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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.
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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.
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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