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2 "iSmftoodt Serving VSC Since 1908 Wendy Hudson, Editor in Chief Matt Pruitt, Viewpoints Editor Editorial Board Lucy Arnold, Jamie Clark, Erin Galloway, Gregory Perez, Stephanie Sonnenfeld, Allison Williams, Larry Williams, Ryan Wilson, Chris Winston New fees for resume service not necessary Tuesday's Career Fair at USC provided students with an opportunity to present themselves to roughly 80 potential employers. The event also brought to the surface a source of discontent for many students: the new cost of using the Career Center. In order for a student to receive assistance from the Career Center, in distributing his or her resume, they must first purchase a $25 program called "Resume Expert Plus." By using the program, the Career Center hopes to create a unuonn resume layuui axiu wane uie piuueaamg ui icoumc uuuimation easier. Having uniform resumes and expediting the processing of information are positives. Virtually forcing students to purchase a $25 piece of software to in order to receive any help from the Career Center is definitely a negative. If students do not have their resumes on the "Resume Expert Plus," they are not eligible to receive assistance from the Career Center during events like Tuesday's Career Fair, nor are they eligible for any on-campus interviews. Students are also required to attend workshops in order to become familiar with the software, which can only be used on IBM-compatible computers. Are the benefits worth the hassle? Some students complain that job fairs offer a limited selection, and that their individual college is more helpful in attracting employers than is the Career Center. Given the fact that many students can only use the program in campus computer labs (since it strictly for IBM), it seems that it might have been more practical to install the program on a few computers in various labs. If a schedule was established for individual students to work on their resumes, conflicts would be kept to a minimum. And student dollars would be kept in their pockets. Republicans slashing your higher education Its mid-September do you know where your loan money is? DAVID HALLER If it seems like you just got your Columnist loan check three weeks ago (which you did), and already it's gone (as ???? mine is) there is only one group to ^ fae r d thr0 h student blame: the tepub.cans. fees. The result is less money to be Yep, for Ae ninth year m a row, . the classroom and more the sire nf hicrher education s mon- i e > j. " 77 - ---o- - ana more reasons xor our ueau uruey pot has been left with less than fes30re to ^ ^ move north both the year before and from what But wai jt the law requires. Our Republican ^ ^ ^ tf months^ governor and his yes-men (or is that &e Republican Congress will sereversed) have made the decision vere, |imit to t stu. Uiat lugher education is something dent |oanSi and s]ash thc for those who can afford it; and the ^11 be cl^ble to receive Un. rest can find their own way. der the Republican Contract with South Carctaa law outlines that 53 000 students in South schools are allocated funds based Caro]ina ajone will have their stu-, on a complex formula, considering d t, t That is the total the number of students enrolled in number of attending state. the school and tt>e amount of floor supported> sAoola^South ^?aCe^.elr ' have f no lie). Carolina. Subsidized loans?which The 1995-1996 budget calls for high- allow you to wait until you're done er education to receive a dismal 65% ^th school before you start paying of full-funding. The last time high- interest ? will be history. Fortyer education received anywhere gjx hundred South Carolina stuclose to full funding was in 1986, dents will become ineligible for Pell when Democrat and present Sec- Grants. retary of Education Dick Riley was Good-bye, dreams! Good night, governor. Riley's strong support for opportunity! Welcome to McDoneducation is legendaiy: he's the au- aid's, would you like fries with that?! thor of the now defunct Education This ie what is happening to Improvement Act? gutted Dy uar- YOU. Not to some mysterious "they," rol Campbell and David Beasley not to the kids down the street, not (e.g. see the decline in basic skills to people living in Butte, but to YOU. scores announced this week). The amount of money being alloThe result of this is higher tu- ratpH to colleges