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By AARON SHEININ
Viewpoint Editor
When you go out, what is foremo
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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
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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?
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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
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ath or the formation of a new
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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
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"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
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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
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"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
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>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
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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
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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. "This
linistrators to take it seriously
)t of loss."
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