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3 IBaflfeock Serving USC Since 1908 Wendy Hudson, Editor in Chief Matt Pr Editorial Board Lucy Arnold, Jamie Clark, Gregory Perez, Stephani Larry Williams, Ryan Wilson, C No need to c concealed w How would you feel if it were legal to carry Carolina? Would it make you feel more secure becaus< it make you slightly nervous, because you d The Federalist Society sponsored another 1 Thursday night, this time on the right to cai main topic of discussion was a piece of legisla a practice. The legal aspect of the conceal-carry bill is settled elsewhere. Regardless of whether or: concealed weapon, one must ask whether or i matter, necessary. South Carolina only has three cities that v tropolis. These cities are still relatively small the other areas of South Carolina is not abnorn to be no place in South Carolina where it wou for defense purposes. Furthermore, the college campus is no pk datively safe on campus, and the Horseshoe tunting. Guns on campus are totally unnecess tebate prohibits guns on college campuses ai If this bill is passed, you will have the righ puts of South Carolina. However, just becaus iUs an intelligent thing to do. Remember the power of firearms. Think i ux one ueiure yuu uui) uuc oiuuuu wim juu Beardman 1 cause of sh Ntmally I wouldn't write about I 1 natiofcQ government affairs because the pety arguments and posturing betwen the pachyderms and the ' donkey in Washington tend to bore away me. Le>s face it, the squirrel over- A crowdiig crisis on campus far out- me f0 weighs host news coming from with- ;us|. g m txi^ "!itway. [jquo: This veek, however, I feel oblig- gjtua1 ated to \rite something about the ^, situationfacing the federal government. Asyou might have noticed, a j large portion of the government was kinda... wjl... closed, just shut down jn^.c like a McDonald's that wasn't gen- cquj(j erating enough Big Mac revenue. It w^e seems through constant withdrawals q at the giait federal ATM without ever balanting the checkbook, the governmen sort of ran out of mon- . ^ I immedately felt a connection to my governnent like none Fve ever ag j ^ felt before. Wio would have believed , they handle fnances just like I han- , die mine? was' . The reason I felt obligated to write about the finincial crisis is not my ^ new feeling ot kinship with Newt, ~ do Bill and the r?st of Our Gang. In- .1 stead, I think 1 can help explain ex.1 i i * i_._j i. ther i actiy wnat cai^ea tne uuuget snui- ? down. Yes, Fmnot proud to say it, * but I think it's hy fault. J^at As you migh, have read, I was in m ^ Washington a f?w weeks ago for a my 0 media conference. I'm afraid I might caus have done a few things that put a mu^ drain on the government. veer First, I didtf t buy any of the Neapolitan freeze-dried ice cream previ from the Air-Spate museum. I was er, a planning to, but I got there late and hanj immediately sprinted over to the Enola Gay exhibit, which was closed. I Py w never got time to get back by the gift men shop to buy my little aluminum foil F package of freeze-dried goodness. Fve c I Surely that extra Jttle bit of revenue se^ u could have helped things out a lot. star That's just the dart, though When card I was in the American History mu- the c seum, I went to the restroom. I'm us fi afraid I didn't quite turn off the wa- May ter at the sink all the way. I can just terb see the money drip-drip-dripping this FAX: 777-( Student Media Russell House-USO Columbi Wendy Hudson Lucy Arnold Mai Editor in Chief Stephanie | Cece Matt Pruitt aonnemeia t Viewpoints Editor Features Editors Ql Chris Winston Jamie Clark Cli Copy Desk Chief Photo Editor Allison Williams Robert Walton Jas News Editor Asst. Photo Editor Larry Williams Robbie Meek Keit Ryan Wilson Sports Editors Ethan Myerson Gr< Graphics Editor D The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of _ . South Carolina and is published Tuesday through Friday dur- J M ing the fall and spring semesters, with the exception of univer- should sity holidays and exam periods. sional I Opinions expressed in The Gamecock ait those of the editors sonally or author and not those of the University of South Carolina in Rus: The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the