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If tuition goes up, <
students deserve m<
It's that time of year again: pari
tempts to brown-nose your pr
"C." But after the dust has cleai
the roaches have moved from the
place.
The Board of Trustees will gathi
The amount of the increases will n
trust us, there will be an increase.
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We are not here to scream and
derstand they are inevitable. Until s
comes up with a revolutionary pla
tion woes, we must expect, accept
What we do contest, however, i
less. Earlier this semester, the powe
ping certain programs with low en
bers and administrators led a succ<
This past year, we have lost sevei
that could afford to accommodate
The budget for student activities
forcing smaller student organi2atioi
gets.
We continue to hear about this \
better facilities and super academic
fact, it will make us proud to be alu
about now. Are we paying more foi
er be able to benefit from?
We certainly hope not.
Students shouldn't mind paying
as long as they are getting at least tl
If programs are going to be cut, th
then so should what the university
USC is not paying for new progr
ition? There are, of course, econon
ly there are other means of fund ra
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for us, we're not.
Bad food,
make for ?
If there's one thing I've notice<
since I got to college, it's that collegi
students learn to sleep really, reall;
weird hours.
I firmly believe that shot you ge
before you can be admitted to US(
? the one that looks like water be
v cause that is all it is ? also contain
some sort of chemical that render
one unable to successfully go t<
I sleep before the wee hours of th<
morning.
Take Wednesday night, for exam
pie. For an entire week I was look
Iing forward to getting to bed earl}
Wednesday night because I hac
nothing ? except prepare for exam
v and finish my projects ? to do. 1
said, "Hey, why not go see a basebal
game?"
Well, the baseball game turnec
out to be a doubleheader, and it wa<
nearly 11 p.m. by the time I goi
home. Great Plenty of time to sleep
After my first nighttime snack ?
as if I didn't load up on greasy trash
at the baseball game ? of Doritos
and Mountain Dew, which are perihaps
the two most highly consumed
food products on campus, I made
the mistake of sitting in front of the
_ television.
Now if I had spent the next two
hours watching something productive
or enlightening, I wouldn't complain.
I should lie and say I watched
the "Macneil-Lehrer Newshour" or,
for that matter even "Ravwatrh "
Sadly, though, I watched the
WTBS late movie: Dolph Lundgren's
He-Man in "Masters of the Universe,"
which is quite probably the most
lousy movie ever made.
After a bowl of Cocoa Krispies, my
second late night snack, I was prepared
for bed. Still time for a reasonable
night's sleep ? after all, it
was only 2:30 a.m.
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Student Media Russell House-USC*
J.T. Wagenheim Nancy Salomonsk
Editor in Chief Carolina! Editor
Lee Clontz Tony Santori
Viewpoints Editor Sports Editor
Carson Henderson David Mandrell
Copy Desk Chief Photo Editor
Gordon Mantler Chr?s Muldrow
Copy Desk Chief Graphics Editor
Wendy Hudson Nora Doyle
News Editor ^ssl. News
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with the exception of university holidays and exarr
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Chief Lee Clontz, Viewpoints Editor
:orlal Board
on Henderson, Gordon Mantler,
monsky, Tony Santori
2nd it will,
ore for money
king tickets pile up, final exams, last atofessor
into pushing that "D-plus" to a
red from the 1993-94 academic year and
Towers, an important meeting will take
er in June to discuss likely tuition hikes,
ot be determined until the meeting, but
yell and protest these increases; we unome
brainiac economist or businessman
n to cure our funding-for-higher-educaand
pay the increases,
is that it seems we are paying more for
rs-that-be threw around the idea of droprollments.
Luckily, certain faculty memissful
fight to deny these proposed cuts,
rat high-quality professors to institutions
them.
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ns to cut back their already cutback budlaster
Plan, which includes proposals for
: programs. This is all fine and dandy; in
mni of such a great institution. But what
r less and for programs that we will nev,
a few extra dollars for their education
tie same as they did from previous rates,
en so should tuition. If tuition goes up,
offers.
ams, so why is there a need to raise tunic
issues that come into play, but sureising.
y for" usually holds true. Unfortunately
bad movies
;ood night
s Lee Gontz
VIEWPOINTS EDITOR
Then I realized that "Masters of
" the Universe" was only the first of a
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5 Gordon."
That's right, the "Flash Gordon"
' with Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson,
pre-James Bond Timothy Dal ton and
' the unforgettable Max von Sydow as
' Ming the Merciless.
After a glass of chocolate milk, my
brain was freely flowing out of my
ears as 1 spent half my night watch1
ing grown-ups cavort around in absurd
costumes saying inane dialogue
| like: "I have the key to Castle
Greyskull now," and "We've picked
up an obscure body in the S-K system,
your majesty."
