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Viewpoint I Monday, April 25, 1988 THE GAMECOCK ^ F - Good tii Despite some had good 198 Yet another school year is ra machinery of academia is begin has been a good one for USC, sional problems. One of the biggest difficul Department. The drug-testing to be a disaster for the univers correct the situation by tiring and later replacing him with Di USC's athletic programs to res Despite the problems in the I about the actual performances ^ The Gamecocks excelled in fo well as in other sports. And ne On the administrative front cloak itself in secrecy. The uni President James Hoiderman's thanks to a legal technicality, i issue of the records of drug t stance of secrecy does not refl especially a university. Student Government also h botched election and an illegal all those problems worked the get on with its job ? serving On the academic front, US university. The opening of the the engineering program to bi departments are also moving I Culturally, USC is also im on the Koger Arts Center, wh 1989. And this school year sa> certs and programs in recent i But it was the unique events i^un r>n..i it +1 vian ui i jwiiii i aui 11 li landmark achievement for th mance of dancer Rudolf Nure] students didn't dare dream c campus. Yes, there have been proble the whole, this has been a go< teresting to see how next year "HE'S NOT WRHIN6 f _ * YET HE'S Jl ? P0PEY THINGS HE IE <D/9ea^e^65F2B^^D'S>< M*. ' i Editor in Chief JEFF SHREWSBURY Managing Editor STEPHEN GUILFOYEE Copy Desk Chief ANDY BECHTEL Assistant Copy I>esk Chief I WAYNE YANG ? News Alitor ) (?; TODD HINHS i Assistant News Kditor TONY MORENO Features Editors CLAIRE D1EPENBROCK .SUSAN NESBITT Sports Editor WAYNE WASHING TON Assistant Sports Fdltor JIM STUCKEY Adviser HI!.I. ROGERS [I ft letters Policy: Ttn Omnntoth ir* to | wor4t loaf, (imm* dUoriah tkoaM ao) ?u?M Ubri. Th* Omm?tk "? M4 ?Wi?M (MM MoHal HtauUy ?Mr. mes r j ]Jf UUlCfUZ, 7-88 school year pidly coming to an end, and the ning to grind to a halt. This year although there have been occaties was the troubled Athletic program that wasn't turned out ;ity, but USC acted decisively to Athletic Director Bob Marcum ck Bestwick, who should restore pectability. front office, few could complain of USC's teams this school year, otball, soccer and basketball as :xt year looks to be even better. , USC continued to attempt to versity fought to keep records of gifts a secret ? and succeeded, \nd USC is in court again on the ests of Gamecock athletes. This lect well on any state institution, ad its share of problems with a _ executive session. But eventually [ j smselves out. Now S.G. needs to -M. USC's students. C continues to grow as a major ter Swearingen Center should propel yo gger and better things, and other Al toward national prominence. proving. Construction continued dc ich will be completed by January ra n some of the best speakers, con- su nemory. co that made 1987-88 so special. The lis past September represented a a le university, as was the perfor- sh /ev. In the past, USC officials and m >f such things happening on this di ms, as with any university, but on ad year for USC. It should be in- cl turns out. w IIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH 1ST THINKIN6 OF WHAT ?. CAN SAY VjmI HE WINS .. f IJ b ei I. a I W jm 1 ? ( '' Photography fa] it or BRIAN SAUI.S | Assistant Photography Editor TEDDY LEPP Science Editor JIM NEWMAN Senior Reporter MARY PEARSON j Datebook Editor JENNY SHARPE Graphics Editor TROY TAOUE \ v^uiiuva ivuiiui TRACY MIXSON .Graduate Assistant KARliN ADDY Acting Director of Student Media/Advertising Manager MARGARET MICHELS Production RICHARD GRIFFIN SON HA Assistant Advertising Manager MELISSA HENDERSON prtat kttm rer?lv*d. letters ihoald b?, *1 minimum, 2SO to .100 MO worth. Wi reaarvt lh? rlfht lo edit for ?l?l? or poutblt aadir My riHuulMn. Ulloi mntl