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Lee Clontz, Editor in Chief Chris
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Erin Galloway, Wendy Hudson, Susai
Jimmy DeButts, Ryan Wilson, Carson
Governmei
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A new group of Student Government
were inaugurated Wednesday, and th<
sues on which they campaigned. It's tim
didates made will be adhered to.
There is quite a bit of work to be do:
a body representative of the student be
work at continuing communication anc
verse groups on campus. Certainly ten
paigning, tensions that reflect underlyi
the school with one of the largest percer
dents of any state university, USC mus
and promoting diversity. This new class
pable of furthering this understanding.
Another challenge lacing the governr
question. Whether help comes from lobfr
waste here at the university, Student G
ty to take an active part in guaranteeinf
effectively.
Of course, another challenging task
governing the actual elections process,
problems faced in these elections and cc
It is a time for understanding as the i
accustomed to its job. The student bod]
tions, giving support and keeping on the
filling promises.
Yankees a
Myrtle Be
I can't believe spring break is
here again. I cant believe it's time
to pull out the fake I.D.'s, the rented
vans, the camping equipment
and excuses to mom and dad you L_ ]
give about not staying home and
feeding the dog while they go to j
Cancun. y
Spring break is an interesting
time. To the college student, it Qi-n
means one whole week of unadulterated
fun usually spent in a
drunken stupor down in some
tourist trap town like Myrtle Beach,
in which one person blows all of
his money and has to forego payment
on his car and spends all "*at
next semester riding with SCE&G. ?
I don't think there are a whole Com
lot of people going to Myrtle Beach (10 r
this time of year. Most South Car- but]
olinians learned better than to go mert
there many years ago. ough
Myrtle Beach is no longer a ing t
Southern city. It became a surro- self v
gate for the Jersey shore about 10 man}
years ago when the first Cadillac trans
with a New York license plate came \
into town and pulled into a gas sta- agk
tion while the driver said, "Hey, ^
youse guys, fill this up while I grab ?
a bottle of pop." (Southerners nev- ajj ^
er say "pop", but that's a future column.)
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Most South Carolinians go to P?Pj
beaches such as Pawley s Island, 1
Garden City and Cherry Grove.
Most true Southerners wouldn't a
go into Myrtle Beach if they were ta^e
giving out boiled peanuts and bar- offc
becue for free. scar
But that doesn't stop the Yan- Yori
kees. When you go down on Ocean es a
Boulevard, the only thing you see I
are motor homes, Cadillacs and U- whe
Haul trailers with plates from above colh
the Mason-Dixon. A 1985 Ford the 1
4X4 with a South Carolina license '
plate would stick out like a red- jjcer
neck at the ballet. m^n
I once trucked into Myrtle Beach. g
I pulled into a McDonald's to get ^
a Big Mac (yes, I do eat things be- .
sides peanuts and barbecue, but ,? r
not by choice).
I gave the order taker my or- n
der. After about a minute of si- ^
lence, I heard the woman yell back reiej
to her manager, . are
"Hey, Dave! There's some for- Soul
eigner up here who I can't under- way
stand. Come up here and talk to reali
him." the1
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Lee Clontz Jimmy DeButts 1
Editor in Chief Ryan Wilson
Chris Muldrow Sports Editors
Viewpoints Editor Kim Truett
Carson Henderson Photo Editor
Radhllca Talwanl Ethan Myerson
Copy Desk Chiefs Ryan Sims Step!
Erin Galloway Graphics Editors
Wendy Hudson Gregory Perez L
News Editors Design Editor
Susan Goodwin All Ansaar Ke
Allison Williams Jason Jeffers Cii
Features Editors Cartoonists
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t senators and executive officers \
?y will start working on the is- J[
e to see if the promises the can- Cl.
ne in Student Government. As jf"
>dy, the government must first V
1 understanding among the di- V
sions were raised during cam- \l/l
ng tensions across campus. As
itages of African-American stu- *
it be a leader in understanding fejQy
of senators is qualified and ca- U h fjL
nent is the university funding $1)
ydng the Legislature or cutting ^<3 ^
overnment has a responsibili- * $ 3
y our student dollars are used ^ .Z
will be the evaluation of codes
The government must look at
>rrect them positively,
new Student Government gets
/ can help by offering sugges!
