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VlEWI Separate Move to cut all ties can only help Furm Separation of church and state. It's a constitutional amendment se< religious influence. We fought for tha At least we try to. Furman University is in the mid South Carolina Baptist Convention ; Baptists have over the university. Furman wants to select its own ti Baptist Convention has had contr elected. Monday, 34 pastors told the conve nancial ties with Furman. It's about ti Too many problems pop up when state entities. Their influence is too gi of it. We cannot sit by and let religious dents learn. We cannot have an out education. Students should have the opportun can without any limitations. With the man, the risk of outside control is too Separating the two entities guarantc trol. There will be no conflict of inl benefit. The Furman staff will not have to who contribute the most to its school, tion, and students will learn. The proposal to cut all ties also red battle. If litigation came about, court dreds of thousands. Furman should have the right to sa trustees. The school should set its owi Everyone benefits, especially the make decisions in the best mtere: Baptists. Universities are made up of the stu students. The school should serve i affiliation. If they lose sight of the students, th Students would lose if the Baptists k convention should not run the univers Separate the church and the state fo A HARDWARE AMAWSIS USC extortion limits students nn~ i u uic cuuui. Starting July 1, the Graduate Placement Office will begin a program of extorting money from graduate students. On that date, we will be charged $5 or $10 to mail out our graduate packets (depending on the length of the packet). These packets contain the graduate student's letters of recommendation and official transcripts. we cannot apply for a job without sending in one of these packets to the prospective employer. Therefore, the Placement Office knows that graduate students apparently have no recourse' but to pay this outrageous fee. Previously, the fee for mailing these packets was $2. Even if a graduate student wanted the Placement Office to mail out a 20-page packet, the cost would not exceed $2. Given that most copy contracts are for three cents a page, the total copy costs would only be 60 cents even for this unusually large packet. Even if we assume that it cost the Placement Office a dime to photocopy each page, that would still only be $2 for a 20-page packet. I seriously doubt 'OINT >n Yasi Elec with Baptists neer an students "Swi beai reprt :uring us from the control of t right, and we live by it. die of controversy with the about how much control the ^ rustees. For many years, the fl ol over which trustees are mtion to cut all legal and Time. religious affiliations control eat, and we must be cautious ( one affiliations control what stu- 5 side source controlling their giai an> ity to leam as much as they sPe Baptists contributing to Fur- ing great. re" ies no chance of outside con- ^J :erests, and the students will " I worry about upsetting those US . They won't limit the educa- one get luces the chance of any court > costs could run in the hun- coli y who serves on its board of 11 u i: . ?u? n tO ( i puuuy, nui uic JDdpuMS. students. The trustees can mai lllal st of the students, not the any C dents, by the students for the pro the students not a religious dov you en the problems come about. 1 ept naming the trustees. The y?l ity, the students should. he ir the students. wabe ( ter OF THE rliLS : ^ sity deg >i= in HIII=-iii="I stan r^1 liiMw; sam blar ?/ // /// -= iit^=iii ? ni. rp ==77>=MS7 "'= /// s/? n| ;n TTTi =-/iii=n'U11" diet ILL CLINTON ? W^saidH k06' 1V-) hav< ^ men hav( rich mailing and labor costs would account for the extra $8 being levied against graduate students. The only possible explanation for this increase is the desire of this university to make a profit off the needs of the graduate students. The University of South Carolina systematically ignores the needs of the graduate students (if not the students themselves). The system developed whereby we must Dav to have our packets mailed out (a system that other graduate students at other institutions enjoy for free) is already bad enough. This is another block to our chances of seeking gainful employment. Raising the costs to such a prohibitive level that some students may be forced, for financial reasons, to cut back on their mailings, and thus on their chances of getting hired, is extremely cruel but typical of an institution that already has a bad reputation for treating its graduate students shabbily. All departmental graduate student organizations, all campus-wide graduate organizations and all those academic departments that care about their own graduate students must make the Placement Office know in the most strident Question: Whic r Niazi Derek E trical and Computer Engi- Econom ing major tzerland, because of its "France, uty and the peace it toryand jsents." ^ross