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J r ^ J ^ T? If- E 4jL sf-errn-rv^/ QUOTE, UNQUOTE u\ New day dawning for students I TINA I A new day MORGAN is dawning for everyone invited tojointheUSC class of 2000. New opportunities for academic achievement, personal freedom J I. - 1 1 * a'.iu pcniapo even love are nere ior me taking. The best part ofit all is the ability to start life anew. No one here will know if you had braces in high school. No one will care if you got dumped right in the middle of your senior prom. If your parents are divorced or if you're out on your own, all you have to do is say so. Unlike many of the environments you and your peers came from, no one here will judge you by those facts alone. While in high school, I was overweight, considered the class witch because I hardly smiled and was perceived as a goody-goody because my mother worked in the guidance office. I was the official target. Many of those people followed me here to USC. Know what? It hasn't mattered one bit. I have accomplished a lot since I arrived. I have managed four difficult semesters as an Honors College student and, as of today, start summer school. I've lost touch with old friends and met many more. I've learned you've got to cut it on your own in the classroom and still find i.. 1 CL Ti-j TLl 1?1 umc to nave lun. us possime dui requires sacrifice. You've got laundry to do now. Some of you may have had to do it for a while, but now your roomie is only going to take so much of your stinky socks. YouH meet different people, some who may be mothers or fathers, come from a different cultural background or are the first in their family to go to college. And you'll miss your family if you've gone away whether you want to admit it or not. But it isn't all that bad. You walk in with your name and social security number and thafs it. No one can tell you who you are because that is one of the most important discoveries you'll make while studying here. If you don't have a major, you'll find one. If you do, you'll | change it at least once. I have changed since I arrived. I am k t _i ??n i.i luouig nciguk uo-dujc i wiuuae ku, ail uie while I am also becoming more 3 comfortable with who I am, big or not. ? I have fallen in love and finally decided on a major. The first semesters are hard, ? but it didn't prevent me from becoming the person I always thought I could be. 1 I haven't run into many people from high school lately. From what I hear, 8 most are doing well. Some have dropped out of school and many are still hiding v at the beach refusing to answer calls ,r from their parents asking when they're ' coming home to start school. Some will v go through their university years without developing a sense of self. If you do ^ nothing else here, that should be your a goal. No matter how many times you are warned, you really only do come this way once. It will be exciting and challenging. You should open your minds ^ and hearts and leave here with a sense Q, of accomplishment. ^ As the summer winds down you may feel nervous and anxious, much like the feeling you get when a summer storm S( is brewing that promises to be fierce. ^/CW( <45 ft J?- Fim 0^ TUIR ~ AM ?6 ^ 1 CM Sff/A/ sf\0/WpMS. I.^.V. We're trying to be as focus whenever we tear dov Gene Luna, director of housing, Birthday brin; A few days ago, I celebrated a birthday. Well, not my own; it was my friend's. And well, it would have been his birthday. But this was the third birthday without him. My buddy Joe and 1 used to have the best times together. When we were younger, it was spend-the-night parties and Cub Scouts. When we reached high school, it was movies and cruising. We were always laughing. We spent close to 10 years together in elementary school enjoying our childhood in the midst of school work and the trials and tribulations of growing up. We would cut up in class, write in secret code and quietly bash some of the others who were too cool for us. All they saw was my obese friend ana my lanKy awkward self. We, the somewhat outcast, united to become great friends. Eighth-grade graduation found us going different ways for our secondary education. Despite not going to school together, we continued our friendship into high school. From our experiences ere at Goals fall pr< What is it about summer that infects mur bones and turns your brain to joolash? It is amazing how the Southern sun limply sucks your energy and you lecome some protoplasmic entity who uanaees to fliri the channel from fieralrln 0 some other brain-stealing television how. We all have intentions to do something nth this summer. There are books to ead and closets to clean. There are itters to write and friends to catch up nth. It never changes, though. In some sick cosmic joke the days run ito one another until you find you have one half the things you need to do and callous on your remote control finger. My last two classes of my college career re in summer school. I managed