Equity Students have no rights because there's no student on the board American revolutionaries cried "taxation without representation" as they fired upon the British and severed the chains England had wrapped around the colonies in the 1770s. They said they were being taxed and controlled by a body of government that neither listened to their rational pleas or recognized their right to have a say in their own lives. Those brave Americans who broke from the ?'?1??*4" /x +U-f V*att rrtrn K/ainiT cxrwr? iiiuuiciiciiiu cuuiu xiul ujhsuic uic lacu uiai uity w^iv^ la, 1115 erned by a body in which they were denied representation. That was the basis of the American Revolution that put this great country on the course it is currently following. They realized that for a population to be truly happy and free they must be involved in the decision-making process that rules their lives. With that in mind, USC students should be rioting on The Horseshoe. They should be carrying arms and demanding a voting student member on the Board of Trustees. Currently the board, which governs the university and specifically how the students will live their lives during their time here, has no such voting member. They have state Legislators, local businessmen, bankers and politicians, but they have no one to speak up for the students ? no one to cast the student vote. The Student Government president is the closest thing students have to a board member, but that position can only lobby and plea for help and understanding. If there were a student member on the board, this whole visitation hub-bub would have been easier to swallow. As it happened, students were excluded from having a voice. They could protest, lobby and speak nicely, but when it came right down to it, the board didn't care what the students thought and changed it anyway under the pressure of Mike Fair. If there had been a voting student on the board, the policy probably would have still been passed, but at least the students would have had, on the record, a say in what happened. As it was and is, the students can only sit outside the doors of the board room with fingers crossed, hoping the members will take into consideration how the students feel. The board, to its credit, usually has the students somewhere in mind when it meets and makes crucial decisions. But, until a member of the student population can be on the same level, have the same chance to vote and be as effective and influential as any member of the board, there is an injustice at The USC. One would think the board would want the students to be involved in the decision-making process so that they could be fairly treated and hold no hostility toward the decision makers. As it is now, the students feel segregated from their rights. Nothing hurts more than to be denied something just because someone says "no." As school children we were told what we could and couldn't do by the principals and teachers. Even if what they decided was unfair to us, we had no say in the matter. It was the most frustrating of all feelings ? a feeling of helplessness and vulnerability. That was supposed to change when we started paying for our education. If we are paying the "taxes," we should have the "representation." " KtAl> Mr LIKS" The Gamecock Editor in Chief Assistant Photography Editor WAYNE WASHINGTON JULIE BOUCHILLON Managing Editor Viewpoint Editor HAL MILLARD JEFF SHREWSBURY Copy Desk Chief Datebook Editor kathy blackwell jan phillips Assistant Copy Desk Chief Coinics/Graphics Editor robyn thompson rob lane News Editor Graduate Assistant kelly c. thomas kristin francis Assistant News Editor Gamecock Adviser jeff wilson erik collins Carolina Life Editor Director of Student Media robert thomas ed bonza Assistant Carolina Life Editor Production Manager lynn gibson > laura s. day Sports Editor Assistant Production Manager chris silvestri ray burgos Assistant Sports Editor Assistant Advertising Manager brant long jeffrey b. thompson Photography Editor teddy lepp Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be, at a maximum, 250 to 1300 words long. The writer should include full name, professional title if an employee with fJSC or Columbia I resident, or year and major if a student. An address and phone number are required with all letters sent. Guest I editorials should not exceed 500 words. We reserve the right to edit letters for style or possible libel. The I Gamecock will not withhold names under any circumstance. J 'Real world' < we are told these are the best times of our mjj^^ lives. We are told to B enjoy our youthful B B freedom and lack of re- ?1 sponsibility. Be young, _ Jp We are told that is different after col- fl is cruel and Amv unsympathetic. * Chuck Dean is a Loomis graduate and former columnist for The Gamecock. He has ventured out into the real world and is working on a magazine for Whittle Communications in Knoxville, Tenn. His definition of what the real world means to him is quite different. 'The real world feels like you've got this big term paper due that you haven't started, and you have to make an A on it or you'll flunk the course. You know you have to go to the library y":V - Letters to the Quote source cVSI of Presley info To the editor: ^0UJ .