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Wednesday, November 29,19S "0ar Serving V Wendy Hudson, Editor in Chit Editor Lucy Arnold, Jamie Clark, Gregory Pen T imi Willlomc D?o, UU11 j fT iiuauio, XX J ui Steps to Ik learning of After months of debating over cu federal grants, the higher education is This time, the Joint Committee to of Higher Education is searching fo: South Carolina. The proposals adva the risk of being counterproductive. First, the committee proposes thj businesses and other outside groups." on a blaze. State universities, ours i outside groups such as the state legislati should be more responsive to the stu existence. Secondly, the committee proposes learning be based on performance ra good idea to award schools lor outst arise with this idea. First: what criteria are to be use status of an institution, it seems imp grade performance in relation to the f students, or maybe the curriculum?1 Second: does it make sense to p Diverting an ailing school's funding t nothing to raise the status of the less is to raise higher education as a who! a step backwards. So as not to discourage anybody, t efforts in attempting to raise the sta our state. The committee members However, the current solutions just c However, none of the committee n told. It probably won't just come upon sitting in committee. Make your voice heard. Tell them ^ we ii ten tnem. Drew advc shopping f Christmastime is upon us, folks. And, along with the Christmastime season comes Christmas shopping. I have yet to begin my Christmas shoppin for this year. I almost always tend to procrastinate until the last minute, when the only things left available are those ties a foot wide and sweaters that light up when you put them on. Either that, or I wait until the only place I can find open is the Circle K You should have seen my mother's face the year I gave a couple of those 49 cent hot dogs for Christmas. However, one point I always make is to go alone. I used to take a girl with me hut it alwavs ended un going something like this: For my mother: My suggestion: A nice set of towels. The girl's suggestion: A set of fourteen karat gold diamond earrings. Hie compromise: Real expensive towels. For my father Me: A-hox of shotgun shells The girl: A nice sweater The compromise: A Browning sweatshirt For my sister Me: A book. The girl: A14K necklace The compromise: A book about necklesses For my brother Me: A baseball cap The girl: A Tommy Hilfiger shirt The compromise: A really nice baseball hat accompanied by a shirt form K-Mart. For my Grandmother: Me: A set of steak utensils. The girl: A set of bath oils. The compromise: Really nice dishwashing liquid. ?afck ? Student Media Russell House-USC* C Wendy Hudson Lucy Arnold Editor in chief Stephanie Matt Pruitt Sonnenfeld Viewpoints Editor Features Editors Chris Winston Jamie Clark Copy Desk Chief Photo Editor Allison Williams Robert Walton News Editor Asst. Photo Editor Larry Williams Robbie Meek Ryan Wilson Asst.s/orts Spoils Editors Ethan Myerson Graphics Editor The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published Tuesday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters, with the exception of university holidays and exam periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the editors or author and not those of the University of South Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of Student Media is its parent organization. V 15 ftcock SC Since 1908 if Matt Pruitt, Viewpoints Editor ial Board :z, Stephanie Sonnenfeld, Allison Williams, 11 Wilson, Chris Winston , _ _ sip mgner f the mark ts in state support, student loans and sue is right bade in the midst of things, i Study the Governance and Operation r ways to improve higher learning in need by the committee, however, run at institutions "be more responsive to ' This would be like throwing kerosene n particular, are all too responsive to are and big business donors. Universities dents first; they are the reason for its that funding for institutions of higher ther than on size. While it is always a anding performance, some problems id? So many variables determine the ossible account for all of them. Do you acuity, or the average SAT score of the Who is to say? unisn a scnooi wno is not up to parr o an already prospering school will do ier school. If the goal of the committee m e in the state, this would seemingly be he committee should be praised for its itus of higher learning institutions in cannot be criticized for their efforts, lon't meet the needs of the state. Q lembers will know this unless they are ? them in some blinding revelation while "1 vhat you think. Tell us what you think. I )cates solo es 'or men ?; in DREW STEWART & Columnist we Id For my Grandfather: Re Me: A six-inch buck knife the The girl: An electric foot massager go The compromise: An electric meat be knife and a pair of Dr. Scholl's re< of For my Uncle: pe Me: "The Beatles: 1967-1970" on ha CD. thi The girl: a bottle of Stetson Re cologne. 