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Strvint USC.
J.T. Wagenheim, Editor in Chief
Editorial
Wendy Hudson, Carson Hei
Nancy Salomonsk
Playboy
Magazine celebrates '
will not destroy USC'i
The past rew days, some strangers I
locals aren't too happy about it. 1
rock for the past week, you've pn
tatives from Playboy magazine are in to
pose in the buff for their annual colleg<
The magazine picks a different athlei
tober issue, and 1994 is the year far "Gii
About 85 USC women tried out for a s
of them having never posed nude befoi
As to be expected, there is a contingi
exactly like the presence of the classic n
after all.
Many students don't seem to mind Pla
response from the student body has be
The furor over Playboy is typical ? cc
azine's college issues with some group
young women.
Wrong. The competition for this pit
women who succeed in getting into the
ed as campus heroes. This is exploitatic
The Playboy campus issue has a lot ir
annual swimsuit issue. People claim thai
ity and society and convert men into ra
Wrong again. Exposure to erotic mai
mild nature of Playboy, have never beer
ual perversion. Most people, at some poi
to erotic materials; if they were inhere
would spread throughout the entire po
The fact of the matter is, Playboy has
cated, "girl-next-door" image. True, the j
but the Playboy image is hardly that of th
wnnlH lilf#? tr\ thinlf
The women posing are having fun ?
When the October issue of Playboy is
two choices. If you don't like the maga
you can buy a copy and be proud to set
adventurous young woman having a g
Just a person who could well be the gir
Electronics <
take place o
The once seemingly impossible
has come true: Computers are to replace
books. Reading a book, a sarrpH
inctihitinn ic Kprnmino o mm.
puter screen instead of a collection
of pages. Technology triumphs
again! Or does it?
Call me old-fashioned or just plain
old, but I don't like the idea of experiencing
the horror of Bram Stoker's
"Dracula" on a bright, well-lit
screen of glass. After all, the gothicism
of a dark tale is not easily perceived
when a passage of a lonely, (
gloom-filled castle lurks from the t
blue or white field of a computer c
monitor. .
There are a few advantages of j
reading from plastic, such as the j
ease of portability and the added effects
of computer graphics. OK,
hooray for being able to carry six
books on a three-and-a-half-inch
square.
However, as for computer graphics,
I ask, "Whatever happened to
imagination?" Some people actually
like to create the author's scene in
their mind. Willa Cather's flamingred
fields of Nebraska's prairies lose (
their open expanse and depth as a ^
digital image. ^
Computer images of the fantastic (
seem like a great idea, but those im- s
ages are someone else's interpreta- [
tions. If I wanted to see the movie, 1
then I would have gone to the the- t
ater. Reading Mary Shelley's
"Frankenstein" convinced me that i
no movie could depict the hideous <
face of the monster better than the <
face that I had imagined. Books give j
the mind a healthy workout <
Though I do not like the idea of i
computerized literature, I must give
credit to its positive benefits. To I
those who have impaired vision, the ?
computer offers the aid of enlarge* i
ment so the words are easily read, i
News:
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Student Media Russell House-USO Col
J.T. Wagenheim Nancy Salomonsky
Editor in Chief Carolina! Editor
Lee Clontz Tony Santori
Viewpoints Editor SporU Editor
Carson Henderson Da^d Mandrell
Copy Deak Chief Photo Editor
Gordon Mantler Oiris Mtddrow
Copy Desk Chief Graphtcs Editor
Wendy Hudson Nora Doyle
New, Editor A?L Ncw'
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1 Lee Gontz, Viewpoints Editor
Board
iderson, Gordon Man tier,
y, Tony Santori
girl-next-door,'
> image
tave been in town, and some of the
Unless you've been hiding under a
>bably already heard that represenwn
looking for some local talent to
: issue.
tic conference each vear for its Or
is of the Southeastern Conference."
>pot in the legendary pictorial; most
re.
ent in the community who doesn't
len's magazine ? this is the South,
tyboy's presence on campus. In fact,
en surprisingly quiet.
>ntroversy seems to follow the mag>s
claiming that the nudity exploits
ctorial is incredibly tight, and the
magazine's pages are usually treat>n?
1 common with Sports Illustrated's
t it will be the destruction of moralpists
and woman-haters,
terials, particularly those of such a
1 proven to lead to violence or sexint
in their lives, have been exposed
ntly dangerous, mental instability
pulation of the United States,
always backed a wholesome, edujirl
next door was probably clothed,
e submissive harlot that some moral
they wouldn't do it otherwise.
released this Senfemher vnn have
- ~ 'r w
izine, you don't have to buy it. Or,
' the Gamecocks represented by an
ood time. Not a harlot. Not a slut.
