The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, December 09, 1987, Page 4, Image 4
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Wednesday, December 9, 1987 THE GAMECOCK 4
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i AMY DELPO Editor in Chief
,-p. STEPHEN GUILFOYLE Copy IXsk Chief
1 DC BRENDA BL.YTH News Editor
I BRAD EARRAR Viewpoint Editor ;
bamecock TAMARA WIL LIS Features Editor
WAYNE WASHINGTON Sports Editor
KEITH JONES Photography Editor
ROBB I.ANE Graphics Editor
PAULA WOJTOWICZ Beat Editor ;
Education
Problems of private colleges
could boost public institutions
The demographies of higher education have been shifting
from private to public schools in no small way over the past
decade. And as Louis Morell points out in The Chronicle of
Higher Education. "At the heart r>f fhr nmhinmc ,~rknfrrv.-it;r.rr
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private colleges is the generally inconsistent and uncoordinated
way support is provided to public institutions."
It has been a mystery to many why small schools with names
recognized only by avid readers of the inside covers of Scholastic
Aptitude Test guidebooks have been able not only to survive,
out to cnarge grossly inflated prices in the process. Many
students attend private schools in search of the best education
money can buy. And they hope their time and money spent in
the small-school environment will open many doors upon
graduation and entrance into "the real world." But do the
benefits of private schools outweigh the steep tuition?
According to endowment, the answer is no. With fewer
students at private schools, there is less money to go around. If
more young people decide to attend public schools, the number
of parents who want to support private schools will decrease. So
these institutions are forced to raise the already overpriced tuitions
or expand the size of enrollment. But many private schools
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qualified just to maintain their endowment.
Private schools have another big problem. The big statesupported
schools are getting better academically. (JSC, for example,
has never had a better national reputation, academically
or otherwise, than it now enjoys. Many students, who think they
can receive a fine education at a fraction of the cost of exclusive
private schools, are very content with public universities.
Higher education has been around long enough so that most
people know which schools are best at certain things. The bad
ones can be weeded out. After you get past the Ivy League
schools, the Notre Dames and others, the rest fall into a broad
category with the recurring themes of anonymity to all but a
handful.
It is no coincidence the respected private schools have the
highest endowments. It is safe to say Harvard won't fold as a
result of fewer students in private schools. But the others are not
so fortunate. And it is probably their own fault. After all, people
will not mind the steep costs as much if the diploma they
receive at the end of four years gets them a good job upon
graduation. But if you apply for a job and the interviewer asks
you, "You went where? Is that one of those technical schools
I've seen advertised on television . . then you probably won't
be inclined to join the alumni booster club.
Private schools arc in trouble, and they can only blame
themselves. And they are barking up the wrong tree if they think
the yuppies they have produced in recent years will bail them out
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Meanwhile, students at public schools are finding their
academic workloads rigorous enough. They feel just as prepared
when they graduate as anyone else, without a massive student
loan to pay back. Private schools need to rethink their priorities
and get back to education. It seems as if everyone else has.
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Assistant Copy Desk Chief Comics Kditor
Andy Hcchtcl I racy Mixson
Assistant News Kditors Historian
Todd Hi lies Bobby Jones
Jeff Shrewsbury Adviser
Assistant Features Kditor Hill Rogers
i irdous Bamji Acting Student Media
Assistant Sports Kditor Director/Advertising Manager
Rae I.cigh Margaret Michels
Assistant Photography Kditor Production
Jonathan Williams Chuck Norris
Datehook Kditor Sou Ha
Jenny Sharpe Assistant Advertising Manager
! Dawn Miller
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Well, here we are at the end of the y
barely three weeks left .
time when people start handing out aw.
right, so let's get on with it, shall we?
Best movie: Swimming To Cambodi
Gray's spellbinding monologue,
directed by Jonathan Demme.
\N orst movie: Some Kind of Wot
sickeningly bittersweet rehash of Pre
which was wretched enouch itself.
Best album: Pleased To Meet
Replacements.
Best sons title: "It's the E:nd of the V\
Know It (And I Feel l ine)," R.E.M.
Best comeback: the "dehydrated" 1
which showed it could surviv
bassisl/songwriter/singcr Roger Wate
Most in need of a comeback: Talking
Best live performance: Mojo Nixoi
Roper at Kockalcllas' this past Augus
Most unwelcome comeback: tie-dye T
Best talk-shoM appearance: Weirdo Cr
on Late Night with David I.etterman,
showed that he basically played himse
the / 'mure and River's Edge.
Worst talk-show appearace: Grace Jo
Night, in which Jones showed ho\
obstinate she ically is.
Best campus protest involving cardbo
lie between South Africa "shanty" b>
Chapel's I
I) i nil. (Johk. the I tier's (lead,
It met the Cocks and lost its head,
Ding. dony. the Ctemson Tiger's da
I lie hells <ue lolling lor the Gamecoi
ringing of elation won't stop for a Ion
ringing in ("lemson's ears won't stop
time either; (hey got their hells rung.
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with the panic's store), the Rut ledge CI
chimes out the spoils of victory across t
The melody waits slowly over The Hoi
seeps into cracks and windows.
It starts out like any other ice i
ballad, sounds that cut through the rue
ty. It's one of those superhuman things
in hearing the ice cream man from st
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It's selective perception. I hey don't
p.m.; they hear 20 to 7.
And it's not the ice cream truck belt
music-box melodies of "Pop Goes th
It's the Gamecock light song.