19 The compromise: a bottle of pk English Leather. 20 to For my Aunt: de Me: A new set of dishes. bn The girl: a kashmir scarf. wl The compromise: Kashmir ve dishtowels. For my male cousin: Me: A subscription to field and ? stream. ? The girl: A subscription to Popular / Science. I The compromise: Popular Mechanics and a fishing pole. . r For my female cousin: Me: A Gamecock T-shirt. The girl: A bracelet g^( The compromise: A wristband that says "Go Cocks" 3111 ver So, as you can see, in order to n? give the fine Christmas gifts my family is accustomed to receiving 0UJ from me, I have to make a go at it alone. kill This weekend, I plan to make 9^ my yearly trip to a mall to accomplish in my Christmas shopping. Hopefully, err HI be able to find lots of bargains on shotgun shells and Carolina wa sweatbands. uu he; pn am s: 111-7726 Ryan Sims ^ srtising: 777-4249 Online Editor [: 777-6482 Suzanne lea olumbia, SC 29208 McDonald la\ ,. Graduate Assistant J-J Martha Hotop Chris Carroll Cece VOn Kolnitz Director of Student Media PBI Ass, News Laura Day Ben Pillow Creative Director Chris Dixon Jpff A. Breaux Asst. Features Art Director CO: Jason Jeffers Marilyn Edwards ftn, Cartoonist iliylor Keith Boudreaux Marketing Director re* Circulation Manager Erik Collins fur Gregory Perez Faculty Advisor , Design Editor u6i Letters Policy pr< The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters l should be 200-250 words and must include full name, profes- 6 sional title or year and major if a student. Letters must be per- jn( sonally delivered by the author to The Gamecock newsroom . in Russell House room 333. ClB The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for style, possible libel or space limitations. Names will not be withheld under any circumstances. IEWPj I " UOTE, UNQUOTE Phis allows me a chance to pu Jenny Malizia, a Republican 1 The battle over the budget is, in F sence, the real battle between lservatism and liberalism. It is also s real battle for the economic future 1? the United States. We are at a point th time where we must ask ourselves: be re we going to have the courage to in : our nation's fiscal problems or are hi ! going to sell away our future?" And ai lo mean OUR future. ra There were two reasons for the ar publican revolution of 1994. First, bi i American people believed the federal th vernment was too large and must shrunk by balancing the budget, re luring spending and lowering rates th taxation. Second, the American T] ople wanted to reverse policies which ev ve contributed to the breakdown of ar e family and other social ills. The ta publicans who ran for Congress in pi 94 promised to submit a legislative ed m to balance the budget by the year th 02. They are now putting the final pr uches on this plan. They have cli livered on their promise. They have is 3ken the "politics as usual" syndrome in uch has afflicted Washington for so ar ry long. if The Republican proposal to balance ETTERS TO THE EDITOR Linton's bud; 1 1,1 l' 0 neaiiny, ci< The political consequences of the foi iwdown between President Clinton coi d Congress over the budget has been mi y well covered in the media However, pr one seems to have taken note what ar 1 President's budget vetoes mean for r environment. In refusing to sign the debt extension 1 and continuing resolution, President nton has protected the right of everyone this country to a safe, healthy hronment. Q Included in the debt extension bill s a radical risk assessment proposal ^ it would have mired all of our public alth and environmental protection )grams in endless rounds of analysis aF d red tape. ^ This continuing resolution would S1f ve drastically cut funding for the EPA, iving that agency unable to enforce ^ vs that ensure our water is safe to re iik, our air is fit to breathe and the *1 blic is protected from toxic chemicals. ^ The budget and appropriations bills, ^01 rently under consideration by Congress, *E nstitute a wholesale attack on ^ /ironmental safeguards and natural source protection. These bills cut 6X1 iding for critically important public ex alth and environmental protection igrams. The result of most of this ^ islation would be to relieve polluting m iustries from the responsibility of aning up their own mess. The public m' iuld have to shoulder this burden. 