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Now what
Mike Fair's newest
against very idea oj
Mike Fair has begun yet another alan
form his puritanical views into policy foi
belongs to nor understands.
Rep. Fair, who screamed so loud last ;
to I JSCs visitation nractices that the or
were drowned out and forgotten, has mac
Board of Trustees that public events at U
plays having "objectionable material" in t
sons 18 and older.
He defines "objectionable" in his prop
that displays any reference to sex, inces
sex organs and excretory functions of the
He raised the issue after there was tall
could still get a concert date at Williamsin
the future. He says shows like the St
adults (18 and older) if they are going ti
cause of the "obscene language" in some i
But his proposal goes farther than
rock'n'roll.
If his proposal were to become policy,
peare, Greek dramas and most modem ph
restricted as well ? thus robbing young
residents from the benefits of a classical e
Education and exchange of ideas at
concept.
Fair's proposal is currently being studi
tee's subcommittee.
Hopefully, it will die there.
Fair has been getting lots of press for
proposals for USC students, who have r
Board to object.
Possibly the reason he makes so much
reading his name in the papers ? even
hair-brained ideas.
He got the visitation changes into p<
should not become policy.
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n is aosoiuieiy ingnienmg rnai peupie
decide what some people can and cannot s
If he wants to avoid plays and concert
stay home, fine. But for him to get his nz
official policy ? especially when those
thing an institution of higher educatic
abomination.
Kill the proposal.
Just because someone is not 18, they si
benefit from a university's presentation of
Nice job
Ramsdale's adminis,
stepping up security
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The darkness of the evening closes ove
your car in Blossom Street Parking Garage
As you lock your door and head for the
in the distance coming toward you.
You hear yourself breathing harder, ar
faster ? the steps getting louder and loude
Suddenly, a man appears before you at t
silhouette is ominous in the dark.
But then a flashlight shines in your lace.
It's a security guard. You're safe.
Blossom Street Garage now has 24-houi
to a cooperative effort between Student
Marie-Louise Ramsdale, Student Govern
and university officials.
The garage will now only have one en
one entrance and exit for people and nigl
limited-access places, criminals can not S'
without attracting attention. It won't be a c
It's these types of steps up in security
campus, especially since it is in the midst (
measures send messages to criminals that I
Blossom garage security, call boxes and
pus are all needed and are all being pi
cooperative effort and Ramsdale's adminisl
Pats on the backs for everybody.
Keep it up.
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yhat he is doine and
he political stumbles
ie is making.
The planning and scheming he does to quiet
nformation about USC's workings that he
[links the world doesn't need to know usually
list end up exploding egg on his face.
When something arises that he thinks might
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d? Well, the band VVayne
net0?2TOl?ls Washington
^ed over the stall
loudspeakers.
tut while the team explodes onto the field
the goosebumps rise on our arms, we never
ourselves, "Why *2001'?" I mean, this
01" business has become big business. In
region, "2001" has become synonymous
iU SC.
lie problem isn't that I dislike the music or
n the movie. I just wonder, why "2001?"
'm told that "2001" was a movie. Well, why
I't USC pick the theme song to Star Trek or
Big Chilli Maybe my life is just empty or
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ix my election last March, I satisfied wil
it the first six weeks of my te- board meetii
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lly restrictive version that was privileges,
lly adopted. Although I was
quivocally in support of the exlg
visitation policy, I realized
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i really politic;
be detrimental to his image, he spends his time
trying to cover it up. The only thing this accomplishes
is making people want to krow
more, raster.
Take for example USC's problems in court
with its foundations.
The foundations are private fund-holding institutions
that deal with all the money USC receives
and spends. They were developed so
USC wouldn't have to tell the public where the
money it gets goes to. Every university basi- .
cally has one, but not every university refuses
so adamantly to divulge how it works. ,
This past June, a South Carolina court ruled
on a lawsuit that any foundation, however private,
if it serves a public university, is subject
to the Freedom of Information Act and must '
honor requests for information.
Holderman and the other USC big wigs have
been trying to fight this for a couple of years
now. They tried everything they could to keep
the public in the dark about what they are doing
with the money.
They lost again in court. But they lost even
more in the eye of the public.
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something, but I have problems with "2001." i
Take the number ? 2001. Didn't the people t
who named the movie know that big numbers i
like that should be rounded off? It really should (
be "2000." I'm sure some math teachers somewhere
are hanging their heads. 1
The movie itself is problematic. If I had to c
ask whether or not "2001" was a movie, then it f
couldn't have been made recently. And who i
wants their school to be synonymous with the
name of an old movie? i
We're supposed to be moving toward 1
academic excellence here at USC. By the year 1
2001, USC is supposed to be the Harvard of the r
South. And we're moving in that direction.
