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“Year to year,
generation to
generation, we
forget how to
care for the
earth. We still
need to recognize
that the earth
can only
accommodate so
much.”
GWEN GEIDEL
ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR THE
SCHOOL OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Earth Day events
Here’s how USC plans to observe the 32nd
annual Earth Day:
♦ Celebration of the Earth and the Environment,
11 a.m.-l p.m.
♦ Earth Day essay contest awards ceremony, noon
♦ Rocky Branch Creek Cleanup, following the awards
ceremony
♦ Nature Walk, 3 p.m.
USC celebration 1
seeks to raise
environmental
awareness
BY KAMILLE BOSTICK
THE GAMECOCK
Today is the 32nd annual
Earth Day,«and as the entire
world celebrates the greatness,
greenness and fragility of our
planet, USC’s School of the
fc Environment has planned an
exciting day for those at the
university to participate as
well.
The Earth Day Festival will
not only feature events that ed
ucate students about the envi
ronment and what can be done
to protect it. The festival will
also recognize students, staff
and faculty who are taking
such actions. Another impor
tant feature of this year’s festi
val is an event to encourage in
volvement on the campus.
Beginning at 11 a.m., the
Celebration of the Earth and the
Environment will take place.
Lasting until 1 p.m., the celebra
tion will showcase environmen
tal programs, research, and ac
tivities taking place at the uni
versity as well as community en
vironmental groups such as the
Sierra Club and the Baruch
Institute. The philosophy de
partment’s African Drums and
the Moonshine band will per
form.
The festival also includes
a ceremony for the
Environmental Essay
Contest and Environmental
Stewardship Award win
ners. Several English 101
classes participated in the
essay contest that will give
a cash prize. One student,
two staff members and a fac
ulty member will be recog
nized for their involvement
in environmental affairs.
Winners will receive'their
awards in front of the
Russell House at noon.
An award will also be pre
sented to the fraternity that
placed first in the intrafra
ternity recycling contest.
Several fraternities will have
information and activity booths
set up throughout the day as
well.
Following the awards cere
mony, volunteers can help
clean up Rocky Branch
Creek, which lies between the
Blatt P.E. Center and the
Swearingen Engineering
Center. On Tuesday, organiz
ers plan to park the dump
truck filled with the collect
ed trash on Greene Street.
The festival will conclude with
a nature walk at 3 p.m.
Earth Day became an annu
al observance in 1970 to focus
attention on the issues con
cerning the environment and
affecting the planet. It was
founded by Gaylord Nelson, a
U.S. senator from Wisconsin
who was awarded the
Presidential Medal of
Freedom for his activism.
On April 22,1970,20 million
Americans participated in
rallies, demonstrations and
protests to show their support
for a cleaner, better Earth.
Activism shown that day led
to the creation of the
Environmental Protection
Agency and the passage of the
Clean Air, Clean Water, and
Endangered Species acts.
To promote awareness as well
as action, the School of the
Environment has resumed the ob
servance here on campus for the
past five years.
“Year to year, generation to
♦ EARTH DAY, SEE PAGE 6
Spidey tickets out early
PHOTO BY ZADE
ROSENTHAL/
COLUMBIA PICTURES
| BY CARRIE PHILLIPS
THE CAMK(TICK
“Spider-Man” doesn’t hit the big screen
until May 3, but fans can already set the
date and time that they want to see the
movie. Two theaters in Columbia have
already put tickets on sale, and tickets are
also available through Fandango.com.
AMC Dutch Square 14 and Phoenix
Theaters Columbia Mall Cinema 8 are
selling tickets for May 3 through May 9.
Fandango.com started selling tickets
April 15. Since then, Fandango.com
reported that “Spider-Man” has
gsyrnered 16 percent of ticket sales for
the past week. The next two highest
sellers, “Changing Lanes” and “The
Scorpion King,” each garnered 13
percent.
“ ‘Spider-Man’ promises
to be one of the biggest
films this summer, and
fans are already
making plans to see it,”
said Art Levitt,
president and CEO of
Fandango Inc. He said that this
way, fans can get seats in advance and
not have to worry about the show
selling out.
People who buy “Spider-Man” tickets
at Fandango.com will be automatically
entered in a sweepstakes to win Spider
Man merchandise, DVDs or the grand
prize — a DVD player.
The webslinger first came on the scene
in August 1962 in a Marvel comic book.
Since then, Spider-Man has become one
of Marvel’s most popular characters.
This is not tne character s first live
action appearance. From 1977 to 1979,
Nicholas Hammond starred in the title
role in the television series “The
Amazing Spider-Man.”
“Spider-Man” stars Tobey Maguire
as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, Kirsten
Dunst as Mary Jane Watson and Willem
Dafoe as William Osborne/Green
Goblin.
