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Lee Clontz, Editor in Chief C
Editor
Erin Galloway, Wendy Hudson,
Jimmy DeButts, Ryan Wilson, C
Students si
make a run
Student body is hea
in Student Governm
It's time to file for Student Go
tics from previous elections are ai
thing.
When it comes to Student Gov
incredible apathy. Not only do fe
percent or 7 percent of the studen
It's amazing a group that has s
campus receives so little support fi
resent.
Students complain about parki
of the administration and can ass
Student Government, claiming
islature for money for higher edu<
Students pay activity fees eithe
arate fee. This money goes to stud
are members of, the group that p
the organizations that advocate oi
Government is responsible for dis
Elections take over the campu
and posters litter the campus for s
organizational meetings and spes
bies, they garner support. You, tl
sault on campus of the campaigns
The fact is, Student Govemmei
body, a group designed to reflect w
cent of the student body votes, th<
If no one but a small group of pec
sentation will never be achieved.
Go by the Student Government
pick up an application and run for
difference. It's your money, it's you
and it's time for you to take charg
Southern (
unhealthy,
but it's jusi
It eating coilards,
boiled peanuts and
barbecue is wrong, I
dont want to be right
Having just returned from my
hometown of Summerton (pop.
975), where I spent my Christmas
vacation, I was unpleasantly surprised
when I stepped on my scale.
It said I was about five pounds
heavier than my normal 183
pounds.
I would have to attribute it to
all of the fine Southern cooking I
took in during this holiday season.
I was fortunate enough to
partake of various samples of barbecue,
fruit cake, turkey, collards
and dressing that would stick to
your ribs like graffiti to the walls
of Thomas Cooper Library.
However, despite the fact that
genuine Southern cooking tastes
3,000 times better than anything
that ever came out of the Russell
House, any doctor worth a nickel
will tell you that most Southern
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as attaching antlers to your head
in Clarendon County during deer
season.
Barbecue, in its truest sense,
is pork thrown over a pit containing
hot oak coals and cooked for about
nine hours. None of the fat is
trimmed off, and there is enough
cholesterol in it to give Richard
Simmons a heart attack.
Collards is (yes, the word is
singular) cooked with a slab of fatback,
which is bacon without the
meat attached.
Collards is fine with the fatback,
but it tastes like boiled oak
leaves without it.
Boiled peanuts are a Southern
staple. Any small-town grocery
store should have them right alongside
the Levi Garrett and the pickled
pigs feet.
Any Southerner who claims
not to like boiled peanuts must
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sail that ear to provide student lots.
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organizations, the clubs that you
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r condemn different causes. Student
tributing this money,
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several weeks. Candidates come into
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students, complain about the asit
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have had his tongue switched at
birth with a Yankee's.
Although many a Southerner
would trade his prized cow for a
freshly boiled bag of peanuts, they
have more fat in them than Marlon
Brando.
To make them taste like they
should, you must put more salt in
them than the Atlantic Ocean.
At least grits have no fat in
them, but who wants to be stuck
eating them all of the time?
Since many of the senior citizens
in the South were raised on
such staples, having your first
heart attack is a lot like going on
your first date ? everybody goes
through it.
The Lowcountry has the highest
rate of heart disease in the entire
world.
Since my family has a long history
of heart disease and a tendency
to be obese, my doctor advised
me to eat a low-fat diet high
in fiber and stay away from delicacies
such as barbecue, collards
cooked in fatback and boiled
peanuts if I wanted to lead a
healthy life.
In other words, I could eat what
I wanted and weigh 300 pounds
by the time I was 30 and have a
four-digit cholesterol level, or I
could eat rabbit food for the rest
of my life and weigh about 95
pounds and make Michael Stipe
look like King Kong Bundy.
I hope Levi's is going to continue
to manufacture those widebottom
jeans.
___ Chris Carroll
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You see, I've lived in my home town of'
(a thriving metropolis nestled between Gr
Greenville) for my entire life, and I've done
thing in town that a bored person can do. Thai
I spent the break trying to find ways to a\
ting on my couch watching The Comedy C
and drooling on myself.
One of the solutions I chose was outdooi
ty, understandable in Columbia where it's
ually summertime, but somewhat less underst
in Greenville where mountain winds blo\
chilling cold into town all the time. In fact,
my outdoor activity occurred in Western Nor
olina, where our ancestors kept their frozen'
ners before refrigerators were invented.
A friend called me over break and asked if
ed to go Whitewater kayaking a couple of c
ter Christmas. He said he and some other gu;
going up to the Chatooga River along the C
border. The Chatooga is where "Deliveram
filmed, and it occasionally decides to pull
water boaters into its watery stomach, neve
turn.
Now, I bought a kayak last year after le
to Eskimo roll two summers ago, but I foui
summer that I'd forgotten that important s
other words, if I rolled my boat upside dowr
middle of the Chatooga, I'd have to choose b
drowning or hypothermia, a choice I'd rati
make.
