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J.T. Wagenheim, Editor in Chit
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Wendy Hudson, Carson I
' Nancy Salomon
Advice
Common sense, prec
personal strife, sumn
*^ior better or worse, the semestei
. IH for a few grueling days of final
J- again about to split apart, head 1
summer school.
Whatever you do, the summer offei
student looking to better him or hers<
time.
But first, there are still exams.
' Many students, in their quest to gc
hall confines, don't pay enough atte
Grades can hinge on the performanc
"and there's no point in blowing it now
and before you know it, you'll be wisl
Depending on where you are, the j
money or keep plugging through das
to vegetate. At best, you've got a sumi
Before we leave you, a few words c
Jl If vou're eoine to he havino sex th
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doms. Sure, it's a trite thing to say, bi
ease because you were too lazy or sh)
If you're going to drink this sumnu
before, but people still do it. You're a
responsibility and respect for other di
If you're going out in the sun, wea
not your mother, but unless you wai
^ yourself a favor by wearing a little 15.
Okay, enough grandstanding. We're
tie closer to it than we were when we
forget to take care of yourself.
As for us, The Gamecock will returr
1908. If you're graduating, best of luck
returning, don't forget to pick us up c
The Gamecock wishes its readers a
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^ Another column? But.. I'm in the
middle of exams! No, faithful readers,
I don't have the time to give you
a proper summer sendoff. But we
will take a last look at some of the
highlights of the year gone by. It is
time to open the McNeill quotebook:
"If I could be the 'condom queen'
and get every young person who is
'engaged in sex to use a condom, I
would wear a crown on my head
with a condom on it. I would!"
-Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders
I don't know about that condom
job, but I tbink I could arrange a
tryout with the folks at Imperial
Margarine.
"Michael Bolton ripped off the Is|Jey
Brothers for the song 'Love is a
Wonderful Thing,' a Los Angeles jury
found Monday."
-Associated Press report
Too bad be didn't steal any talent
to go with it...
"The AMA is not great God
almighty."
-Dr. Alvin Harris, the Virginia "execution
doctor."
Dr. Kervorkian, on the other
band...
"Any physician who is a real physician
would care for nothing, nothing,
nothing other than welfare of
his patient."
-Dr. Jack Kervorkian
A little carbon monoxide might
improve the good doctor's welfare.
"Richard Nixon was the corrupt
leader of a corrupt administration.
He tried to stymie the judiciary,
shackle the press, sabotage the opposition
and silence the dissenters."
Michael Gartner, former president
of NBC News
It's a pity Nixon never did anything
honorable ? like blowing up
^GM pickup trucks.
"We're not trying to create new
law here. What we're really trying to
do is to avoid having everything tested
in court."
-Associate Attorney General Bill
Bryson, explaining the new admin
hsaifficock?
Student Media Russell House-USO C
J.T. Wagenheim Nancy Salomonsky
Editor In Chief Carolina! Editor
Lee Clontz Tony Santori
Viewpoints Editor Sports Editor
Carson Henderson David Mandrell
Copy Desk Chief Photo Editor
Gordon Manlier Chris Mold row
Copy Desk Chief Graphics Editor
Wendy Hudson Nora Doyle
News Editor Asst. New.
The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the
University of Sooth 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
South Carolina.
' The Board of Student Publications and Communications
is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of
Student Media is its parent organization.
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SC Since 1908
>.f Lee Gontz, Viewpoints Editor
al Board
Henderson, Gordon Mantler,
isky, Tony Santori
autions can prevent
ner tragedy
r has reached its inevitable end, save
exams. The USC community is once
tome, graduate, go to work or stay in
s a vast array of opportunities for the
;lf or merely to relax and have a good
:t home and get out of the residence
:ntion to their finals ? big mistake,
e delivered over the next two weeks
We're going down the home stretch,
hing you were back,
summer is fuH of ways to relax, make
ses. At worst, you've got four months
mer you'll never forget.
if advice are in order:
lis summer, don't forget about conit
there's no reason to contract a disr
to take care of yourself.
;r, don't drive. Again, you've heard it
m adult now; act like it. Show a little
rivers.
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it leathery, dry skin, you'll be doing
all adults now, or at least we're a litarrived
at USC in the fall. Just don't
1 in the fall, as it has every year since
in all your future endeavors. If you're
>n the first Friday of classes,
terrific and safe summer.
ikes look
i quotes
Rat McNeill
COLUMNIST
istration policy of asking public
housing occupants to waive their
First Amendment rights
What do poor people need the
Fourth Amendment for anyway?
"USC needs someone who is offensively
prone."