1 next door. t)
:an never
f books '
e
u
Joseph Eberlin 6
COLUMNIST
Also, the programs can track a ?
rharacter's appearances throughout v
he novel. By doing this, the reader
enables himself to realize the imxwtance
of a character without havng
to flip through several pages to
ind critical information. ,
But this technology spoils the ex- '
;rcise of retaining details. I want a (
itory with all of its components from
he introduction up to the climax i
uid down to the resolution. A sumnary
is just a summary. It lacks all ;
;ense of artwork, mastery and- ere- t
itivity that the writer strives to per- (
ect t
Where does the computerized 1
lovel leave us? In a state of laziness }
vhere our mind no longer has to i
vork to construct a story's compliated
network. The work becomes a I
skeleton and lacks all of its flesh and
flood ? the parts that give a book
ife. Give us the story; we want all
he details.
vji course, inc progi .una ium a
nere 119.95, along with a comput;r
that costs a couple of thousand
lollars. On the other hand, spend
tbout four or five dollars and get
in afternoon of self-made adven:ure.
Another thought: The computer is
heavier than the book, and to quote
:>ne avid reader, "I can't imagine taking
one (a computer) into the bathroom."
___ __0, Chris Carroll
///-// a 0 CoonSnaot of Student Media
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777-6482 Production Manager
lumbia, SC 29208 J] Gr!!n
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Asst. News Production Asst.
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Asst Carolina! Graduate Asst.
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Asst. Photo Advertising Manager
Jimmy Debutts J. Taylor Rutland
Asm. Sports As*. Advertising Manager
Paul Jon Boscacci Erik Collins
Cartoonist Faculty Adviser
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KB ! I i .d&??k
'A lot of women at
Kennedy f
when I began writing tor l he oam<
lonths ago, I started with one purpo
o get the conservative viewpoint expr
?ut any censorship. My feeling was tha
art, then I would be contributing to tl
ortant cause in America today. The cac
ily, is to pull American governmental
o the traditional base on which it was
I believe that if enough Americans an
ach important issue and the true positi
?sue, then there will be a real "revolui
ountry. The American public is not gc
inue to be manipulated by liberal spe
dvocates who are continually condi
tew-age socialist experiments on the An
ile.
I have spent most of my column spa<
rig issues, positions and ideas. This w
3 dedicate my column to the status of
lay and the efforts of the thousands of;
re making a difference.
There is no doubt in my mind that
rucial point in modern history. The
>ver, and around the world democracy
d communism and socialism. But, 1
world's greatest democracy, discontc
pread. Polls continue to show the Am
>le are greatly dissatisfied with our eleci
Pro-gay posters
embarrassing to USC
to the editor:
As a student at this university, I am
ippalled by the direction this instituion
is going. I was walking through
-ioker Lite science today, and I noiced
these pro-gay fliers put up by the
3GLA with messages like "2,4,6,8, do
vou know if your RA is straight?" This
s outrageous!
Is this the image that we want to
x>rtray at this university? When high
?chool seniors come to tour our university
with their parents, do we acually
think that these fliers will influence
the "normal" person that this is
the university for them?
Personally, if I would have seen
these type of fliers when my mother
md I visited the campus, I would
have been scared to sign up for on.
i T- ?- _ 1?^1_
campus nousing. n is a iiiuc ingiucning
to a young, straight male like myself,
to think that the leader on my
hall, whose rules I must obey, is a homosexual.
This would dissuade me from living
on that hall. If this is a move by the
BGLA to pick up new partners, maybe
they should think twice before they
make another move like this. Things
like this could ruin the reputation of
m M
~ " ? "Personally, I'
mem son wanted tc
>oints
...FLOGGING FOR
SPRAY-PAINTING?
mrs iiNrnKKCifMBLE
rlllfi .A
. 1 _ -r T _ C T^l _ J _
uie university or norma w
all the time. Showing eve
>hining li^
icock a few I jMk I
se
essed with- fl
t if I did my r
be most imise,
put simpolicy
back L IBMr
conceived. ' "^1
e oresented The polls also show tl
* ?
ons on each overall decline in mors
Lion" in this the most severe proble
ring to Von-White these probter
cial interest * ^rdupfs'atrosTiniVcbui
icting their about'change.For exai
lerican peo- fighting for economic
and for putting values
:e in expos- rooms,
eek, I want Project 21, a group 01
America to- is attempting to educati
people who that are important to th
are showing young blac
we are at a hard work and traditic
cold war is each of them a real opf
' has defeat- And, of course, there
here in the political, religious and
;nt is wide- real difference in Amer
erican peo- One congressman st
ted officials, for conservatives ever
E
this fine, Southern university.
If the BGLA wonders why so man
"normal" people discriminate agains
them, it is for incidents such as these
Just because you are "out" and no
"in," like your fliers say, it doesn'
mean you have to let the world know
I am sorry that I missed the het
erosexual fliers. I forgot to put up m
"it's great to be normal" fliers. I hop
this can be a learning experience fc
all of us and for the next "gay week
Maybe fliers will be reviewed befor
they are allowed to be put up. With th
concern of the university about the ris
in off-campus living and our housin
department losing money for the lac
of occupancy, it seems to me that w
would try to encourage and not di:
courage students to live on campu:
Stacey Griffit
SG senate
Pooper scooper law
needed on Horseshoe
To the editor:
Ah, spring at USC.
