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Meatball Factory employee Dantonio Hogg prepares a hot dog at the fair Tuesday. Corn dogs and hot
dogs are annual fair favorites along with funnel cakes, elephant ears and smoked turkey legs.
Journalists’ reputations
marred by CBS scandal
By ANNA HUNTLEY
THE GAMECOCK
Mass media have witnessed a 20
percent drop — from 55 to 35 percent
— in the number of Americans since
1985 who believe news organizations
generally get the facts correct, according
to the State of the News Media 2004, an
annual report on American journalism.
“The media is full of liars,” said
Heyward Sims, a fifth-year studio art
student. “It’s been going on since
media started.”
Supporting the report’s conclusion,
CBS’ lead anchor Dan Rather
presented a brief series of memos on
Sept. 8 criticizing President Bush’s
service in the National Guard.
Reports of the memos’ possible
forgery circulated the following day
among major news organizations such
as the Washington Post.
Rather defended the memos’
authenticity for nearly two weeks,
leading to media watchdog groups’
criticism of his perceived bias, while
several mainstream news organizations
could not resist jabs at CBS’ lead
anchor.
When CBS finally admitted its
inability to authenticate the memos,
Rather, along with the president of
CBS, issued an on-air apology to the
public on Sept. 20.
“I think it’s important to note that
when CBS realized it made such a
gross mistake, it came forward to
admit that mistake ... and put in a
process of what went wrong and why,”
said Kenneth Campbell, associate
professor of electronic and print
journalism.
♦ Please see MEDIA, page 8
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
From right: Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw are
respected news anchors. Rather has been mired in controversy
after his station reported from forged documents.
While it doesn’t follow
popular diets, fair
food gets students’
taste buds tingling
By MORIAH EMERALD
MCCARTHY
THE GAMECOCK
The distinct smell of fair food hits
you before you even walk in the gate.
The smells of frying, roasting, grilling,
brewing and baking make mouths
water in expectation of the feast
within.
Try a fried mushroom from
Carolina Fresh Farms. The family
owned and operated business has been
selling their mushrooms since 1980.
Their mushrooms, which come from
the family farm, are beer battered and
deep-fried in peanut oil. It took the
owner, John A. Fogle, a few years to
perfect his recipe, but it was well worth
the effort.
rirst introduced in 1VUU at the
Ringling Brothers’ Circus, cotton
candy is a state fair staple, spun and
bagged on site. Justin Emery of
Netterfield’s gathers cotton candy on
paper cones, creating pastel clouds of
spun sugar.
Granulated white sugar, powdered
flavoring and color are measured into
the center sugar well of the cotton
candy machine. A coil heats the sugar
that melts while being spun rapidly
through tiny holes, creating the sticky
threads gathered to make this airy
treat.
They’re salty, smoky, tender and juicy.
Smoked turkey legs — another fair
favorite — are stunningly huge, weighing
in at about two pounds each. Donnie
Russell of Carousel Barbecue said his
turkey legs get their superb flavor from a
two-part cooking process. First, the legs
are slowly smoked on aromatic woods,
and then grilled over a barbecue pit,
creating a flavor that resembles smoked
ham. This smoky treat is perfect for
sharing, but Russ Zokaites, a first-year
music education student, can handle one
all by himself.
Second-year nursing student Kathryn
Palmer professed her funnel cake
infatuation.
“I just love fried dough,” she said.
Funnel cakes and elephant ears seem
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Tiffany Williams makes a favorite dessert, a strawberry shortcake,
Tuesday at the South Carolina State Fair.
very similar — they are fried, sugared,
hot and delectable. You can have yours
topped with strawberries, cherries,
chocolate and more.
You might be
wondering what
makes one different
from the other.
Tracy Brewer of
Lordy’s Elephant
Ear Bakery
explained that
runnel cakes are
made from your basic white cake batter
and elephant ears are made from dough.
Brewers’s elephant ears are made
from yeast dough, which gives them
their sponginess. Some elephant-ear
makers opt for high gluten flour over
yeast dough, creating a crispier dessert.
Third-year exercise
science student Chris
Koutsoukos, who
attended the fair Friday,
said, “The funnel cake
was good, but so big I
couldn’t eat it all; and
the cotton candy was
excellent.”
It you are up tor
something a little less traditional,
saunter over to the fried Oreo stand,
♦ Please see FOOD, page 8
“The funnel cake
was good, but so
big I couldn’t eat it
all.”
