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Wednesday, June 10, 1992 Campus tren Colleg By AARON SHEININ Viewpoint Editor When you go out, what is foremo 10 your goai/ According to a 1989 study releasee the American Medical Association, g college students now than it was 15 to-three times the college students : important reason for drinking as did ( Six hundred and ninety-nine fres leges responded to the study, which heavy drinkers (30 percent of whon according to the study) was "roughly William McCord, director of the J Drug Abuse, sees this as a frightening "Basically, the study is pretty accu about it," he said. "College administr sis on alcohol. They need to consider "I think there is an attitude nation* and presidents that it will go away," 1 He did say, however, there does n< lem in South Carolina as there is nai tion in South Carolina that we've mz ing. We still have a long way to go, munity, which sets the standards, and "I think there is an att college administrators am go away." S.C. Commission McCord questions the system of v; whether they are aware of the danger "I wonder what values college si because they tolerate one hell of a damage," he said. "How much is p.nnnah'? Whpn nrp it's not just administrators, when a serious?" Are student organizations and uni\ the death and damage, or are they sponsible for the damage? "Everyon than value for human life*" he said. McCord said his office has foum Oops! B Ip/mrs I SEPTEMB W*j^ Zjjjjf "-S ^?. \ot^ij ^BP- jgpfeggj A slight misspelling of the rents' mars this banner from ? ? fSkTHE 0~F Where A Sandw 4^ featui Deli Type S Fresh Home E Apple Pies Mad Ice C And Much I Call In Or FAX 1202 Mi Phone 256-6221 ?? ? r C A d of the e-age c st in your mind? Is getting drunk i this past week by the Journal of etting sloshed is the goal of more years ago. A study revealed twoin 1989 say getting drunk is an college students in 1977. hmen at 14 Massachussets Colalso found that the proportion of i were male, 13 percent female, " the same in '77 as '89. >.C. Commission on Alcohol and I trend among college students, rate and we are deeply concerned ators have to to put more emphaalcohol a serious drug." illy among college administrators le said. Dt seem to be as much of a probir\no 11 \7 "Tt hoc Koon rr\\r UAVX1UXX1J' . XL IICIO l/V/V/II lliy ide some gains on college drinkespecially within the Greek comthey are horrible standards." itude nationally among d presidents that it will William McCord, on Alcohol and Drug Abuse dues college students follow, and s involved. udents have toward human life, lot of death and destruction and we going to say 'enough'? And ire student leaders going to get 'ersities actually concerned about merely wonried about whose ree is more worried about liability d that 4 1/2 percent of all beer : >* .; > ** - 1 L WEEKEND !ER 17-20 : Jeff Mabon/The Gamecock word Parent's instead of Paperfection. 1CHARD Ajfa nch Is A Meal ring: fy iandwiches iaked Deserts e From Scratch ream Vluch More In Your Orders ain St. FAX 256-2903 lROLI \=>aiffic > alive in the '5 Irinkin/ drinkers in South Carolina consume 5 these power drinkers? College stuc M Comical i at Columi By SEAN McGUINNESS Staff Writer Over 200 people showed up at the new Silver City comic and gaming shop on 6729 Two Notch Road to experience a comic signing convention on June 6. This is the second Silver City I store in the Columbia area. The original is located on Knox Abott Drive. Roy Thomas, writer for comics i| such as "Conan," "The Avengers West Coast" and "Dr. Strange," and Steve Epting, artist for "The Avengers," showed up to spend a few hours signing comic books and talking with customers. Thomas and Epting both work for Marvel Comics, the company re- sponsible for such comic book legends as "The Amazing Spiderman" and "The Incredible Hulk." Jim Disher, owner of both Silver City locations, said that people came from as far away as Florence, Sumter and Newberry to attend the stellar event. "Steve and Roy were very professional," said Tony Shumpert, ^e manager of the new store said. te? enAnt o Int nf timA tolb-inrr X llVJ Jj/V/Ul tl 1WI UI LailVlll^, with the customers which made pU everything go over real well." ke New employee Tillman Smoot ev said, "It was a great way to ask questions. It was very productive gu in that aspect". up Comic book collecting is a po- pit pular and highly merchandisable vil hobby for students on the USC iss campus. A comic's