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Keith Boudreaux, Lupe Eyde, S
Jimmy DeButts, Kim
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Bystanders' failure to he
indicative of student apa
Southern hospitality hit an all-time lov
ley had to beg fellow students to he
car. Without even an inquiry into h<
walked down the hill to class, dragging U!
With the recent rash of car accidents i
cyclists, this campus needs people to be mc
common decency seems to be curiously r
routines?an omission that serves to und
There has been a lot of talk about rebi
That reconstruction starts with us. No m
tors work to create goodwill among mem
forts are in vain if students aren't willing
That Yardley was a freshman casts an
who didn't take the time to check on her
being a little skittish those first few week
case, freshman insecurities have been inte
human selfishness with no explanation. Tl
new students to USC or anywhere else.
While getting to class on time is usua
someone who has just been tagged by a f<
miles an hour is an acceptable excuse for
are certainly mixed up when beating the
si sting someone who's hurt.
Given the current trend of vehicular mi
pened to Yardley can happen again. If such
repeated, one can only hope this time the:
and respect he or she deserves. If not, the i
ry about rebuilding its community.
It will have to apologize for the one it 1
Day at beach
perfectly goo
MATT I Gom;
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Columnist cause
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shoes
I don't know, maybe if s just me, take,
but in the last couple of weeks, things are n
have gotten really weird around here. S]
Take, for example, last week's news en ou
story concerning a young lady who e s c a
was struck by a car while walking Neos]
to class. While she lay bleeding and T1
helpless on the pavement, cruel and day,
sadistic pedestrians ignored her cries
for help. It would seem to me the andt
professors at this fine institution of decid<
learning are placing too much em- g0 f
phasis on being on time to class. jng> a
This unusual news bit is topped, cjded
however, by the recent vandalism ^ ^
on the 18th floor of Capstone. Ac- and e
cording to police reports, someone wanj
broke into the Top of Carolina and gan ^
threw two to three lemon meringue ^ere,
pies against the window. As if this water
wasn't enough, the hoodlums then gur^
dumped olives and some cheese sauce ga1
onto the kitchen floor (add some re- mg
fried beans and guacamole, and youVe *
got a zesty nacho dip thaf s great for &
any occasion!) amia
Needless to say, authorities were na^e(
puzzled by this idiotic crime. Asa g?
police detective, I think the first ques- ,
tion you would have to ask yourself - 1
would be, "Why lemon meringue?" jjow^!
Lastly, someone snuck a virus ,
into the computer system in the library's
computer lab last week, ef- 1
fectively turning the whole system
into "nanner" pudding.
Now at first glance, these crimes
appear to be simply random uncon- ance;
nected acts of idiocy. However, up- sh?wi
on further investigation and deep ^or
analytical probing, which could on- broth*
ly be accomplished by such an as- I wea
tute master sleuth such as myself, team
we find the darkest most dangerous dragg
secret this university has ever been attrai
party to. These "little" crimes are flid. I
the framework for a subversive, ne- a shir
farious plot masterminded by the W
most sinister Overlord of Evil, de- next r
signed to bring this campus and all 33 Pre
who inhabit it down into the pits of debat
Hell! But hey ... how *bout them ing a
Cocks!! * thoug
(Editor's note: We apologize for yet, fc
that last paragraph... it got into a M;
whole weird area there. Not to fear I shall
though, Mr. Horgan was adminis- story:
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teieu scvciai mgii-v unage snuun.s
and will return to finish the article
in a more subdued state.)
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Steven C. Burritt,
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Ip student
thy
v last week when Sonya Yardlp
her after she was hit by a
;r well-being, the bystanders
5C's reputation behind them,
nvolving pedestrians and biro
helpful than ever. Instead,
nissing from students' daily
ermine school spirit,
hiding the USC community,
atter how much administrabers
of the university, all efto
help one another,
even darker shadow on those
. Most people can remember
a of college life. In Yardley's
nsified by an experience with
liis is not the way to welcome
lly expected, stopping to aid
Dur-door sedan driving at 30
being a little late. Priorities
clock ranks higher than asshaps,
it's possible what hap- QUOTI
i an unfortunate event is ever "
injured student gets the help "Hie siti
university won't have to worlas.
i ruins ClJ1
d week OUJ
More t
rell, congratulations to our workers cc
scock football team for beating wjth theii
[oly Hell out of La. Tech (which ardous occ
d some confusion on my part? Farmv
ight La. Tech made those crusty gers and a
i that light up every time you er family i
a step. I've determined those work is e>
unions of the Antichrist). Farmwori
leaking of getting the hell beat- pesticides
t of you, I recently had a painful other danj
pade that caused stock in housing ai
porin to go up five points. Because hi
tie incident occurred on Satur- to the Uni
Sept. 10. The cross-country they often
had a race in Wilmington, N.C., adequate 1
teing a member of the team, I Becaus
ed it was in my best interest to farmwork
he race was early in the mom- end this n
nd after it was over, we all de- with Fann
to the beach for a while, see- for the civ
i how Wilmington is on the coast itorganiza
verything. I was looking for- ucateand
to a little fun and sun in the vocacy ant
... little did I know. Anyway, This si
we are cavorting about in the Fields" su]
; Fm having a grand time body- week prog
ig. When suddenly the hand agencies si
tan disguised as a wave picks the opport
3 and digs a four-foot trench in Head Star
:ean floor with my face. (Have toring and
/er seen grains of sand through During
roscope? Well, I saw it with the language 1
ieye) ^
>I break the surface coughing | A/vi'
suffering, minus a laige amount VJ vf J.
