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Jamfest to showcase dance
by Kelly Hamilton
The Gamecock
* Jamfest, the Homecoming event where students can dis
play their dance talent as they compete for points, will take
place at 7 p.m. today in the Russell House ballroom.
Three dance categories will be presented: line dance, step
dance, and freestyle.
For the line dance division, four groups will be in compe
tition: Tri Delta with Kappa Sigma, Kappa Delta with Sigma
Chi, Chi Omega with Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Sigma Nu with
ZetaTau Epsilon.
In the step dance category, two groups will compete: Al
pha Phi Omega will take on Lambda Chi Alpha with Delta Gam
ma.
Four groups will challenge each other in the freestyle com
petition: Alpha Chi Omega with Delta Upsilon, Kappa Kappa
Gamma with Delta Upsilon, Pi Kappa Alpha with Delta Zeta,
and the Baptist Student Union.
“There is a lot of variety in the types of dances that the
groups are doing,” said co-advisor Nithya Bala. “Some of the
dances are traditional Southern dances, but others are not, so
we have some diversity.”
® “We had a large number of organizations, so we had to hold
auditions to decide who would be in it.”
Bala said the ballroom has been open all week in order for
the groups to practice their routines.
“It’s obvious that the groups participating in this have put
a lot of hard work into their dances,” she said.
The judging is based on crowd appeal, accuracy, creativi
ty, and appearance, according to Bala. The winners will each be
given a plaque, as well as points toward their respective groups’
Homecoming totals.
The juclges are Miss Greater Irmo 2000, Holly Neese; Su
sitii E. Anderson, artistic director of the USC Dance Company;
Maggie Bostic, owner of Jazz African Aerobic Studio; and Gi
na Tepara, an Indian classical dancer.
In addition to the competition, the audience will see pre
sentations by the West African Drumming and Dance Ensem
ble, the USC School of Dance, and Dance Marathon.
Advisor Mike Duncan from Carolina Productions said rep
resentatives from Dance Marathon will present an exhibition
of line dancing. Junior Caroline Baroody from the Dance
Marathon Committee said Dance Marathon committee mem
bers will be line dancipg to Shania Twain’s ‘I Feel Like a Wbman. ’
“We want everyone to see what Dance Marathon is all about.
It’s firn, and we hope a lot of people will get involved. At Dance
Marathon, we’ll be teaching a new line dance,” Baroody said.
Kelly Rhodes of Alpha Chi Omega has been teaching a
freestyle dance to members of her sorority and to the members
of Delta Upsilon.
“It wasn’t too hard to coordinate the dance routine. Most
of the girls were cheerleaders, and we had some pretty talent
ed guys. They picked up the routine pretty fast,” Rhodes said.
“We’re doing this freestyle dance to a DMX song, and we’ve
been practicing a lot.”
Sophomore Jessica Decker, the special events chair for Kap
pa Kappa Gamma, said, “We’ve been practicing our freestyle
dance every night for the past two weeks, so we are pretty con
fident.”
Jamfest gives people who usually don’t dance a chance to
try.
“I have no rhythm whatsoever, but I’ll be out there danc
ing and having fun,” said senior Mike Scott, Delta Upsilon’s
homecoming chair.
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Wylde .
from page 7
guitar-driven, no bullsh*t music.” The
band has taken this straight-ahead approach
on the raid, and despite wliat mainstream
music tendencies are, has garnered a lot
• of support.
“We started about 3 1/2-4 months
ago and we hit Japan, the States, Europe,
came back over here and we’re going up
to Canada,” Wylde said.
According to Wylde, on this tour and
the last one, the band was able to put on
a good show because the entire metal
community would attend their shows.
However, Black Label Society still
remains in the underground music scene,
and despite the quality or their record
ings, are not fully embraced by the mu
sic community. But Wylde doesn’t let the
lack of success keep him from enjoying
the experience of making a record.
“If you’re doing what you love, it’s
not a job,” Wylde said. “As long as I can
keep a roof over my family’s head, and
the refrigerator full of beer, I’m good to
go.”
And at least for. now, it seems Wylde
will have no problems making a career
for himself. In addition to being in a movie
coming out titled “Metal God” and star
ring Mark Walhbeig and Jennifer Anis
ton, Wylde is going to continue to be busy
with Black Label Society.
“We’re going out for some dates with
tlie Panteraguys in like November,” Wylde
said. “I think they’re also going to bring
out Kittie and Morbid Angel so we’ll see
what happens.
Also don’t be surprised if Wylde and
Ozzy Osbourne join back together in the
near future.
“I saw Ozzy at the Ozzfest and we’re
talking about doing some tours again,”
Wylde said. “[I might] be doing another
record or whatever [with Ozzy] so we’ll
see what happens.”
' As for now, Wylde plans on contin
uing to impress audiences on the Pen
chant for Violence tour.
Black Label Society, Crowbar and
Sixty Witt Shaman will perform Thurs
day at Spartanbuig’s Ground Zero. Doors
open at 8pm, the show starts at 9pm, and
tickets are $15. Gill Ground Zero at (864)
948-1661 for more information.
The spotlight desk can be reached at
gamecockspotiight@hotmail.com.
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