By the time I finally got to bed, I
had only a few hours to sleep,
enough sugar and caffeine in my
body to ensure that I was sleeping
as r\pnrrfu11 v as a mafia cmip-ilor
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Ironically, every time I have some
sort of test or project that involves
staying up late, the same sugar and
caffeine that keeps me awake has the
opposite effect. Just tell me I have a
test to study for, and I can chomp
down two Milky Ways and a Big
Gulp Mountain Dew before dozing
off in my chair.
Go figure ? at least I've still got
another year, eh?
ir Word.
WS- 777-7726 Chris Carrt>n
lll-ll*- ? Coordinator of Student Media
Ivertising: 777-4249 Laura Day
lX; 777-6482 Production Manager
Columbia, SC 29208 A Gr!?n
Asst. Production Manager
y | Keith Boudreaux Gregory Perez
Asst. News iroduction Asst.
Brian Garland Brian McGuire
Asst. Carolina! Graduate Asst.
Emily Peterson Renee Gibson
Asst. Photo Advertising Manager
Jimmy Debutts J. Taylor Rutland
Asst. Sports Asa. Advertising Manager
Paul Jon Boscacci Erik Collins
Cartoonist Faculty Adviser
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"I met a lot of people and
was saying hello to a lot
Summer vacai
It's time to leave ol' USC for a few months to go
on summer vacation, which for most of us means
changing locations and either working at career-enriching
summer jobs or washing dishes until two
in the morning at some restaurant, struggling to get
that disk stank off our clothes and trying to talk
waiters out of tip money.
I hope, however, that I have enough free time
this summer to participate in a sport I've sorely
missed being trapped in this urban megalopolis of
Columbia; I want to go fishing.
Actually, my characterization of fishing as a sport
is rather misguided, considering the fact that the
most strenuous exercise you get fishing is hoisting
the cooler full of Sam's American Choice Cola into
the bottom of the boat.
a 10111115 10 an tALtutui pasmiiv- uctdudc yuu gci
to use a boat to do it. I've been in aluminum jon
boats that clanged every time I breathed, were
painted camouflage (apparently to fool the fish into
thinking a forest was floating above them) and
had a permanent puddle of stagnant pond water
floating in the bottom. My dad and I have had to
paddle ashore to empty our wooden swamp boat
because the livewell walls (and, actually, about half
the rest of the boards in the boat) were rotten. The
way to tell an ideal fishing boat is to check for worm
guts baked into the seats.
Speaking of worm guts, bait selection is an important
part of the fishing process.
Worms are juicy and goopy, and you get to watch
them squirm in agony as you chop them in half.
You usually have to chase crickets around the cricket
cage for 10 minutes before you Ret a hold of one.
but they have a cool little collar that's perfect for
hooking. Once you've hooked your cricket, you can
put him down on the boat floor and watch him walk
around. Then you can toss him out and let the fish
eat him. (You know, if I liked crickets and worms, I'd
think this diatribe rather cruel...)
Minnows are, in relative bait terms, expensive as
Gays should be able th fl*"ntir
to show love as well gumy than
every day. C
To the editor: kiss freak y
I believe that journalism such as the raged whe
kind "exhibited" in the April 15 issue woman kiss?
of The Gamecock is wholly necessary. liall tv
it is necessary because people often i think the
do not acknowledge what they do not , . r
see. Point-blank: WE ARE HERE and f
WE ARE NORMAL. evenifyou
Why should we keep hidden? I can- m:\' consic
not walk around campus a single day ^ to exPr(
without some heterosexual couple
kissing or holding hands or embracing
? and there is nothing wrong Vocal
with that. But if you, Mr. Bell, feel we
are throwing our homosexuality in jVfcd ?cJ]
your face, then why are you rubbing ,
with your heterosexuality? I see het- t C<
erosexual couples everyday and the
one time you see a homosexual cou- To the edit*
pie ? you freak out and charge us I am ver)
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"Since I have been here, 1
#"*|| money every semester. It
that's no surprise."
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have to pay for it anyway."
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talked to them and played with them,
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the dickens. (Have you priced a dickens lately? I
didn't think so.) They swim around when you
throw them in the water, though, so you can act
like you've caught a fish when the action is slow.
Artificial lures come in all shapes, sizes, colors,
flavors and features. They actually have lures that
light up. Artificial lures are really neat to play with,
but I've always wondered how they judge what a
fish likes. It's kinda tough to ask a largemouth bass,
"So, do you prefer the shiny silver flashing spoon
or the salt-and-pepper covered plastic worm?"
If I've elected to use artificial lures, I usually buy
at least two very expensive lures to sacrifice to the
underwater tree gods and then use "weedless lures"
the rest of the day. They weedless lures have a covered
hook to guarantee your lure is unencumbered
by underwater obstacles, lilypads, fish, logs and other
things a hook might latch on.
