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"?a! Serving US( Lee Gontz, Editor in Oiief C Edttorli Erin Galloway, Wendy Hudson, 1 Jimmy DeButts, Ryan Wilson, Cs Mm business Program shines loi U.S. News and World Report r q1 Vtnainpga nrncrrnm tnDS in the nt I** r* r showing the United States that tl of educating students for busines The magazine's selection refle business school, the strength of th outstanding research in internat In a world increasingly linket IBM commercials with the nuns, foreign languages about their coi a field that demands well-traine< i The days of a limited market] a global village where people al municating and conducting the 1 inadequate technology and politi USCs MIBS program is gradi Carolina off the lists that claim t the cutting edge of the world ma to be congratulated for continui cation. Woik didn' nvpr snrinc V w VA Vacations are nice things until you return from them and realize everything you had to do before vacation was not magically * accomplished by the Keebler elves while you were sitting on your butt I drifted through spring break in the kind of boring monotony that usually marks my breaks at home. My roommate Chris and my friend Brook and I were planning to go visit someone in Washington, D.C., but Chris was simultaneously struck with a strange illness amazingly similar to throat problems I had the week before break and with a storm that dropped an elephantload of snow on eastern Tennessee. We nixed the trip, and I permanently fixed the television to the Comedy Channel, where I could watch reruns of every episode of "Saturday Night Live," "The Kids in the Hall," and I "Mvotorv Srionco Thpfltpr 3000' ever made. Twice. Thank God Gamecock Cable doesn't have anything amusing or it like the Comedy Channel 01 HBO (like it used to have). Imag ine if housing had added cable in to the room fees and then giver us programming we'd enjoy ? I'c never get a lick of work done. It'e be like spring break every day o the year...AIGHHHHH! I also kicked my addiction t< my computer game TacOps ove break. My father got a new game Red-Baron, where I became i World War I fighter pilot workinj his way to the rank of Rittmeiste and earning the Pour Le Merit I medal. I'm Groincr throueh with drawal syndromes as we speak If s tough to come back to schoc when you're a decorated war ac and no one recognizes you. Of course, it didn't help tha everyone I know did cool stuff ove the break. One friend brought bac coconuts from Key West, anothe built houses for poor people, changed my oil. Oh, and I got new tire put on my car. The e> citement must be overwhelminj I went to work the day after got back in Columbia and realize the world doesn't stop when US1 does. My office was covered wit ^ papers and clippings from newi papers. Not the room that const tutes my office, mind you ? th entire building was covered wit papers and clippings. I had to bur my way through. Plus it struc tSaifcodt i - Lee Clontz Jimmy DeButls Editor in Chief Ryan Wilson Chris Muldrow Sports Editors Viewpoints Editor Kim Truett Carson Henderson Photo Editor Radhtka Talwanl Ethan Myeraon Copy Desk Chiefs Ryan Sims Erin Galloway Graphics Editors Wendy Hudson Gregory Perez News Editors Design Editor Susan Goodwin All Anaaar Allison WIDIams Jason Jeffers Features Editors Cartoonists T"he Gamecock is the student newspaper of University of South Carolina and is published Tues through Friday during the fall and spring semesters,i the exception of university holidays and exam period Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of editors or author and not those of the University South Carolina. Ben Pillow Christopher Wood Stephanie Sonne nfrld Asst. Advertising Asst .Features Manager Larry Williams Erjk Co||ins KcMh Boudreaux Faculty Advisor Circulation Editor Letters Policy ll,e The Gamecock will try to print all letters receive .day Letters should be 200-250 words and must include ft vjth name, professional title or year and major if a studet s. Letters must be personally delivered by the author the The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 333 I of The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters f style, possible libel or space limitations. Names will n be withheld under any circumstances. frock C Since 1908 hris Muldrow, Viewpoints Editor il Board >usan Goodwin, Allison Williams, urson Henderson, Radhika Talwani asters $ schools 'sixyears straight ecently ranked USC's internationition for the sixth consecutive year, lis university is on the cutting edge is careers. sets the academic excellence of the te school's faculty and students and innol Vmainpsa trmipH. 