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No excuse
Get out there, express opinions:
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The excuse that it's the beginning of the year is not valid
anymore.
Students on this campus have not been showing concern
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important events: alcohol and elections.
A workshop was held Oct. 1 for students to voice complaints
and suggestions to alleviate the problem of strict
alcohol consumption and party guidelines instated by the
administration. Although there have been many gripes
about the harsh rules such as prohibiting drinking at parties
during the week, and "invasion of privacy" by searching
students' belongings at the dorms, there was low at
lenuence ai mc meeting to discuss changes in the new
alcohol policy.
Luckily, concerned members of the Carolina community
such as Student Government President Amy Houser were
there to represent these apathetic students. She proposed
extending the required hour of terminating on-campus partfrom
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According to Jerry Brewer, Dean of Student Life, who
represented the administration at the workshop, the administrators
cannot determine what is in the best interest of
students without getting feedback.
He said the suggestions brought up would be considered
for the spring semester.
So the students' opinions do count and if more students
had attended the workshop, at least they would be confident
that the flHministratinn wac rnncirlfrino thfir
in future decisions.
Also lacking interest was the recent Student Government
secretary elections. After the controversy of having the SG
president appoint the new secretary position once it had
been vacated, students didn't even show up at the polling
places.
Only 450 students voted. Not only is that number not
enough to get a sufficient majority, it isn't enough to get a
II UC lUIlSCUMJS.
Now, how are administrators and student government
supposed to know how students feel if they don't even express
it by attending workshops, or voting for the right
candidate.
Get out there and express your opinion, there are no
more valid excuses.
Knee deep
Ancient Columbia drainage system
causes inconvenience, accidents
It's obvious it rained yesterday. It's even more obvious
some of this sudden downpour caused several problems.
Something needs to be done about the drainage system
on the strce? v of Columbia. Flooding was especially evident
and hazardous on campus, causing many near-accidents.
For some icason the drains have been strategically placed
at some points where the level of the openings are up to
two inches above the ground level.
The city of Columbia needs to alleviate this problem,
which seems to have occurred through erosion around the
ancient drainage svstems.
A plethora of wading pools formed, and some side gutters
were reminiscent of Niagara Falls. Comments were
heard around campus about wearing bathing suits and
swimming or canoeing to class, and those who wore leather
shoes had to chuck them out for duck shoes.
The city needs to get a corps of engineers together to
devise some new protection from future downpours of this
intensity.
Hopefully, it will not take a number of deaths for the city
to realize something needs to be done.
Heavy rain is endangering lives, and until the city finds
some way to curtail the flooding, use care in walking and
driving through these slick spots.
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A toast to teens
At 11:37 a.m. today, I will officially be 20
years old. It's a birthday I am neither excited
about nor well-prepared for. I still can't drink
? legally. I won't sleep late; I've already filled
the absence quota in most of my classes.
Those hassles, however, are minimal com
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are over.
Whoa. What was that? I won't be a
teenager any more? I'm actually getting
older? I'll no longer be able to blame my irresponsibility
on my age. I've probably used
up at least 25 percent of my life as I head
towards the world of careers, wages, and no
spring breaks. If I live to be a teenager again
in 2079, I won't have any of my spunk or dark
hair.
The teenage years are gone. But return now
to those thrilling days of yesteryear, as we
relive events which every ex-teen remembers
with innocent, melancholy pride:
Officially a teen. Yeah, the day you turned
13. Puberty. Pimples. Mood swings. Raising
hell with your friends and ire with your
parents. Mom and Dad looked upset that day,
not because their little child is growing up, but
because they are entering into seven years of
pure hell. You made sure of that.
First day of high school. No matter how
cool you thought you were or how dominant
or confident you had been in the past, this
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community
To the editor: Gamecock
Well Gamecock editors, 1 dissension
would say you broke your record among a ci
this semester for stirrinc the emo- of vounc
tions of non-traditional ? Black future leac
? students on this campus. You community
manage to include such trash as
"Black people score lower on IQ
tests than whites . . (Wed. Oct
1, 1986) in at least one or two
issues each semester.
