Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

CD Cover CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Hootie and the Blowfish will return to the class today so stu dents can present some of the projects. “If they find one they re ally like, they can have it and use it,” Farrand said. The 90 students will break into groups of eight or 10 to decide which student’s album cover is the best, Farrand said. Then, the students chosen by the groups will present their album covers . to the band. Hootie and the Blowfish will receive copies of all 90 album cov #ers next week to review. Farrand said he is excited about the project because it “gets the band here to have some fun with the students.” He said he thinks the project is beneficial to the students be cause they get real-life experience and to the band because it gets “90 views of what their music means to” the students. The Hootie and the Blowfish project has generated so much in terest in his class, Farrand said, even graduate students asked whether they could be in the class, which is required for ad vertising and public-relations students. The class presenting al bum covers to the band is a merg er of Farrand’s class and anoth er graphics-design-and-produc tion class taught by Keith Kenny. In the past, the graphics class es have done pamphlets for the Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health, posters for the College of Mass Communications and Information Studies, and an album cover for local band Fling. | Farrand said he likes to get “be yond the book” in his classroom. Mitchell said he has received “more hands-on knowledge than (in) any other class I have taken.” Dan Soper, a fourth-year pub lic-relations student in Farrand’s class, said he learned a lot be cause “I got to put my ideas to vi sual form.” But, he said, “It blew me away that they (Hootie. and the Blowfish) would trust us.” Mitchell said: “It is very sig nificant for the journalism school that a prominent band allows stu dents to lay out the cover of their next CD. It shows their confi dence in what the professors are teaching.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Competition CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 performance-enhancing drugs. Second-year retail student Ryan Bishop said steroid use would be a profound topic about which to educate other students. “This idea of steroid use just popped into my head, and it seemed like it was a good topic with sports being so popular right now,” he said. Bishop said he thinks steroid use is expanding in some sports and that the use of dietary supple ments, such as creatine, has also risen from some professional ath letes’ endorsements of the prod ucts. “I think this issue should defi nitely be looked into more with more testing of these athletes,” he said. The students had to work on the report outside of class and use at least three specific research ar eas to prove their claims about the trends of steroid use in ath letics. v “They had to look at how they viewed ethics as the reality of to day’s world and whether the bot tom line on this could simply be dollars and cents or athletic per formance,” said Annette Hoover, the group’s adviser and a profes sor in the Retail Department. Hoover said the students also had to find experts who could teach them about the most recent findings on the subject. Several professors and busi ness leaders comprised the panel that judged the teams on their re ports. The students got involved in the project through consumer economics, a class taught in the Retail Department. Most of the other students involved were journalism, business or psychoD ogy students. Hoover, who is also an adviser for SIFE, said she hopes the stu dents’ works will encourage oth er students to join SIFE to learn more about free enterprise and the structure of businesses. Bishop said he thinks profes sional sports teams generally act with businessjnotives because they want their players to perform better than players on other teams in order to draw the most fans and profit for the team and the local economy. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com BRIEFLY Law school to hold seminar on bioterror Understanding the new emer gency-health-powers laws that are part of the South Carolina Homeland Security Act will be the focus of a seminar from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dec. 17 at the USC Law School auditorium. “Bioterrorism 101: What You '' Need to Know about the South Carolina Emergency Health Powers Law” is aimed at lawyers, health-care administrators and government officials. The pro gram is sponsored by USC’s Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health; the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control; and the Nexsen, Pruet, Jacobs and Pollard Law Firm. The Commission of Continuing Legal Education and Specialization has approved the seminar for six Continuing Legal Education credit hours. A $75 reg istration fee includes all seminar materials. For information, call the pub lie-health school at 803-576-5815, visit www.sph.sc.edu or e-mail bioterrorl01@gwm.sc.edu. •,»*. b ‘ .1 - —-[jjpifljpir Ti ~ Best wishesfor a hoddayfitted with peace, joy & happiness... Pll Tarnlina rnllegiate Federal Credit Union Cp* I 710 Pulaski Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29201 » (803) 227-5555 « 1-800-476-5861 • www.carolina.org_I Ws Buy Back fine Again! * BRING IN YOUR BOOKS AND RECEIVE COLD HARD CASH! a A/o one pays you Monday - Thursday 7:45 a.m. - 6 p.m. Friday 7:45 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Get Cap & Gown, Christmas gifts and mm! \ fTF The Official Bookstore of USC 1400 Greene St. • Russell House • (803) 777-4160 i Where your purchases benefit both you and the scholarship programs of USC •