The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, August 12, 1986, Page 2, Image 2
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2 Tuesday, August 12, 1986
Too fast
USC's sumi
school endi
"Summer loving, had me a
blast,
Summer loving, happened so
fast.... "
The lyrics from "Grease"
say it well: Summer's over,
and it went quick.
It's back to the grind of
September school days for
continuing students. For
graduating students, the party
really is over ? for them, it's
on to the Real World. See
Andy's thoughts on this subject,
elsewhere on this page.
If you don't have a tan to
impress your roommate on
your first day back in the
dorm, you have only two
weeks to get one. If you need
to earn $200 more from your
summer job to pay for your increased
tuition, you have a bit
of a problem and the sincere
sympathy of every other working
student.
Good luck to all students on
their final summer exams.
Summer school students
haven't even had a regular
vacation, just three weeks in
the spring and less than two
before fall semester.
Unfortunately
the Real INor
When I was in collegc I often
heard legends about life in the
Real World, but I never believed
them. Even the oldest maps in the
mustiest recesses of the school
libraries showed only a great
blank area where the Real World
was reputed to be, along with
cryptic notations such as "Here
There Be Dragons."
As 1 had not the faintest idea
where the Real World lay, my
chances of going there after
graduation seemed remote. But
just as Aunt Malinda once left
thr nirnnrl hminrl fnr hntnr? mirl
would end up in Red Bank, I
somehow took a wrong turn on
the road to fame and fortune and
found myself in the uncharted
reaches of the Real World. I
knew 1 had arrived when I awoke
my first morning in my new
apartment to find Rod Serling
standing at my bedside.
"Presented for your consideration:
one Andy Duncan," he
said. "A 6-foot stretch of the
American Dream who shook the
dean's hand, pocketed his
diploma and walked straight off
the stage into the sunset ? and
into the uncharted reaches of the
Real World."
"Thanks for nothin', Rod," I
said, hut he already had been
replaced by a commercial break,
so he wasn't around to see my
first attempt at cooking. Here are
some of my favorite Real World
breakfast recipes.
Scrambled egg: lake one (1)
egg. Twist open and empty contents
into greased frying pan.
Pick out shells with one or two
fingers, as required. Add 1 (one)
tablespoon milk. Put pan on
burner set on high. Scramble with
spatula until eyes water from
smoke, lor more than one egg:
Use more than one egg.
Cold cereal: Open one (2) small
box dry cereal, emptying contents
into bowl. Add cold milk as
desired. Eat with spoon until
finichfvl Put cmnlu hrtvul r?n tor*
of 14 oilier empty cereal bowls in
sink. Turn radio to nearest album
rock station to mask sound of
stomach growling.
Coffee, French toast, hash
browns, biscuits and gravy,
blueberry muffins, bacon and
sausage: Get into car and drive to
nearest Shoney's. Recite these
words to orange-haired waitress
named Darla. Food will appear
within five minutes. Eat, pausing
only for guttural sounds of appreciation.
Clean plate so
thoroughly that it requires no
further washing after you leave.
After my Real World
breakfast, I go to the office. My
official work schedule of 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m., Eastern Standard
lime, becomes 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
mer of work,
? too quickly
Many of these students held
jobs and went to school at the
same time. That's not an easy
thing to do during a regular
fall or spring semester, and
when you consider the student
who pulls it off while also
squeezing three months of
course information into five
weeks of summer classes, the
accomplishment merits special
commendation.
/\nu wniie everybody at
USC has been working hard
this summer, none have
labored more so than the
students trying to cam those
last three hours required for
graduation. We congratulate
the summer graduates of USC
and wish them well in their
future efforts. ,
And for those coming back
for the fall, you can look for- i
ward to another semester of
ioomaii games, Friday night
parties and final exams. ,
Dorms open at 10 a.m. Aug. (
24 and classes begin four days |
later. The Gamecock's j
Welcome Back issue will be
distributed Aug. 29. See you in s
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when measured in Real World
Time. For this, I earn a paycheck
thai gets converted into Re^l
World currency by the government
before I ever see it, losing
about 30 pet cent in the translation,
but retaining a sum suffi
cicnt to keep nie living in the style
to whieh I am accustomed ? abject
poverty.
Another interesting aspect of
Real World finances is renter's
insurance. That's what most
landlords require you to have
before they'll let you move in,
and to get it you have to talk to a
mythical beast called an insurance
agent. These creatures
live behind desks and say "Now,
let's see" a lot.
"Now, let's see," said my
agent, whom I'll call Swifty. "Do
you have any belongings of any
value other than the VCR, the
complete collection of Howard
the Duck comic books and Edwin
Newman's autograph?"
"What about my college
diploma?" I said. "At current
tuition levels, it's worth more
than $8,000."