goes down, the qualition fees each year. In fact, the tu- ity goes with it The amount of your ition at South Carolina schools is loan goes down, the time you can amongst the highest in the south- spend studying, or partying, goes east. In 1994, tuition at USC was with it because you spend the time $3196, $3,176 at The Citadel, and working to buy books. The support $3,036 at Clemson. At neighboring to education goes down, and so does University of Georgia, the same, or the availability of jobs and opporbetter, education cost $2,352, while tunities and the general quality of at the University of North Caroli- life in South Carolina. I don't know na at Chapel Hill, one of the best too many big businesses that want public schools in the country, in to locate their companies and famstate students pay only $1,569. ilies in a state that won't educate The commitment to education their kids, is why both Georgia, home to the These decisions are not all final, 1996 Olympic games, and North and they can be reversed. FortuCarolina, now the tenth largest state nately, President Clinton will proin the country with great living con- tect students and veto student loan ditions, have excelled, while South cuts. But we make ourselves open Pawilina an/4 ifa /vim rrmni tips Via VP tarcrpt hpratlSft we don't Stand UD plummeted. They spark opportu- for our needs as students. This is nity for their future; we extinguish your life we are talking about. We it are members of this society in full, Then, they capped tuition in- and each of us better make ourcreases at three percent, so only a selves heard ? or our forum will certain amount of the moneys cut be taken from us. ?rKrii1#rnrb News: 777"7726 E,h.?JSr" AM niUJUV Advertising: 777-4249 Ryan Sims FAX: 777-6482 O^Hne Editor Student Media Russell House-USO Columbia, SC 29208 ^Chris,cC?rr?!i Director of Student Media Wendy Hudson Lucie Arnold Martha Hotop Laura Day Editor in Chief Stephanie Tina Morgan Oeative Director Matt Pruitt Sonnenfeld New. Jeff A. Breaux Viewpoint. Editor Feature. Editor. Ben Pillow A" Director Chris Winston Larry Williams Chris Dixon Gregory Ferez Copy Desk Chief Ryan W'i]son Am). Features Design Director Erin Galloway Sports Editors Robbie Meek Kim Golden Allison Williams Jamie Clark Asst. Sports As*. Advertising Manager News Editors Photo EtStor Jason JefTers Erik Collins Keith Boudreaux Cartoonist Faculty Advisor Circulation Manager Lattmr* Policy The Gamecock is the stadent newspaper of the University of The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Sosth Carolina and is pi Wished Monday, Wednesday and Letters should be 200-250 words and must include fuU Friday during the fall and spring semesters, with the exception ^ Ulk w yetI ^ ^ if , studenl ursverat y y? '"f f* Letters must be personally delivered by the author to Onraom expressed ui The Gamecock ire those of the editors .. orasthor andnoTdsore of the UWvetsity of South Carolina. ^ Gamecock newsroom in RusseU House room 333. The Board of Student Publications and Conununicationi is the The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for publisher of The Gamecock. The Deportment of Student Media style, possible libel or space limitations. Names will not is its parent organization. he withheld under anv circumstances. VIEW] BHlFir mmm ilMMH V1||K?\ QUOTE UNQUOTE "There aren't any compani Would note I think I've found the job for me? a job suited to my skills and expertise? I wanna be a note taker. Yep, I can sit in class for you, taking notes to my heart's delight, carefully dotting my "i's" and crossing mj "tfs" and gleaning all the key element of various professors' discourses on life, liberty and the pursuit of early pre postmodernbellum recreational crop procurement systems. You might have heard about th< note-taking service that's come her< from UGA and FSU. The service hire designated note takers for various class es. They diligently take notes and typx them in, and students in the classes can pick up the notes for a fee. The ser vice also dresses up any sketches 01 assorted visual aids the hired note tak er srrawls nn bis or her notebook. The only problem Fd have as a not< taker is that my notes vaguely resembl* ancient cuneiform, except scientist* and linguists have been able to inter pret cuneiform. I have a difficult tim< figuring out exactly what it was I wai writing in class; sometimes ancien Hootie dem success, reta Wednesday, Columbia's own Hooti< and the Blowfish returned to theii home town to play to a packed Capi tal City Stadium with numerous oth er area bands. Hootie, whose mem bers are former USC students, ha just completed a nationwide tour tha has left them the most popular bam in the land. Despite the huge success general ed by their latest album, "Crackei Rear View," the band members c Hootie and the Blowfish appear to b just as normal as they were when i all began 10 years ago, and that ha x i.u: 1?