Who would'te thought they could t
ja//y tune and put it to a Disney-m<
Letters to
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Letter wrong
about feminists
Io (lie editor:
A rcceni letter C aryn C rabb wrote
condemning feminists for heino
critical of the mass media's treatment
of women was so pathetically ignorant
it hardly deserves a response.
I'd invite the writer to read any
number of studies published in the
Journal of liroudcusdng, the Journal
of Communication and in general
consumer magazines that overwhelmingly
support the charge the
image of women in the media is
distorted and damaging.
But what I find more depressing
than the writer's trivializing and
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Pink Floyd, Students l or America,
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rs. dent march on the Stat<
Heads. funding.
n and Skid Best reason to cancel ela
t. Sweatiest day on The H
-shirts. pope's visit.
ispin Glover Best song played over 1
in which he system before pope arrr
If in Back to Underground.
Best speaker brought to
>nes on l.ate Abbie Hol fir.an, "Mayfl
n vain and Worst speaker brought
even if no one really bro
ard boxes: a Best new architecture in
' Free South ingen Center.
jells signal
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kids can do with that melody accc
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hear 6:40 Black Death flag as he c
the fans after a bad call
ing out the color to put the light sonj
e Weasel." Of course, Mu/.ak does i
And after the light son
;ake such a dition ot the I JSC' , 'ma r
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misrepresentation ol .in important
issue is her patrom/ing attitude
toward what she calls "women's libbers"
and her lack ol appreciation
for what they have done for her.
It is these "libbers" fighting on her
behalf who have allowed her to take
for granted her right to an education
and job opportunity, her right to
vote and run for public office. And
despite her claims, feminists have not
devalued the role ol motherhood ?
our culture did that a long time ago.
It's ironic and sad to see women
bashing feminists. You'd think we
would have a little more vision and
certainly a lot more gratitude.
It's also sad that in what the writer
describes as a liberated society she
chose to label herself a "female journalist"
instead of just a journalist.
It's especially unfortunate because
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1 OF HOME.
reive 1987'
Worst new
Most predi
Penn.
[Nicaragua "gulag" by Best friend
us protest: the second stu- Worst enen
: House lor full-formula leader Dan
Meese and
ss: the pope's visit. Best trend
orseshoe: the day of the power, sue!
65 mph.
I orseshoe public-address Worst tren
ted: "Jesus," the Velvet drugs, etc.
campus: the pope (sorry, Best video:
lower Madam," etc.). Best mini-st
to campus: Brother Jim, Best Supren
ught him here. Best preside
Columbia: USC's Swear- Best accom
hig ditto)
IJSC's fin
ccstacy with
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son tans.
The beat
a football-highlights film speakers tin
unpanying a Roy Hart begins. An<
motion? Picture a close- memories ol
a cheerleader waving the day in Nov
avorts across the field or have a year
It's invt n Ii ?I" *~*rf
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I into music-box tympani.
t all tlie time. We've got
g, the chimes strike a rcn- now all we n
nater. It's like a soothing clown on l)e
vbound baby, I'd lie in Good lucl
she is neither, but rather the author
of shallow prose.
Becci Kohhin.s
Journalism gruduute student
Column writer
wastes space
To the editor:
Concerning the F riday column by
Paula Wojtowicz and any other column
she has burdened us with, I
think the space taken up by her column
would be better put to use with
ads or just left blank.
I don't know about other USC
students, but who cares how she feels
about Christmas cards? Personally,
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s awards
architecture In Columbia: AT&T
pecially that metal junk on top.
I: the PTL. hullabaloo, which showed
n televangelism is.
Ial:the Iran-Contra affair, which showfeared
all along ? President Ronald
ot in control.
ited college football team: Clemson.
le college football team: Columbia,
int college football team: Miami.
er: Sean Penn.
ing jailbird: Sean Penn. M
ctable break-up: Madonna and Sean
of the press: Gary Hart.
ly of the press: a tie among Nicaraguan
iiel Ortega, Attorney General Edwin
Sean Penn.
in government: Allowing states more
1 as letting them raise the speed limit to
d in government: Testing for AIDS,
(You've got to be kidding.)
*ries: (ditto)
ic imin nominee: (ditto)
ntisil candidate: (ditto)
plishment of Student (Government: (a
i
e season
such a tunc ? forget about "London
tiling Down."
it's called infant coaxing. Clemson
it a lot. The kids arc weaned on the
[" and the color orange, and their
around saying, "Ma boy's gonna be a
Jay." And no one can do a damn thing
I it's kind of nice to hear this version of
ter. because it t;ik?-s vmi h;?rt
ncs kind of tug at the heart strings of
ans, they get under the craw of Clemwill
go on until the final thud of the
ning off Dec. 31, just as a new year j*
i that new year will be filled with *
* "The Game" until that certain Saturember
when it happens again. We'll
remembering what i' .Is like to kiss a
be rather than your ?>ster.
our cake and our ice cream music, and
ced is a tall swig of Ciatorade to wash it
!C. 31.
< in the Gator Bowl, fellas.
1 ii . . .
I'd rather read about Jeff
Shrewsbury's grandmother's prowess ,*|
in poker than what color card that
"fun" Paula is going to send to her
friends.
I hope she isn't a journalism major,
because like her previous attempts
at writing, she has yet to provide
us with any feasible journalistic
skills other than what seem to be en
iiihj nci uiaiy, wmcn, n uer
mother were to read them, would
send even her off to blissful slumber.
I hope the staff of The Gamecock
can fill those spaces with print other
than that which is in the "id" state,
although 1 was glad to sec Janice ffc
K return to her old complaining
sti.^e in the Nov. 18 paper.
David Oventhal
Journalism sophomore
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