government's back about fulI
fin AY QuotkUnouote
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Columnist American Gerald Mi
easy future than even g
ing employment. His pa
explained to the manager that t3 are umme whethi
.s not foreign, that I was from a]d McClellan is a boxe
imerton (pop. 975X South Car- telephone, electricity an
a, 90 miles to the northwest. the snot out of opponen
^evah hoid of South Caroloina that, his last,
in Joisey?" replied the man- As of this past weekt
any more the "sweet scii
shot that joker a look like a against someone a little
A member gives a duck hunter Benn, possibly slightly
just killed the limit. tioned or maybe just pi
ack up here in Clarendon and retained his WBC S
lty, the great city of Manning pionship belt,
niles away from the smaller, His opponent, the vi
much better town of Sum- pummeled McClellan f\
an) is one of the main thor- recting an IQ reduced t<
fares for the Yankees head- man Oktoberfest sausai
o Myrtle Beach. Since I my- lost the fight and most
/ork in Manning, I get to see ity count the days in
f of these Southernly Deficient ing Spiderman, smell t
lients. his mother a happy Mc
Vhen many first-time Yankees has the genius of a hea
me for directions, the often the widespread cultural
nit their inquiry like this: in&to Parade as sPortHowdy
there, Bubba. Does you ^his isn t the populi
mow wheh a store is yonda beauty, strength, speed
ind heh so I can get a bottle of ?utjfde ^ O^pic m(
? Farther. Instead it is ?
'hose are the ones I give di- an opP?nent the P
, C1j i u ers is physically unable
ons to a field someplace where .,,, , r , ,
, r , i x middle of the nng to abi
x V w ? r P wm' No world records for n
the hubcaps and hcense plates skjj Qr swimmi fas
f their car and send them so N the ]aure, wreath h
ed that they dnve back to New maximize the phy
L ?uia" "UIU1 v~u6tu ujnBr ishment of the loser,
pack of Marlboros. In the glorious nam
always like to nde to the place sorbed so much that> up
re I sent them and look at the be was rushed to a neui
;ction of the license plates of ^3 0f fbis writing, he re
unfortunate travelers. life sustained only by a r
Ihere are more Massachusetts don Hospital. Slightly 1<
ise plates on a shack out in Ri- most recent symbolic i
i, SC (pop. 35) than there are reach a necessary concl
oston. simply be banned outrij
"he ones who know better than A few weeks ago Bo
y to talk like they have lived
n here all of their lives, who T%/f"#X"?WW 1 "l"l
t assume the rest of the South IV 111 ?
:e Myrtle Beach and who don't
r to Royal Crown cola as "pop" ?\a /\ /l"f
the folks who often leave the 1/Vr V^J.V/V/1/
:h without being sent all of the
t/i Valdnsta. Genrena hefnre
izing, "Hey! That guy gave us Moral integrity is mis
wrong directions." Where has honor, trust a
tergate to Iran-Contra, t
lie officials have failed us
'-7726 n; ?risf^L must watch our leaders c
__ Director of Student Media ? ,
g: 777-4249 Laura Day feet to the fire.
-6482 Creative Director I recently read John 1
in Courage" and was ov<
Art Director . ? . .
:iefr? Harper Elizabeth Thomas commitment our leaders
nrsr Adv-Graduate They valued trust an
james Ponce wRt".ee G'bson public service, unlike tot
Asst. Photo Marketing Director f ' .
Ben ptiiow Christopher Wood the benate Banking Com]
iianle Sonnenfeld Asst. Advertising "Profiles in Courage" shi
ErikcSm what is and we mi
iKSl. F?ul?Advi,? the right direction,
rcuiation Editor The key word in thai
Letters Policy and that's what's missii
Gamecock will try to print all letters received. from the White HoUSe ti
s should be 200-250 words and must include full 11 j _ tv , i ,
, professional title or year and major if a student. yellOW-dOg Democrat, but
s must be personally delivered by the author to President Clinton's White
lame cock newsroom in Russell House room 333. m. j. j i ,
_ . _ ^ , Trust and moral lntee
jamecock reserves the nght to edit all letters for j
possible libel or space limitations. Names will not HlOditieS in government
taheld under any circumstances J ?X?0U can best judge a per
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mtleman to every student When I think of Brian, I thii
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Woody Carott
Student Govemmei
g too brutal to 1
;Clellan faces a more un- I
raduating students seek- yWHfc j
rents, his friends and his m m mf NIGEL R
er he will even live. Ger- ik ? C?'1
t, someone who paid his L.
id grocery bills by beating
ts. His last fight was just civilized law during his ill-adv
Tammany Hall. Had he choser
;nd he won't be practicing nent mano a mano in a Gold G
ence" because he came up he wouldn't be today facing s
better. Englishman Nigel hurdles. But society permits t
r better prepared, condi- tions of fighting. If you fight in
ain lucky, won the battle corner or in the schoolyard yoi
uper-Middleweight Cham- to the cops and the judicial sys
agreement into a boxing ring,
?ry bloodied and soundly heat the crap out of your foe, ]
ices a challenge of resur- m0ney and if you're really goo
) that of the average Ger- right, every four years we'll s
ge. On Saturday night he Olympics to represent your h<
probably any future abil- thing amigg ^ godety here?
a month, read the Amaz- un i
, /? . . vvny, Doxers are consentir
he scent of a rose or kiss A, 1 * i u*. j i
ither's Dav That he now AbsoIute|y nSht> and 80 were 1
'1/IlCI O L/dy. JLIldL IlC 11UW XT 11_ 1* * Z* n i t /?
