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Old and new problems can
sometimes be resolved with
one solution.
One old problem is what to
do with a book once a class is
completed. Most students
hope to resell their books to
the bookstores and are disapr\nin
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little, if any, resell value.
A newer problem concerns
the Carolina Mall in Russell
House. Businesses have left,
and one retailer who remains
said recently that about onefourth
of USC students don't
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A creative solution worth
considering is to establish a used
bookstore in the mall, run
by students or the university.
At the University of Iowa,
the student government runs a
second-hand bookstore in the
student union that helps bridge
the gap between unsellable
books and students who may
want to increase their
reference library.
Students bring their books
into the store for display.
Their name and student ID are
written on a card which goes in
They're out
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summer is tne ume ior
baseball, watermelon and fun
in the sun. But it's also a time
for accidents. With the warm
weather lending itself to outdoor
activities ? and
therefore outdoor mishaps ?
the need for emergency care
increases during the summer
months.
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the American Red Cross is in
Word on ti
How prevalent an
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"Probably more so than I
realize. Just from talking with
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students. If there's a lot there,
then there's a lot here, I'm
sorry to say."
Page Brothers
Graduate student
library sciencc
"It's impossible to give ar
accurate figure, but I thint
that a lot more people do i
that we're aware of. I thint
the percentage is really alarm
ing, and many "casual" user;
are becoming more and mori
habitual/'
Kenny Knudsei
Senior, businesi
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tore a solution
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the book. When the book
sells, the student receives up to
90 percent of the selling price,
depending on how many
books they have sold.
The rest of the money pays
for operation costs of the
store, including payroll for the
work-study, part-time .
employees. I
A student at the University
of Iowa said their second-hand
store often sells used books
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bookstores. Students set their
own prices, usually 75 percent
of original cost for a reusable
book. Prices are set lower for
books that are no longer required
for classes.
The bookstore manager says
the biggest problem the cooperative
faces is lack of space
for the amount of books they
wouia iiKe 10 sen, a prooiem
USC could solve easily.
A used bookstore in the !
Carolina Mall would also attract
browsers and increase the
amount of traffic through the
area. a
It's worth looking into.
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desparate need of all types of i
blood to meet local demand. j
Almost anybody between 1
the ages of 17 and 66 can 1
donate blood. One must weigh
at least 110 pounds and be in
good health. The process takes
less than an hour, and
although your arm may be
sore for a while, the good feel- j
ing of giving "the gift of life"
is worth it.
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"I don't know, but I do think
that more serious measures
need to be taken to prevent it.
I don't know about hard drugs,
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away with a lot of use."
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Cathi Spengeman
j Senior, psychology
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it's bad all over. People are
t naive and the administration
c needs to teach them about
drugs. Then it would get bets
ter. People just don't care
3 anymore."
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"None of us in the USC family want to see
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? James Holderman
USC president
One of my fondest childhood memories is
3f the great big beige house on The Horseshoe
.vherc our whole USC family lived during the
3reat Depression of '86. We didn't have
much money then ? the Crash had taken
away our full-formula funding, and times
were hard. But we had each other. Why, I
remember one night at supper, when Daddy
Jim-LJOD looKea at an 01 us ana saia:
"Lord, but it docs my heart good to see the
whole family eatin' together like this. We
Jone right when we closed down all those con;arn
fraternities."
Mama Carolyn slapped his wrist. "Now
Pa, I've told you before about talkin' with
your mouth full of 'pone."
We all laughed, the way we always did
when Mama Carolyn did that, and I asked,
"Did Aunt Saga whomp up a mess o'vittles
tonight, or what?"
There were about 10,00() of us children sitting
along each side of the table, and it took
awhile for my sentence to get relayed down to
the end where Daddy Jim-Bob was. But when
it got there, he nodded his head and said,
"Yes, sir. Pass me some more of that jellied
eel colon. We don't have two nickels to rub
together, but we're not goin' hungry."
And we got each other, somebody
added.
"That's right," Mama Carolyn said. "We
got each other. Andy-boy, what did you do at
school today?"
"Well, Mama, 1 took that overdue parking
ticket to the Pendleton Street Garage like ya'll
told me."
Uncle Frank Borkowski chewed on a
roasted chicken face and asked, "Did they
recognize that you was kin?"
"Not right off, but then the lady put her
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uocaine aangeroi
Recently, in a discussion concerning cocaine
derivatives, someone asked why the
public simply could not be satisfied with the
standard snorting of the drug. The person
said that if people would just stick to the old
method of taking the drug through the nose,
then everything would be fine.
While the comments were originally received
with a chuckle, their truth, or some of their
truth, cannot be dismissed.
