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Serving USC Since 1908 Lee Gontz, Editor in Qiief Chris Muldrow, View] Editorial Board Erin Galloway, Wendy Hudson, Susan Goodwin, Alii Jimmy DeButts, Ryan Wilson, Carson Henderson, Ra< Federal and sta taxes due April Dont be late turning then make sure you keep your It's a rough time of the year for many people. I slams the Southeast with runny noses and allergie state governments demand that people pay their Tax time is inevitably accompanied by televisi filming lines of people at the post office with late The Internal Revenue Service has made it soi pay your taxes by allowing people to call in their t register by computer. Of course, the easiest wa someone professional to do your taxes for you. It's important, though, that however you choosi on time. It's not wise to get the IRS people mad; t to audit you to scare you into promptness. Also make sure you keep track of records sue' scholarships and medical bills. Also be aware tha money you didn't use for educational purposes is come on your return. This means any scholarshij for room and board is taxable; it doesn't seem fail The l^st thing you want is to have to dig throi es and old term papers for receipts and records 1 the feds come knocking on the door asking for an And remember: Don't be late. School choice be for public educai on welfare te I UK, KT?f| TOMMY """ """ J TOUCHBERRY ever known. L-* * Columnist more. Jesus politician. T Today, I will briefly cover sev- He is the sa\ eral different topics. I will begin nothing less, with my conclusion of the edu- Furtherm cation issue. would prefer As I have said, offering school to feed, clothe choice and/or privatizing schools needy in oui would be the best reform for pub- who genuine] lie education. Short of that goal, fare mother here are some other suggestions: more than sc Education is getting paii (1) The president and/or sec- They need mi retary of education should set ba- need human sic national standards requiring guidance anc emphasis on core subjects. an interest in (2) Beyond these standards, be emphasize principals and local governments by no mean should be given greater control, sionate than The Department of Education beve churche and its bureaucracy should be and individu eliminated. much more (3) More should be expected government i from each individual school and them be self district without throwing a "bot- era^s oppose 1 tomless pit" of money at it. BRepubl (4) Principals should be al- ^ d?n t k lowed to hire and fire teachers Specter and without bureaucratic interven- ding. Neith tion (especially from the NEA). w^n the non Any business must have a boss; ^ the principal must be the boss, servative. Sf Consumer input (parents and "rebgious rij ' - * ' i 50 percent c students; snouia De encouragea. 1 (5) Give higher pay for good Good going, teachers and termination for lousy ^ou : teachers (as judged by the prin- ___ . cipal). SEC18 (6) Have a more reasonable . ^CLA wc school day, possibly five subject f10",9 1 periods at about 46 minutes each 7 ? 7 (used entirely for teaching, no aava heard "dead" time). A study hall for 60 , 1S e to 90 minutes will end the school ,61 a day. With a 30-minute lunch ^st/orifaI break, the school day could be m ? < , . ' , , ,, u up the most shortened to less than six hours. . . ment with 1 If these types of reforms were rp^e gg^, j enacted, I guarantee students gweet ] would learn much more. I know gj-te g an(j because I am a student. It only game. To ar requires a little common sense. T havp 1 If you are interested in learning YOU LOSr more about public education and fi.n..Pa? reform, then read William Ben- ^uuL ch nett's "De-Valuing of America." d ld It's an excellent book! l\]Mks B Welfare reform all, tolks^B Here's my response to the liberals who attack the GOPs stand nsjfcd? & Lee Clontz Jimmy DeButts Tleffa Harper Editor in Chief Ryan Wilson Tin? Morgan Chrti Muldrow Sports Editors Asst. News Viewpoints Editor Kim Truett James Ponce Carson Henderson Photo Editor As51-0,0,0 Radhlka Taiwan! Ethan Myerson Pillow Copy Desk Chiefs Ryan Sims Stephanie Sonnenfe Erin Galloway Graphics Editors Asst.Features Wendy Hudson Gregory Perez Larry Williams News Editors Design Editor Asst. 