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Scholarship Workshops will be held at 4:00 pm in the Gressette Room on the third floor of Harper College on the Horseshoe. + British Marshall Scholarship Monday, August 26 RhnHpc ^pfinlarcliin W CV1IV/IUI ^llip Monday, August 26 (4:30 p.m.) ^ Fulbright Grant Wednesday, August 28 + National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowships and Minority Graduate Fellowships Wednesday, September 11 + Truman Scholarship Thursday, September 12 + Goldwater Scholarship Ttiesday, September 24 Please call the Office of Fellowships and Summer Programs, 777-0958, for more information. The Gamecock [t . Republ despite I John Frick It was the best of times, it w; worst of times and it only 1 four days. It was the Repul National Convention in San ] and unfortunately I missed goinj hair. In retrospect, I wonder jus great it would've been to be th< person. A convention affords its audie chance to get the views and idea number of national leaders straighl their mouth. It presents those wl it the opportunity to make a judg themselves as to the validity of w being proposed. For this reason, a televised conve can be one of the purest exercis democracy in our modern world. ] been there, perhaps I wouldn't noticed the grave disservice done 1 American people by the major netv The people who brought us 24 hoi 0. J. eveiy day for weeks on end he Voter af Lucy Arnold The presidential race is he up and, boy, am I in tro I suspect I may be in the boat with others of you out in college land I was 17 during the ] Clinton race, so I didn't have anything but laugh at people on e side of the issue. But now I'm old er to vote. And it's horrible. All my life I've been skipping i relatively guilt-free. The ecor plunging? Not my fault! Criminj the White House.' Don t look ai Hooligans dumping bubble bath various public fountains? Well, m I had something to do with that i Anyway, now I must abando carefree childhood as well as my fa1 bumper sticker ("I Was Five Whei Guys Voted For Reagan and ID Have Anything To Do With Cli Either") as the big election approa And I'm not taking it lightly! I gr this country my guiltlessness! It seems to me somewhere ii Thiiffirtny, August 22, Litmi tuiivi j slack net audacity to tell us that there was no news in San Diego. Is there any wonder there are so many people out there who remain politically uninformed in this iinfoimation age? Their token coverage lasted only an hour nightly and much of that time asted WaS sPent d?ing brief interviews from olican ^??r" ^en ^ey did show speeches, they were often followed by derisive y b v a commenls from the expert commentators thow assembled for that purpose. Even if they ire jn do the same thing to the Democrats in Chicago, two wrongs don't make a right, nrA n and the American people will suffer for is of a it in the end. tfrom io see For Bob Dole and Jack Kemp, it was rment an extremely successful convention. I hat is had my doubts going in about whether Dole would be able to please those on sntion the right enough to keep them on board lesof for the duration of the campaign. This Had I endeavor was made plausible by the fact have that Pat Buchanan gave his tacit approval to the to the ticket. It was indeed a united forks, convention, though many were giving irs of credit for this unity to the wrong thing, id the Had I been at this convention, could I )athy does r I Constitution it must say something about people not having to vote for president until they're old enough to be president. Why not choose voter apathy, Lucy, you may be imploring. A sound concern. But apathy is no way out of the guilt. If sating I don't vote, and then the candidate that uble. wins does something really cool like same declare English majors don't have to there take science classes, then I don't get to Bush- take credit. If they do something bad, to do like declaring everyone must take fractal sither geometry, then 111 have to live with the lough thought that my vote might, have changed the course of the election, along What's more, how on earth am I lomy supposed to choose a candidate? I can't als in even choose shampoo. This one has prot m e! vitamins, but that one smells like alfalfa, i into Hey wait, isn't this the one that gives laybe g0me woman an orgasm? one... Lets face it, aint any of the contenders n my causing such squeals of delight President write Clinton has turned out to be a criminal l You (or at the very least married to one). No idn't matter how much the Democrats try to nton deny File-gate and Whitewater-gate and iches. Travel-gate and I-didn't-inhale-gate, the "udge man has obviously not been worthing entirely within the law. a th e I