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15^ Serving US> Lee Clontz, Editor in Chief Su Edit or I; Keith Boudreaux, Lupe Jimmy DeBul Help wantei Volunteering good wa improve quality of lift A s attendants of an institution / \ run the risk of isolating theme A Aihe main reason to be here, get munity is beneficial as well. Today's volunteer fair proves ther volved in. What is lacking, howevei them. Volunteering provides a great wa four walls of academia by serving are ganizations do everything from incre homeless. Members can be seen clea presents on holidays. The sheer spe< hard for anyone not to find at least o Working to raise the literacy rate i students analyze various pieces of Er idents go through life not able to rea< week can make a world of difference couple hours a week isn't much, esp sucked away by sitcoms. Contrary to the popular perceptic as interfering with daily life or being their work times flexible. Most organ donate as little or as much time as th outweigh the loss of a little MTV tim These first few weeks of a new ye? these endeavors. Not only is everythii also are a innovative way to get in tout classes facilitate learning, they are nc pie. It's easy to get wrapped up in the accompanying college life. But if miss will change somebody's life, chances i Experiments liberal views t TOMMY TOUCHBERRY Columnist What leads some teenagers and college students to rebel or reject the values and beliefs of their parents? Why do young people go through some type of rebellion, whether it's simple arguments over when to do homework or more serious acts of rejection through drug abuse or promiscuous sex? "Family values" or "traditional Judeo-Christian values" have become a hot topic in America. It dominates the agendas of America's largest religious denominations and has found its way into the U.S. political spectrum. Just last week, President Clinton and former vice-president Dan Quayle both delivered passionate speeches on the topic of premarital sex and illegitimate children. Both stated explicitly that we must find a way to teach future generations how to be responsible sexually in order to save the American family. Both stated having a baby outside of marriage is wrong. Both also said fathers must be held accountable. Whether or not you believe Clinton is sincere, and it is very likely he is only taking a "popular" position, the fact is many descendants of the "flower child" generation are changing, or have already changed, their beliefs about morals and values. A recent CNN/Gallup poll asked the question "Do you think the values associated with the 1960s (liberal) have had a positive or negative effort An anriotv?" Amnncr nil Amori can adults 65 percent believe the '60s values have had a negative effect. Of course many adults from that generation rejected those "liberal" values from the getrgo. But it is significant that two-out-of-three now reject those values. I think a logical conclusion might be that those who once adopted liberal values have grown up, realized those values are destructive to society and, in many cases, conflict with their own religious beliefs. Raising children and supporting a family has probably had a major TSaifcod? ?? Student Media Russell House-USO Colli Lee Clontz Jimmy DeButts Editor in Chief Sports Editor Susan Goodwin Kim Truett Viewpoints Editor Photo Editor Steven C. Burritt Gabriel Madden ^upy UC5* ^.xncl vjiapiu^o x^uiiia Keith Boudreaux Erin Galloway News Editor Asst. News Lupe Eyde Robert Wertz Features Editor Assl News The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semesten, 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 si Student Media is its parent organization. b tcotk C Since 1908 isan Goodwin, Viewpoints Editor il Board Eyde, Steven C. Burritt, :ts, Kim Truett 1 y to gain experience, e for city residents of higher learning, students always selves in academia. While studying is ting involved in the surrounding come is no shortage of activities to get inis the interest to become a part of y to get in touch with life beyond the sa residents in various capacities. Ortasing rape awareness to helping the ning up highways or giving children ctrum of possible activities makes it ne cause to champion, is one issue that presents itself. While lglish literature, other Columbia resI a street sign. Just an hour or two a for somebody who can't read. And a ecially compared to countless hours m of these extra-curricular activities too much to handle, volunteers find izations are happy to set students to ey can. As imagined, the benefits far e. ir are the best time to get involved in ig just starting up, but these projects di with other fellow students. Though it always the best places to meet peo! tests, research papers and projects ing a rerun of "Beavis and Butthead" are ifs worth it. Lg with doesn't last impact on their beliefs, too. One of the great paradoxes of life seems to be the notion that many people abuse their own bodies. But when it comes to their children, they be uuuie vcijr pruiecuve. Today's college students, a product of the Reagan '80s, are indeed more conservative than their parents' generation was at their age. But there still exists a troubling trend The CNN/Gallup poll found