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Editorial Think Now For The Future It's virtually impossible to describe the feelings of someone who is starting college for the first time. The anticipation, the initial attitudes, the new friendships and the ending of a life that was almost too easy are feelings that simply have to be felt. The hard, harsh facts of attending classes, buying textbooks by the pound and having tuition come at a higher price are dwarfed bv future mpmnmhlp The university setting is like a shell, a kind of miniaturized,sterile enviroment whose primary purpose is to teach one to adapt in a larger locale. Learning the technical apspects of science and mathematics is only one-half of the term "education." The other part is the way you conduct yourself, conform to the rules and generally learn into what type of person you're beginning to develop. FOR INSTANCE, the concept of learning to deal with 4-1 1 - - t uuici?> umes suiue peupie a nieume. r or some, ll was done even before they reached a college-level age. So the university acts as a teaching center and an oasis of selfdiscipline for individuals who need to study it. Any college or university is typically viewed as a place where at the end of four years, the student will have the skills for a specialized profession. But very few see these skills as being linked with anything but practical, money-making, complicated, job-related curriculum. It's useless to be a genius in engineering without first (or at me same lime) understanding wnat personal values need to be nurtured. For the typical businessman or technical specialist, these ideas are never realized and unfortunately, the focus of their success is almost never enjoyment. Right now, the time that speeds by will never be repeated. It's urgent you realize that college days may be the best of your lives and to never let a minute go by that will not result in adding to those memories. What seems like a never-ending time in this university may be begged back to return five vears from nnw IT'S AMAZING TO NOTE how many students will conform to methods and standards that they really hadn't put much . thought into. And it's common that psychologists, sociologists and counselors have students pegged for certain traits and mannerisms moreso now than ever. Job opportunities will come and go. So will final exams, grades and parking fines. But the things that will never fade are these times. Starting now for some students, four years will be filled with tragedy and comedy, dilemmas and ecstasy. The main aspect of what will be happening is the realization that it's going on now. To wander through four years without aim is a sin. To understand where you've been and what you've become is the first step to living. / Book&tore \ fi f) LADY, All J u?v+ is A * Chemis+y bocKf (Jhfit's this About fhy First Botn Son ? Bo&QJboM/k alw liO'&LtLlrt-'Uwdd tygvnve Dear Sir: Recently I was reading an editorial in the June 24 issue of the Gamecock with the heading, "Carlen Forever?" Ironically, at the time of this reading, Coach Carlen was in Tennessee for the high school coaches clinic. I read your article with great in lerest as l nave become quite familiar with the situation at South Carolina due to my friendship with a former student and now a resident of Nashville. I will not name this person, however, there could never Grai Dear Sir, With regard to your inter editorial on Mexico in the last like to take this opportunity subject at hand. Having lived to date on foi years in South America, I feel upon it. I do not wish however, an opinion which is obviously than meager intelligence. Suf t rfti At*n viaa ' t. U anvc ui vino ijrjic WHICH II the butt of world scorn. As I am of British extractior Shaw that the Americans am separated by a common lang seen such a flagrant disrega English language as I found in me to state my primary comp a journal striving for linguists i Newsroom: 777-7181 BusineM Office: 777-J888 Mark I'latte F Jilt Hancock C David Corvette fS Tom Coyne A Don Weatherbee E Mike Koniatowgki K John Vaughan A Tracy lleims S Jim Corbett A Mike Fisher G Jerry Brewer (J Linda llaines A Mark McKwan P Jean Hatchell H Mark KUirtdge Jr A jo- oflmtk&fo* H 1XZ??