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Tuesday, December 5, 1995
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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<
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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 ]
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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
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g high above the melee,
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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
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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
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the Persian Gulf War. II
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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
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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
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is so important. I see
n the world, and I join
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i is doing today. I see
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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
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