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THE GMP GETS SUMMER
MAKEOVER, SURPRISES
RETURNING STUDENTS
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PHOTO BY TRISHA SHADWELL/THE GAMECOCK
Sanette Campbell, who has worked in the Grand Marketplace
for a week, makes desserts.
BY BRIAN RAY
TI1K (iAMECOCK
If you walked into the Grand
Marketplace last week and won
dered if you were on the right
planet, you weren’t alone. Just
about everyone there was floored
by the recent renovations and
shuffling of the dining deck. The
GMP offers sushi now, a wider se
lection of pastas, better tables,
booths and tiled floors. And it has
replaced the metal slab we grew to
love so much with a real grill
that’ll bum real black stripes onto
your hamburger. You can’t help
but push through the door and feel
like the Earl of Sandwich for about
10 seconds — until it dawns on you
that you’ve got about half an hour
to wade through a long line and
wolf down that royal spaghetti.
Second-year art studio student
Sarah Insley especially liked the
added space. “Everything’s real
sharp,” she said. “There’s a better
setup, so that should help with the
traffic.” While waiting for a friend
in line she took the first bite of her
pasta with white sauce. “It’s real
good,” she said.
Third-year history student
Dustin Lee said having a real grill
makes a bigger difference than
you might think.
“I think they’re a lot better.
There’s a lot less grease, and
there’s a char-grilled taste,” Lee
said. “Last year I probably came
here once a week, but now I’m
probably eating here two or three
times a week.”
Believe it or not, Lee said he
once would completely bypass the
Grand Marketplace 90 percent of
the time.
“I walked all the way to Gibbes
Court just to get something decent
to eat,” Lee said.
The best and probably most ex
otic addition to the lineup is the
sushi bar, which serves the full
spectrum from the popular
California rolls to salmon rolls and
such seemingly odd combinations
as shrimp and avocado. They also
serve such specialties as the tsuna
mi roll, dragon roll, tempura roll
and party trays.
everyone s
been shocked,”
said chef Winston
Lou as he sliced
and diced behind
the bar. He’s been
working at the
sushi bar seven
days. “People
come up and say,
‘Wow, I didn’t know we had sushi
here.’”
“The sushi is a vast improve
ment,” said fourth-year experi
mental psychology student
Nicholas Perez. He’s been eating
sushi just about every day for
lunch. But, he said, “Last year I
would have laughed at the concept
of sushi in the GMP and stayed
far, far away from it.” So the ren
ovations seem to give an added
level of security.
Perez said even though the mar
ket place looked better, he still
missed the quaint, slightly dark
environment of last year. “You
just can’t call this place the GMP,”
Perez said.
And despite the new look, said
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there seem to be a
few bugs the staff
needs to work out.
“There’s a lot of
traffic problems
right now,”
Johnson said,
“probably be
cause people don’t
know where they’re going yet.”
To be honest, it’s quite a tap
dancing trick to navigate the new
dining hall. The soup line has
moved across the room, and the
drink machines no longer sepa
rate the dining area from the line.
The open space seems like an in
vitation for chaos because no
physical obstructions or velvet
ropes direct the traffic. ^
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dering around like a freshman,
♦ GMP, SEE PAGE 7
“I’m a junior, and here I
am wandering around
like a freshman.”
BETHANY KESSELL
THIRD-YEAR ENGLISH STUDENT
ALSO NEW FROM DINING
SERVICES:
♦ Einstein Bagles
♦ Mein Bowl
♦ Burger King
All are located on the second
floor of the Russell House.
Avant-garde jazz trio to play at Gambrell Hall
BY GABRIELLE SINCLAIR
THE GAMECOCK
The Creative Music and Film
Society, a student organization
headed by USC alumnus Kevin
Green, will sponsor a concert this
Friday featuring the avant-garde
jazz trio Numinous Opossum.
The trio is comprised of Andrew
Voigt on wind instruments ranging
from the alto saxophone to the bass
flute, Morgan Guberman on bass
and vocals, and Ian Davis on drums.
All are career musicians — Voigt
was cofounder of the ROVA saxo
phone quartet, an experimental
group that began playing in 1977;
Guberman is a multi-instrument
performer and composer; and Davis
works with an improvisational or
chestra. Their new self-titled CD is
virtually all improvisation.
“It’s adventurous music,” Green
said. “People should come out, take
a chance, see something different.”
Green described the music as be
ing for people who “have an open
mind and want to listen to a differ
ent kind of jazz. It’s not traditional,
straight-ahead jazz, it’s pretty ex
perimental stuff.”
There is little structure and
much improvisation. “They com
municate by listening to each other,
not playing for themselves,” Green
said. “They’re working as a whole,
instead of just making noise.”
The organization will sponsor
five or six other concerts sporadi
cally throughout the year, but
plans to focus mainly on film.
Green has directed the organiza
tion for about seven years and has
held events such as a Stanley
Kubrick film festival to honor the
late director. “We showed all 13 of
his films in three weeks,” Green
said. The Colossal Film Crawl will
also be at Gambrell Hall, co-spon
sored by the film society and the
' Nickelodeon Theatre.
