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Tuesday, December 5, 1995 ""ISaiflcock Serving (JSC Since 1908 Wendy Hudson, Editor in Chief Matt Pruitt, V Editorial Board Lucy Arnold, Jamie Clark, Gregory Perez, Stephanie Som Larry Williams, Ryan Wilson, Chris V USC watches more slip awa A wise man once said that all good things mm Provost James MoesePs stay at Carolina is one The provost will soon leave us for the midwe will become chancellor of the University of Neb and-a-half year stay. During his brief stay, Moeser was not one to st such as the Freshman Reading Experience and t through to completion. One has to wonder why the university did n< lrnnn on/?V* o TrainQ klo momKnr nf fVio arlTmnicfi OUVll U V UiUUUAV/ 1X1VXXAMVX VI I/11V UUlUilllO UJ Perhaps it was simply a respect for personal ? Perhaps it was due to a financial inability to ke the loss is somewhat disheartening. It seems that USC has a difficult time holdin notch employees. Moeser's departure comes not 1< of Minority Affairs director Ralph Johnson. We hope this trend will not continue. We hop habit of placing more value on retaining thos outstanding in their fields. All that we can hope for is a replacement wil and as much motivation as the outgoing provost, this one. We also can hope that the university will alio selection committee. The decision affects them as r else. You can ensure that students are represents Lack of sleep ] Horgan over tl Editor's note: The author of this mmm column has apologized in advance for any psychological trauma which it may inflict on the reader. Mr. Horgan is currently at a "Dealing eagle soarin with Sleep Deprivation" seminar at then sudd< the request of the editor. (judging bj Buckle up for safety, folks, because reacting to this week I'm writing my column in until someor the midst of sleep deprivation. Yes, Then I altei even as my fingers dance over this monkey anc standard ASCII keyboard (Albino evening. Squirrel Code II: use only in the most Come si dire of emergencies) I am delirious effects of thi and drooling... but it's the large no^ worn o; bags under my eyes that will tip you hring s off that all is not well. Careful folks, j jay ^ ^ I am a columnist on the edge! I could an(j sobbinj snap at any time... don't get to close, around f[ve I might maim you with an errant j roused m onomatopoeia (Borscht?the only upright am onomatopoeia food; try it for a ^ hea(jy change). a flounder, < Hallucinations cavort before my t marvel a eyes and unfinished thoughts th contour sideswipe each other in my head. As the a My brain, in its present state, is, for w^a all purposes, nothing more than an > m +, eight pound FunYun. It can't begin . . , , to sort out my multitude of questions: , P?. nC Whatever happened to Tom Bosley? 6 T,a ^ Why is the sky blue? In what SP' ^6 dimension are those Mentos ads ' L,' u made? Why do birds chirping outside i\a' ^ mywindowseemtohave 70U c megaphones? If you take Nytol, do hellogsis in big-ass Z's come out of your head wheJ*e " 3 like in the commercial? What in the purchase fix hell is One Hour Martinizing? Who yuu 11 seL a is buried in Grant's Tomb? Where figure. So 1 does a pork rind go after you eat it? went in for (Answers in next week's issue). 13 pregnant Yes, folks, I am very nearly are boxes c insane. I wasn't always this way. behind doors But one word has driven me to this, ^^h knives; One word. One word that has the of the cove power to make every Media Arts cutting the major at this school cringe and duck the trimmi for cover? "Journal." It has eaten Fruit Loop my soul like some huge, dark, looming distance bil ... soul-eating thing. Actually It drove me to seek succor at a that this is local shindig two nights ago. The semester, an natives were restless: pounding out as it is, it drums and swirling smoke disoriented way to end me and sent me careening against semester wl every pointed object possible. I Review. Un happened upon a shaman who was kids' stocki mixing some sort of strong medicine, and keep we He handed me a potion of magic that is anything the natives, in their strange tongue, twisted that call "likker." It instilled in me the to my atten spirits of wild beasts. First, I was an at Matthots tkNews: 777-7726 VDUIIIOUIK Advertising: 777-^ FAX: 777-6482 Student Media Russell House-USC* Columbia, SC 2 Wendy Hudson Lucy Arnold Martha He Editor in Chief Stephanie Cece von K( Matt Pruitt Sonnenfeld