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Letters must be per Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the The Gamecock news editors or author and not those of the University of The Gamecock resei South Carolina. style, possible libel < be w thheld under ar The Gamecock VIEW points Editor son.Williams. / \}j?ii , I jhika Ialwatu / | ( wews te Vuas ( 17 JBk W i in, and receipts 0^ light after pollen ffj (| V / s, the federal and L \ ( taxes. jijii ^ 4 V on news cameras fjjfir L y) xi forms. jmr \m / newhat easier to ax information or wVilH % ^ y to pay is to get / / f 1 V e to pay, you do it w \ hey might choose ( ) \ / J h as tuition bills, . I ^ t any scholarship \ i reportable as in- V f o money you used | j r, but it's the law. j ^] I igh the pizza box- 1 j, when the state or 1 audit \ I ist bet Quote Unquote 9 "I think the team i turn i saying, Jesus was sral the world has 9 I could not disagree WtH*!!1! rf O I i was not a liberal, k3IXX XXXX^ CXX1 -vative, not even a 'o a real Christian, It's been a pretty hellish v nor. Nothing more, hit me pretty hard, and I think bitussin right now. In fact, I'n ore, I believe Jesus I'm Beardman or his evil twii for church members right now. ; and minister to the What happened, I think, is r society. Someone time allergies exploded into s ly cares about a wel- illness like bubonic plague or can help her much 1 pound the problem, this guy ir me bureaucrat who rying some sort of sharp farmi d to hand out checks. been following me all over c ore than money; they mumbling, "Muldrow, your tin compassion, moral j sneeze 0n him, and he runs I someone who takes j?ve been experimenting wii them. Also, it should lergy and cold medicine we 1 ;d that conservatives ment; with four people living 1 s are less compas- a C0Upje 0f favorite over-the-c< liberals. We just be- ]jef j started out with some Kr s, community gi oups hydramine, much like Benadr} als can help the poor from gniffling for about 1Q ^ e ective y an e operate heavy machinery" cl "an' e ^an... ,eJ3 It's amazing that I could be as -su lcien, w i e i c|ass and talk to people I kn breaking dependency. ^ ^ .yen down ^ Coh , _ a i dered a new car from one of ;now whom Arlen . T? i jt * i ? , ,xri i j there. I m also scared 1 streak Pete Wilson are kid- T, , of Representatives. Im not re ier one of them can r. . . , ... , , n I also tried some of that s nnation from a par_ . wdtpv thflt q QiinrinQPn rn ti77 \) )out 90 percent con- "** ' jecter's attack on the sldes tasting horrible, the st ght" alienated about have much efTect on me-lt ren if Republican voters. without any flavoring syrup. I Arlen! Now, maybe watch ifc bubble up, though, s seek election in Cu- tinue to drop those things in < I woke up early one mon No. 1 found some Robitussin. Becaui >n the national cham- I figured it would be good to ta ut the SEC won the to sleep for a couple of hours, e conferences. All I couldn't feel my legs, and I w for years is how the headed. I considered skipping best basketball congree it has been the Letters to the Editoi ly years, but now it's >rag. the sec racked Confederate flag ; wins in the tourna- i 1 2. (The ACC had 11.) COlUlllII hypOCIltl aced three teams in L6, two teams in the OK, that's enough. We're re Arkansas in the title the 50s, here, ty Tigers or Tarheels, White-bashing seems to ha to say "TOO BAD come the newest collegiate spoi rr And look out for f U?0'11 didn,t start with tf .ecocks - their re- dent Government elections, bul ,. , ? definitely come to a head since ?s? a 1 ?P , a pressing need to respond to the vt? That s lady whose comment went som like this: "Had it been Teresa1 nmy Touchberry is a wh0 had committed these infra marketing junior. she would have been disqualifi minute." Responses: Chris Carroll a) Get a life g Director of Student Media ^.e y0U reaJ]y s0 "African Creative Director icanly" egotistical that you actu; jim Green lieve your own statement? Th Art Director dicrous. You're perpetuating tl AEd'v" G^u^As". discrimination you so ineptly pi Renee Gibson an end to. Marketing Director I also Want to respond to th< Christopher Wood inflammatory remarks made Id Asst. Advertising . . Manager ron James in The Gamecock, J Erik Collins advice to those who display pr Faculty Advisor federate flag statements such a itage, not hate. Fly it," was "Th< iters Policy l0st, get over it." This, boys an 0-250 words' and ^ a prime example of hypocris ille or year and major if a student. finest. \Vould it be Socially OCO sonally delivered by the author to fQr a white