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"iSai Serving USC Sin I AA nnnt7 F/litAr in Quean Editorial B Keith Boudreaux, Lupe Ey< Jimmy DeButts, ] Bridging the Residential College to i faculty to live under so* USC has long fought the stereol tying, not learning. Many pn to spend their higher learninj only a number in a faceless sea of co One college is working to soothe lege is an innovative attempt at ma smaller and more academic. Slated to go into effect in fall 19? ston from an all-male residence hall ering of students and faculty membi funded Ivy League school would do.. The basic idea behind the ambitio by universities such as Yale and Prir ers of the project hope to reap some c ties have obtained, such as better fa< feelings of community. While the thought of eating and 1 radical, credit has to be given for trj potential to right some wrongs. Status quo has always been the e measures don't always need to be taki ther the students nor the university It's reassuring that the Residenti lar setups that have worked in the paf these efforts don't ensure the succesi have given planners an idea of what Potential benefits of the plan are oo ooqv fn onViimm Rv Knlninrr Knlafoi* fJUJ VUUJ W UVlUVTVi J-/J XlVl|^Uig WlkJI^I college could draw in prospective stuc a college appealing. It also could hel] the university's academic record. That the Residential College is m< admirable as it is amazing. However, makes haste a little disturbing. WhiU it is invited only with careful plannir More thought could make the im{ the project easier. Starting on a sma' to the concept. It's hard for two room a week, let alone an entire residentia Regardless of the drastic nature of lege is a worthwhile experiment whi the risk of failure. Senate to rei organization ri tL ?i n ' <-*:* vss " p Columnist L * t The student Senate is taking n on its largest issue in years ? the j? political definition. ? The political definition is the guideline by which the Senate Fi- 11 nance Committee judges which campus organizations are funded n with student activity fees. Hie definition says groups can't lobby the -r state and national governments. Under the definition, Young g Democrats, College Republicans p and other groups with obvious po- ^ litical agendas are not funded, and a rightfully so. b: So, what's the problem? Cer- foj tain SG officials with private po- g( litical agendas and ambitions for tc higher office are trying to make p( the definition stricter; therefore, certain groups will have their funds st taken away. ai Most of these organizations have liberal views, including BGLA, NAACP and Amnesty International. These groups are being targeted now, but under the definiDon't liki you s< Write a I Russell I Room or e-ma GamecockSC "iSatcod? & Student Media Russell House-USO Colun Lee Clontz Jimmy DeButts V Editor in Chief Sports Editor Susan Goodwin Kim Truett Viewpoints Editor Photo Editor Steven C. Burritt Gabriel Madden A1 Copy Desk Chief Graphics Editor Keith Boudreaux Erin Galloway News Editor Asst. News Lupe Eyde Robert Wertz Features Editor Asst. News The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published Mooday, Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semes- T1* lets, with the exception of university holidays and exam Let periods. nan Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the Let editors or author and not those of the University of South Carolina. Vhe Board of Student Publication^ and Communications is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of styl Student Media is its parent organization. be ' cock ce 1908 Goodwin, Viewpoints Editor oard le, Steven C. Burritt, (im Truett Gap m 77/w it i rJ /* */* 4- r\ UUULU ULUUtrUS, me roof type of being an institution of par>spective students are persuaded I times elsewhere, afraid of being mputer readouts and GPAs. these fears. The Residential Colking the university seem a little )5, the bold restructuring of Preto a more communal, coed gathers seems like something a wellActually, it is. us move is to take a concept used iceton and apply it here. Promotf the benefits that such universimlty-student relations and more iving with professors seems a bit ing something new that has the asiest way to go. Though drastic en, a lack of innovations does neiany good. al College is modeled after simiit and continue to do so. Although 3 of USC's attempt, at least they to expect. easy to name, even if they aren't the morale of a few students, the lents who find a school with such p t< dispel a few ill notions about jving ahead at record speed is as the sheer boldness of its designs i quick action is always welcome, *gilementation of the goals behind Her scale could ease students inmates to eat together five times il college doing so. 