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A coup Getting C. Everett Koop to USC would be great for university If USC can persuade C. Everett Koop to accept a position at the School of Public Health, that would be one of the biggest coudj vw - M. ~ this university will ever score. Koop, arguably the most influential surgeon general to ever pui on the uniform, retired from his post this past year, and there are rumors he may be wooed to USC. Nobody is saying much, bul there is an undercurrent of optimism. The rumors are getting so strong, they have even made the national news. Right now, no one is sure what's going to happen, but one-thing is sure: if Koop does decide to come here, the whole academic world will be jealous. The Pope, Billy Graham, Jehan Sadat, Lyn Nofzinger, Henry Kissinger ? these were all fantastic for the university for recognition of academics, but these were also basically one-time things. If Koop becomes part of the USC staff, that would be permanent and every student, professor, administrator and staff member can boast around the country that the former surgeon general works on our campus. One would hope negotiations are on-going, but if they are not, they should be. Koop is an historical figure. If USC can get him on staff, it would enhance the 2001 image more than anything else. No parking Empty commuter lot shows 1 ? ?~ . 7^. -4-7 Editor in Chief Assistant Photography Editor WAYNE WASHINGTON JULIE BOUCHILLON Copy Desk Chief Viewpoint Editor KATHY BLACKWELL JEFF SHREWSBURY Assistant Copy Desk Chief Datebook Editor ROBYN THOMPSON JAN PHILLIPS News Editor Comics/Graphics Editor KELLY THOMAS ROBB LANE Assistant News Editors Graduate Assistant D R. HAYNES KRISTIN FRANCIS JEFF WILSON Gamecock Advisor Carolina Life Editors ERIK COLLINS > SUSAN NESBITT Director of Student Media J ROBERT THOMAS ED BONZA Sports Editor Production Manager Jj CHRIS SILVESTRI LAURA S. DAY ? Assistant Sports Editor Assistant Production Manager C BRANT LONG RAY BURGOS i Photography Editor Advertising Manager * TEDDY LEPP MARGARET MICIIELS Assistant Advertising Manager v JEFFREY B. THOMPSON i Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be, at a maximum, 250 to 300 words long. The writer should include full name, professional title if an employee with USC or Columbia ? resident, or year and major if a student. An address and phone number are required with all letters sent. Guest editorials should not exceed 500 words. We reserve the right to edit letters for style or possible libel. The Gamecock will not withhold names under any circumstance. riu ntta jur juuuuy mere A quick drive by the commuter parking lot at the corner of Pickens and Pendleton streets this week will fully illustrate why half that lot should have never been taken away from the students. Before this year, the lot was reserved for commuter students only. But this summer, while the students were away making money to pay their tuition, the powers that be decided the faculty didn't have enough parking and the commuter lot would fill the need nicely. They decided to take the entire lot away from students, but they didn't quite accomplish that. S.G. President Marie-Louise Ramsdale fought to get back half the lot as a compromise. Half for students, half for faculty ? that's fair, f But, if you drove by the lot Monday or Tuesday the half that was supposed to be filled by the overcrowded faculty was virtually barren. Some 59 spaces were left open around 11 a.m. The students' half was packed to capacity. Either the faculty decided not to come to work during the first days of classes, or there was never a need for that additional space. Guess which one it is. There is a travesty afoot. If the lot remains empty for the rest of the week, that would prove there is no need for additional faculty parking. And if there in *frv M fit ^ ntii/lantfi /*nr? Olira llOA fViii n**n /*/% 15 11VJ I1CCU 1UI U1G XdtUUJ't lll(/ SIUUWIU vull auiv U3V/ UK/ spate so give it back. Students can sympathize with the needs of the faculty in most cases, but when a student has been driving around the block for an hour looking for a place to park and sees the same spot he parked in last year left open, the sympathy level starts to decline rapidly. There is little enough parking near classroom buildings for students as it is now without this blatant non-use of space. The faculty obviously has enough room, or they aren't working this week. Either way, something is wrong. i0p*"- | The Gamecock Best Non-daily Collegiate Newspaper, Southeastern Region Cn^ioin nf Prnfessinnnl Inurnnliclc IQ87.8B Here's what t I want to give Mike Fair a present. I do. But what can you give a guy who may not have everything > ) and probably doesn't ^ want everything? * > He certainly doesn't want sex, drugs and f T rock 'n' roll ? so, I can't send him a Roll- gf > ing Stones tape. Or the other things, but that's all right, be- Stephen cause I can't figure Guilfoyle how to wrap 'em. 1???