Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TBa Serving I Lee Clontz, Editor in Chief Edttoi Erin Galloway, Wendy Hudson Jimmy DeButts, Ryan Wilson, i Budget cui to increasi 1 _ decrease 5 Government should The S.C. House of Represents to the state's insitutions of highe duction follows a 12 percent loss tion. With the cutback in funding fi cutbacks in specific programs, act ident Brian Comer. Comer saidr tion in the State House that US( from the budget. The 5 percent re tempt to trim that fat. The fact of the matter, howei struggling to find programs that are going to push the university funds goes. Hie only way for the s services is to increase tuition. Do you want to pay more next Do you want fewer classes and fi ne * *1.^ c v/i wui ac iiuu uv yuu want tiie u a large population of voting stucU It's time for USC to remind tl and staff are a vital constituency to the State House, write letters j ucation. This latest threat to th< sign that representatives think si think students will vote them 01 Student G( not just na TVlP timp nf vpnr is mmincr wh the campus will be littered wi flyers, young 'politicians' will bo: bard your organizational meetir and try to convince you to vote 1 them and people that you've n< er heard of before will be runni for offices that you have no id what their function is. Why all of the hoopla? I cai answer that. But I can tell yi about all of the 'hoopla' that go on everyday in our office on tl first floor of the Russell Hous While revolutionary chani does not top the daily agenda (ji weekly), the members of Stude Government are constantly fig! ing for the rights of each and eve student. How many of you know th the State House is cutting High Education funds AGAIN? He many of you know that you can i longer date a faculty member, i eluding that cute TA.. teachii your biology lab that you met Five Points? How many of ye know that parking garage fees a raised and parking lot access is c off from students and there are 1 students involved in the decisie process? It is daily that we in Studei Government try to not only be tl voice for all students but toy to ke< all students informed about chang that directly effect them. This is not an easy task. A average day for a student involve in SG consists of things such a the allocation of student activil fees paid by all students to sele< student organizations, returnir. calls from the Boys and Girls Clul of America requesting that we coi duct a leadership seminar, attendir committee meetings where we ai the voice of all students, leadir the Nickel and Dime Campaig and marching over to Pendleto Garage and delivering $3,000 i change, fighting to extend visiti tion hours in our prisons (I mea residence halls), trying to find 01 who keeps hiding those survej that state that EVERY student c this campus wants a Chic-Filand a Taco Bell and checking 1 see if we have enough cans of paii to cover Blossom Garage yet? Sounds exhausting, huh? Apai from this, we must represent th University at events all over th city, all the while having smiles o "IBatcod? i Student Media Russell House-USC Lee Clontz Susan Goodwin Editor in Chief Allison Williams Chris Muldrow Features Editors Viewpoints Editor Jimmy DeButts Carson Henderson Ryan Wilson Radhika Taiwan! Sports Editors Copy Desk Chiefs Kim TYuett Erin Galloway Photo Editor Wendy Hudson Jason JefTers News Editors Cartoonist Tbe Gamecock is the student newspaper of University of South Carolina and is published Mont Wednesday and Friday during tbe fall and spring sen ten, with tbe exception of university holidays and e) periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of editors or author and not those of tbe Universit) South Carolina. Tbe Board of Student Publications and Communicati is the publisher of Tbe Gamecock. Tbe Departmen Student Media is its parent organization. maDCR JSC Since 1908 Chris Muldrow, Viewpoints Editor rial Board , Susan Goodwin, Allison Williams, Carson Henderson, Radhika Talwani ts threaten x 8 tuition, ' services hear from students \ itives is considering cutting funding \ r learning. The 5 percent budget re- \ of funds already slated for reallocaDr USC would almost definitely come wording to Student Government Presruesday he's afraid there's a percep- < D has "fat" that needs to be trimmed iduction might be the legislature's at/er, is that the university is already can be cut. The fat-trimming efforts r over the edge as far as rediverting school to continue the current level of ; year to come to USC? Of course not ? 