The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, August 31, 1981, Page Page 2, Image 2
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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and I may add after watching
the Gator Bowl
mismatch, it is quite evident
that South Carolina is not
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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
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installed a more varied
offense, George Rogers
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is not but surely like to be, it
contributors who are at least 1;
suggest that the gentleman resj
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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
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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
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DEAN MCNOBB
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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 '
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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. ]
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