Certainly cocaine is a dangerous drug, even
in its least lethal form. The deaths of two prominent
athletes, Len Bias and Don Rogers, in
the past weeks have testified to the fact. But it
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people each year than cocaine. And smoking
has been a problem for decades to promote
heart disease and lung cancer, and its victims
have suffered great hardship.
This isn't to say that cocaine is right. Please
note, this not advocating any kind of drug
use, but for those who are cocaine users the
message is clear ? BEWARE.
Certainly cocaine, as well as alcohol and
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But this is a Utopian dream that may not be
fulfilled for centuries to come. What we must
strive for, at the very least, is to have the same
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head to one side and said, 'Ain't you that n
middle boy of Jim-Bob's? The one with the o
smart mouth who can't get a job?' I Mowed as y
how 1 was, and she just laughed and tore my V
ticket up. 'Us kinfolk have to stick together,' a
she said. 'Now you run along home.' "
Amy Houser-Girl was sitting next to me, 1;
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president of all us kids, which meant she was
the one who told Daddy Jim-Bob all our pro- g
blems. Now that might seem peculiar, but
remember, our family had 24,000 kids in Col- s
urnbia alone. If each of us had to go to Daddy s
Jim-Bob every time our noses ran, he
wouldn't have had the time to get any work t
done. So Amy talked to him every week, and t
she never left his office without a nice red ^
sucker or something pretty. He was a fine
man.
Anyway, on the night I'm talking about,
Amy said, "Daddy, why did the governor
take our money away? I think it's awful, just
awful, what he's puttin' you through." She
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responsibility that should be applied to
alcohol and smoking applied to cocaine.
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i ne new cocaine derivatives anu mcmocis
are not applying any responsibility, if in fact
there is such a possibility, to the drug's use at
all. They are like taking alcohol intravenously
or smoking several packages of cigarettes a
day.
Crack, the new cocaine -society
phenomenon!,is a derivative that eliminates
impurities and, once smoked, produces a
euphoria that turns its victim into a pleasureseeking
madman who will do anything for
more. Its effects upon the psyche and moral
behavior (such as stealing money to buy the
drug) can be paralleled with heroin; and its
addictive powers are certainly as strong.
The problem now is reaching epidemic proportions.
Rehabilitation centers across the
country arc plagued by a flood of patients and
confusion over exactly the best methods for
treatment. Networks, magazines and
newspapers are flooded with news concerning
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urst into tears.
"I know you feel real bad about it, honey,"
laddy Jim-Bob said. But I wish you
'ouldn't wear that nasty old sackcloth to the
lble. You're gettin' ashes in the taco salad."
"But we got each other," someone said.
"That's right," Uncle Frank said. Then he
'hispered to me: "Who is that young'un?" -J
One of the smallest kids, a freshman who
ould barely see over the edge of the table,
)oked up at the silver-haired man next to her
nd said, "Tell us about the old days,
irandpa."
Grandpa Rcmbert C. Dennis chuckled and
ct the moppet in his lap. "Oh, it don't do
luch good talkin' about the old days, chile.
Jot when money's as tight as it is now ?
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lie State House ever since Sol Blatt was ah
Id, old man." He got a faraway look in his
yes. "But there was a time when we had so ^
iiuch money we didn't know how to act. Wc
nee spent $3 million just so some of the
oung'uns could learn Shakespeare in
Vashington. Have you ever heard tell of such
thing?"
I cleared my throat. "Grandpa, that was
ist week."
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"Oh, well," someone said. "At least we
ot each other."
"And we'll have one less," Uncle Frank
aid, "if that chile doesn't hush and eat his ^1
upper."
And every night after all the lights had gone
>ut around The Horseshoe, Daddy Jim-Bob
ook out his student directory and told us all
;ood night in alphabetical order.
"Good night, James Aaron."
"Good night, Daddy."
"Good night, Joel Aaron."
"Good night, Daddy."
"Good night, Roswati C. Ab-Ghani."
"Good night, Daddy."
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even worse ?
:rack and its effects 011 society.
While crack is in the public spotlight, a new
and even more dangerous problem (if you can
believe that) looms on the horizon ? space
uasmg.
Space basing ? named in honor of free
basing, the process of making crack ? is the
smoking of crack mixed with PCP, LSD, or
any other potent chemical to prolong the
"buzz." Its conception is a tribute, as such,
to the never-ending efforts of the drug culture
to create new forms of mind-altering combinations.
Victims are now appearing in Los
Angeles and New York, but as with all new
phenomenon!, we can be assun .1 that it will
spread to other areas.
f'ocainp is had news nnrt hnnpfnllv cnmo.
day, we can rid our society of its evils. But cocaine
is like water behind a dam. Everyday
some water is coming over the top and,
although the damage is still relatively small, is
hurting the people below. But now there are
cracks in the dam literally as well as
figuratively, that threaten to destroy the
society. These cracks must be brought to the
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