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Serving USC. Lee Clontz, Editor in Chief Chr Editorial Erin Galloway, Wendy Hudson, Su Jimmy DeButts, Ryan Wilson, Car; More vultun USC pulls Plaza pari other spaces dangeroi It seems The Gamecock recircuk cars circulate around the library's ^ is, however, that students don't have uation just keeps getting worse. The latest loss of parking is the j where many Horseshoe, Preston, I their cars. Employees and faculty at and the Coliseum will take Plaza sp more spaces when the new practice This leaves students with even fe the Coliseum, a long walk from all right dangerous at night. Others ai but they are small gravel lots that i are the lots behind Columbia Hall, one behind Bates, another long wal the activity fields. Several students lots, and they are also poorly lit, dai This leaves three student parkin to $160 a semester this year. For B 60 percent increase Over last year's ments in services to people parking The need for faculty parking nes music building is clear, and the unr lots is understandable. The situatic ing increasingly dire, however, and 1 problem. Nighttime shuttle buses runnin students, increased escorts for peop proved security for cars in these lo prices frould be a start for better p; however, some money and plannir specifically for students. Politics ovc business m Beasley inauguration impressive, hopeful Hello USC, and welcome back. The Christmas break is over, and now it's time to get back into the daily routine of college life. A lot has happened since my last column, so I thought I would offer you a grab bag of issues, events, etc. First-of-aH,congratulations to the Gamecock football team. I was at the game, and it was a whole lotta fun! I wouldn't mind at all if we went elsewhere for bowl games in the future. Other than the game, the weather was the high point. Temperatures in the 80s for New Year's weekend ? you can't beat that! On the downside, metro Miami was not a particularly attractive place. The interstates were utterly confusing, and sweetened iced tea was nowhere to be found. I refuse to live without sweet iced tea, so you can imagine my dilemma. My first airline flight didn't go very well, either. My Valujet DC9 took off" from a foggy Atlanta airport on New Year's Eve. After about 15 minutes in the air the pilot informed us we would have to turn around and make an emergency landing back at the Atlanta airport. Our right engine had shut off, which is often a cause of major crashes. We made a very terrifying landing. When I saw all of the ambulances and fire engines on the runway I knew I had dodged a major bullet. As for the world of politics,the beat went on. Just before Christ mas President Clinton laia on tne Condom Queen after she said at a hearing that masturbation should be taught as part of sex education. I'm glad Clinton removed the most liberal surgeon general in history, but he should have never hired her in the first place. Everyone knew she was incompetent, and her views on sex, drugs and rock n' roll ? oops ? I mean sex, drugs and religion were incompatible with most Americans. Also, the new Congress convened in early January, and the Republicans have been off and runnsaffeodt 5: Student Media Russell House-USC* Co Lee Clontz Susan Goodwin Editor in Chief Allison Williams Chris Muldrow Features Editors Viewpoints Editor Jimmy DeButts Carson Henderson Ryan Wilson Radhika Talwani Sports Editors Copy Desk Chiefs Kim Truett Erin Galloway Photo Editor Wendy Hudson Jason Jeffers News Editors Cartoonist The Gamecock is (he student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semesters, 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 Student Media is its parent organization. r *?Vi - ? '.t / WiiSW 1fl?MS?r V AMP SEIf-1 _^ll s usual TOMMY iT1 m TOIJf ,HBERRY ning. In just two weeks they have done more than the entire last Congress did! Unfortunately, the more liberal of the Democrats are still suffering from Newt-envy. The other day when the members were giving their opening oneminute speeches, liberal after liberal criticized Newt for his book deal. At the same time conservative after conservative spoke on the balanced budget proposal. That offered a stark difference between liberals and conservatives! Of course, the book deal wasn't Newt's only controversy. The Connie Chung situation with Newt's mother was another, inexcusable episode of the liberal media. Whether or not Newt privately referred to Hillary Clinton with a slang term is not the public's business. The media is wrong when they choose to behave in such an unprofessional way. It was all hype and publicity, and CBS knows it. Here in Columbia the new governor and other statewide officials were sworn in last week. The inauguration was impressive, and Beasle/s speech bordered perfection. The man can speak. Hopefully he will be as affective a governor as he is a speaker. The inaugural ball (to which I had the honor of being invited) was first-class. I think everyone had a really good time. Ifs not often you get to pay $100 to dance and drink bpnte. Nonetheless, it was a oncein-a-lifetime experience for me. This semester I am going to attempt to hit on some topics more directly involving college students, such as drinking issues and education reform. So keep reading this newspaper, and I will keep writing these nifty little articles. That's