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*t5a Serving I Lee Gontz, Editor in Giief Editor Erin Galloway, Wendy Hudson, Jimmy DeButts, Ryan Wilson, ( Practices during cn Final examinations are appro incr t.hrmicrh ronf As final papers and final projei a tendency to stay up late, cram and generally attempt to get ev over the entire semester finishec grades to the mysterious TIPS g Tempers will get short. Libra] puter lab hard drives will fill up creased profits. Professors will fi Take some time during this inc a little bit. Just because your entii or that final exam doesn't mean; catch some rays on the Horseshoi da River. Just remember to turn in all 3 on all of your finals and take a lil A little stress relief is importar couple of weeks. Don't drown in > Financial a vicious nig LUCY ARNOLD Columnist It's spring, and that means the time has come to head on over to that glorious springtime refuge: the Financial Aid Office As you begin this joyous ritual of the season, let me relate a bit of my own experience in hopes that others might benefit from my suffering. But first, a word to the wise... PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGE: Do not, under any cir r. ?u? i/iiiuslaiitca, uumuoc uic r nmir cial Aid Office with Financial Services. I've lost some good friends in the loop that could result: (Person goes to Petigru.) FINANCIAL SERVICES: Oh. I'm sorry, you'll have to see Financial Aid about that. (Person ambles over to College Street.) FINANCIAL AID: They handle that over at the Financial Services department, honey. (Person marches back to Petigru.) FINANCIAL SERVICES: Please get your butt back over to Financial Aid. (Person pulls hair out, drops out of college and becomes a hermit on Gibbes Green.) You will save yourself a lot of trouble if you just don't think about it. lhis message has been brought to you by the Coalition to Save Student Sanity. Anyway, many of you have already made your yearly trek out to the dismal depths of that innocent-looking little building on College Street. I, too, have already gone to where all students have gone before, and it was a thoroughly humbling experience. My first problem was that I thought the situation would be simple. I had been warned before, but I did not listen to my sagacious friends. "Lucy," they said, "Don't you know the financial aid motto? Wo problem has a simple solution."' Sure it's easy to say that in hindsight, but, ah, if only I had listened! I waltzed into that place smack into a mass ui ixnes w wsu ussxng each other like a huge writhing pile of snakes. No big deal, I think, *XSaflfcod? & Let Clontz Jimmy DeButts Editor in Chief Ryan Wilson Chrti Muldrow Sports Editors Viewpoinu Editor Kim Truett r Anon Hanriarson Dk/^/> CXln. Radhlka Taiwan! Ethan Myerson Copy Desk Chiefs Ryan Sims Erin Galloway Graphics Editors Wendy Hudson Gregory Perez News Editors Design Editor Susan Goodwin Jason Jeffers Allison Williams Cartoonist Features Editors The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published Tuesday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters, with the exception of university holidays and exam periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the editors or author and not those of the University of South Carolina. Hank ISC Since 1908 Chris Muldrow, Viewpoints Editor lal Board Susan Goodwin, Allison Williams, Larson Henderson, Radhika Talwani tress relief f ish weeks aching, and stress levels are shoot cts rapidly come due, students have work into every minute of the day ery bit of work that went undone I before professors send their final rade depository. ry study areas will overflow. Com. Kinko's will see dramatically innally hear some creative excuses, reasingly stressful period to breathe re future might ride on that MCAT you can't take a couple of hours to r. ~ i-1 -1- i. _ i-1- - n 1 oireeu By the time I finally made it to the correct counter, they had broken my spirit. I meekly explained my question to the computer person. "Well," she said," YouH have to see a counselor about that." "No!" I screeched. "I've been through too much for too long to stop now! Just answer the #@*&! question!" "Well, now," she replied tone lessiy as a little glint crept into her depthless eyes. "Now that I take a look at records, it seems youU have to check with Financial Services about this one. Next." Slumping out that door at last, I knew that they had won. But though the battle's lost, the war is not over. There will always be those brave enough to fight the good fight. And there will be those who stand in line and take it. Next year, 111 be the one with the lawnchair and sunglasses. I would like to add a little disclaimer to save my financial aid application from being lost, mutilated or just thrown away. Those people in that office are really rmite nice. "1 