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IZ Parking Failed administrative causes undue stress fc If you made it to class on time today, p because if you haven't noticed yet, USC h lem. All this week a wave of cars has flood* the narrow streets, causing unnecessary an and old students alike. All of this is the result of a failed admini Bringing in college students and their it the University, and in attracting students tc istration may abide by the rules of fair c< students are here, they are trapped. Here, they are trapped in a parking i administration holds and deals all the car* of competition in that you can park at a Ui Columbia-patrolled meter. But all meter; accepting quarters only, something that sm There are other options, though, if yoi meters. You can pay for a space in one of the c? you can afford it. Pendleton Street garag $120 a semester, the new Hendeisun Stre for $120, and Blossom Street garage spao to buy one now, you can't, because they're You can pay for a commuting parking i $20, which will give you a chance to pa parking lots. The availability and proximi quently used facilities like the Russell Cooper library make these stickers useles; find a space. With the sticker you are payi a space, and your chances are not guar ante you pay once you've found one. The University may be able to fill the p ing lots. The demand is there, but it is an created on purpose, or as a result of poor j As a business, the University ignores t ket. While most businesses try to make easily accessible and even more conveni USC administration seems to make it hi dents to get an education. It's little thing with university bureaucracy that can ruin mulate to affect a student's education. All of the problems that face USC art nonetheless solvable. Here are some proposals for the allevh lem: USC needs to build a real parking gai can pay for all-day parking for a reasonab USC needs to provide free parking lot There are dirt lots on Wheat St. and bet lots, but a lot of walking is required. There are 16 computer labs on campu labs needs to be centralized in one locat This will allow students to use these faci are not in class. Commuting students need to be gi spaces. There needs to be an enforceable counts for students on-campus housing if ? - * r* And finally, we need to get no 01 quai have time to make change, and what's wi els anyway? If these proposals were implementec Carolina would be a lot less stressful yelling at students for being late to class fic, and term papers would be finished or "IPaiM Editor in Chief Managing Editor News Editors Viewpoints Editor Features Editor Sports Editors Photo Editor Graphics Editor Copy Desk Chief Cartoonist Asst. News Editor Asst. Features Editor Asst. Photo Editor Asst. Graphics Editor Student Media Coordinator r% 1 a? li rroaucnon Manayei Asst. Production Manager Faculty Advisor Advertising Manager The Gamecock will try to pri Letters should be 200-250 words sional title, or year and major included along with address ai Gamecock reserves the right to e sible libel or space limitations, withhold names under any circun Vie philosophy >r students at yourself on the back, as a slight parking probed the campus, clogging xiety and stress for new istrative philosophy. ||| loney is big business for > this campus the admin3mpetition, but once the monopoly in which the i| Is. There is the pretense S SC-patrolled or a City of ||| > recently have gone to M acks of collusion. 1 don't wish to feed the impus parking garages, if ;e parking spaces go for et garage spaces also go es are $100. If you want : all full. sticker that will cost you Welcome rk at several commuting If yQu did) ity to classes and to tre- tjheme of House and the Thomas reason it's si >, even if you are able to And believe ng for the chance to find welcome bac! ed, unlike a meter where ^"'th^ee " Tuesday and >arking garages and park- had fun doin< unnatural demand, either So please banning. issue. Ignoi . _ , ? numerous As he rules ol the free mar- dories wi their goods and services Times, and ent to pay for them, the werdz that w< irder and harder for stu- This is m: s like parking or dealing ^ ^ a person s day and accu- under my sta Probably r ; of course inherited, but not to say thi ter. The only , , . .the former I tfion of the parking prob- something E are about het age whereby any student What this le ($2-3) fee. n?w is s :s with Shuttlecock stops. NewSPaPers _ F the negative tind the regular Coliseum ls ^ excitir use. s. Access to all computer Just think ion open 24 hours a day. entering the *... fe. . (u colors to bh hties off hours when they caJ, it the Q we know so ven priority for parking taste of son e way USC can give dis- |nS to come, Hnri't Hriira n nor tig, Friday c