& a ptitMtfjoff>tyl thiMtkyiUs IA1.1*tif; Lin. if ^ ~ cock right be a more staunch follower of the Gamecocks, and he and I agree with your column 100 percent. What we both cannot understand is why the good people of South Carolina continue to pour millions into the football program and continue to stand by coaches who fail to give them a national power. A major college coach who has the support of people such as the Carolina people surely should have a much better work sheet than a 3930-1 record after six years. It is ridiculous and a shame, mmaticall ' * esuiig u einnocenincic i,sic) issue of the Gamecock, I would to express my views on the lit continents, including three that I am qualified to comment to demean myself by rebutting racist to all readers of more fice it to say that it is cultural ae m a Ho tha Amnmnnn hKmaixI Mtj *?iuv?v vnvy nviii^i aUIUCIU i, I agree with George Bernard 1 the English are two peoples uage, but seldom have I ever rd for the conventions of the i this editorial. With this, allow taint fthnnt tho nipoA finralu in c excellence, as the Gamecock GAME University of South Cjn Found 'MIIat opy Desk Chief i lewH Kditor hsI. News Kditor i Iditoriai Page Kditor Int. Kditor sst. Knt. Kditor ports Kditor sst. Sports Kditor i raphics Kditor i eneral Manager i dvertising Manager roduction Manager usiness Manager dviaer i IjsF ..jm+ ahtrw^tt 1 A Ml ym m fabout Ca and I may add after watching the Gator Bowl mismatch, it is quite evident that South Carolina is not oirnn nlnnn 4-^ ^ v?vil V.1UOC IU UCUIjJ d national contender. I will be quick to say though, it is not the player personnel as people in the know feel there was an abundance of top quality material but recruitng top prospects and having the ability to utilize this material is another matter. Had Coach Carlen ? i?n i <-J ? nv/L wccji ?u uuu-iieaaea ana installed a more varied offense, George Rogers !y fncorrei is not but surely like to be, it contributors who are at least 1; suggest that the gentleman resj I i i.- A - uui ue appears 10 nave oeen hoi refer you to the sentence rea country?", they would ask e\ hoping to hear something about good things to say by now. typographical error, and the r dicate that it is not, it is only on numerous errors. I discovered, in both syntax and semantics p of 15 paragraphs, that is unacce Sir, if I may paraphrase Vo your right to be an idiot, howe tellectual honesty and dedicat stitution, do r scock" Columbia, S.C. *d 1906 So It reproduction rights granted to iht Auoiii Uined herein irvay not be reproduced without the p Opinion* expressed in the Gamecock are those, signed, of the editor. The Gamecock welcome* letters and columns, typewritten, triple spaced on a 65 space line. letters should be no longer than 300 words, and newsworthy subject no longer than (our typed pa ligned with the writer's correct name, telephorx ilanding or (atufty position and major. Pseudonym* name may be withheld on letters, upon request, H tl We reserve the right to edit columns and letters fi the right to reject any column for any reason. Address letters and columns to: Editorial Page f< C olumbia, S.C. 29206. ?MM?MM III =1 ? Ar ' I -^1 Hen . *r> would have been able to 1 break every NCAA record I ...UUU which exisieu. fl During the coaching clinic J. here in Tennessee Coach V Carlen was quoted as saying jj he came close to signing a I great quarterback prospect I from the Nashville area. I 1 know for a fact the boy was J leaning strongly toward j South Carolina until he smV>| the Gator Bowl. 1 When are the people at * South Carolina going to wake m up? 4 \ DEAN MCNOBB I f?t 1 I should be possible to obt^ J iterate. Far be it from me to J ponsible for the article is not, > sted by his own petard. May 1 iding:"How do you like our rery day, each one of them t the land thev had run out of ' " Assuming this is not a i est of the editorial would ine of the more flagrant among J on the average, one mist^Jfc er paragraph. In an editorial 1 p table. ltaire, I defend to the death ver, I also appeal to your inion to the ideals of this in- | lot allow this to happen again. ] WILLIAM M. WELLS i MIBS 1983 -' .! i Advert kin#: 777-4249 Production. 777-2833 led Press. All other material con ermission ol the editor. H signed, of the writer and, H un i Al letters and columns must be ' columns should be limited to one ges. 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