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Lee Clontz, Editor in Chief Suss
Editorial
Keith Boudreaux, Lupe E
Jimmy DeButts
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USC has taken one step toward allevi
off a portion of Devine Street. As the affi
full of new students not familiar with the
was certainly a very logical one.
However, the decision by the Columb
open between 7:30 a.m.. and 9 a.m. and
pus events, seems to be a step in the wrc
All-day events, a mainstay of life at t
plan that denies them set-up time. Aftei
closing off Greene Street require an em
evening to break down. Heavy traffic has
the street, let alone hook up cables.
The suggestion to relocate carnivals i
on either side of the reflecting dooI does
Medians with parking meters make the 1
of people. Besides that, the university hi
closing off areas that are always in use.
Though traffic may be hampered by t
during these key times, the prospect of d
price to pay for allowing students a safe ]
tion of their campus events.
After all, we're worth it.
Semester sta
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Chris Muldrow
Columnist
Moving into school is a traumatic
experience for many people.
It basically involves transplanting
everything you own from one
home to another, and most of us college
students own cars only big
enough to hold two people, an Eastpak
full of fresh notebook paper and
a potted plant.
Through the magic of parents,
however, if s possible to fit everything
under your roof into your Honda
Civic with a little air pocket left for
you to drive in.
I've found the best way to decide
when to travel to school is to call your
roommates and find out when they're
going to arrive. You should get there
about six hours after them; that way
they'll be rested from unloading their
stuff and ready for yours. Make sure
to take a director's role as you unload
so none of your very fragile belongings
get scratched. The goal here is
to only carry your Eastpak and your
potted plant, getting someone else to
carry everything else.
Once you've moved in, you must
decorate.
Many people go to Wal-Mart and
buy furniture, but milk crates still
reicm aunreme as the multi-Tmrnose
decorating tool. I find a nice navy
blue milk crate is best for a subtle
ocean view appearance. Orange milk
crates are good for Southwestern
flair. A brown milk crate says, "I'm
an environmentally friendly
chair/table/bookshelf/hamster
cage/trash can."
Posters are an important addition
to any room but be sure to coordinate
your poster with your decor. This
means Budweiser posters if the setin
beer stains on your floor are Budweiser
stains and Busch posters if
they're Busch stains.
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decorated you have to glide through
the highly efficient fee-payment system
here at USC. A warning: I've actually
heard the ladies who work at
the Coliseum talk about sending students
on wild goose chases around
campus when the students were being
horse's rears about their fees.
Don't make them angry...you
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New* Editor A**t. New*
Lupe Eyde Robert Wertz
Features Editor A**t. News
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University of South Carolina and is published Monday,
Wednesday and Prlday during the fall and spring semesters,
with the exception of university holidays and exam
periods.
Opinion* expressed in The Gamecock are those of the
editors or author and not those of the University of
Soe"i Carolina.
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ience traffic
body
jar comes the ever-familiar clash of
and other busy streets around camiating
the problem by recently closing
scted area lies in front of the Towers,
in's and ouf s of campus life, the move
ia Citv Council to keeD Greene Street
4 p.m. and 6 p.m., regardless of earning
direction.
his university, will be hampered by a
r all, most of the events that warrant
tire morning to set up and an entire
never been a good time to walk across
and the like to one of the parking lots
not adequately address the problem,
ots unattractive sites for large groups
as enough parking problems without
he occasional closing of Greene Street
riving an extra block or two is a small
haven for the set-up and implementartup
can be
latto time
wouldn't like them when they're angry
There are scores of ways to pass
your time when waiting in line for financial
aid. The best way I've found
is to play poker for other people's
scholarship checks.
Me: Well, what've you got?
Intrepid scholarship check ownen
Three of a kind, tens.
Me: Hah, I've got a full house!!
I.S.C.O.: Oh great, now Fve gotta
do another year of community college.
You do this to me every year.
After you pay fees, you should use
every dime you have left to buy books
and other school-related goodies.
