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1 Tuesday, October 3,1995 nBatcock Serving (JSC Since 1908 Wendy Hudson, Editor in Chief Matt Pruitt, Viewpoints Editor Editorial Board T ll/>lf ArnnlH Tomia PI orlr Hrp onn/ Cfankonia CnnnanfaM A lliortn Williotnc i-<uvj ruuviu, jauiiw v^iaiiv, * wiut, ui^puaiuu kjuiuibiu^iu, rvmauii t? uiiaiiu, Larry Williams, Ryan Wilson, Chris Winston Hidden structures not included in Master Plan If you haven't been asleep all semester, you've probably noticed the massive amounts of construction taking place on campus. Almost every project developing right before our eyes is part of the program designed to place USC at the top of its class, known appropriately as the Master Plan. This plan includes structural improvements to various areas of campus, among other internal restructurings. Many of these changes are evident as they are well in progress, others are waiting in the wings. All should be completed by the year 2001, less than six years from now. At the western extremity of Greene Street, tucked away among warehouses and vehicle storage facilities, lies the College of Engineering's Fabrication Facility. Placed in the remote regions of campus, lacking air conditioning and equipped with sub-standard heating facilities, this building serves as the engineering seniors' forum for constructing their senior design projects. Unfortunately, this building has served the same purpose for the past 16 years. The Fabrication Facility was moved to what was supposed to be a temporary location in 1979. For over a decade and a half, engineering students have dealt with inadequate space and poor working conditions in their final year of work. Oh, and, just an aside, the university has spent about $400,000 in rent on this top-notch facility. Neighboring structures have been sold for half that price. Furthermore, a recent request for a new facility was declined. Apparently this type of facility, in which students gain valuable, practical job experience, is rather low on the priority list. What is more concerning is that the university seems to be eager to make improvements on the heart of campus where they can be seen and the virtues of the university extolled. However, those areas of campus that are rarely seen and used by a select group are blatantly neglected. Makes one wonder why the improvements are being made: for our benefit, or for the university's aggrandizement? Doctrines not too different Tonight, at sundown, begins the holiest day for Jews worldwide. CARSON BUSH When there are three stars visi- ; ble in the sky, assuring that night Columnist has arrived, the Day of Atonement will begin. If a Jew attends but one does not wash away one's sins. Beservice all year long, it is this one. ing Jewish, in a sense, makes atoneUnfortunately, many people outside ment tougher because they are aware of Judaism have no understanding of the standards that God has set. of the Day of Atonement. The God of Israel is a forgiving The Day of Atonement, or Yom and gracious God who is willing to Kippur, is the day when the Jew con- allow the people to return when they fesses of the sins of the previous year have seen the errors in their ways, in an attempt to reestablish oneness But the turn from sin must be sinwith God. According to Rabbi San- cere, and must include a promise to ford Marcus, professor of Judaism in tiy not to sin again, the USC history department, Yom Atonement does not have to ocKippur is a solemn and uplifting mo- cur on Yom Kippur, according to Marment that provides a chance for re- cus. Jews believe that "prayer, renewal of the relationship with God. pentance, and charity overt the seTen days before Yom Kippur is vere decree of God." A Jew can make Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New atonement at any time by using these Year. On this day, God opens the three methods. Atoning at another Book of Life, where each person is in- time of the year does not replace Yom scribed according to their sanctity Kippur, but rather supplements it. over the past year, ranging from good With a functional understanding to bad. The Book stays open for the of the meaning of the Day of Atone10 days until Yom Kippur, giving ment, one can see the difference beJews the oDDortunitv to change their tween the Jewish and the Christian man r rum sonnemeia ? Viewpoints Editor Features Editors Ben Pillow Art Director Chris Winston Larry Williams Chris Dixon Gregory Perez Copy Desk Chief Ryan Wilson Asst. Features Director Allison Williams Sports Editors Robbie Meek Kim Golden News Editor lamie Clark Asst. 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Names will not is its parent organization. be withheld under any circumstances. status in the Book. Jews confess their methods of re-entering communion sins together in services held through- with the Almighty. For the Jew, out the day. The confession and re- atonement is done in this world, and quest for absolution gives the Jew, is directly between oneself and God. according to Rabbi Marcus, a "clean For the Christian, however, atoneslate" in the eyes of God. ment was mysteriously done for him Several beliefs are crucial for un- or her by Jesus of Nazareth's death derstanding the meaning ofYom Kip- and resurrection in the third decade pur. First, there is no idea of origi- of the Common Era. nal sin in Judaism. Sin is defined as However, there are similarities going against the will of God. Evil between Christian resurrection and enters the world through humankind's Jewish atonement. I see that in both rebellion against that will, not by beliefs, absolution is not assured. One some central evil figure (Satan). must be honest and sincere in reOn Yom Kippur, not all sins are questing forgiveness. It is not a seremoved. God can only forgive a