3wer opportunities to learn at USC? louth Carolina government to ignore p' . mts? Of course not. , le government that students, faculty rniiaa . Call your representative, walk over USA and demand protection for higher edi universities in South Carolina is a mdents are apathetic, that they don't it of office. Make them think again. tvernment uSt me on door ien ?? m" AMY BIGHAM Qllll ygs Guest Columnist ^ our faces and songs in our hearts. twenty year What is hard to understand is is leaving t that Student Government, just like porter, city ,. any local, state or federal govern- nist, Anna 1 ment, gets a bad rap. Why is this? readers the 3U The members of Student Govern- out-spoken ment are often viewed by others voking arti as students advancing their own and was of ie" cause. This is not the case. With has chosen 5? every issue or concern that is world of pa brought to us, we must look at it In "Thii as if we were the entire student columns w lt_ body. fession, "T Being in Student Government the Voice ol has taught me a lot. Just as bu- ject: Capit at reaucracy and red tape exist in big woman's ri er government, it exists in our little seems to m lW university. I have learned that, ingtothea 10 while being idealistic is fun, it is than on pr n* difficult when vou realize that vnnr ? ?u?4. +i. ^ ^ 111C mm, tii }S power is very limited. It is also like me> it in frustrating to find that a good idea "From 1 >u that would benefit all students has of the whit re to pass through five committees norities fro: ut and go to the Board of Trustees the majoril 10 where, if it passes, it is often un- tion hearii >n recognizable. could give All of these things aside, the of anyone i it bottom line is that, if we want to or discover ie make a difference, students must year iess t] jp get involved in the process. Get- there was es ting involved may mean something mittee tha as small as signing a petition or entirely fil n something as big as running for office was , sd an executive office. Don't just sit lineofkno s: there. Without the involvement "It was v r*f ohirfonta nntnirlo r?f Rhirlonf finv v ?? ? emeniary ct ernment, there would never have made hist ig been 30,000 dimes to carry to the ? Parking and Vehicle Registration i- Services Office, nor would there IYV1 ig have been students who called and * -e wrote letters of support for our ef- moEL nk\ lg forts to extend visitation in our res n idence halls. n Regardless of the extent of your. . ^ n involvement, you are needed. "a' j1111 a. Why do students go into the fhcted wi ja Student Government office every- some am it day? A wise man once said, "Du- "Amore, rs ty is the sublimest of words." Just down ma in as a soldiers' duty is to serve their ec* ^ ^ country, and a Congressional rep- .0 a v< 0 resentatives' duty is to serve their Luciano I lt_ constituents, it is our duty to make ?an to P? sure that the needs of all students falls. Thi -t are heard and addressed. watched fact that AmyBighamis Student uP?n?re _ Government Vice President. ana * "a( breakfasi ? " duous cr< T Chris Carroll - T 1 Jews: 777-7726 Diredor of Student Media Not 01 Advertising: 777-4249 Laura Day zone 'AX: 777-6482 one,she. ! Columbia. SC 29208 Art Director Internet. Gregory Perez . 771"* Ben Pillow Production Asst. llltO til6 1/ Stephanie Sonnenfeld Elizabeth Thomas from-afaT Asst.Features Adv. Graduate Asst. u;il? TiefTa Harper Renee Gibson D1I1S, tne Tina Morgan Marketing Director must be ! Ethan Myerson Manager from ma] Ryan Sims Erik Collins j_Qrr,Q+Graphics Editor Faculty Advisor aramaiL There ar die Letters Policy sing Me *s- The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. tOO milch tam Letters should be 200-250 words and must include full of foSCa name, professional title or year and major if a student. Letters must be personally delivered by the author to yOU Wert of The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 333. FTD. Fo ons The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for mOT6 difl t of style, possible Hbel or space limitations. Names will not , . . be.withheld under any circumstances. j Certainly 10iVE US ou^N fcA'LY bREAD \ SHOULD READ. ^osr^i VAM fi*^i F DELPHIA DAILY NEWS elphia Hmoucwi iidents wiH be able to use the ID c adieu's retire re a Michael Jordan fan, you know ho\ hero, too, has retired. After more thai s at The New York limes, Anna Quindlei o pursue a career as a novelist. As re editor and most recently Op-Ed colum has consistently brought home to he most important issues of our day in he , articulate and immensely thought-prc -1? OL. TV.Ki. cms. one wun a ruiiuz.ei l iilk in fered an editorship at the NYT, but sh to leave print journalism for the quiete renthood and novel-writing, iking Out Loud," a collection of her bes ith commentary, she writes on her prt he standard view of the columnist is ( f God, intoning the last word on any sul al punishment is wrong. Abortion is ight. The point is the conclusion. Thi ie essentially uninteresting, this preach inverted, this emphasis on product rathe ocess. From the beginning it seemed t e point was not to make readers thin was to make them think." And she ha ame to time I am told of the oppressio 8 male, of how the movements to free m m prejudice have resulted in bias