iiivy uun i vjiiw u. cui. , o J J , ties on hom ler meters. Students don t rong with dimes and nickI, the atmosphere around . Professors wouldn't be , there would be less trafi time. Well, ho\ against studt USC fresl an 18-year-i ^ . became the r _ | a trustee Tu< incumbent L4 183 in Kersl l\ Herndon, ^ ^ V- ^ of high ? achieved m Greg Rickabaugh * gs< Patrick Villegas iy. Chad Bray students J.T. Wagenheim most untaF Jack Dunn Lee Clontz x# ... Nancy Salamonsky V1 f* Tim Thorsen Ctanhanio Mowlin S^IVI/IIUMIV iviiiiia T . Clr?o In 111 Ryan Sims the term Jay King conjures in ...Paul Jon some, nerd: Melissa Tsnnon *s ivieiibbd leniitjii decide t0 Jennifer Fuller on Fridays. Lea Clayton wen, s Kristin Buelman use is a Jim McKellar ^erS Laura Day known. W< Jim Green cohesive fc Erik Collins youH m,ay ? n students p< Renee Gibson anything? we are con the student nt all letters received. Student . Full name and profes- organized if a student, must be govemmen id phone number. The legislative, dit letters for style, pos- executive The Gamecock will not mainly w istances. decisions I such as n safety issu iwpoir SHAKY PERCH toim.fr u>usr?!T*f? v staff mean ft already see, that's GREC this issue. That s one jch a big newspaper. me, it wasn't such a -p k for this staff having l-A lewspaper together in days ? Monday, Wednesday. But we ; it. Homecoming, bear with us this first Whether it has elevate e the mistakes, the jjSC has another parkir sociated Press articles, ^ that js some needed r e borrowed from USC And what are expeciei the all th misspelt biggest concert events in e havve. ry of Columbia will c y first issue as Editor here l0 the stadium ? scock, and there are a R0ses and U2. Who w ges you will notice excited about that (bes ff this year. Police)? That's a defini ny number one goal is uSC moneymaking. 3 'H' word this semes- And if I understant exception would be it Cocky is now a stude JSC president died or exactiy what a large | !ut I am as sick as you uSC students wanted I tring his name. ^d now it has. ; campus needs right $0 there is a lot to c some good news. on campus, and The < sometimes can harp on wjn try to let you knov side of things. But this news as well as the bad tg year coming up for here on out. Here's some good of the excitement of upgrade the quality of tl SEC and changing our pQT we have made some tck. Many people may por the dillionth time Id "Black Magic" that changed our Gamecock well, but to me, it s a front which says 4 The C lething new and excit- Qur pian js t0 hold ont not to mention tailgat- for the next ten years md Saturday night par- new fiag comes chant e-game weekends, and our office. We have ad< C freshman e v about this for a case mt apathy. PATE timan Wesley Herndon, old from Lugoff, S.C., state's youngest school ;sday as he defeated JV1 Lonnie Anderson 459tiaw County. L? a young pup barely out because many of us ( school, has already how to make a different ore working experience When we enter ou rniors on campus. halls of higher educati< you say .-Well, not real- man, we enter a utop We are not yet adults, are one of our nation's neither children. We >ped resources, mainly responsibility and lose ; e President d< ? i- C maamk etiiHontc 1111115 Ol many diuuviuo, Student Government" _ tages of uptight, worri/ types whose main goal to make the cafeteria " ive the students free tea ^ Lj tudent Government at totally different experi n any other Student tl0n ot P?sitive relatn Jnt that I have ever ?roups on campus. J are a very diverse yet tJie executive branch i; )rce here at USC. How, hody president, Tc isk, can such a mix of Within tbe executive t jssibly ever accomplish ^ committees on cai The answer is simple: sucb as parking, health imitted to the welfare of demics, etc. The mei s as our first priority. these committees is Government at USC is ment' usualIy m the sj muck like the federal terA t. We have an executive, . A sPCCial segment c and judicial branch. The tlve branch is the branch is concerned Council. Preshman C ith policy making and SrouP of about 40 fres! that will effect students, ^ committee to p ew parking garages, or and events for the fre es, as well as the promo- They raise money for learn about student afl its ITINERANT V s no more ' ; RICKABAUGH iitor-in-Chief nation system to lay out our page; )rs or not, we have moved the classifie tg garage, office closer to the entrance c elief. Student Media, and we hav 1 to be the become more professional in 01 the histo- overall business, ome right As far as the changes in th Guns 'N newspaper content, you will see tf ouldn't be following features: ;ides USC Carolina! Weekend, a featui te plus for section on Fridays giving yo mnuip rpvipws and ?