8" President Clinton should be applauded a 1 PINTS \ CWi \ it a lot of obscure trivia to use. i USC College Bowl Team member, < budget will 1 ^ ins TOMMY TOUCHBERRY pr? Columnist are ie budget has been devised on a few Ibis isic principles. First of all, spending cos almost every phase of government uni is been set an an annual growth rate red nnnii Rn tn 1flfl norponf aKnvo tVio fllt.f U U1XU VV VV XV/w ^/V/l VVXX IS UWV \s VXXV ite of inflation. This is still too high d e j i increase in spending, in my opinion, con it it fits the GOFs plan to balance fun* ie budget. I can live with it for now. as f Secondly, tax rates are being Art duced to promote economic growth, tus increasing federal tax revenues, r e i his concept does work. Factual ins idence, as provided by both the CBO adn id the OMB, shows that Reagan's and x rate reductions during the 1980s libe: oduced tax revenue increases. Any lies lucated business student could explain Le rationale behind this economic func inciple. Currently, the average middle spe ass family (income around $50,000) the paying about 40 percent of their spe come in taxes. This is way too high nea id must be reduced for ethical reasons, nex not any other reasons. Finally, major reforms are being dea > get hold-out 1 ;an environm * his stand against the special interest rese ntrolled Congress. He apparently has my' ore concern for the public health and in v otection of our environment than Newt stat id company. ] my Rhett Power This Chairman tirn Sierra Student Coalition iterr or ci indi et it in writing before you mt from anyone Eve you Recently, I moved into a one bedroom lartment on Greene Street. I made e classical mistake of moving in without jning an official lease. Thirteen days after moving in and ter paying approximately three weeks nt in advance (another huge mistake), eturned to my apartment after the irolina vs. Clemson football game. I and that my locks had been changed, spent a remainder of the weekend in e Holiday Inn at the expense of a cool 26. As a graduate student, this is an ceptionally large amount of unforeseen pense. Monday morning I spent three or ir hours in the USC law library learning y legal rights as a tenant. South irolina Landlord-Tenant Statutes led e to believe that my landlord was in ass error. Upon speaking to Jim Lengal, respected Columbia attorney, my ! _i i L?4AJr / iM GftiDjpc}<\ J , It is also good for quick thinking r>n tho heinofite r?f r^.ollono RniA/l rnmnot L/l I II IW UVI IVI IVI WVIIW^V will VVI I leal broken e tituted in many government grandpa agrams. In some cases, total do ilementation of federal programs coverage being shifted to the state level, jg $8 per 3 increases efficiency, thus decreasing co^ege s ts. In other cases, hurtful and , . , , . him and lecessary programs are being luced greatly or phased out change! igether. Examples include the A110^ jartments of education and forth is lmerce, welfare spending, and rate redi ding for left-wing pet projects such Again, 1 he National Endowment for the propose S- would pi The Republican plan has been , ,. , j , ^ , reductic jorted and commented on ^ tccurately by the Clinton 340,000 ainistration, liberals in Congress, ^or a the dominant liberal media. These income. rals have often resorted to outright will see' Inco: For instance, they say medicare that we I ling is being cut Not trite! Medicare oftaxat nding is being increased at twice governrr rate of inflation and total dollars nt on medicare will increase by fT^?? S rly one trillion dollars during the Newt an t seven years under the GOPs plan. OUR eo Also, the liberals say this "phantom" and Nei rease in funding will kill America's doesn't! AC 3eneficial Lent for all A ;arch was confirmed true: indeed landlord was greatly out of line and olition of several Landlord-Tenant \ [ am currently filing charges against landlord with the local magistrate. UlynJ^ i process takes time, and in the mean e I have no access to my personal ?||| is including clothes, books, checkbook 1$| redit cards. I am truly a displaced vidual. 3o renters, BEWARE. Get everything ^ Titing and never assume anything, ryone knows what happens when M ASS-U-ME things. J. Michael Goolic ^ Graduate student I w Read Lette and deli Ga I 3 1 9 i i po $ f 3 C/5 a. S a> i and assertiveness." ition conomy rents. Really? The estimated liar increase for medicare for the average senior citizen year. Thafs how much a poor tudent spends on a movie for his girlfriend. This is pocket br anyone. Period, her lie the liberals often put that the GOP's plan for tax actions is catered to the rich, this is an outright lie. The d $500 per child tax credit rovide a much larger tax rate >n to a family of four with a annual income, than it would aily with a $120,000 annual Work the numbers and you what I mean! nclusion, it is very important lalance the budget, lower rates ion, and reduce the size of lent. The Republican plan is tart. We must support Bob, id others as they work to save onomic future. At least Bob vt care ? Bill sure as heck 'laser Look: Ironv rite now er responses are welcome, irs should be between 200 250 words and should be ivered personally to The mecock, Student Media, Room 333 of the Russell House.