' forehead and a front tooth,
the forehead was no big loss? Well, ii
lly purpose it had ever served us can air
o shine like a chrome bumper. at Russell
Doth, however, was a different on both th
Whenever I smiled I looked person on
le banjo player from "Deliver- going to sc
" Of course my teammates, es. Tm stil
ng the compassion and caring aren't aroi
ucn rve come to love tnem like until I figu
ers, laughed like hyenas while ing all the
kened from blood loss. The eat.
trainer was nearby and she "Wow/
;ed me out of the water (I was fourth tim
:ting sharks) to perform first Tve be
frankly, the rest of the day is Didn't you
amering blue haze. my instinc
ell, I had the tooth crowned the so far. "W1
aorning, so I'm at least as half "Arran
tty as I used to be (there's some "No, 11
e about that). Fm still sport- "Yeah,
"battle-damage" forehead if the TV d
h, so Fm not out of the woods Since v
Iks. converter?
y friends, it is time to go, and Room?ow
i leave you with a moral to this publish or
quit staring at my forehead! fine, but w
the Home
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VIEWPOINT!
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EUNQII0TE ,
uation in Cuba is grim, and a lot of the people
angry a
A rcAAi ofrt r
mmer experience
ban 400,000 migrant and seasonal farm- r
>me to North and South Carolina each year riJBr
families to labor in one of the most haz- IB:upations.
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workers in the United States face many dan- [_
ibuses. The average income of a farmwork- 1
s less than half the poverty line, and farm- children
:cluded from most workplace safety laws. w^en j w
;ers must work in fields contaminated with health cl;
proven to cause cancer, birth defects and j distribi
sjerous illnesses. They live in substandard workers
id drink from contaminated water supplies. such as s
alf of all farmworkers are recent immigrants reach ser
ted States with little or no English ability, Upon
endure discrimination, job insecurity, in- witness 1
housing and lack of transportation. grant chi
le farmers want the continued cheap labor They had
ers provide, few steps have been taken to or four b;
lodern-day form of slavery. Student Action camp, ev?
workers is an organization working to fight that won
il rights of farmworkers. SAF is a nonprof- Becai
ition based in Durham, N.C., working to ed- transport
involve students in farmworker service, ad- to go to e
i community organizing efforts. session. 1
immer, I participated in SAFs "Into the py to ha\
mmer internship. "Into the Fields" is a 10- the day. 1
ram designed to get students involved with their kid
upporting farmworker issues. Interns have bring in i
tunity to work in health clinics, Migrant At th<
t, Legal Services programs or English tu- who had
translating. taught fc
[ the summer, I taught English as a second families i
to farmworkers at night and taught their behind ii
ng to class, watchii
rs only nve weeKs into scnooi, ana most 01
eady recite the names of every restaurant H
House in our sleep and manage to hang up a
e person we were talking to before plus the
call waiting! But so far, the biggest part of [_
:hool is remembering about going to class
I not used to that thing where your parents pretendir
and to remind you! A whole week went by shout sot
red out where my roommate, Mary, was go- g0 back t
time. I just thought she kept going out to seif tryip
soaps. So
' I said as she was leaving the room for the day.
e in one day. "You must get hungry a lot!" But t
en going to classes, Ashley, not lunch breaks! Hampton
know that school started?" she asked, amazed cerned, is
tive powers of procrastination could extend ifs really
lat have you been doing?" tween pr
ging my scrungies in order of color." els" and
nean all week!" . Wednesd
I know," I replied. "What else is there to do airtime,
loesn't work?" French (oi
ie don't have a cable converter (Extra cable under th(
Great! Just drop it off at: Wade Hampton, "Atter
r, ouch, Mary! What do you mean, we can't teken ^
ir room number in the newspaper? Okay, in. e ,
ithout a converter, neither of us can watch ^s> .
Shopping Network!), we've had to resort to Off-li
Nhy did students fai
3 ? "People probably didn't care or just were
A own little world and were too involved in
J * I to bother."
JL Sui
Communicatjo
"I think everyone else was looking for soi
# Busine
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^ Wednesday, September 21, 1994
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are looking to find a better place to live Some people feel tta
nd revolt, but revolt is not realistic.''
)irector of International Studies Morris Blachman
5 exposes inequality of
students was limited, they i
^ 1 to translate assignments \
f TAMMI SPRUILL them alone.