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Waiters, bai
SEAN RANKIN Columnist
Sometimes I wish that I had a couple of
hours in my day. Work eats into my schedi
most every day. I wait tables at a local restai
and like most waiters, I'm not really conten
my job. I think that work would be almost be;
if the people whom I waited on were human,
restaurant patrons acted with a little more <
I would love my job.
Now being a waiter isn't that difficult. Th;
you love stress, like being yelled at by peopl
can't even speak in complete sentences and lc
continuous motion for several hours.
I decided that most students probably ha\
no formal teaching in restaurant etiquette,
they say, there is no time like the present.
This is a prime time of year to go out to cele
Whether it's celebrating the New Year or ju
ing out to have a couple of beers with the gai
ter a long winter break, there are a few thing
need to know about the people who are serving
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you have about the service issue.
1. First things first. Your server/bartender
ably doesn't like you. Please, don't let this hurt
feelings. The only reason they don't like you
cause you are keeping them from doing things
care to do (i.e., going out and having fun).'
honest, the like/dislike part of the relatioi
doesn't come out until the tip is delivered...o:
2. When your server/bartender says some
along the lines of "Just one second," this is 1
means a measure of time. This simply meai
waiter lingo, "When it's humanly possible." A
don't take this as an insult if your beer tak
seconds instead of 12 to get to you. In most c
your waiter has other demanding patons to
on and is probably trying to remember 64,00(
er things.
3. It's NOT polite to insinuate that your
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sit- Broad River in North Carolina that
hannel died before. I bundled up in a red Ur
pullover, a paddling jacket, jeans, v
activi- a life jacket, gloves, a wet suit, a SC
perpet- water wings, a Wonder Bra and w;
andable My brother came along wearini
v bone- waders and red running pants,
most of One of the other paddlers was
th Car- shorts, a fleece pullover and a hel]
TV din- like The Wilderness Station, The E
venture Carolina and River Runner
I want- some kind of otherworldly fender-1
lays af- us with outdoorsy clothing,
ys were The first wave we hit soaked m
ieorgia into a shivering fit, and the lone i
:e" was group (I opted for a canoe this time
white- his fingers as the cold water ran c
;r to re- gers.
We found soon, however, that the
arning predicted four-foot drops and trick
id this bit exaggerated. We paddled 14 milt
kill. In water equivalent of the "Scooby Dot
r in the at Carowinds.
etween At the end of the trip, we peeler
ler not fingers off his paddle, changed int
clothes (just in case we had to stop
French Hardee's ? don't want to scare th
rtenders den
er's parents weren't married at the t
extra ception. Making someone in the food i
lie al- ness angry isn't a smart move. I ha'
urant, eral waiters in the past who have m;
t with finding disgusting ways of contamir
arable fo?d. I won't go into the gory details.
If the 4. When sending your server to {
louth, f?r you, think of anything else you cai
ing. This will not only save his or hei
at is if nlso enable them to offer other patr<
e who vio0- There is nothing worse than m
mg for hip? back and forth to a single table fix
knowing that they will want someth
re had y?u Set back.
so, as 5- When it comes time to pay ar
take into account how much trouble
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to discuss tipping
let something ing oxygen,
a foresee need- 6. Most waiters
* sanity, it will $2.12 an hour. Wit
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taking several them for somethii
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the server has dining and drink
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we'd never pad- er shorts. I ende
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aterproof boots, morning crumpl
I duck-hunting the tent door.
It didn't help t
wearing tights, someone had for
met. We looked ment might neec
iackpacker, Ad- out heat; it was
had collided in tor, and our cock
bender, pelting let. We called the
time they answe
y little brother don't have heat? 1
kayaker in the ing!" Then we hi
.) couldn't move Everyone kno1
lown to his fin- the only signers c
actually follow the
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hermia
th the heater cranked to "bake."
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led to go camping. Again, the weathis
and turned bitterly cold. I had
seping bag and tent and was anxout.
I started the night in my boxd
the night in jeans, a sweatshirt,
socks and a T-shirt that Fd wrapped
i. I also noticed my sleeping bag
the tent floor, so I woke up the next
ed in a little ball of Beardman by
hat the first day I got back to school,
gotten that our Horseshoe apartl
heat. We went three nights withwarmer
to sleep in the refrigeraroaches
were iceskating on our toiarea
office several times, and every
red with surprise, "You mean you
[n this weather? You must be freezsard
cackling in the background,
ws, of course, that we residents are
)f the housing contract expected to
contract; missing heat and screwedire
fine, because "Everyone else's
oles in the wall, no heat and a giiano
in the living room."
iat got fixed (after we threatened
ireplace) and the weather prompt?
summertime. I guess IH have to
st to form before I go camping or
ant to go with me?
o cold.
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server about not leaving a tip or
u're going to leave. These things
>ft unsaid. I can guess about how
lerson is going to tip. You could
e. So you can see there is no need
with the waiter. It's simply wasti/bartenders
only make a wage of
hout your patronage, that is what
me with. Don't be afraid to ask
ig. They were put on this planet
lid pive von a nrettv pond idea of
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a restaurant or bar.
p-asp of these main points, your
ing experience might not be so