The l publisher of The Gamecock. The Departmoit of Student Media possibl is its parent organization. ?. under; VIEN uitt, Viewpoints Editor ,e Sonnenfeld, Allison Williams, !hris Winston eapons a concealed weapon in South } you could cany one, or would on't know who else has one? V egal debate at the Law School \ rry a concealed weapon. The rL * ition that would legalize such W, rjjk \ a point of debate that will be ty/, p not it is one's right to carry a lot it is productive, or for that ^ L vould qualify for the term me- \ with limited crime. Crime in /i aally high, either. There seems / \ Id be necessary to wield a gun [ ice for firearms. Students are squirrels aren't good game for ^ ;ary. (The bill presented at the id events.) it to carry a weapon in certain e you are able to doesn't mean about the consequences of us QUOTE, UNi "Talk to then *eveals ?a? i 1 _ Pi. 1 _ uiaown siuaei ^ Let's do a little ci CHRIS MULPROW SrtoS Columnist vard? For that matt< any Ivy League schc from the budget as we speak. 0f merit such as Du] guy in Washington approached or UNC-Chapel Hill r some money. I figured he was Well, many of th ome bum, seeking change for obvious. Ivy League a r. Now that I look back on the in academic traditio tion, I realize that was no bum these schools are ge was the Secretary of the Trea- in the nation and o If I hadn't been greedy and said the top scholars in l't have any money when I ob- admissions standa] ly did (I was a tourist in Wash- rigorous. Many are in...of course I had money), I and hence wealthie . have thrown a wrench in the expensive), sis of government shutdown. All of these are t' L UAilSCj liiusu piuuini b ui ??coir obuuciiio xiavc ? \ n weren't the start of my fatal there is one area of 1 to the budget Once I was camp- which students can 1 a National Park and backed in the academic em y car when I was ready to leave. mate of a university something with a loud thump One of my profes vas backing, but didn't think this year, brought tt ling of it. It turns out what I hit tention about a wei Smoky, the friendly fire fight- the observation that ear we all know and love. The demic spirit seems t Service had to replace Smoky There seems to be a you know how much it costs to to discussing intellec i bear who can talk and is will- many are appreher 0 wear one of those hats? Nei- bate or discourse, ev< do I, but it ain't cheap. also have a little signal mirror 1 use to flash signals to planes e air. I apparently didn't have LETTERS Tl ode quite perfected, though, be e I signaled an entire wing of t t imillion dollar F-16 fighters to I 111 T"1 O" ? from their courses and land in i. The Chilean Air Force (which ously consisted of a Cessna train- Thank you for S helicopter with no rotor and 23 (Tuesday Nov. 14) on < I gliders with Daisy BB guns 0311 be said about thi * * ' v 1 o/?funfiaa V> orl rr ited to the wings) was very nap- Aai" T *?<??> & ith my mishap, but our govern- this week, and they a t was out quite a few dollars. semester. However, t m gonna get us out of this mess we should not think :reated, though. I've decided to until next year, p a table on Greene Street and Hunger is not a t signing people up for credit consumes the lives oi 3. If I make as much money as P^e everyday. It is nc ompanies say I will, I could have small, obscure coi illy financed in a few weeks. of us cannot find on i be I can even hand out free wa- !em ^ every nation i ottles and boxer shorts. I dug us international comm hole, HI get us out like Oxfam almost a We will all be goii 7706 Rvan Sims f?r ^^g^ng- M : 777-4249 ciLne Editor come the full turkey ^482 Suzanne trimmings. We shou n <?r 9Qon8 McDonald the people who are t a, Graduate Assjslant J r rtha Hotop Chris Carroll ^ rotted potato i von Kolnitz Director of student Media for Thanksgiving din Vsst News Laura Day when we are sick of 1 en Pillow Creative Director that Others will be It ins Dixon Jeff A. Breaux , ,. sst. Features director overs, in great antii ion Jeffers Marilyn Edwards garbage cans. h^Boudreaux Marketfng"Director ShoW how than iiation Manager Erik Collins and help support Ox igory Perez Faculty Advisor other organizations ( icsign Editor ? utbnMtor makeamoremeam iamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters Others, be 200-250 words and must include full name, profeslitle or year and major if a student. Letters must be perdelivered by the author to The Gamecock newsroom sell House room 333. jamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for style, e libel or space limitations. Names will not be withheld SOP! it.