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rvixis aiiu icos arc very inuiviuuai pieces or equipment,
and there are so many different kinds, it is
hard to tell someone what they'd like. I judge the
quality of my rod and reel by the amount of baked
worm guts on the handle.
Looking for productive fishing spots is not difficult.
Usually they have been carefully marked with a nice
arrangement of empty beer cans, bait cans with dirt
and baked worms, line tangled in the trees and a pair
of very old, decayed Fruit of the Looms men's briefs.
I don't know why there's always one pair of underwear
at most fishing sites, but it seems to be there.
Maybe it's a fishing trick I haven't learned.
My favorite fish to fish for (though I never discriminate
which fish are allowed to clamp on my
lg our sexuality. If we tru- someone from the medics
ve are guilty, but no more ports the number of anin
any other couple seen used, it is different. In 1
)r does seeing two men Livewire column in The
ou out? Do you get en- spokeswoman Debra Allt
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n you see a man and a "umoer 01 do animais p
Why not? Sexuality is sex- 4 do8s and 28 P?gs) wci
educational purposes.
major point is that we all However, her numbei
d-given right to love. And Jun<:* to ^ec; ^*? *993. A
don't consider us "nor- U<4 animaU w"e b0U
ler love, the right to love 5e**b<17 dogs: 86 cats'
tss that love, normal. and 989 the s
month period. Now we
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performance freshman Then in the Apri| 2, js
State, we find out more
tool numbers *9,801 rodents, 104 dog;
rmcicfpnt 217 rabbits' 49 pigs and '
jmiaiciu ians. Can't they even cc
medical school?
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My favorite part of the day
Drking at the computer."
Cary Coryell
mghter of Honors College Student Adviser David Coryell
ne for fishing
hook) is the bluegill, or bream. Bream are called panfish
because they are very adept at panning a video
camera, a technique used to capture an image ol
someone in motion. Bream are abundant in any
pond, lake, river, rain puddle or bathroom sink in
South Carolina, and they bite just about anything.
Bream reproduce rapidly, so you can catch one,
throw it in your fish bucket and come home with
roughly 300 fish. If you catch a bream too small to
keep, make sure you throw it back for away from your
hook because they are masochistic fish who love to
come back, grab your line and get reeled in just to
say hello to you, their friend the fisherman person.
Once you've caught a couple thousand fish, bring
them home and clean them. This involves scraping
all the scales off the fish and onto your shirt. Then
fillet the fish with a few skillful cuts, put some BandAids
on your fingers to control the bleeding and
prepare to cook. A fish caught in South Carolina is
best cooked by dropping the breaded fish into oil
heated to several degrees hotter than the sun on a
makeshift fish cooker, which is usually a wheel rim
with a gas burner connected to it. A good fish cooker
probably has traces of worm guts on the burner.
As srtrtn at fKp ficH Kite rhp /-\il n*?t it nut
throw in the next one. After you've finished, chop
up some potatoes and make french fries the same
way. If you can't feel your arteries hardening as you
cook, you're not doing it right.
The final step in fishing is making up a good fish
story. I usually tell about the fish that I caught that
stood up in my boat, started to recite Shakespeare
and promised me a career in theater promotion if
I let him go free. Then I point out the piece of fish
that the person is eating and say, "I told him I'm
going into the newspaper business and he just told
me, 'Okay, fry me up.'"
Well, all this fish talk is making me want to go
outside and throw a line in the reflecting pond. I
guess I should wipe these baked worm guts off the
keyboard first.
J school re- hours and cut into while having untals
they've known amounts of anesthesia, we
:he Jan. 21 find this type of torture inhumane.
State, USC Ask Yale University if it is possible to
:n quotes a teach surgery without using dogs,
rats, 8 cats, Why won't anyone from the mede
used for ical school debate with a member of
the Physicians Committee for Re's
are from sponsible Medicine? This is a taxpaylso
she said er issue so all taxpayers deserve to
ght for re- know what is going on. The medical
50 rabbits school is the epitome of the backward
ame seven- South and needs to join the 20th cenhave
Bob tury before it ends.
1 Lader: 37
n 1993. David Oberly II
sue of The Geology junior
numbers:
5, 170 cats, Editor's note: According to USC's
>0 amphib- Media Relations Department, 104
?unt at the dogs, 170 cats, 217 rabbits, 49pigs,
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iy,o\Ji ruuerus unu yv umpowians
less dog, a were used in research projects in the
a table for 1993fiscal year.
t you?
on't affect me because I am graduating,
\ percent is a fair increase. It goes up
year. You sort of expect it after being a
nt here for a while."
Maceo Mitchell
Management information systems senior
apset, of course. It's disappointing, but not
pected. Compared to what others pay,
we have is not that big of a deal."
Allison Williams
Journalism sophomore