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Creed Week reflects on traditions I I We hate TARA DOOLY to admit this, but Creed Week Started out as a joke. Seriously. At a Campus Judicial Board meeting lasi lan, we were discussing ways to increase the visibility of the Carolinian Creed when Tara, here, blurted out, "We could do a Creed Week." Everyone in the room sort of chuckled, then looked ' at one another and said, "Hey, we could pull this off." Suddenly, there were a flood of ideas, and the product of that "joke" is happening this week. Creed Week is a celebration of this community and its shared values. You may or may not remember, but each of us signed this document when we altered Carolina as freshmen. We all come from different backgrounds, but the Creed unifies us by defining the purpose in our community. So, what is our purpose as a community? It is to practice personal and academic integrity. It is to respect the dignity of all persons. It is to respect the rights and property of others. It is to discourage bigotry while striving to learn from the differences in people, ideas and opinions. It is to demonstrate concern for others, their feelings and their needs for conditions that support their work and development. Practicing personal and academic integrity means working honestly and also reporting those who do not Cheating has a snowball effect Take the pharmacy school for example ? if a student cheats on a test, he or she may not know the side effects when labeling a pill bottle. By not reporting that student, you may be affecting a patient's life. Respecting the dignity of all persons means listening to someone else's viewpoint without interruption and striving to see the value in people's differences. Discrediting what people have to say before they've even said it is unfair and robs you of gaining new J* A 1 perspectives, as a wise man once saia, "Seek first to understand, then be understood." Respecting the rights and property of others means respecting both individuals' possessions and the resources used by everyone. Have you ever gone to the library in search of a journal article and thought about ripping it out of the book to save 50 cents? The next person who comes along in need of it won't have that dilemma. If you expect it to be there, you need to leave it there. Discouraging bigotry mpana refraining from participating in discriminatory jokes and confronting those who make them. Slander hurts those it's directed at, but it also can encourage subconscious prejudices. Off-cob* jokes breed exclusion, and in turn, lead to the demise of the community. Demonstrating concern for others means enjoying Metallica at 2 a.m. but having the respect to turn it down to a considerate leveL Whether your neighbor is studying or sleeping, he or she has the right to do it in a quiet environment We hate to say it, but its true ? we're all here to learn. These five tenets make up the guidelines by which we .should all live our lives. The Creed teaches us how to live in this campus community and sends us out into the world with the knowledge of what an ideal community should be. Remember: Its Your Creed. Its Your Community. Tara Dooly is the Campus Judicial Board chairperson for Creed Week Nicole Moen is the Chief Justice for the Campus Judicial Board. GAMECOCK READERS: Let us know how you feel about current events on campus and around the world. Reach us by writing a letter or submitting a guest column. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR should be between 200-250 words. Letters and columns should be delivered to Russell I 444 noose room ooo. GAMECOCK VIEWPOINTS Keeping you informed? about what others think. ...THC ADDITION OF BRASSY ? a CK RlftGS L0l)6A7?S I^uuimiuiuj TH? necK 0V ?. tirie, \ DflfflACiftG TH CoUAR. &OOC { Anj> unFaaT0OAT?t.Y FRofiDiAG QUOTE. UNQUOTE "My leadership roles arc Jenny V America's lov< What is America's No. 1 enemy? What is the foe all companies claim to alleviate and fight in their ads? Why, aging 01 course. We tan. We tuck. We try our darnedest to keep our bodies in a state outside time. I am a great science fiction fen myselfj but let's face reality. There comes a time when the pert go kapoot and the zag zigs downward. Looking at television shows like Bay Watch and the soaps, we are taught ideals on our looks that just aren't possible. Gravity is a stronger force than L'eggs control pantyhose or tummy-control suits. The message our culture sends out: Aging should be avoided at all costs, and the fountain of youth is just a beauty cream away. America is a fast-paced, consumptive country. Hie fester the cars, the brighter the package and the better we look the happier we are. In Eastern cultures, age is valued for its wisdom. Wisdom - who needs that? We pack our old folks into tin box nursing homes hoping they wont make too much noise. Groups Kke the AARP are wonderful, advocating rights for seniors to guarantee better quality of life. America