Wonders ? small minds ? flga'ffgars
never cease. You managed to UtJICll
print your most recent insult ?
just five weeks after classes COSJIQ
began, yet right in the midst of
exams for many classes ? which To the edit
is probably some of the same tac- 1 attenc
tics used by these so-called Defense fo
researchers. day night,
Tests and performance are two P.E. Cent
different thines. However. l ane. This
Gamecock, your IQ in terms of offered by
sensitivity is equal to that of your disappoint
performance in serving the total students al
population of this campus. "0." disappoint
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students with tidbits of what you other it
consider to be "news." However, methods)
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was a new world. Older students looking
down upon you without pity or pleasure.
Long hallways leading to uncertain classes
and cloudy futures. You felt small that day
and scared out of your wits. But you lived to
talk about it, and maybe even graduated.
First kiss. Aw, how sweet. Wasn't it great?
Wherever it was. whenever it was. filed
forever in the brain's library of life-changing
events. You felt like the ruler of the world and
the greatest of your gender. False metaphors,
but still a great day.
Growing up. A birthday, break-up, or
some other bittersweet event that makes you
think. A long stare in the mirror. You suddeneditor
attitudes in the near because of a progran
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hope I never serve my who had been jailed fc
so poorly as The of rape, not just on
: which cultivates were repeat offender:
rather than harmony agreed that rape is nol
liturally diverse group passion. It does not rr
people preparing for victim is ugly, pretty,
iership of that same fat, thin, old, young
crime of power, domi
violence.
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Journalism junior usually if a woman
course in self-defcns
cannot be raped, not
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ly realized that childhood was over. You were
thinking about aging, what to do after high
school, how to organize life now to be happy
in the future. Welcome to stage one of
adulthood.
cnoosing a aestmy. uoing into college,
work or the armed forces. Getting married or
becoming a bum. Settling into a daily regimen
of life and compromising with the world
around you instead of rebelling against it:
Arguing with your parents less, and beginning ?
to understand who they are and how they raised
you. Hoping you'll do as well with your
kids. You're becoming, perish the thought,
older. And wiser. i
There are other memorable events of teen
life, such as learning to drive and drinking
that first beer (hopefully not on the same
day). Writing about them could fill The
Gamecock for the rest of the year. But why
harp on them? These good and bad events
made us grow up and taught us lessons about
life. However, they're part of an era which a
you have left behind or are about to, like me.
As I launch the journey towards my 21st
birthday, I will sit wistfully with a beer, toast j
my unpredictable and educational teens, wipe
a tear from my eye, and pluck the gray hairs
from my arms. My teenage years will always
influence me, but I'm letting them go.
Reluctantly.
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l 1 saw on Dr. losenh Ton's three talks
:y Show." should consider his message. Hethree
men speaks as a man of conviction,
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ce, but all few of us seem to fully unders5.
They all tand. As a Christian minister
a crime of from a Communist country, Dr.
latter if the Ton gives us a first hand report
tall, short, on Communism in Romania,
: rape is a where religious and political
nance, and freedom of expression apparently
do not exist. When the Cornagreed
that munist boss came to his church,
has had a says Dr. Ton, people there were ?
e that she frightened for his teachings about
because of the meaning of exitence might
mse of her after all be taken as some form of
ness. They anti-government subversion. The
take a self- first Communist boss who came
ise of men had wealth, power, influence,
are as ad- women ? yet confessed the emp
alcoholic is tiness and despair that life had
come to hold for him. He gave
:d us to in- Dr. Ton permission to speak frecII
CPU and ly within his district. Later,
1 which will another Communist boss had Dr.
ight at 8:30 Ton arrested, held subject to in>om.
Some- terrogation, and physically A
>e saved by beaten.
in from this But out of this came someting
worthwhile. For Dr. Ton
discovered the true meaning of
th Williams existence through suffering for
an, nursing his faith in Lord Jesus Christ.
Such a discovery could never
tfllllf have been achieved in the pursuit
la 11% Qf transient pleasures ? of protO
3II Perty, power or privelege.
John Godwin
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