about all the space I have for this week's adventure into journalism excellence (I'm only kidding.) I will be back next week with a serious discussion of the issues. Later! Chris Carroll i. 111-1/10 Diredof of Student Media rtising: 777-4249 Laura Day 777-6482 Creative Director Jim Green 'lumbia, SC 29208 Art Director Gregory Perez Ben Pillow Production Asst. Stephanie Sonnenfeld Elizabeth Thomas Asst. Features Adv. Graduate Asst. TiefTa Harper Renee Gibson Tina Morgan Marketing Director Asst. News Christopher Wood .. Asst. Advertising Ethan Myerson Manager Ryan Sims Erik Collins Graphics Editor Faculty Advisor Letters Policy The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be 200-250 words and must include full name, professional title or year and major if a student. Letters must be personally delivered by the author to The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 333. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for style, possible libel or space limitations. Names will not be withheld under any circumstances. l-<-.n_rK tXOCR Since 1908 is Muldrow, Viewpoints Editor Board isan Goodwin, Allison Williams, son Henderson, Radhika Talwani es In the lot king from students; is, expensive ites the campus parking issue like culture lot." The fact of the matter s enough places to park and the sitjarking lot next to Carolina Plaza, vlaxcy and Towers residents kept the Plaza, the new music building ots. The Coliseum might even lose facilities are added, wer $20 sticker lots. One is behind residence halls that can be down*p lnrnfpH nInner PpnHlpfnn Strppt. ire constantly occupied. Also busy Rounding out the parking are the k and the dust-blown "pits" beside have had windows broken in these agerous places to visit at night, g garages that saw price increases lossom and Pendleton, that was a rates with no discernible improvein the garages. Lr the Coliseum, the Plaza and the verity's motivation for closing the n for students with cars is becom;he university hasn't addressed the g to far-away lots for on- campus le needing to get to their cars, imts and decreased parking garage arking on USC's campus. Ideally, lg need to go to parking facilities sr holidays SIGNE PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS Philadelphia USA Quote Unquote 'it won't really affect us as ? Governmei Jan. 16-20. More than just a back-to-sd at USC, for it was this week 4 years ago t' ident George Bush began his military asi Iraq in an attempt, as one member of his tration candidly described, to "bomb Irai the Stone Age." How? Bomb major infra to cripple the functioning economy, stop tl oil revenues to block the process of rein's and stop all technological imports to bring nological level of the economy to a stands Human lives were of little value, a vie by even those outside the Bush administr fact, a fellow student rhetorically asked n the war, "Why should I care? Iraqis have ] Another student recently declared, "I don't many Iraqis die. It is not my concern if 1 for me to have oil." In essence, she was saying that oil is value than human lives, especially if those Arab and not American. Ignorance and a I pray to all who are decent that such sts never be uttered again, not even silently t Unfortunately, the war on Iraq has n but has merely changed its form from a mi slaught to an economic blockade, an enf tropy. Food, medical equipment and mec prevented from reaching the Iraqi populal result is widespread nutritional problems out the country, with a drastic increase ii marasmus and kwashiorkor, severe forir nutrition. The most vulnerable groups 125,000 children under age one and 575, dren under five. Also in danger are 1,585 dren as well as 230,000 pregnant and 1 women. Faces In The News ? l X>\ \i w JLJW J Vjjj m liif j^gr I NSWT ^ ^^oKejCre-s* O <Zp*cXti&*< w AM^/6 f ,H. IPS k xsTfflT/ Jfrr ^ y/L ! lives are " Thelntention of tl rrogance. oughly subvert and itements character of the citi o oneself, that, even in a postot ended, not be able to pick i litaryon- cut in 1991. Aleadii orced en- tion predicts that pi licine are hasten the collapse, don. The Iraq itself as a politii through- forces will be unleai leases of total breakdown of 1 is of mal- or external forces w j include comes a point at whi ,000 chil- es total breakdown i ,000 chil- tion ensues: mass e actating tal economic and so< <6 < W / J Mitside drinking and the police arrest tt larty Dreesen, jer, Poor Richard's 1 lift embar of a nation The hor WA'EL MASRI in one won Guest Columnist haustedit) __J can no lonj food suppli ency is circulated inside the chase suc^ and further destabilize the tat- acP &?