, V - North Carolinian foe. But I fir
d of broccoli results from , , . , e
.. r i, i what is grounds for imprisonir
; practice of allowing box- , . " ,. ,. ,,
ety is sanctioned in the name (
ir celebration of sport as ?f ^ rifhts of the great V
. Boxing falls somewhere that beating up someone else
jtto of "Faster, Stronger, Pub'lc 8Pectacle ?.acceptably
, celebration of punching sands does not of itself justify s
it where one of the fight- it more palatable,
to present himself in the In the 1930 s and 1940 s, m
3orb further punishment, thought it acceptable to turn i
inning, skating, cycling, Port or even Participate in th
iter than everybody else, lence promulgated on Jews, (
1 boxing goes to whomev- unfortunates. Few, apart fro
sical domination and pun- sionists, would disagree that
for injustice was absolutely inhi
e of sport McClellan ab- accepted barbarism just as w<
>on collapsing in the ring, temporary brutality courtesy
rological operating room. fr?m Caesar's Palace,
tains a tenuous hold on a Whether the boxers enter t\
nachine at the Royal Lon- will is a moot point. In many <
jss importantly, he is the ciety has concluded that certa
reason to help mankind possible harm only to the self,
nsion that, hoxincr should lecra!. I mav desire to roll and
jjht. joint that I can afford on my froi
omer Foster ran awry of a law proscribing that behavioi
ntegrity needs to 1
ed offices in Amei
sing in today's government. I \
ind justice gone? From Wa- [ ^ |
o even Chalkgate, our pub- 9 J BYRC
3. We as concerned citizens 1 lys*-! I Cc
losely in order to hold their [_ |
?. Kennedy's book "Profiles
srwhelmed at the depth of what they have done in the pas
in the past had. in politics. If a person shows n
d honor in government and tegrity before they are in office
lay, when the chairman of them to gain integrity after th
mittee is an admitted crook. We need to examine our govi
ows that our leaders knew ly> especially during campaigns,
ist trust them to lead us in the rules, what kind of elected
make? Remember, you can't t
t last statement was trust, tricks,
ig in today's government, Now that Amy Bigham has
o the Russell House. I'm a the new Student Government
even I have questions about the wounds of a bitter and une
water investment dealings. We should renew our vows u
yity are also very rare com- and bridge the gaps that havi
. My mother once told me, w?rk together to build a bigge]
son on what they will do ly mth moral integrity and hono
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ik of his character and integrity and his dedication to Carolina."
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be seen as sport
speed down an empty highway in the early dawn
without risking the wrath of Mister Patrolman.
AVENHILL
This is society acting with a benevolent paternalism,
and despite subscribing to the fundamentals
of libertarianism, I will stand aside and
. ,, , , support the inescapable conclusion that boxing,
1 to meet hi$ oppo- as either Public spectacle or sport, is repugnant,
loves Tournament If we pretend and adhere to even a modicum
ome serious legal of decorum and social engineering perhaps we
wo distinct defini- should start in the lab. It is ironic that Mike Tyson
a bar, on the street will leave prison early based on his good behavlTl
have to answer jor jf once had administrated a beating on a
tem. Take the dis- fenow inmate similar to the one on Michael Spinks,
an you re ree to WOuld have celebrated a few more Christmases
possibly win some ?
d and the timing's inside the prison gates. George Foreman, recentend
you off to the ly asked whether boxers have brain damage reDmeland.
Is some- sponded that "you'd have to be already brain dam>
aged to become one." There is no justification to
lg adults you say. allow boxing to continue.
Mr. Foster and his Why stick it to boxing? To hell then with culld
it a bit odd that tural pretenses of civility, pretty impressionist
lent in public soci- images of sunflowers, lily pads and warm sumif
sport. And what mer nights with Othello and the Merchant of
gashed who think Venice. We may as well revert to the mores of Anin
the context of a cjenj. Rome an^ bring condemned Death Row inicceptanoe
y thou- mates inf0 the ring. They would have a choice.
ome mg or ma e CQUj(j seiec^ short sword and shield and
illions of Germans the other'the nettin& and spear. A fight to the
away, ignore, sup- death, and the less-bloodied warrior gets his sene
attacks and vio- tence commuted to life. Promoters could charge
gypsies and other admission, sell pogo dogs and baseball hats. Would
m historical revi- most find this a fairly gruesome spectacle? Probthis
tacit support ably.
Limane. Many then If we as a society give lip service to a desire
} accept more con- for civility, then let's follow through. If not, we
of televised fights m ag wejj dissolve into a maniacal orgy of so
. rial Darwinism. We could then organize tradile
ring o eir ee ^ona] fox h^ts with the homeless as targets, rape
nrcumstances, so- ? r
in actions, despite handicapped girls because they look good in a
are nonetheless il- thong and make snuff films with all of the people
smoke the biggest who piss us off. True, it may not sound altogethnt
lawn, but there's er civilized, but then we could always justify it as
r. Similarly, I can't sport.
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