needs a good spanking. While I am not a big advocate for corporal punishment, there needs to be a wake-up call. There has to be a LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Greek commu I am writing in response to one of the many articles, columns and letters in last week's issues of The Gamecock concerning Greek life at USC. As the article concerning Alpha Kappa Alpha and Alpha Chi Omega sororities demonstrated, the USC Greek community encourages a great deal of interaction between NPC, NIC and NPHC organizations. Many sororities and fraternities make an effort to meet and get to know other Greeks through out the year, not simply during Greek Week. Tonight, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Sigma Theta, Alpha Phi Alpha and Sigma Phi Epsilon will be conducting a joint hall program. Three of these organizations participated in a similar and extremely successful hall program last year. Last year's program was a success because it allowed for a unique level of interaction and honest communication about a variety of issues, laiigmg iiuui immig wj puuuw kaj iatc relations. We are confident that tonight's program will be even more successful. Programs such as this offer participants the opportunity to learn more about each other as individuals and as members of similar organizations. The entire Greek community is simply that ? a community, which happens to be composed of individuals of diverse cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. We are all united as one of the strongest, most visible and most involved communities on campus. This unity is tangible and evident at the weekly Sorority and Fraternity Council meetings, during Greek Week and throughout the rest of the year in other programs and even in other student organizations. The Greek system thus has not limited our interaction with each other. Instead, the Greek community offers students the opportunity to have more interaction 1 an extension of being a leader In the Vu on winning the Outstanding Woman at USC award 2 of youth condemn time for I juue | too much time America to ubbey the whole idea catch its hours in theme breath and ourselves into s reflect on more than the flex of its a waste. What hi^nnc amnripo'c! irmifh on/1 \nhronpn hnnrc iirollrinrr iuiiviivao juuui uuu tiuihuw iivuic nnmnig are unique and define a large part of someone you a our culture, but there is so much that has to be more our ever-growing population of seniors let these ads a can and does add to our society. Look beauty govern at the amount of volunteer work and Girls" are not al career work that seniors engage, and and positive iir opinions begin to change. Everyone you interact wit) needs to be valued, and seniors aren't their weight ii given their due. I believe a large folly matters in life, of this generation is the gap in relations candy apple sn and interaction with previous flawed. That is generations. There is so much that can That is what n be taught and passed down. Aging shou American perceptions on aging The older you extend beyond value; they seep into fought and wist perceptions of beauty. A 20-year-old a little, look ar in a bikini has a different beauty than and talk to a gray-haired grandmother, but there grandfather. L is beauty all the same. Life does not think on what t end at 50, 60 or 70. My great and brought fo grandmother has a better social life at a society of you 95 than most college students. She has older and oldei a quality of life that I have learned population wil from. She takes one day at a time and as it should. W values each moment she spends with fet the sick and the people in her life. to fall prey to th While our time on this little green gather them de ball is finite, it is precious. We spend closely to what inity proves relation; with a diverse array of Carolina me "abominabl afii/^nnfa i a trnrtf a OUUUCUbO. 19 V V/X J O homosexual se: After quoti Julys Johns claims, "Jesus is Delia Detta Dela redden! adviser on abortion, ri Fanner vteapraddont for Chapter Development spouse abuse, b all of them." (Ir out, scripture w both racial dis Bush's argument justified by Bible In the March 21 edition of The ^e Gamecock, Anthony Banks accused f C"P u^e 0 a columnist Carson Bush of "willingly ?