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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
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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
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Letters should be 200-250 words
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included along with address ai
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sible libel or space limitations,
withhold names under any circun
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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
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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 **"