individual SUCh aS room in Russell House room 333. _r rves the right to ed? all letters for to respond, YoUT ancestors WeH ir space limitations. Names will not nOW get OVer it? ty circumstances. , POINTS Friday, April 7, 1995 _ XV T" YIA'M TH6 MATS 1 15 70UA HOS8AN0 \ TH6 (JOOPJ JoM cnez 67 A 0ft. J v is good enough to win (the World Series). We have the bats, wi When all that's on, this team is unbeatabli Darlene Garais, USC Softball pitcher ; eigies spur search of . I'm buzzin' on Ro.1 not really sure if CHRIS MULDROW n, Facialhairman, HP*' j Viewpoints editor my regular springome kind of exotic the health center, but in my haze I thought malaria. To com- might be fun to go to class and see if I knew wh l a black robe, car- the heck was going on. It was a history class, ar ng implement, has I did learn quite a bit. I never realized Mussol ampus. He keeps ni was king of England when Winston Church le has come." Then single-handedly invaded Poland. I'm glad I didr away. skip class. th every type of al- Other people have told me whiskey is a gre lave in the apart- cure for whatever ails me. I didn't think it wou iere, everyone has be a good idea to carry around a flask to class ar lunter forms of re- claim it was for medicinal purposes. Someor oger-brand diphen- else recommended that stuff you shoot up yoi d. This stopped me nose to clear out my head. I'm scared it would j ites, then the "don't too far and eat away what few brain cells I ha1 lemical kicked in. left. leep and still walk The onset of the pollen is, of course, perfect ow. I think I might timed with everything I have due in classes, imbia Mall and or- work and at the newspaper. I was advised f the dealers down classes, and I think my adviser might have signi :ed the S.C. House me UP ^or an ear^ Scandinavian folk dance clas ally sure (If there actually is such a class, and you happ< tuff you drop into Pr?fessor of it, and you take this as our cold away Be- criticism, and you're ticked off, I'm sick and kne uff didn't seem to not what 1 was writinS> so 1 apologize.) I've bei rinded me of Sprite workj"8 on.a PaPer for a class and have fouI t was kinda' fun to myse,f SettinS sources that have nothing to < n T'm crmncr tn rnn- with emerSency care during Charleston hun ^ ^ . canes, my intended topic. Here's an exampl .lips ? wa fr' When the hurricane hit in 1989, several pe nng coug mg an , wgre trapped jn their homes. The helicoptf le I was a -as eep, flyjng jn to save the people went in low and sta ke that an go ac straflng the beachhead, ensuring safetyj When I woke up, 1 crac]c teams of commandos landing to gu; as extremely light- antee truth, justice and the American way. T I class and going to I The black community has been it shouldn't fly over tl screaming "foul" for so long that they've definitely deserves an gotten their arguments mixed up. By- ment as a symbol of s ron's comment appalls me. I have been ment in American hi: cal told several times by several black individuals, "You owe me for what you Har !&ress. did to my ancestors." This is B.S., and Crimina] everyone knows it, yet it is still preivebe sented by the same black community i. i rt here that urges us whites to "get over" our 1 UUllb otlll) le Stu- heritage. I didn't do anything to your f f | f?jllllV] - jj. has ancestors. I m trying to live in peace t" till ItflllU c ? with t.hpir dpsrpndants. Take nride in 1.1 reel ? * . ! young y?ur ancestors' struggles for freedom, This letter is in n ething ^ut note here, because I'm my Touchbenys artic Wilson speaking for many others... YOU ARE 31. ictions FREE. You eat at the same table as I, Mr. Touchberry, a: ed in a y?u h?ld same jobs as I, and you (neither liberal nor coi sit in class next to me. Many of you are myself reading your a my friends. A black soldier saved my ing with some point life in the Gulf War, and I respected more often disagreei -Amer- both before and after this incident, your ideas (especially ally be- There will always be racism on both Friday's article, hov at's lu- sides. Practically every day, as I ride motivated me to writ le very motorcycle to school through the Increased funding eadfor Predominantly black section of lower lowing schools to pur Shop Road, someone hurls a "Honkie" rials to work with. 1 21 atest or "Cracker" epithet at me. B.F.D. (Big boardmembers(: ky gy_ F. Deal). Eliminating racism is not an Charleston County, 3yron's option. Dealing