You'd be in a bad mood, too, if you had to deal with a bunch of college-educated people who aren't even capable of finding the right line to stand in. -jTjfi Chris Carroll .. . __ Director of Student Media Laura Day 777-6482 Creative Director jun ureen ? ? Art Director TlefTaHarper Elizabeth Thomas Tina Morgan _ , Asst. News Adv- Graduate Asst. James Ponce Renee Gibson Asst. Photo Marketing Director Ben Pillow Christopher Wood Stephanie Sonnenfeld Asst. Advertising Asst .Features Manager Larry Williams Erjk Co|,ins Keith Boudreaux FaCulty Advisor Circulation Editor Letters Policy The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be 200-250 words and must include full name, professional title or year and major if a student. Letters must be personally delivered by the author to The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 333. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for style, possible libel or space limitations. Names will not be withheld under any circumstances. c ui gu auiun. _yuur toes in me oaiurour library books, put your name ttle bit of time to relax, it to surviving the crush of the last vork. lid can be htmare this'll just take a few extra minutes. I underestimated just a little. When I finally made it up to fllq pmin+at T ttit; \romr V11V VVUllWl) J? VA^/lUlll&U illj fC I J simple little question. "I'm sorry," the lady behind the computer said. "This is the summer school line. The line you want to be in starts over behind Gambrell." "I can go to summer school!" I shouted. "Just don't make me wait in that line! You don't know what it's like out there!" But those ladies out at financial aid have nerves of steels"Next!" she mumbled, and I was left staring desolately at my destiny, which just happened to be stretching out toward Greene Oi. i. L -TUMKC Quote Unquote "I have the freedom to express myself Graduate sti Jews for Jesus i While walking across Greene Street yester- ~~ day, I had a very disturbing encounter. I saw a. j"~ M man handing out brochures and talking to students. He wore a shirt that read "Jews for Jesus," and he was taking part in a movement that [_ m is slowly deteriorating the inner workings of the ?ill Jewish community of America. not a J I've never been one to stand by while some- Believ one attacked my foundations. I followed behind to Judi the gentleman and asked the students for the proces brochures he had just given them. I handed the are an collected brochures back to the Jew for Jesus and not Je1 asked him to stop. This sparked a conversation So 1 between us, the details of which I will leave for like to another time. Jesus, Jews for Jesus, or Messianic Jews, represent not es] one of the biggest threats to American Jewry, fact, a This organization is not recognized as a Jewish therefc movement by any Jews, nor is it recognized as Th< any kind of mainstream Christian denomination an^ th by Christians. Who, then, are Jews for Jesus? teachii They are born Jews who have rejected the teach- Ho\ ings of Judaism for their own teachings. They threat follow many of the precepts of Judaism; many ob- ^ servp t.hp fhipfnrv ]qwq nf PfaeVirnt mariir nlwflmio CietV th ? j wi xxuuni uu) manj vuoui ?C ^ the Sabbath on Saturday, as Jews do. The dif- unders ference, however, is that they believe Jesus is the ^ ^ Messiah. fuithei O r\ f\e This is by no means a bad thing. I want to it. emphasize this point: there is nothing wrong with 6 a ( believing that Jesus is the messiah. It is simply ment Summerton (pop. 975) Easter came and went this year like a keg of RHP beer at Tally ho. but Easter Sunday was far I-' Xp from uneventful. For those of us who by the grace of God were fortunate enough to have spent Easter in the LJ fi ^ South, it is a time of year in which pictures are Lmi taken, fried chicken is eaten and small children It we run around hunting Easter eggs. cued rit I remember Easter egg hunts from when I was ally don a young 'un. My most vivid memory was when ally just we had the 1981 Clarendon Hall Kindergarten a bag 01 Easter Egg Hunt in my yard and a friend of mine eaten, and I found an egg from the 1980 Clarendon Hall On E Kindergarten Easter Egg Hunt. We offered this at my gi kid in my class a dollar to eat it, but all we could chicken raise was 56 cents. and sev Ever since then, when we hosted the Claren- All < don Hall Kindergarten Easter Egg Hunt, we used gether b plastic eggs. ferent d I think I hit one from 1983 with my lawn- flies, n mower, but we haven't had it since 1989, and I snakes, think all of the eggs have since been recovered. Snak I was finally glad when I got too old to be a ried nie nnaer ana i graauatea to maer. mat didn't last peopie w too long though. I turned out to be a little too vin- they woi dictive to be too much of a hider. ^ it me While most people would hide the eggs