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g THE GAMECOCK ♦ Friday, April 23, 2004 ^^ i Nature hangs her man tle green / On every blooming Contact. Us . tree” . . „ „ .. „ „ . „ ROBERT BURNS Story ideas? Questions? Comments? Scottish poet E-mailusatgamecockfeatures@gwm.sc.edu *' * — PHOTOS SPECIAL TO I HE GAMECOCK Featured artists, From Safety to Where, join Jeff Norwood and others at the Art Bar Sunday for the first of the four music and food festivals designed to introduce a younger crowd to the local music scene. Art Bar welcomes younger audiences with new festivals BY REBECCA HARTLEY THE GAMECOCK The Art Bar in the Vista is planning a series of four music fes tivals this year. This contempo rary hangout, previously only for the 21 and over crowd, will be open to an 18 and older audience. Sunday’s show, titled “Hot! Hot! Hot!” will feature five electric bands on an outdoor stage and four acoustic bands inside the bar. Mexican food prepared by chef Joe Turkaly will be served for $5 a plate. The decision to open the Art Bar to a younger audience is an attempt to expose new crowds to the burgeoning local music scene. Marty Fort, who plans the fes-. tivals said the Art Bar Music and Food Festivals feature something for everyone. “By offering so much, we wanted to offer it to more people and specifically USC students. WUSC DJs from SMASH will be spinning between bands. By opening the venue to ages 18 and up, we hope to expose new groups to all that is available at the Art Bar — a bar that supports diver sity and eclectic culture in Columbia.” % Those interested in hearing new tunes from many estab lished Southeastern bands should check out Sunday’s nine act lineup, which will feature both acoustic and electric per formances. The bands playing include From Safety To Where, Boulevard, Perfect Sleeper, Vinyl Are My Pants, Petrillo Relents, Salt Creek, Brett Treacy and Jeff Norwood. Marty Fort said the lineup is comprised of the best in indie, pop rock, folk and rock bands from the Southeast. From Safety to Where, who will be headlining the show, are signed to Radical Records from NYC and are local indie rock heroes. “We’ve also got pop-rockers, Boulevard, from Athens, Ga., who tore up the Art Bar stage at then last show. Inside, don’t miss the best in acoustic music such as the art Americana of Petrillo Relents. Two stages will run throughout the day.” For $2 fans can hear nine bands, and have “the best food and the best time,” Fort said. “The Art Bar has (also) consis tently been voted ‘Best People Watching Bar’ so even if you’re not a music person, there will be something fqr you to enjoy,” he said. Named the Best Neighborhood Bar in the Vista/Downtown area by the Free Times, it offers a wide array of art on the interior, regu larly plays host to area bands, and has an undeniably cool atmo sphere that is sure to appeal to anyone in attendance. So when making plans this Sunday, consider checking out the “Hot! Hot! Hot!” music festi val. It’s a rare chance for those age 18-20 to experience the eccentric style of the Art Bar. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc.edu Students to march for women’s rights in D.C. BY CARRIE GIVENS THE GAMECOCK Forty-seven USC students will join a predicted one million marchers Sunday in Washington, D.C. for the March for Women’s Lives. The marchers plan to board a bus Saturday night and head to the National Mall to campaign for issues such as access, choice, health, abortion and family plan ning. Marching under the name Southern Feminists for Reproductive Health, these marchers vary in age, personal motivations and backgrounds. First-year chemistry student Amanda Peel, who plans to march, said the public needs to be in volved in women’s rights and there are many women willing to share their views. “A lot of times people who are against particular issues don’t know the whole story or the im portant health issues... there’s a misconception,” Peel said. The marchers are hoping the protest will educate the public. Although she has never partici pated in political activism, first year liberal arts student Catherine Carlstedt said she plans to march to learn different perspectives on the issues. Co-coordinator and USC grad uate Laura Edwards said she wants to send a message that edu cating people on the issues are necessary to end women’s oppres sion. “South Carolina has a disgraceful record when it comes to the health and safety of its fe male citizens, and I believe that it is cru cial that the state’s pro-re productive health contin gent take a stand and make their voices neara, Edwards said. Fourth-year political science and philosophy student Marilyn Gartley said she is concerned about the re moval of the global gag rule and to stop the Bush administra tion’s at tempts at re pealing Roe v. Wade. Like Gartley, first year exercise science stu dent Mary Lohman wants to maKe tne puDiic aware oi the threats to women’s healthcare and reproductive rights. “There are so many issues relating to women’s health, safety and equality that are ignored on a daily basis, and it is essential to contribute to the awareness about women’s rights issues, as well as feminist ideologies.” RACHEL BOWMAN FIRST-YEAR BIOLOGY STUDENT First-year biology student Rachel Bowman said, “There are so many issues relating to wom en’s health, safety and equality that are ignored on a daily basis, and it is essential to contribute to the awareness about women’s rights issues, as well as feminist ideologies.” Bowman added that she be lieves each person at the march will count and hopes