^? But I do have the perfect gift for someone who comes up with such bone-headed ideas such as restricting visitation and banning anyone under 18 from concerts and plays. A list of ideas just as stupid. ? How about keeping people 80 years or older out of football games and other sporting events? They have fragile hearts and one exciting Todd Ellis pass play might give them a heart attack. This would avoid USC being held liable for lawsuits. ? Tractor pulls should not be allowed in Williams-Brice Stadium, but a new sport, manure spreader pushes, should be tried. This Guest Editorial Campus acc Due to the new stricter regulations USC is imposing, Carolina Coliseum will no longer allow physical access to human beings! This is not true, at least not entirely. But what it it was/ What price would the average student pay for the right to be able to get from the outside to the inside of the coliseum during concert nights or basketball games? What price would the average student pay to take a girlfriend or boyfriend to a favorite re, staurant in the Columbia area and be able to get through the front door without help? (In some cases, getting through the front door is impossible even WITH help.) What price would the average student pay to be able to get into a classroom when he/she can't open the door and it's pouring down rain? What price would the average student pay to be able to meet some friends at a favorite Five Points pub by himself/herself? The entitlement of having physical accessibility for ALL people to ALL buildings is by no means a luxury; instead, accessibility is a necessity. How many GINT or history majors have used the HSS computer lab in Gambrell Hall after regular class-time hours when the campus is desolate? I can personally guarantee you'll wait Letters to the e m Writer should i i a n a tion this look at facts were you < your "ther To the editor: this is w\ As you are editor-in-chief of with it. Tliii /~1 ? r% r\ *\ r* lr T nh/\n1/l avma/%4 X fit UUmCLt/CA,, X 51IUUIU you to be much more careful in As for y your editorials. I suppose you were istance of having too much fun running amok not surpris with your "2001" idea to check Being one your facts before printing that de- greatest fil lightful editorial in Monday's escaped yc edition. would glac The title ot "the theme to 2001" ciated wit IpOTg^J JgM ' f? o give Mike F would show that USC is a university on the cu ting edge. ? USC should stop playing the "2001" theme ? also known as "Also Sprach Zaruthrustra" ? because, in the first scene of 2001 ?A Space Odyssey, there is a naked ape, which might promote thoughts of bestiality and lascivious behavior. ? We should kick all these international students back to where they came from. This is America, you know. ? We should kick all these non-South Carolinians out of the university. This is the University of South Carolina, dam it. ? USC should apologize to Moral Majority foi installing condoms in cigarette machines on campus a few years back. ? Barbed wire fences should be put around th< women's quad and Patterson and South Tower, as well as Capstone. A Delta Force Strike team should be sent into Columbia Hall, NADA and Bates West, the coed apartment areas on campus, to rescue the female students from the hordes of ultra-hormonal males roving the halls with vicious leers on their faces and awful thoughts in their minds. ? A memorial should be placed in the Roost tc replace that silly, stupid Heisman Memorial for George Rogers. The new one should commemorate Mike Fair's prestigious football career with the San Diego Chargers, which lasted a whole week, I think. ? The USC Bookstore should stop selling sucl essibility on-j a good long time to get in if you can't open th door yourself. Many students take for grante that they can simply open the heavy steel door at Gambrell and other buildings and walk in. t good many USC students don't share tha privilege. In addition, accessibility is the law (S.C. Bil of Rights for the Handicapped and the S.C Barrier-Free Design Code) ? obviously am unfortunately, not a very well-enforced law. Al public buildings (e.g. university classroon buildings) must