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Lee Gontz, Editor in Chie
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Keith Boudreaux,
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foundation for bas
With the passing of Coac
own. Though not a grai
versify for no name is
ball than Coach McGuire's.
He coached our teams for 16
USC history, 283, than any otl
naments. His records at St. Johi
phia Warriors are also impressi
For Carolina basketball fan
McGuire, however, won our he*
He was a coach that went al
prospects on personalized tours,
players, ensuring they were grai
cause he cared
He was a man strong in hi
members entering the chapel lal
saying his rosary. He was a pr
But he was a public one, as \
after 1986 until his health preve
place he watched them play beai
prefer to call it, "The House Tha
The public sentiment that wi
tament to what one good man a
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ball season will take on a slightl
be in the house that he built ar
walls, however, and remind us <
lost.
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top editor's
; lee clont
Editor in Chie
Again, I'm obsessed.
My obsessions have ranged fri
music to movies to computers, t
I've moved on.
My fall obsession has arriv<
replacing my summer obsession::
line skating.
Yes, in the space of about thi
days I went from total
Rolleiblade ignorance to the s
tus of a Skating God. I may not ha
had the first idea what I was doii
but I looked like it.
I bought wrist guards and skat
lightening my wallet of nearly $2(
"Cool people don't buy knee and i
bow pads," my experienced frien
told me.
After shattering my kneecap
looking cool became a little less i]
portant, so I bought a medieval-loc
ing set of pads. Not as cool, HI gra
you, but cool nonetheless.
My goal, as my summer in N?
Jersey wound down, was to con
back to South Carolina, skating li]
a dynamo. I was going to be sk?
ing backwards, doing cartwheel
impressing all I pass.
Well, it has been months, anc
still Rollerblade like an idiot. Ch
dren skate backwards past me, laug
ing as I scoot along, grabbing pol
and walls, trying not to wipe on
Anyway, the skates are now fin
ly in the back of my closet, alor
with the "Learn Russian in 30 Day
cassettes, my "Van Gogh by Nui
bers" art set and "Watch Repai
Fast and Easy" home kit."
Yes, Virginia, there is a new o
session, and, let me tell you, ifs
cool one.
Fm now the Super Camper.
Forget the fact that I've nevi
Letters to th<
include nan:
and phone
social seci
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Room 333 :
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ing USC Since 1908
f Susan Goodwin, Viewpoints Editor
ttorial Board
Lupe Eyde, Steven C. Burritt,
)eButts, Kim Tniett
oach
legacy at USC, built
ketball program
:h Frank McGuire, USC has lost one of it
iuate, he will be forever linked to this uni
more synonymous with Carolina basket
seasons, 1965-1980. He has more wins ii
ler coach. He took us to four NCAA torn
is, North Carolina, and the NBA Philadel
ive.
s, winning games is quite enough. Coacl
irts.
bove and beyond. As a recruiter, he tool
including his church. He was good to hit
iuated and found good jobs. He did so be
s faith. Close friend Kathleen Poole re
e one night and seeing McGuire all alone
ivate person in many aspects of his life
veil. Rarelv did he miss USC home cmmej
nted him from attending. In fact, the ver]
rs his name, Frank McGuire Arena. Some
it Frank Built."
11 be expressed in the near future is a tea
an do for a university.
McGuire. This year's Gamecock basket
y different meaning because Frank won'l
lymore. His name will stand bold on the
)f the coach we had and the visionary we
-line skating
obsession list
spent a night in the woods alone,
Forget the fact that I don't know the
Z first thing about starting a fire withf
out three quarts of lighter fluid For
| get the tact that, to me, "roughing
it" is having to print something out
on a dot matrix printer.
m I have a pack, a tent, a lantern
)Uf. and a machete.
Now, I know what you're thinking.
"A machete? Where're you camp?
ing? Laos?"
I don't care what you think. I'm
^ now an outdoorsman like you
wouldn't believe. I will be doing
ta_ things this weekend that would make
lVe Grizzly Adam's head spin. I'm golg)
ing to be the ruggedest woodsman
Airnt* fwAil
vxini/ CTCl 111V U1C blOll.
es, Plans right now include an 80)0.
mile hike, mountain climbing, lots
el- of jungle-chopping with my machete
ds and the ever-popular notion: "I eat
what I kill."
>s, That's right. If I can't catch it
n- and beat it senseless, 111 just go hunk
gry. I'll be eating squirrelburgers
nt and drinking putrid mountain water.