liwlud* wrll?r'? nam* and ^ast-column I'm getting kind of bleary-eyed here. Yeah, y id to get upset and all nostalgic and stuff wh u're writing your last column of the semcst id it gets twice as bad as when your writing yc ?t column of the year. There's just not enough room to do all I'd like >. There's not enough room for me to begin g on Republicans everywhere, especially c ch as Pat Robertson and Jack Kemp, who are nscrvativc they're against just about everythii Lord knows I'd like to have chance to I rewell to Thornwcll, soon to be closed for ab< year so the university can begin renovation; ould have done when it built the place. It will isscd. There's not enough time for me to begin scuss how the Faculty House, the most cxclus ir on campus, will serve alcohol on its new pal ght in front of students' faces. That kind o asslcss move is just sooooo rare at USC. How rare? Not quite rare, actually. More I ell done. Very well done. Burnt. Charcoal ; >hes. There's not enough time to discuss the pet ho oppose USC's proposed ties to a consorti lat will conduct research at the Savannah R lant's laboratory, and how silly those people - not enough time to discuss how they don't w ISC doing nuclear weapons research, but obvic ' don't mind if someone else does. I don't h nough time to discuss the people who are ISC's tics to SRP's laboratory and how silly t re. There's not enough time to thank all outhern gentlemen who wrote in response to f my columns. They showed a range of Soutl ihospitality that proved my point. I appreciate all of you being puppets on my lg. ii wa?> ?i IU jfuu uSJ WAatujf wu, /anted you to do ? write in letters twice as obi ;>us as my worst columns ever were. But as Willy Wonka, said, "So much time, sc le to do. No. Strike that; reverse it." There's so little time, because I'd like to take est of this space to let you get to know a sp< lunch of people you've never seen. The Gamecock staff is the weirdest buncl )eoplc on the face of the earth. As our cdito uggested this year, this staff is mostly compi )f liberals. Yet we've got a photographer w] Letters to t\ Columns not i?? # . or cv serious enough O more discu! Io the editor: Pic All semester long, every Monday, also I Wednesday and Friday I anxiously side e iwait The Gamecock to hit the as yo stands. And as always, the first page know I turn to is the editorial pages. abou I've had a lew laughs. As a matter herit. of fact, I've laughed so much I didn't But c even have to turn to the comics. Now injus my question is, is this what the man. editorial page is for? The columnists of The Gamecock I ? II, ,i nave a vci y mi iiswa. i/m stead of using it to help inform people, they have used it as a stand-up comedy routine. Stephen Guilfoylc has given ab- TTB] solutely no value to the paper what- .DJ soever. Nothing he has said has been of any importance unless you are in- r|| terestcd in stupid things he's seen and done the past week. Samuel Starks has brought an in- To t teresting viewpoint to several issues I ? not cxactly a viewpoint worth ser listening to, but nevertheless honi interesting. It And (hen there's Todd Mines. I and must say Mines is my favorite eolum- suff nist. Me writes well, is precise and en- phy joyable to read. Hut I fail to sec the hctc importance of Cher and Sonny relia Bono's marriage and what her crea outrageous costumes have to do with mar celebrities in politics. It's an in- "be teresting issue, hut I'm afraid not one T that will touch our lives at USC Ror much. mar Can't you find something a little cref more pressing to write about? What spc< about the pollution that is killing our ing planet, nuclear war, unwanted Crc ?