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| e Courtesy ke; Be nice. When using the Internet or Bulletin Board Systems, you need to be nice. I see more and more posts these days lamenting the fact some users are being inconsiderate and downright rude. If s sad to say, but we now have the equiv alent of reckless drivers on the information superhighway. So what exactly is inappropriate behavior? Well, I don't wish to turn myself into the Emily Post of the Internet, but here are a few rules that should help you mind your manners while on-line: 1. Be a good little "newbie." If you are a new user on a BBS or Net service, then the old-timers refer to you as a newbie. While it is a cute-sounding name, the title isn't always conferred with affection. Newbies are often seen as annoying novice users who ask stupid questions and make lots of mistakes. There are ways to be a good newbie. The most important thing to do is get the FAQs. Frequently Asked Questions files answer the queries new users most often pose. Reading FAQ files will help you understand new services and will keep you from bugging veteran users with questions they have answered a million times before. You should also listen and learn. If you are new to a service, there will be many people there who know more than you do. You need to respect this by listening for awhile before you contribute information of your own. When you feel 'Quiz Show' i into TV gami BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - Is 'Quiz Show" as dishonest as the movie's scandal-plagued TV game show? Thafs the $64,000 question, say critics of the acclaimed film, which admittedly plays fast and loose with the facts. The mounting accusations against the Robert Redford-directed movie mirror charges against "Twenty-One," the rigged 1950s game show whose contestants were secretly given answers. Specifically, both the game show and "Quiz Show" seem to dodge the truth and create clear heroes and villains for popularity's sake?more TV viewers in one case, bigger box-office in the other. From invented dialogue to fabricated court transactions, "Quiz Show" often takes broad dramatic license. Because the film uses the names of real people (some still living) and has been positioned by its makers as a righteous statement on ethics and morality, the "Quiz Show" deviations raise provocative questions about Hollywood's conscience ? or its lack of one. "If Robert Redford had taken this Care Nothing co fcWil N "I ?j-i iT a l 11 * j * ^"fW^SwpR ! >flw ? Alfl IS 1 _ t? 11 jvaria Dusweii Kimmie Bouvette Nicole Bridgeman Mandi Bullock Donyelle Burton Aubrey Campbell Nicole Cannon Cathy Cauthen Joni Dobson Una Fant Crista Gaffney Julie Anne Galyean ^ Kelli Gantt 1 Jennifer Green \ Lauren Griswold Michelle Harritt Candy Hunt Jenni Kellahan 'Tfo Hti] l j to getting alon ^ little MARC "face' - ffP LaFOUNTAIN ^ Technobabble 3. ?I i ifL users tJkzzzzsMml sona] comfortable enough to contribute your- exP^( self, you will know what opinions and ?r an information are new and relevant and j10?6 how to post them. 18 cal artici 2. Think before you send some- 0f C0l thing. You will find users can easily abou 1 .* A. . i. _ i? 1 f 1 A Tl get mio unintentional ngnis. itisim- cases portant to remember that even though ]jke a you are typing your messages into a com- ^ puter, they are not being read by a computer. Your messages are read by peo- jjona lie?people who can misunderstand you. fro m You might write me a lovely e-mail full < of well-intended sarcasm and irony you ^ think I will find humorous. However, I s^ouj won't be able to see your smile, hear your you a laughing voice or read your body lan- a bet guage when I get your message. Be- ^em cause of this, I might misinterpret your g e-mail as being hostile. ajj y How do you avoid unintentional of- the a fenses? Think about how you would feel BBS if you received the message you are about ed/ad to send. Then you will know if if s ap- here? propriate. You can also set the emo- for at tional tone of an electronic communi- ed wi cation with a wonderful invention called atten an "emoticon." Turn your head to the respc left and look at the following: :-) :-( A ;-P