The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, January 17, 1994, Page 9, Image 9
Scl
Beardman returns
Back to the <
It's really strange that we com
back to school so late,
i New Year's Day rolled arourn
and all my friends in Greenvill
started filtering away to thei
respective colleges, leaving m
watching "Viper" and drooling o
the couch. When
you've lived in a city
all your life, recre- |
auon possioimies are I m
pretty hard to j I1
scrounge up. ; i
Wallowing in | J
boredom, I decided
to gather my stuff
and go back to PhriQ
school. Of course, all
things are much easier
said than done. graph
My car's heater
died. I had to wail
for parts to arrive so that I couh
slice up my fingers rebuilding th<
heater. It took me an entire day ant
about three uips to the parts stor<
before I fixed the heater. I walket
into the house that night covered ii
grease and sporting a conqueror':
grim smile, confident I could gc
home the next day.
Thursday, I woke up and drove
to the doctor's office for a shot.
I've been taking these hepatitis
shots since this summer because 1
worked with blood at the time, and
my work offered me free hepatitis
vaccine. (Hey, I spring at any free
offer; give me a free root canal,
and I'm there.)
Of course, I thought that was the
last snoi i was going to neeu, out
the doctor told me to come back
during spring break for a fun and
rewarding blood check. That was
the best thing to happen all day.
Next, I went home and started
packing everything I own into very
WRITE
Carolina! is on the lookc
tographers and helping
columnists, film/music
few good stories. If yc
experience or would 1
Nancy Salomonsky o
Gamecock. For more
A & C TRAI
Repair & Rebuild Si
Student
rmi
expires Feb. 28, 1994
'Real P,min
Lizart
<Thi
GOOD TC
cREASONABL
< Country Breakfast
?> Home Cooked Meats
Fresh Vegetables
<? Sandwiches and Salac
Steaks and Seafood
Open 7 days a week
Breakfast, Lunch and Din
Complete Catering
and Carry-out Service
921 Sumter St.
Cornell Arms Building
(across from Horseshoe)
Buy one meal an<
of equal or lei
(Does not include
Offer good eve
Lizafcls
Thicket
Offer Valid at Cornell Arms
lool d
)P grind
ie small bags. I remembered I had to
go by the music store to pick up an
j amp I've been waiting on since
e Christmas. (They sold my mother
ir the wrong one, then sold out of the
e amp I wanted before I could
n exchange it.)
As I backed out of
my yard, I ran over
my bike rack,
putting a dent in my
car the size of
Montana and turning
i rr? \t ropl'' inlA o
Illy 1 111 IV./ CI L'lii
HkJ metal pretzel.
I went to the
? m , , music store, which,
MUldrOW of course, didn't
? have the amp yet.
ICS EDITOR 1 ran by my bank
to deposit a check
my mother gave me
j to pay for food. The bank put a
hold on the check because I didn't
j have enough money in my account
2 to cover the check were it to
j bounce. (So you have to have mon1
ey in your account to put money in
5 your account.)
} I went to K-Mart and bought a
new bike rack. When I got home,
half of the pieces to my new rack
were missing. As I loaded the rack
i into the box, I sliced my fingers
open, a la auto repair.
I After I returned the rack, I went
to another music store to try to talk
the guy out of an old, beat-up guitar
he had last time I went by. He
had sold it.
Well, I went back home and took
a couple more hours to pack everything
into my car. I had to use a
shoe horn to slide into the driver's
seat when I finally tooled out of
town at about 7.
It just doesn't get much better
than this.
NOW!
3ut for writers, artists, phohands.
We're looking for
/theater/food critics and a
)u've got any publication
ike to get some, contact
r Melissa Tennen at The
information - 777-3913
NSMISSIONS
tandard & Automatic
' Special
1 rT~R A N SMI SSIONl
i i SERVICE SPECIAL I
j| $24.95 + filter 1
I expires Feb. 28, 1994 |
try Cooking'
is m
cket
)ODAlj
E TRiCES
ner
mm m
d get a second meal
sser value FREE
beverages or desserts)
ry day 4pm-10pm
921 Sumter St.
Cornell Arms Building
(across from Horseshoe)
Location Only Expires 1-31-94
ciZC cl
mfe.
MOVING BACK: Jennifer Kr<
Students nee
from winter
By MATT HANLEY
Senior Writer
USC ? With dorms closed and
classes out of session, students
continued living their lives over
the month-long winter vacation.
Some students didn't get much
of a rest during the break.
Vacation took on a new meaning
for freshman Laura Kisala, who
hasn't had many days to rest since
Christmas.
"Unfortunately, my grades
arrived before my presents,"
Kisala said. "My father said I had
to get a job while I was home to
prove I still had a work ethic."
Student athletes had to stay in
shape and work toward their goals.
"An athlete never rests," said
sports administration sophomore
Brian Adams, who pitches for the
Gamecocks. "I was running, lifting
weights and throwing throughout
the holidays."