again? y. Watching Judge Thomas's confirm? ngs, I wondered how any same perso this credence. The absence on the pan* vho could become pregnant accidental! her salary was five thousand dollars lan that of her male counterpart mear a hole in the consciousness of the con t empathy, however welcome, could ni 1. The need for more women in electii rivid every time the cameras panned th? tted ties" (Oct. 9,1991). twenty years ago next month that an school teacher named Jeanne Manfoi ory. She walked down a street in Ne nance dying aj fENHAl rat challenge as a new Gamecock edit inist, and I was already prematurely i ith writer's block. For inspiration ai bient aural wallpaper, I put on a tap the Great Italian Love Arias," and s i fog to tap away at my erstwhile, yet di OS laptop. Lrt/tLrvwrnirt/I ITivi To ITartQU CI JT pi Vjp\-?3 uauvgiuuiiu V/l XUll IV XkUiiUT >avarotti and their soaring laments, 11 nder romance and its pitfalls and pn s somber reflection came from havi Tour Weddings and a Funeral" and t my girlfriend is moving. Whereas or cent time we shared the same time zo 1 only a short 16-hour drive home foi t bowl of oatmeal, I will now face an j oss-continent trek of some 2,500 mil lly will we no longer share the same til t, in exchanging her past job for a ni nade a conscious decision to abandon 1 account. For those who have yet to he let as a necessary tool of modem roman , get connected today. It reduces the phc anxiety and the number of times flow* 3ent. my ways romance seems a dying art I ny humans, with the exception of poe its and the odd heavy metal ballade e other exceptions, of course. If you c Pavarotti, you don't have to work al i. Throwing off an aria from La Bohe] sort of negates the need to send "I wi s here" cards, origami birds or roses 1 r the rest of us, however, romance i icult, detailed and challenging task, c with its merits but nevertheless a mil liyi&'fflE SffioL ffeWE fo? H\IS> UBEpAL \ ?b&\\ie- t. . * ante for the copier machines in the library, on Ken Corbett, Assistant to the director of finance ment leaves void I CHAD STONE 1 York City carrying the sort of poster paper her s ? dents sometimes used for projects, except that pri ed on it were the words: PARENTS of gays UNI e in SUPPORT for our CHILDREN. / Jeanne M r ford didn't want a closet Her Monty was the sa golden boy after she found out he was gay as he i 1 before. She was with him at the Gay Pride Ma ^ and with him in the gay rights movement. / And ^ was with him when he died a little more than a w ago of AIDS, almost twenty years to the day al g she wrote her unconditional love on poster paper ' all the world to see. She does not reproach hers >r She loved and accepted her child the way he vs 0 In a perfect world, this would be the definitioi k 'parent'in the dictionary. The point is not what y< 3 tell your friends at the bridge table. It is what yc n tell yourself at the end" (May 27,1992). j_ "At a Board of Education meeting earlier t month, the representative from Staten Island, Mid j. Fetrides, announced, "mere is no way in tnis i n and in these United States that someone is goin jl tell my son he can have a condom when I saj y canl' News flash, Mr. Petrides: Any drugstore cl a in America can do just that if your son has the n it ey. / The prom-picture kids exist for one reason i- ly: to make parents feel good about themselves, j at that is all well and good, I suppose, until the 1 re time you see a girl with secondary syphilis in a ] at pital bed, or meet a teenager who has contra< AIDS from a sex partner. You look back on pla$ si- of the past and you see how people hundreds of y d ago dealt with them, see their quirks and foit w Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, durii rt that needs reviva field of danger. A necessary caveat and prelude to this is ;? if you aren't sincere about sending flowers Belgian chocolates of nude Greeks cavortin " fountains, then don't do it. I have learned tc great and cumbersome dismay that women 1 )e' the meaning of such acts to the very core of t at souls. If you ask someone to an opera as I did years ago, it means slightly more than, "Wi you like to see Carmen?" A profound shift in )e~ female psyche began when I asked, and, in shadows of my juvenile ignorance, her fridge 1 changed from friendship to romance. She bee HA 1 :il 1 Ki 1 3 i 1 1 enamorea wim cnocoiaie nearcs anu u upicai ice sets and I, with trying to figure out how I had ne ten myself enmeshed in such ennui. What I r a considered a friendly invitation took on a wl ir" more extensive importance. (The necessary ? ss' is that we ultimately resolved our relationship icably.) But my faux pas didn't end there as I m ie^ tained this ill-advised behavior and continu< invite casual friends to movies, the museum, ce" certs and all of the stuff that radiates a huge ,ne guy is interested" signal. Don't ever do that \ Jrs out making your intentions perfectly clear t< other half. Whether male or female, the bes ost i.