The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, April 22, 1991, Graduation Issue, Page 6, Image 12
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By SCOTT PRUDEN
Staff Writer
Graduation, my friends, is not to
be taken lightly. I'll be the first to
tell you that.
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and notorious university for five
glorious years, I've been looking
forward to graduation for a long
time. And there have been many
obstacles, both of mine and the
school's making, that appeared in
my already rocky and potholed
path.
But then again, here at the end,
I'm one of the lucky ones. I man
aged to get a job right after I leave
school and in my chosen profesmamm
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many news-ed journalism majors
are out there floating around
checking out the classifieds for
jobs at Burger King.
And getting that job involved
traveling around the state during
spring break (a time when I should
have been participating in some
form of youthful hedonism) show
ing up at newspapers looking desperate
and hungry and pleading for
employment.
It's not as easy as just sending
out a resume and waiting for the
publisher to call you and say, "My
God, Pruden! You're exactly the
man we've been looking for to fill
that editor in chief position we
have open. When can you start?"
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your family sitting around glowing
and wondering how much they can
rent your room for now that you're
permanently gone, and the speaker
begins to prattle on about what
kind of fabulous contributions you
can make to this changing world
of ours, please keep in mind the
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one and only certainty of postcollegiate
life.
Debt.
You don't just have it, you wallow
in it. It's around every corner,
lurking beneath manhole covers
like fiscal ninja turtles, waiting to
bop you on the head with monetary
nunchucks when you think everything
is going smoothly.
Large fellows named Guido
wearing tight-fitting pin striped
suits will show up at your door requesting
everything from a defaulted
student loan to 25 cents for
that milk the cafeteria lady spotted
vou for in fourth erade. offering a
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variety of choices of broken limbs
if you can't produce either one.
Ah, but then I suppose I should
also be driveling along about all
the university has done for me and
all the good friends I'll be leaving
behind.
Well, I will be leaving behind
many good friends, many who
spend entirely too much time up
here on this God-forsaken media
hall. But then who am I to talk.
Having once been editor in chief
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paper." v
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umn about Debbie and Tamla, the g
two co-goddesses of Gamecock 1*
advertising, I m going to tell them D
now that alas, we shall never fulfill s
our requited love, but they made "
hanging out in the ad office a lot ^
more fun.
I'll also miss living with the ^
quiet, brooding and stunningly at- a
ractive (just kidding) Student Gov- b
ernment president, Manish Shri- ^
vastiva. And since he's forgoing a b
future in post-collegiate politics for
med school, I'd like to be his one n
and only unauthorized biographer, bi
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night doing God knows what and
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There. I said it. Angry letters
and death threats can be addressed ~~
to Cool Davy B. on the Viewpoint
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age.
There are other elements of col5ge
life that I'm sure I'll miss,
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voozy and blurry-eyed at 2 a.m.
wasn't as much a part of my life
ere as it has been for others, but
;osh, it was just so . . . college,
lot that I'll particularly miss it,
ut that will be something that I'm
ure will put my five years here
lto perspective every time I recall
tern.
I will not miss the coliseum,
lopefully, no coincidental acts of
rson will occur alter l write this,
ut as an educational building,
'ell, the place just ought to be
urned down.
Best wishes to you sucker freshlen
who got told, "Sure, we'll
ave the new journalism building
p in two years." They told me the
ime thing in 1986. So what am I
oing now? Rotting away under
uorescent lights down in the winawless
catacombs they call the
ollege of Journalism. Maybe
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