University of South Carolina Libraries
nsai Serving 0 Lee Clontz, Editor in Chief 1 Editor Erin Galloway, Wendy Hudson, Jimmy DeButts, Ryan Wilson, ( Don't kil do try to Tenure can be a dirty word tc It's dirty because they might vantage of his or her tenured p< centrate time on research or on w a professor who lets his gradual who isn't available after class f necessary evil. But tenure is necessary at a i be attracted without the acaden fers. And despite horror stories c nore their students, the majority about their students. Unfortunat always be talked about more thf The S.C. General Assembly tenure at state universities for tenure. The bill also requires the tenure already to develop a new years. This proposal threatens to to tenure at a university. It could a spent time trying to work their that opportunity pulled away fr< We don't need to eliminate tei make sure we grant tenure to pi of the system. Small-towi means so? I hope all of you folks had a wonderful Spring Break. I know I did, although I didn't really go anywhere besides my hometown of Summerton (pop. 975). I floated about and around Summerton and her suburbs of Paxville, Rimini, Davis Station and St. Paul. To give you an idea of the size _/ 1. C. 1 J.1 i oi eacn 01 mese line places, mere are probably more rednecks at the Columbia Museum of Art right now than there are people in these miniature municipalities. I wish Spring Break fell during hunting season. Unfortunately, Summerton's finest (the local Game Wardens) do a good job making sure that Bambi's old man is safe from my Remington 30.06 rifle in Summerton until August. (During the off season, I used to use my car until the repair bills began to add up). It was either too wet or too cold and windy to fish. Although I am not by any means a big fisherman, I was more tVion roaHv fn rtin tVio wViorf rota from under the john boat and give the ol' cane pole a throw. However, if I had done that, the wind would have probably blown me down to Miami faster than Tupac Shakur gets in trouble. Wouldn't that have been a sight! So what is a good ol' country boy like me to do with a week off and no hunting or fishing to do? I thought about going to the beach and taking up surfing. Why not? Bill Clinton goes hunting, and most Southerners don't consider him as such. (To find out why, read the last few columns written by the late Lewis Grizzard). Why couldn't I break the Southern stereotype and take up something that has been done in the South about as often as they have pig pickings in Manhattan? I lasted about as long as liquor at Ted Kennedy's house. So what else is the columnist emeritus from Summerton to do? I thought about taking up snow skiing. Lots of Summertonians love to hit the slopes every year. Why shouldn't I be one of them? I was gung ho until I found out what T had to wear. I would have had to put on more clothes than they sell at Belk's. nSaHcock ? Lee Clontz Jimmy DeButts Editor in Chief Ryan Wilson Chris Muldrow Sports Editors Viewpoints Editor Kim Truett Carson Henderson Photo Editor Radhika Taiwan! Ethan Myerson Copy Desk Chiefs Ryan Sims Erin Galloway Graphics Editors Wendy Hudson Gregory Perez News Editors Design Editor Susan Goodwin All Ansaar Allison Williams Jason JefTers Features Editors Cartoonists The Gamecock is the student newspaper of ti University of South Carolina and is published Tuesdi through Friday during the fall and spring semesters, wi the exception of university holidays and exam periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of tl editors or author and not those of the University c South Carolina. / Th< ffcodt SC Since 1908 Chris Muldrow, Viewpoints Editor fal Board Susan Goodwin, Allison Williams, Larson Henderson, Radhika Talwani 1 tenure; i fix it > many students. have had a professor who took addition to ignore teaching and conTiting. When you've got a class with te assistants teach everything and or questions, tenure seems an uniniversity. Excellent faculty cannot aic freedom and security tenure of>f professors who get tenure and igof tenured professors sincerely care ely, a couple of bad experiences will m good experiences, has introduced a bill to eliminate professors who haven't yet gained schools and the professors who have r "employment relationship" in two Lrn away good professors who want lso drive away professors who have way to tenure at USC only to have Dm them by the legislature, tiure for professors. We only need to rofessors who won't take advantage 11 break tp operas DREW p**4&? STEWART I seriously considered hitchhiking cross country. I struck that off the list when I was informed that it was safer to tell a redneck Pro Wrestling ain't real than it is to hook a ride for two miles. I finally ended up sitting on my couch and watching the stories. I didn't know watching "Another World" could be so darn interesting. Only on the stories can a child grow from a newborn to a toddler in about the time it takes for a dog to clean himself. I also noticed that everybody gets involved with everybody and that everybody is kin to everybody. I only thought this kind of thing went on in Rimini. And the thing is, once you die on the stories, you don't worry about the funeral bill because you usually pop back from the dead in about a week. And no one, I mean no one, just slips away. They all get murdered, get in a car wreck or crash an airplane in Africa or something. I'm glad I was the only one home