Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"?ril Serving USC, Lee Clontz, Editor in Chief Chi Editorial Erin Galloway, Wendy Hudson, Si] Jimmy DeButts, Ryan Wilson, Car! Keep Barn1 Would you sell away your future Well, that's what Gov. David Beat to extend the contract on the Barnwe ing site. The Barnwell site had stop across tne nation last summer ana \ but Beasley's plan would keep the si Under die current plan, the site, dumps in the nation, was supposed opened in North Carolina, but tech] ing to mid-1998. Beasley tried to sofl money generated by the contract ext tional system. In an unrelated note, Chem-Nuc "donated" $10,500 to Beasley's cam] of Education Barbara Nielsen's cam In upcoming years, Beasley will GSX hazardous waste dump on the site, the largest of its kind on the Eas The site is located on the second lar t and could conceivably contaminate t\ it fad$. Most scientists agree the site As the nation celebrates the vicb awareness, we all must look ahead tc on this planet. South Carolina has s resources in the country, but they w sist that we be the dumping ground* ViAtnam nr V !? % < JJ-rJL weren't jusi TOUCHBERRY \ The newly published memoirs j of Robert McNamara have reopened ( the debate on Vietnam. Tbe former e defense secretary under Presidents j Kennedy and Johnson states in his book that the Vietnam War was a j mistake and that it was handled z poorly. I don't have any problem g with Mr. McNamara admitting his < error in judgment, but I do detest a the use of this book to justify rad- c ical liberal movements during the j. war. fi President Clinton has taken it r r upon himself to say, "I believe it ! vindicates the position of those who r J marched against the Vietnam War c J during the 1960s." Clinton is sad; ly mistaken. There is no justifica- <; i tion for the behavior that was ex- , | hibitedby most of the anti-war p | movement. Supporting socialist a J ideals, denouncing the United States e of America, using illegal drugs, dis- t rupting the peace and causing ri- 0 I ots at college campuses, engaging ! in sexual relations in public and t | other episodes of civil disobedience e are not justifiable or excusable. |( I have studied Vietnam from p many angles. I have read books by p I conservatives and liberals, and I p have listened to the accounts of e those who lived through the war p ?' (my parents, teachers, etc.). I do v agree that the war was a mistake, a but that is in hindsight. The deci- j, " sion should have been made much a earlier to either win the war or get e out of Vietnam. If Johnson believed p] that winning the war by "whatev- 0 er means necessary" would insti- ^ gate World War ID, then he should 0 have removed U.S. soldiers in the n mid-1960s. Hie anti-war protesters did not n oppose the war just because they e believed it was unwinnable or un- t] necessary. Most of the anti-war pro- ^ testers opposed the war because g, they opposed a democratic state ^ using its military to stop the ex- n pansion of communism. These p "flower children" didn't give a crap r( about the Americans in Vietnam; ^ their disruptive behavior only served f( to destroy the morale of the soldiers, their families and the Amer- jc ican people. The actions of the an- 0 ti-war protesters did much harm p to the war effort and served as a catalyst to the destruction of basic ^ American values and the Ameri- Q1 can family. Clinton and his cronies jj were wrong. If the anti-war position had been jj. adopted by the United States, it is TRaffrrnit SS *vvvv ? r/VA: / Lee Clontz Jimmy DeButts Editor in Chief Ryan Wilson Chris Muldrow Sports Editors Viewpoints Editor Kim Truett Carson Henderson Photo Editor Radhlka Taiwan! Ethan Myerson Copy Desk Chiefs Ryan Sims I Erin Galloway Graphics Editors Wendy Hudson Gregory Perez News Editors Design Editor Susan Goodwin Jason Jeffers Allison WlUlams Cartoonist Features Editors The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the T University of South Carolina and is published Tuesday L through Friday during the fall and spring semesters, with n the exception of university holidays and exam periods. L Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the T editors or author and not those of the University of South Carolina. s, ?, it tad? Since J 90S "is Muldrow, Viewpoints Editor Board isan Goodwin, Allison Williams, ;on Henderson, Radhika Talwani (veil closet for $10,500? iley