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VIEWI SEC Gamecocks h the bad to get to tl The University of South Caroli difficult adventure; it's an adve worthless and disheartening. Whil few and far between, the rewards ( On September 5, the Georgia Bi Gamecocks in football at Williams the fabled Guns-n-Roses TripleC: game for USC as a member of Sc the toughest football conference in Those Carolina faithful expectii warned: it will be difficult for tf their 3-6-1 record of 1991's camp However, patience, in this case, ac While the bowl-bid gods pre Williams-Brice in 1992, the rec when the season is over. Member plus to' players coming out of hig they are on. Playing for an SEC s to pro scouts and playing experiei tr\/ Football is a revered tradition ii SEC. Nothing makes a red-blood( stadium on a Saturday afternoon. ] worry aoout empty stadiums tnis will come out in droves to see S whupin' up on USC. Before this season is over, the Arkansas, East Carolina, Kentuc! Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Louisiana ' much room for error on that 1 Carolina, Kentucky and Vanderbili threats this season, especially the tough at home. And don't forget that Louisian; past season when the played the G While the won-loss record this about, the excitement of SEC Already a football-happy campr escalate into a world of crazed-ta battle. Bush deser\ to be unemp ?Tige Watts President George Bush is a boldface What a way to write my last column Did everybody see his insult to the National Convention? I'm convinced people, he works for himself. The same man that said "No new ta cut. IF he's elected he'll go back on his new taxes" pledge. Please, do me a favor and see throi your faith in him. That's like puttir Jeffrey Dahmer to babysit. Ronald Reagan and Bush have desti Qfotpc nnQrantPpH if Pncli ic i Uiaiva. VJU4?VM?VVVV?, xx iJUOU XO WVViWU, 1 will be in economic despair, hanging i an abyss of depression. It's time to take this country back. 1 house, The White House that is. George Bush, you are no president, close to being a president. You've mis of it. Under your administration, people h; to live off of welfare. George, in 70 daj Listen to us. We elected you four ye thing to lift this country up. You've si back. And we will get it back. You will be thrown out on your ass we've had enough of your lies. You hi yourself first. You attack Bill Clinton as a weak m and your cabinet? You attack Clinton as a draft dodger, know Dan Quayle did such a great j 1960s. It's time to stop being so disillusione newspapers. We're crying for an ecoi ignored us. Listen to the cries, George. Leave be! To change tides here for a while, I \ these two years here on the third floor room. So many thoughts. So much work. S< That's the life story of all of us sittin; The summer has been great, but if t behalf of this staff it would be that w started. For now, we'll just have to sit back Thursday. This is where you come in. If you want this newspaper to serve will. The question is: will you? Shelley, Aaron, Jay, Jack, Clay, Pari you. We've listened to you and we gav stones unturned. I came into this office almost two ye intentions, so many dreams, so many g< can't complain. There have been highs time, I'd do it all over again. >OINT lave to endure Z he top of SEC ih, alii na is about to embark on a most (j.i nture that at times may seem e the victories at first will seem >f patience will be great, alldogs come to town to play the Jei i-Brice Stadium, two days before En ast. It will be the first football utheastern Conference, arguably i the country. ig immediate rewards should be ? le Gamecocks to improve upon aign against lower-caliber talent. tually may be a virtue. >bably will not be smiling on ruiting gods could bare a grin _< ship in the SEC is an automatic j g h school, no matter which team ^ ichool means increased exposure jng t ace against the best in the coun- Greei from a the South, even more so in the onto id southerner happier than a full were Even the Carolina fan should not freshr season, because football fanatics sidew EC talent, even if that talent is I d man t ; Gamecocks will face Georgia, ule el; ky, Alabama, Mississippi State, As Tech, Florida and Clemson. Not hign ist. Even teams such as East behin< t, while historically mediocre are but v Commodores who are especially they 1 the ne i Tech won a moral victory this little ramecocks to a tie. think season may not be much to talk year 1 football in Columbia will be. a11 0V( is, come September, USC will m ilgaters, worshiping the gridiron ^ es chance loyed too habitual liar. for a while. N American people at the Republican ( \\ George Bush doesn't work for the \a xes" wants an across the board tax Vy . word, just like he did with his "no OC igh the veil. Bush wants you to put ig your faith in ... ? l oved the United Rfel over the edge of You're not even .used the trust of us and we're tired ave become unemployed and forced Distributed rs, you will become unemployed. 7^2 jars ago and you have not done one old our birthright. Now, we want it ? as an inefficient president because iven't put America first, you've put an. But have you looked at yourself . What about your Vice President? I job defending Indiana back in the W d. It's time to wake up and read the ?= nomic recovery policy and you've fore we throw you out. l/ant tr\ fair/* fho timp onH fpflprt OH ruill W UUVV U1V UlttV ?