Higher education Contrary to popular opinion, not every i needs a college degree. Some people just don't belong in a colleLe atmosphere, some people don't make 'thing of the four or five years they nd in college, and some people are wastthousands upon thousands of their pats' hard-earned money. Do you know >ple like this? need more than 10 fingers to count how ny I know. f you ask me, admission standards at C are pretty slack. It seems to me any; with a few dollars and a diploma can in. Vhy is this? Society has not yet accepted the fact a lege degree does not carry you as far as ised to. The old saying "you have to go college, or you'll never get a job" is ded. In today's troubled economy and job rket, chances are "you'll never get a job" way. Competition is so great between young fessionals and job-seekers, it has come vii iu 11 5 iiul wnai yuu iviitj w, iu> wuu i know." rhink about it. Remember the stories ir grandfather used to tell you about how used to make money the old-fashioned f. He earned it. rhese days are long gone, but shouldn't forgotten. The economy will not get betall by itself. By raising collegiate admisRaising standard ligher education. It's becoming a necesin today's work force. Those with the rees get the jobs. imerica is a society that looks at a per's past and his/her accomplishments. >se with a piece of paper with a stamp m a university command the most >ect. ISC approved an increase in admission idards, raising the grade point average lirement from 2.0 to 2.15. The move is ected to keep 35 students out of this ege. hat's 35 people who won't have the e respect as their peers. But, who's to ne? he public school system in South Cara is in a shambles. There's an incredible lotomy between our' schools. The rich s have the best equipment while the r ones must do without. a student comes from a poor school, rn't it make sense that he or she should J a shot at going to USC. The environit around a student affects his grades, he ones from the poorer district may ? worse grades than the ones from the district. Why? Because the students system must not be allowed to go intc place. The graduate students already have enough penalties without a new one. Richard Schellhammer History graduate student Left-wing media hurts America To the editor: The press has recently referred tc hr\\i; for Rneh boo foil on in tho nAllc iivj vv mi wuou iiaa laiiv^ii 111 uiv puiio. , believe the real story is just the oppo site, how amazingly HIGH his rating; have remained under the onslaught oi the leftist media. George Bush's magnificent and re markable accomplishments in creating the coalition that defeated evil in the Mideast was the embodiment of every thing that liberals (from Wilson tc Stevenson to Mondale) had evei dreamed of. Combine this with the un paralelled military victory which drev obvious comparisons (the Democrat; had a war ? Vietnam; the Republican; had a war ? the Persian Gulf), and th< leftists knew they were in trouble. Ir h country would you most like a Ibery Alison Annett lies major Marketing major . There is a lot of his- "Probably Italy b culture there." romantic, and it h scenery." i not for everyone sion standards, those who truly belong in a college atmosphere can learn and build themselves without any distractions. They can be molded into people who can make a difference. : Make a difference fpr all of us. Our friend on the board of trustees, Michael Mungo, contends raising admission standards will make USC an "elitist" university. Well, that's what a university : should be. I don't mean Harvard or Yale, but college is a place of "higher learning." * If some people never get out of the "high school mentality," how much higher learning will be accomplished. I hate to break it to you, but it is not much. Today's students lack a lot of things. 1 Like a special kind of drive that makes them accomplish their objective. We need to restore this motivation if we even want to hope things will ever get better. i In order to place quality students into I society, we have to make quality students I and weed out those who are just here to see how many beers they can drink in four years. I It's time to start making these changes. 1 Let's make the changes now before ' change becomes a word that is overdue. 1 < - J.T. Wagenheim 1 J.T. Wagenheim is the Assistant News Editor for The Gamecock. 1 1 s limits students from the poor schools weren't given the same opportunity as the ones from the rich schools. . 