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A "?al Serving USC Stephanie Sonnenfe Chris Dixon, Vi EdKorta Martha Hotop, Achim Hunt, 1 Adam Snyder, Jennifer Stanley, 4 o p i r Networking do important for; As part of its KJffTTHTy desperate attempt to catch up with Networkii the technological f\6CC6SS2! revolution, the to COfOf, University has other UDi started to "hardwire" certain dorms, where students will be directly connected to the University computer network, without having to dialup with a modem, like they did last year. TTiis process has been a long time coming for the University. Where as most major Universities in the country are just finishing networking all their dorms together, USC is just getting started. Last year the only doim on the network was Bates House, and this year Preston and Sims were added. That's a total of three dorms on campus that are on the network, out of a total of 22 dorms on the Columbia campus. This means a whopping 14% of the Dorms here at Carolina are networked. So if you're not lucky enough to be accepted to the privileged community of Preston, and you don't want to live in the strange and mysterious land of Bates or reside in the overcrowded dorm for upperclassmen girls called Sims, you're SOL. But, if you are lucky enough to live in one of these donns, the Ethernet connection to the network is very nice. It provides students with a connection to the USC "backbone", which is the entire Jail criminal s rlnn't iiict Irar MUII 1 JUWI IIHV In his weekly Klf? radio address on Criminals, baturday, President CKnton announced plans ^ prison, n for a temporary database to track sex offenders until a permanent registry is set up in the next three years. Clinton said the registry will protect Americans from criminals who move from state to state, n Cc\ wti linn 1* n A vnrrkl 4"/\ acryuig laimncs nave a 115111 tv know when sex offenders move into their communities. Some people fear a national registzy will vilify people who have been convicted of sexual abuse and forever label them sexual predators, but that's exactly what they deserve. Sexual abuse is not a one-shot crime - those who commit it tend to make a habit out of it. Stephanie Achim Hunt Sonnenfeld Spo"* Editor Editor in Qrief Cece von Chris Dixon Kolnitz Viewpoints Editor Special Projects Martha Hotop Lisa Adam Snyder Noworatzky News Editors Copy Desk Jennifer Stanley Ryan Sims Features Editor Online Editor Brian Rish Robert Walton Graphics Editor Photo Editor Rob Gioielli Asst. Viewpoints The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semesters, with the exception of university holidays and exam periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are tboae 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. 1 IfCKR : Since 1908 Id, Editor in Chief ewpoints Editor J Bawd Lisa Noworatzky, Brian Rish, Zcce von Kolnitz, Robert Walton I I 0 N . irmsat (JSC advancement BcffJWfPPB network at USC. Students can ng dorms access CMS and y for USC check their e-mail )ete with and logon to the 'versifies. libraries network and online cardcatalog. Students also have full graphical access to the World Wide Web, including those sites that have a virtual cornucopia of scanned in images from cheesy porno mags and "nude" pictures of Jenny McCarthy and Brad Pitt To get connected to this network students need to pay a $35 technology fee and need a certain amount of hardware additions to their computer. What the University fails to tell people is that this hardware can cost un cry. The woman On this show, in the center of the tears and say,' stage, will be a large woman. A 400 to to make me feel 500 pound woman. We'll stare at her I know Fm too tl and think "What could she have done to and there's not gain so much weight?" The T.V. audience 11 w i 11 b e will listen to the host introduce her and everywhere wil ^tiirlpnte an nvprhi Ul/VfVI'VlltU O I Veronica Pierce I life would ho, without what v When asket necessary, junic It would be an extreme My bedroom in understatement to say that the wouldn't look < beginning of a new school year at twenty-one of ] USC is rather hectic. my bed." Students come from all over