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f t5a Strvhi J.T. Wagenheim, Editor in ( Edit Wendy Hudson, Carsc Nancy Salor GBQ pecision to combin ' JC * FI-. jinuncuiuy necessiu j y 1he USC Board of Student P March 28 to combine the re JL and Portfolio Literary maga .good move, and one that was net ..^yearbook. Only 3 percent to 4 percent of) 5 percent had your pictures taken edition of Portfolio is published, s many are left untouched until the previous issue are taken away by i The lack of support for the yeari and that's just from the 1993 vole tion of the 1994 book will add to So it's obvious most of you dor derstandable since you probably ?l . TC nnn - l_ . aiucmig UJCIC <uc ^u,uw pcuyic < hot commodity because most of y cation with the same group of pe ^vell. * Your parents, though, used to lii jtbooks and were on waiting lists v 'with hopes there would be a copj * The new magazine, Garnet & E comprehensive and provocative p thus making it more of an attractr Of course, we wouldn't dare fc erary section in GBQ that will offe It will offer students who submit t their work read by more people. GBQ will expand on the 96-year book. Instead of wrapping things terty account of USC's happening enue from advertising, avoiding tl It took a lot of planning and co give GBQ the green light We are o athy shown for the yearbook. With changing times comes a d university. You've made it dear yc ing to do our best to give you mo you won't be disappointed. Nirvana's I *AI1 in all is My passion for rock 'n' roll su persedes my passion for just abou -everything else. But part of the flame iwas extinguished when Kuri , Cobain's body was discovered Friday in his Seattle home. Cobain, leac singer and guitarist for Nirvana, waj .dead of an apparendy self-inflictec ^shotgun wound to the head. These " are the darkest days of rock 'n' roll for me since The Replacement called it quits in 1991. " ' I refuse to elamnrize or svmna. 0 ~ - -/ I? thize with the "alternative" lifestyle so often associated with Cobain: the drugs, the obvious mental instability the alienation, the rifts in his mar xiage and band. Or that Nirvana was connected with the grunge scene ol Seattle, a place where everyone is cool. However, I will celebrate and defend Cobain's unbridled passion foi rock 'n' roll. With "Nevermind" (1991) and "In Utero" (1993), he established himself as having the keenest eyes and ears in popular music. Cobain's lyrics were often obscure, but they somehow made perfect sense within the context of his music. And sonically, Nirvana thrashed, wailed and raised pure-T rock 'n' roll hell. Cobain, who was 27 when he died, is the latest in a long line of young musicians ? Hank Williams, Lowell George, Jimi Hendrix ? who literally killed themselves with too much creativity and intensity. Maybe their personalities were addictive; mavhe it's imnnssihle tn tell fart J f ? from fantasy when you sleep all day Write You know ; The Gamecock wants y< ^editor about something your goat. You probabl to come up with sometf what's really on your mi "?aiHtcock ? Student Media Russell House-USC* to * J.T. Wagenheim | Nancy Salomonsk Editor in Chief Carolina! Editor 1 Lee Clontz Tony Sanlori *, Viewpoint* Editor SPortl Editor /Carson Henderson David Mandrell ^ Copy Desk Chief I^1010 E^tor Gordon Manlier Chris Muldrow Copy Desk Chief Graphics Editor , Wendy Hudson Nora Doyle "i News Editor Ne** 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 ol South Carolina. The Board of Student Publication and Cotmnunicatiou to the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department ol Student Media is its parent organizatiao. iftcock g use Sinct 1908 rhief Lee Clontz, Viewpoints Editor ?rlal Board >n Henderson, Gordon Mantler, nonsky, Tony Santori e yearbook, magazine ry in changing times ublications and Communications voted sources of the Garnet & Black yearbook izine into one quarterly magazine was a ressary to fill a growing deficit left by the 'ou have purchased the 1994 book, while for publication in the annual. After each stacks are distributed across campus. But j next issue comes out when piles of the delivery crews. xx>k has left it almost >25,000 in the red, ime. No telling how much more producthe deficit. I't care if USC has a yearbook. That's undon't know many of the feces in it, conit USC. In high school, yearbooks were a ou probably spent 12 years of your eduople and got to know one another feirly le up to have their pictures for their yearrtien they forgot to place an early order r left over for them. (lack Quarterly, or GBQ, will be a more ublication that will cater to more of you, vc addition to your coffee table. rget about Portfolio. There will be a litr the same amount of space as Portfolio, o the literary section the chance to have old tradition of the Garnet & Black yearup annually, it will give Carolina a quars and will be able to generate more revle yearbook's debt problems. nsideration from all parties involved to onfident it will be able to combat the aphange in what students want from their >u don't want a yearbook, and we're gore of what you do want. And believe it, airt Cobain: ; all we are' i Carson Henderson COPY DESK CHIEF . and work at your trade all night; ! maybe superstardom isn't an enviable position. Who knows? I just hope Cobain and his rock 'n' roll forefathers are at