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use Despite criticism, S. Carolina still a good university to attend ?~\ ! J a _ i * .4 .1 wur ex-presiueni was a oanau, pervens roam me norary ana tr Gamecocks have never won a bowl game. So what? USC is still great place to go to school. The constant discovery of controvers makes one forget that USC is very good scholastically, culturall and, of course, socially. USC has nationally respected programs in international bus ness, international studies, journalism and engineering. We hav distinguished faculty at the cutting edge of their fields, professoi that advise the federal government. Columbia is not tne cultural mecca oi the universe, but we ai hardly devoid of entertainment at USC. It seems like hardly week goes by without a new play, musical, dance troupe, guej speaker or comedian coming to town, not to mention the dozens c movie screens within access to USC students. Despite the administrative crackdown on fun at the dorms, pai tying still has a constructive place on campus. When will the ad ministration realize that alcohol is not a dirty word? What is goo is that USC no longer has the embarrassing reputation as nothin but a party school. As for sports, USC obviously has enough to offer to be ac cepted by the Southeastern Conference. True, football and baskel i 11 i J 1 - -i - < * - an can oe improved, dui uiai is no reason 10 Diast a university c higher education. USC has a beautiful campus, and intelligent students. Anybod who says different has obviously not been on campus for mor than 30 seconds. This is not meant to be pro-USC propaganda, but a realisti look at a much maligned institution. It is all the more amazing ths some USC students have nothing positive to say; after all, the stu dents more than anyone can make it a better place. "WHAT ABOUT THE SHOPPING MAU. AMP THE 6AMBLIM6 CASINO?" snrivMrw'ri News: 777-7726 Advertising: 777-4249 Kathy Blackwell Robyn Thompson Editor in Chief Managing Editor Chris Silvestri David bowden Copy Desk Chief Viewpoint Editor Lucy Soto Kathy Heberger News Editor Carolina Life Editor Steve Johnson Renee Meyer Sports Editor Photography Editor Aaron Sheinin Tige Watts Assistant News Editor Assistant News Editor Oct a via Wright Patrick Villegas Assistant Carolina Life Editor Assistant Sports Editor jennifer jablonski julie bouchillon Assistant Copy Desk Chief Assistant Photography Editor Eric Glenn Wayne Williams Darkroom Lab Technician Comics Editor Ed Bonza Erik Collins Director of Student Media . Faculty Adviser Laura S. Day Ray Burgos Production Manager Assistant Production Manager Renee Gibson * Kyle Berry Advertising Manager Assistant Advertising Manager Carolyn Griffin Business Manager Letters Policy: The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should 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 if 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 of space limitations. The newspaper will not withhold names under any circumstance. y WM I ^, J ^ wEdmjgaffil vl ^Bjf | VZK^K|K|ral9 s USC bureauc 1It's the end of the semester, so if you can stand one more "end of the year ramblings," f then read on. If not, you're probably from New Jersey anyway. University gripes I could talk about this category forever. After comemng wiui ouier memners 01 tne paper, I * have decided that we must belong to the most corrupt university in history. It's disgusting what goes on here. But to tell the truth, I can't blame the crooks. They must know that nothing will ever happen, as far as the students are concerned. With the exception of a few, I can't believe that no protests, house burnings or at least more hate mail have been generated by student outrage. Maybe it's as much my fault as anyone else's. I've written about it and tried to inspire some response, but my efforts have been ignored. Sure, people have bitched and moaned a little, but what has actually happened. If I thought no one would care, I'd go to Hawaii on university money also. ^ I still think people like Holderman should 1 have to come back to USC and live like the av? erage student. Not the ultra-hip students with the BMWs, but the average student trying to ^ make it to the next check from the 'rents.' I'd like to see Holderman try to deal with the r "silverware, lariv" in frranrl rw trv t to sneak by with a tea refill without getting harassed. Maybe he should even try to do the simple arithmetic in his head while in line to see whether or not he is going to go over the nominal limit on his meal card. Just remember, Jim, j steak fries are 85 cents, and water is only 10, LETTERS TO T1 -n Athletes don't \ a a say athletes < I get respect They do. feel pity. I To the editor: Su0U k Pa I just finished reading Miss ^ut Whitlock's April 22 letter to the !ctes "ave 11 editor. I'm having a hard time de- j?