1 by electronics (we've all seen the fishermen and others speaking in nputers), international business is i, well-educated individuals, place are quickly being replaced by 1 over the world are trading, comjusiness that used to be limited by cal barriers. lating students who can take South his state is backward and put it on irket. The faculty and students are ng to emphasize excellence in edut disappear [break 1 CHRIS MULDROW I Viewpoints Editor me that I won't get much of a paycheck for a week of not working because I don't work for the government. Then I checked my mail and saw that another BMG Music Club card came in the mail over break. I've been in the club for years because it brings me great joy to talk friends into signing their mailboxes away to the little yellow slips 1 that say, "You forgot to send back i the card for this month's featured selection, so we sent you Taco's 1 Greatest Hits/" I get free CDs (ex| cept for the $22 shipping and han, dling charges per disc) for every person I con into joining. I also joined two book clubs be{ cause they offered four books for * 4 bucks with nothing more to buy. Of course, they also send a little card you've gotta send back every i month. I'm considering buying a * book on how to counterfeit stamps. * In the mailbox, too, was my ^ VISA bill, which caused my checkbook to writhe in agony before I'd even opened the bill. The bill, for some reason, had all my books for a this semester on it, so I had to sell <y my body to pay it. The 35 cents r from that venture didn't really e help much, though. I actually got the money by entering a Spin Doctors lead singer look-alike contest. ^ I was the only one in the contest e because everyone else had forgott ten who the band was. r My room in my apartment was ^ also no cleaner than it was when ,r I left for break. I never imagined I the city would condemn one room a in a whole building. And that stuff i- growing on the floor was a friend's I genetics experiment, an experiI ment that was going quite well bed Vio/l 4-n kn+t in onr^ r-t 1 _ 1UIC lyiiiJV liau IAJ UUbb 111 UXiU A U ^ in everything. I guess 111 eventually get back j, into the swing of things, but I'm ie still really thrown off by this re,h turn from break. Maybe a couple n more days here at good ole Clemk son will set me straight. * mi* Chris Carroll lews: 777-7726 Piredor of Student Med advertising: 777-4249 Laura Day 'AX: 777-6482 Creative Director Jim Green Art Director Tlefta Harper Elizabeth Thomas Z ?1 Adv. Graduate Assl Jam? Ponce Rene. Gibson Asst. Photo Marketing Directoi ^ m ASURGEON GENERAL WS TO DONE WKTHING CONTROVERSIAL...1. m PEOPLE WIE REKDY FOR K PR. mBY, M.D.! Ouon Ifnouon "In IS Tpiafhprs tn/ Vivid examples of fanatic liberalism in the public schools have been popping up lately. I would like to share with you a few of these situations, so you can see just how the radical left operates. The first example is that of a sixth grader in Atlanta who was assigned to write a paper on someone he considered to be a great contemporary American. This 12-year-old boy picked Rush Limbaugh. His teacher then informed him that he should pick someone "safer" to ensure the opportunity for a good grade. A reasonable teacher would have graded the student on his ability to develop a thesis and support it with a constructive argument. The second example involves my sister's 11th grade English teacher. This teacher was lecturing the class on Edgar Allan Poe and proceeded to inform the class that Poe was believed to be a heavy drinker (alcohol) and that he used opium, which is an addictive narcotic drug. The teacher rationalized Poe's drug and alcohol abuse by saying he used alcohol and opium to stimulate his "creative talents." Yes, she is teaching teen-agers that drug and alcohol abuse can be rationalized. iL:?l 1- : 1116 LI1II U CAailipiC 19 mat ui an ciciucuvai j school in Shreveport, La. Recently, the students at this school were instructed to write letters to Congress asking them not to cut the school lunch program (actually, spending for this program is being increased by 4.5 percent). The principal and several of the teachers had coordinated this effort that taught these children that the "mean" Republicans want to take away their lunch (this theory is factually incorrect and intellectually disLetters to the Editor Managers work hard I would like to take this opportunity to provide your readers with some backstage insight into the Carolina Gamecock football program, and also tip the hat to some very deserving and hard-working people. For the 1994-1995 Gamecock football season, I worked as a manager for the USC football team. In the course of that year, I became a part of one of USC's most important athletic organizations. Since the job of a college manager is often misunderstood and shrouded in secrecy, I wanted to share with the reader the importance of what these guys do. To beerin with. USC managers are not some priv ileged class of brown-nosers who happened to get lucky or know someone in order to get their jobs. They are young men who begin working their first year for the team earning only about $50 a month. In the summer, while the rest of you guys are enjoying the last month of summer vacation, these ? students have reported back to Williams-Brice tc begin a month of 7 o'clock mornings that involve 18 two practices a day, and then they punch the clock at 10 o'clock that night. When the fall semester begins, football mangers are logging nearly six hours every day while balancing at least 12 credit hours that they have to work into a schedule before 15 