- ^ Vice IS WJ suite _yuui llltcutiuiis liuui cueu aim ' yourself all manner of grief down the road. er" The joys of life will quickly turn to a dr an shade of grey whenever the despairing heart r ^fully loses her mind and rants about an unreqi love that may well have started with an innc 18 foreign film and espresso. You have been wai ^ a Great sex (even if it happens) or all the tea in 8 a na can never compensate for the histrionics )ne distraught damsel. r}e' The other side of this coin is the joy that R 1 / INT?1 I / P?EPT TBS! : ? ftt4E kilk^: ^ i campus drink machi on edit time of plague, i wanted to deny they could safegu well just seem li] _ 25,1991). "No matter he ltu_ lice officers beat lnt_" defensible to me, j rpg times he watche< brought his arms an" though to ward o me 'Are they really heart, but it cou r, mother and an sn? clip, both of thei ^ question, the mol ^er are. (May 3,19! f?r With her reti ie^- tremendous voii ras. Who is left tc 11 chaotic world to >ull illuminates the 1 >uH Avoiding the the pettiness of1 hi s getting right to tl lael really nagging u city She writes in g to Loud," "I was pr ' he affirmative actio lerk for all the mail f ion- Thank you for si on- the mail. But so \nd call the balm. W irst gay people and hos- used the column ;ted er and father? rues like that for a lo ears A voice of a g ,les miss you alread; iga "I es when you fir tenderness. It tionship and h buy candles for that emergencies. I and one who inspire g in Now there is so ) my eratic scenes w bake her own life or heir ten war. Sudde ner for late-nig two Corn, shopping Duld dog food and d i the together wheth i the miliar, tight Romance su ame whether you Ha sun- only is it fun a g?t- that my limited had the sensations lolly to a fine impor iside licious to the li] am- venture and a f the same mucr. ain- I have come id to ed understand! con- is clear. The otl "this your bosom an vith- can reach the ) the standing. I hop t ad- tastes as good, save This said, I er who is doing f ary the-day-after, i ight- the-weekend c nited last six years. >cent simply has ste ned. inevitable remc Chi- every time he 1 i ?f a To cop a lir thing, but bew aris- the morning al - ??o ? 1 o Di US ^oTnJ I [ertfTATio^, If 0FCM5&.. H ^oK? OUR I ; : J s t ( W7 ; ines and laundry services." anal pages some of the parents of the 1990s their children protection so tha ard their own self-image. Or mayfcx ke a bunch of lunatics. (Septembe >w many times I watch the four po up Rodney King, it still looks in and to the eight-year-old, too. Hire 1 the videotape and three times hi i over his head in a double arch, a ff baton blows. And finally he saic allowed to do that?' It broke m; Id have been worse. I pictured; sight-year-old watching the sam n black, the son asking the sam her forced to reply, Yes, baby, the 32). irement, Anna Quindlen leaves 1 in the world of print journalisir i sift through the fragments of ou find that pin-prick of truth whic lidden, underlying truth? garrulousness of George Will an William Safire, she has a knack ( le point and of talking about what s about important issues, the introduction of Thinking Oi epared for negative mail about a n column. But I was not prepare rom African-Americans who sai< leaking our truth.' / We laugh aboi me of it still stings me? until I r< hen you write about the parents < a young man writes to say that 1 as a way of coming out to his mot well, you can get by on somethir ng, long time." feneration has retired her pen. V y, Anna. id yourself in the vale of love ar ? JamAi 1 AAmmil f a r? vaI ID VY U11UCI 1UI tU V/VJllllUlb IU CL 1 CI ave a reason to go to the store dinner and not just for electric have been fortunate to find som ;s me to even buy scented candle meone to clutch during the sad o rhen the heroine invariably tak her beau is killed in some forge >nly you find yourself with a pai ht shared bags of microwave po for that special meal, picking i oing pretty much everything el ter extraordinary or previously f ire takes the chill out of the wint re in Canada or Burkina Faso. N nd challenging, but so rewardii I vocabulary can't possibly descril other than by drawing an analo) ted beer with its alluring hue, d ps, a silken, velvety promise of a amished desire to drink anew fro ! a long way in my tragically lim ng of the human psyche. One thii her person just wants to be held d loved. If you really mean it, yi rarefied level of love and unde i that one day I can find a beer th still have an old fraternity brot \ the same old dining-out, flowei meet-my-roommates-and-stay-fc rap that he has been doing for tl He has either lost his hearing eled himself over the years to tl >nstrance that comes down the pi aids sayonara to another, le from Coke, romance is the re are the knight who sends flowe Eter your first night bowling.