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Friday, February 25, 1994
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J.T. Wagenheim, Editor in <
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Wendy Hudson, Cars
Nancy Salo
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Smaller programs enha
despite low student em
What separates USC from c
ions vary, but one of the n
dous diversity of majors a
ly an engineering school like Clem
ford.
USC is a true university, well-ro
graduate majors in a variety of dis<
On Tuesday, the Commission 01
to terminate a number of USC's si
history and African-American studi
The decision to terminate these
to USC's ability to serve its student
ed.
While there are few students whc
dents take classes in them. The di
tant part of becoming fully educau
Even the most specific major re
so-called liberal arts courses. Why
Because the university's job is n
it must also prepare them to survi
survival is a broad-based, general ki
specific to one's major.
If the CHE cuts these programs,
important part of their desired bat
Furthermore, the programs enh
could argue another school is bettt
jority of the state's college student
We understand that budgets hav
CHE's concerns lie. No one woult
cuts in many areas to put a ceiling
campus' budget in order.
CHE needs to look at the broad
programs will eventually eliminate I
to look more closely into the cons
USC such a diverse academic envir
The problem with USC isn't that i
aspects of the campus are inefficiei
Cutting small, but vital, program
tion available to USC's student bod
T* I ^
rrocrastinai
of exam pre
It's been a late night of studying
and, as usual, I've gotten quite 2
bit accomplished.
Of course, most of that stuff ha*
had absolutely nothing to do with
my studying. I've found my mosi
productive nights are those wher
I should be studying because 2
true master of procrastination like
me can find things to do for hours
while avoiding his actual goal.
Tonight I started my study session
by getting out my notebook
and booting up my trusty Mac to
outline my notes. Once my computer
was smiling happily at me
with that "you should play a computer
game" grin on its screen. I
felt compelled to play a few hands
of Solitaire before I turned on the
word processor. I beat my previous
score by about 100 points;
rather impressive beginnings for a
good night, 1 think.
Next, I retired to the kitchen to
mix up some meringue cookies to
fuel my studying efforts. Who can
study without chocolate, I ask
you? I certainly can't, and I
opened up a Big K Cola to sooth
my nerves and ease my studying
worries. Caffeine is so relaxing.
As 1 walked back to my room, I
noticed the Olympic hockey game
was on. Being a patriotic young
lad, I felt compelled to sit back
and watch Finland beat the living
poop out of the American hockey
team. I was definitely preparing
my mind for studying efficiency as
1 watched sticks fly and tempers
ilAiVt
After the Finnish (heh, heh,
heh. . . aren't I a clever little
writer-stud) of the game, I looked
in my room and was appalled at
the mess I had let accumulate on
the floor. I had to take a few minutes
to hide the mess under my
bed where only the horrible creature
that lives under there could
see it. (This reminds me of my
older brother, who used to claim
a herd of miniature cattle lived
under his bed and only came out
at night... but I digress, which I
never do on studying nights.)
After cleaning my room, 1 realized
I had neglected to clean the
dishes, so I returned to the kitchen
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Student Media Russell House-USO <
J.T. Wagenheim Nancy Salomons^
Editor in Chief Carolina! Editor
Lee Clontz Tony Santori
Viewpoints Editor Sports Editor
Carson Henderson David Mandrel!
Copy Desk Chief P"010
Gordon Mantler Chris Muldrow
Copy Desk Chief Graphics Editor
Wendy Hudson Nora D?y|e
News Editor Asst- News
The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the
University of South Carolina and is published Monday,
Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semesters,
with the exception of university holidays and exam
periods.
Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the
editors or author and not those of the University of
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is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of
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iiitcock
ng USC Sinct 190S
Chief Lee Qontz, Viewpoints Editor
:orlal Board
on Henderson, Gordon Mantler,
monsky, Tony Santori
nee intellectual diversity
vllment
)ther colleges in South Carolina? Opinlost
compelling differences is the tremen
nd programs offered. USC isn't primariison,
nor is it a teaching school like Wof unded,
with strong undergraduate and
:iplines.
n Higher Education delayed its decision
mailer programs in such areas as music
es.
programs would be a tremendous blow
; and continue to make them well-round)
major in these areas, a great deal of stusciplines
are unquestionably an imporsd.
quires a significant number of hours in
is this so?
ot only to prepare students to get a job,
ve in the world. An integral part of this
towledge combined with the knowledge
students for whom music history is an
:kground would be left undereducated.
ance USC's reputation in the state. Few
:r able to serve the needs of the vast mac
thin rtcr
e to be cut, which is certainly where the
1 argue that USC doesn't need to make
? on skyrocketing tuition costs and the
picture. Cutting many of these smaller
t>igger programs. The commission needs
equences of cutting programs that give
onment.
it has too many programs. It's that many
itly run.
s will only weaken the quality of educa- ?