Columnist . The most remarkable ch
1 from such a disadvantage
, preciation of education. E1
in migrant school during the day. On days ment? they witness their u
as not teaching at the migrant school, I taught ers an^ s^sters> w^? mustx
asses to women at camps. In my spare time, *he res* ^e*r ^ves- The
ited clothes and health kits to camps, took out- They are grateful for h
and their children to recreational activities 38 ^or the air-conditioned cte
wimming and soccer and provided other out- mer hays.
vices< Seven-year-old Marilu
visits I made to the various camps, I would my father that much. He \
the deplorable conditions in which the mi- works all the time to buy
ildren lived. They had no indoor plumbing, school."
t to bathe in outdoor showers and share three My experience further <
ithrooms with some 40 farmworkers. At the ity of this nation. However
sryone shared a fly-infested community kitchen ference in the lives of man)
len labored in all day. to empower themselves wai
use most camps do not have telephones or of the summer. It is still m;
tation, workers from the migrant school had in order to truly create cha]
ach camp to recruit children for the summer must be heard. I am devote
Most parents of younger children were hap- es of .those in desperate ne<
re a safe place to send their children during Student Action with Fa
Parents of some of the older children wanted interns for the summer of
s to stay at home and work in the fields to be a part of social change 1
i little extra money for the family. suffering, come to SAFs ge
J migrant school, I worked with the students Sept. 21 at 4 p.m., in Huma
just completed first grade. The lessons we Room 207.
>cused on remedial exercises. The migrant
nove around so much that children often fall Tammi Spr
l school. Though the English ability of the and ?
ig Models, Inc.' college life
p.m710 p.tn. central! Well,
tic measures, so I did the oi
\ ASHLEY BALL I went down and confesse
P-nllimnict oolfl rirtttir*r-t l/i nbaiif n
ocii; lutivcu uui ui a
__J hour of "Models, Inc."!
But as I rounded the cor
ig to watch TV. Every so often, one of us will wa? a huge crowd of people
nething like, "Turn down the TV!" or, "Ooh, one waa confessing!
0 that channel!" It works, too ... I'll find my- "Please, I did it, can w<
g to catch the six o'clock news or cut back on Sara.
metimes well just watch the fish channel all "Yeah, I did it, too. Can
asked Megan.
here is a large, operating set in the Wade "I took the knob... here
lobby whose sole purpose, as far as I am con- over a crystal doorknob. "(
! broadcasting "Models, Inc." I've found that After the RAs received c
hard trying to squeeze in any study time be- gle girl at Wade Hampton,
eparing to watch "Models," watching "Mod- cabinet knob handles, dooi
waiting for "Models" to come on the next off stereos, they let the TV
ay. Last Wednesday, about 6.38 hours until And so, with my plans f
1 was sitting quietly in my room, studying secure, I.happily went back
r was I on the phone?) when a note was slipped pick an outfit for tomorrow
3 d?or; sticks in the fridge and stuc
ition Wade Hampton residents! Someone has fore -Models" came on (*call
TV I've gotten this school thing
by! Until someone claims responsibility for
rv will be off-limits! Thank you." Ashley Bail
mits!? Surely they meant other than at 9 jjer c^umn (
I to stop for hit-and-run vi<
out in their "I don't think they knew what hap
themselves & ,1 ly knew something was going on, I
t'"rl ' have stopped."
?n Cooper Hr.^ j
rts sophomore f Elementary
neone to do p ^ "Group mentality. Everyone else th
* do something, so they d
rian Gallon JM |
3
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I
o
it the Cubans will get
nation
made great progress. I had
intil they were able to do
laracteristiQ of the students
d background is their ap/eiy
day in their environneducated
parents, brothvork
the land and may for
students recognize a way
ot meals at school, as well
issrooms on those hot sumtold
me, "I don't get to see
vorks all the time. But he
me clothes so I can go to
lemonstrates the inequal.
I was able to make a dif
\ Helping empower others
9 my goal at the beginning
y goal today. I realize that
nge, voices of the suffering
d to representing the voic?d.
rmworkers is seeking new
1995. If you are willing to
jy helping the lives of the
neral meeting Wednesday
mities Classroom Building
uill is a journalism senior
>AF Campus Coordinator.
\ staples
drastic times call for draslly
thing I could think of?
d to taking the knob mychool
was surely worth an
nerto the front da*, there
gathered around it Everys
watch TV now?" begged
we have the remote back?"
s," said Suzanne, handing
2an I go turn on the TV?"
:onfessions from every sinplus
a vast assortment of
"knobs and volume knobs
out of captivity!
'or the evening once again
upstairs to clean my room,
finish off the two breadly
some more French* beShana
back). I really think
I down pat!
is a journalism freshman,
ippears every Wednesday.
l/LJJJJL*
pened. If they realm
sure they would
Mark Daniels
1 education sophomore
links that someone
o nothing."
Teresa Savin
English junior