1 USC should be willing to give as many people a chance. The dichotomy is put aside, and all students are judged on a level and equal ground. Raising the admission standards does not give everyone a fair and equal shot. It's like * saying those with money are given more priority than those without, and that's wrong. We should give everyone a fair shot, and r limiting people with a GPA less than a 2.15 is not fair. Everyone should have the chance to go to college. What you do in high school is totally different than college. Sometimes, those with bad high school grades become the best college students. Regardless of prior performance, everyone should have the shot to prove themselves in college. - Tige Watts Tige Watts is the Managing Editor for The Gamecock. fact, the entire leftist/elitist/Democrat establishment was on the verge of ex) tinction. Bush had to go. r Their envy and need to cover up foolish pre-war congressional and media statements led them to the seditious t treachery witnessed over the past nine months (SCUD: Seriously Confused Uninformed Democrats). They hijacked our press and began a withering and relentless attack on the presidency. Par lans like honaa, uartner, nscn ana Moyers used every cunning, derelict and devious tool available to turn an } altruistic American accomplishment [ into something less. Noble became malicious, magnanimous became ma5 ligned. To refer to the propaganda f stooges at CBS, NBC and CNN as newspeople is a perverted mockery. r All Americans should be alarmed I and offended. Our once free press has been snatched by a small evil gang ) with a powerful determination to grab r control of our republic. Thomas Jefferson forewarned us about such malconz tents. They lost in the USSR and East5 ern Europe, but their conspiracy is win5 ning here. l John B. Thosteson to visit and why? Donnell Fester Electrical Engineering major ecause it is "France. It seems exciting las beautiful and romantic." Names shouldn't matter that much - Rahul Sharangpani What's in a name. Plenty, I think. I tpq1i7pH Hqv T IparnpH tr\ tallr \i;KAn it Hit mp A 1VU11<JVU UIV UUJ A 1VUIUVU LV7 UIJ1V, TTllVIl At IlAt 11V> I was burdened by a seemingly endless and unpronouncable last name. Things worsened during the school days. During spelling quizzes, I could spell "discombobulated" and "psuedopotentially" with consummate ease. But what was the point if I was stymied when it came to writing my name on the answer sheet, so nobody knew who to give credit for the perfect score? The only other person who could appreciate the anguish I was going through was my classmate by the name of Sribalasubramaniam Anantapadmanarayanan. Needless to say, we became bossom buddies instantly. Things can get quite depressing if your name actually happens to mean something. My name can be twisted around a bit to mean something as outlandich as "turned to water due to extreme shame" in my native language. If that's not all, some imaginative variations in the first two syllables can make it mean "Coconut water," and not to mention "lemonade" which can turn things a little sour. But the other day, I met a person by the name of I.P. Daley, whose name reminded things aren't so bad after all. Thoroughly spoiled by mono-syllable names like 'Hu, Ho, Ng, Qi and Lu," the person at the reservation desk at the P.E. Center has his hands full trying to fit my mane on the court reservation book. Most rften, "Sharangpani" gets butchered to "Sharang" on iie four to five slot and "Pani" on the five to six dot, so they've decided to go by "Rahul" and forget iiat I have a last name. The unfortunate thing is that people always tend o remember you because of your tortuous name. Recently, I met an old school friend who saw my lame and said "Oh, I remember you. You're the one ?vith the funny walk and the funnier name, who always used to put chewing gum down my back." I suppose it takes more than the healing power of time o obliterate memories of the practical jokes that I )layed on my friends. On the bright side, pronouncing my name so often las made me a master at toungue twisters. Asking ne to repeat "aluminum elucidates linoleum, linoeum illuminates aluminum" five times in a quick succession would be like asking Picasso to paint a )ackward fence. Any ability is certainly most welcome, because vith a last name like mine, you just might be renembered for some bit of skill that you were known or. And that's something I'm sure Sribalasubramaliam Anantapadmanarayan will agree with. 'LETS SEE - WHERE C0ULP WF &FG/N TO ^ IMPROVE OOR SCHOOLS?" ^ IGamecock Editor in Chief Eric Ward Managing Editor Tige Watts Copy Desk Chief Kathy Heberger Asst. Copy Desk Chief Jennifer Jablonski Viewpoint Editor Shelley Magee News Editors... Patrick Villegas/Gordon Man tier mssi. iNews tailor j.t. wagenneim Carolina! Editor Greg Rickabaugh Asst. Carolina! Editor Lee Clontz Graphics Editor Ryan Sims Cartoonist Paul Jon Photography Editor Virginia Marshall Asst. Photography Editor Eric Glenn Sports Editor Chad Bray Asst. Sports Editor Sean Ryan Faculty Adviser Erik Collins Asst. Advertising Manager Melissa Owenby Asst. Classified Manager Amy Taylor The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be 2 JO-250 words. Full name and professional title, or year and major if a student, must be included along with address and phone number. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit letters for stylo, possible libel or space limitations. The Gamecock will not withhold names under any circumstances.