_,a. s y im corns ^ Tim TPOV PART: 1 Illi? i | v-' . ini *1 I TOE MOTION FOR 1 I APJOURNMENT. L I P / EiWF _ II woes abound len er- A: ^ >ur s s?Ph,? t Guilfoyle T tig. Mft/ bid ?r 3Ut ? > it be I??????????????????? happily cast his ballot for George Bush, unless to kill him first. Good idea, actually. iivc Keith and the other photographers were c tio, stantly looking for those feature photos ? f a maintenance guys at work, squirrels ? stuff that. like Over on the news desk, we had the To-trip and this year: Todd, Tony and Torod. Torod was n; cd, he told me, for his grandmother. They flip >ple the Dorothy and dropped the "-hy." We ium Though Torod later left, he still pitched in iver wrote the occasional story in a tight spot. are loacrs nair cnarjgea coior a numocr 01 u 'ant this semester, apparently on its own. Tony's >us- was too long. Torod's was way too short. W iave guys. (Tony was my invisible friend. To quote for make Stephen laugh; he makes me laugh; w hey funny that way.") Though we sometimes had to make them < the story, Tony and Todd did a great job with one news coverage. This was the best year for I lern news. Over in the corner we had the Sports G str- Every other section has reporters ? 1 at I reporters, features reporters, etc. But the sp iox- desk had Sports Guys ? with one Sports G; who covered USC athletics. The two main S| ) lit- Guys, Jim and Wayne though had to bee "News Guys" with wide receiver Ryan Bethea1 : the rest. And they did a great job. :cial Then we had the features babes. Appointe co-editors in the middle of the semester, they i of had much to learn about getting a section rials edited, with headlines. But somehow, they lea osed it all. I haven't had any complaints about fea ho'll at all, the first time in a while actually. he editor ancies, AIDS on college cam- "Therefore, Go , how our tuition is being spent jn the lusts of thei en the new courtyard at the ty, that their I ty House? These would be of dishonored anion value than some of the topics of exchanged the trut ssion in the past. For this reason (?' ase don't get me wrong. We to degrading pa have also need to have a light women exchanged very once in a while. But as long tion of the worn iu have the resources to let us their desire towarc ', you should try to inform us with men commii t this world that is ours to in- and receiving in Let the college years be fun. the due penalty ol lon't let the fun blind you to the "And we know uces 01 man s miiumamiy u> 01 uou rignuy iai practice such thi suppose this, O 111 judgement upon i Clinton 1>. Kramer such things and dr Biology sophomore that you will escaf God? Or do you ible forbids knowing the kinc ri# you to repentanct imosexuality , are not the wrath V.,. rot..lit fin \\l.i lit ilium. it.iuu.i i#i .->111. *? v. would like to respond to the sin, and apart frt ies of articles about nothing but sin. losexuality. and loving. He C would seem that an open mind would believe in Gray's Anatomy would provide come to repenta icient evidence that the natural turning from 01 sic^l relationship would be dependence upo rosexual. However, a more therefore and ret ible source, the Bible, says God may be wiped a ted a helper corresponding to the times of refreshii ( and that in marriage they may the presence of come one in flesh." 3:19) he Bible goes on to explain in Homosexuality nans Chapters 1 and 2 that result of one's ikind has rejected the evidence of biochemistry. It i ition, choosing instead foolish Bible declares is < :ulations ? in effect, worshipp- vided all of us wil created things rather than the choose a lifestyle ator: consequences, or I for this"guy I i Claire was always eoof ball; Susan was a hit Wm. more serious. I limes kind ol balanced out. pfc I he eopv desk lolk-.V-ndid.. job lor us, though titov some repoiter think thj; did a job on them. They pp took our copy and 11 ade it look perfect. Actually, \ they put it in'o I (i:tnwc<H k\ and Associated Press styles. I hos< tvlc m ay not be perfect, but pff they're our". 1 I < ,.>p\ ? <i11<>rs vsere the ones wlu? heard the phi;.c ' t.iW- t.:;1 ^0 inch Moiy and cut it |to down to V but ?i in'- i .