nice alive and kicking as a college bar
hat served alcohol to students.
Today, those who come to the
joldcn Spur sec a skeleton of things
>ast, comparable to the Titanic and its
inderwatcr shell featured in the 1998
novie. They find a room with deso
ate bar stools, an abandoned DJ booth,
nd the elevated, but empty stage that
las potential for more - for nights of
(xcitemcnl, post-football game so
cializing and dates. Some curious vis
itors of this seeming graveyard can
not help but wonder, “What once went
on in this place and why is it not hap
pening now?”
Leigh Leventis was an active mem
ber ofUSC student government in the
early seventies and contributed to the
opening of the Golden Spur us a bar.
“The Golden Spur was very pop
ular when it opened. We just felt like
we'd like to have a place for students
to meet, have a beer, and walk back
to the dorms easily,” he said.
In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, be
fore it became a bar, the Golden Spur
was a faculty dining hall. At that time,
USC, like many other college cam
puses around the nation, was a hotbed
for political activism. This was the
era where President Nixon sent troops
to Cambodia to support the South
Vietnamese, and riots had erupted at
Kent State, where the Ohio National
Guard killed four student protesters
and wounded nine.
US( Director of Student Life Jer
ry Brewer worked as the director in
the niid-eigluies, when the Golden
Spur was closed.
“In the late sixties and early sev
enties, there was a great deal of un
rest on college campuses. The Rus
sell House here became the center for
student unrest,” Brewer said.
“You had the center for student
unrest and you had a faculty/adminis
trative dining room, which was a sym
bol of the system, or the establish
ment. So what eventually happened
was that group became very uncom
fortable and then my understanding is
the students basically look it over.”
Lcvontis remembers the change
as a rite of passage.
He said, “I’m not so sure it was
because it was a faculty area. I think
it was more the issue of, ‘We w;uit our
place. We’re 18 years old; we fight in
Vietnam.’ A lot of people obviously
objected to that. We just felt like,
‘Hey, why can’t we have a beer li
cense where students c;ui have (a beer]
in the Russell House?’
“There was a lot of activism go
ing on and that as much as anything
else led us to be a pretty active stu
dent union and student government.
We all wanted to feel we had a little
Golden si i ma e
‘In the late sixties and early seventies, there was
a great deal of unrest on college campuses. The
Russeli House here became the center for student
unrest.’
Jerry Brewer
Director of Student Life
Campus Notes
Carolina for Kids
needs tutors
Carolina for Kids is recruiting tutors
for tiie fall semester. If you are inter
ested in becoming a tutor or mentor,
pick up an application in the commu
nity s&rvice office in the basement
of Russell House.
Association
to hold dance
The Greater Columbia Chapter of the
U.S. Amateur Ballroom Dance Associ
ation will hold its monthly dances 7:30
p.nt. to 11:00 pan. Sept. 23 at the
Hugh Dimmery Memorial Center, 680
Cherokee Line. West Columbia. Dress
is casual. Admission is $4 for national
USABDA members, $7 for non-mem
bers :uid $3 for students. For informa
tion, call Mike Verdone at 407-0132 or
Grace Keller at 957-9259.
Battle of Gettysburg
topic of USC exhibit
The Thomas Cooper Library has com-,
piled iui exhibit detailing the Battle of
Gettysbuig. The exhibit is on display
during normal library hours, 7:30 a.m.
to midnight weekdays and 10 ami. to 8
pan. Saturdays ;uid 1 pan. to midnight
on Sundays through Sunday on the li
brary’s mezzanine level.
CPR class
to be offered
Health mid Wellness Programs will of
fer an American Red Cross Adult CPR
course from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday
in the Blatt P.E. Center.
Golden Key to meet
Golden Key International Honor Soci
ety is having their first meeting of the
semester at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the
Golden Key room, Russell House 309.
Honor society
to meet
The Gamma Beta Phi Society will
meet at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the
ODK/Mortar Board room on the third
floor of Russell House. Items to be dis
cussed include all upcoming activities
for this semester.
Talk Show
Guests
Monday, Sept, 11
Conan: Alicia Silverstone, Andy Dick
Kilbom: Anthony LaPaglia
Leno: A1 Green
Letterman: Sting
Rosie: The Coors
The View: Charles Groden
Tuesday. Sept, 12
Conan: Eugene Levy
Kilbom: Rodney Dangerfield
Leno: Heidi Klum
Lettemian: Chris Rock, Emmylou Har
ris
Rosie: Nathan Lane
The View: Luciano Pavarotti
Wednesday. Sept. 13
Good Morning America: Sally Field
Leno: Dennis Rodman, Kate Hudson,
The Coors
Letterman: Sally Field, Eddie Irvine
Rosie: Sally Field, Yolanda Adams
The View: Renee Zellweger
Thursday. Sept, 14
Conan: Jamie Foxx
Kilbom: Ryan Stiles
Leno: Renee Zellweger
Letterman: A1 Gore, Supeigrass
Rosie: Cheryl Ladd
The View: Jiunic Foxx, Peter Fr.unpton
Friday, Sept, 15
Comm: Fastball
Goixl Morning America: Gwyneth Pal
trow
‘ Kilbom: Juliette Lewis, Eugene Levy
Leno: Penelope Cru/.
Rosie: A1 Gore
The View: Greg Kinncar