} circumstances. 1 VPOIN1 THE WAR PB POVERTY \ QUOTE i yourself. Ask them, 'Do you want he can't help them. Th< 3r USC football player and Heisman trophy \ its can help tc omparison. How of South Caroli- MATT PRUITT /ersity like Har- Viewpoints Editor er, you could use >ol, or any school This reluctance to carry act ke or Vanderbilt discussion out of the classroom of the reasons USC does not ht e differences are academic reputation of some chools are steeped aforementioned universities. Tl n. The faculty at ^ 0f a university is easily disce: merally the best my professor picked up on it ften are some of months. This spirit h their fields. The determine a university's standi arefarmore tation pnvately funded All right, to be fair, these otl k-r ( nut a cn mnro - versities have some major adva hings over which Most of them ^ smaller' so 1 xmtrol. However, *er for this spirit to reach anc ligher learning in every?ne- They also generally facilitate growth: more homogenous population, /ironment or cli- contributes to a somewhat i mindset Also, at many of these sors, new to USC the curriculum is so strenuoi lis issue to my at- academics naturally permeai ak ago. He made other activities, a competitive aca- Despite all these factors, o be lacking here, not prohibited from developing i stigma attached intellectual climate. All we ne tual matters, and break down a few old sterec isive towards de- First of all, attending some en among friends, lecture, debate, exhibit or perfb lTHEEmOR ;r drive is over, hin Yun's article TOUChbeiTy'S VOUChfi Dxfam. Not enough . , $ organization. Ox- System equates IHC reat participation je finished for this Foolish, provincial, biased a his does not mean try argumentation with sep about the hungry overtones: These words descr reaction to the latest of Tommy small problem. It berry's articles, f over a billion peo- I have read several of Mr. it just the problem berry's articles and find myself intries that many the lack of argumentatioi r map. It is a prob- needed to adequately present n the world. As an est viewpoint/ruse of how gove tunity, we at USC should actually be handling t iffort to stay in the cation problem in this count icipation in a group to word constraints, I will iten n obligation. arguments with respect to th ag home next week *n which his appear in his arf any of us will wel- First, Mr. Touchberry u dinner with all the word immoral in reference to tf Id then think of all e<^ education because, by def hankfiil for having religion includes secular hur ar a handful of rice ^ e denomination, and then ner. Or remember heing preferentially treated by he turkey leftovers funded institution. Mr. Touch aoking for our left- confused on several points w cipation, from our presents with this argument. Separation of church an kful we really are nieans that religious leaders/ fam and the many tions will not be given opport >ut there helping to dictate public policy in Ameri nsrful existence for America has too many religio represented, it does not mei because he deems secular hu a religion, separation of chu Beverty Wilson state has been violated. ,ior Religious Studies u Furthemore havingest, by defimtion -.hat the church a 5 am _1 IA ...amA 1^ J ip r it iney aom want to wip i jy'll be dead, busted or in jail." /vinner George Rogers, on helping fri< > boost USC' for reasons other than class ass ments or extra credit does not n you some sort of social reject. II have an interest in a certain sub idemic or think you might be interested, i l is one hesitate to check it out. ive the Second, it is totally false thai of the cannot develop a social life and le spir- 311 academic one at the same tin rnable- y?u socialize with certain people i ' can discuss life issues while you ] lelps to ^th your friends. j Many of you out there are pi bly saying, "After Fm in class all all week, I just want to sit