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tion key part j
iparation
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GRAPHICS EDITOR tion
to wash up. In the process, I ?
spilled water all over the front of N
my jeans, a la bladder control problem.
I decided to change into
another pair of pants just in case A
Cindy Crawford or Barbara Bush SOm
stopped by. I wouldn't want them
to think I wet myself. ^roj
The phone rang two minutes tanj
later; it was one of my two study t^rc
partners, who were going to come It
over and be neurotic about our ^
exam for several hours. I told her
c can
to come on over since I was so tar
ever
along in my own studying.
My cookies were ready when
study partner No. 1 came over. We *ace
rlirirt'f- nrint fry rtfkf -1-" nfilil
U1UII t ?*""<- IU g\,l ?.UUt,UlillC Lllips
all over our notes, so we ate in t,n'2
front of the TV and watched Tonya Tc
Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, the
only Olympic figure skater this
year, spin around. Have you
noticed Harding wears only slightly
less makeup than Tammy Faye
Bakker? But I digress... mi
We called study partner No. 2,
who had failed to show up when Tc
we agreed to meet. He wasn't 1M(
home, so we sang Monty Python app(
songs on his voice-mail. We called ^er
him several other times that night,
but he was never home. I think he m
was mugged by Harding's body- seat
guards, but I'm not sure. sarc.
We read notes for a couple of ..g '
seconds before I remembered I
had to write a column for the ^
paper, a column which you're
now reading. I brainstormed for ,eP
the column about three seconds,
so it was more of a brain passing n^1
shower. na
See, studying is really easy if c'ien
you get your priorities straight. cut' 1
Now if I can just remember which t0 ^
class I've got in the morning. ..
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Viewpoints
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'I'm exhausted. I'm overwhelmed. I'm pretty
pring break housi
iometimes I think school administrators sit I
und in meetings, eating chicken combos, brain- j|M|
ming new ways to eke more money out of USC hL
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w*w*io. i iiai vjpvwianj IU UC lilC L(DC
;n I found a lovely Spring Break notice from the
>artment of Housing and Residential Services aHpTf
ved under my door. _H
he notice was for students living in residence iHK
s who were going to stay during Spring Break, it costs $ 101.
ess a student lives in Bates West, Bates House, tion to what;
ver University Terrace, NADA, Cliff and the use's residet
"seshoe apartments, they'd have to move to one F .
hose halls for the week of Spring Break. . ' '
his is not too bad, because we can't expect the in ^olum
rersity to keep all of them open. However, there South Americ
fee involved. For non-apartment accommoda- broke to go a
s, a student is expected to shell out $77.85, and myself, "Well
tudents need to lea
rt. Deep within every body, art cradles itself f
lewhere between a heart and a liver. Toothless
eyeless, it waits until it is plucked from an anjynous
womb. It wraps itself around something
?ible, turning its bones inside out, bleeding
ugh its brain.
is something translatable, something we know
te human experience. Perhaps this translation
be a song, a drawing or a short storv. But what- R've a child lif
form it takes, art quivers with joy. tected, nurtur
yeryday I walk on this campus, and I look at creations mai
after face. 1 wonder who houses an artistic piece of the s<
i, who is talented and who will brave the scru- The cost ol
ing eyes of the world successfully. anything phy
) give art its eyes and teeth is what it means to mental pain i:
cial prejudice your use of the word nig
t j J leftist
not be condoned This is the second tin
entered a Columbia bar
?the editor: and heard racial slurs
>t having time to schedule an grown up Caucasian in t
)intment with my regular bar- and being exposed to thi
I stopped by a local barber activity, 1 no longer find
>. As one barber began to cut ing. What bothers me is I
hair, another man sat in the people assume that the w
next to me. He then made a around them support or
istic comment to the effect of, such racist behavior.
are you celebrating Black Expressing disdain for
)ry Month?" is not enough. In a sock
ie man cutting his hair replied, money talks, a more effe
, as a matter of fact, I've got a of confronting racism is t<
sr strung up in my front yard that one's money does r
now." the hands of those w
iving paid for his haircut, the espouse institutionalized
t left. I then paid for my hair- nation. Therefore, I hop
turned, and said, "I don't mean will join me in not pat
: a jerk, but I didn't appreciate establishments which encc
Should some smaller ac
~ "I think they should cancel them and c
X funding for programs better at providii
dents with degrees."