with it internally as that money could be o-Con- an individual is. It should not be an removing asbestos i is "Her- "us against them" mentality. chasing badly neede s South * ^ave ancestors who fought and intelligent idea was d girls, c^ec^ *n Civil War. That flag means servative school boa y at something to me, something that has Graham Altman, wl eptable n?thing to do with slavery. The Civil telligence to Jesse H myself ^ar was about much more than slav- Schools cannot contrc ; slaves eiY> and the flag is likewise a symbol students, but they car of much more than slavery. Perhaps students find it embs to a store and buy coi 3 f i ^Nv/wce'o thc^N [ 6oV5 AT rue stqtw V TO DRoPTHC *\Sl i mi e have the defense, we have the pitching. e." medicine chest soldiers were good men, men always willing to listen to their great leader, Dwight D. Eisenhower, also known as "Teddy" Eisenhower. They claimed the land in the name of Spain and began their search for the fabled Fountain of Youth. A mixed blessing that accompanies this yearat ly allergic eruption is the concern of everyone I know. All my friends ask me how I am, usually [j. wording their question, "Hey, Chris, you look like ill crap! How are you feeling?" I give them a 20ft minute-long explanation of every ache and pain that afflicts me, dramatically punctuated with ^ sneezes, hacking coughs and the occasional dizzy swoon. At this point, they've backed away quite ie some distance and say, "You need to get some Jr sleep." I tell them I am actually asleep and I'm *0 sleepwalking, which should explain why I'm standee ing there in a sweatshirt and boxer shorts. They back away some more and tell me to go to the 'y doctor. I laugh and tell them I'm a lumberjack ci t and I'm OK, and then I pass out. Usually, the 3(j friend drags me to my room and leaves me mum;S bling incoherently on my bed. jn I also find myself carrying around more Kleenexa es than any sane person should have. This means !W I end the day with a huge mass of used Kleenex=m ii i * i a v i- i_ i ___ "\j es; inai migni seem disgusting, dui it s an even more disgusting thought when you actually have ,j_ to dispose of them and you're hallucinating from e; an odd mix of analgesics and antihistamines. I'm so- tempted to just carry around a bed sheet and use srs it as a giant handkerchief, rt- I know, though, the pollen will eventually go or away and all will be right with the world. MeanEll*" while, I'm going to go browse through Eckerd's. Chris Muldrow is a journalism senior. le Capitol, but it tribution of contraceptives would alhonorary place- low sexually active students a chance in important mo- to obtain protection without this prob story. lem. Voluntary school prayer in public schools is still prayer in public schools, old Grubbs Jr. which we all know is illegal. Declaring I justice junior English as the official language and forcing people to speak it is an abridgeI . ment of First Amendment rights. Drug, OlS DO I alcohol and AIDS testing is an abridgement of Fourth Amendment rights (as ' I am confident the Supreme Court will soon rule). Teaching "God" in schools esponse to Tom- is an outright violation of First Amend:le Friday, March ment rights. Schools need to teach ideas. Gay 3 an independent rights, environmental ideas, the facts iservative), I find about AIDS, etc., need to be taught so rticles and agree- students can keep up with a nonstat;s you make but ic world. ng with many of Parents, if they want choice, will / those on MTV), find a way to pay for private schooling, yever, was what My parents could not afford to send ? this. me to Bishop England High School, would help by al- Nevertheless, after I left the Magnet chase new mate- School at Burke High School, they still however, school gave me the option of attending Bishin this case in op England. As it is, I cannot afford to where I live) felt attend USC. I am receiving no scholbetter utilized by arships or grants. However, I am here, ather than pur- Overall, I agree that public schools :d supplies. This need improvement. However, they are ; created by con- not a total failure. They produced many rd member John students attending this university. 10 is equal in in- One point I do agree with you on is elms (i.e., none), the (now obvious) Razorback victory. 1 the lives of their l help them. Some Chris Roberts irrassing to go in- Psychology freshman ntraceptives. Dis