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THE GAMECOCK ♦ Wednesday, February 11, 2004 9 —■ ■ ■ IW ■ “’The worth of a book is to be i ’ M /■ I % / measured by what you can carry Contact. Us || H . V/l I \ SSSET Story ideas? Questions? Comments? I I I J 111 |/\ British historian and statesman E-mailusatgamecockfeatures@gwm.sc.edu —®-®-■—^ -A-T _■-■—-A__ _m_ _U5C £ ! TbrtL fyygjri “fveyle-vy* —ie. ri^isjakk a._ Ii4-g.H7-^ Mwej- -Par __ ^ Alh je^gr-gdu Gt~f~g- k/rrfg.fS ■ :_£/ MEti MGOfiE THE CnWCOCK, Writer’s block may be ’ aj&f' the wordsmith’s worst en — --emyrbut having no place to publish and share one’s work — that "carTBe literary Hell. Aiming to provide __an outlet for poets and prose_ crafters at USC, Three Rivers Review, the reincarnated undergraduate lit -eraryjournah-As-workiBg-tOgive-thfe on-campus, pen-wielding population that necessary forum. _ Qniaos establish the publication as ”a journal, not a magazine,” third — year English Student Daniel Warner and Three Rivers Reviewcd-editorT emphasized the Review’s role as ful USC’s publications, as we see it, is §s||j| W’ ip that there is essentially no outlet for stndentirteravy "voice. The goafof Three Rivers is to provide that out _ _let." Jen AufreyTSfourtHTeaf English student ancUfhr je Rivers public af dergraduatas in general, not just English or other liberal arts majors, share their work,” she said. "There are lots ofother literary magazines, whatnot in the area. But the school has nothing of the sort, not be causenf lack of support, but sim ply because there was no orga ---—Wien behir atedthe organization.” Although the USG English / Department produces a vari rT ety"oFp ubTicaTrons.Tt TfSs | '^ssr~ noticeably lacked in recent '..years a journal focused on unMrifSS^Sfe work. Several years ---— agOrUSCdiscontinued both the literary journal and the year book. USC graduate Elizabeth Siior project last year to take steps toward bringing it back. The group of students has been working since the fall for this ...semester’s publication. Autrey.said.. Hoping to revamp campus interest in the publication of Undergraduate -work, the Three Rivers staff members view the journal as an essential out let "Anyone who wants to become a writer needs a venue. We’re hereTcT provide the venue. Even if people just do it for fun, we want to provide a place where all this can happen^” Autreysaid. English student and staff poetry edi tor, hopes the journal will expand etry” on campUs. Prose editor Sarah Saylor, a first-year English student, echoed Watson’s sentiments: "We’re trying to gen est and open ’ up the writing community to people in ~ altldnds of Tttffererfrgenres.alikind of different experience levels.” The journal is accepting submis sions not only from on-campus writ ers, but also from undergraduate stu . dents at ‘•anynolleee in the world,” explained Autrey. "Of course, we want as many USC students to sub miras possible,” she added. — — Currently working to raise sup port for Three Rivers Review, the staff plans topoducel vol- ~jr~ ume of student compositions , this spring. ‘Tve work- ^ ing on our Web site Slid 1 we've been trying to get the * leges as well,” said Audrey. Posting flyers and running ra •"dio'adsrmo^rafrTfgrmytTedtm dergraduate students to submit their best work and is offering prizes for the most outstanding po ems and prose pieces. The deadline - ffm—submissions. is—March. 1..,. Honoring the most outstanding pieces of both prose and poetry, first prizes of $25 will be awarded in each category. Idea 1 $\. itiFThreeTSTvers staTT~ hopes to make the journal a bi-annual .publication A- and, therefore, is anx ious to garnw as much community support for thkir efforts as possible. "The more support we get, the more copies we can make and the more stu dents will be abk to share in the ex perience," said freasnrer and third year print journalism student Gabrielle Sinclair. _ The print edition of Three Rivers should be on standi in Cool Beans and by ear- , » 7 7j cation can at least r^iivigorate it —with thp publication of the student body’s best pieces. "ASwrtters/'Saylor 3aid. *JWetm-- - derstand the need for opportunities like Three Rivers, to see your work in print and recelvelPeaffirmatTon ^ “1 that comes from your peers reading yr.nr wnrlr " __ ... j Added Autrey, ’’Lots of other schools have undergraduate literary magazmes.’ftfedmrt want tote out of--—— the loop.” Comments on this story?.E-mail gamecockfea tures@gwm. he. edu 4-:-ff- 4 -'fjptSs . f \ *Dh " ----- ----y f o\nfus^hq — — —--6-J-H--.