What Does Your Covid Mask Say About You?

Yes, inquiring minds want to know! What does your Covid prevention facemask say about you?

The facemasks we have to wear (again argh!) this semester to our SC State classes, do you put much thought into it? Are you styling some, or are you content with the plain Jane ones? Here's what some Bulldogs have to say on this matter. 

Benjamin Gadson is a junior communications major from Fairfax, S.C. (near Allendale). He's a musical guy and is a member of the prestigious Phi Mu Alpha fraternity, "the world's oldest and largest secret national fraternal society in music," according to its website.  The SC State chapter is called Nu Iota SC State. 

On this day Ben is wearing a Phi Mu Alpha shirt and he says the harp on his facemask is a symbol of his fraternity. Ben is in SC State's band, The Marching 101.  His instrument is the euphonium. I have never heard of that, so asked Ben what it is. "It's a member of the low brass family," he says. "It's sort of like a fat trumpet." 

Click here for Ben's comments about his special musical mask. 

Soundbite Selection From Ellen Zisholtz Bowling Alley Restoration Interview

 

Ellen Zisholtz inside the old bowling alley
(Photos courtesy Charleston Post and Courier)

An important future may be in store for an old bowling alley in Orangeburg that was pivotal in the tragic day in 1968 that became known as the Orangeburg Massacre.  

The long-closed All Star Triangle lanes on Russell Street will have a bright future if former SC State museum director Ellen Zisholtz (pictured) has her way. She is leading an effort to restore the bowling alley and make it into a Civil Rights museum. And, yes, people will again be able to bowl there!