down ^taims have a drink." So go ahead. Th ntages.. nQ gayS y0U discu s ?as" debate religion or political theory ect a beer. Of course, if you keep it u a^e 3 long you might lose your ability t , which together a coherent sentence. All ti mified tn moderation, schools, Also, keep in mind that when as that "intellectual" or "academic," Fm i te your this term liberally. I don't mean you should try to validate the fi: USC is mental theorem of calculus every i strong you sit down with a friend, or tha ed is to need to debate whether or not yc )types. ist at a party. Just don't be afh s sort of bring up something more serious rmance this afternoon's talk shows. but don't for If separation has not been violated, can Mr. Touchberry therefore < ISITI paying for education with tax-d( as immoral? If that is the case, tnd pal- funding military is definitely imn aratist Think about it: the military i "ibe my structing people on how to be Touch- derers. Secondly, Mr. Touchberry tl Touch- that if the government were to uf amazed proposed voucher system all reli a skills Would be treated equally. Then, 1 bis lat~ definition, what about secula rnment manism or other minority reli] he edu- such ^ Muslim and Greek Orth ry. Due Since the Roman Catholic CI uze my has the most members nation1 e order Roman Catholic families would b ,icle. ting a disproportionate share ( se? tae money just by their sheer num pc-fund- Thereby, the voucher system, n( mition, liberately, would be aiding whicl nanism religion happened to be the maj jby it is go much for equality! a state- This brings me to my final berry is about Mr. Touchbenys articl< hich he implications of the voucher sy! This system seems to, very subtlj d state arate people of different religio institu- sending Muslims children to M unity schools and Roman Catholic chi ca since Roman Catholic schools, etc. ns to be Of course, one could argue th an that, voucher system allows parenl manism freedom to send their children t rch and school, implying that maybe ps of the Baptist denomination \ iblished send their children to a Muslim ind state - 1 Friday, Wovaaibar 17, IMS I I I ;hemselves, then you certainly snds with a drug addiction . s reputation iign- There's another reason for prolake moting this type of discussion besides 'you bettering your university. When I spoke tject, with a faculty member here at USC don't during my senior year, he told me that I would learn more from discussing ' you the meaning of life with my friends at an(I 2 a.m. than I ever would in the classie ^ room. I think he was right. I think we ?y?u stand to learn a lot more from people re than we do from books. Let me just say, though, that I don't ? think it's necessary to walk around quoting some Greek philosopher or 1 , literary genius all the time. If you don't let yourself go for some totally non-inover tellectual activity, I would say that too you're unnatural in some way. Beav0 put is and Butt-head won't augment your vocabulary, but the fact remains that they're funny as hell. 1 say Ifwe can Just I??sen UP the inhirsing bitions that we have about discussing that some more "academic" topics, we can inda- do a great deal to better ourselves and timp our university. You don't have to do ' i n i ! - 1_ ] e it you 11 m lorcy terms or oig wuius, auu, iux iu ex- everybody's sake, don't do it all the ud to time, but at least give it a chance. You than might like it. (P.S. - Thanks Professor Munn.) get the needy , how or vice versa That would be ideal, but leem definitely liberal, and we all know that )llars Mr. Touchberry's opinion is anything then but liberal. loral! By spouting anti-liberal rhetoric, is in- Mr. Touchberry cleverly gilds his armur guments' true intention: Mend the ailing education system by segregation! links If this is conservative, then conservse his ative ideology, with respect to educagions tion, is racist! )y his r hu- J. Pierre Gittinger gions Geography graduate student odox? lurch ivide, egetjfthe bers. Dtde1 ever ority. point r. the stem. ? 2 write now ldren Reader responses are welcome. Letters should be between 200 at and 250 words and should be tsthe ? o any delivered personally to The irents Gamecock, Room 333 of the v?ul(J Russell House school