^s because ciding whether or not Miss Whit- . There are lock is just dumb or misinformed, vision I athlc I'll choose the latter, because after j?b? taking ui all, she's in college and can get a T^at is P 2.0, which she declared to be so ^ Praclice ^sy last game. S Miss Whitlock, you are obvi- two wee^ br . ously not an athlete and don't care 10 ^ hie w to be one. What is even more ob- spring pract vious is that you have no clue ab- hue for any t out what is involved with Division basket drops, I sports. I am a former USC ath- hie last field lete and have two roommates who nai racf run are members of the track and son isn 1 ove] cross-country teams. Let me fill There are vou in on one of their tvnical davs: cause most i The day begins at 6:30 a.m. A school weeks little four or five mile run to start dents so P^I the day off. Then it's off to an 8 crowd ir a.m. class. Gee, I wonder if you're die coliseum awake yet? Nah, probably out late or l*)e ^rav last night in Five Points spending sporting ever that hard earned money. He's Let's not home in the afternoon. Practice USC athletes again at 3, this time a hard work- of money an out. He usually stumbles on home bia economy around 5-5:30. A quick shower ball jersey ar and then dinner, and it's off to in any Colur mandatory study hall! Oh, what in a small v fun! nomy. Not t< He's home by 10-10:30 and ment and hi pretty exhausted, time for bed. If bring to a pre he's lucky, the phone won't ring Finally, I early the next morning and he nine statcmei won't have to report for drug- of talent of testing. Oh and yes, alcohol is pro- produced mai hibited even if you're 21, so any year and last J Five Points bar-hopping is not good friends, pl-l '.i ' ' ;s. W % ! / ; ' racy one of n . i ~ ?c~' Aaron Sheinin ? ., fr* ^jlilJHSf IIMIi mi <* _ ^ y but a tea is 72 but you get a free refill, if you have a receipt, but it s only good on the day 01 purchase, and you have to give it to the register-lady or you're going to hell. Ahhhhh! Summer, hurry up and get here. . All bow to the parking god Is it just me, or do other people get billed twice for stuff here? I swear, I'll get a bill from parking for $12, then three weeks later get one for $108. Not only that, but they send a bill for the same thing to my parents ? without telling either one of us that the other got one too. Also, I tried to sneak by the housing inspection with my own refrigerator, and got busted. OK, I'm guilty, so now I pay for it right? It was my fridge after all. BUT. My roommate also got a bill. OK, so the fine for the fridge is a total of $35. But if my roommate didn't tell me about his bill, and we both paid, the university would be making $70 on us. Man, I just don't understand. Has this happened to you? I know a few others that it has happened to. If it has happened to you, drop me a line, and let me know. I'll be here this summer so I will get it. Maybe if we get enough pissed-off people to write in, we can get an answer. To the university's credit, I have not had the chance to ask them about it, so don't fire-bomb anyone's office ? yet Stay tuned this summer, HE EDITOR that comment. Even of this letter is not to that, it insults the majoi don't receive benefits. athletes who are not to make everyone Americans and bust thei t's not saying they eel in their sport id. I do not agree with Sure any of us would i*t go saying that ath- up and play a sport foi easy. Most can't get ship. It's just like a the NCAA forbids it. academic scholarship, no off-seasons for Di- put in the thousands of ites. It's a year- round it takes to become a Di p 20-30 hours a week. fete. It's not natural or i sicaly draining. Foot- have to practice and th doesn't end after the Division I athlete has !ure, there's a one or the age of four or five, eak, but then it's time So you see, Miss W light-room and there's n?t a matter of choice, i ice. The same holds of ability, ability that sport. After the last through