Pretty soon, 2001 is going to be the price of t
tuition alone. s
But you know, there are some good things
that could happen on the way to 2001. By then,
the Gamecocks might have won their first bowl t
game . . . NAH! c
By the year 2001, people might get just as f
upset reading about high school and college 1
dropout statistics as they do about drug abuse
statistics. And maybe people from this state will
realize by then that the confederate flag (con- 1
federate is deliberately lowercased here) is the d
symbol of a shameful past best forgotten. c
And what about this The USC stuff? Person- F
ally, I like the change, but that's only because it
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To the editor: <
es being a student The South Carolina >.
poking out for the best Rights Coalition is an org:
students forces you to of couege students concern
;otiated position rather rights of adult college
everything. It was not group was founded a
cision for me or the Spring of 1989.
the Campus Ecology The SCSRC organize
to make, but it was a group in response to P
ecision if we were to changes in the visitation
vernight visitation pn- The organization consists
fall at all. No, I am not dents, faculty and t e
th the outcome of the puhiic. Our goal is an acu
-ia and visitation is not m ^ concerns 0f students,
issue for S.G. As we The changes in visita o
address the tonic, we -
? i?' make it a violation ot ruie:
support- Together, we tQ stTict punishment to t
tat visitation is a com- guests of ^ opposite sex
ivolving our rights ana m^0ry housing after a set
The visitation curfew is n
arie-Louise Ramsdale feet for married studen
S.G. President and greek organizati
ally savvy?
If Holderman would have just released the
information when it was first asked for, he
would have diffused the time bomb that was
sure to blow up sooner or later.
He still would have had people raising eyebrows
at him, but the furor would have died
down faster than after he drew out the fight in
court ? letting people anticipate and hunger for
the information.
It was just a misjudgment on Holderman's
part He could have saved some face by releasing
at the first, but he figured he could win and
ft at just caused more embarrassment.
It was similar to the Jehan Sadat affair that
came out in 1986. If Holderman had just released
all that information about her salary and
Lhe gifts he gave right at the first, there would
have been outrage, but not as mucfi as when he
looks like he's hiding things.
For someone who is suppDsed to be the cutting
edge of administrators in the state, sometimes
he doesn't think ahead.
And when he loses, USC loses.
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oi coniusion
hymes. Still, it's pretty stupid. We're saying
bat we are 'The USC,' but who changed their
tame? Why didn't the people at the University
)f Southern California change theirs?
Jehan Sadat might come back and get tenure
>y the year 2001. The general public might also
lemand that we no longer allow people with
"unny nicknames like Sparky or King to run our
ithletic department.
Another lunar eclipse wbuld have come and
jone, and we might know why there is always
oud music coming from the observatory near
Davis College. Could astrology 101 be that
nuch fun?
Oh yeah, the parking problem will be solved
)y then. No one will drive on campus. Parking
spaces will cost around $200.01.
It seems like 2001 is a long way off. But
hink about it. This is the last semester of the
lecade. (Yes, those of you who enrolled as
reshmen at the beginning of the decade should
lave already graduated).
This decade-ending semester is also supposed
o be my last here at USC. And what have I
lone to ensure that I graduate on time? I've beome
editor-in-chief of The Gamecock, kept a
>art-time job and registered for 13 hours.
I might still be here in the year 2001.
^in housing. We hold this to be discrivJil.
minatory on its face.
I Students were given only a limln
ited voice in the decision to
change the policy. The choice was
Itudentc fbis Policy or no policy. When petmiTat
itions were Presented in excess of
vrt uaH 2'500 Persons aSainst the proposed
studontQ visitation poUcy to the USC Board
USC in of Trustees' we were 'gHorodThe
due process clause of the
>d as a 14th amendment to the U.S. Conroposed
stitution forbids arbitrary deprivapolicy.
tions of liberty. This amendment
of stu- also guarantees eaual protection
general under the law. As students, we do
ve voice not shed our constitutional rights at
the schoolhouse gates. As students
n would and adults, we were preparing to
5 subject lead this country into the next cenmtertain
tury and therefore are entitled to
in dor- all the rights and freedoms of the
curfew, common citizens,
ot in efhousing
Laurie Kay Snelson
student English junior
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