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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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 \
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TRACY MIXSON
.Graduate Assistant
KARliN ADDY
Acting Director of Student
Media/Advertising Manager
MARGARET MICHELS
Production
RICHARD GRIFFIN
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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
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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
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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
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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