*?V* 1V?W*. v/l* of the Russell House in this news} little time. ^ ' g here on a Sunday afternoon, here's one thing I could request on e had more time to finish what we X 1' To th< and watch as a new staff takes over Wit choice you, you must demand it. I know I have t silent I an o has th s, Sean and I have worked to serve COntro e you what you wanted. We left no Aborti trol. I raisinc :ars ago to the date. I had so many ' c oals. The ride has been great and I co^fc and lows and if I could turn back concei Question: Do you think the .g||^ml |L jH Jjp es, I do, because the U.S. "Yes, I think the] eds to give the world the We're a world poi pression that they are think it would be g< air friend, and strong to help get the ies are very important to again." 5. strategic plans." Paul Rucker Computer Engineeri riny Anderson glish njoy college lift Shelley Magee being sheltered from ot caught in the mother of all that real world mpus traffic jams this morn- crap. Compared to a rying to get into work. 9-5 job, this is a 4 tie Street was backed up year-long-kegger before the Russell House with homework. Main Street. The Towers And for me this is crawling with incoming the last year, nen already lined up on the After this I go to afkTomove in by 10 a.m.. grad. school, which, id that when I was a fresh- I've been told, is oo. Now I refuse to sched- slightly less accomoda as> s umi meet uiai eariy. 5 p.m. hangovers, ex was driving by all these unfinished papers (no n school graduates still wet brilliantly contrived) d the ears, I couldn't help days when your eyes 1 /onder about the changes ting with some will of are going to experience in in the middle of class. ;xt four years. And I was a I'm also getting mai envious too. Sometimes, I no one can argue that \ that when I graduate this change of pace. 'd like to start the process But all of us are diff er again. pie than we were when ean sure I want to graduate, here. Remeber how you I'm sick of classes. . .but you first came to schoc :an anyone ever get sick of high school you had I VIEWP | "THE BURNING 6 by Tnoune Media Services 3po&Jx**<^ % ^ c ETTER TO TH 0 life doesn't always m e editor: there h all this talk about being "pro-life" or "pro- choos there is a "silent majority" of people who they 1 he "choice" of whether to live or die. This is the voice voice of the unborn. please 1 pro-life AND pro-choice. I believe the woman or wil e "choice" of choosing which method of birth would 1 she would like to use BEFORE conception, me th on should not be used as a method of birth con- Pec belive a woman has the "choice" of whether of the 5 her child after it is bom, or letting a loving : adopt her child. unborn child's heart is beating just 14 days after ">tion, that is a medical fact. A heartbeat means i U.S. should offer economic a * * y fggM % -, I HP / should. "I don't really think so. I thinl wer and I we are in a time to help our jod for us selves more. We're just get m going ting out of a recession, w< need to help ourselves." Brett White Finance ng i while you st same people day formed an opinion of you and then it stuck for 4 years. ? Then you show up here and you "Jfll And if the " I ones you chose turn ting about out to be not so great.. .hell, you cuses for stop showing up at their parties natter how and make new ones, and those College is one of the only keep shut- chances you will ever have in life thier own to take on a totally new identitiy. No one knows you when you get rried. And here. You can change whatever von't be a you hate about yourself and become the person you always erent peo- wanted to oe. i we came So, I'm now sitting here in my felt when editor's chair, ready to retire to a >1 here? In new editor, realizing it's going to :o see the be over entirely too soon. I'm OINT GALLEI PANNM'S NOT Jtvteoj J PLACING WITH MATCHES AGAIN. ^ P. PDTTOR mmmm wmamm - mm m ean anti-choice is life. I believe the unborn have a RIGHT to e their own destiny. But, they have no rights, have no say in the matter. If we could hear a from the womb, do you think it would say, "Oh, : kill me, because I don't want to live in poverty, th abusive parents." I hardly think so. The voice 1 probably say, "Give me a chance to live. Give e same chance that you had." >ple who are "pro-life" are just voicing the rights unborn, the silent majority is silent no more. Lawrie Sikkema Columbia ! id to Russia? k "No. I don't think so, because - they were our enemy for a long time." B Mitchell Sitton Engineering ill can going through that mental list of things I set out to do before I graduated, and figuring out how many I've finished. Running this newspaper was a big one. I'm really glad I did that. Of course I still have yet to fill the pool infront of Gambrell with green jello, catupult a huge jar of mayonaise from Maxcy through the faculty house window and destroy one of those little Cushman things the iron maidens of parking tickets ride around on by dropping a trashcan full of water on it from the tenth floor of Bates. But other than that, the last few years have been pretty fulfilling. So Carpe Diem and all that, fellow seniors. We have one more year to make history before col lege has slipped away. Then again we could get on the five year plan like the rest of our friends. I ??^ 1 eNGIHtZKtf rue Distributed Dv Tribune Media Services Is something bothering you, getting under your skin, or just ticking you off? If so, then write about it! Send us a letter telling us your views on whatever's on your mind about USC, the U.S., the world or life in general and we'll do our best to print it. What better forum for your ideas than The Gamecock? 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