at the time. What would the citizens of Summerton think 1 if they knew their biggest TV critic was home looking at the stories? The stories are something your grandmother would race home from the hairdresser's to get home by one o'clock so she could see what Alex and Julie were up to. They were something your mother and her friends would gossip over if there wasn't anything else going on in town. They're not something a gentleman sportsman like myself watches. It was about like Hillary Clinton watching Rush Limbaugh. I did have to confess it thouerh. I hope this doesn't stop you from i reading this column. I hope that by next Thursday I will be reformed from this vice and back to watching only Hank Parker and Jimmy Houston. ___ , Chris Carroll ;ws: 777- /7 26 Director of Student Medii ivertising: 777-4249 Laura Day kX: 777-6482 Creative Director Jim Green Art Director Tleffa Harper Elizabeth Thomas Tina Morgan Adv. Graduate Asst. Asst. News Renee Gibson James Ponce .... Asst. Photo Marketing Director Ben Pillow Christopher Wood Stephanie Sonnenfeld Asst. Advertising Asst.Features Manager Larry Williams Erik Collins Assr Sports Faculty Advisor Keith Boudreaux Circulation Editor Letters Policy ie The Gamecock will try to print all letters received ,y Letters should be 200-250 words and must include fill name, professional title or year and major if a student Letters must be personally delivered by the author ti ^ The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 333. of The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters fo style, possible libel or space limitations. Names will no be withheld under any circumstances. ? Gamecock VIEWPjtHNT 1 EXPERTS fAY MANY RECer (^what ine^) ^T\ ' * Quote Unquote "It's not a perfect syt but I am not prepan Privatization Last Monday, I stopped by the Russell House ballroom to see the "Bitch of the Citadel." To a ~j I crowd strongly divided along very distinct philosophical lines, Shannon Faulkner spoke of her trials and tribulations. The mood of the crowd hear- L_J kened back to the Biblical times of "he who is not ^ with me is against me." In this debate there isn't carr much middle ground. but I left very impressed by a confident young la- mjjj dy who has chosen an exceedingly formidable en- ] vironment in which to further her education. Far gajj from a bitch she is pleasant, self-assured and ac- thoi quitted herself surpassingly well for a 20-year- cap old caught in the maelstrom of controversy. lon] For the record, I support her joining the corps if she can physically perform to the standards ces, fixed by the service academies. There is no mid- tic. die ground here. She has to follow the regimen of the the corps and not some diffused semblance of a f0jb military education. This includes, but is certain- js t< ly not limited to, shaving her head, being a nob [\y, and debasing herself of all individuality. It is be- par yond my powers of comprehension to understand 1 why she would even want to do this, out as sne g\e appears eager and doesn't seem to be addicted to r00 narcotics, I believe that she should have access the to a military education in Charleston. If she can't Sur cut it, she can buy a city bus pass and finish her out degree as a day student. che Whether she joins the corps or not is immaterial to me anyway. What I found more important this and far more disturbing was the visceral hatred j w directed at her by many during the question pe- SOn riod. This was scary. This was a pick-up game be- bloi tween Serbs and Croats. Deep reservoirs of pissed- Con ott spite ooruscateu any semoiance 01 respect and 1 cordiality. Judging from the behavior of those in sjnj attendance, the rivers of resentment among her diti opponents are very profound. par The height of this rancor was achieved via a Adi question concerning how she would feel, given her as ( apparent readiness to join the corps, if she had to par shower with 30 naked men. Really? I am puzzled, ten What sort of character is developed by standing thii around with a posse of naked men? I want my jusi men clothed, watching the game, a beer in hand and haggling over pizza toppings, not dripping on sla my feet. Hanging with my homies in the shower ma just doesn't rank on my to-do list. Every time I Col< shower with disrobed males in the Blatt P.E. Cen- rig] ter, I am more focused on scrubbing off the sweat I9t from an Ergometer workout than in relishing the .IILIIf M WE EniVAB HEIIKH9 IV ins ftiVIIVH Annual Rind isn't ^btr?efo*? getting my funds J-fsS Being a recent graduate, I was ^ m'S^'a. put on notice in the school's newslet- 69 911 Sen?r tor that I could expect a call regard- L ingUSCs "Annual Fund," which IVe ^ come to understand as the college's J3 ,^r 0 effort to elicit donations from its alum- ^ \ , . r T Indeed if I v Given the school's budget crunch, ^ I would think there are some grad- more uates who will flock to the school's f3111 0 ^ f aid. For about two seconds I thought I! curren y a ( I might even be one of those people, Joey's officla Despite my deep and natural cyni- s^r,^me Pon cism, I actually hold some small ? ,?? T ose ru i inkling of school spirit But after that f i i for payback is ? ; two-second flinch, my memory came ^ J back to me, and I began to recall my ; four years at USC and how the school s rr cou-EGe gwws sceeu OH 'm soaaH, \ I r\(sM. <for - V Tone uP J t Eflsr n\6nt\y <r^ ^ stem, and there are good reasons to consider