per- ries of liturgies and actions that gain son of sins that were between God forgiveness; it is the realization that and the person requesting pardon, wrong was done and the promise not God will not forgive a person of sins to do that wrong again, that were committed against some- I am quite convinced that we need one else. to have a deeper understanding of Some would ask that if Israel is the religions of those around us, though the chosen nation of God, why is there in a society where Christianity is the a need for atonement? According to majority religion, this is sometimes Marcus, Jews do not see themselves difficult to do. We are not really all as "chosen" for salvation. They, in- that different, though we are far stead, are chosen for the obligation enough apart to distinguish ourselves, of reuniting all of God's people with May you be inscribed for a good their creator. Being Jewish alone new year. F^nil^rnrb News: 777-7726 E,hc^'Srn aDUIIILUJCK Advjrusmp: 777-4;49 Rvan Sims FAX: 777-6482 Online Editor Student Media Russell House-USC* Columbia, SC 29208 o^^swdoitMedii Wendy Hudson Lucy Arnold Martha Hotop Laura Day Editor in Chief Stephanie Tina Morgan Creative Director "?!" I - ? .j a? vr Tofr A Rrpnnv VIEWPOINTS ^ Ml ?To E QUOTE UNQUOTE "I think 16 years is a long time. Sixta Gary Dowdey, Instrument Supervisor for the College of Enginee Horgan examines doug Well, HI be a monkey's uncle! Mmm, ^ no particular reason for that, I just MATT HORGAN thought Fd start my column out on "the " ; good foot" this week. Of course, here it Column ist is four in the morning and I'm just sit ting down to write this turkey. I wouldVe so makes for great customer entertainstarted sooner, but I was on a quest, of ment at three in the morning. My two sorts. Yes, a quest for spiritual enlight- oompadres and I stood transfixed in front enment, an Epiphany of the soul, and a of the glass windows watching thoutopic for this column. And I found one sands of plain cake doughnuts roll by. out of three at Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Stalagmites of glaze hung from the main West Columbia. chinery; rats wearing aprons and hairThis was no ordinary Krispy Kreme, nets scurried to and fro making sure though. For those of you who are not fa- everything was working at top efficienmiliar with this landmark, West Co- cy And the old lady at the end of the lumbia is the home of the Krispy Kreme line was the pin-up girl for inventory with the "Doughnut Assembly Line" in control: "One for the box, and one for it. This space-age technology was first me. One for the box, and one for me..." pioneered by Doug Pistule (the "Henry Krispy Kreme was indeed an aweFord" of doughnuts) in 1964. This com- inspiring sight, but after downing my plicated procedure involves plucking maple-glazed doughnut, I was in the white-hot doughnuts (ha-ha, I amuse mood for some serious "R-n-R" (Retchmyself) out of the fryer and riding them ing and Regretting). So, it was onward around on a figure-8 conveyor belt for home for my roomies and I, where we 20 minutes until an old lady puts them encountered a foot-long slug upon our in a box. stoop. Now in our household, the penalThis eliminates all of that "dough- ty for trespassing is a salt shower, which nuts-sitting-around-in-one-place-to-cool- Happens to De a raw deal ior slugs d6wn" mumbo jumbo that has plagued but nobody ever said life was fair, ya the doughnut industry for years. It al- ^ow- watching the slug squirm Get priorities in order ^ cense; the same penalty for DUI. TOMMY TOUCHBERRY I have always had a problem with - the methods in which traffic laws are Columnist enforced. It seems to me that life-threat ening offenses like DUI and reckless driThere is a disease which afflicts our ving should be treated much more sesociety. It's what I refer to as "screwed verely, while nit-picky offenses like not up priorities." Recently, I experienced coming to an absolute complete stop and the "screwed up" priorities of our law en- driving 75 or 80 mph on a rural interforcement and judicial officials firsthand, state should be treated much less seMy experience took place within the city verely. limits of Lexington, S.C. This once small Luckily, we law abiding citizens will town, now bustling suburb, is famous soon get a mild reprieve. The good guys for it's strict traffic enforcement. up in Washington, otherwise known as As I was driving out of my fiancee's the Republicans, are attempting to shift neighborhood one night, I was pulled legal jurisdiction of our interstate highover for supposedly "disregarding a stop ways back to the states. The state of sign." The cop had been staking out a South Carolina has already said it will four-way stop in the middle of the sub- raise the speed limit on rural interstates division here there is very light traffic, to 75 MPH. At the time I passed through the inter- This shift in the law would allow me section, there were no other cars in site, to drive around 80 MPH and never have Furthermore, I was not speeding and to worry about a state trooper. Assumdid stop at the intersection. My stop ing Georgia also raises their speed limmight not have been perfect, but it was it, I would be able to drive from Columdarn close. bia to my parents house in Atlanta in This decision, in regard to complete less than three hours. That's a reducstops, is extremely subjective. A strict tion of about 10 an hour or about 30 mininterpretation of the law is required to utes for the entire trip. It would make convict someone. a big difference for me. If I'm driving to At my trial, I pleaded "not guilty." Miami, for example, my driving time The cop played very loosely with the would be reduced approximately two truth and the judge ruled against me. and a half hours! This particular police officer