I'll be sleeping on the ground,
sw mud in my teeth, screaming from
le the top of the highest mountain that
ke I have reached my destiny,
it- I may drop out of school and be1s,
come a wilderness-dweller. Til find
a mountain woman and raise some
11 mountain kids. Til grow a long, long
il- beard and make money by selling
h- bear hides to tourists. I will have ates
tained Master Camper status, and
it. all will know.
n- Or maybe Fll stay home Sunday
lg and watch The Simpsons" and throw
s" down a Big Mac Extra Value Meal.
q- After all, itfs hard to get those eggroll_1
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I had just finished a spellbinding hour i
minutes in economics class, and was sittin
za Hut sharing a second pizza with my friei
We always feel less guilty sharing two pizz?
do eating one each.
"You know," Megan said as I wrenchec
ly-owned breadstick box from her grasp,"]
should start going to aerobics
"I don't know," I protested in remembre
first class exhausted me. I had to stop for a i
after class just to raise my blood sugar lev
to get back to the dorm. Besides,
if we start going to aerobics again, Tm go
guilty about all those bags of Reese's cups I ha
in my closet."
"WHAT bags of Reese's cups?"
"Anyway," I said, sensing a need to refoci
versation, *if we do go back to aerobics, wl
we wear?"
"Oh, I suppose we could wear the same
wore last time," Megan mused, reaching fc
slice of pizza,"... feather boas and stack he<
"You know," I said, chewing thoughtfully
tein-packed pepperoni, "there must be somet
comfortable that would still look appropria
obics."
"Yeah," Megan agreed as she got us two m
Twenty minutes before Monday's aerol
Megan pounded on my door with her gyn
hand.
"Ashley!" she rushed in enthusiastically
all ready for aerobics?"
"A box of 'ports (New
ffryi ^ why I bought these. IN
s test now and I'm just
r^pMHH "I stay up late and sti
*1^^' break. I get out of my ]
LETTERS
Landscape cre\
After reading the article in the Sept. t<
30 Gamecock by Matt Horgan, a j our- ft
naliam junior, I was disgusted. I thought a
that to be a good journalist, you needed si
to find out all the facts on a subject you
could before you print an article. tl
In this article, Mr. Horgan decides <r
that he is the expert when it comes to vi
landscaping, even though he never si
checked out any of the facts that he put tl
in his article. As Mr. Horgan puts it, the ti
"Compost Casserole" contains only com
posed leaves and chipped-up tree limbs, p
It does not contain any "Farm Animal h
Feces." If he would have called and tried fe
to check his facts, he would have been
told what was being used and why.
I feel that our landscape crews should
be commended for their efforts to recycle
these materials. With using these V
materials, the University has saved mon- q
ey two ways. First, we did not have to
pay the high dumping fee for disposing
of organic material, and second, we did te
not have to purchase other types of mulch. 0f
It is irresponsible for the Gamecock tl
How
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nd Megan. Jl" ' jft ASI
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think we "Uh, sure," I grimaced, gh
again." the room for a large, blunt obj
ince, "that membered!"
milkshake When we arrived a few mil
el enough one else was already sweating
to the 80's' collection. Ms. Ins
ing to feel me rubber jump ropes a
ive stashed stretched and yawned. Ms. In
my direction.
Okay, everybody!" chirped i
is the con- perkily in front of the mae
lat should jjjg start with Marching In
Fortunately, we'd stumblec
things we After a while, as I lay in a
ir another floor, gasping for breath, I
si8?" "Ashley, this isn't so bad after
' on a pro- <weU... no," I whispered be
hing more the strength to whip out one o
te for aer- ture Snickers bars, "I guess il
to start seeing the results!"
ore Cokes. "Your results are going to
irics class, chomping those candy bars!" t
1 shoes in wV>n ho/1 onnoowul ftv\m r?/\?rV
?1*W A1M\? VV1 XX V/JUL XXV/ fl 1.
ing a second miniature into m
r, "are you "Wha canny bah?" I mun
cheeks.
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vs ueserve resp
) print an article like this, given the ho
ict that the university's landscape crews in|
re trying to provide the best possible zo:
ervice at the most reasonable cost, ar
With our landfills filling up daily and m:
le amount of waste that could be reveled,
we need to concentrate on how to
e can use more recycled products and ge
top complaining and printing articles on
lat do not contain accurate informa- js
on. ve
If I can be of further assistance or
rovide any additional information on
ow we landscape the campus, please
>el frfiA tn rnntart. mi? at 777^999
Gerald R. Schemrerttom
Assistant Director of Campus Services ch
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/riter should be more *h
pen-minded, less critical ^
Upon reading Jeffrey Turbitf s let- na
r to the editor in the Sept. 28 edition
' the Gamecock, my first reaction was 80
lat the letter was a joke. I sincerely ot'
do you handle i
port cigarettes). That's exactly
re got to go in and take a physics
stressing out."
