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Service
' Clinton's national bill helps educate
while societal conditions improve
1' A s we approach 2000, young people will be oriented toward more
LA human and environmental concerns. As technology advances, cerf
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?' country's less fortunate people intertwined with education is what the
National Service and Community Trust Act is all about. And it works well
. with the humanitarian concern that college students have regained as a
generation since the sweeping greed of the '80s.
i.:- Some American college students are improving conditions in society in
a different way than the students of the '60s. The desire for love and
peace has been transformed into a motivation to be involved in the com
munity. The reason? Some college students must perform community ser* >
vice to fund their own education.
The national service bill doesn't just complement societal changes such
as a more computerized world. This might sound strange, but a sophisticated,
advanced world grows up a little too fast for people such as the
homeless and the elderly. Clinton's bill brings the young and enlightened
into contact with the portion of society that many lose sight of.
This plan sings the same tune as Clinton's health care plan. College students
who exchange service for federal assistance with their educations
will receive minimum wage, health care insurance and child-care assistance
if applicable during their service period.
The plan gives an opportunity to people who might not be able to
| attend a four-year college. Service to the community promotes good val;
ues in students and broadens opportunities for people who might not be
; able to go to school otherwise.
' However, reports indicate that only a fraction of students will benefit
! from this program. In other words, this drop in the bucket can't touch but
; about 100,000 of the 5 million U.S. college students who receive financial
| aid. The positive side of the plan is that these students will do charitable
; work in order to pay back their loans.
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is a small victory, a seeming
victory to the soul, a hope of
survival. And indeed, it is, and
it always will be.
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escape. Latin name for Goldenrod. I do
So many ways to escape. I not know which mushrooms are
| know a few. Slip next to me poisonous. I do not know exactsilently
and know the underbel- ly how the grass grows green,
ly of happiness. It is mainly I do not care.
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supple, so me that life may am in the clutches of a river.
{ nurse me. This fever shakes me with its
I think when I'm here that I silver teeth, piercing my tender
want to be a part of the sun- lungs, holding me without a
drenched cries of beauty filter- mother's calm. Instead, it is
ing through my body. I want to with a mother's ferocity for proflesh
out all that matters. tecting her children that I feel
) In the distance are the voices against my threaded neck. This
of my friends. Their voices I understand above all else,
crease and smooth in small I am here to be loved. I am
waves, and they find me, these here to love back. I am here,
voices, when my thoughts sim- Let me hold you tighter than
mer behind my blue eyes. How you can hold me.
gOOd these voices feel tO me. Thp rirflonnflies flaih na?t
from wheit.tiai>ICfU"y' far aW3y Time' lime' time ren>embers to
To a mlTl', forget- It is then when I am on
while I inhale to air'of to tart "**, ?f agined
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and yet not. Because I belono to 1 WntC *** 10 y0U' 10 me' t0
nothing but to my soul. no one in Particular.
These leaves cloak me and 1 3111 free 10 think on my own
bury me, reaching their pointed where *** straPPinSs of books
necks to the sky. breeding angry facts can't
Ah this, this is where I want thrash me' where 1 can look
to escape This is how I tell you myself in ^ eye withoul a mir*
to escape. This is the majesty, r> where 1 can breath my tenthe
place I pay homage to. er ^ungsI
remember. When I was 1 want to know. I want to
young, someone once told me furn my brain inside out and let
that the stars are always out |ts tenderness be poked at by
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see nothing and yet wonder just me' 0 ( l mehow
the Greeks saw their monsters
in the sky. Melissa Tennen is Encore
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of the earth. I do not know the Gatnecoc .
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Despite the clear and detailed explanation
given by the Clinton administration, many
Americans are still having difficulty understanding
the proposed national health care system.
With that in mind, I will now take questions on
the health care plan from the unenlightened in
our audience.
Q: Will this system change my health insurance?
A: Only for the better. Now, EVERYONE will
have health insurance at all times, whether
they've paid for it or not. So, no one in their
right mind will now pay for health insurance,
and insurance companies will either work for
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Q: If I'm not paying for my health care, who is?
A: The costs will be divided between the government,
insurance companies and your employer.
Q: How can they afford to pay for this?
A: Well, the government will pay for it through
increased taxes, the insurance companies will
pay by reducing the amount of services offered
and your bosses will pay for it by reducing
employee salaries. See?
Q: But I will have to pay more in taxes, right?
A: Only if you're rich.
Q: How do you define "rich"?
A: You're rich if you sleep under a roof, have a
paying job or consume alcohol or tobacco products.
Q\ How large wiTl the taxes be? I hear the plan
will cost $700 billion over the next five years.
Homecoming we
To the editor:
Leave if you must, but we have quite a
Homecoming week planned, and I know students
will want to stay in Columbia to see the
football team's victory over East Carolina.
This year's Homecoming Commission has
made unprecedented steps to bring great activitiOP
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A: Well, there will be taxes on beer and
rettes. But for the most part, the plan wil
for itself.
Q: How?
A: Elfin magic. It's the same method use
Keebler to create buttery tasting crackers
out using the butter.
Q: Why should we trust the government to
die health care efficiently?
A: The government does everything efficit
When you need a package delivered on
you don't use UPS or Federal Express, do
No. You go to the post office. Do you hire
own attorney when you get in trouble wit]
law? No. You use a public defender. Do
send your kids to private schools when
want them to get a good education? Of ci
not. You keep them in public schools. So
trust private businesses with your health There's
nothing like a large federal bureaui
to get things done.
Q: Are there really 25 million unins
Americans?
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cookout, a full-fledged parade through the
and campus, an exciting Cockfest pep rail)
a campus-wide dance will all lead up
Gamecock victory on Saturday.
Don't miss out on any of the action! A
you happen to live out of state and plan t
home for a full four-day holiday, try to a
what you can while you're still here. It will
lot of fun as students from all areas of cai
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>t of people idea. Where are we going
0 to college to get the money? It
ive proper defeats its purpose in tryone
is will- ing to reduce the deficit,
loing com- How committed will grad,
it can't go uates be?"
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e pain than relief
A: Yes. There are even 5 million or 6 million
(Americans who can't afford health care. The
rest either don't want to pay the soaring costs or
don't think they need health care. We'll show
them.
Q: Has a system like this one EVER worked?
A: Of course it has. The model for this system
originated in Russia in the 1930s, when Joseph
Stalin set up a national health care system that
ciga- was envy ?f the entire world. People all
1 pay over Europe fled to Russia so that they could
get free health care. The Canadian national system
is another example. We know how well that
>(J ky system works based on the number of
wjth Americans wno cross the ooraer mio t^anaaa
when they get sick.
, Q: Can you explain to me how this program will
nan" create jobs?
A: Certainly. The federal government will
y* require a big regulatory agency to make sure
jime, ^ new care regulations are
y?u being followed. In addition, there will be a numyour
ber 0f regional alliances at state and local levels
h the t0 oversee the plan. That's a lot of jobs.
' y?u Q: Will I be able to keep my doctor?
you A: Yes. And since the new system will make it
ourse virtually impossible for physicians to remain in
why private practice, you should probably let your
care? doctor sleep on the couch, too.
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Patrick McNeill is a columnist
ured for The Gamecock.
in-filled traditions
city come together to show the "Colors of Carolina!"
r and A lot of people have spent a lot of time to
to a make this week a success, and we owe it to ourselves
to become a part of this exciting Homend
if coming tradition!
:o go Steve Brown
ttend Advertising/public relations junior
be a Homecoming Commissioner
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