hard work and , the last goal scored, tion. That's why athle goal kicked, or the fi- scholarships. So next ; (and so on), the sea- Williams-Brice erupts i r. Catch a clue! as Rob DeBoer barrels i no summer jobs, be- or JoJo English bring ithletes have to be at seum to its feet with a ; before the other stu- tomahawk slam, reme )le like Miss Whitlock emotion, remember ho ito Williams-Brice, or that's awesome athletic , or Sarge Frye Field, Jam eyard, and watch a Fiiw it even talk economics. I^JH 111 1 SI ; bring huge amounts d jobs to the Colum- o^ii/l( . Every T-shirt, foot- SlUCieiU HI* id bumper sticker sold nbia store contributes To the editor: /ay to the local eco- In the April 24 Game j mention the excite- were two responses cont ippiness USC sports previous article about t >-less sports city. use of funds. Both wen must address the asi- RHA. That's nice, it concerning the lack Unfortunately, they ui USC athletes. USC the issue as I see it. Ac ay All-Americans this the original article, RHA , many of whom are out $1,000 on students, and I take offense to $5,000 on themselves. lany gripes * and I'll keep you informed in the summer j Gamecock. i Ungrouped ramblings ... so this friend of mine Larry had a good S anecdote about the Persian Gulf War. He said , when the war was over, USC should try and annex some of the occupied land ? cause, you know, it would really help with the parking problem. . .. Deliverance is a sick movie. I'm not sure they could have paid me enough to play the part of that one hillbilly who made Ned Beatty squeal like a pig ... we need a university golf course. Maybe someone could run for Student Government on mat platform .. . ,mDer ma i ernment office, w it feels; ability. sum UP? kt me say cut es Duffner the bull-crap. Take a look at ince senior yourselves you don t do anything useful. Quit patting your own backs and covering your skins with uses the thin veil of the "Senate." The Senate, I would guess, is attending OJ10V your banquet, and without a doubt J would vote a fancy dinner for itself. cock, there Get real, people. I think The ;erning the Gamecock surprised you. I think he RHA's you finally realized how little you : from the actually do, and you became like a person with a hole in the scat of tterly miss his pants. Everyone else saw it bccording to fore you did. I know I'd be cmbal spent ab- reasscd. Put it on your resume, but about Steve Wylie Psychology major ... did anyone else notice the lights were on at the stadium all weekend? Whatever was going on, couldn't they have done it during the day, when it wasn't wasting ungodly amounts of money? .. . . . . has anyone else noticed that on the night before a game that several USC athletes could be seen drinking free beer all over Columbia ? and then get spanked the next day. I don't know, what are you going to do? ... as long as we're on athletics, did your hear that one of the charges UNLV's basketball team was accused of was giving athletes rides to class?! At least they're going to class. What a crock. We get rides to class too if we want them; it's called the Shuttlecock here. The NCAA needs to rebuild about as bad as we do. ... does anyone else despise Rickey Henderson like I do? What a crybaby. He doesn't de-. serve to wear Lou Brock's jock strap ? he probably couldn't fill it either ... ' ' '* ?" ?;: ;v;v;;;y;y;y.w^ more than I don't care if you've attended ity of USC every meeting since the beginning not All- of time. I don't care if you think ir ass to ex- you deserve a banquet I don't care about your RHASC or your SAAlike to suit CURH. I am not involved in these : a scholar- things because I have witnessed music or them and seen their uselessness. We didn't The point here is you are spending hours that my money for your gut. vsion I ath- Sorry, but that will not do. You nborn. You don't do me any good. You serve at's what a no legitimate purpose except to done since "make the university look good." If you want to spend my money, hitlock, it's spend it on me. I don't care for t's a matter cosmetics, is earned ^ j coui(i cut the portion of my determina- m0ney which goes to you, I tes receive wouid. Certainly, you should not year, when expcct me to go to your meetings, in a frenzy j don't need the company of a in for a TD crowd of people who are more s the coli- fashion than substance. If I wanted thunderous j wouid for a student gov