that among adults aged 18-29, only 45 percent believe the values of the 1960s have had a negative effect on society. A surprising 50 percent believe those values have had a positive effect. This goes along with other relative trends. For instance, U.S. Cen sus statistics show that throughout the past 40 years alcohol and marijuana use among persons aged 1825 has been at a consistently higher level than with adults aged 26-49. In 1991,63.6 percent of college-aged persons (18-25) were alcohol users, that is, they were drinkers. That year only 52.5 percent of adults (26-49) were alcohol users. Other behavior and attitude trends exist, too. Some examples include sexual attitudes, political beliefs, sex-role attitudes and issues of responsibility. The question becomes: Why do so many of our young people adopt more liberal attitudes about moral and social issues when they are in their late teens and college years, only to reject these same values as they grow older? Psychology offers many answers to these questions, but ultimately there are still some answers that have not been found.Each of these issues should be taken senaratalv. and in the cominer -1 J1 "" ? weeks I will do just that. But a very simple, broad answer to the question would be that experience leads to rejection of ideas that don't work and to behaviors that are counterproductive, immoral, or irresponsible. I think that would explain why many "moderately" liberal college students reject liberalism and adopt traditional values as they become well-adjusted adults. Tommy Tonchberry is a marketing junior n'i'i Chris Carroll lll-IILO Director of Student Media [sing: 777-4249 Laura Day '77-6482 Creative Director imbia, SC 29208 Jim Green Ait Director Wendy Hudson Gregory Perez Asst. Copy Desk Production Asst. Tanja Kropf Elizabeth Thomas Asst. Copy Desk Adv. Graduate Asst. Mlison Williams Renee Gibson Asst. Features Marketing Director Ryan Wilson Chris Wood Asst. Sports Asst. 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Names will not e withheld under any circumstances. fc - i' /hick SECKTS FOU SWIM YouMC f?Rlop(c C0UA6EH INACTIONS I Mil PACT M OJnH SAWN M 1 -rue CAAecoCK QUOTEUNQUOTE "We have tl 'Fteuds of t There's a company in New York, a< The State, offering psychiatric therapy c Yep, they drive to wherever you are, pic one of those big customized vans and wo problems as the van zips through the c I guess the one place most people r need therapy is driving through city tr< than a snail's pace, ffie idea still seems a to me, though, and it takes a lot to ma seem warped to me. For one thing, those customized vans to put me into therapy already. The/n loaded with too much stuff for a vehicli of mine had one with a TV and VCR in complete stereo system with CD player, recline into a bed, a pool, a casino, a twoa stage with nightly concerts, a synthet and a helicopter pad. I thought that stu kind of distracting when you're trying to to mention the fact those little windows are too small to peer through. Not that it's easy to drive in the La que "captain's chairs" fitted in the front tomized vans. Those seats are nicer tha in our apartment. (Of course, the seats ir ment are made of thick metal wire am plastic back designed to pop off when weight on it, so there's not really much c there. The captain's chairs are nice. N LETTERS Both emotion It was with no small amount of sympathy that I read Melissa Tennen's editorial in the Sept. 7 issue of The Gamecock. Every incident of abuse she recalled struck a nerve in my body and soul. So much so that I was moved to write this letter. This is because I, too, was a victim of abuse and like her, I am dealing with it. While her case is one of extreme physical abuse, mine was one of emotional abuse. It was something I denied for so long until circumstances dictated I address my problems. For so long I felt inferior to everyone and felt I deserved the abuse I was receiving. It is hard to have a good outlook on life when you are constantly reminded you are a burden to your parents' lives and things would have been much easier if you had never been born. I remember a specific instance where, after having visited my family physician who diagnosed me with clinical depression, my mother told me I was lying and I "didn't have anything to be de Why is it "I think as college sti munity. It helps tho "It is important for g for volunteer work o r5 ? A6e important for s udents, we need to serve our com- [~ se who are less fortunate than we Shirley Nzo-Nguty Pharmacy senior etting jobs. Most companies look |? n resumes" ?1 Cindy Connell English graduate student I _K> TO W ie lots under surveillance, but no Director of USC Law Enforcer he freeway' wording to ?n the road. I I jH k vnn nn iri I mwHI MID rk out your \ A JH ity streets. M ealize they LJSBBfe affic at less gon There.) I guess people bit warped because they impart that fe ke an iaea room down the interstate, every couch pilot in Ameri* are enough i'm a]so curious about th ^uASf0Ver" vice. Who's got so little ti ;; , nfn portable psychiatrist? the back, a Tu , seats that I have to think the first shrinks tell every custome ITsKpe ?"?