did last week when he propose* 11 low-level radioactive waste dump ped receiving low-level waste fron vas scheduled to close this Dec. 31 ite open for seven more years, one of two low-level nuclear wash to be closed the day a similar site lical delays have moved the open ;en the blow by suggesting the nev ;ension be funneled into the educa :lear, the dump's parent company paign and $500 to Superintended paign. also have to address the Laidlaw i shores of Lake Marion. The GSJ it Coast, is an ecological time bomb gest watershed on the East Coasi le Lowcountry's water supply wher i will fail. Dries of 25 years of environmental i protect the next generation's plac( lome of the most beautiful natural ill not last if our state's leaders id s for the nation. otesters tilled very likely the Soviet Union would 3till exist today and would be a Dommunist superpower with a dear military and strategic advantage aver the United States. Presidents Truman through Bush were correct that it had to be stopped. The wlicy itself was not flawed and was jxecuted fairly well by Eisenhowsr, Nixon and Reagan. Johnson, on he other hand, did a very poor job. Another side note to the Mc^amara controversy is the statenent made by Donna Shalala, the lecretary of Health and Human Services. She said on CNN that the /ietnam war was a mistake be:ause "we didn't send our best and >rightest sons and daughters." This itatement sums up the elitist arogance of the radical religious left. These elitists don't believe that niddle-class teens from places like >outh Carolina are capable of be ng the best and the brightest They lon't believe that black and His)anic teens can be the best and the irightest. They don't believe you ind I can be the best and the bright st. What they do believe is that he best and the brightest are their >wn kids at Harvard and Yale. Finally, I would like to address he issue of confidence in our govrnment and the widespread cynasm that exists in America today, tobert McNamara said one of his lurposes in his book is to restore America's confidence in its govrnment. I am the first to admit here are a great many politicians /ho are not guided by principle nd honesty, but rather by special iterests and deception. But there re also a great many who are guidd by principle and honesty. I think he GOP has earned back some of iwiai \xn4-V* fUn tinfU Ui H UOl TMW1 U1C ^UUII atl YY 1 LI 1 jnerica." We have to trust somene, otherwise our government will ever function at an optimal level. I have a friend who believes that o person is trustworthy and that very politician has done "bad hings," e.g., smoked pot, gotten runk or cheated his or her contituents. I often question him on is premise by saying, "What about le? What about my friends, peole I know from my church?" He jsponds with his "90 percent" numer ? that's how many people he jels are bad. I personally don't buy that phi)sophy. I believe that a majority f Americans are good, decent peole. I believe there are many of us rho got through adolescence withat using drugs or abusing alcohol. Fyou let cynicism run too deep, len you really lose any reason to ve. That's not a healthy attitude. Ill-110 f> Chris Carroll .-An Director of Student Medi 77 fidlW L'""D" / / -OHOZ Creative Director Jim Green T1 _ ? Art Director TZ'Z',Z Asst. Newt Adv. Graduate Asst James Ponce Renee Gibson Ajsi. Photo Marketing Director Ben Pillow Christopher Wood Stephanie Sonnenfeld Asst. Advertising Asst .Features Man Larry William. Erik Co||inj Keith Boudreaux Faculty Advisor Circulation Editor Letters Policy he Gamecock will try to print all letters received .etters should be 200-250 words and must include ful ame, professional title or year and major if a student .etters must be personally delivered by the author t he Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 333. he Gamecock reserves the right to edit ail letters fo tyie, possible libel or space limitations. Names will nc e withheld under any circumstances. 