'the concept, the Residential Col ase chances for success warrant structure al funding ion being debated by the Senate, aany more organizations may be i jeopardy. The spirit in which the politial definition originally was writen was to give the Finance Comlittee a better understanding of olitical organizations asking for inding from student activity fees. Tien, the committee tried to be isightful and careful in dealing nth organizations. The current ommittee is flexing its political luscles with a hit list of organiations that may have their fundlg stripped. The Finance Committee is not howing leadership, but rather artisan politics and secret agenas. Aristotle once said that lurage is a rarer commodity than ravery in politics or great intel?ence. Yet, courage is the one esmtial quality of those who seek ?change a world that yields most sinfully to change. To the Finance Committee, the udents expect political courage id sensitivity. Byron James is a political science senior. His column appears every Monday. 9 what ee z letter. House 321 II: r@aol.com 7*7 777^ Chns Cr.nt)J / /-//ZD Director of Stutot Media ing: 777-4249 Laura Day 7-6482 Creative Director lbia, SC 29208 Jim Green Ait Director /endy Hudson Gregory Perez Asst. Copy Desk Production Asst. Tanya Kropf Elizabeth Thomas Asst. Copy Desk Adv. Graduate Asst. Ilison Williams Renee Gibson Asst. Features Marketing Manager Ryan Wilson Chris Wood Asst. Sports As*. Advertising Manager Jason Jeffers Erik Collins Cartoonist Faculty Advisor Letters Policy ; Gamecock will cry to print all letters received, ters should be 200-253 words and must include full ue, professional title or year and major if a student, ters must be personally delivered by the author to t Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 321. t Omccock reserves the right to edit all letters for e. possible libel or space limitations. Names will not withheld under any circumstances. riTS?} 4* 1?) y .'i?: I j i.) i.i uui ii > i*| OiWy> + j $ ISLmmmlSSUi k ^ '/ jjp^llfl D * LbhJ Witr^s i QUOTE UNQUOTE "The university is so large that studen am Associate Opponents un The Christians are coining! The Christians art coming! If you are a subscriber to The State, you maj have noticed a subtle shift in the newspaper's po litical reporting during the past month. Somehow Republican gubernatorial candidate David Beasley has been transformed from the underling of Chris tian Coalition leader Pat Robertson to the fron trunner in November's election. In fact, Sunday's column by Lee Bandy was ? thinly veiled plea to Democratic gubernatorial can didate Nick Theodore to mend fences with the forces of Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, who lost to Theodore in the primary. Beasley is not only ahead of Theodore in the Lowcountry, but he has picked up supporl from a number of former Riley supporters. I know many of you of the Democratic persua sion are asking yourselves: How did it come to this' How did Beasley become a conservative icon after being a blip on the political radar screen eight months ago? Who can we blame? These very questions were asked of CNN political analyst William Schneider on the Aug. 26 edition of "Inside Politics." For the answers, let's gc to the videotape, where Schneider said, "When a Democrat made the mistake of ridiculing his reli gion last spring, Beasle/s campaign began to take off. He courted and won the support of South Carolina's formidable Christian conservative movement." Scrabble cheat For many, the moral decay of a nation is easy to identify: high crime rates, profane songs and violence in the media. For me, there is only one symbol that fully sums up a degenerate society ? The Official Scrabble Players' Dictionary. For those of you not familiar with the game's little helper, the concept is really quite simple. Remember playing Scrabble? Remember not knowing what to do with a handful of letters such as J, B, S, I, N, E and A? Well, with this invention you need not fear impossible Scrabble challenges! Simply type those dam confusing letters into your handy, dandy little contraption, and you too can learn the seemingly elusive batch can actually be transformed into the word "basenji." (A WhflSAniiW 1Q Q am all rlnrr Vio\nr*rr a amAA+K \ M MA1UA11 VtVg HUTUIg C4 OlIUI Uj OlllWUl coat and not uttering the barking sound typical of most dogs, according to The American Heritage Dictionary. It is completely coincidental that removing the A and S from the word spells "Benji." People who make movies such as "Benji" are really not that clever.) Actually, my example is a little oversimplified. In the event your letters don't spell out a word you've never heard of and had no way of getting otherwise, the dictionary graciously gives you a list of possiHow would you rat |~^ "All right, I guess. For the sma t UCCaUSe lIlel"e ^ a ieSS 11111011111 { # T "I think if s pretty good. I just g m any problems." r Student personnel i | "MINK I (AM ^ . Lr?JL cr*;v/ ^ jjfr , p ?