Elizabeth Cam
Criminal justice graduate ;
Fj "I think they are important to remain a
research university. They should cut fc
Jr money or something like that."
English graduate s
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much speechless. It'll take a little bit o
really pleased."
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ng fees unfair to
I" money by stay
week. It's still a
Lupe Eyde But now 1 do
the only one.1
^ COLUMNIST countries that cj
. Or students froi
da or the West <
25 for an apartment. This is in addi- To make mati
i student pays per semester to live in that will be ope
ice halls. me to stay in m
is totally defeats the purpose of stay- paying for.
bia to begin with. My parents live in I'm sure the
a. so I can't visit them anrl I am rr?r? nnt mH r
nywhere else. Therefore, 1 thought to us, so maybe I'n
, it won't be too bad, I'll save some they'd never eat
rn to express arti
talented artists I
and John Kenn<
Melissa Tennen
that is and how
COLUMNIST the individual.
Art is so impc
1 do urge you t
e. And in that sense, art must be pro- 26,000 students
ed and hugged. An artist stands over submitting to Pc
tprnnllv soft nnH sinpn^ nl'fprinn 1 n "
j, j, ? noom^i/. ine
ilf to the sunlight. after we return fi
' art is beyond dollars. It is beyond lishing a 50-page
sical. Maybe art is pain. Measuring cellent issue. So
s measuring the weight of air. Many from your mind
ger,'" and accept such prejudice. ne
wl
te 1 have Kevin Gillion th
ber shop Spanish senior fire
he^ south Moment of silence ?
is type of beneficial to students
it shock- an
that these To the editor: ab
hite folks This is written in response to the va
condone editorial about the moment of th
silence being a dangerous prece- ge
prejudice dent. th<
:ty where For those of you who are scared do
ctive way to death that kids may pray in thi
3 be sure school during their moment of lea
tot enter silence each day, relax. Here is 1
ho still some comforting news. mc
discrimi- Some children may use this Ma
>e others opportunity to reflect quietly on
ronizing where they can buy a gun on the
mrage or street to show their classmates the
ademic programs be elin
ise the "If it is because of :
ig stu- are only making our
student jSt|
strong "^Wg"~gl "I think they should
)otball ^ er people who will t
the future."
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f time to sink in, but I'm
Brian Comer
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ing here and just hang out for a
vacation."
n't know what to do, and I can't be
WTiat about students from other
in't even go home for winter break?
m faraway places like Maine, CanaCoast?
ters worse, 1 live in one of the halls
n, and they're still going to charge
y own apartment that I'm already
bosses over in housing can figure
nore fair ways to suck money from
1 being too harsh. After all, I'm sure
t Russell House food.
Istic selves
ike Sylvia Plath, Vincent Van Gogh
;dy O'Toole created as a result of
Vrt comes in crescendos of pain,
ast, present and future. How deep
the artist copes depends solely on
rtant to the hodv and tr? the srml
0 share your creations with the
at this school. You can do this by
>rtfolio magazine in Russell House
final deadline is March 18, a week
rom Spring Break. Portfolio is pubissue,
which we hope to be an exgrit
your teeth and push a creation
. It's just waiting to be born.
:xt day. Still others can figure out
len they can find time to get to
e school nurse to procure their
:e condom so they can engage in
fe "there's no way you can get
DS with this thing on" sex.
1 watch the news every evening
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u man* uoa eacn aay i nave tne
ility to place my children in prite
Catholic school. It's funny,
ere, they pray every day while
tting a superb education without
e presence of either guns or con>ms.
In fact, over 85 percent of
ese children go to college and
id successful, productive lives.
It seems that public schools need
>re than just a moment of silence,
tybe an hour would suffice.
James Page III
Mechanical engineering junior
linated?
i lack of enrollment, they
tuition higher."
Johnathan Amiker
Accounting freshman
keep them. There are othake
advantage of them in
Amy Wade
Psychology freshman