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Dead bill
Students need a representative
on USC's Board of Trustees
State Rep. Tim Rogers, D-Richland, is expected to do a favor
for USC students sometime next semester.
For him, though, it will be next spring, when the General
Assemhlv reconvenes to heein a new two^vear evele of bills.
votes, amendments and other such lawmaking stuff.
One of the bills he is expected to introduce, or reintroduce actually,
would place a voting student on USC's Board of
Trustees.
He is reintroducing it because the bill was allowed to die
without any action being taken on it by the previous Student
Government. It became a non-issue, as important as it was, and
nothing was done.
S.G. President James Franklin expects to mobilize an effort
among students to help push the bill. He doesn't think it's unimportant,
so he won't let it die the ignoble death it died last year.
There is much to be said in favor of having a student on the
board.
First and foremost is a disturbing attitude that was expressed
by a member of the board, with the nodding approval of other
trustees, that the students are an unimportant, minor part of the
university.
That's an attitude that can only be changed by having a student
become an equal to the trustees, and having that equality
enforceable by act of law.
Second, the students need to have their opinions expressed by
a caDable SDokesman to the board at all times, especially when
the board meets in an executive session. The S.G. president is
only at times allowed to address the board, but never in executive
session. It can easily be said that the subjects addressed
in the executive sessions are as important to individual students
as the subjects discussed in open session are to the students in
general.
Some have said if a student is put on the board, a faculty
representative will have to be put on the board, and then a staff
representative.
That argument, which has been expressed by the administration
at times, is without base. Students don't work for the administration;
we won't be voting on pay raises for ourselves.
We have the same relationship to the university, being tuitionpaying
students, as the taxpayers of this state have. They have
their representatives to express their views to the university. We
should have ours.
On campus, students are stripped of some of the rights they
wouid have if they were living in the real world ? having to put
up with inspections, rules that limit the rights they would have if
they simply moved off campus. And all the students who live on
campus or who have friends oil campus have to listen to the
ultra-conservative, out-of-touch babblings of trustees like state
Rep. Mike Fair, R-Greenville, who proposed changes to the
dorm visitation policy because he didn't like the rules.
With reactionaries like Fair on the board, it is imperative that
the students have a representative who can vote and oppose
1 Fair's 12th-century proposals.
But most importantly, the students need a representative on
the board to speak our case when it comes time for the university
to discuss tuition increases, such as the one USC President
James Holderman told the Commission on Higher Education
might be necessary next year. It seems it's never enough.
We need a representative, a student, who can go in there and
fight for the students' interests. Students don't want to have to
pay more to attend USC. And students probably don't need
every single service that the university provides, so a student
could probably go in and force some budget cuts, not in the
academic area, but in the frills area and the programming area.
The university can do two things when it is faced with a lowerthan-normal
allocation from the state. As it always does, it can
raise the tuition. Or it can cut back, as it did in '87-88.
But until there is vocal, committed opposition to an increase
in fees, as there was in the '86-87 school year with two tuition
protest marches to the State House and other methods, the
university will think it can get away with these increases.
The best opposition, though, would come from a student on
the board, relating the feelings and the anger and the determination
of the students not to put up with increases.
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We need a student trustee, so students snouiu waicn careiuny
what S.G. is going to do about it, and join in any efforts that
might help send Rep. Rogers to the State House. Then he can
tell the legislature that there are a number of students who are
upset with the lack of representation on the board.
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I JL PAUSE FOR
"THIS MESSAGE.
Halloween a i
I'm not quite sure when it happens, but I think
it's safe to say you really begin to lose your
childhood the first time you stay home on Halloween
night.
For most, it happens around the 12th year of
life.
It's the time when dressing in costumes and getting
free candy begins to take a back seat to listening
to music, watching TV and thinking about
girls. You're still a child in the classic sense, but the
first time you wake up and realize you don't have a
costume and don't care to walk around the
neighborhood is when you know it's becoming
time to put down childish things and move on with
your life.
Soon after, going to a Halloween party is much
mnrp fun than hittincr the sidewalks dressed as a
spaceman saying "trick or treat."