peace, p Cobain's mother, Wendy O'Con nor 01 ADeraeen, wasn., aptly pinpointed the futility of her son's death: "Now he's gone and joined that stupid club. I told him not to join that stupid club." But somewhere, there is a mean lot of stupid musicians playing up a storm. Cobain and his bandmates, who had reached unimagined levels of success, were scheduled at one point to play this summer's Lollapalooza; those gigs were nixed. Thank goodness. Cobain would not have been at home as part of the ghastly advertising machine; there would be no use playing for the very people who trapped you in the first place. My only prayer is that Cobain's death does not lead to him becom ing an overrated cult figure a la Jim Morrison. Being trapped after death cannot be anymore pleasant than being trapped while alive. a letter, you want to. ou to write a letter to the that has recently gotten ly don't have to dig deep lino T j=?t pvprvnnp lrnnw ind. ws- 777-7726 Chris Carroll w*.iii iij.v Cooidiaatof of Stnde* Media ter5^ng^II7"4249 Laura Day lX. 777-6482 Production Manager Columbia, SC 29208 J Green AsC Productioa Manager y Keith Boudreaux Gregory Perez Aast. News Production Asst. Brian Garland Brian McGuire Asst. Carolina! Graduate Asst. Emilv Peterson Rsner nih<nn Asst. Photo Advertising Manager Jimmy Debutts J. Taylor Rutland Asst. Sports Ant. Advtrtisiig Manager Paul Jon Boscacd Erik Collins Cartoon at Faculty Adviser Lattar? Policy The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. ! Letters should be 200-230 words and must include full name, professional title or year and major if a student. Letters must be personally delivered by the author to The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House roam 321. , The Gamecock reserves the tight to edit all letters for F style, possible libel or space timi tattoos. Names will not be withheld under any circumstances. Viewpoii if "It's going to benefit the community children and parents can get to kn Cattlegate lal Many of you are unaware that I am the only member of the Gamecock editorial staff to have gradu ?UCU UUIII V^ICllldUU UIUYCI^Iiy. lil? CAptllCIILC gIVC5 me a unique advantage in the all-important areas of computer science, engineering, winning football programs and, of course, cows. With that in mind, let us examine the hottest topic in the news this week. First Woman Hillary Rodham Clinton is under fire for investments she made in the cattle futures market in the late '70s. The White House doesn't think Mrs. Clinton did anything improper. Republicans and bloodthirsty members of the media seem to believe otherwise. Who's right? No one knows for sure. But let me lay out the competing schools of thought on "Cattlegate." Scenario No. 1, October 1978: Bill Clinton is about to be elected governor of Arkansas. The man agement of Tyson Foods, America's largest poultry company, is not pleased with this prospect. Tyson is located in Springdale, Ark., and the last thing they need is an environmentally aware liberal governor poking around in their business. Fortunately for the Tyson family, their lawyer, Mr. James Blair, is a close friend of Mrs. Clinton. Blair goes to Hillary and advises her to invest in the commodities market with his broker, Robert "Red" Bone ofRefco Inc. Refco and Bone arc in the habit of using a system of trading known as "parking." Parking in the cattle futures market is much like parking on the USC campus ? you just can't do it legally. Letter misrepresents There * no \ more, this t Pavlov experiment not be aPPi TV and indi To the editor: Observati This is in response to the letter by a different t 'iC 1 n ?? ? ? 1'iiLuat.i nauuiu in nit iviaiv.il {.j is- ory, propos< sue of The Gamecock. Mr. Watford gests that c needs to re-examine his "scientific sponses by light (source)" before he begins to a model ant criticize any more editorials. His let- television c ter was filled with inconsistencies and model of ol misinterpreted information which As in the i thoroughly destroyed what could being able t have been an otherwise effective ar- propriate be gument. supposedly To begin with, his example of the But I hav< Ivan Pavlov experiment was wrongly what is yov presented. The actual experiment in- with Jay Till volved the study of classical condi- and Butt-he tioning, in which an unconditioned off the air a stimulus is paired with a neutral stim- American so ulus to produce a conditioned re- to imply tha sponse. grow up in j The dog hears a bell (neutral stim- cause of "B< ulus) and is then presented with the other shows food (unconditioned stimulus). After Also, you numerous pairings, the dog begins to ty is not fall salivate after only hearing the bell, the media. Should Kurt MN?* He shouldn't. His st ' glorified. The media shou cide is not a solution to pi """""" "No. He was severely dc jyjfn himself because of the pr W 'n' roll business." . *9S??~~m~ ? ' nts -srS f JveGo^^O^ l.ef$ p^&iwtCo-l "OWMfe ANP ?u $W pj^^^AND pake COO j as a whole. It brings them together, v ow one another. It's hard to get peopl safety." hoc* <a1 o mm f/A LVJI pia^ut IU P&t McNeill Wjy COLUMNIST Parking involves making a large number of trades on any given day and deciding afterwards who gets to keep the profits and who gets the losses. This enables a broker to reward friends with large profits or provide them with losses for tax purposes. This continues for 10 months, until Blair cashes out the Clinton account and presents Hillary with a check for almost $100,000. Hillary turns around and gives Baker the $1,000 she owes him for making the trades. Everyone wins, except for the IRS. Then, in a stunning coincidence, Gov. Clinton becomes a good friend of Tyson. Tyson is awarded 4Q million in onvprnmpnt Imns Thp mmnon? ?