> not allotting enough f ff might be meals - 8leeP - breathing drive Not It also seems riding in tl on the roof 'ess comforting feeling than ing room and spilling your p: -Z-Boy-es- ine the session? (As you've ; of all cus- going to imagine it for you n the seats Freud of the freeway: So I our apartr by the speed of events in yoi d a special son of a motherless goat! Yo II rest my Pacer of doom!!!!!! life? :omparison Bill: Yes, I feel trapped o compari- that 18-wheeler filled with ( Lai, physical at pressed about." 1 My problems with emotional abuse 1 and low self-esteem have cost me much. 1 It has filled me with self-hate, made me ] lose friends, made me not take opportunities and, most painful of all, caused me to cheat on my own girlfriend. It has also made me feel somehow I deserved to not be happy, so I went out of my way tn malea tViincra cm wvnnrr T u/aa rmlvr Viarv. py when I was unhappy. I was totally " incapable of grasping the concept of hap- { piness, but no longer. I have taken the initiative to talk to counselors and psychologists over the ( past six months. In that time, I've made many changes in how I look at problems and how I deal with problems. I have made the conscious decision to no longer 1 be a victim but a survivor. Every day I < get up and say "I deserve to be happy, 1 and I am going to do everything in my ^ power to make it so." 1 I wish you well, Melissa. You sound j as if you are taking the steps you need 1 for healing. If anyone else reads this and i \STQl * thing will beat the eyes of the coi nent and Safety Carl Stokes crazy New Y Dumb son of a I chanmner emoti IS MULDROW Freud of th< Columnist to McDonalds f Bill: Sure. Right now, t] i like buying those vans $175 an hour ( ieling of driving a living happiness). I foi the ultimate dream of out at ^i??h ?a trickling down le clientele of such a ser- Pectin5 therap me they need to call a someone to tall, don t have tim< . therapy in a mc thing these yan-dnvmg in a c% bu! ;r has something to do sjde the hi. ree time for things like Of course, I * . act like nothing hie back of a van is a far times when I sm reclining in a non-mov- shoe naked sin* roblems. Can vnn imacr- l?in j t a. / o i/v iicip) anu x u< s probably guessed, I'm van. ...) Well, I've go i, Bill, you're threatened to the floor of m; or Aighhhh! You dumb any minute, u cut me off!!! DieAMC Ch by the ... watch out for ihickens!! Aighhhhhh!! rose difficult t( J. M xl *1 1* Jl T mas 11 aescnoes meir situation, tnen l urge you to get help. If s not easy, but ba believe me, you are not alone. If you I ( make the decision to get help as I did, 8o you will find life is more fulfilling and wj tastes that much sweeter. Good luck. m William C. Cunningham II at Class of'92 P1 or Campus should apologize gL o hit-and-run victim fri I never want to see anything like this ever again?not on this campus or anywhere else in the world. The front page of The Gamecock on lir Friday, Sept. 16 read "Pedestrians ig- se nore hit-and-run victim." Ignore? How P :an you ignore a young woman lying in ^e* the middle of the street bleeding? Are no you so desensitized by media that even when one of your own students is in- y? ured, you ignore her? Are you so apathetic that even being witness to a hit ind-run does not compel you to act? tudents to voluii "Everyone needs help soi and give up some of your "The whole purpose of vc %s torrr I EM&6 HUMAN: ?R <?0% WATER :iTH: >11 5% WATER >% HEROIN $ % JACK. PAN\eiS 7'/. NICOTINE )% MO^HlNe )% SCOTCH )% VfitMOOi BF?*S j )% SHoe Leflrthe* ff mmunity." ark trpnH VI. U. OJJL. V/XXV1. i motherless goat!!!!!!!!... constantly ional landscape. ; freeway: Do you want to drive in or a quick burger before we finish? be service uses a chauffeur and costs and they say money can't buy you resee this trend, like all trends startservice and price levels, eventually to the lowly peons like me. I'm exy while you work, where you pay : about your problems because you i to go to the office. I'm expecting >torcycle sidecar. Eventually, ther3 and therapy while running alongitrist's bike will take hold, prefer to ignore my problems and ^s wrong, except for the occasional ip and go running around the Horsejing "La Bamba." It always seems Dn't have to blow my money on the tta go. There's some papers stuck y Mustang, and my first client's due ris Muldrow is a journalism, senior. His column appears every Friday. 3 overcome I am shocked and angry and emnasseu this happened on the campus :all home. But more than that, I am rry. I am sorry for Ms. Yardley who itnessed one of the worst sides of huan nature?twice. I could complain out the person who hit her or the peoe who chose not to help her, but the ily thing I really want to do is apoloze to Ms. Yardlev. her familv and her ends. Although a large number of people issed by you, Ms. Yardley, some of us still have a conscience and a driving ipulse to help. Please do not let the lfishness and uncaring of a few peoe ruin the first semester of your col- * je career. You have had two injuries w: one when the car hit you, and one len your classmates neglected to aid ; u. I, for one, am very sorry. H Kimberiy Reddick I Nursing junior iteer? netime. It is good to chip in own time." Peter Smith Computer Engineering sophomore >lunteering is to help other Whitney Coleman Criminal justice freshman V -