^mi! misrepresent [ing]" the Bible in an 6foesn 1 matter; argument about sexual orientation. sa8. Ironically, it was the letter-writer . an^ himself who willfully misrepresented scripture) illust scripture. The writer not only ignored carefully when \ Bull's points, but (mis)used the Bible justify our oi to justify his own viewpoint. If eating shrimp In his column, Bush asked us to are both "abom re-examine our views on homosexuality that word mean in light of Christian values of justice, intended. Befc love and radical equality (Gal. 3:27- else of misrepre 28). He asked us to think about those think about ouj views in relation to both our American 0r worse, presuu Koriforro nf fnloronnn arvrl flio crnannl 17 ? UViiVUgV ui W4V1WUVV UUU W14V UlllXItlUn. JEjVtJU imperative of justice for the oppressed, "ludicrous " "fa Rather than agreeing to think about to you, that doe the issues, Banks promptly trotted out opinions have di Leviticus 18:22 to condemn homosexual self.righteousi relation as an abomination. It is surely ? worth noting that the same bo?k he suchuseofthe quotes labels a menstruating woman , .. . as spiritually "unclean" (Lev. 15), to n"le m< such an extent that any chair she sits n . ^ en P? on is also unclean and will contaminate S0Cial hatred: any man who touches it Leviticus 20.25 spiritual truth. says that eating ham will "make your souls abominable." According to Leviticus 11, every tirpe I eat a big plate of shrimp, I'm haying a literal feast of "abominations." Eating it makes ' ,ili\niiliilnmiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'iinii.n-.i. THATS crazy! Houj cao they ' that to )A0O' y V THertS<?LV^? / ?sj)^ f ,4)& ( xntL swxr x" > classroom." s aging fighting aging to grasp of living. Spending two )rning to paint and curl ome image seems to be if you spent those two or spending time with ire about? America than skin deep. Don't ind societal myths on your life. The "Golden 1 golden, but the lessons ipact on your life when ti older people are worth 1 gold. Think on what . Does the tan and the lile matter? We are all what makes us human, lakes us beautiful. Id be worn with honor, are, the more battles lorn gained. Slow down Talro onmo timo grandmother and aok at their hands and hey have built, birthed ?rth. While America is th, our population gets r. This segment of our I become more visible, e are not animals who old drift from the pack ie predators. We should jpinour fold and listen they might teach. 5 strong ie" (Lev. 11:43). Yes, it ame word used for K. ing Leviticus, Banks not quoted as speaking ice discrimination or ut I know he is against onically, I would point as often used to justify inrivy\inofinw fV?n iiuinabiuii auu bixc ation of husbands over ugh Jesus didn't say homosexuality, Banks Fesus intends. So even ;s and chooses from pply or misapply, to rinterpret as he will, it he knows the mind of itter (or my own use of rates, we need to think ve start using the Bible vn human prejudices, and committing sodomy inations," then surely s something other than ire accusing someone isenting the Bible, lef s r own use of the Bible, mptive claims of divine i though something is olish" or "abominable" sn't mean your human [vine justification. Such ness in the service of ion is horrifying, and Bible surely suggests ire circumspection is ople try to ground their 9 in the language of EdMadcM Assistant professor of English Serving V Wendy Hudsor Tina Morgan, Editor Chris Dixon, Martha Hotop, Karen Layne Ryan Sims, Stephanie Sonnenfeld, Cece v [ O P I I Outstanding m recognition, p The Outstanding Woman at USC HUafl Celebration that took place n,,/c Monday is one of many wc positive steps to recognize the accomplishments of I one part of our society that has traditionally been Reco underacknowledged. an) Read textbooks from accompli 10 years ago. In it, youH a posi see the accomplishments ntf T?ir?c?forn Powror liVonlrlm Pnncoimlf VflL UUiOl^Ul, V/CU A 1ULUUU1 1WAAA/YUI; and Churchill. The work these men did is important and deserved the attention it received. However, it is refreshing that women have begun to shine in the spotlight. For instance, how many "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" television shows would have dominated 30 years ago? In this particular show, a well-educated pioneering woman is recognized as a doctor, mother and lover. Although it is the happiness of TV land, the symbolic gesture of the "woman who has it all" has transgressed past the scene of a woman in a kitchen. Global warn by bi-partisar I sense that this summer i ^ will be hot Maybe even hotter STE^ than last year. The latest MPKYTT news, of course, is that the ozone is depleting even more rapidly than we might think. And I guess the non-aerosol hair spray trend alone is not going to solve our problems. The rate of skin cancer is up in Brazil and Peru. Just another fact that I don't want my mother to hear. Ifs bad enough when you get told to coat yourself in sunscreen daily, but now there may be good reason. The cause? Once again, it appears the rapid ozone depletion. I've been recently been giving this "ozone thing" a lot of thought. Too often the words greenhouse effect and hole in the sky, and global warming all get smudged together, causing that automatic "hearing impairment." But I ran into some news that particularly stuck out. A study recently published in the t 1 _ p ai_ a ir j i journal 01 me American ivieaicai Association reports that global climate change over the next century may increase the range of infectious diseases, especially those spread by insects and water. Over the next century? I guess our kids will have to deal with that one, right? I mean what can we