Asst. New; Viewpoints Editor Features Editors Qen p|||0 Chris Winston Jamie Clark Chris Dix Copy Desk Chief Photo Editor Asst. Fea.un Allison Williams Robert Walton Jason Jeff News Editor Asst. Photo Editor Cartoonist Larry Williams Robbie Meek Keith Boudn D 117:1 Asst. Sports Circulation Mai Graphics Editor Design Editi The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published Tuesday through Friday dur- Gamecock * ing the fall and spring semesters, with the exception of univer- should be 200-250 sity holidays and exam periods. sional title or year Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the editors sonally delivered I or author and not those of the University of South Carolina. in Russell House ri The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the The Gamecock r publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of Student Media possible libel or sp is its parent organization * under any circumM -J st come to an end. USC ; more of these things, stern plains, where he raska, ending a threeay idle. He saw projects ;he Residential College at make every effort to ration under its wing. foals and aspirations. / \ ep him. In either case, i g on to some of its top- r^j ang after the departure I e we will grow into the / >e employees who are ^-O^ArsTiB m And, that we can keep w student input on the auch as it does anybody i Make yourself heard. 3UsheS QUOTE, UNQUOTE ic line "<My no80 ring' in HORGAH " ,1 Season of A g high above the melee, ?nly I was a musk ox t the way people were . me). That stage lasted Alas' we are once a^am in the ie doused me with water. season of Advent, remembering the mated between howler anticipation the nation of Israel had 1 slug for the rest of the for the coming of the Messiah. They saw the world around them as being mrise, I found that the threatening. Rome held sovereignty ls strange firewater had over them, and they were weak ff. Except now I was a compared to the levels of greatness tung in the head by bees. they had held under David. But they savoring the sensation had faith in their God. It was with g softly to myself until great hope and longing that they prayed in the afternoon. Finally the Messiah would come, yself out of bed, stood It is in this same manner that we d took four steps before look for the return of the Messiah. We ition struck again. I was see forces of darkness harming people md I had plenty of time across the globe, and we are too weak t how well my body fit to stop their pain. Nations hold fellow of the floor. nations under their boot by fear. )lostomy bag overturned In this season of anticipation, we whoa! Hey, snap out of should remember, also, that the mission ry folks, I may be freakrn 0f the Messiah has already begun, and >w, I n1 n?t going that we can find God everywhere, even i the whole column! No jf we cannot see him face to face. plenty of room to talk Therefore, I would like to tell you where h . Fruit Loops Yes! j fin(J God; in whom l gee ^ and i j ^ are f 10 j6 how I know God, for this is the focus uuu t &uuw aneauy, r.,i *j .j, - of the Advent season, the midst of a promotion T1T, , j . , . , r.e Where do I find God? I must admit, u send m two proofs of T1 . ~ . >m boxes of Fruit Loops, 1 fem fmd G?d s?me free Star Wars action unhkely Places' 1 remember findmd loth of my roommates with Fruit Loops. There LETTERS TO THE EDIT] >f Fruit Loops lurking s; hiding in the cupboards Do yOU have Something rsmb^Fru'Sps on your mind, or someir toenails and leaving thing you want to get off s runnin^up'thebng chest? Are there is! sues around campus that r, it just occurred to me j.i_- 1 ji 1 j my last column of the you think need to be add as stupid and whacked- dressed, but never are? Are you tired of the poliien I look at the Year in tics of this University, the state Of South Carolina, itching the skies. If there the Federal Government, or the world in general? tion, you can e-mail me Do you have a gripe about .sc.edu. Fleas Navidad! the way you've been treated in a class by a Ryan Sims m9 sue McDonaid professor? Maybe you saw >9208 j speeimon something in The GameGraduate Assistant ? *?p chns carroii cock that made you )lnitZ Director of Student Media Laura Day steaming mad, or some * Creative Director w on jefr a. breaux thing that made your day. " Art Director > , ers Marian Edwards Maybe you think this paLaguer Trik'coiiins" Per is a waste of student irez Faculty Advisor money. Maybe you think JtZttEL received. Letter itfe tltt beSt tiling U1 prHlt. ZS- EE Or you might just be >y the author to The Gamecock newsroom 1 , .11 1 ^333 aching to be heard. cserves the right to edit all letters for style, O ace limitations. Names will not he withheld at anccs. VIEWF 4 < iewpoints Editor nenfeld, Allison Williams, /inston one HI GIN fnsJs?