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iPod keeps place in youth’s ears By MAGGIE STEWART THE GAMECOCK While the boombox guy has become a campus celebrity, some people prefer to keep their music to themselves. Students can be seen all over campus sporting small white earbuds with cords connected to their jacket pockets or backpacks. The ever-rising popularity of the iPod has made this look more popular than Rainbows and Croakies. The original Apple iPod digital music player has sold more than 4.5 million units since its 2001 debut. The 20 GB model sells for $299 and has enough memory to hold up to 5,000 songs. The 40 GB model, which can hold up to 10,000 songs, retails for $399. It includes four games, a calendar, an alarm clock-sleep timer and text notes. A new version, the iPod Photo, boasts the capacity to download PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets and Word documents and can hold up to 15,000 songs or 25,000 photos. The iPod Photo can play 15 hours of music or five hours of slideshows played with music on one battery charge. The ability of the iPod Photo to play PowerPoint slides makes it possible to show a presentation without using a PC. The Apple iPod Mini, a more affordable version of the iPod, is available in silver, gold, green, pink or blue. At $249 with an eight-hour battery life and a 1,000-song capacity, the trend can easily be spotted by those wearing the signature white earbuds. U2 has even gotten on the iPod ■ V-DAY Continued from page 7 be held Wednesday at the brand-new Palmetto Lounge, located at the former site of China Gardens in Five Points. Thursday is “Red Shirt Day,” a day to wear a red shirt to show you are united in the fight against violence toward women. This is a nation-wide event at college campuses and communities everywhere “Mon’ologues” is performed. “The Vagina Monologues” is a series of monologues that express women’s different experiences. Ensler wrote the play after interviewing more than 200 women about their bandwagon as the only artists to have their own special edition iPod. The iPod U2 is jet-black and has each member’s autographs on the back. The fourth-generation iPod Shuffle is a lighter and more affordable version of the original. Smaller than a pack of gum, it does not have the organizational features of its predecessors but can play up to 240 songs continuously or randomly during 12 hours of playback time. It weighs only one ounce and comes in two choices, the 5 GB for $99 and the 10 GB for $149. Music can be * downloaded at the iTunes online music ;, store for 99 cents per track from a collection of more than one million songs. •’s Apple dominates 65 percent of the portable music ) player market and has plans to make a fifth-generation iPod that will be able to hold 20,000 tracks with 80 GB of memory. The first generation iPod stored 5 GB of memory and held charge for only one hour. Since that year Apple has boosted sales in the digital music downloading market. Introducing the iPod has given consumers a new, more positive image of paying to download music. iPod sales are expected to increase 30 percent with the more cost-friendly iPod Shuffle by the end of2005. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc. edu “When you first hear about (‘Monologues’), you think that it’s all about sex or angry women venting, but its really highly relatable to anyone — young women, old women and even men can find something to relate to in it.” ANITA AUTRY FOURTH-YEAR BACCALAUREATE STUDENT memories and experiences with sexuality. Anita Autry, a fourth-year baccalaureate student and “Monologues” director, said she wants to “bring the message home that violence against women is a local problem, and we can start by solving it right here in Columbia.” “When you first hear about (‘Monologues’), you think that it’s all about sex or angry women venting, but its really highly relatable to anyone — young women, old women and even men can find something to relate to in it,” Autry said. Some of the individual monologues within the play include “A 6-Year-Old Girl Was Asked,” “My Angry Vagina” and My Short Skirt,” a declaration of the new feminist idea that women can be beautiful without having to appear younger than they are or being portrayed as dumb. The 22-member, all-female cast has been rehearsing once a week since the start of the semester. The “Vagina Monologues” will be performed Saturday, Sunday and Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. in the Gambrell Auditorium. Tickets are available at the door or at the Russell House Information Desk for $6 with a student ID and $12 for the public. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc.edu TH#feAMECOCK Get your local movie listings in The Gamecock starting Friday. Wicked. i - """i New RelcaSCS forthewee^°f February7 “Seventeen Days 3 Doors Down “Room Noises ”_ Eisley “Gemini: Good vs. EviT ’ Krayzie Bone ''Bum the Maps" The Frames “There'sMore Where Tha Came From" Lee Ann Womack I A “Gemini” Brian McKnight ^I