that the event will reach the governing bodies as well as the American people. First-year anthropology stu dent Mica Jenkins proudly stated her philosophy heading into D.C.: “My body, my choice and I have the right to make my own deci sions. Jenkins said, “Abortion is im portant in our society. If we elimi nate abortion, we would be back in the ’60s with coathangers.” Fourth-year women’s studies student Barbara Wofford agrees with Jenkins. She commented that she is participating in this march because she thinks women’s rights shouldn’t be influenced by religious beliefs, the government or politics. The activism will not stop with the Washington, D.C. march. Peel has started a USC chapter of Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance that plans to continue feminist initiatives on the USC campus. Comments on this story?El-mail gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc.edu USC debate team wins title through hard work, practice BY JULIA SELLERS THE GAMECOCK Contrary to common belief, they don’t all wear pocket protec tors and high-water plaid pants while hauling stacks of books across campus. The USC debate team members like to think of themselves as a bit more well rounded. “This isn’t like a geek fest,” fourth-year political science stu dent Glenn Prince said. This year, Prince, along with fellow team mate, third-year political science student J.D. Shipman brought back a national championship to USC for debate. While the win brings a new light to the members of the de bate team, just saying the debate team won a championship does not even begin to describe the time and effort these students put into preparing cases for a tournament. “When people think debate, they, think presidential debates. It is no'thing like that," Prince said. New and returning debate team members attend a retreat every summer, where they throw around ideas for cases to research for the upcoming season. The cas es prepared throughout the sea son are used to anticipate what type of resolution might be pro posed at a tournament. Knowing what the resolution might be, the debaters are better equipped to ar gue for or against the resolution. During the year, the team meets Tuesdays at 5 p.m., but the workload required to prepare for a tournament is carried beyond the meeting. “We are constantly reading the news to stay on top of current events and researching cases,” first-year business economics stu dent Maggie Brock said. For a usual tournament, the team will leave on a Thursday and return the following Monday, trav eling to different college campuses across the nation. Some team membess have been away from campus'as many as 15 weekends this year. PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK J.D. Shipman and Glenn Prince are members of the debate team that brought a national championship to USC. “There is a misconception about traveling. We get to go to these colleges and that’s it, there’s no time to go around campus,” third-year political science and economics student Chris Dickson said. At a tournament, the teams usually go through six to eight pre liminary rounds. The team re ceives 0-30 speaker points based on how well they debate after each round. After the preliminary rounds, the Speaker points help to rank the team. This is when the teams go into break rounds where it almost resembles NCAA tour nament mode. With one loss the team is out of the tournament. Prince said that debate is “just like any other game where you have rules of what you are sup posed to do and not do.” In an actual round, the teams are assigned either the govern ment position where they will de bate for the resolution or be des ignated the opposition where they ♦ DEBATE, SEE PAGE 9 Bands voice views on politics, support voter registration BY JIM ABBOTT KRT CAMPUS Without singing a solitary note, Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks were thrust into one of last year’s biggest politi cal controversies when the singer told a London audience she was ashamed to be from the same state as the president. With the country braced for war, patriotism was on the charts. Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” and Darryl Worley’s “Have You Forgotten?” were big hits on country radio, where the Dixie Chicks were quickly ostracized for Maines’ criticism of Bush’s Iraq policy. But, as another famous singer once observed, the times they are a-changin’. There’s a polar izing presidential election cam paign under way, and troops have been in Iraq for more than a year now, which means other viewpoints are increasingly sur facing among musicians. In the same way that Keith and Worley exhorted crowds to support President Bush at a March 2003 troop rally at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., rock stars critical of the president now are lobbying their fans. “We’re trying to inform our fans on how bad this administra tion is and how the administra tion negatively affects them,” says Fat Mike Burkett, of punk band NOFX, in an e-mail about his par tisan nonprofit group Punk Voter. Such organizations use music to push for voter registration among young fans, often with a partisan slant. Tuesday, Punk Voter released “Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1,” a compilation album featuring un released songs by punk bands such as Alkaline Trio, Less Than Jake, New Found Glory, Social Distortion and Sum 41. There’s also a series of “Rock Against Bush” tours on the road. Burkett estimates that his or ganization registers about 100 voters at e^ch 1,800-seat concert ♦ BANDS, SEE PAGE 9