| J Your Q " 1 falls out while I'm sle Freshman ; advent pr< CARSON BUSH Columnist God in an airplane above tl as I left at age 15 to spend im nf 4-V\ r\ V\r\t ill .LJ U.I VjpC llgllt CLL tllC UC{ the Persian Gulf War. II was there with me. Iremem God in the cathedral in Gem I attended Mass. I would k and pray about my great often leaving only when could no longer take the ] rails. But I knew he was kn tome. I found God atop the in Pisgah National Fores surrounded by the beauty c But I also have found ( I did not expect it. I found midst of the destruction of Hugo and the floods of the I found God in the pictures in Bosnia and the blood on there. I found God in the during the funeral of friei deaths were years too eai were places I hoped God ha for then an explanation could a. 1 i.L- J ].* as uj wny uie uageuies wen 1R You Letti Her, <% * Fl thoughts with 26,000 peopie in one fell swoop. Impress your friends and reP n lieve all that pent-up ten- \/M9 nff sion. Take the opportunity to express yourself freely... almost. M ESee the staff box for your I limitations on length. Also, keep in mind that The ^ Gamecock reserves the ' right to take certain liberties with your letter, like editing those nasty fourletter words. We want to hear what you have to say. Write now. ? TS ?V V IR'SImas^TI A eping sometimes, but I just put it back in the morr Zaida Jimenez, on bodv oiercinq : i : ss Dvides time for confii But, no, in the midst of it all, there packing bags c was God. the deaths of in In whom do I see God? I see God He stood by the in the sermons preached from not as the pers< le Atlantic Protestant pulpits. When I see the lives, but as tl 10 months host raised during Catholic Eucharist, their passing winning of I see the radiance of God reflecting off Smith becaus tnew God the face of the priest. I see God in the driven her ber finding eyes of the Muslim as he bows to pray. yet she was ^ lany where And I see God in the face of the child not forsake he neel down as he helps undress the Torah in a is ^ concerns, Jewish synagogue. I see God in my iswhy Advent my knees friends as we sit around the tables of much nain i hardwood Courtyard Coffeehouse and discuss , I, . _ , ,. . . with the saints eelingnext everything from relationships to , T mountains theology. onger. pra. t as I was But I also saw God in the face of come again an )f creation. Susan Smith. When I first heard of *see what bo< }od where her confession to the murder of her ow e 1S P c God in the sons, I was furious. But then I saw comforter, anc Hurricane her, and there was God. God was not on^ ^rom a^ai i Midwest, condemning her but helping her time as 13111 P of the war through her ordeal. There he was, deliverance, I ? the streets with the person I least expected him has done. 1 cemetery to escort. Yes, God is in everyone. God is here ids whose How do I know God? When I found culmination ii ly. These God in the places I was sure he had us of that. Pes d forsaken, forsaken, I was not sure why. But are here becac be readied then I realized the answer. God was of us and ever i occurring, not there as an onlooker. He was there remember tha Whatever your thoughts ClOSBI are, don't let them sit inside you and fester like a sore. Put your thoughts down on a sheet of paper and ship it to The Gamecock before you explode like a runaway gas LJj&k MJ tankpr. Sharp vmir 3 o 0) 3. o o 2 in' Zn Qo $ CD 55 C/3 3 Q. o' 2i <D ling." mation )f sand, and mourning aocent people in Bosnia, grave side of my friends an who had taken their le person who grieved , He was with Susan e he knew something to do what she did, but I his child, and he would r. r I know God, and this is so important. I see n the world, and I join ! in asking, "How much / that the Messiah will d deliver us. But then i is doing today. I see lying the role of the 1 that he does not love \ So, just at the same raying for God to send im thanking him for all We have hope because . Advent, with its ti Christmas, reminds ace, hope, joy, and love tse God is here, in each ywhere we look. Let's t. Look