-A Carolina junior, when asked in
The Gamecock what type of football
coach the Gamecocks need
With all due respect, we bad
James Holderman bere jor years
and we STILL couldn't win a bowl
game.
"This is not a sport. This is a
solemn responsibility."
-President Clinton, discussing teenage
sex with Washington, D.C., students
Maybe the president is onto something.
..
"Until those folks get tired of
killing each other over there, bad
things will continue to happen."
-President Clinton, explaining
I Bosnia
Then again, maybe tbe president
is ON something.
"Don't believe a word you hear. It
was not suicide. It couldn't have
been."
-Associate Attorney General Webster
Hubbell, on the night of Vincent
Foster's death
Gee, I wonder why people were
even suspicions.
"This is not the end. It is not even
the beginning of the end. But it is,
perhaps, the end of the beginning."
-Winston Churchill
'Nuff said. See ya.
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Jimmy Debutts J. Taylor Rutland
Asst. Sports Asst. Advertising Manager
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Letters Policy
The Gamecock will try to print all tellers received.
Letters should be 200-250 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 room 321.
The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for
style, possible libel or space limitations. Names will not
be withheld under any circumstances.
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Final issue caus<
Please beware, this column may seem a bit esoteric,
but I think it is necessary because this is the
last Gamecock I'll be a part of. Bear with me.
As my fellow-staffers, who I consider my closest
friends, can attest, I've been a bit moody lately.
These past few issues, I've thrown X-acto knives
across the production room, yelled at people for
no reason and have been just a big old jerk.
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Especially when a group of 15-plus people get to- s
gether three-times-a-week, every week, stay as late ^
as 11 p.m., and eat, sleep and breathe together ? ?
all just to put out a newspaper. No, we're not com- s
pletely nuts. Well, yeh, we are.
The reason I've been acting this way is because I (
am having trouble feeing the feet that this is it for me. j
I'm depressed that it's over. I've spent practically every
Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday night in the newsroom
since I came to Carolina in 1991. I've written 208 sto- j
ries or columns, received dozens of letters condemning
my opinions, sometimes (well, rarely) supporting
them and have made some of the closest
friends I'll probably ever make. And now it's over. ]
To most, I'm another one of those Damn Yankees
who shouldn't be meddling in Southern affairs.
To some, I hope, I am someone who has pro- 4
voked thought and debate about the issues that fece 5
our generation. That's what I've tried to do anyway. )
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people who I would like to thank who have made 1
my job easier and have been a pleasure to work 1
with during the past few years. You see their names A
in the box below every day, but rarely do you stop
to examine who it is that puts this paper together. 2
Consider this part like an Oscar-winning speech. 1
Lee Clontz, my good friend, Viewpoints editor
and most importantly, my successor. You will con- s
tinue to make this paper something which readers 1
either love to hate or hate to love.
Nancy Salomonsky, my co-conspirator in this ^
GDIs must fight the'ife ?fa'
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establishment iow me to eu
son not in a fi
To the editor: acronym GDI
Imagine, if you will, a party or so- print. If you i
rial gathering of any kind. You are a the nearest p<
GDI, and you're trying to wade on their shirt
through a sea of Greek letters that fill have to wait
the room. Suddenly, you make eye For the purp
contact with the girl of your dreams, shall continu
You stroll across the room and get Life for our br
enough courage to talk to her. Slow- easy.
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away and you are hitting it off with GDIs is a strc
her. Then your dreams are suddenly we face disci
smashed against the rocky shore of re- race, color or
ality. She has found out that you are son GDIs are
not in a fraternity. Now her biggest because we c
priority in life is to get as far away being an indh
from you as possible. Well, now you Unfortunately
have to face the facts: you have been left behind
deemed a leper, a castaway with no reemerged i
funny letters to save you. Deltas, Sigma
This is just one typical evening in These nev
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iffr ^l! EDITOR'S NOTE s
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Time we call journalism. Your personality and good I
ense of humor have made my time here a pleasure. 1
fou deserve the best and I know you will get it. You
ire also a knoches machine and the best back >
icratcher ever! \
Wendy Hudson, our pristine news editor whose
ledication and respect for quality journalism has t
telped to restore our credibility. You're more than r
ust a good typist.
Gordon Mantler, your coverage of the situations s
n Russia, Bosnia and the Middle East has made you \
>ur most valuable correspondent.
Carson Henderson, ahhh Hell, your Southern 1
vays have never ceased to shock me, and I would t
ear the world with you as our leader.
Tony Santori, you've made Rodusky proud by r
rontinuing his tradition ot running big graphics in- r
:tead of filler. Sorry if I ever talked too loud when
rou were hungover.
Greg Perez, we've fought it out over design ideas,
>ut in the end, we always came to a peaceful compromise.