When you're young, very young, Halloween is
such a special time. You get caught up in the
ceremony and mystery of the strange and scary
night. You wonder if there really are ghosts and
goblins, and you wonder if there is a devil.
You look forward to carving a pumpkin into an
evil-looking jack-o-lantern and lighting the candle
that casts an eerie glow on your front porch. It's a
fun time for the kids to spend a night with their
parents and get oodles of candy and treats. But it's
just that ? a time for kids.
I remember, as does everyone I imagine, the first
Halloween I spent at home.
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The annoying burps of trivialities return, in a
special football victory installment.
How many people saw the game Saturday?
(Anybody who says "What game?" goes to bed
without supper tonight.)
This week's football hero ? Patfick Hinton. If
you see him, stop him, shake his hands and say,
"Great job, big guy."
Speaking of people I'm going to be speaking
to, I'll be looking for Todd Ellis tomorrow. I normally
see him in Gambrell before my . . . but we
wouldn't want to have a crowd there would we?
No. Suffice it to say I'll see him, and I'm gonna ask
our junior quarterback what he was doing and saying
immediately following that perfect touchdown
strike to Eddie Miller in the fourth quarter.
Instead of the touchdown shuffle, Ellis pulled
his fingers as if they were two six shooters, shot
twice, and holstered his fingers and said something
that looked like "SO THERE."
Yes, Todd "The Kid" Ellis, you did that to a national
audience.
But some of those watching, myself included,
are a trifle confused. And we're wondering about
what you did, too.
I think you were doing it to one of the sidelines,
I'm not sure which one, but it also looked like it
could have been done to the backfield referee. He
was right in line of your "six shooters."
I guess it's all right. From their earlier calls (and
worse, their failure to make other calls), they showed,
to use the Western imagery you brought into
my mind, that they were nothin' but a buncha
sidewindin', horse robbin' varmints.
Back to Patrick Hinton for a moment. Wat
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To the editor: Part
I feel the definite need to respond
to (Monty Seth Warner's Friday let- C*riO||
ter) "USC dorm like roach motel." I
am the resident adviser on the second
floor of Douglas, and I am embar- To the edit
rassed; however, it's not fair! In respoi
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USC Housing, students also have which app
responsibilities. An R.A. is more or Friday, M
less a mediator who relays and down as
stresses problems that students may analyst anc
have to the proper officials. If a stu- to reality ?
dent doesn't inform the R.A., then that neithe:
the R.A. may not know the problem governor o
exists. On these lines, I have not seen substantive
. a roach in my room or elsewhere on than the
the second floor of Douglas this believes hi
semester. hail the E
I have no quarrels with the young ability to
man who wrote the subject article. I without a (
only wish that residents would handle in this part
things with a little more common pose in the
sense and a lot less ignorance. There I believe
is a proper way to handle things, and just a sm
measure of yo
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It was a cold Wednesday, and I got back from
school at about 4 p.m. My mother was in the kit- '
chen dumping a bag of lollipops in a glass bowl and '
whistling a happy tune. I came in and put my ]
books on the table, then went over and grabbed a
lollipop out of the bowl.
"Mom," I said, unwrapping the coating. "I
think I'll stay home tonight."
My mother, a fine woman, stopped and looked
at me with a sort of inquisitive twitch to her eye.
She pulled up a chair and sat down next to me.
"Why?" she asked, taking my hand.
"I'm getting too old for that stuff."
"You're sister is going out. She's up there right
now getting her costume together."
Yean, out sne s a kia.
I remember at the time being proud to say that
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ching on the tube as 1 was, my trienas and I saw
that the fumble recovery Hinton made in the second
half was actually his fourth interception of
the evening. N.C. State's receiver never had possession
of the ball, and it bounced around on him Until
it popped into Hinton's hands, without having
touched the ground.
Don't believe what you read in The State ? that
was an interception.
Speaking of big wins, did any of the others
watching the game on ESPN see that HUGE smile
on coach Joe Morrison's face? He's reached the
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portant to the coach because he's got 100 wins.
