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Lee Clontz, Editor in Chief 1
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Erin Galloway, Wendy Hudson,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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back to me, and I began to recall my
; four years at USC and how the school
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id to embrace any wholesale trashing of the 1
Representative Tim Rogers,
On a proposal to eliminate tenure
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|fr9 NIGEL RAVENHILL
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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
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years of overzealous ^ ?wol
nts, as well as peren- 8UUU1U liavc 1 """
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ced spending prioriadministrative
mis- _,
'pon that recollection Jj0tt6rS pOllCY
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contribute my hard- fessional title or year a
the movement I hear
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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.
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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,"
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rds and must include full name, pro
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