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Students attempt to recollect ghosts of spring breaks past BY TIMOTHY MCMANUS THE GAMECOCK Spring break is a time when stu dents can forget about school and have a blast. Many students do have a blast, others don't and some just can’t quite remember. One of the few things Katie Stampf, a second-year media arts stu dent, remembers from her to trip to Cancun her senior year of high school is having the “pleasure” of seeing a rather large, approximate ly 350-pound female stripper at a bar called Senor Frog’s. “It was simulta neously terrifying and mesmeriz ing,” she said about the woman’s out fit of pink and orange. Pierce Cook, a third-year media arts student, went on a trip to Edisto Island with his friend Ren Bell, who is fluent in, among other languages, French. He used these linguistic skills to impress a group of girls by convincing them that he was from France. After mentioning this to 111C1U, L11C girls said that she, too, was from France, that she was born and raised in Paris but hadn’t been there in over 10 years. But Bell kept his cool in the situation, Cook said, and “if she knew he wasn’t (from France) she never showed it.” Second-year philosophy student Greg Nitchals and three friends, Jeff Shull, Chris Yandel, and Bill Arndt, traveled to Denver to stay at Yandel’s parent’s house and, among other things, go on a ski trip. One night Yandel suggested that they go line dancing. “It’s fun and there’s a lot of hot girls,” Yandel said. Shull agreed. “You get to check out girls while you dance with them.” Nitchals said he UCUUCU 11UI IU dance. One of the more interesting scenes from this trip, Nitchals said, was seeing people ski in their T-shirts. “It was hot,” he said, “but there was still snow on the ground and when the sun went down, it was cold again.” Many times, in the case of trips, getting there is half, or in this case more than half, the fun. Robbie Romano, a third-year English stu dent, accompanied his friends Jimmy Griffin and Kalayna Shull to visit Griffin’s girlfriend in Oklahoma. While Griffin was only able to spend one evening with his “It was kind of harsh. But in hindsight, it was a blast.” ROBBIE ROMANO THIRD-YEAR ENGLISH STUDENT . girlfriend, it took three days getting there and three days getting b&ck, thus filling their entire week with traveling adventures. One unique aspect of this trip was that, rather than staying in ho tel rooms, the friends brought along a tent and found campsites, some better than others, along the way. The campsite they slept at during which Romano calls their “rough ing-it night” in Alabama was placed so inaccurately on their map that it took 30 minutes longer than ex pected to get there. “It looked like it had been abandoned for years,” Romano said. They got there after a rainstorm so everything in and surrounding the campsite, including the wood, was wet, which was an obstacle to ♦ THE ROAD, SEE PAGE 7 COMMITTED TO STRENGTHENING THE FINANCIAL FUTURE OF OUR STUDENTS / __ life finA punmfirafrU ^ * ‘ -gmk! Carolina Connate Federal Credit Union 710 Pulaski Street • Columbia, South Carolina 29201 I SERVING THE UNIVERSITY FAMILY WITH QUALITY FINANCIAL SERVICES SINCE 1967