AMC Dutch Square 14 is located in
Dutch Square Mall at Bush River and
Broad River roads. Phoenix Theaters
Columbia Mall Cinema 8 is located at
7201-802 Two Notch Road.
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Staley found dead at 34
BY GENE JOHNSON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE - Layne Staley, lead singer
and guitarist for the grunge band Alice in
Chains, was found dead in his apartment,
authorities said Saturday. He was 34.
Tests were required to establish the
identity because the body, discovered
Friday, had started to decompose. The
King County Medical Examiner’s office
did not release his cause of death.
“It was natural or an overdose — that’s
the way it was determined by our
investigators,” said Seattle Police
spokesman Duane Fish.
Police did not immediately release
details on anything that was found at the
scene, and a spokesman did not respond to
several messages.
With Nirvana, Pearl Jam and
Soundgarden, Alice in Chains was one of
the most prominent bands of the Seattle
grunge scene 01 tne early 9us. me group
was known for its dark, menacing sound,
which combined grunge and heavy metal,
and often wrote about heroin.
“He was a sweet guy, but very troubled,”
said Charles Cross, a former editor of the
defunct Seattle music magazine The
Rocket who recently wrote a biography of
Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobam. “He lost
his girlfriend to drugs a number of years
ago. People still had hopes he would turn
around. It’s a sad tale.”
While Alice in Chains didn’t gamer as
much respect as other Seattle grunge
groups, the band’s influence still
reverberates, Cross said.
“Critically, they’ll never rate in the
same pantheon as Nirvana, but they were
a band that inspired hundreds, if not
thousands, of other bands,” Cross said. He
PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK
Layne Staley headed Alice In Chains.
pointed to Creed and Godsmack, a band
that shares its name with an Alice in
Chains song.
“They had huge commercial
aspirations from the beginning. They
fulfilled that, and so much of that was
Layne’s voice,” Cross said.
His voice ranged from a low, growly
monotone to a pained, piercing wail; many
a bar-band singer frayed vocal cords in the
early 1990s trying to imitate it. Staley also
played some guitar for the group.
Alice in Chains stopped touring in the
mid-’90s, when Staley’s drug use proved
too great an obstacle. He began a number
of stints in rehab.
In a 1996 interview with Rolling Stone
♦ STALEY, SEE PAGE 6
Art Jam
premieres
Tuesday
Danielle
Howie’s
concert
Is free
with a
college
ID.
PHOTO
SPECIAL TO
THE
GAMECOCK
Danielle Howie
performs to
kick off the
celebration
BY CHARLES TOMLINSON
THE (MMECOCK
The Columbia Museum of Art
will play host to the second
annual Art Jam on Tuesday and
feature a blues photography
exhibit and a performance from
recording artist Danielle Howie.
The event will take place from
6 p.m. to 8 p.m., and its main
features will be Howie’s
performance and the
photography exhibit
“Visualizing the Blues: Images
from the American South.”
Visitors can also observe the
museum’s international art
gallery.
College students are admitted
free with a student ID.
Refreshments will also be
served.
The Art Jam began last year
as a way to make local college
students more aware of the art
museum, said Ellen Woodoff of
the museum’s marketing and
communications department.
“It’s a fun evening, free for
college students, of art and
music, and there will be some
refreshments,” Woodoff said.
The museum will also offer
special $10 student
memberships on the evening of
the Art Jam. Regular student
admission is $2.
“We do like to get the word
out there because it’s a fairly
inexpensive thing for students
to do and not too far from
campus at all,” Woodoff said.
Howie will perform a solo
acoustic set. She has garnered
critical acclaim for her folky,
bluesy songwriting. According
to Interview magazine, “Howie
is quickly making a big noise
thanks to her richly resonant
voice and spirited songwriting.
The music, a funky, down-home
patchwork of boisterous rock
and country strumming, also
speaks of the 200-watt
independent mind behind it.”
“Visualizing the Blues”
chronicles the history of 63
photographers to show the
influence of blues music on their
work. Featured photographers
include Eudora Welty, Gordon
Parks, Edward Weston, Walker
Evans, Dorothea Lange, Sally
Mann and Henri Cartier
Bresson.
The museum’s current
exhibit spans the history of
photography from the Civil War
and Depression era to
contemporary times.
In addition to Howie, two
local musicians will perform.
Saxophonist Garrick Sherrod
and D J Shekeese will play for
museum visitors Tuesday
evening.
Sherrod plays outside of
Rising High on Main Street
every day at lunch time.
Museum staff asked Garrick to
play at the Art Jam.
“The exhibition is about the
blues, and he was outside Rising
High playing the blues, so we
thought it was perfect,” Woodoff
said.
The Columbia Museum of Art
is located at Main and Hampton
streets in downtown Columbia.
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