sacrificed Of course, the liberals oppose this honesty for $45. What really ticks me added freedom, too. The liberal always off, though, is the fact that persons who oppose freedom unless it is for a con were convicted lor L?Ui were given pun- vicuju muruerei ui marijuana uacx: nicy ishments barely more sever than mine, say this new freedom will increase the In most of the cases, those offenses re- number of deaths on the road. I say pass suited in loss of license and $300 fines, stricter DUI laws and rid our country of My offense resulted in a find of $45 and drug and alcohol abuse and you will sigfour point against my driving record, nificantly reduce death on our roads. This meant if I was convicted twice more Let's get our priorities straight. J of the same offense, I would lose my li 1 > - 3 mi years, I've been in this heHhote." ' - t?i?; ? i i- -1 -?i: i? :in- jj _i_i_ aJ rings lecnnicai rapncaoon racrnty, mi me status mure ictuiuy hnut assembly process for a couple of minutes, we got tired of that Howard is accidently transported the old salt routine and decided to try to Earth from his home planet, which is something innovative, like Cayenne identical to Earth except that it's inPepper. While this did nothing to speed habited by intelligent ducks (Stephen up the slug's demise, we took comfort in Hawking theoretically proved the the thought that somewhere, some na- existence of such a planet in 1992, but tive would find our lightly-seasoned "Ca- photos from the Hubble telescope have jun-style slug a tasty hors d oeuvre. been inconclusive thus far.) However, (Now, before I come under fire for writ- ^ gyjj being haa also come to Earth and ing about the merciless slaughter of in- Howard must somehow save the day. vertebrates, I would like to point out critics paimed the movie that the Humane Society does not have ^ ^ on ^ moronic piot ^ 3 ?2 JF311*' ' fine performances by the cast were overNext it was time for a t.v. mghtcapa last-second perusing of all the chan- T m. . fiL , . , , r r Lea Thompson, star of the highly nels before ending my broadcast day. Lo - , aT? 1 a. \.i_ ^ a. ? and behold, what did I find on TNT but successfiil Back to ttie Future senes the mother of all science fiction movies, andJaw? ?><ouch) tu ,m a -HowardtheDuck-Neverbeforeinthe portra^oftoc^-rock^tar-Gem history of Hollywood has a movie gar- ?*?????. ^ <*, nered such widespread hatred and K * ** s??? rfa loathing as this one. I myself found it a talking duck perfectly. You may not know lite, airy comedy with laffs a-plenty for it, but Ed also had a major role in "Return the entire family. True, the final scene the Jedi" as Admiral Ackbar, the comwith Howard onstage at a rock concert mander of the rebel fleet who comes from ripping up a guitar solo is enough to an alien race of highly-evolved salmon make you disembowel yourself with a (not the most visually appealing race hand trowel, but it has it's better mo- Star Wars presented us with), ments. In conclusion, ducks and salmon... The basic premise of the movie is youll never look at them the same again. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR All athletes winners; don't focus only on female groups After reading Thursday's article in simply not true, just as our female proViewpoints concerning women's athlet- grams have excelled, our men's soccer ics and winners, I was deeply appalled team was ranked No. 1 in the country by the shallow opinions expressed by last year and has traditionally been one The Gamecock staff. First of all, all ath- of the nation's best soccer programs. Our letes, male or female, are winners. Not football team has just recruited a na1 fil..: -/! 1 U.,+ 11.. 1~~1 traltmnn Uoo ueuause Ul tiien Will/lUSS uuiuililia, uui uuiiaiij-i cumcu ix c?3iiiiiclli uaoo cuxvx iiao because they have the talent and courage just finished one of its best seasons ever, to put their necks out on the lint to rep- You cannot classify winners as eiresent USC and this community with ther male or female, nationally-ranked pride and dedication. To coerce students or not. Athletes of all ages, handicap, and fans into thinking that if a male- race and sex are winners, regardless of oriented team is losing, we should aban- their victory records. To take a younger, don ship and focus on the winning fe- struggling team who has lost a couple male teams is foolish and ignorant. of fames and turn it into a male or feIf you want to talk about stigmatiz- male issue is absolutely absurd. All stuing women's sports, you are attacking dents should support as many USC aththe wrong people. Students and fans letic programs as possible. Keep folcannot help it if our lady's golf team on- lowing and supporting all Gamecock ly plays their tournaments out-of-state, teams; Gamecock spirit is very much Our women's volleyball team plays all alive, their matches on either Fridays or Sundays at 2 p.m. or 7 p.m. The regional Biyan Monooi television meaia uues nut teievise any dusu icoo i_uui iui i nv^o swimming competitions, male or female, and the other smaller sports will never get much coverage or media. There will always be small sports and bigger sports. Women athletics at USC have triumphed m _ tremendously in winning All-American llfflfl t MMM championships and putting top nation- |J ? FT J J ally-ranked females in the national spot- Reader reSponses are wellight. On the same hand, male teams come AU ?(ters should ^ have also brought player recognition between 200 and 250 and championships to Carolina. WQrds and delivered per. I cannot beheve that this umversi- ,, t Th Gamecock tys student newspaper is attempting to sonaiiy to I ne UamecocK discredit our athietk programs by V newsroom in room 333 of ing that, TJSC has only won limited sue- Kussell House. cess in the big revenue sports." That is .