be made physically accessibli to students who are able-bodied, as well a those with disabilities. Heavy steel doors are \ direct violation of that law because they preven access to a good many students witl disabilities. More importantly, basic physical access t< buildings is a human right. Why, when issues o accessibility have been addressed for the pas several years at this university (Students for Ac cessibility 1986,1987; Aware 1988), has th< university continued to build buildings, such a: Swearingen Engineering, without electric doors? I feel it is also important to thank all of th campus travelers (both past and present) wh have opened and held a door for someone wh ditor 11linn in r h i i i iii n11in 11 t i mm nm , dso Sprach Zarathustra" movie," especially o . Not once did you men- 2001. I suggest you fact in your article, or you place judgment ( oblivious to the fact that ne" had a title? Maybe YOU want to rour ly you "had problems" 2000? For your futur< 2001 is the first ye* centurv. It svmboliz our ignorance of the ex- the advancements 2001 the movie, I am through technologic; ed you never heard of it the opening of the j of Stanley Kubrick's developing knowled ms, it easily could have ing Arthur C. Clarke >ur notice. As for me, I have time in your fc lly have my school asso- You might learn som h "the name of an old Finally, the people air for a gift t- perverse tomes as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The American Heritage Dictionary. Get them off the shelves, or we'll have to burn them. ? USC President James Holderman should be fired because he looks like PTL founder James Bakker, and some people may think the university promotes having sex in hotels with drugged secretaries who will eventually get breast enlargements, and ? correct me if I'm wrong ? I don't think the university does. ? USC should have a year-long celebration, much like the Ecumenical Year of the Arts, celebrating people who think like Mike Fair ? r "USC, The Year of Intolerance," which will include speeches by noted intolerants: Sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina, who still thinks the 5 Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is a communist; the Rev. Ian Paisley, the renowned bigot from Northern Ireland who thinks the gentlest man in the universe, Pope John Paul II, is the Antichrist; and the Rev. Jerry Falwell. He can visit USC for two days ? as a kind of culmination, like the pope and Robbie Benson in the aforementioned years ? to lecture on topics as diverse as why bookburning isn't censorship; why > Batman and other superheroes are demoninspired works of sin; and why Ollie North is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and George Washington. Yeah, these ideas are really silly. But in my mind, thev am no mnm ctimiH or ciii? than om; , j ?- ?w ??v>aw Ljvupiu vr* onij uian anj i of the others Mike has thought up himself. ?oing problem e was unable to do so herself or himself. Without d your help, a good many students couldn't do s the things students do ? attend "Classes, register, partake of social events, etc. it The cost of accessibility is forethought and time spent consulting with people who under11 stand accessibility. When these conditions !. aren't met, then the cost of accessibility bei comes dollars spent in order to correct mistakes. I These mistakes may have been made as a result i of ignorance, but (for the reasons cited above) e ignorance is no excuse. s Finally, accessibility harms no one. Does a a wheelchair ramp get in the way of someone t walking? Does a 36-inch door on a bathroom i make it harder to get in? Would electric doors on every classroom building at the university in 3 any way impair a student's ability to have acf cess to those buildings? t What price should the university pay to make its buildings accessible to everyone? & 5 ; Kevin W. Williams Political Science Sophomore e o Glen K. Adams o Management Graduate : \ . ' Si IB ne as great as vatory who play loud music are see it before not astrologers; they are astronom>n it. ers. There is a great difference between the two, and I would hope id oil ZUUl to you would know which is which. 5 use, the year ir of the 21st If you plan to pursue a career in es the future, anything even remotely journalisof mankind tic, you will find that accuracy is al means and quite important I suggest you look mind through a little closer at your subject bege. Try read- fore your next editorial. 's 2001 if you >usy schedule. ething. James Stewart Washick ; in the obser- English junior