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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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the Sabbath on Saturday, as Jews do. The dif- unders
ference, however, is that they believe Jesus is the ^ ^
Messiah. fuithei
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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?
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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
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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;
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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
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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
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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.
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