These are emoticons and with a istic i offers insight T e scandal ug STEI movie and had changed the names, then I would have no argument," says + /0l Don Ennght, whose father, Dan, pro duced "Twenty-One" and is vilified in R "Quiz Show." who i Says Albert Freedman, Dan En- perfc right's producing partner and a char- teron acter portrayed unfavorably in "Quiz a car Show": "All of my conversations (in the jokes movie) were fiction.... Everything that B they have me saying is fantasy." As pi Freedman, who says he was not jn eSj consulted about the film, has threat- come ened to sue. "I'm certainly not going to ja Ki stand by and let him get away with it," u he says of Redford. -g nQl Redford and screenwriter Paul At- , tanasio have said the fictional dements ^ were added to make the story more dramatic and instructive. Their crit- J7 y" ics, however, say the inaccuracies de- g stroy the film's credibility. an P? T think the movie's a lot of bunk," actl0] says Jeff Kisseloff, author of the soon- not P to-be published TV book "The Box," u ^ which includes a chapter on the quiz "Ten show scandal. "I was astonished. Peo- actor pie will look at it and think if s histo- char; ry ? and if s not." "Plat ed ar t 1 inga m m j UI1V/K >lina! -s uld be finer. becal smug Bails L-HESj |^f5rj ia Delta Pi Welcoi s 1994 Alpha Clas; rst fXnd ^Tfie HF The Qamecock A! Wedn g on Info Superhig ingenuity you can probably find a you type in all capit * from your keyboard to fit almost shouting. Just as in n smotion you wish to convey. being yelled at. A use , Don't flame. "Flaming* is when "Caps Lock" key will i write crude messages full of per- popuiar very quickly, attacks, profanity and sometimes :it sexual references. There is nev- T, _ i excuse to flame another user. I L 1 have never nan you are an intelligent person who sent some an^ Dable of expressing yourself more time. ^ almost alwa ilately than with a flame. (Unless, computer is a poor m< irse, someone says something nasty meating unpleasant f t Billy Joel or Star Trek. In these easy to be furious witl i you may feel free to flame them off an angry e-mail mt t charcoal briquette!) you calm down and < lost flames come from people de- ^he person anymore. ? an issue and becoming too emo- mai, wajti for th lly involved in it. Many also come tickj tjme bomb r users attacking others for what ., see as inappropriate behavior. Don't f1 > tell others what they should and e you s an an* d not do unless you run the system yourself: "Would I sa re on. The electronic world will be son's face?" If the a ter place if people learn to censor shouldn't send the m< selves and not others. elieve it or not, some people actu- So be nice. Unde /ant to be flamed because they like 0f BBS and Net servi ttention. I saw a post on a local not a right Respect 1 tarns of systems and b Wtflles? Do you have kiddie porn dtjzen If don% This person was clearly begging erusere^lbe ...J tention, and numerous users obligth ugly public flames. Don't give ition-seekers the satisfaction of a LaFountain is ajourn mse. column appears ever, nother important flame character- can be e-mailed a to avoid: DON'T SHOUT! When marc@scarolina.edu. erminallv ill 41 HTSCAIMERAREACTION becaus >HEN BROWN Staff Writer ~ panwi fllNAL VELOCITY inginn it of four stars) tvin this act ichard "Ditch" Brody is a hot-shot parachutist throug likes to charm women, ride his motorcycle and worms >rm death-defying stunts to keep his testos- world j ie level in check. He's a wayward skydiver with Ope ..A 1 J 1 ?. ?*...... U . 1 eiree atuiuae ana a pencnani ior practical pense v and av ut the joke is on him in "Terminal Velocity." takes a ayed by Charlie Sheen, Brody becomes involved and his pionage when a beautiful woman named Chris never 1 ss into his life for a skydiving lesson. Natass- The cli: nski plays this mysterious woman who seems fort to i hiding a big secret. Soon Ditch discovers Chris will for t all she seems, and he doesn't always get the The terests irector Deran Sarafian and writer David Twohy than a ) breathe new life into the "Top Gun" and "Iron suring s" genre with weak results. Although Sarafi- hurried icks several aerial stunt sequences with