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This Day in History Oct 5, 1981- A Richland County jury convicted Donald Ray Perry guilty of kidnapping, raping, and murdering USC education professor Mary Heimberger. Top: Roderick Holsey works the deli at Earth Fare. -Bottom: Myo Thein works the Sushi Bar at Earth Fare. ^ Photos by Amy Goulding The Gamecock Earth Fare is the healthy supermarket located on Devine Street. Earth Fare offers organic choices by Zeina Makky The Gamecock ' An average grocery list for col lege students might include juice, pizza, cookies, vegetables, crackers, beer and Pop Tarts. In most cases, especially for processed foods, not only pesticides and other chemicals such as fertil izers and fungicides have been used, but have also been genetically engi neered, or GE. This means the nat ural genes of tomatoes, for example, have been reproduced by genetic en gineers who mix and match the genes of different products. This has begun to alarm many people, especially Europeans and Japanese whose governments require GE foods to be labeled. Americans are beginning to feel wary, too, and health food stores such as Earth Fare have sprung up across the country. Earth Fare, which has stores in Columbia, Charleston, Greenville, and Asheville, N.C., offers organi cally grown fruit and vegetables, chemical-free pastries, and meat and poultry from chemical-free farms. “Other than the Rosewood Mar ket and [Earth Fare], there is not much variety in town to buy any fruits and vegetables,” said Dana Homer, an Earth Fare customer and USC chemical engineering grad uate student. “We come here every week from Lexington,” he said. Many samples of the wide vari ety of produce are displayed, and the store’s counters showcase various new products. “I hope organic food is better for us. Some [non-organic] products, I think, are just as good if you wash them and take away the pesticides, ... but if you get processed foods, you’re not sure what’s in them,” Homer said. Earth Fare also has hot and cold buffets, a coffee shop and a bakery with homemade cakes. “We don’t use bleached flour or synthetic sugars that can be difficult to digest,” salesperson Liz Zieglar said. Earth Fare SEE PAGE 7 Factory 81 debut album full of political messages by Phil Watson The Gamecock ft ft ft ft OUT OF ft ft ft ft > “Nanu,” the first track from Fac tory 81’s new album, “Mankind,” kicks off one of the most intense sets of songs ever released from a rap-metal band and it shows off talent that’s similar to several popular rap-metal bands. Factory 81, out of Detroit, has the intense choral ballads of Korn and the progressive guitar beats of Rage Against the Machine. Lead singer Nate Wal lace’s voice is similar to Tool’s May nard James Keenan and, at times, even sounds a bit like Korn’s John Davis. “Rotten Strawberries” delivers a steady, hard beat and an intensity that can hang with any of today’s top rap metal songs, while “Peace Officer,” a standard anti-police track, is one of the hit singles off the new album. “Mankind” is Factory 81 ’s debut album, chock full of political propa ganda. Not surprisingly, they have a strong anti-government message, an other way the band is similar to Rage Against the Machine. It seems political agenda has ad vanced others in the world of rap-met al, and these guys are taking what works and capitalizing on it. Factory 81 makes up for its misin formed political views, however, with 11 powerful tracks that will soon be standard to the mainstream rap-metal community. The spotlight desk can be reached at gamecockspotiight@hotmail.com. One more pop boy in the making by Marguerite Higgins The Gamecock After watching Aaron Carter’s performance Monday at the Harbison Boulevard Wal-Mart, the underlying question that comes to mind is, how do you tell all the pop culture bands apart? For half an hour, Aaron and his five dancers gave more than 2,000 screaming teens and their parents a show of about seven songs. They imitated music similar to N’Sync or the Backstreet Boys, but left no resounding impact of in dividuality. One of the more shocking songs was a remake of the 1980’s hit “Candy,” which lost its 80’s