- ? .. . ^ -? - i * ^ ts often don't see what's there. I hope to in< ri faruHv and dlAW thon u/hat'c arnnnH ramr professor Maria Girardi on the reason.3 for the development of the resid* derestimate Be* ' rf^l n / pat McNeill Columnist So, who is the "mystery Democrat" who triggered the rise to power of Society Hill's favorite son? i As those of you who read my April 18 column are well aware, the answer is: 5th Circuit Solicitor Dick i Harpootlian! ; It was Harpootlian who said that as a born-again ; Christian, Beasley was well-qualified in "handling t snakes and speaking in tongues." There were a lot of born-again (and other) Christians in the state who took offense to the remark, not to mention the > workers in the Reptile House at Riverbanks Zoo. In fairness to TVicky Dick, he was not the only ; one to take potshots at Beasley, whose ties to the Christian Coalition were also pointed out by the f other Republican gubernatorial candidates, Arthur I Ravenel and Tommy Hartnett. , Beasley has been attacked in newspapers from t The New York Times to The Gamecock as a pawn of Robertson and Jerry Falwell. But Beasley and , the Christian Coalition are thriving this fall by understanding what the self-appointed experts do not. In a USA Today poll taken earlier this month, 84 percent of Americans said religion is "important" ers reflect nation ?**% SUSAN GOODWIN - ML Viewpoints Editor ble plays in the order of greatest amounts of points to the least. I thought all of this sounded a bit like cheating. After all, isn't the point of the game the thrill of trying to figure out what to do with a nasty combination of little letter squares? Not so, Official Scrabble Players' Foundation members tell me. In fact, they say, "You've missed the entire point of the game." Darn. I knew there was a reason why I've never liked it. Of course, the Official Scrabble Players' Dictionary does serve a purpose. Before now, you had to sit by passively and accept your sister's word that "zzpasd" was really a word. Now, you can enter that 1 i4"4" 1 o mirvntr in nrva 4a** ifaiixoa1 C ava a41?i ?? ? nitwit in auu occ iui juuiocn CAatujf 11UW truthful your family really is. Then again, maybe there are some things people shouldn't know. I've also heard that with the right cords you can hook the electronic dictionary to Cape Canaveral e the quality of faculty ill classes, it's a lot better ~~~l "I thinl rf people." ^ *S| my teac James Lee gP* , docare Engineering freshman y0P\ $ ot here, but I haven't had ' ^ thinl .... * M nities o Andy Lewter services graduate students JP JHr } ?.DOE$ HE HAVE A UV>N6 WIU-? JWm :rease the interaction between students ius." sntial college idav'c cnnnnrf WJ1VJ U kJU|7l/U1 * in their lives. A poll taken by the liberal People for the American Way revealed that a majority of Americans think the country's problems are linked to a decline in moral values. And a Gannett poll found that Americans gen' erally approve of the religious right by a 53-40 margin. According to the poll, this makes the religious right more popular than President Clinton, Bob Dole, Congress and the news media. Harpootlian, Ravenel and Hartnett never would have considered poking fun at the religion of a Jewish or Catholic opponent. That they felt safe going after Beasley proves that too many politicians overreact when facing the religious right. Protestant Christians are a majority of South Carolina voters. I'm sure that Beasley does not mind being linked with Jesus, especially when he can tie Theodore to the unpopular policies of President Clinton. If Beasley wins the Nov. 8 election, it will prove that state voters are less afraid of Robertson and the Christian Coalition than they are of President Clinton and the Democratic Congress. This is as it should be. After all, Robertson only can ask for your money; President Clinton and Congress can take it without your permission. Pat McNeill is a third-year law student His column appears every Monday. i's moral decay and monitor the space shuttle, but I'm not sure. Just to be on the safe side, I'd probably start with something smaller, such as directing air traffic at the Columbia airport. I think the makers of the Official Scrabble Players' Dictionary shouldn't stop there. I would like to see them create the Official Students' Essay Test Dictionary. The basic premise would be very similar: You type in your confusing little question, and you'd get a list of answers from best to worst. The i c : i ...u:_i J. - J i4 iciv wuuiu uc uguniig uut wiucii une to write aown. I'm not sure if I will ever understand the impetus behind a device that takes the fun out of a game. Or what I can only assume is fun. (Fve always been more of a "Sorry" or "Chutes and Ladders" person.) It just bothers me that someone out there might not be "above board" with the whole Scrabble thing. I have to admit I'm not even sure if the Official Scrabble Players' Dictionary is still available. Last time I saw it, it was on the clearance rack at Walmart in Aiken, selling for $36.1 thought the fact no one had purchased it was a pretty good sign. You know, maybe America's not as bad off as I previously thought. After all, we do have "Benji." Susan Goodwin is a journalism junior. -student relations? i it's excellent. I'm in-a University 101 class and her has gotten involved. Thev look out for us. Thev about what students do." Crystal Cuyler Computer science graduate student [ ifs pretty effective. The faculty are really avail the size of the school. We have a lot of opportuutside of the classroom to meet with professors." Manisha Shroff Psychology sophomore I ft ;