Books here at USC are apparently
laced with threads of a highly rare
mineral, so their prices are justified.
I always buy used books to save money
and in the hope some old exams
are left folded between the pages. Of
course, usually the old exams were
shoved out when the credit card
forms and magazine subscription
cards were inserted, so I try to set up
a table on Greene Street to sell subscriptions
for a small fee.
I did something new this year as
I moved in, I bought a parking
garage space. This year, though, the
garage spaces went up in price from
$100 to $160 a semester. This increase
in price is designed to provide
each car with a gold-plated parking
card, valet service to your dorm (sorry...residence
hall), free oil changes
for the semester and a Doberman to
tie to the bumper for security.
After you've given the University
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you should go to Wal-Mart and
start using that new credit card you
got at the table in front of Greene
Street from that nice bearded fellow.
I recommend the gargantuan
Wal-Mart beside Columbiana Center;
it's got a McDonalds inside for
those people who make their WalMart
shopping experience an all-day
affair, and if s having a huge grand
opening bash with unlimited sixpacks
of Pepsi for 98 cents a pack. If
your veins are filled with caffeine like
mine, you'll hold off on a couple of
books to have enough money to buy
Pepsi in bulk for that price. We
bought 2,500 six-packs, which work
almost as well as milk crates as furniture,
except they shrink as the year
progresses.
Once you've maxed out your Visa
and your checking account, you can
relax in relative comfort on your milk
crate LaZBoy and prepare for the
start of classes, confident in the
knowledge everything you own will
expand over the school year to an unmanageable
size incapable of fitting
in your car again.
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; 777-6482 Creative Director
ilumbia, SC 29208 Jim Green
Aft Director
Wendy Hudson Gregory Perez
Aaat. Copy Deik Production Asst.
Tanya Kropf Elizabeth Thomas
A?t. Copy Desk Adv. Graduate Asst.
Allison Williams Renee Gibson
Ami. Feature* Advertising Manager
Ryan Wilson Chris Wood
Asst. Sport* AM. Advertising Manager
Jason Jeffers Erik Collins
Cartoonist Faculty Advisor
Lattars Policy
The Gamecock will try to print all letters received.
Letter* 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 11 letters for
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Welcome to the first fall issue of The Gamecock.
For those of you returning to USC, welcome back.
For those of you new to the campus, you're about to
embark on what is likely to be the most important
adventure of your life.
The newspaper that you hold in your hands is significant
for a number of reasons.
First, this is the largest issue of The Gamecock
ever produced, by a significant margin. We are wildly
pleased to see that the Columbia community continues
to support our efforts.
Second, you may notice the paper's redesign. Many
changes were made both in design and content to
make the paper more useful for you, our readers.
One change that will affect many campus organizations
and their members is the alteration of the
Datebook section. It will now appear in the news seo
tion, with an events calendar taking its place in features.
The added exposure of the news section will
hopefully draw more attention to campus events and
make them easier to find. Datebook will be replaced
in Carolina! by an entertainment and audition calendar.
The Gamecock is once again an Associated Press
newspaper, so look forward to more timely national
and state stories.
The Notebook section on the front page will feature
announcements from campus organizations or
information about upcoming events on campus. Bear
SG vows to build (
Welcome back to Carolina! I hope that each of you
had an enjoyable summer. Student Government
worked extremely hard this summer on important issues.
I want to take this opportunity to update you on
some of our accomplishments and goals.
Many of the students living on campus will immediately
notice a revised visitation policy that is
more flexible. This policy is the result of hard work by
students involved in the Residence Hall Association
and Student Government. I hope that it meets the desires
of our on-campus residents. We hope to continue
making housing improvements.
Student Government raised more than $3,000 this
summer through fund raising and corporate sponsorship.
A large amount of this money will go toward the
homecoming activities for prize money and advertising.
We also plan to use some of the money to hire a
graduate assistant for the South Carolina Students'
Association. This association is a statewide coalition
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01 scnoois. V/urrenuy, auoui ven scnouis are represented
in the coalition. Together, we hope to effectively
lobby the state legislature for higher education funding.