rock-techno magic to a 12-year-old’s boyish voice. While “Aaron’s Party,” his first CD, may make a smash with teens under 16, the songs gave no hint of new talent. However, lack of talent doesn’t stop the pre-teen from sell ing more than a million copies with “Adle America,” said Hur ricane, a Jive Records representative. “We already hit the 50,000 mark before the first week was completed for ‘Aaron’s Party’,” Hurricane said. Being the younger brother of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter is also helpful in promoting Aaron’s image, Hurricane said. Aaron will continue to three more stops in his two-week tour at Wal-Marts all over the nation before he heads to Europe to open for the Britney Spears concert tour. “We did the tours with Wal-Mart because families come here, and that’s the type of crowd we want at our shows,” Hurricane said. Hurricane didn’t deny the concert tour locations make it more convenient to have screaming children demand their parents to buy Aaron’s CD and paraphernalia. With his CD out in stores, Aaron will live on the single for the next nine to 12 months before looking at new mate rial, Hurricane said. “His video is number one in the nation in sales, and he’s been requested on Nickelodeon and the Disney Radio Chan nel,” Hurricane said While Aaron was not available for comments, two 16 year-old girls confirmed a fear for future generations as they said they would wait in the two-hour line to get a signature and picture with Aaron. “He’s really cute, and he’s Nick’s little brother, which makes the wait worthwhile,” Columbia resident Megan Gross said. Pop dance performances might bring out younger audi ences and their parents, but few college students, if any, were present for the free event. The spotlight desk can be reached at gamecockspotlight@hotmaiLcom. Special to The Gamecock S.C. State Fair events for Oct. 8 Midway opens at noon FREE SHOWS 12:30 p.m. - Performances by S.C. Students WIS Spirit of Carolina Stage 12:30 p.m. - “Columbia Marionette Theatre” Front of Rosewood's “Chainsaw Artists”- The Robinson Family Front ofMoote Building 1:30 p.m. - “Bounce & Ooo La La w/Daniel” Grandstand 2 p.m. - “Greatest Grandparent Contest” Grandstand 2:30 p.m. - “Richard's Racing Pigs” Front of Cattle Arena “Chainsaw Artists”- The Robinson Family Front of Moore Building “Columbia Marionette Theatre” Front of Rosewood's 3 p.m. - “Bounce & Ooo La La w/Daniel” WNOK Stage “Columbia Community Concert Band” WIS Spirit of Carolina Stage 4 p.m. - “Bounce & Ooo La La w/Daniel” WNOK Stage 4:30 p.m. - Richards Racing Pigs Front of Cattle Arena “Chainsaw Artists”- The Robinson Family Front of Moore Building “Columbia Marionette Theatre” Front of Rosewood's 5 p.m. - “Handbells” by Living Springs Lutheran Church WIS Spirit of Carolina Stage “Cea Cea & The Sandman” (Hypnotist) WNOK Stage 6 p.m. - “Columbia Marionette Theatre” Front of Rosewood's “New Life Singers” Ebenezer Lutheran Church WIS Spirit of Carolina Stage 6:30 p.m. - “Richard's Racing Pigs” Front of Cattle Arena “Chainsaw Artists”- The Robinson Family Front of Moore Building 7 p.m.-“Phil Urban” W7S Spirit of Carolina Stage “Bounce & Ooo La La w/Daniel” WNOK Stage “Columbia Marionette Theatre” Front of Rosewood's 8 p.m. -“Columbia Marionette Theatre” Front of Rosewood's 8:30pm -“Cea Cea & The Sandman” WNOK Stage “Richard's Racing Pigs” Front of Cattle Arena 9p.m.-“Phil Urban” WIS Spirit of Carolina Stage WRHA Movies Monday and Wednesday 2 p.m. - “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure" 5 p.m. - “The Green Mile” 1 lp.m. - “Mystery Men” 2 a.m. - “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” Tuesday and Thursday 2 p.m. - “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” 5 p.m. - “American Beauty” 8 p.m. - “Tommy Boy” 11p.m. - “Romeo Must Die” 2 a.m. - “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” Friday - Sunday 9 a.m. - “La Bamba” 12 p.m. - “Play it to the Bone” 3 p.m. - “Fools Rush In” 6 p.m. - “Wayne’s World” 9 p.m.-“28 Days” 12 a.m. - “The Wood” 3 a.m. - “Fools Rush In” Campus Notes Send Campus Notes to gamecockspot light@hotmail.com. 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