Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Thanks Interim president makes progress, charts right course for university USC's acceptance of the Southeastern Conference invitati marks a new beginning for the university. The SEC has be hailed as one of the finest all-sports conferences in the country. Athletic Director King Dixon said Tuesday night that US( acceptence in the SEC charts a course of excellence for I nnivp.ixitv "It's a great time to be a Gamecock as we aggressively pun the goals of 2001, our 200th birthday, to rank consistently amc the top 10 with our 15 varsity sports. This new relationship v bring out the best in all of us," Dixon said. Although many people are responsible for USC receiving 1 invitation to join the conference, much 6f the credit goes to USC interim president Arthur Smith. USC Board of Trustees Chairman Michael Mungo singled c Smith for accolades at the announcement at William-Bri Stadium. "We owe him (Smith) a great debt. On behalf of the board trustees, I'd like to thank him for that," Mungo said. Not only was Smith's handling of the SEC decision exception he also handled the President's Scholarship well. Even though, 1 daughter received one of the scholarships from former USC Pre: dent James Holderman, Smith discontinued the scholarship pro ram and encouraged the students to release their names to t public. Much press attention has been given to Smith since he becan interim president. His personal and professional life has be* under close scrutiny, but he has been able to withstand the pre sures of being interim president. Although he has been labeled the front runner in the race to 1 tv,a Tien :a?? ? i i ? J *- ' uiv^ iit/W u JV-- piCMUCill; IIU UCC1MUI1 IlilS DCCI1 IT13.Q0. IjVCII IX J does not receive the position, no one could have asked more of ; interim president. VWE'RE THE ONLY SUPERPOWER AROUND/' P"' l-#, <vmo irtu>vii PD!T-VISPAT> The Gamecock * News: 777-7726 Advertising: 777-4245 Jeff Wilson Sharon Willamson Editor in Chief Managing Editor /Copy Desk Chiej Lynn Gibson Elizabeth Lynch News Editor Carolina Life Editor Dougaube Renee Meyer Sports Editor Photography Editor KELLY U. 1 HUMAS Viewpoints Editor Elizabeth Fox Sherri tillmain Assistant News Editor Assistant News Editoi David Bowden Kathy Heberger Assistant Carolina Life Editor Assistant Carolina Life Editoi Brant Long Julie BoucmLLors Assistant Sports Editor Assistant Photography Editoi Sara Verne Octavia Wright Assistant Copy Desk Chief Assistant to the Editon Kristin Francis Erik Collins Graduate Assistant Faculty Adviser Ed bonza Laura S. Day Director of Student Media Production Manager Ray Burgos renee Gibson Assistant Production Manager Advertising Manager Kyle Berry Carolyn Griffin Assistant Advertising Manager Business Manager Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters shoulo be, at maximum, 250 to 300 words long. The writer must include full name, professional title if a USC employee or South Carolina resident, or year and major il a student. An address and phone number are required with all letters sent. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit letters for style, possible libel or in case ol space limitations. The newspaper will not withhold names under any circumstance. I U.S. educatio tie 111 Author Kurt Vonnegut spoke Tuesday night at the Koger Center and brought up a number of interesting points about the past, present and fua. _r a * ? lure 01 /unerica. One point he stressed was his concern that American's do not read enough, if they can read at all. * A similar thought has been lounging around ^ my mind about reading, concerning both learnill! ing and reading in the college setting. What has been on my mind is how little I read just for me anymore. From the time I learned to read until I graduated from high fjf: school, I read an average of one book a week outside of what I had to do for school. Now I'm U lucky if I get around to reading my assignments for class, much less reading books for pleasure. I've also had the feeling I am not really learning along the lines of actual knowledge here at USC. What I am learning is how to get things done without any mental effort on my part. I no lon^ ger sit back and mull over assignments or do H any extra research on a subject when something El interests me. I merely churn out however many * pages a professor requires of me, turn it in and r then churn out the next load. The problem could be easily solved if I quit eating, working and taking the occassional moment to relax. But since I don't want to end up in psychotherapy (though the way things are going I still just might) I give these things an I?. hour or two a day. 11 letters to the f Newspaper is k disappointing Sri1 few years b To the editor: Even mc The heading under the title of these same - The Gamecock reads "Eighty-two mentalists, years of Collegiate Journalism," death of a ^ but perhaps it should read "imma- cerned aboi ture journalism." It disappoints me of their owi to see the accounts of the news tion. Who i manipulated to serve the liberal es- is more woi tablishment's purposes. 