*?. ceives breaks on regulatory and environmental issues. Gov. Clinton is slow to investigate reports of waste dumping at Tyson's Green Forest plant, and is forced to declare the town a disaster area in 1984 after residents become sick from drinking the polluted water. Blair's broker, Refco, is fined a record 5250,000 for their trading practices. Robert Bone is suspended from trading for three years and eventually files for bankruptcy. Scenario #2 ? Hillary Clinton, operating on her own, turns a 55,300 profit on a 51,000 investment ma2e involved. Further- our elected officials" ? in ype of conditioning can- it should. How can you ag lied to the association of striker of the match and di vidual behavior. the fire? onal learning, however, is Moreover, this world :hing. This particular the- you describe has been her _ji aii . ^ - :a uy aiocri d?uiuuia, aug- invention ot television. Th jrganisms learn new re- of instilling values an< observing the behavior of morality should fell upor 1 then imitating it. Hence, ers and/or guardians of e an be and is an accurate tion and not the media, jservational learning. And yes, it is depressin case of small children not people are easily influent o discriminate what is ap- they see on TV, but the otl :havior, the role of parents of rationally-thinking i would intervene. should not be deprived ; to ask you, Mr. Watford, clearly optional entertain ir argument? You agree Mr. Watford, please ge ey by stating that "Beavis ancj thoughts straight bel :ad" should not be taken struct somebody to conve nd that the duo "mimics philosophy department. nptv" Kilt tK#?n vnii on nn ? ?/> "? ?*? v" iem witn society can be t your 2-year-old son will rearing your son to be an i very decadent world be- gressjVe part of it. ;avis and Butt-head" and express that responsibili- Chemical engineerin ing upon "TV networks, the school systems, and : Cobain be remembered a licide should not be "No. . Id focus on how sui- ere<^ : Laura Till "* Pharmacy freshman '-9 % i I ipressed. He killed BSEZTI "Kurt essures of the rock think Brantley Adams Undecided freshman iTiv/nuaj, npm n, wipe*' V.S' PWJiQE^ I * wJJ M fhich doesn't happen often, and the JL JL ' e to trust and come out because of Kenneth Brown Hendley Homes resident First Family in a single day. She bravely trades on, armed with i nothing more than her Wall Street Journal subscription, until she earns almost 1100,000. Then she drops out of the commodities market, never to return. Although her account records show a $5,300 profit in one day, no one is sure how Mrs. Clinton did it. Tragically, the Clintons failed to keep detailed .?J? ?: 1 i? e?i 1 i ivt-v/iua vsi uh.u uauta iu ic^uucu uy iCUCliU WW. This can be blamed on the faculty of Harvard Law School, which is notoriousrfor its weak tax law program. Many financial experts claim die one-day prof- f it is impossible, but I can think of several possible explanations: 1) The trading records might be incorrect, and the profit was spread out over several days. 2) Hillary invested significantly more than the $ 1,000 listed on her tax return. 3) Somebody extended Mrs. Clinton a long line of credit, which enabled her to make the dozens of v/i rv uai ia incredibly tasteless and crude rfcf?acts erence to the First Lady was so sijr ore you in- Posingrse with his ^1 had never met him'1 probacy Your prob- would not be writing this letter, buj I helped by know Tony has more class than thjs, active, pro- and hopefully in the future, he c^n raise his standards back up to whefe they need to be. ?ryj. Green gfreshman Frank Johnson Secondary education sophomore M is a martyr? '* He shot himself. He shouldn't be consid- 1 a hero. He did good things, but he had ' ems." Tooa Ravenell J Criminal justice freshman J ? t Cobain is treated like a hero, but I don't \ he should be. It is going to happen J se of the commercialism involved." J j Emily Utrner J An history junior j J d trades necessary to make the money. As for the Tyson connection, well, Tyson was one of the biggest companies in Arkansas, and what was good for Tyson was good for jobs, and good for the Arkansas economy. Nothing illegal on that front. No matter which way Cattlegate turns, don't expect the Clintons to escape unscathed. As we should have learned by now, there are enough financial and personal indiscretions in the First Family's past to kept reporters busy until the cows comje home. Pat McNeills column appears every MondA nplying that Santori's 'first bitch' ; ree with the ? isagreewith remark in bad taste : of mayhem jq editor: C 1 would like to agree with what d teaching David Oberly said in his letter to the i the breed- ec^itor APri* 8 in regards to last Mcinach genera- day's sports column. I had the chance to work with Tony g that some Santori earlier in the year, and I fouftd :ed by what him to be a very professional add ter segment friendly person who cared about tt?e nd mdu als quality of the woric he did. That's wjiy