Swifty snickered, stamped
"Abject Poverty" across my insurance
form in red and said,
"Mr. Duncan, you forget that
this is the Real World."
Some of you readers are
graduating before the month is
out, and some of you who can't
wait to enter the Real World arc
worried about whether there's
room for you out here.
If that's your ambition, the
Real World has plenty of vacancies.
But then, so did the Bates
Motel.
Andy Duncan is a Spring 1986
graduate of I'JSC, and now writes
for the News & Record in
Greensboro, N.C.
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Time to meet th
Now that the summer is windinc down and
ny tour of duty as editor in chief of The
Gamecock is officially over, it's time to look
sack at the past three months and reminisce about
"How I spent my summer vacation."
The newspaper staff had planned to publish
an issue each week, which is the usual ^
schedule for the summer edition. But financial
situations limited us to just five issues ? k
four to be distributed on campus every two j
weeks throughout the summer, and one to be ?
mailed to incoming freshman as part of their *
orientation to the university.
As the editorial staff, we received many r
questions relating to the publication schedule
and size, such as, "How come there are no ,
Gamecocks?" and "Why is it only six *
pages?" But we also had normal inquiries, 1
and somebody even asked us the Journalist's |
Favorite Question: "Just who do you think t
you arc, anyway?" I
Well, now that you know the answers to the
first two were a result of finances (or lack ^
thereof), here's your chancc to "met the
press," and let you know exactly who we
think we are, and what we'll be doing this fall
now that summer has come to an end.
A rising sophomore, Amy DelPo is a real
whiz kid in the newsroom and has one of the
brightest futures this paper has seen in a long
time. After reading the first two summer
issues, my dad asked if there were any other
news writers ? as the news editor, Amy had
written almost all the stories for both issues.
1 told him that she did all that and more ?
most of which was vital to producing the
paper, but never seen when it hit the stands
the next morning. Without her, I would actually
have had to do some work around here.
Amy will be working as one of the assistant
news editors for 7he Gamecock in the fall ?
but if she wants it, it probably won't be long
before she'll be typing at the desk of the
editor in chief.
Jennifer Rust, our Viewpoint editor and
all-around cheerleader, will resume her position
as a staff reporter. She also plans to
devote much of her time in the fall to her
sorority. Kappa Kappa Gamma, for which
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The 1986 Summer editorial staff. Front Row: Jen
nifer Steib, photo editor; Jennifer Rust, Viewpoint
editor. Back row: Paula Wethington, Spotlight
editor; Tracy FJlixson, editor in chief; Opus, mascot;
Amy DelPo, news editor.
she has more love and enthusiasm than Midas
had for gold.
Jennifer Steil) will continue her duties in the
fall as photo editor. Her job at McKissick
Museum kept her at work most of the day, so
we didn't get to see much of her this summer.
But somehow, she found time to carry out her
work at the newspaper, too, and always came
through with our photo requests.
Every production day, there was a package
of photographs waiting for each section, as if
elves had come in the night and shot,
developed and printed each picture. But you
can't fool us, Jennifer ? remember, we're
journalists. We know who did the work.
You're the only one with a key to the
darkroom.
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Editorial
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By Tracy Mixson
Paula Wethincton will continue as editor of
the Spotlight section. "I never realized how
much I'd like this job," she said midway
through the summer. "I mean, you can actually
say what you mean when you write
features. News writing doesn't allow that
freedom."
She's done a super job overhauling that section,
and she has even bigger and brighter
ideas for the fall. O.K., Paula, so now may I
j cover the .38 Special Concert in September?
As for Yours Truly, I'll be getting a promotion
? at least that's how I see it. I'll edit The
Gamecock's football publication, Kickoff
Magazine, and as The Gamecock's graphic
arts editor I'll also make sure that Bloom
County and The Far Side are printed in every
edition. Football and comics? There couldn't
be a better job.
But as good as that sounds, I'm still hesitant
to give up this summer position. In addition
to the nice office that comcs with the job,
I'll miss the comradery, the learning experience,
and the fact that we were able to
escape the daily 100-degree weather by "slaving"
away in our air-conditioned, 65-degree
newsroom. As Jennifer Rust recently said,
"We're the people who forfeited tans and
parties to bring USC its summer edition of
The Gamecock." But we did it gladly, and
even if some of the news was a week or so old,
we tried to present it in an entertaining and informative
manner ? and hope you didn't
notice the time element.
i So what if our four little issues don't win
any prizes for journalism superiority. We can
honestly say we did our best. And more im:
portantly, we had a good time.
We hope you did too.
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anley Davis Sherman Woodson
psychology Graduate, occupational health
Director
Viewpoint Kdltor Bill Clements
Jennifer Rust Production
Photography Kdltor Lewis Covington
Jennifer Steib Mark Armstrong
AdvWor Advertising Mfcnager
Bill Rogers Margaret Michels