Understan the world with expectations of making essential to I this their new home. Parents often have computers, ster the chore of helping their anxious sons maybe a favorih and daughters transport their belongings thi ngs such as from their former home to vacant dorm lamps, mugs, t rooms or apartments. And the totem polls am question arises: how much does a student the important actually need to make their new habitat an alarm clock, feel like home? the way studen Boxes and boxes of what could ofsomanyboxi literally be defined by Webster as junk a bathtub, are hauled up stairs and pushed in and This seems out of elevators. Most students will tell that students c you that those cardboard cubes contain their rooms in c the most precious of treasures, and their benefit, but ins m-wpoi IWonderingl rwt '?///, r 4 . f ' 'v ^... i -*-; // itf ^-<U. , ' V ^ \) ') V' r'r'r-^-; ;'- i |4 . fH" i REI Dortt M; I "It's one thing just to be able carry on an intellect Eileen Andrews, USC senio Society's desir i iSSKi underneath tl screen, the li UM' ^ eing attractive is the something like most important thing who's mother is M there is." will say "thinks ? My friend Bridget We'll all gas invented a new disorder. Ifs true A man She said it could be introduced to the who has blue h American public on a talk show, preferably stand up and in fWaldo or on a show with another one sav. "You don' of those hosts who pats the tears out of thin do you? 11 his crnests* eves with tissues when thev hncre Ynn're fa ii vii ivgiviiy f-T!BCTTil Although a evicted Of to track , . ? sex offenders is a jse belong d id sex Ota registry. offenders -especially repeat offenders - shouldn't be released hum prison in the first place. If America is serious about protecting its children, repeat sex offenders should spend the rest of their lives in prison. Sexual abuse ruins the fives of its victims. It's time America stop punishing the victims of sexual abuse and start punishing the perpetrators. Common sense should tell us that. If we can't keep repeat sex offenders in prison, we should at least have a national registry set up so we can protect our families and children when these predators move into our communities. >: 111-11 rtising: 777-4249 : 777-6482 chris Carroll Director of Student Media Laura Day Dipka Bhambhani Creative Director Jessica Nash J.T. Wagenheim Aaat. Features Art Director Bryan Johnston Marilyn Edwards Dwayne Taylor McLemore Maitaing Director Asst. Sports Erik Collins Nikki Thorpe Facu"y Advisor Asst. Pboto Jason Jeffers Keith Boudreaux Daniel Brown Circulation Manager Cartoonists Mark Hopkins Graduate Assistant The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be 200-250 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 Rusaell House room 333. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for style, possible libel or space limitations. Names will not be withheld under any circumstances. i to $100, and the minimum expenditure for most people is about $40. Also, everyone has to pay the $35 technology fee, even if they don't have a computer. So, students aren't really getting completely free access to the internet. But, when looking at other Universities one does have to take into account their funding and katif vmiiaU ni-11 Oi?A r\oxnf?ff uuw mum otuuuiius aic pajiug. Students at Duke University have full access to the internet and design their own web-pages from their dorm room. They also pay $28,000 a year to go to school there. But, there are state universities that have much better systems than we do, and that's what USC needs to compare itself to. ex offenders, lr nn ronidru [NTS ffappgng^to ihe " ?>>Pt - > v ! - * f ' - . 