>eneral featurt IIIV/ ? ?v ?v . W ? C3 i it right, about what to do and where I nt. That's spend your time during the wee) 3ortion of end. This will take the place of tl :o happen, Carolina! section on Fridays. College Notebook, each Fridi beer about we will give you a roundup < 3amecock what is happening on other collej v the good campuses, as reported in their car news from pus newspapers. "20 Seconds," a small inform news: To tional graphic with interesting fac ie newspa- will return to its original place < changes. the front page, but only once i, we have week now on Mondays. This tlag on the designed by Ryan Sims, our grap lamecock." ics editor. o this logo Lots of color. According to Ji . With the McKellar, our Director of Stude ;es around Media, there has been color bu led a pagi- geted to each issue. This mea lected truste< ...and what LICK VILLEGAS QnQrrinor PHitOf -- jon't know ity. ;e. We begin to live in a soci< r hallowed where the real world does not ex 3n as fresh- It seems so satisfying, ian society. Yet, the satisfaction turns ii but we are distress when your stomach beg gain little aching after graduation becai i lot of real- you haven't found a paying job. jscribes S.G. ELLI LISTER uest Columnist 3ns between dent governmenmt at the sa The head of time. Selection is based on moti > the student non anu picviuus av.uvmw, < >m Young, appointments are made in the )ranch, there of each year. Applications mpus issues, available in Student Governmeni , safety, aca- The legislative branch is cc mbership of posed of student senators fr by appoint- each college at the university. ' pring semes- president of the senate is also student body vice president. ' )f the execu- senate writes legislation wh Freshman allocates almost $1 million in Council is a dent activity fees to student org hmen, select- zations. Also, the senate writes lan activities islation on various campus toj shman class, like racism or activity fee incr charities and es. Elections are in February, fairs and stu- the number of senators per col IARVESTER I H' word , when you pick up the newspaper every day, you should expect to see a dab of color on the front, and maybe on some inside pages. Along with this comes a color picture on occasion, which our photographers will be happy about. Crossfire. Having a pro and con J opinion on the Viewpoints page will no longer be a daily feature, but will be featured every Friday on the Opinions section. )l Bigger photos. I am a photograe pher, and so naturally I will urge ir rtnr rn use bieser nhotos and more variety of photos to liven ,e up the gray copy that often fills the ,e pages. We will also feature photo pages for special events throughout e the semester. More of your letters. The Gamecock realizes the importance 0 of student opinion. In the past, letters have often been edited, and lc unless you are libeling somebody, we would like to accurately portray your opinion. But those students 3 who have written two letters and ?e want to write more, you will need n~ to see our Viewpoints Editor about writing a guest column, because a" two letters have typically been our ls policy for a semester. m Again, welcome back to USC. If ,a you need to submit a letter to the 1S editor or talk to us about working on our staff, the office is on the third floor of Russell House behind m the glass doors. Or call us at 777-v ;nt 7726. We'll see you again Monday. * 1 have you done lately? So, what are we to do. We need to find a way to burst our bubble. We need to find a way _ to stimulate ourselves into living * life in the real world. And I believe Wesley Herndon has started to pave the path. _| So as school begins once again, go beyond your studies and parties. ;ty Realize reality. Do something worist. thy that will benefit the community, your school and yourself. lt0 Herndon saw a need for reform ins in his community, and did some]Se thing about it. And he's only 18. procedures is based on the enrollment of the college. The judicial branch of the stu dent government consists of a judicial board which acts as resource people or role models in matters of student conduct. Also, the judicial board hears me cases involving alleged violations va of the student conduct code. ancj Students are picked by a selection \- II committee formed of various members of student government in the c spring and approved through the student senate. In short, student government is f?/11 responsible for issues that affect . e student life at USC. We are always Jre here to listen to and act upon stu. dent concerns. Please do not hesi10 tate to call us if you ever have any questions about Student fm~ Government or student life here at USC. And if you REALLY want to P1CS get involved with every aspect of easI student affairs, come down and lege **"