Green is a television director at
the Distance Education and
Instructional Support Services
and plays percussion, keyboards
and amplified objects in various
solo and duet projects in the state.
The organization will also show
films on the 14-foot screen every
Sunday, beginning Sept. 7 with the
unedited version of “Last Tango
in Paris,” with Marlon Brando.
Green said the society will show a
variety of films. “I’ll go from old
American classics to foreign films,
to art house films, to documentary,
to goofy cult classics,” Green said.
The films are free and open to
the public.
Green said the Sunday night
films not only support the
Nickelodeon Theatre and inde
pendent film crowd, but they also
give USC students a cost-efficient
opportunity to broaden their hori
zons. “It exposes a lot of people to
films they haven’t seen, and it
doesn’t conflict with other sched
ules.”
Admission is $5, and Dapper
Don’s will provide free food. The
refreshments will be Served at 7
p.m., and the music starts upA
7:30 p.m. The concert takes plaW
in the Gambrell Hall auditorium,
room 153.
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BOOK REVIEWS
Summer book selections go
uptown in two posh novels
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Summer 2003 was the season of
high-class literature. Bookshelves
and bestseller lists were populated
with tales of the social elite, the
upper crust, the Prada-clad crowd.
Readers waltzed vicariously
through the apartments of New
York’s Upper East Side in “The
Nanny Diaries”; they stole a
glimpse into the life of an illustri
ous fashion editor in “The Devil
Wears Prada.” America — most
ly female America — could not
“THE NANNY DIARIES”
Emma McLaughlin and Nicola
Kraus
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get enough of such literary looks
into the lifestyles of the rich and
well-heeled.
Still a mainstay on the best
sellers’ list months after its debut,
“The Nanny Diaries,” by Emma
McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus en
dured as one of the summer’s feel
good must-reads. Based on the au
thors’ actual experiences as
Manhattan nannies, the novel de
tails the frustrations and follies of
a young caretaker simply referred
to as Nanny and her well-to-do
charge.
Grayer, the book’s young star,
lacks the callous haughtiness of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. X, and
he earns the nanny’s sympathy
rather than her scorn, The X’s
keep their emotional — and phys
ical — distance from him, prefer
ring to keep their cashmeres
clean rather than recognize
Grayer’s childhood right to be
cherished.
The book does not attack priv
ileged society but rather pokes fun
at their world of parents leagues
and private schools. It is more crit
ical of the characters’ inherent
lack of humanity than their loaded
bank accounts.
The tale is an amusing read,
full of witty observations, hu
morous experiences and plenty
of brand-name dropping —
Chanel ballet flats and Manolo
Blahniks are noted Upper East
Side shoe closet staples.
“The Nanny Diaries” might
not maintain long-lasting appeal,
but it has deservedly earned its
season in the sun. The authors
have created a likeable, light
summer read that allows the av
erage reader to take pride in his
or her family values and the af
fluent to chuckle at their social
set’s absurdities.
With similar style and even
more name-dropping, “The Devil
Wears Prada” explores the world
of an eponymous fashion editor.
♦ REVIEWS, SEE PAGE 8
CD REVIEW
Guster delivers latest album
with sun-streaked melodies
“KEEP IT TOGETHER”
Guster
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BY MEG MOORE
TUB (IAMBCOCK
Shimmering with a summery
ease, Guster’s latest release,
“Keep it Together,” exemplifies
the term “pop gem.” Simplified,
accessible and straightforward,
the album references Beatles-era
melodies without neglecting mod
em wit.
Delivering witty lines with
comfortable malaise, singer Ben
Kweller sends his vocals floating
across the backing track. He uses
his voice to continue the melody
rather than to compete with it,
adding to the sun-streaked feel of
many of the tunes. Chiming
through the CD’s bouncy bass
lines, Kweller’s delivery sounds
comfortably carefree, as if he’s
kicking back right along with the
listener.
While decidedly pop-rock,
“Keep It Together” evidences
bluegrass influences with the in
clusion of a banjo on some tracks
— notably the jangly “Jesus on
the Radio.” The album is also
heavily laden with pop-culture
references. From the sly “From
your red balloon you were/ A su
per-high-tech jet fighter” to the
obvious “turn on MTV,” the CD
embraces the modern world d^.
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On tracks such as the wistfia
“Come Downstairs and Say
Hello,” Guster trades its generally
jovial sound for more melancholy
melodies. The band has mastered
the downtrodden as effectively as
it has embraced the upbeat.
Refreshingly clean-sounding,
the music never hides behind dis
torting effects or obscure lyrics —
Guster has turned out a precise
pop-rock collection and is proud
of it. Neither commercialized
enough for TRL nor controversial
enough to incite media frenzy,
“Keep It Together” likely will not
receive widespread attention.
Regardless, it remains a solid,
Sunday drive-worthy record.
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