1 ^ The issue on September 19 is i typical. The first item that caught Th my eye was the word "censor," in the headline of an article condemn- l r ing the "censorship" of a poster displaying frontal nudity in a public place. Although the evils dUUlI associated with pornography are i'T . .. well-documented, this is by no j means censorship unless you ~ iq l t mindlessly believe what the ACLU . ii iu i (Hunters an tells you the law is. J.. p . . ' Another headline reads "Military , I , , , ? ~ L made some school accepts women. Doesn t . . that sound like a military school ,ons d u decided to admit women on the c ^!n t , ? . . . First Mi< previous aay.' i ve neara 01 stale "a ' news, but this school has been ad- c^. TCFy < mitting women for seventeen years 1S " now. Let's be serious. There's no ?J" sojTie' 1 news here. Just the liberals trying ar^ * to make us think they are making ,ua e slu ^ & than stereot' progress. f . v Finally, Ms. Frisch's letter to the 0 PC0P c- t editor is typical of the social views s^e 1 a of this newspaper. I was pleasantly 0 atcs a &arr shocked when I saw the editorial gct inl by Dennis Shealy looking at hun- su^cv was ters in a reasonable fashion, so it co cgc s came as no surprise that the lib- Pcrccnl ot eral, knee-jerk response wasn't dv!' ' long in coming. I don't know M. Frisch or her political views. This . 1SS . ,nsc f is not meant to be an attack on her !.s an 1 01 ' or her letter but rather the typical ulLirc- irs liberal mindset. I noticed that Frisch condemned hunting but is f , ? a herself a meateater. That doesn't browse wit! n lacks challen ^ 0 <# \ ~~W f : Dennis Shealy > y'\ ? WM \ x / I 1 To a large degree, I attribute this to the world which seems to be continually increasing in < speed. The improvements that were designed to < give people more leisure have in turn caused 1 people to be expected to generate more. t Take, for example, the microwave. This in- i vention has taken away the aesthetic pleasure of { preparing a meal and enjoying it with family < and friends. If you can get a hot meal in two minutes, you can get back to whatever business c you were up to before. Aesthetics are c secondary. c It is this mind set that is pushing Americans to just do it rather than do it well. 1 Many students graduate from high school not 1 knowing how to read. The reason usually r sighted for this is teachers allow the students to pass to the next grade year after year so they r won't have to deal with them anymore. More of d the quantity-not-quality attitude which developed with the information boom. ti Vonnegut said he thought schools should go v back to having no more than 18 students in q each class. Small groups can learn much more than large groups. Personally speaking, I know b : EDITOR Df)P,s eat 19 To it tv.:.. ...u t_:n. ifc niia 1a wiicii iuuumuc kiu: ine to raise a calf in a very predominant, disease eet wide or to let the vation set in and every free in the wild for a fields will be chewed to efore it's killed? . Our state is already overp >re inconsistent is that in some areas, and ever tree-hugging environ- there are many hunters, so worried about the regularly receive permi mimals, are not con- shoot deer at night This is it the death of millions the wildlife department kn n species through abor- population control is critici is more innocent? Who The next thing that wo thy of life? pen is the depletion of Robert D. Moseley, Jr. Clear-cutting kills more g* third-year law student hunters ever could, even ' Citadel Class of 1988 were allowed to hunt yea _ Habitat loss would con P0?|| f building such things as r< centers and facilities to ; tVllinfiriQ (*ate milh?ns of huntc ing for other hobbies. Hat ir would come from fields cl< r is in response to the livestock to be penned up ter by Catherine Frisch slaughtered in the future. 