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CONTACT US M0T™IT Story ideas? Questions? Comments? all do great things. But we can E-mail us at gamecockmixeditor@hotmail.com do small things with great love. “Student! are taking the message to heart.’ JESSICA BREAU) SEXUAL RESPONSIBILIT WEEK CHAIRWOMAI Sexual Awareness Week, which starts today, includes games, free HIV testing, Health Expo, sex-ed showcase BY TITAN BARKSDALE THE GAMECOCK t An enormous birth control pill , will be parading around the USC • campus this week to encourage participation in responsible sex | play this Valentine’s Day. The donning of this costume and , other events are planned for USC’s Sexual Responsibility Week, span ning from today through Wednesday, Feb. 12 on Greene ! Street. The fair focuses on sexual awareness and fund-raising and is cosponsored by the Office for ■ Sexual Health and Violence Prevention and the group Sexual |- Health Awareness and Rape Education. SHARE graduate assistant Emily Buchheit said: “Sexual Responsibility Week is designed to decrease high-risk sexual behaviors and provide alternative ways to en joy Valentine’s without being sex ually active. We’re promoting edu cation and fun activities while gen erating funds for Camp for Kids.” Greene Street will be transformed into a virtual open-air sex-ed show ► case with a festive atmosphere. * Today and tomorrow will feature a - key chain sale and a Valentine’s gift ' basket raffle. The key chains are us able condoms with “Wear Your t Rubber” printed on the label. Gift ’ baskets contain candy, condom key I chains, Dental Dams, lubricants and gift certificates to various restau rants and retail stores. SHARE members will give stu dents the opportunity to become 'f better informed via games and *1 health organizations at the Health Expo on Wednesday. “Sexual Stoplight,” a game of STD knowledge, is played the way a stoplight operates. A SHARE mem ber reads sexual scenarios, and the participant must determine whether they should go, proceed with caution or stop and don’t en gage. “Rings of Love,” a relation ship-themed ball toss, has players aim for the holes with healthy re lationship aspects printed above them. A successful throw gets a player 50 points and a prize. “Sex in the City” is a similar but more fact-oriented game. Students toss a ball through a ring, but instead of 50 points, players get STD infor mation and statistics. “After Christmas break, every one in SHARE brainstormed some games, and I decided on the ones you could do really quickly and get information as well, since people will only have a couple of minutes to stop,” said Sexual Responsibility Week chairwoman and SHARE peer Jessica Breaux. The game’s information will be supplemented by literature pro vided by local health organiza tions. Sexual Trauma Services, PALSS, Planned Parenthood and Richland Primary Health Care will be present to inform students about their role in sexual health awaicucoo. ivu/iuauu 1 i uuai ^ Health Care will also administer free OraSure HIV testing in the Russell House on Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Breaux thinks that no one should pass up on the opportunity the week provides. She said: “I en courage all students to take part in this because with the freedom of college, especially with freshmen, the T-can-do-anything-I-want’ atti tude overshadows safe sex, and most don’t think about how to pro tect themselves. This is about awareness; plus, you can tested for HIV for free.” Breaux was compelled to accept the “chairperson” title for this year’s Sexual Responsibility Week because she thinks the message of protecting yourself is extremely important and something we need to all consider at all times. Though the coordination of the week’s activities has been a lot of tiresome, painstaking work, that hasn’t stifled Breaux’s excitement or optimism. “My SHARE members and I have really put a lot of work into this, and everything is falling into place. I’m feeling really good about it and look ing forward to it,” she said. This is the seventh annual Sexual Responsibility Week, and each year a new twist is added. This year features different games, a new fund-raising recipient, and the presentation of “The Vagina Monologues” in conjunction with the week. Camps for Kids is a nonprofit or ganization helping kids living with HIV/AIDS. Breaux thought it would be the ideal organization to raise money for because it helps children and fits into the Sexual Responsibility Week’s theme. “The Vagina Monologues” is made up exclusively of women and includes SHARE members. “We worked together to publi cize for one another since some SHARE peers are a part of ‘The Vagina Monologues,’ and Sexual ResDonsibilitv Week is alwavs dur ing this time,” Buchheit said. “It was somewhat by chance