< niplam loo much OK, jPS they may haw co-nn'O on one occasion, lint not to; most of the time Kto j We had the man> guys who worked in the H editorial .< . i ii n ' us tins seme>iei - I'etc and .;. we Brad, foi in i 1:1 who wrote the editorials, L? freeing columnists such as myscll, so we could have te on- enough tunc \<i wi-ie about whatever meandering | the whimsy somehow n>und its v. ay into our brains I j l!l-? '.M-l W,,,l ll il -,11 . I,,. , t|,?rl ta We had thai wacl y lim Newman, who came up lets here babbling .tlnar puit iii^> in .1 science section, a iim- whole page he would till himself. We let him try it, ped and it worked. ird. The people 111 production were OK, too. We had and Robb, who doubled on graphics and wrote and drew Ran li. \\<- had Iroy, who doubled.'ils mes graphics ailist and piodu lion guy, and Rich, who hair jumped in to r 1 k<* up the slack when two produceird tion managei s lcl't. : "I We had Tracy who quadrupled as production e're person, writer, comics -.ditoi and photographer. Wc had Amy, who tripled up in production as well io a as writing and helping <'dit in a pinch, our And advertising im\c u, space 10 work with and JSC gave the male cha . vir.ists up here something nicc to look at, too. : uys. And finally, we had a guy you didn't see, the guy lews who put this crew together, curse him, and kept as >orts low a prof ile as lie could. I le's my boss and friend, d ? Jeff. It's been a whole semester of the best issues of >orts IhcCji'f/wi '7 .r . . it> to .1 years at omc USC.', all because ot a happy little spud nicknamed s ar- Shrews. ; All these folks did some hard work this semester :d as and deserve a round of applause, and I'd like to bt both the first one to v lap. out, Clap. rned Thanks, guys. So long, US(.. Have a good sum;tures met. I'll see those who aren't graduating here next year, bright-eyed and George Bushy-tailed. : id gave them ovei loil^A Clod's will and experience $ r hearts to impuri- liIe i>l innei peace, security and hopet bodies might he I he choice :s ouis, and the conseg them. For they queiiee*. his! ;i liteiime. h of God for a lie. od gave them over ! issions; for their Mark A. I'ortet I the natural func Graduate student an and burned in J one another, men 'ting indecent acts | * Y, rf* H" g TPlv their own persons Livfiivi V'ljp r their error. ? , that the judgement on deception lie unnii u iin * ngs. And do vou lan, when you pass ?? 'lie editoi: those who practice ' duai-ice >.viili your editorial that ) the same yourself, said ihai a state lottery "would >c the judgement o| l-i n-I e.eivone." It would not think lightly <>l the heneii! thos:- v\ho play and don't kindness and id patience, not \i<r. ! ? si.me <>l the money will Incss of (iod leads uw kI-' ha? i in the lotm ol stale pro r?" jm.uhs, t>;jt inohahly not as much as ned and are worthy \ loiters does ru>t create uilt, pain and death wealth. it ? 111 > leclisti ihutes wealth of God. hui arc tlx- ^ * "*?nltl sa> that .1 Mate lottery is a are all affected b<> 1;,v> stupidits >m God we can do Hut God is patient What ie,nK bothers me about state lesires that all men lotteries is that states with lotteries Jesus Christ and :i" nt,: moment to si 1 hack and wait nee ? a complete '<?i the money 10 roll in; they adver nr sinful ways to Use their lotteries. And the only way 11 Him. "Repent 1,1 1 bad product is by false and urn, that your sins misleading advertising. I've seen way, in order that television ads lor othei states' lot tig may come from tenes lots of bright lights, dancing the I ord " (Acts V 1's and wouldn't it be great if yon won not 111 mention I lw hioh "'D' * is a choice, not the potability of not winning ihe thing. ? environment or 1 vmmiIcI Mthci not see ihis state get s a lifestyle that the i'Ho the hahit ol lying to its citi/ens. iinlul. Ciod has pro th a choice. We may of sin and suffer its .lames W. Walker wc may choosc lo >iauumaius lacuny