1 /> -y:BO0U0URP< J % Quote Unquote "You, as an individual, make Newspaper pe< This year's Gamecock is winding to a close. Next week's our last week of publication, and r then we kick out all the people who are being graduated and close up shop for much of the summer. L I've been working up here for three years now (except last semester, when I moved into the Col- b iseum for my journalism practicum), and every g, year it's one of the most entertaining and educational experiences of my schooling because g, newspaper people are insane. c< Yes, we don't really think or act like anyone si else in the world. We're a weird, freaky bunch, tl We work really late. We ask questions about ei everything. We eat the heads off live chickens c< every third Thursday of the month. ri Most newspaper people survive on carbonat- a ed beverages and caffeine. I can exist on one meal w a day as long as I drink about 15 Cokes during tl the day. My blood is artificially caramel colored, cj Lee, our editor, goes for the hard stuff ? Mountain Dew in the Grand Marketplace's industrial- ft sized soda kegs. Mountain Dew can keep a per- di son awake through an entire afternoon of the O.J. trial and still have enough kick to get a compact car with a dead battery started. Newspaper people also tend to be masters at getting outdated computer equipment to do amaz- ^ ing publishing tricks. The computers in our news- P; room have slightly less computing kick than a good $30 scientific calculator, but we're able to u produce the newspaper on them every day. Through a careful combination of electronic know-how, diligent work and voodoo rites, we keep all the computers running between Russell House's random, sudden server breakdowns. This oj way, we've got time to type several entire stories Javwalkinfif is heredi Wow, I actually wrote two columns within a month of each other ? that's a first for this se- ? mester. Gimme a cookie. Well, it seems quite a few people took issue with what I wrote about Marshmallow Peeps in my last column. I've re- _ ceived quite a few Pro-peep comments over the past week, some bordering on violence ("Hey man, you got a problem with Peeps, you got a problem with me!"). So, I'm going to issue a public retraction that while Marshmallow Peeps may be vile and putrid, they aren't the demonspawn yj mockery of God's natural world that I made them out to be. Today though, folks, we will travel 180 de- tr grees and tackle another subject entirely: law en- sh forcement. It seems the boobs in blue at the Columbia Police Department have shifted their ar a crimefighting focus away from murder and the th like toward stopping a pure, unadultered evil ? se jaywalking. Yes, jaywalkers are now Public En- he emy No. 1, and we're not gonna take it anymore* fr (* courtesy Twisted Sister, circa 1984). Forget m the drunken drivers swerving all over the road so ? it's the damn jaywalkers who keep walking out in front of them who are the problem. th Sadly, jaywalking afflicts one out of every six lie Americans, and the numbers are growing every of year. So as a public service to the community (be- co cause I just looove the community, don't you h? know), I will provide a handy-dandy checklist en- st [' titled "How to Tell If You or Someone You Love th o Is a Jaywalker." th Warning signs include: ,J at social functions, subject always suggests IN a rousing game of Red Light, Green Light; m V an impact every day by the choices you make Chris Thomas, Coordinator of USC Recycling ople are comp CHRIS MULDROW efore we lose them all to the computer erasure ods. After we type in the same stories 10 times, we et a copy editor to read them. It's the job of the iDV editors to remember ohsoure mmnuir and tyle rules such as the spelling of "adviser" and 1 le right way to capitalize Legislature. Section ditors like me are required to argue with the >py editors over said obscure grammar and style ales, mainly so we don't have to reprint our pages ( nd paste them down again. If the copy editor ins, I find ways to cut individual letters out of le paper and paste them over other letters to apitalize things or move commas. As you'd expect, the newspaper is a great place 1 >r healthy debate about prevalent issues of the i ay. Ongoing debates include: Why is there a condom machine in Gam- ] rell? Do people get the sudden urge to bump and , rind in the middle of history class? , Why doesn't the Big Bird restaurant on Main ^ treet have more business? Our semester-end arty*s at the Bird every year, and it is kinda like : eaven with pool tables and grease. We're not pset it's our little secret, but we wonder why it's ] ot a more popular place. < Will the journalism school ever be moved, i r will journalism majors from Carolina have j uge quads for years to come? Why can't Fox show more than one episode f "The Simpsons" a night? itary disease, but it a i MATT HORGAN ] Columnist ? subject has an endless supply of those corny f licken-crossing-the-road jokes; favorite video game is Frogger; subject drools at the sight of a six-lane di- s ded highway; c refers to Five Points as "The Arena"; s subject wakes in the morning to find tire t acks on his/her buttocks and a Honda-logotaped indentation on his/her forehead. * Now, I'd like to remind everyone that these e just individual symptoms of jaywalking and at the full-blown disease is far worse. No one I ems to know what causes this malady, but t sredity seems to play a big part. Say, if you come \ om a long line of roadkill, you're eight times ^ ore likely to be a jaywalker than another pern. However, treatment is available ? namely in e form of $152 tickets from the Columbia Po- t :e. Get tagged with a few of those, and instead I crossing the street you'll be standing on the ? rner asking for change. Oh, I'm sure the police s ive our best interests in mind; it's just that the ation house needs a couple of new couches in e break room, and Murray's sister has to have at kidney stone removed... v Well, enough about Columbia's finest; I'm sure >'e exhausted the subject. You know, flowers c ay bloom and groundhogs may fail to see their ]< >_ " OOfiOo/: and the products you buy." iletelv insane When Manchu Wok opened, The Gamecock loved it. Little buckets of that fluorescent red special sauce sat all over the newsroom. After a few months, though, the magic faded. Now we're all addicted to the chicken fingers at the Gamecock Grill. Will the fingers fade, or are they the new food of choice for USC? The editorial board has to decide on lead editorials, those unsigned editorials up in the corner, every day. Some days, we don't really discuss the topics much; I mean, who can argue about an editorial urging people to study or vote? Well, actually, our copy editor Carson does argue with that sort of thing. In fact, Carson has the exact opposite opinion of everyone else on staff on just about every issue raised for lead editorial. I never have to actually ask the entire editorial board about the issues. I just ask Carson what he thinks and write the exact opposite. Carson keeps trying to send me pipe bombs. Newspapering has all kinds of benefits. We need benefits because we get paid less than most subsistence farmers. For instance, we get to read Calvin and Hobbes and the crossword puzzle beFore you do. We get to act first on good classified ads. We get to see the lingerie ads early...not that we care about that, of course. We eet to bug people all over campus with phone calls. We get to endure scathing criticism from every professor on campus. (One stipulation of being hired as a professor at USC is to dismiss The Gamecock as mindless drivel and mock it every three classes.) I think I'll finish this next week. I'm going to the Bird. ; can be helped ihadows, but the one true sign that spring is here s the appearance of the ice cream truck in the lussell House parking lot. Nobody is buying anyhing, though. He's been here about a week straight, ind I have not seen the guy get any business yet which I think is an indication of this particular ce cream man's business savvy, but anyway...). I think it's a sad state of affairs that we, as lupposedly fun-loving, herky-jerky college stu lents, can't take a little time out of our day to itop and savor life and a Slimer Pop at the same ime. Sure, youll be a little late to that 2 o'clock >oli sci course, but you only live once ? be some>ody, dammit! Kick back on the grass, prop your lead on your books, peel open that Orange PushJp and think to yourself, "Now, this is living!" I hink one of the great college experiences is showng up for class with sticky fingers and red and ilue stained lips. (Read into that what you may, he intent, was nnre 1 Finally, I'd like to state for the record that afar having endured my 21st Easter on this earth, still get an Easter basket. There, I've said it, ind I'm proud. Hell, it's free candy; who am I to iay no? Actually, these last few years I've really jotten better about not eating the Easter grass, rhat Easter grass is tricky ? it always finds a vay to wind itself around your candy so you end lp eating it, too. When I was little, I would "exrete" Easter grass for weeks after I got my basket. But enough pleasant thoughts for the^day.