but we re ally wanted to work together to make it a full weeklong program.” All of the events traditionally of fered have left an impression on the students who participate. And since this year offers different events, Breaux anticipates better results. “Students are taking the mes sage to heart because a lot of peo ple remembered last year’s Sexual Responsibility Week. I’m hoping that this year will be even better.” Marketing student Adrien Brown plans to attend. She said, “It’s important that students be made aware of all things that affect their future, whether it be sexual or otherwise.” You might not be able to take the parading birth control pill home with you, but during Sexual Responsibily Week, there’s guar anteed to be information on where to get the standard-sized pills. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockmixeditor@hotmail.com SHARE’S logo, shown here, displays the attributes it thinks are most important. CD REVIEW ‘Handpicked’stars local talent HANDPICKED: VOLUME 1 Songs from bands from Hootie and the Blowfish’s record label ★★★★ out of ☆☆☆☆☆ BY ADAM MCALLISTER THE GAMECOCK Oftentimes in our modem world, we see public figures, made famous by various media outlets, latch on to causes to further their reputation, influence or public appeal. The causes can be as varied as their baclfgrounds. For example, it could be disease research, | nomeiess projects or any numoer of charitable works. Hootie and the Blowfish, familiar to USC and the surrounding area, are taking a different route, however. Their most recent CD isn’t one of ttnir own works, but rather a compilation released on their newly formed company, Handpicked Records. “Handpicked: Volume 1” takes 19 tracks from 19 different bands, all regional and local acts, and places them on one CD in the hopes of introducing some unsigned and smaller bands to the public. This is their way of giving back, seeking to help out the underdogs, a position they used to be all too familiar with. The bands range from unheard of to small to slightly bigger, but most should be recognizable to Columbia concert-goers. However, this is not only an introduction to the bands, but:, rather, a great chance to broaden the listener’s norizons. me aiDum varies man rock ‘n’ roll and folk stylings to jazz guitar with near-pop vocals and winds up providing something for everyone. As already stated, some of these bands should be quite recognizable from their local and national acclaim such as Jump, Little Children (offering their track “Dancing Virginia” to the mix), Hobex (with “Ain’t Pushin’ Baby”) and the Charleston band Moviestar (here playing the unreleased “Life.”) But what really deserves recognition are the bands only known in specific genres that could make a big jump with the help of this album. Danielle Howie and the Tantrums perform “Hey You” and provide a fantastic female lead vocal combined with classic guitar sounds. Snuzz, heard here with the song “Checking the Damage,” are noticeably marked with a great modem sound, $ ♦ HANDPICKED, SEE PAGE 7 MOVIE REVIEW Violent movie preys on the heart KULLCKDHLL Starring LL Cool J, Chris Klein ★★★ out of ☆☆☆☆☆ BY MIKE LUKE THE GAMECOCK “Rollerball” is an indescribably ambiguous game and the latest movie from “Die Hard” director John McTiernan. The story centers on the sport and the mayhem that follows the shameless corruption of it. The game is hard to describe — the only sport that even comes close is roller derby. Rollerball puts motorcycles and rollerbladers on a figure-eight track. The object is to throw a silver ball at a gong. The rules of rollerball, although briefly explained in the movie, are a bit like the horrible portrayal of the unidentified Asian country where the sport takes place: lawless and violent with few authorities that care about the latter. LL Cool J stars as Marcus Ridley In MGM Pictures’ action thriller “Rollerball.” PHOTO COURTESY OF MGM The main idea is that in rollerball, there’s money to be made by the players, the owners, the gamblers, and the executives. Rollerball, as a sport, is simple in its construction and relatively boring, but you can’t blame that on the screenplay writer and director because it was adapted from a book. They did an excellent job of making the lackluster game exciting. However, there’s a problem with rollerball. The global television ratings are never high enough for the owner. Solutions? Pain. Blood. Suffering. For each game, the owner, Petrovich (Jean Reno, “The Fifth Element”), has the players stage an act of sheer violence. Someone gets incredibly hurt, the instant replay for television viewers is rigged to make it look ♦ ROLLERBALL, SEE PAGE 7 •**.. . “Sexual Responsibility Week is designed to decrease high risk sexual behaviors.’ EMILY BUCHHEI1 SHARE GRADUATE ASSISTAN