must admit there's another problem MLB ?K 1996 ura?' \ \ I \?i yy (c) /96 7Vfr sntion svorkc have kept quiet while I hear saying that we were unified b celebrated our diversity: Cel diversity is just another politica code word which means acce differences and you can acc jire _ _ 1 i i amerences in a political pari long before it becomes an unrec mush (this is why new politic! are formed). Quite to the cont party was unified through lessor from the Great Communicatoi Ronald Reagan. Reagan was i because he stood for the princi] which our government was 1 These same principles echoed the hearts of millions of Americ both parties and built the coali which he was twice elected. Reaf A. i-- Jl/P T A xl_ _ noi uj our omerences, dui 10 me threads that ran through all Ai This convention tried to do t thing, and it accomplished simih I could not write about this a without mentioning Former ( Carroll Campbell and his role presidential contender. While lot solv I have with the Crats. The v-ch haven't heard, they want to pi thingy in your television that what comes into it. Of cours supposed to be able to control it but with more conservative prog like Rush Limbaugh hitting the I can see why Mr. Clinton migl stake in such a plan. Does 191 1 11 ! i 1 A T /? . t deii wun anyoner 11 it s government fooling with your t it could be aliens (they're just a as government agents, but bettei Unfortunately I don't ti Republicans to do any better a sneaking around putting manufactured products in A homes. I've got to wonder about I mean he hasn't gotten the Re nomination in twenty years of whaf s changed? There's talk a if Dole wins, Elizabeth won't t the country like Hillary. Tha not a good plan, because, if yoi noticed, Elizabeth Dole is ac better candidate than her hus Worse, the Republicans ar this value deal. Values don't ha> in the government because ever different ones. Bob Dole might right for everyone to eat peas a % -OC.K a success, overage d people no ill feelings toward Jack Kemp and cause we think he will make an outstanding vice ebrating president, I was very disappointed to lly correct hear that Carroll Campbell was not the ntuating nominee. As Governor of South Carolina, :entuate Campbell served his state well and y only so assumed national prominence as the ognizable Chairman of both the National Governors il parties Association and the Republican Governors rary, our Association. His intelligence and his is learned ability to articulate the conservative 'himself, position will certainly make him a national a aiwoao nlavor fni- vaara tn r?nma Tt'o o/>tualln I* wmwwm VI ivx JVUIB vw VVIUV* mo uvbUHHJ ales upon interesting to note that the emergence founded, of the Republican Party in the south through might have actually hurt his chances. :ans from At one point, it would have been unheard tion with of for a candidate from the midwest not jan spoke to have a southern running mate, s common nericans. On the whole, this past convention he same was enjoyable. It was refreshing to see ir results, the theme of the convention center around defeating President Clinton in November, anvention As RNC Chairman Haley Barbour said, Governor "To those who say Bill Clinton has no as a vice beliefs, I say at least he has friends with I harbor convictions." (See Jim Guy Tucker). e problems lip. If you while I might think ifs right to go around it a little making jokes about people who eat peas controls at dinner. So, basically the Republicans e, you're want a bunch of mindless clones, which yourself, is what we already have in the Democrats, ramming Whaf s left? airwaves, Well, there is the reform party. All it have a I gee being reformed is the basic belief 34 ring a people have that aliens should not run r\ nf f V? a n * - ? ? * - - ? ? . . . ior president. hven if 1 liked Koss Perot, elevision, j ^ voting for an alien riookingf ^ coun^r- ^ d? think people rustthe are ^e^ng awftdly han* on R?ss f?r no ibout not g00(*reason- ^ y?u P^d a terribly large lien. amount of money in order to run for m erican Presi(ient>are y?u going to let some jerk Bob Dole ta^e nominati?n you rightfully paid publican for? I think not. trying? None of these guys really stands out bout how above ?thers> ond I don't think any ry to run them are thinking beyond "Wouldn't t's really (don't) I look great in that big comfy 1 haven't presidential chair? Airforce One is the dually a way to fly." 1 1 O- tmm. iL. J P * X- X _ I X band. ^111 me enu, i m going 10 voie, dui e hyping for whom no one knows. If anyone has /e a place any good reasons to vote for any of the yone. has candidates, please write to them, think it's Obviously they're having a hard time it dinner, thinking of any themselves.