Student Government also reviewed campus safeHow
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in mind that space is limited, so we won't always be
able to get in everyone's announcements. The sooner
we get them, the better your chances.
The Gamecock is home to some new comics.
"Dave" is gone, mercifully, replaced by "Mr. Boffo,"
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puzzle, which should thrill professors across campus.
The Gamecock is looking ahead to some very exciting
changes in the upcoming months. A change in
the publication schedule is a possibility being investigated,
as well as CockNet, an Internet-accessible
version of the paper's text.
The Gamecock is intended to serve a number of
purposes for USCs students, faculty and staff.
We are an information source ? the most recognized
on campus. We are working to ensure that The
Gamecock is thorough, accurate and fair. If you ever
think we aren't, please write a letter.
We are a forum for the student voice. Through our
various sections, particularly the Viewpoints page,
)n summer work, r
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Student Body President
ty this summer. We planned safety workshops that
will increase self-defense awareness. The classes are
targeted toward incoming freshmen taking the University
101 classes. So far, the response has been extremely
favorable. You may also notice that traffic is
not quite as bad around the Towers area due to the
closing of Devine Street. Student Government worked
with the University Safety Committee and the city of
Columbia to close this street and reduce traffic.
Ann+Vior nrinritv diirincr tVie Hummer war t/i ren
resent students during administrative interviews and
on university committees. Students were involved in
interviewing registrar candidates, applicants for positions
in Greek life and the P.E. center, as well as
other applicants for student life positions. Students
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Psychology freshman
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Jan Pollack
Ad/PR senior, on her Playboy shoot
[ new semester
we toy to keep our collective finger on the pulse of student
opinion. Our goal is represent a broad range oft
opinion, as well as the staffs editorial opinion. If you l
uisagiee wuii sumeiiimg you set:, wriue a leiier.
We are a source of publicity. Organizations depend
on us to get the word out about their upcoming
events. While we can't print every event of every organization,
let us know when you're planning something
particularly special.
We also serve as a training ground for potential
journalists of all kinds: writers, photographers, copy
editors and graphic artists. The Gamecock is excellent
experience for those who want to prepare for internships,
jobs and classes.
If you want to learn more about The Gamecock or
to join the staff, you're invited to our organizational
meeting on Tuesday, August 30 at 6 p.m. in the Russell
House Ballroom. Call 777-7726 if you want more
information or to talk to an editor.
If you want to contact us, you can call, stop by
Russell House 321 (soon to be Russell House 333 ?
same room, but the numbering is being changed) or
write a letter. The on-campus address is: The Gamecock,
Letters to the Editor, Russell House. Add USC,
Columbia, SC 29208 if you're writing from off-campus.
We've got a long semester ahead of us. With the
support ana input 01 eacn 01 our reaaers, we can
make it a great one.
epresent students
were also extremely involved with the Board of
Trustees on committees concerning Greek housing.
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in me coming year, oiuueni uovemmKm nopes
to focus on empowering students through voter registration
and increased representation during the review
of university policies. We also plan to implement
a book exchange so that students will have an opportunity
to buy and sell books at more favorable
prices. The process will be complicated, but we hope
to eventually set up a simple system that can be used
every semester.
We are also in the process of forming a scholarship
fund with money from past USC Student Body
Presidents. This will enable Student Government to
establish an annual scholarship for a deserving student.
This is just a brief account of what we have accomplished.
We have set many goals for the fall. Our
top priority is to continue to effectively represent the
students. However, we can't do this without your involvement
and input Please come by our office in the
Russell House if you ever have any concerns. We are
always eager to help!
Best of luck for a successful year!
ets of USC?
just got here. Fve lived in big cities. Fm not scared.
Ashley Edens
Psychology freshman
datively safe on campus, but then again I wouldn't
where alone at night.
Tamara Moody
Marketing/management senior
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