value can dou- no ble overnight with' a character's NAm 0?k '0 S g more !0 percent of the beer. Who are lents and alcoholics, he said. a enters a\ bia store I MMHLmwmw**, Fans line up to have their comi 5, left, and Roy Thomas, right. ath or the formation of a new im. Thomas commented on the polarity of villain characters which eps the bad guys coming back en after dying. "Nowadays, you can't stab a y enough, you can't chop him enough and you can't burn his xes well enough to keep (the i lains) from returning in a later j no Tfr timo nrvrv^ \root*o OfTA Kllf f >uv. 11 w ao ^uvai )V/aii3 CUL V. iw it's redundant," said Thomas. t Epting has revived popularity in t * h* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * i j preval "Heavy drinkers are much more repres than in the general population," he said "Drinking to get drunk is very nor have fun, to be macho, to make out . . . "Beer ads are aimed specifically at c ers and alcoholics are their number one Eric Mohn, a 1980 USC graduate an< doesn't see how drinking could be wc was in school. "When I went to Caroli out and drink all the time, it was past cially unacceptable not to," he said. "( versity is now much more challenging I went there. I could honestly say that ( in any room all through the night." Mohn said he remembers keg parties "It was normal for us to have at least parties on our floor per semester, whei L - 1 1 1 - " nave uic uccr anu shucks. Terry Garrett, former manager of Th< he doesn't think it's possible for college "I don't see how it could get worse i "It was wide-ass open then, with the dri "Now, college students can't drink u they were drinking fresh out of high sch Garrett, who is opening Grill and Gr the Graduate was, was not in college And, according to his recollection, there ers" than there are now. "We were all power drinkers, big tinr pie laying on the floor in bars, they we ger mentality then compared to now." Jerry Brewer, USC's Director of Stu< college administrators has gone from comes to alcohol. "Educational institu was 18, had an excellent chance to teac tunity for the university to educate stu< are basically enforcement rather than edi "We are doing a heck of a lot aboi 70 s ... 20 times more. It's a lot tough< and foremost we are an enforcer to the ; ful of repercussions. It makes my job percent of students enrolling in colleges hoi before they come to school." However, McCord says that universit: might be an opportunity for college adn .U~.. U .~1 J - U-11 ~r - i ueeau^e uiey nave luicxaicu a lieu ui a K ipear opening j /J? I m fTTx m ? j|if Ml 1 Jm aBaas* | ? Sean McGuinness/The Gamecock c books signed by Steve Ept/ "The Avengers" and penciled the JDUtn issue in which a hero dies. Many customers joked that Epting had a hand in this just as the Black Knight, the dead character, made a major comeback. "Don't worry, it's probably just a flesh wound," snickered Ep- ting. Both Thomas and Epting live in he Midlands area and shop at the iq Cnox Abbott location of Silver Zity. They were asked by Disher o hold a signing one week after he opening of the new store. ^ r Ribby's /IN THE BEST ( J Ribs'Burgers \ VVs / Wings Barbecue V& / Lunch Specials ^ 5 POINTS BE/ OPEI FREE SUN T, Volleyball Sun Fun NOW OPEN FOR LUNCH ? uqup s*e (Student & Faculty Discounts) 5 Points * 3 Lent ;entative of col- lege campuses mal for these age groups. To you drink beer." 'rvlla/ta /-vl 1/>?? _ 1 - uimncia. V^UIICyC UJ1IIKcustomers," he said. 1 now an attorney for the state, >rse now than it was when he na, not only was it legal to go socially acceptable, it was so3ne reason is because the uniacademically then it was when drinking was going on anytime i when he lived in the Towers, two university sponsored keg re the university would pay to e Graduate in Five Points, said 5 students to drink more now. tow than it was then," he said, nking age at 18 or 19." ntil they're juniors. Back then iooI." og restaurant in August where in 1977, but he was in 1984. ! were still more "power drink le," He said. "I remember peoxe so drunk. You had a youndent Life, said that the role of educator to enforcer when it tions, when the drinking age h," he said. "It was an oppordents about alcohol. Now, we ucational." it drinking. More than in the zt to be an educator when first students because they are fearabsolutely tough. Ninety-plus have experimented with alcoies aren't doing enough. 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