^ear To Mr. Vincent Sample, whose an I ? letter entitled "Just Humans A Pipe P!?u ,? Dream" appeared in the Oct. 20 , SaTV edition of The Gamecock: Sir, you ?,5' US write, "Elvis Presley said all a God86^ black man can do for him was buy H ff ?lve5 his records and shine his shoes." .e'.en', Evidently, you possess either a . j0/1 large legal defense fund or a small Cod' sense of journalistic ethics to besmear the reputation of one of this we C07ie country's most beloved and re- not a ?.n spected entertainers without the "er' f" support of quotation marks. Mr. have beer Sample, please betray to the press [fceiv^, the source of your attribution to aise 0 Mr. Presley. Paul Dhillon Graduate student Christianity is good news a To the To the editor: I am w Many letters in the Gamecock ter ^ ^ 1...1 t- _ _ a a. n^rvimd tflA iaieiy nave oeen tossing aiuu?ivi u.v- jn ^ idea of religion. Christianity to be Gamecoc, exact. People seem to have mis- As an j labled Christianity as a condemn- cjan^ ing religion, full of bad news. This y0ur' jgnc could not be further from the truth. not rhct0 Christianity is a victorious way of not ^ life that is full of good news. black. I Mr. Dunham presented a small t0 ^ q( part of the book of Romans. The Ludwig ^ first part he left out (Romans sume tjlal 1:29-32) says that all that have conno "unrighteousness, wickedness, origin. T greed, evil; and are full of envy, tjon js t murder, strife, deceit, malice; they know (h; are gossips, slanderers, haters of simply b God, insolent, arrogant, under- cerely \ standing, untrustworthy, unloving, source o unmerciful; those who practice oven ^ such things and those who give ap- From proval to such things are worthy of Qr ^ ^cal^' Edition, Now, Mr. Dunham, most every- Ludwig one will agree that not only are ho- Vienna, mosexuals included in this list, so Compos< is everyone else. This is the bad Solomoi news of mankind. titled Bet If we read farther into the book German of Romans, we find the good in Bonn, news, the second part that was left of Flemi out. Romans 5:8 says, "God de- of Van, monstrates Ivia own love toward us surname. offers similari and do so much research, and you haven't evf started. You feel this forward progression, but you don't know what toward ... like Saturda night TV. "Actually there is not a real world; it can't rigidly defined. It's like when you turn 18 or 21, you don't feel any difference. You don't step out into the real world and say 'this is th< real world.' "But you do change. You become less daring, more worn out. Society fattens you up, ai you lose some of the wildness of youth. It's n that you necessarily become more mature. . . you set all these societal Do's and Don'ts. . . you become boring. "The real world is the same one you were i when you were in college. YOU'RE changing the world is the same. You need to talk aboul the real ME. Don't take everybody's word fo what the real world is. Learn to laugh. If you don't, it will eat you up whole." For those of us about to embark on the gre journey into the real world, Chuck offers sou key points to remember. 1. Be reckless. "I never believed that cn in elementary school when they told us 'you can be whatever you want to be.' But it's tru< 1 ' ? 8 at Beethoven was black the one, wuho lnst scause he was not. I sin- ls* un sPlr vish that I knew your your eyes, you'll f information on Beeth- 1 Christianity ^ as you would liki The New Grove Diction- living experience dusic and Musicians, 6th ^?nS Volume 2: "Beethoven, C,realed ke ent" Van (Baptized 1770, ,? crfat as at d. 1827 Vienna) German to go along jr." According to Maynard Second, true C i's 1977 biography, en- aren't prejudiced. ethoven, the composer was We know very i by birth, for he was born we are and realize Beethoven was, however, position to judge i sh descent, hence the use the difference bet not Von, to proceed his believers is that > There were even rumors ven for our sins b ities to college in You can have fun trying, too. But you can't be slack or lackadaisical. There's going to be 10 y people who aren't, and they will stomp on you to take your place." be 2. Get up early. Get a jump on people. Too much time is lost. Show initiative. 3. Make lists. i 4. Be keen. "Learn to be nice to people you work with and hate. You need to be keen. Know and be aware. Pepsi helps me a lot. I nd think whoever invented it should get an award." lot 5. Make everyone think you're easy even if you're not. 6. Don't eat meat. 7. Buy a good pair of boots. in 8. Believe in yourself. "If you don't be1, lieve in yourself, who will? You are the one in control, not the world. You have to bite the r world before it bites you. If you're true to yourself, you can make it" at When asked if the real world had changed ie him, Chuck said, "I'm the same. I do the same things, but I'm afraid I'm going to lose that ip young wildness." I guess Chuck would say the real world is 2. what we make it.... . t- a ? fi-';>rt| !*y ? <"7 ? r ' *. solute, set moral it makes you angry, even if it : with it. makes you hate us enough to curse hristian believers us? ^ us and nail us t0 a ^ How can we be? somewhere to die. veil how human s that we're in the no onp Hnwpupr Keith Courson ween us ami non- Criminal justice senior ve've been forgi- Jamie Fuller ccause we've ac- Biology sophomore