\IArPaetor ' OA tha
nut L^uctivi ;/-r, I11C IIU^C MIVJW
storm that covered much of the
North, had a big impact on some
students' breaks. Journalism
Come to the tsl
ISILANi
765-1
S Monti
*With coupon only wher
New 806 Pavillion Ave. Location
(Pink building behind E
^^^udent^pii
rgr~\Medta^?M
If you want to h
community inform
leadership position
Applications are b
the job of station i
Television and the
Portfolio magazine
Black yearbook,
available in Russell
and they're due by
up and help us pass
Instrumen
Perform With The C
Ensemble. Men & Wc
European Tour. 4 claii
trombones, I
Day: 786-3830
re her
|pP|k . _*Mymgto|||gfc
F %
:: ' ^N'1
oft and her father, Bill, unload her b(
d vacation
vacation
sophomore Patrick White saw the
storm as a dividing line in his
vacation.
"The first few weeks of break
were great." said White, who is
from Norwell, Mass. "But the last
two weeks, it seems all I did was
shovel snow, and I have a strong
aversion to any kind of labor."
Others found the storm to be
fruitful. Media arts sophomore
Allie Borkoski made the best of
tne pientiiui snow.
"It was good for skiing,"
Borkoski said. "There was so
much powder, I thought I was in
Colorado."
Some of that cold air moved
down South, hut it didn't bother
engineering junior Carl Mulch.
"I'm a golfer, and I'll golf in
rain, sleet or snow," Mutch said.
"Heck, I was just golfing the other
day for about the 10th time over
the break, it doesn't matter how
cold it is out."
ands,
> TANrPfr
219 1
It *29* I
i purchased by 1-27-94 B
Five Points Mon-Fri 9-9
ickerd Drugs) Sat 9-6 Sun 1-6
1 r
Pass
the
word
elp keep the USC
ed, sign up for a
in Student Media.
ieing accepted for
manager for WCFG
1 job of editor of
and the Garnet and
Applications are
I House room 323,
R n m Ian 21 ^inn
~ r
the word!
tal Musicians
olumbia College Wind
)men Needed For 1994
rinets, 2 french horns, 3
baritone, tuba.
Night: 788-9262
e aga
^ TrflBF'% '"HI 41 A
.*
longings ouside Patterson.
Hell hath a
BY MATT HANLEY
Senior Writer
1-95 ? One way to get from
South Carolina to New York is by
automobile. I suggest you find an
alternative if you need to leave
sunny Carolina for the industrial
Northeast. Because I've got news
for you: Everyone who drives on
1-95 is a big jerk. Except me.
On a trip full of mistakes and
letdowns, none was more devastating
and disappointing than the
decision to stop at South of the
Border. If you haven't seen it,
South of the Border is a large,
amusement park-looking setup at
S.C.'s border with North Carolina.
It's South Carolina's version of a
national park or a Mexican's idea
of a bad joke.
But as fun as this place is built
up to be in the 200 billboards
leading up to it, there are no rides.
The place (it isn't an incorporated
town, just an outgrowth of some
small, hick town called Dillon) is
full of cheap hotels painted in
loud, ugly colors that would make
the 70s Preservation Society
proud.
And if you want food, there's
^ riUAD^
ak t ii ^ruivr
DI<
D E H O N T ti
-yj? U1
onsel{
FRAGRANCES frag
717 Saluda Avenue checl
In Five Points 252-2307
* * Looking
Part-Tim
vpcuut^d JLUI n
Interviewing c
Friday, Jam
For openings on tl
To schedule an inte
The Student Empl
6th floor, BA
An equal opportuni
in...
fcw ww$
*A
s^JP^ >
f ' ; ^
% :;=t
JHEpiF I
Emily Peterson/The Gamecock
name: 1-95
plenty of it: Mexican, Italian, hot
dogs, hamburgers. There's just
one problem: You can't eat it. Not
if you want to get along with your
friend the digestive tract. My
metabolism forgave me in
Virginia.
But anyway, back to the jerks. 1
really thought I had made some
friends, or the closest equivalent,
on the highway. There was the
traditional cluster of slow, inconsiderate
old-timers in the left lane.
aiiu men mere was us, a nanutul
of drivers inconsiderate of the
speed limit.
We had to waver back and forth
from lane to lane, dodging
Cadillacs and flashing our brights
to wake up somebody's grandpa.
And I was the leader of the pack.
It was 2 a.m., my stereo was broken,
and this posse was all I had. I
felt so close to my comrades-incars,
but like all posses, it fell
apart.
It seeins we were merely
together to fight a common evil,
the 55ers, and once we overcame
them, our own differences
See HELL page 10
kNCE SALE
JCOUNTS
5 TO 60%
;cted men's and women's
ranees and atomisers
-alsok
our damaged box sale
i
i for a
e Job?
ard Workers
>n campus
lary 21st
ie 11pm shift
:rview, contact:
oyment Center
Building
ty employer