* l jk LU SUilieLIllllg ciuuut neuiuiing (see Eddie Vedder). Some of us might not like the band music, but we have to look at Hooti for what they really are: Average, sin pie men who like to get drunk and pla average, simple music. We should a consider it amazing that such con mon people, who we used to see at i Five Points regularly, are now Som of the most famous and recognize people in the land. Personally, I would have rath? seen all this rah-rah happen to a moi talented and diverse band, but Hoot does represent an aw-shucks attituc and an honesty that is as close to hon as a Circle-K hot dog. Plus, their mail stream easy listening music does a] peal to today's mainstream pop cu ture. Over the summer, I heard an ai nouncement over the radio saying th Hootie had signed to play the Norl Charleston Coliseum in late Augus It was also announced that the sho was going to be broadcast worldwi< ' on the Westwood-1 Radio networ POINT ies I'm interested in. They think busii journalism senior Molly Ko< service repro< CHBIS MULDROW Beardman Viking explorers creep into my South1 ern history or my prominent journal' ists wax poetic on Juliet's beautiful DNA structure. Sometimes I think I just take notes because it's what everyone else in the class is doing, like the [ pitiful lemming I am. j I'm wondering whether the note service would reproduce my doodles ; on the side of my notes. The graphic 5 artists might have to call me and ask what exactly a picture of a superhero r firing a machine gun at Barney (who's dressed in a Milli Vanilli mask...hey, ' I can't explain it...) has to do with so? ciology. > I've not quite gotten organized this 3 semester, too, so all my notes are in one notebook, separated by hand-drawn ? lines. But it sort of looks kind of orgas 1 nized if you're not one a' them freaky t neat types. onstrates how in musical int f LARRY WILLIAMS Columnist I must have pinched myself a hun, dred times. Worldwide??? It seems like just yesterday that they were playing at Rockafella's, now they're playr ing to the world, much less a sold-out, 12,000 seat arena. I also have to admit that I was e rather shocked when i opened a "Rolling Stone" magazine to see a band from 3 Columbia at number one on the Bill3 board charts. To realize that Hootie is as big or bigger than bands such as 3 Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and even Michael e Jackson, is truly remarkable; howevl~ er, success is fleeting, and Hootie could y easilv sink down the tubes as easy as N they shot up the charts. l" Many people would rather have n seen other bands from Columbia grat ie the spotlight the way Hootie did. Laj d Quiet Awhile? Kindread Soul? Is abelle's Gift? The aforementionec !r bands probably have significantly mon y talent than the Blowfish, but it is un ie likely that any of those bands woulc le have handled success like Hootie has ie Hootie, unlike some people in th< a- State House, has also dohe more thai p- their part to attempt bring the stab il- of South Carolina some other recog nition ? besides the negative kin< a- that it normally receives. Itseemi at. that, whenever confronted with thi th opportunity to do so on national tele it. vision, the band always brings thi w spotlight to their home state. This ha ie to be positive for our beloved state k. considering there ain't much to cro\ 'S Friday, September 15, 1995 ' less is it,... Business majors might be interested, but I'm not." jn, on Tuesday's Career Fair iuce Beardman's doodles? I'm a little lost on why exactly peo- people before and not gotten them back pie would want to buy notes. The ser- before the test in the class. But I killed vice argues it's not a way for people to those people, so it's not a problem anyskip class: the university's attendance more. policy prevents that. Heh. Heh heh. The note service requires the note Sure, some professors check