-y ^ TerAe^ W ^ rework/ PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MARY PHCKNEY WATERS/THE GAMECOCK ____Ji:;______,i ‘Three Rivers Review’ Submission WBJ|*Jfar Guidelines Wr,ter ♦ Accepting submissions from enrolled P P ♦Works may be submitted by e-mail to < WritersDigest.com - Touted as the 3rivers@gwm.sc.edu attached as a -Online Guide to the Writing Life. L fntt* e-mail text, include the author's feWritersPlace.com - Contains an name, social security number, pho assortment of articles on techniquei an number, and e-mail address, as well as g jonforlhe practicng*^. a short biography. . 4 Writing.com - An online community u ♦The writer's social security numb*bu gative writers. Post your work or simply not name, should appear on each page ^ lhrough others' pieces, of the submission. ♦ ArtsJournal.com - A daily digest ♦ All works published by Three Rivers featuring articles and columns from Review Dm piopett, of the ^legible sources op the a®.« author. section is dedicated specifically to PROSE GUIDELINES: ffun-S-WordS-Com - Digthrough this ♦Three Rivers will accept prose works up J Jon o{ pa|indromes, anagrams, to 4,000 words. |tfnl tongue twisters and other sorts o ♦ Submissions should be 12 point font p)ay and double-spaced. ♦ Poems.com - Features a spec p . POETRY GUIDELINES: f/tSixOT 6 Another communky ♦ Three Rivers will accept up to five . ^here you can publish your own poems S—oiube«oun=uer rlPS"A«Sn»ed.ice black and white. online worid of famous quotes. SOURCE: THREE RIVERS LITERARY JOURNAL I * i i i Beatles still popular 40 years after Sullivan BY BEN WENER KKTCAMI'IS They played five songs that chilly Feb. 9, inside the same CBS studio in New York that David Letterman now inhabits. In order, "All My Loving,” then version of "Till There Was You,” "She Loves You,” "I Saw Her Standing There” and "I Want to Hold Your Hand.” Five songs, performed for a measly $600 per player. Five songs, that is, at a time when most guests were lucky to get two. That would kick off a year of unprecedented firsts — in this case, an unequaled four-month stay at No. 1, one hit bumping into another, to the point that during the first week of April they held the entire Top 5. "Can't Buy Me Love” came that week, too, racking up advance orders nearing 2 million. And those were only the fun damentals fueling Beatlemania in 1964. All that was required to open the floodgates here, launch the British Invasion and change not only the face of rock n’ roll but ultimately mold popular cul ture the world ovkr was one big push. A spark to start a wildfire. It came that February day four decades ago, when an esti mated 73 million Americans tuned in to watch the Fab Four on "Sullivan.” But that's not the real phe nomenon. Nor is the Beatles' massively influential string of groundbreaking recordings the real phenomenon. Nor their per sonalities, looks or trend-setting sense of wit and style. No, the real phenomenon is that virtually everything about the Beatles, from the most im portant albums to the most triv ial details, is every bit as preva lent today as it was 40 years ago. Though it's so commonplace now it's practically taken for granted, amazingly the Beatles' phenomenon keeps extending to each new generation. Indeed, their cultural domi nance right now couldn’t be more stupefyingly vast. Think about it: In 1964, did many teenagers spend their after noons spinning dusty 78s of mu sic that came 40 years earlier? Yet what's astounding today is that, though there are more musical choices for young peo ple than ever, many stiill take to the Beatles first, as if their mu sic had been created specifically for them. That's only one matter that speaks to the ageless appeal of the Beatles. Consider that a re arranged retrospective like "1,” composed of recordings that haven't been remastered in nearly 20 years, rocketed to the top of the charts. Tribute bands regularly pack 'em in at the aters while boomers and their grandkids shelled out upward of $200 recently to see Paul McCartney play sets consisting mostly of Beatles classics. Most surprising to me — and happily so, despite the sadness it marked — was that the un timely death of George Harrison, oft-considered a lesser Beatle compared with the group's renowned songwriting duo, was treated as a crushing loss. To say he received nearly the same reverence accorded Lennon after his murder would be overstating it. But that he graced the cover of every major entertainment magazine and ap preciations ran on the front pages of every self-respecting ♦ BEATLES, SEE PAGE 10 t