3pe^;-i" ' '- 'V/ v v -,-f:. .' / ... ' J y . : - . v -- -;-<5xf. -: ^ ' :; -:IP- 1 ! ? J - - 'V*5 J S\ r i lovfliion ?ke Plans *for Fall He i to order a beer in another cou ual conversation with a classm; >r majoring in German who studied for on e to be thin t at her description line, Slim fast Will Chan xplanation that appears Pe0p|e wj|| demand le guests name on the .. . . . .. ne that alwavs savs theV 0rt,er be battei "Steve, a cross-dresser at least tWO to thre bald" Only this woman's i she is too thin." We" 866 commercials jp. Unbelievable. No no. tire<? no fat cheese' berofthe studio audience getting less for your r air and a nose ring will g?od news: we're giv an accusing tone of voice fat " t honestly think you're Slim fast will chj nean, you're not. You're People will demand thi t." order be battered an< on stage will burst into two to three inches of *You're just saying that Sales of Nordic Tra better. I know the truth. Ab Roller girl will be 01 * * ?A J 1?uu lin. i eat ana eat everyday centers anu ueaim su ;hing I can do about it." business. People will si come a fad. People undereating and ove 1 decide they're too thin, their weight. oard with backlestly not be the same It's certainly an ai rasimide. students can fit all 1 why all the clutter was . . . >r Marsha Rasnick said," ^ ITOIly boxes into my new apartment just Ot 3 DStrTtuD. >r feel right without all It.? tmt when 80m80r my stuffed monkeys on your room, you are m fVtAm ar\\r aaa! i dably, students find it "7' T? fill their rooms with ?.f Y?da'uand no\ eos, mirrors, shelves and c[oc. * 1S,' u. s poster or two. But, often alarm clock a stuffed monkeys, lava stoi7basketball hoops, flags, Often, in the soft 1 i even disco balls reach walking bythe chaot 3 of a word processor or bear students commen If s certainly an art form stuff they have, and ts can fit all the contents they are going to do y 38 into a room the size of even hear the grunt of maneuvering a giant b i to illustrate the point world did you get all I lon't necessarily decorate The irony behind il ertain ways for their own as those boxes have ft jtead to impress others. intothebarrend< Monday, August 26, 1996 Towers ?. "f;f ,'j .V? 'jy f; f f- ' i Jr V * ., 7 **' '>/,:V ' .* 7 7 J- < / y . 7 <c .*> "A /? , -C JhZ'-; /.? 71? - i- ^ !: i r?' ^ * <$> y> ^ t ' i l\OU i/m >osing... JL A i, " J ' -T ; ntry, but it's something else to ate at the university." ie year in Bamburg, Germany out of control ge to Fat fast. People can be 5'4," weigh 135 pounds that evervthina ^ ^ al?ne. We won't have to listen roH onH friorl in ^ose nutcases on the Jenny Craig 7 TilBQ in commercials talking about how their life 6 inches of oil. is good again because they dropped two , ua dress sizes, as if thafs all that mattered that say Are you intheworid ' iw ?'0U F! There will still-be some left who are aoney. We ve got jn jenjaif people who say, "But it's mg you back the unhealthy to not eat right or exercise, _ _ to be too fat." They're right. The only inge to r at tast. problem is that all this Fat Talk has at everything they nothing to do with health anymore. 1 fried in at least j ^ ^ a s ^ 0 w j t h the slow oil- disintegration of our ability to see the k will plunge. The truth, a disintegration that works until at of a job. Fitness that ability has been eaten all the way ares will go out of down to the bone, and all we're left with ?p overexercising, is a pile of white sticks and a note saying robsessing about "I may be dead but I dropped 16 dress sizes...." to-school shopping ft form the way apartments, the very same students and the Contents of parents can be found frolicking through 3 rOOffl the size ^00^st?res, on a new mission to find anything and everything they don't need with a Gamecock on it. le new walks into They'll spend extraordinary amounts ore likely to hear 0f money on Carolina beanbags or stand-up, cut-out magnetic car caps. And although that Hey, nice alarm atudent already owns 400 plastic cups iss, you have the various Circle Ks or sporting events, n t a s anot er yQU can gurg boo^gtore cashier , will be ringing up some more, breezes, as you re XT f, \ ~ , , Now, i m not saying Gamecock ic dorms, you can ' .. T iting on how much paraphernalia isjunk - farfrom it. I it don't know what 31mP'y wonder where the llne be&ins vith it You may arM* where it fades away. One student's an exhausted dad jewelry is another student's junk, and iox " Where in the as l?n8 as you've got a place to put it, this iunk?". and it looks cool, than it really doesn't ; all is that as soon matter. nally been shoved Now excuse me, I have to go buy some >rm rooms and plastic cups.