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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
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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.
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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
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a in a whole building. And that stuff
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turn from break. Maybe a couple
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son will set me straight.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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