Rommel Pucan
Chemistry sophomore J
ady. When I stress I just take a
room and go somewhere off camLori
Wilson
Chemistry freshman
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it a hall rep for RHA president."
ion President Mike Moore
of mind,i]
"Work tho
rhythm as she
4LEY BALL "Is everyb.
Columnist person in from
"Yes!" the i
"Wait! NOr
incing furtively around is this class CT
ect. Tm so glad you re- "Well," she
clock on the w
lutes late to class, eveiy- since we're stil
: in rhythm to the 'Back "FTFTY-FT
itructor handed Megan any credit hou
nd told us to stretch. I Somehow, i
structor glanced icily in through the h
Over The Tops
someone who was bounc- my personal fa
is of leotards."We're go- Tm so glac
Place!" enthused aftei
1 into remedial aerobics. I noticed w
semi-conscious state on permanen
heard Megan whisper, obics'.
all, is it!" "And,"she
ick, as I somehow found matching chocc
if my emergency minia- our aerobics wi
t isn't. And I can't wait muscle tone, o
diovascular fit]
be negative if you keep "Yeah," I a
allowed Ms. Instructor miniature. "Plu
lere just as I was shovy
mouth.
ibled through bulging i
ect, honest rep
pe it was. A mayor reason for attend- t(
? college is to expand a person's hori- ti
lis and open his mind to other beliefs tc
id cultures. It is clear Mr. Turbitt's tl
ind is as open as a steel trap. \\
The idea behind a "melting pot" is tl
bring people from all backgrounds to- p
ther. Forcing one person's beliefs up- p
i another who does not feel that way t
not only wrong, it goes against the a
ry principles of this country that al- n
v Mr. Turbitt to express his opinion
print. I would like to remind him that w
ere are many people in this state who h
id his beliefs restrictive and offensive, t<
duding persons who attend Christian
urches more regularly than he obvi- p,
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siy uuea. ininsuan Deneis (.at least h
e ones I was taught) do not include T
te, prejudices against someone for his w
in color or sexual orientation or the B
rrow-mindedness that he expressed. T
Mr. Turbitt needs to be reminded alof
the people of Jewish, Islamic, and
ler faiths who would find his desire
mid-term stress
t f "I panic. But then I've I
, ^ v I'm stressed for awhile a
<, I have to do and I do it.
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how to handle it. I'll jus
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se biceps!" Ms. Instructor shouted in
marched away into the sea of leotards,
sdy doing okay?" yelled the frolicking
t of the class.
rolicking class yelled back.
" I yelled. "Megan," I whimpered, "when
VERT
answered in rhythm as she checked the
all. "I'd say in about fifty-five minutes
11 doing warm-ups."
VE MINUTES!" I shrieked. "Do we get
rs for this?"
n my weakened state, I managed to get
our of Half-Turns, Diagonal Crosses,
?, and even March Around The Bench,
ivorite.
I we're going to aerobics again," Megan
r class as we hiked over to the TCBY.
ith distress her flippant use of the fut
tense of the derelict verb 'going to aerwent
on, as we slurped the last of our
ilate-andOreo Shivers, "just think what
II eventually mean to us in terms of our
ur respiratory stamina, and our earless!"
greed, unwrapping my last Snickers
s, if s a good excuse to wear bike pants."
Ashley Ball is a journalism freshman.
Her column appears every Wednesday.
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> have the infallible words of the Bible"
iught to their children, not as a his)ric
book of great literary meaning (as
hey see it), but as the way, truth, and
ght, insulting to their faith. Perhaps
[lis might make him think a bit. Supose
this country had been founded by
eople of the Middle East. Would Mr.
tubitt be so eager to read the Koran
s the way, the truth and the light, and
ot as a book of literary meaning?
As for his remarks concerning a
oman's traditional role as "wife and
omemaker," I am seeing too much red
> dignify that with a response.
If we were to scale the number of
eople in South Carolina according to
ow they lean politically based on Mr.
urbitt's ideas, I am sure most of us
ould be considered "Satanic liberals."
ut it is a slight better than what Mr.
urbitt is.
April BoflfrChan
Criminal Justice senior
5?
>een here so long I'm use to it.
nd then I'm fine. I realize what
ff
Susan Abdetealnm
Art design senior
y first time, I don't really know
it take it as it comes and hope
Davkl Conner*
Undecided freshman
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