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university, and it's distressing when publications
such as the Insider's Guide to the Colleges paint unfavorable
pictures of USC.
A feu weeks ago, a representative of the publication,
produced at Yale University in New Haven,
Conn., sent I'he Gamecock a com of I !SC">. cmrv in
lasi year's edition and a handwritten letter requesting
our opinion and suggestions.
I he article praised the university's Honors College
but said the rest of our programs are "mediocre at
best." !
li went cm to say that most students come to IJSC
10 pany, go u> toomaii games or join fraternities and
sororities. Sorority girls, according to the article,
often participate in "a quaint rite in which they slap
each other with dead fish."
Maybe the publication's most insulting blow was
saving IJSC offers its share of opportunities to
students, but few seem interested in taking advantage
m mem. /\ecorumg 10 one optimist, mis makes n
all the better tor the ones who are interested, since
they have easy access to the faculty and facilities
neglected by the rest."
What the Insider's Guide to Colleges is saying is
that USC students are lazy and unfocused in their
quests for successful futures.
Instead of having our newspaper respond to these
allegations, we invite students to write the publicalinn
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the- entry is available for reading in The Gamecock
newsroom, room 321, Russell House.
It's time people realize USC isn't merely a school
of lethargic students intent only on drinking beer and
watching sporting events.
Leslie Dunson, editor-in-chief
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Gamecock is small and rather insignificant, our
new typesetting system shut down, and we
resorted to using an older system at the last
minute. We hope our new system will be back
in working order lor Wednesday's edition.
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In an article in The Gamecock, Robert O'Connor criticized
American musicians who participated in the USA for Africa
session of providing aid to starving Africans simply because it
is fashionable.
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ll you hail heen reading this column
a week ago. n would have heen an
hour earlier.
Did you remember to set your clocks
ahead one hour Sunday morning? I
did. It's a big occasion in my life. 1 set
up a lawn chair under the stars every
year to watch what happens when
everyone turns their clocks ahead at 2
a.m.
Of course, once again, nothing happened.
It's what the change will mean
in terms of sunlight that will make
everyone's lives brighter.
The days will become longer and,
although we all sacrificed an hour of
sleep, the change will have been lor the
better.
I think many of us are going through
the same thing ? making sacrifices 111
preparation of a big change. I or those
ol us graduating, the change is enormous
as we move from the land of
make-believe and stability into the real
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But everyone is about to have some
change in their lives.
Some students are studying now lor
next week's exams, and then they'll
pack their bags and go from absolute
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freedom ai USC lo near-imprisonmeni
at home.
Others will leave USC for summer
internships and jobs that will be
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And then there are those students
whose change will he nothing more
than staying in Columbia and getting a
job or going to summer school ? a
small shift in lifestyle but still
significant.
I he rest of us will experience the
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biggest change of all as we begin life on
llie outside world. And if most people
ate like me, they're looking at it in a
selfish way.
1 keep thinking of how my life will
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things I was involved in will have to go
on without me.
And they will. Yet 1 worry myself a
and put myself in a "me-against-the
world" mood when I should be rallying
to have the world on my side.
I'm no stranger to change; in fact,
we're good friends ? changing
schools, moving from one city to
another, leaving the North for the
South, spending a summer 1,250 miles
away from home. All changes, all for
the better.
So why worry ? Why start missing
people when they'll still be a phone call
away and presently a l()-mimite walk
away from my dorm ' Why be upset
that I'm leaving a great lifestyle for a A
potentially beltei one?
I don't know. Hut I do know that
I'm not alone. And for everyone who's
been going through the same thing, I
just wanted you to know we're in this
boat together.
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ear-old. However, to suggest that Bruce
I in this project to give his ego a boost is
complete blasphemy.
>ng history of donations of his time, elworthy
causes, because he feels a need
his name to help others who need it in
ent concert here in Columbia, SpringsSouth
Carolina food Hank to set up
donations to be accepted, and he urged
cause during intermission.
Janet Maxwell
Biochemistry graduate student
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