to ram two major requirement classes 1 the last minute of the last summer f my degree. There has to be odds for lis kind of thing. It's nice and good to hine about how the rays of summer re finite etc. The question is, will imething actually be done? Ifs my vote to lengthen the summer s zvttwnHMD H/M \0^\ TtoRoF fn^c^gi J |c?w<>i^| wff ix&z ^ /T^n.Jk >ed on conservation as we c m one of the buildings." on the demolition o1 residence halls gs back memo in elementary I ADAM school, Joe and | SNYDER I saw eye to eye on many issues, especially a particular dislike for the privileged and arrogant. But, we never let them bother us, and we just enjoyed being ourselves. That's why it seemed so strange when it happened. That is why I still have questions today. It's why we all do. You see, on one bright May morning two years ago, Joe derided he had had enough. So, right after his mother woke him up to get ready for school, he took a gun and killed himself. And with all suicides, questions linger. Theories were immediately whirling about what could have caused a seemingly happy young man to end it all. His grandfather, who he was very close to, died three weeks before. He was taking some medication that could incur deep depression. And what did he mean when he said in his final note, "I know everyone is proud of me, but I'm not proud of myself? IV1TY mn? f ?' - 4?? ^\T t~o cntnmpt ^j Lvy ijuiiiiiiv^i to Labor Day. juQ| That will not UBBEY happen. TTSJETZEBM That leaves 1 the ever-scary adage of using one's time i wisely. As all seniors know, the last year is a pain. Not only do you have to 1 consider which credits you might have | missed in a last minute panic, there is i the job hunt, the resume game, the i safari of searching for that ever elusive i salary and the hope you might escape \ flipping burgers at Mickey D's along ' with 90 percent of the other graduates. < Maybe it is not as grim as it sounds. There are always jobs at the mall. But t seriously, this is a huge strain on a sun- s soaked cranium. 1 The first recommendation I can give c is to purchase a Resume Expert Plus \ disk from the Career Center. TTie Career Center is on the sixth floor of the BA r building for you slackards who haven't i been there yet. That disk will be p especially helpful in making a variety c of different resumes for various t interviews and job applications. I The Career Center also has really p . >< s J per7 -r-f 7-T. ?' " it yJ an ries of suicide We all learned quickly you could not concentrate on those questions; you had to concentrate on the living. I remember crying myself to sleep that night, angry Joe had left me alone to face those we fought daily. I thought about his mother and his whole family and the pain that must have been tearing them apart. I thought about all of his classmates and friends in elementary and high school he touched with his great spirit. I realized everyone's pain was just as important as the pain Joe must have been going through. I will never forget the hundreds of people who came to his funeral to say goodbye. I think of my old friend every now and then. Luckily, all I have are memories filled with laughter. He and I had a great time growing up and we never fought. I try to concentrate on his life and the impact it had on mine. I almost feel like I will see him again one day. Maybe not in this lifetime, but hopefully sometime beyond that. And then I can feel whole again. 10's *'s lethargy nifty books with job listings and advice on interviews. Realizing Baywatch has 3ome finer educational points, seniors have to get started on the job hunt as 3oon as possible. The jobs will not come to you. So make the bed and iron your tie, it is time to jet moving. Move it! Move it! What 1 J 1JT ! 1 . i . wouia your iviom say ii sne saw tftat "oom, huh? What is Mom going to say, ifter paying for four years of school, vhen you knock on her door and say, 'Hey Mom, can I crash here until I get >n my feet?" Sometimes that is the best solution, >ut it seems like too many students (tart thinking about their future too ate. A student shouldn't see the inside >f the Career Center for the first time vhen they're in their senior year. There are lots of things a student can lo to prepare for a career. There are nternships and co-ops, shadowing >rograms, and tests to see what career hoices match your personality. Use he resources available to get ahead. Jaywatch will be on tomorrow, I iromise. |_ TSfl Strvii Tina Mor Keith Boudre Edl m?r? v.iuid Cece von K I O P I Class of 7k face future Welcome to the | University of South HQS DnrnliriQ r?l?>aa nf 9nnn I mepc As you enter the Carolina Community, we ' ask you to give some of I yourself to this university and leave it much better ?