do anyway? In addition, if average global temperatures increase by 4 degrees by 2100, as expected, then the number of mosquito related deaths would rise from two million to three million each year. Haven't these people heard of OFF? How bad can mosquitoes be? Unfortunately, mosquitoes aren't the only problem mentioned. With the warmer temperatures sub-tropical areas become tropical and temperate areas sub-tropical and the like, causing predominately tropical diseases to spread, such as river blindness, sleeping sickness, encephalitis, and cholera. As far as I know there aren't vaccines for most of these diseases except for cholera, which can be obtained at the health department for ten bucks. Fm pretty sure if s good for a couple of years. In all seriousness, this is probably not I "tBafcdt ? Student Media Russell House-USC* C Wendy Hudson Robbie Meek Editor in Chief Matt Pruitt Tina Morgan Sports Editors Viewpoints Editor Allison Martha Hotop Williams Cece von Kolnitz sPecial Projccts News Editors Karen Layne Chris Dixon Deanna Stephanie McCendon Sonnenfeld n ?Py Kyan aims Features Editor Online Editor 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 (hose 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. Icodt SC Since 1908 i. Editor in Chief Viewpoints Editor lal Board Robbie Meek, Tyson Pettigrew, Matt Pruitt ron Kolnitz, Robert Walton, Allison Williams 4 I O N 1 fomen deserve at on back Jenny Wu, UUmS winner of the tanding Outstanding Woman )men award, was in good company. And it is highly probable many other women at USC could gmzing have competed Ibis says /one s a lot for the progress of shments is Qur generatjon ^ow, no P matter what role a woman or man decides to take in life, it is, for the most part, his or her decision. It would take a miracle to alleviate all of the negative stereotyping found in modem society. Although there is a long road to travel, this type of recognition is one of the deepest footprints left to date. It sometimes seems trivial to pat others on the back and say "good job." It is tough to be a student doing a balancing ad; between school, research, work and other activities. When we stop to offer those simple words it speaks volumes about what we have become. ling ignored 1 lawmakers jjjjj 1 necessary yet, unless you WART have a mother like mine. FnwRVH Now that I've tried to humor the subject, which I often do to access how I really feel about it all, I want you all to know that I am not the only one who thinks about this kind of thing. A new pofl released by a GOP pollster found that 70% of voters recognize that global warming is a threat A prevalent majority favor federal research into renewable energy sources over fossil fuels and nuclear power. Seventy-five percent polled think oil imports are a problem and 94% want to see better fuel efficiency for automobiles. Finally, 62% oppose oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It's hard to believe that the root of most of these problems comes from the destruction of the ozone. I know it's a pain, but our generation is really forced to care. Some of our lawmakers are not OU CUll^CillCU, llUWCVCi. Two weeks after three scientists received the Nobel Prize for their work on ozone depletion, Rep. Tom (R-TX) stated in the Washington Poet (10/27/95) that, "The science underlying the CFC ban is debatable...and is the result of a media scare." There are plenty of lawmakers both Democratic and Republican who fail to respect the voices of their constituents. Fm talking bi-partisan here, it doesn't matter. What counts is tomorrow. If you are concerned, contact your Representative, The President, whomever, iust be heard. Here are some addresses that you may need. U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510 and U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515. The Capitol Switchboard: (202) 2243121. Clinton's e-mail is president@whitehouse.gov and Gore's is vice.presidentJ@whitehouse.gov. The address is 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC 20500. Tell people how you feel! 1 's: 777-7726 ertising: 777-4249 C: 777-6482 Chris CarroU .'olumbia, SC 29208 Duic(or Laura Day Tyson Pettigrew Creative Director Robert Walton JefF A. Breaux Photo Editors Aft Director Adam Snyder Sue McDonald Jennifer Stanley Jim Speelmon Asst. News Graduate Assistants Jennifer Hansen Marilyn Edwards Dipka Bhambhani Taylor Asst. Features Marketing Director Achim Hunt Erik Collins Asst. Sports Faculty Advisor Keith Boudreaux Jason JefTers Circulation Editor Cartoonist Letters Policy The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be 200-2S0 words and must include full name, professional title or year and major if a student. Letters must be personally delivered by the author to The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 321. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for style, possible libel or space limitations. Names will not < be withheld under any circumstances.