CHRIS KOUTSOUKOS
THIRD-YEAR EXERCISE SCIENCE
STUDENT
CD REVIEW
Shepherd loses Place ’ on new album
“The Place You’re In”
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
★★ out of ☆☆☆☆☆
BySHANATILL
THE GAMECOCK
Kenny Wayne Shepherd uses the
adage, “Imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery” to full effect on his latest
release, “The Place You’re In.” Usually,
to portray an artist as copying another
carries a lingering stigma, but
Shepherd’s mimicry of Stevie Ray
Vaughan has been his ticket to the gold
laden thrones of electric Gibson reverie.
Besides the resemblance to the blues
guitar legend, Shepherd fails to live up
to the myths of musical prodigy. With
all the necessary components to create a
true delta-infused rock album, Shepherd
settles for a banal, mainstream attempt.
Released on Warner Brothers Records,
“The Place You’re In” disappoints
listeners looking for the revival of true
Southern-bred rock.
The expectations for Shepherd’s
work are extraordinarily high. He has
shared the stage with some of the most
glorified names in the business. His
experiences with legends Bob Dylan,
B.B. King, Warren Haynes and the
Rolling Stones polished a maturing and
authentic sound.
After nieeting his idol, Stevie Ray
Vaughan, at the age of 7, Shepherd began
his endeavor to master the guitar. In a
manner similar to Jeaming the art of
snake charming, he tailor-made a
Vaughan replication that would earn him
a record deal before he was 17 years old.
Becoming a mainstay at No. 1 on
Billboard’s blues charts, Shepherd not
only delivered the sound to a younger
audience but also built up hope that
Southern rock ‘n’ roll could be reborn.
Now 20-something, Shepherd leans too
close to the ledges of modern rock to
achieve the neo-blues sound still missing
in a crowded landscape of Nickelback
and Staind.
What quasi-redeems “The Place
You’re In” is Shepherd’s on-target
imitations of legendary guitarists. His
ability to unleash the unyielding taunts
of Hendrix’s best licks, and yet channel
the reticence of Vaughan’s steady
pummel make the instrumentation the
album’s only distinction.
Usually led by Noah Hunt on vocals,
Shepherd takes his first stab at singing.
It’s not necessarily painful, but his
vocalization detracts from the soulful
swirling of his guitar.
For the album’s third track, Kid
Rock joins Shepherd for the risque
“Spank.” Kid Rock also gains his
inspiration from personal interaction
with artists who were once the main
contributors to a classic sound.
Unfortunately, there is no evidence of
Kid’s mentor Hank Williams Jr. or
Shepherd’s list of influences. The
number remains dry and lacks the
success the duo surely hoped for.
Other tracks on the album serve only
as distant reminders that Shephetd
holds the key for unlocking a floodgate
of Southern-bred, blues-infused rock ‘n’
roll. Relying solely upon the
reproduction of artists’ sounds from
long ago is simply not enough.
Shepherd must push one step further
than the triteness of “The Place You’re
In” and manipulate what he has already
mastered — the writhing snake of the
electric guitar — to rejuvenate a much
needed resurgence of classic rock and
blues fusion.
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Recent debates spark political interest among students
By KELLY CAVANAUGH
THE GAMECOCK
With just a few short weeks until the
Nov. 2 election, the presidential and
vice-presidential debates have caught the
interest and excitement among students
around campus.
“I know before the debates 1 wasn’t as
interested in politics or the political
parties, but now that the debates are on
it’s a lot easier to stay up to date and
interested,” said Kevin Shealy, a second
year music education student.
Fourth-year political science
student Katie Dreiling said she
watched the debates to hear the
candidate’s stances on issues that
directly affect her.
* “I think the topics of the debates,
such as the war in Iraq, terrorism and
homeland security, make more people
interested in what the candidates have to
say.”
Bob Roller, a graduate student in
international studies and a resident
tutor in Preston College, helped
organize a debate-watching party in
Preston for the first presidential
debate.
He said he hoped the event, which
drew about 40 people, would “give the
students a chance to see the candidates
in a neutral setting and articulate their
own opinions without the distortions of
advertising.”
Roller said he could sense “a lot of
tension” among the politically inclined
students at the party. Preston is generally
a liberal! dorm, and he said he wasn’t
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surprised that there wasn’t a 50-50
turnout for candidate support.
Third-year English student John
Rabon, who attended the debate
watching party, said that half of the
students that came stayed quiet to hear
what each candidate had to say, while
the other half wanted to make
comments.
“The comment that drew the biggest
response was when the moderator asked
Sen. Kerry, ‘What do you think is the
biggest mistake of the current
administration?’ and Kerry said, ‘Where
do I begii??”’ Rabon said.
Rabon said the debates serve to spark
discussion among students.
“It creates a new realm for which the
♦ Please see DEBATES, page 8
President
George W.
Bush listens
as Sen. John
Kerry speaks
during the
second
presidential
debate at
Washington
University in
St. Louis,
Miss., on
Friday.
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