pure nobodj o, he creates unbelievable characters who can- Ditch: ropel the storyline forward. It's lie weakest of the unconnected links surrounding for an e ninal Velocity" is Charlie Sheen. The young bad spe who demonstrated superb insight into the blue sc acters he crafted in his early works "Lucas," ward tl oon" and "Wall Street" seems oddly distract- of yestt id fails to give his role a strong focus. Follow- Liki pattern including recent disasters such as "Hot actuall Part Deux" and "Ttie Chase," Sheen demon- feature es a devil-may-care attitude in his character- a time )ns. Ditch simply cannot be taken seriously devices use you can never see what lies beyond his ballroo jness. Sheen's attempted humor is often lost ration t ARGE I-TOPPING PIZZA r. ;5?ma ,tw^ '^^^^ssssssiaass- I! ra nes JjU S ^ . Donna Long m lelanie McAllister tannon McKelvey Libby Moorhead Heidi Moses Ingrid Patterson Sara Pendarvis m Jennifer Savage Heather Spires Lindsey Stone Alia Todd Julie Tomayko Jenn White Christy Watson Jessica Wilson Leslie Young | nrrany jsurugnt \ inest... i Q esday, September 28, 1994 ;hway run Moon. al letters, you're ial life, people hate r with a depressed become very unled anyone, but I y messages in my i \ro ?*arn?ol if TVi a -*2- :^v 1 mm joicgicnu 1I1C M&agff * jdium for commu- IfcJL ML eelings. It is very 1 someone and fire jssage. Inevitably, B^Ksij^H^J iren't angry with JlBI However, your e- te recipient like a j^W^wraBr '1iWim? eady to make the 1 H y tense again. Be- B jry message, ask iy this to the pernswer is no, you irstand that usage ;he rules custo be a ou might find alism junior. His y Wednesday. He Gin Blossoms, Spin Doctors, Vlnx ar it lafountain- Pavllllon Sunday night. Robin Wilson st Velocity* dead o e he delivers most of his lines with a deadt that shrouds Ditch's potentially interester character. ski is one of very few redeeming qualities of tion vehicle. Her character is seen snooping h enemy territories and swallowing tequila as foreplay, but she retains an out-of-this- ^ If"* iresence despite seeming oddly out of place. Mb|j?li||i ming with some hope of excitement and sus- Hf JH vith a woman stranded in the desert at night WF& waiting certain doom, "Terminal Velocity" MLggir quick nosedive with the introduction of Ditch i dim wit. He makes one jump too many but ;akes the leap into a believable character. mactic showdown is literally a last-ditch efshowcase aerial stunts in hopes the audience 1 get the plodding middle section of the film. I casting of Sheen and Kinski as romantic inis a mistake. He tells her, "I'm much more HKjB walking penis," which must be quite reasto her. The romantic storyline is forced and I, as the two become involved simply because I r else is around. Chris claims her love for "You're really courageous and really cute!" usually a lot of fun to suspend one's belief iction thriller, but "Terminal Velocity" takes pharlle She scial effects perilously close to the limit. The Torm'na' Vel reen techniques as people and cars fall to- Sheen and le viewer make you yearn for bad 3-D films action/thriller ;ryear. weave throug e "Point Break," a surfing/skydiving movie the KGB and y fun for what it was, "Terminal Velocity" the ^aces ?^c (S bodies falling from planes for minutes at an a*r Poc^etbefore approaching the earth with landing Kut by the . The characters do all they can do short of s^ea<^ of the ne m dancing and three-course dinner prepa- ^ou want SI luring the inconceivable falls. locity is term Ms bjI ^ i d pZ p|MEDIUM^TOPm! sm & MOO 5 m11 C^vc^yfu^t^^/^C *&& j&ujtfr yjsu* ^c /Us jtk*> I DtUMBIASPI 254 Harbison Boulevard Across from Columbi, VAN HOPE The Gamecock 1 Cracker played at Blockbuster own above. n arrival <fl| H^ji* K^SAi - ?? &' ~' ii ii ?fct n mm iii i i- fin in stars in his newest bomb, city.' Kinski take a tandem jump into the fenre with very poor results. As they 1 a complicated labyrinth involving a special mission, it is apparent on ;h actors the film is little more than end, the joke is on the audience. Int "Speed," here is a movie that makes eed from the theater. "Terminal Venally unwatchable. r 10pm pa mm' sassass* >s4sK&?er. *^L I I f, <. wm na Centre 4 *