Way to go, JoMo.
Sources told the guy in The Gamecock that
Morrison was still smiling by the time he held his
conference with the rest of the press inside the
locker room area. He was also seen shaking hands
and patting players on the back. I haven't heard of
Morrison being this happy and ebullient since I saw
his Coca-Cola commercial.
He was REALLY happy in his Coke
commercial.
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because for the first time I felt like I would evenually
become an adult like my mom. 1 knew at that
iioment that everyone, even her, had gone through
:he same thing ? realizing they were growing up. I
also projected in my mind a time when I too would
be sitting next to my child, taking his hand and
bearing him lose some of his innocence. It was an
emotional moment.
"Are you, sure?" she asked, smiling.
"Yes. I think I'm going to watch TV."
My mom started to sniffle, I think. She stood
and hugged me.
"You're growing up too fast for me," she said
quietly in my ear.
She pulled back and our eyes connected in one of
those parent-child emotional locks, we Doth knew
this was one of those epiphanies that life
periodically deals out. She accepted it, though,
probably feeling a little older herself.
"Would you like to hand out the candy?" she
asked.
I thought about it. It would be the first grown-up
thing I ever got to do. I had never considered the
fact that I might someday be the one greeting the
little ballerinas, cowboys and ghosts at the door
and giving them treats from a bowl. I knew they
would be looking at me through the door knowing
I wasn't one of them anymore. They would know I
wasn't a kid.
I started to cry.
I still love to carve pumpkins, though.
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Speaking of which, I wonder if the coach did put
in that play he drew. I guess it was a Coke-rooskie?
It looked good to me.
The guy in The Gamecock is really happy
right now, because he is going to go to his religion
class this morning and just laugh, laugh, laugh,
and when I'm done laughing, I'll laugh some more,
just for the heck of it.
I'm allowed to crow, because I was the only one
in the class to pick the Gamecocks to win by 14 or
more points.
Almost half the class thought we wouldn't win.
The rest thought it would be by 3 to 7 points.
My professor said 10-7, USC.
For Wednesday, we'll have a complete list ?
with addresses and phone numbers ? of the
traitors who picked N.C. State.
But for now, before my religion professor
asks what I knew that he and the rest of the
pollsters and pundits and pickers didn't, I'll say
that I don't look at statistics. I've talked to the
players.
And I knew that Matt McKernan was still angry
about State's victory two years ago. And 1 know
he's honest enough and outspoken enough a player
to get the entire defense ready by himself if he had
to. And I talked to McKernan, Patrick Hinton and
Derrick Frazier after the Georgia Tech game. They
were humiliated and I kind of thought they would
be looking for someone to take out their humiliation
on.
How 'bout that rejuvenated running game?
How 'bout that rejuvenated Harold Green?
Ah, 'tis good to be a Gamecock, 'tisn't it?
d off last 65-line commentary to delineate even
each can- the fundamental issues that should be
plain com- considered when assessing a canwould
find didate to the highest elected office of
[Dukakis to our country. Anyone attempting to
e issues we do so (Yoder, Mullinax, Arant, et al)
when the would be foolishly simplistic in doing
hove, both so and should be encouraged to
c colors. refrain, and any vote influenced by
e fortitude such commentary, as well as the past
) any pro- 12 months of election year rhetoric,
faces, and should not be cast. Ignorance, in
would be fact, is not bliss. If one were to
: American evaluate the records of both the
icans have Republican and Democratic canlobal
reali- didates, the bottom line is that
sense of neither candidate has demonstrated
n light of the strength, creativity, wisdom or
it we elect. diplomacy that will be required of the
, that it is next president of the United States,
capitalist Neither candidate is substantive
those good and both camps are guilty of (to use
ronmental Mr. Yoder's words) "shallow, fact
nut that as twisting ana negative campaigns, a
;hat nasty bipartisan practice indeed, Mr.
will find Yoder. I am anxiously awaiting the
from the day when people will think more and
louths, a speak less,
those once
iberals. Daniel J. Sarlitto
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