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BY CAITLIN COKER
TlIK (lAMKCOCK
With their extra free time in the
coming summer months, students
will have the chance to learn a
new instrument, explore a new
hobby or spend hours doing noth
ing at all — or even attend a sum
mer music festival.
As a practice round for summer
festivals, students can try out the 3
Rivers Music festival in down
town Columbia April 16-18.
Described on its Web site as
“South Carolina’s largest outdoor
music festival,” 3 Rivers will fea
ture pop, rock, punk, alternative,
Guster will be performing at Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee, along with Wilco and Primus.
jazz, blues, drum’n’bass, salsa,
doo-wop and hip-hop artists per
forming on seven stages.
Local artists Mean Weiner,
Beat Junction Project and I-Nine
will be featured, as well as out-of
towners Morris Day & the Time
and ’90s superstars Better Than
Ezra.
An hour or so drive away,
Uptown Charlotte will play host to
CityFest Live May 7-9. Jason
Mraz, Leftover Salmon, Less Than
Jake, Sister Hazel and Jump,
Little Children are a few of the 60
bands that will perform in
CityFest.
Bonnaroo Music Festival will
be held in Manchester, Tenn.,
June 11-13, upping the indie quo
tient. Left-of-center groups such
'as Yo La Tengo, Wilco, Guster
and Primus are scheduled to per
form.
Mainstream favorites like Dave
Matthews and friends and Bob
Dylan will also take the stage.
Camping and RVs are permitted,
but there are no showers — the
perfect conditions for nu-hippy
rockers. .
Vans Warped Tour will storm
through Atlanta, Ga., July 28, and
thrash through Charlotte, N.C.,
Aug. 2. The Warped Tour, known
for post-punk, punk-pop, punk
Summer concert festivals unite bands and fans
with wide range of music, convenient locations
ska, hard-core, emo-core and var
ious other hyphenated types of
bands, will feature such acts as
The Aquabats, Bad Religion,
Coheed and Cambria, Piebald,
NOFX and Taking Back Sunday.
First-year music students Nick
Jay and Logan Goldstein consid
er themselves music festival vet
erans. The 96 Wave Birthday Bash
in Charleston a few years ago
stands out as one of their more
memorable excursions.
“I almost got into a big fight,”
Jay said.
“Remember when Geddis got
socked right in the face?”
Goldstein said.
“I think he got punched in the
fat, too,” Jay said. “It’s because of
all of the drunk people. There’s a
load of them. They try to come up
behind girls and put their hands
on them.”
Jay said that to have the opti
mum festival experience, people
might need to venture outside of
the region.
“You got to be in New York or
California to go to the good festi
vals,” Jay said.
First-year music student
Thomas Gilbert is no stranger to
the music scene either. He plays the
keytar—a combination between a
keyboard and a guitar—for the lo
cal band No Way Jose and listens
to “everything except opera.”
His experience at thp
Strawberry Bluegrass Festival last
June was rosy and peaceful, in
contrast to Goldstein and Jay’s fes
tival outing.
“Everybody was swimming in
the lake, smoking pot, playing gui
tars and listening to music in theif
RVs and tents. At night, you’d join
in the bonfires and jam with the
groups,” Gilbert said. “There were
big fields where we’d go play soc
cer barefoot.”
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(JSC’s summer study abroad program offers trips tot France, Germany, Spain, Mexico and Italy.
Students interested In the program can attend one of two weekly interest meetings.
Students use summer
for far-away learning
BY LINDSEY JEFFERSON
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Another semester has rolled
by, and soon students will be dis
missed for the summer. No more
fi a.m. classes and no more 15
minute jaunts across campus in
an attempt to make it to those
early classes on time.
Absolute freedom might
sound wonderful now, but after
about two weeks away from cam
pus, many students might be dy
ing to find something to keep
themselves entertained and
busy.
for some, avoiding the hum
drum of mid-summer has meant
enrolling in a summer study
abroad program.
Alexa Maddox, a study
abroad adviser, said there were
76 students who studied over the
summer last year, and USC
sends approximately 250 stu
dents abroad each year on sum
mer, semester and full-year pro
grams.
While abroad, students can
., earn 3 to 6 credit h.Jurs during
a four-to-six week stay and can
stay longer if desired. Students
can also earn internship credit
abroad.
USC sponsors summer trips
to France, Germany, Spain,
Mexico and Italy; Spanish-speak
ing countries are the most pop
ular destinations.
Third-year biology student Ian
Kane studied abroad in
Wittenberg, Germany last sum
mer. Kane, who has traveled to
Germany before, said studying
abroad can be “a really unique
experience.”