o'clock (that often means 8 o'clock classes). Managers set up the practice field every day, re pair the players' equipment, wash laundry, drivt buses over to the practice fields, prepare practic? drills and basically are exploited by any coach, grad uate assistant or athletics department ego that ha: need of a servant that day. When private charter: d were used during the season's many away games iii the managers handled every piece of luggage loadec |'o onto the plane. If coach Scott needs a package mailed the oil in his car changed or a pack of chewing to or bacco, these guys are sent on their time to do it When all the fans are tailgating before the big nigh SOMEONE WO'S NEVER DEALT \NITH A TOUGH MEDICAL ISSUE-! \ DON'T VMT N DOCTOR...! ) * J V^7 \ v yZ/ ^^KKkN * 68, only 40 women were licensed to practice I 41st. Of the 40, only two had tried cases in c S.C. Supreme Court Justice Jean Toal to indoctrina T0MMY T0UCHBERRY honest). Luckily, the school board has reprimanded the school's administration for these irresponsi- as ble actions, which were obviously an attempt to COri indoctrinate young children to a particular polit- car ical ideology. att The fourth example involves a psychology ger teacher at Sacramento State College (California). This teacher, who is openly lesbian, went on a , rampage when teaching about human sexuality, She proceeded to resort to male bashing and said that "childbirth is the destruction of the female ra anatomy." She also instructed the female students on how to masturbate so "they would not need sexual relations with a man." One male student ^1 has filed a lawsuit against her for sexual harassment, but the college's liberal administration has is 1 defended her actions as an act of "academic free- pr< dom." sh< The next example involves a professor at a col- pel lege in Iowa who showed pornographic movies to cla his class, claiming the movies were key to un- op derstanding human sexuality. Many students atj protested this complete disregard for their reli- an gious beliefs and moral views toward pornography , bu The final situation occurred right here at USC. -n Last semester I took GINT 363, which is the study ^ of elections and voting behavior. My teacher was ^ game, the managers have been there since 8 o'clock th that morning working hard to have things flawless, in When the players have 6 a.m. practices for three Ji weeks in the spring, the managers are getting up H around 4 a.m. making sure all the players make it ai to practice on time, and then they hustle to morn- F ing classes after working the two-hour practice it- tl self. Even in the off season, there are work days ir once a week and spring practice sessions. If a com- fc '* ' r ' t* i :n * mitted manager stays witn it ior iour years, ne win n earn himself a full scholarship, a much-deserved scholarship. Each and every one of these men are hard workers, and they are worthy of the esteem and respect t 50ME0NE m5 NEVER mi k HARD ETHICAL CHOICE IK HIS UfE! \ JVJ I lUVl^u .TO fUY OHE OM TV! DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES aw. I was the ourt." te students latant liberal who tried to characterize himas "impartial" and "open-minded." The class lich was mostly conservative) challenged his ertions regularly. He always responded by saythere was empirical evidence to support his ims. This professor, for example, defined a liberal professional and well-educated. He defined a iservative as Southern, born on a farm. As you 1 see, his assertions are outrageous; he clearly empts here to imply that liberals are intellilt and conservatives are ignorant and stupid.My reason for informing you of these exam!S is two-fold: (1) to clearly demonstrate that ie liberals are very extreme" and (2) to illuste the importance of serious education reform. What would happen if a teacher told a student it he could not write a paper on Bill Clinton? lat if an English teacher got out the Bible and d a bunch of 11th graders that getting drunk a sin against God? What if a heterosexual male ifessor told his college class that every woman miIH submit, herself to a man because he is su rior? And what if a college professor told his/her iss that a liberal is best characterized by being posed to God and capitalism, while a conservve is best characterized by being faithful to God d being well educated? I am demonstrating absurdity by being absurd, it it does clearly show the hypocrisy that exists America today. And what do I think should be >ne about these liberals in the public education stem? I will answer that one next week! lat has befallen the team after this record-breakg season. The USC managers are Dennis Woods, ly Newton, Heath Atkinson, Troy Lowder, Scott olroyd, Jimmy Dunn, Todd Lavender, Joel Parks id Bill Kimrey. When you talk about the USC ootball TEAM, you should know the names of all le stars. These guys are team players, and I will liss working with them. I wish them and all the otball players, trainers and coaches much success 1 the coming season. Phillip Atkinson Criminal justice junior ts&mi mm to mm 15 .- /?mte UriM Vlfr W ! to inrat WW n?n n? || J