under same ro bushes and behind rocks, I usually hid them in The i trash cans, sticker bushes and in the dog's food, town of It usually upset the kids, but I had more fun than Southea a German Shepherd at a home for crippled cats. Easter baskets have long been a tradition in . my family. It was always a pleasure to wake up 1 efct10^ on Sunday morning and get up to the piles of rf1S^' 1 malted milk balls, creme eggs and, of course, a s 6^ost hollow chocolate bunny that had enough sugar r to keep me awake until July 4th. A few years ago, the Easter bunny decided to ^u^ai join in on America's fat-free craze. That was the year I got Slender bars and rice cakes. Could you you ( imagine my face? V WAT WfciRpo ?S StNM?AT < OOptfcSS I'M CAKKY'AJC? and he (Father Raymond Brown) has the free Shin Li Zhou, udent whose artwork was removed from RH lobby don't represei is n ETHAN MYERSON Je? Columnist jpr | mei fewish teaching, it is a Christian teaching. a^e ing this teaching, therefore is antithetical a^m aism. To continue with this logical thought this $, Jejws fpr.Jesus practice teachings that are tithetical to Judaism, and therefore are ^ , WS- Chr :hat there is no misunderstanding I would say that this alone is my point: Jews for ^or ' or Messianic Jews, believe in teachings tion poused by Judaism (teachings which, in and re counter to Jewish teachings) and are jew >re not Jews. , whs are is nothing wrong with these teachings, ere certainly is nothing bad about these Psei lgs. eral v then can I say that Jews for Jesus are a ? to modern Judaism? Their threat is two- Gre< 'irst, they misrepresent Jews. In our soie Jewish community is already a very mis- . . tood group. P 311 oup such as Jews for Jesus can only cause confusion. out 1 mtly in this newspaper a columnist quot- H sssianic Jew and took that person's state- }10W 3 be typical of all Jews, when in reality it Easter means foot f DREW STEWART see a Columnist The; itfMiJP I decre * m popu is like expecting fresh-off-the-pit barbe- ^1 >s and getting a McRib Sandwich. I usu- this < i't deal with the baskets anymore. I usu- "i" ; tell Hare of Easter to leave the candy in ^? 1 the front porch, and 111 see that it gets *n ^F beau aster Sunday, we always have a big lunch randmother's house. We always eat fried , deviled eggs, potato salad, cole slaw eral different desserts. )f the family gets too partake of the difelicacies, as do the losquitoes and ;es never have wor- ^ Qv) V^"" too much. I know some V% V rho are so phobic of them, ild refuse a million dollars X. A S ant having to walk in the N om as one. nost feared snake in my homeSummerton (pop. 975) is the dreaded stern Cottonmouth. These snakes are so here are many tales of them getting so iy bite themselves. (This was my initial when my editor refused to give me a pay it now I realize I should have bit him in- a snakes will run from you, but not the a louth. While a rattlesnake will do every- I can to get out of your way, a cottonmouth l|| t for you like a buzzard waits for a cow ion't need to worry about them in Co I f I \m -i dom to express himself.'* it Judaism ot the statement of any Jew. Secondly, they attempt to proselytize young rs. This is a major problem. Judaism is a nonial religion. We don't have a creed or stateit of heliefs Tt. ran he rhffirnlt fr\y a nnU arm Jew to retain his faith in the face of a new osphere such as a college setting. Compound with the difficulty of Jewish life at USC: there few Jews here, Kosher food is hard to come and there is an abundance of very prominent istian organizations on campus. Enter Jews Jesus. The young Jews who might be quesing their identity meet the Jews for Jesus find what they think is an easier way to be ish at college in Columbia, SC. Unfortunately it happens is that they become part of this ido-Jewish organization, and they are genly lost to us thereafter. >o I talked with Mitch (the Messianic Jew on me Street). He turned out to be a very nice I explained to him my point of view, he exned his to me. As one might expect, no resions were made. He would continue to pass his literature, I would continue to protest. , is not the literature with which I disagree, ever. It is the guise under which it is dislted. 1, flies, snakes iia. Cottonmouths only reside in the swamps in low-lying areas. However, I would like to n innrnoan in ~ -fTIOP II litvi VU0W XXI MXV Sliaivc pupuiabiuil Ui UUV. rat population in the dorms would sharply >ase, but then again so would the sunbather lation on the Horseshoe, lat is one other thing I have to address in :olumn. What has happened to the decency e men of Carolina? law a fellow laying out there the other day >eeds. Come on. The male body ain't that tiful to begin with, and we especially don't need to be reminded every time we go on the Horseshoe. Come on guys, keep it covered. i<A