With terrorists striking over
seas, some people might choose
to shy away from leaving the
country, but Maddox said she
doesn’t think this is a reason to
shy away from studying abroad.
“Terrorism can strike any
where,” she said. She advised,
however, that there are some sn
uations of which students should
steer clear.
“Avoid political protests
where you might be singled out,
be aware of surroundings and
follow the rules of the pro
gram's.”
So, you’re ready to travel the
globe now, right? Well, don’t
“If you have an open
mind, are curious about
other cultures, and are
willing to do the work
as well as play, this is
for you.”
ALEXA MADDOX
STUDY ABROAD ADVISER
pack your bags just yet. The de
cision to do a summer study
abroad session “requires a cer
tain amount of planning,”
Maddox said.
Interested students need to
meet with an adviser to get
courses approved, just as if you
were applying for regular sum
mer school. It may also prove
helpful to brush up on the lan
guage of the country.
L ane said he found it helpful
to get acquainted with the
German dialect as opposed to
how it is taught in class.
“Eligibility requirements for
summer study abroad vary, but
minimum language and GPA re
quirements tend to be more flex
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Movie. Review
‘Ladykillers ’ hinges on Hanks'
“THE LADYKILLERS”
★ ★ ★★ out of ☆☆☆☆☆
BY LESLIE DENNIS
THU (JAM (BOCK
Anomalous filmmaking broth
ers Joel and Ethan Coen have
once again attempted to bring
their individual style of humor to
life on-screen. “The Ladykillers,”
a remake of the 1955 British com
edy starring Alec Guinness and
Peter Sellers, offers an unconven
tional take on a seemingly ordi
nary plot line involving a heist
and the mishaps that ensue.
Set in Mississippi,-the movie
provides two examples of old-time
southern folk: Goldthwait
Higginson Dorr (Tom Hanks) and
Marva Munson (Irma P. Hall).
Although the story takes place in
the present, Dorr acts and dress
es as though he jumped straight
out of a Mark Twain novel, and
Munson espouses all the stereo
typical religious verses and “back
in-the-day” stories of an older
southern woman.
Juxtaposing these two tradi
tional characters with modern
day society, the Coen brothers cre
ate a dichotomy between the two
cultures and a bond between Dorr
and Munson.
When Dorr, a professor of
Greek and Latin who name is as
verbose as he, appears at
Munson’s door looking for a room
to rent, Munson is easily sucked
into the professor’s eloquently
spoken and deviously concocted
web of deceit. Munson, a widow
who donates money to the ever
PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK
Marlon Wayans, left, and J.K. Simmons as star as conmen In
Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest, “The Ladykillers.”
(Diane Delano); the General (Tzi
Ma) heads the tunneling expedi
tion; and Lump (Ryan Hurst) is ob
semi-bland storyline with their
distinctive style of filmmaking.
What “The Ladykillers” lacks in
controversial
Bob Jones
University and
talks to her
dead hus
band’s por
trait, becomes
a facilitator
and obstacle in
Tom Hanks plays an
eccentric southern thief
looking to rob a casino
from the root cellar of
an old-fashioned gal.
viously the dim
witted manual
labor guy.
Posing as a
Renaissance
musical band,
the motley crew
of misfits is al
lowed access to
the professor’s plan to rob a casino
boat.
After their initial introduction
to the professor and Munson, each
of the men be r Me professor’s
gang -o po. aaved through their
past crin. .jM histories. The trig
ger-happy Gawain MacSam
(Marlon Wayans) takes the spot of
the “inside man” and works for the
casino the professor hopes to rob;
Garth Pancake (J.R. Simmons) is
the explosive expert with an inter
fering girlfriend, Mountain Girl
Munson’s root cellar for “prac
tice” purposes. After assembling
a team of stereotypical criminals,
the professor plans to dig through
the wall of Munson’s root cellar
and into the underground casino
treasury. But once they begin to
carry out the heist, complications,
and then pandemonium, ensue.
With a resume of brilliant
movies such as “Raising
Arizona,” “Fargo” and “O
Brother, Where Art Thou?,” the
Coen brothers have electrified a
plot originality, it makes up for
with performance and style.
As Goldthwait Higginson, two
time Academy Award winner
Hanks gets to stretch his already
flexible acting muscles. With a
Colonel Sanders suit, a toothy
grin and a panting laugh, Hanks
vividly recites the wild poetry of
Poe and revels in the eccentricity
of his character. Hanks convinc
ingly articulates the professor’s
anachronistic appearance and
mannerisms.
Although “The Ladykillers”
does not compare to the strength
of “Fargo” or “Raising Arizona,”
semi-overused humor and con
vincing performances save the
floundering plot.
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