^SS than it was when you got bfigt here. AW) More than any other class you have the potential to do so. There are two ways you can look i the future of your class. The first is to think of yourselvc as those who are made to suffer fc the benefit of future students. Th second is to see yourselves as deciding force in improving USC The first path promotes the imag of students as victims of th university's renovation rather tha active participants in it. This wa will gain you nothing. The second path means focusin, yourselves on the future of this schoc and becoming an integral part of it development. This way makes you i necessary part of the university tha will be considered in all stages of th decisions and changes that lie ahead Make your voice heard. Let the administration know wha Old ways w with new e Orientation brings to mind leaving behind the old and finding the new. While in high school, many people did things they have regretted and, chances are, they'll do a few things in college, too. Although some things can't be avoided - you never know when you'll trip in a busy area or spill ketchup on a white shirt - there are a few things freshmen (and some students already here) should know. For example, the days of slinging your backpack over one shoulder are over. Here, the majority of students realize old age is creeping up and are doing everything in their power to keep their good posture by wearing their bookbags like braces. In college, e-mail is your best friend. All of your pals from home keep you going like a lifeline for at least the first semester. After that, it becomes a tool to meet knew people. Here your parents cannot enforce a curfew. Whether vou ec to hod early or late is up to you. Of course, you've also got to get up in the morning by yourself. You no longer have someone to Tina Morgan John L Editor in Chief Copy Des Keith Boudreaux Ryan! Viewpoints Editor Online 1 Cece von Kolnitz Robert V News Editor Photo E Chris Dixon Jason G Features Editor Carton Achim Hunt Sue McE Sports Editor Graduate / The Gamecock is the student newspaper of The U Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday i the fall and spring semesters and six times during the exception of university holidays and ex Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those author and not those of The University of So The Board of Student Publications and Comr the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of Student Media is its parenl The Gamecock will try to print all letters rec should be 200-250 words and must include professional title or year and major of a stu must be personally delivered by the ai The Gamecock newsroom in Russell Hous The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all 1< possible libel or space limitations. Names withheld under any circumstance Monday, June 3, 1996 nffcock ig use Since 1908 gan, Editor in Chief aux, Viewpoints Editor torlal Board ixon, Achim Hunt iolnitz, Robert Walton N I O N )00 must i challenges HppMjjl you think about the new facilities it is building and )tentiat Of the how you think they can be >S Of 2000 improved. In your years here, the university will undergo a dramatic change 01ZUUU H3S in how it will fulfill its it future but mission to educate you. ' Challenges Old buildings will to face disappear, new ones will take their place There will be change all around and we ask you it to embrace it rather than withdraw from it. is Your time will be marked by many >r challenges that have been met by e those who came before you. Here the a world lies ready for you to take. You ). can find love, friendship, honor and e more challenge than some people see e in their entire lives, n You are also different from any other y class before you. You are the first 1 class of the new century, g Like an old wooden sailing ship, >1 the university is following a course s intended to take it to new discoveries a and destinies. t 'l'he course may be charted, but that e path can be altered for the better or L for the worse by a storm. That storm is you, class of 2000. See that you t rage well. ill change xperiences prepare your meals and call you to i dinner. You either eat when the kitchens are open or fend for your- | self. You no longer have the luxury of a full kitchen ensemble. At best, you get a sink and a stove down the hall. And don't think the fire alarms aren't sensitive. In high school, having a car was a top priority. Here, a car can be a headache. There are no bells and buzzers to tell you to go to class. Get a watch. Professors will sometimes have to go out of town and seldom is there a substitute. You get to actually go back to bed instead of sitting there for a whole class period. There are no dress codes to follow except when it comes to indecency. Present yourself well as often as possible. # Getting books is also your responsibility. Going to the bookstore will leave you broke, and there are many other things we all want to buy, but having a calculus book to do calculus homework helps. Finally, seniority often plays a big role for classes, football tickets and housing. Put up with it you're day will come. 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