You've got great talent and I know you
vill be successful. At what, I've no idea.
Chris Muldrow, you are our resident Beardman
ind ferret lover. Thanks for putting up with those
ate graphics requests.
David Mandrell, our staff nursing major and
.ports photographer. I apologize to anyone he ofended
while taking Voices pictures.
Brian McGuire, you have always had the right size
vrench to help me fix my Ghia and have always had
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as to what a GDI is, al- huge mixers that are a mc
iborate. A GDI is a per- sion of "speakeasies." The
aternity or sorority. The are for Greeks only, well, u
I is something I cannot one gets drunk. Then evei
nust know, simply find Ripper could walk in and
srson with Greek letters would hand him a beer! ]
and ask them. (You may GDIs, did we ask for this b
for them to sober up!) crimination? The time has
oses of this letter, we us to take what we deserve,
e to use the term GDI. can't hold us down forever
ave people is not always to fight this oppression.
phrase Malcolm X, we didr
discrimination that faces the quad, the quad landed
>ng barrier indeed. Do Does this sound unbeli
rimination because of may be an exaggeration, a
sex? No. The simple rea- I'm ranting and raving, bi
discriminated against is mean streets for a college gi
lidn't conform. I guess Greek letters. So to all y
ridnal has its down side sororirv oirls oiv#? thsr r?/
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, the cliques many of us chance. He can't be too b
in high school have you fraternity guys, if this
n a bombardment of fends you, I'd like to apol
s and Kappas. like to, but I can't!
r cliques have govern- All I can say is lighten u|
at are your summer plans
11 be on a summer JMfcN 1 ^ **
I'll be in summer Nothin
bert Livingston
ater science freshman
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isk kids doing job F" |[T "I'm g
foe Matuskovic
iriminal justice senior
go on a vacation this summer.
3."
Chris Beard
giving his $1400 Jostens travel voucher to his parents
tiark moments
he answer to the question, "Can I get sued for rusting
this?".
To all of the assistants: Nora Doyle, Keith
ioudoir, Jimmy DeButts, Brian Garland, Emily Peerson
and Tara Potzler: you guys have been an as;et
to our program, and I thank you for your hard
vork that sometimes went unnoticed.
Then there's the Student Media professional staff,
.aura Dav thanks for pptrino mp tn on tr> aprnhir*
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ast summer and for listening to my sob storie$.
Jim Green, your advice has beeh appreciated.
XTiether I always took it was another story, and 1
vas the one who sometimes suffered as a result
Renee Gibson, thanks for being a friend, but no
hanks for the 20-pagers that kept us here till micf
tight!
Chris Carroll, you have tremendous respect for
tudent journalists and your understanding of our
voes has helped make us more successful.
Belinda Irby, happy Secretary's Day! Thanks for
aughing at my jokes and for the candy. You're the
>est.
Thanks to all of the Student Affairs staff too! Jery
Brewer and Patti Tomanio have always backed
uy uctaaiuiia ?uiu mulk up lor iuc wncii lraic pco)le
called them complaining. And thanks to the
toard of Pubs for having the confidence in me to
un this rag a second time around.
But most importantly, thanks to you ? our read;
:rs. We have done our best to serve you. In the end;
'ou've come to hate us, love us, damn us and bless
is. Man, this is the sappiest, most egocentric thing
've ever written. This is exactly the kind of column
've tried to keep out of the Viewpoints section,
feh, I could have sent a Hallmark, but I wanted all
>f you to know the way it is.
I'm a little vaklempt. Talk among yourselves. TopJ
c: lame duck editors trying to cope with the faci
t's over. Discuss.
t organize you ever heard of satire? And to all m
>dern ver- fellow GDIs, rise up and overthro\
se parties the establishment. The sooner w
intil every- tajce COntrol, the sooner I can get
n Jack the date,
someone
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latantdis- Chris Burnsth
come for Political science junio
The MAN
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To para- ter on Friday, April 29, The Game
['t land on cock inadvertently omitted the fol
on us. lowing paragraph. "Also, they like U
evable? It add things to what we have said
nd maybe They try to mislead the public intt
ut they re thinking we protest the progres.
ou lovel ma^e *n biomedical research in syn
x>r GDI a Resizing new life-sustaining drugs
ad To all ^so> ^ Gamecock editors wantyoi
letter of- t0 think anyone who drives on tht
ogize. I'd road does not care about the ivelfan
of animals." The Gamecock regret:
p, haven't the omission.
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: working for the telephone company,
ig exciting."
Ashley Wright
English sophomore
oing home to hopefully find a job ?
I'll take a trip to New York City."
Tammy Lindsay
Political science freshman