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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
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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.
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lave to endure Z
he top of SEC ih,
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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/ 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
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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
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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.
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