5 Murderers). It seems Some people would d< i has narrow-mindedly suffer if hunting was ab i Mono rv>r\n1o Honan/1 /\n #-1 siaicinenis ana accusa- wh u hunters that should be son 'n the freezer to help c ight now. on the food bill. Other peoj is Frisch said that hun- their land to provide sup ishonest, heartless* and income, and some make a 1 ortunately, this is true j?h out of hunting, it it is also true for any Furthermore, Miss Frisc jroup of people. A gra- on to say that hunters are nt should know better ers that call animals "mar yping such a vast array resources, and that hunters diss Frisch then boldly truly love nature. Well, r 'one in five hunters vi- able resources were the oi le law." Where did you correct words in those stat formation? I bet if a ine reason nunters call it" given to a group of in& resources" is quite frar dents that at least 20 cause hunters ARE the peoj them have violated a do the managing. A classic pie is the wild turkey, wh g were abolished like than 25 years ago, was would like, then here verSe of extinction. Thanks f what would lie in the door sportsman, wild turk t, and probably most the greatest comeback sue overpopulation. Deer history, with record n r eat all the available "i almost every state, e forced to consume Miss Ffisch doesn't real; i very little nutrition, the vast majority of all wil jj ? %"#aSa'*^F V flr\ iges, funding I learn a lot less in an auditorium filled witl 200 people than I do in a class with 20 to 2i people. It's a little different for college students. We are old enough to decide whether or not we want to study, but students in kindergarter through high school need much more attentior than large classes give them. Education is the most valuable gift a person :an receive, but the government says they jusl lon't have the money for that sort of nonsense, Nonsense? Troops in the Middle East, nucleai weapons, billion-dollar spy planes (that don'i work), government cheese and Dan Quayle's iay check are apparently better things to spend 3UR money on. And if Dan Quayle's college record isn't snough to show the government where the tax lollars need to be spent, I don't know what loes. i ne euucauonai process neeas 10 oe cnangea. reachers and professors need to stress actual earning rather than churning out work and naking a grade. More money needs to go to education so nore and better teachers can be hired and stulents can have the materials they need to learn. And most of all, people need to take the time 0 read a good book, just for themselves, whether they consider a good book to be Harleuin Romance or Dostoyevsky. Take time to learn, folks. It's the only thing esides love that truly makes life richer. - - > become being funded through hunters. For and star- every piece of hunting and fishing farmer's equipment sold, there is a federal the root tax fund that raises money solely populated for the purpose of wildlife. State 1 though license fees also go directly to a farmers wildlife fund; and through this ssion to type of funding, even species like ; because the bald eagle were helped and ows that saved. Do you really think Conil. gress will fund money to save a uld hap- frog vs. building a nufsing home? habitat. No way. ime than Lastly, Miss Frisch's data and if they arguments were invalid and onej round, sided, and I suggest that she sticks If. frnm with art P.Hnration Mice Priooh screation please let the hunters handle the accomo- wildlife because it would not be srs look- there if it were not for us. )itat loss Edward Taylor jared for business administration senior > in and !finiteIy Smith excels in new role ;ut back )le lease __ , ?iamflnl I am writing in regards to the ^lUUVIU TT U ? ull-time University of South Carolina's acceptance of the Southeastern Con;h went ference's invitation. This is a mamurder j?r steP f?r ^e university, and Arlageable thur Smith has done a wonderful 5 do not J?h as interim president. Although nanage- some may have been skeptical of nly two the university holding any stable ements leadership while the search for a 'manag- permanent president continues, Arjjy thur Smith has shown such stabilple who tty. It is not every day that the : exam- school gets an invitation such as ich less the one ^rom lhe SEC, and it is on the 8??d 10 see the University of to out- South Carolina make the headlines eys are nationwide papers with some cess in S00(* publicity after such a rocky lumbers summer. Congratulations to Arthur Smith and Sparky Woods. ize that E,,en Sco88in js public relations junior