id to embrace any wholesale trashing of the 1 Representative Tim Rogers, On a proposal to eliminate tenure best battle f |fr9 NIGEL RAVENHILL Columnist m re taraderie of their naked thighs. Thank you, I'll pass on this brand of character-building 11 itarism. tc Monetheless, I'm sure that the experience m led at the Citadel is worthwhile. Personally di igh, the value of a single-gender education es- ol es me. I just can't see the merits of it. For as g as I can remember, I have shared my life h women; from my Mom to my sister to a sue- ^ 3ion of girlfriends, both pi atonic and romanWomen may spend an inordinate amount of c< ir lives in the bathroom, but these and other s1 des can be excused. My philosophy is that life oi do short to a) drink cheap beer or b) voluntarihoose to spend four years apart from the com- 6] ly of estrogen-fueled, bipedal mammals. p the closest I ever came to experiencing a sin-gender education was my sophomore year ming in the frat house. It was no picnic, and memories of the decay in the kitchen come 81 iday night are harrowing. Sixteen males with- n custodial service does not make for a terribly rished scholastic souvenir. n I am unwilling to put my own kids through ^ }. When I am ready to assess schools for them ^ ill pass on any gender-exclusive places. Perally, my days need the pleasant vista of long ^ nd hair, wool sweaters and hoop earrings. I am v fident my son(s) will think likewise. P The primary defense tor keeping the school's j( jle gender appears to be some claim about tra- g on. What a crock. Tradition has always been aded about like an inviolable badge of honor, nittedly many traditions have great merit such e Christmas, Easter Egg hunts and blueberry * icakes. Others exist solely based on withered, 1' uous claims to the past. Simply having done igs a certain way in the past is hardly a blind ? tification for their continuance. s Long before I arrived at USC the tradition of j( very abounded in the South. Tradition dended that men and women were forced to fetch . i drinks and harvest cotton. Slavery wasn't tit then or now. Women had to wait until the ^ h Amendment 20 years into this century to c v Correction vpar^rtf nvpr7p'Jnn? Nancy Glenn's letter to t] years of overzealous ^ ?wol nts, as well as peren- 8UUU1U liavc 1 """ ;es, limited class of- ??? ?? ced spending prioriadministrative mis- _, 'pon that recollection Jj0tt6rS pOllCY i only offer the prover3C and the "Annual The Gamecock will tr> /ere to be truly hon- should be 200-250 WOl , I can say that I am contribute my hard- fessional title or year a the movement I hear jot to change David be personally deliverec tl title from governor newsroom in Russell I nning the "Annual , _ .... u to save your stamp, your letter into the offi Jeffrey C. Turbitt check y0ur Picture idei Class of 1994 nty number phone nui 1 i m ' uf sob ftftvmiews. s o vj <0 5 ? making changes, lenure system." or Citadel lin the vote. Regardless of any passage of tem)ral space, an injustice is an injustice. Just what tradition is the Citadel training their en for anyway? The U.S. Armed Force has long knitted women into its ranks. They fight for the id, white and blue as pilots, sailors, colonels and eutenants and recently welcomed a general ini their ranks. It is not inconceivable that a good iany of the graduates from the corps may one ay serve under the direction of a commanding ificer who sports breasts underneath her dress mic and a row of polished medals over them. Were I under her command the only salient ict would be her competence. In action, my sole ancerns would be whether she knew military trategy and whether I would needlessly end up a some list under "battle casualties." Whatever your position on Shannon Faulknr, the anger of her detractors is the really scary art. In attacking the foundations of tradition one f her recompenses is receiving death threats. The ottom line is that with the support of the Contitution she will follow the Civil Rights movelent, buck tradition and win her case. Tf +V> n. /"S + orlnl uroro twilv a milifaru aa+ahliaVi XI UliV VltMUVl Tf VI V VI WIJ V* 1U111VU1 J VkJVUVllWli lent it should mobilize its troops. If it is as bound y homogeneous tradition and a resolute espirit e corps as outsiders are led to believe, it should ut up or shut up. Tap into the alumni list and rork out a plan to privatize the institution. I suport this option as much as I support her right to )in. For the school this is certainly the best case cenario. If they have done the necessary reconaissance they know that they face an overwhelming nemy in the next valley, The Supreme Court of he United States. They will go into battle and Dse. Shannon Faulkner's entire case lies with the act that the school receives state funding and as uch she has the right to attend the school and ain the corps of cadets. No more state funding nd no more problems with Shannon knocking on ts door with a phalanx of lawyers. With the litle girl forced to a co-educational college, the Citadel an revert to showers of naked men with nary a iroman in sight. he editor on page three of the March 15 Gamering discrimination illegal," ' to print all letters received. Letters rds and must include full name, pro nd major, if a student. Letters must 1 by the author to The Gamecock louse room 333. When you bring ice, have a Gamecock staff member atification and write your social secunber and their initials on the letter.