^er hological warfare is continued - [a P aigns that the embargo will be ?r n ? :h U.N. Security Council meet- reduction ^ ions for the lifting of the sane- } J raqi economic survival depends a res 0 he export of oil in exchange for every mon i food, medical supplies and the rei) , . w, a hlockane. a destroyed lmrasmacture. as ~y entire-economy is-progressive- e anot consequent le sanctions policy is to so thor- c^? change the moral, intellectual ?f children, zenry of Iraq as to guarantee phemistica embargo environment, it will children, a ip/the thread of development pillion peo] ig member of the Iraqi opposi- ?ar?0 con olonging the sanctions would freely expo; not of Saddam Hussein, but of Pnce of oil lal and social entity. "Internal supplied J shed in bloody conflicts and a tl^es in aw"and order that no internal TeTtte ill be able to control." There Whlte u ich the entropic process reach- stating lif and a qualitatively new situa- as pidemics, mass starvation, to- cru war' lial disintegration o the death Wae Political correct STEPHANIE SONNENFELD Assistant Feati There are too many things I don't i ? e mail, David Beasley, relationships, ... Yet, surfacing above the mass of u ignorance of why America's newest ar /? T? r? ? ; 11 . uess vuJ a .v. as iuj ^luupics uaii it; 10 % I really can't remember when I firi but I think it was sometime during th one from George Bush to Hillary RO thing and anyone a name that neith< where along the warped lines of mass s ity became the now known and revert From what I gather, being Politics people, places, and things in a manne or physical attributes or personal opir Political Correctness, I thought it was and equal - two adjectives our country (yeah, right). Being a hip person and at the time local office, I thought I'd try a little Pc hurt to be respectful and fair? It worked for Jackie Kennedy, Jesus teacher, so I figured it would work for r sitions like "Chairman/woman" "Chair al harassment" and "morally different tne point wnere l came on looiang liKe Sadly, my bouts with Political Co class last year (yes, I'm a freshman) bought entitled The Offical Politically Henry Beard and Christohper Cerf. F as well, I became confused as to why t What is the point of calling a freshmar bums non-goal oriented member of soc a botantical companion? Why do we 1 ers? Is a downright drunk person sim After long contemplation and no si that being Politically Correct is withoi yes, Political Correctness was a good t allmmota oavnol r\V\ffoi/ial an< xvj uiiu ^uuiiiiai/c ocahcai, pujoiV/ai aii< in a campaign full of Potato spellings a became purely ridiculous and nothing i will scar my generation forever. Long story short, Political Correct look like a DeeDee Meyers wannabe. J Correct - these are words of wisdom fi inconvenienced, vertically challenged *a short white person with bad eye sig i bar. If someone's standing < hi Man a; it shoul( ie flow of Counterfeit curr restment country to devalue it the tech- tered economy. Psyc till. through rumor c;imp w shared lifted just prior to ea< ation. In jng> then new condit ie during tions are invented. L no souls." overwhelmingly on t care how foreign goods such as raqis die basic tools to rebuild it stands today, the < 3 of more \y beiner destroyed. ? s? a, ? 8* So - ? $ 3. ? S C/5 I I I rors of the embargo can be summarizec i: death. The Iraqi government has eft s foreign cash reserves and, bankrupt ger afford to import basic medical am es. It is forbidden from selling oil to piir 1 necessities. In September 1994, thi nment had to cut in half the basic foo< rovides to the people. According to th< rnational Food Program in Rome, thi: constitutes a risk for the health of 2.2! dren and 230,000 pregnant* women." .A ;he shortages, 1,800 young children di h, reports UNICEF. Thatis 21,600 chi! every year in Iraq only hecausejQt#1 her three months; 6,400 children hav ,ly been sentenced todie. ~~ ice is simple. If you support the kiHIh then do nothing to end the blockage ($i illy called an embargo). If you care fc ctively oppose the blockade. Over 2. pie, mainly children, may die if this "en tinues. (Incidentally, allowing Iraqd rt its oil will likely reduce, not raise, tj" since it will increase the quantity offc I urge you to contact your represent ngress and let your voice_be heard* r or phone call, even arrernail to w se (president@white house.gov),- simji t the blockade on Iracf is not too mm ase, for the sake of humanity, end th i a a 1 Masri is a graduate student in Mil tness incorrect; jres Editor "L mderstand occurring in the world to3 the toilet paper crisis .on the Horsesji inexplainable confusion iSJUy compjt id oh so coolest trend, Political Corre just that - cool. st heard the term Politically Correci e last presidential election when eve DAM Clinton was trying to call evei er offended nor degraded them. Sob society and capitalism, this sort of equ ;d term "Politically Correct." Jly Correct basically is just referring r so as not to insult a person's herita lions. Personally, when I first heard i a pretty good idea because it was ?a f was built on and yes, stands for tqjfcl * n s an intern at my U.S. Representativ litical Correctness in my life. Could i i, George Washington, and my first gra ne. So, I proceded to call once-known 1 person." I incorporated the terms "s$j " into my language. Eventually, I g$t a fool rather than a political savvy, rrectness seeped into my A.P. Engii when my teacher showed us a boot y Correct Dictionary and Handbook lipping through the book and readibf >eing Politcally Correct is so import^ i a fresh person? Why do we need tor i iety? When did a simple corsage beco lave to call dishwahers utensil sanh ply sobriety deprived? aonlass rnorhfa T pamo to tho oonolno it excess adjectives, stupid. At one hing. It was a tool used to stress edi d color discrimination. But somewn ind Harry S. Truman comparisons,! more than a trend, a passing fancy, t mess is a waste of time and makes ; 3o, wake up and forget being Politic rom a *melanin impoverished, visui person. ht t m I : 1 iem, it affects them, not us." - ; go of Iraqi