the roll, takers to not tell the professor who the but if you've got one of those 3,000,000 note taker for the class is. Like the properson rooms in Gambrell, it's a whole feasor's not going to know the guy with heck of a lot easier to skip counting the tape recorder, Powerbook and fivestudents and just weed out the class subject notebook isn't up to something skippers (and non-note takers) through when the note taker asks for the third tests, quizzes and other fun reindeer time how to spell Prioleau. games. I think the next step for note takMaybe the service is there for peo- ing and selling is note-test barter serple who get sick and need notes. For- vices. Ill take notes for you if you take get the other people in class ? it's a the GRE for me. m supply a fake beard, dog-eat-dog world, and those sick weak- vital statistics and No. 2 pencils. Youll lings are wearing beef jerky boxers. Is go in and actually take the test so I can that guy who keeps dropping his pen avoid the pre-test nervous stomach so he can look up the girl's dress in and post-test pencil bubble cramps. I'll front of him really so repulsive that even provide special customized doo you can hit him up for a day's worth dies of members of your family, dogs, of notes without shelling out your hard- your favorite top 40 bands and the first earned Ben and Jerry's money? I'm 25 presidents of the United States. Ill scared I'm gonna ask for notes from put the notes in the notebook color of somebody in class now and get hand- your choosing and rub graphite on the ed an invoice. back of your hand to make you feel as Of course, I have loaned notes to if you've been sitting in class all day. 0 to handle LETTER TO THE EDITOR egrity Housing services need to listen up about these days in 'ole South Cakilaky. Editor Hootie has been outspoken in their opinion of the Confederate flag, which Housing and its system of maincontinues to fly atop the State House, tenance for the Horseshoe Area as well as David Beasley, who refused need an overhaul. I am not speakto support bringing the Stare and Bars ing of mdividud mamtenance staff members? 3.11 01 them (some of Hootie has also brought much at- "honV .nowJ|al?w have tention to the University of South Car- een ri^n 0 me an om^ ,. ~ . i j j * roommate. However, our almost ohna. On their worldwide concert .t reauests for certain re i i , /? /hi | . f?\ lllvCOSalll I cUUcolo lUl Certain IC S r I H ?l"US ha been ignored since school yelled "Co Cocks for the world to hear- began,and many of the repairs Sure, our football team needs all the which have been made were not help they can get, but you have to won- made to our satisfaction. I am not I der what English-speaking people not picky, but I would like to use the 1 from around the south imagined when toilet or shower without feeling like I they heard that one. I ^ jn a nightclub or horror movie Unlike most big-name bands who (our bathroom ceiling light has a ' have exchanged their musical inde- distinct, strobe light effect). I am 1 nonrlpri re fnr tlOD fame, it seems that armrooiotive of the work which has Hootie has always played the type of been done, but why were so many ! music that they play today, which says calls to maintenance necessary? 1 something for their integrity. So what We pay a lot of money to live in ' if what they play is easy to listen to, campus housing, and it seems that ' play, or tap a foot to? I personally don't residence hall and apartments could love the music, but at least they're re- be inspected before students reJ ally playing and really act how they turn. This is a warning to all not ' feel. to take roach infestations, broken It is truly amazing the metamor- ^ conditioners, and the like, light; phosis that has happened to four av- ty- Maintenance services are not ' erage Joe's in one year. They have necessarily the sole guilty party -ii- i ?a.;- here: housine has a responsibility a sold seven minion copies 01 uieir ' . - "Cracked Rear View" album, a num- to Prov^^e students with the aci ber only reached by bands such as the commodations for which they pay. 3 Beatles. Even though their music B might not be appealing to some of us, onagman B 6 ..? ^ ^ ' anthropologysemor we still must remember one thing: e that Hootie and the Blowfish have s been nothing but a positive asset to s, our university, community, and pride v in a state that lacks so much of it.