The birds happily chirp away.
The warm sun burns away the col
_ r ^
oi winter.
The flowers and azaleas are in fu
E
/ill the Playboy sh
l't bother me. I wouldn't do it,
vant to, that's their business."
Amy Liston
Political science sophomore
m against it, but if another per>
do it, it's their choice."
Amy Dietz
Theater freshman
I YEAH. J PREFER 1
, |[ LIFE WITHOUT
i PAROLE. |
ould pose nude because they're in
rything is nothing to them."
>ht for conse:
cause of who he is.
II. He is the son oft
Tommy Touchbeiry his name bears this
legacy.
COLUMNIST But Kenned:
Democrat who has j
violent criminals, th
le economy, crime and an NAFTA, school-pra)
il and ethical standards are "*8 federal aid to sc
ms facing our nation. teach abstinence in
ns persist, there are many tslation that negati
itry that are trying to bring Kennedy describe
mple, Empower America is mon sense and corn
freedom for all Americans votes were influenc
back into America's class- \y? Kennedy also s<
cratic party stood u
fyoung black conservatives, and be proud of it."
e other minorities on issues Kenned js a sh(l
em and thetr fimuhes. They cause ^ the ^
k Americans that education, , , ., ,
>nal family values will give wher5 should 'ake
xtrtunity to succeed. proof positive that,
: are many other groups ? tional base,
social ? that are making a Remember, whetl
ica today. mocrat, Christian or
ands out as a shining light ing for what is right
pwhere. He stands out be- the truth will prevai
bloom on the Horseshoe. Their scent shoe :
y is lovely (sniffj sniff). OMIGOD, WHAT woul(
it IS THAT SMELL? back ii
Check your feet. It's probably dog to say
t poop. but th
t Yep, it's that time of year again. The It w
r. temperature goes up, turning the a few
Horseshoe into a virtual doggie doo think
r9S<Pirvlp Hicls TKic ic rko ?ki>vl uoor I'llP fppHc
y V4WII. A11U u Uiu U1UU JVAi A ?W *VVV*a
been on the Horseshoe and the third a day
>r year I've endured this olfactory torture, mani
? For those of you fortunate enough aren'
^ to never suffer the indignities of slip- do th<
e ping in a pile, let me set the stage. It's ing ol
c Saturday, and you don't have an ex- dents
am, paper or project due for two cours
? weeks. You're taking it easy. You call I h
up a friend. "Wanna go toss the Fris- stead
e bee on USC's historic and beautiful minis
s" Horseshoe?" "Sure, that sounds pRsfi?
s* great!" (Raise your hand if you know on tl
where this is going.) scoop
You throw the disk to your friend, who:
,r Good catch. He throws it back. It their
arches out to the right. You run to clean
catch it. You put your right foot lyrigl
down. It goes sailing up. You fall Th
smack into the culprit. Once you get prosj
over the horrifying shock of lying in famil)
feces, you race to your room, burn of th
vour clothes and take a scaldine hot thin!
shower to purify yourself. grout
d if you think this sounds extreme
and completely implausible, you
11 should have been out on the Horse5223?
oot hurt USC's image?
?~~~ "It doesn't bother me
r
| ~ "It's their bodies, and t)
want with them. If you
0
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bathing suits
David Chan
Playboy <photographef
rvatives
His name is Joseph P. Kennedy
he late Robert F. Kennedy, and
nation's most powerful liberal
y, D-Mass., is no liberal. He is a
supported the death penalty for
e Balanced Budged Agreement,
rer legislation, legislation halt*
hools that do not continuously
their sex-ed programs and legvely
portrays homosexuality,
sd his votes as a result of comstructive
leadership. He said his
ed by "God, country and familid,
"It's about time the Demoip
for some of the basic values
f
ling light for the conservative
lean cause. Conservatives everyheed
of Rep. Kennedy. He is
\merica can return to its tradi- ler
you are a Republican or DeJew,
white or black, keep fight.
America is too important, and
il.
Saturday, April 17, 1993. You
1 have seen yours truly on his
n crap. Why have I waited a year
anything? I've tried to block it,
e truth must be heard,
ouldn't be so bad if it were just
dogs every now and then. But I
every dog owner in Columbia
their pets laxatives three times
and then brings their panting
ire factories to campus. These
t even students. They come in,
eir business and leave, not thinkf
the inconsideration to the stuwho
must traverse this obstacle
e in order to get an education,
ave a proposal for the SG. Inof
lofty goals set by every adoration
that never get accom
*i, lower your signts to me aung
le ground. Create a pooper
>er law whereby all dog owners,
ire completely welcome to bring
pooches to the Horseshoe, must
up after their pets. It seems onht.
ic
is is USC's port of entry. Every
jective student and his or her
r begin their tour at the very foot
e Horseshoe. Don't let them
k we're the city's dumping
id.
Jamie Williams
Journalism junior
1
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. It's up to the individVictoria
Mitchell
Criminal justice freshman
hey can do whatever they
don't like it, then don't
Cullen Nolan
English history senior