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Kin?day, August 28,1998 "Brill Serving USC Si Stephanie Sonnenfeld, Chris Dixon, View EdHortal I Martha Hotop, Achim Hunt, I Jennifer Stanley, Lisa Noworatzky, C ^?777^ Red Cross bloo indicative of a| The Red fiSjFHeiiie Cross is experiencing an emergency Donating shortage of Wood. is quick The org- anci saVi anization had to import about 400 units of blood just for the months of July and August, which is more than they expected to import for the whole year. According to the Red Cross, blood shortages and emergencies are common in South Carolina. The organization is currently depending on other states to provide blood to patients in South Carolina because they do not have enough donors to maintain their inventoiy. The simple act of donating a little blood can save another human being's life. The Red Cross reports that someone needs blood every three and a half seconds to stay alive in an emergency. There is no excuse for anyone having to die for a reason as senseless as the City Year volui service for cor Despite what some people might think or say, Americans Volunteerin aren't totally Year is a selfish. They do departu care about, and monetary t give back to, their communi ties. Unfortunately, American's philanthropic giving is very lopsided. A large percentage of the money that Americans give to notfor-profit organizations is devoted to funding for the arts and education. Of course, the arts and education are extremely important, but they are not the only nonprofit programs in this country that need to be funded. And many of these programs, such as those that help America's poor, are funded by the government. One of these programs that helps provide service to the poor and needy of this country is Americorps. City Year is the local Columbia part of AmeriCorps. This group of young people performs one of New ^Rflfflfrrnrfe Adv VJOIIIUUUl FA> Student Media Russell House-USO C Stephanie Cece von Sonnenfeld Kolnitz Editor in Chief Special Project! Chris Dixon Lisa Viewpoints Editor Noworatzky Martha Hotop Copy Desk Adam Snyder Robert Walton News Editors f%oto Editor Jennifer Stanley Brian Rish Features Editor Graphics Editor Achim Hunt Rob Gioielli Sports Editor Asa. Viewpoints The Gamecock is the student newspaper of (be University of South Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semesters, with the exception of univerity holidays and exam periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the editors or author and not those of the University of * Mk nee 1908 Editor in Chief points Editor Board in an Rish, Adam Snyder, 'ece von Kolnitz, Robert Walton, i 0 N d shortage pathy Red Cross'lack of blood. Giving blood I blood does not take a easy lot of time or ?s lives effort, but the effects are immeasurable. Americans have gotten a little too apathetic lately. When a quick, simple and life saving procedure such as giving blood becomes too much of a hassle, we are definitely in trouble. Unfortunately, people do not think about things like giving blood until they are in an emergency situation and their life depends on a blood transfusion. Have we gotten so selfish that we can't see the need for blood until we are personally affected? We should all take time out of our busy schedules to give blood. Who knew saving someone's life could be so easy? We may never receive a nprsnnal "t.hanlc von" from the recipient of our blood, but the personal satisfaction is eternal. iteers provide nmunities the duties that is most needed in our country: g with City hands-on welcome community yq Jyotyi service. These donations. City Year members spend an entire year of aL. _ ! meir uvea going out to schools and around the community to provide service. Sure they are paid, but who can expect a young person to give up a year of their time for free in this day and age. This program is funded by the US Government and comes out of our tax dollars. Unfortunately, there is much talk in Congress about cutting this program. This and a lot of other programs are looking to be cut by Congress, and many people are saying that they can be funded from private sources. That would be great, ifs just that people tend not to give money to programs such as City Year, and these are some of the programs that we need the most. -s: 777-7726 ertising: 777-1184 chrts C.rn.1 olumbia. SC 29208 Laura Day Dipka Bhambhani Creative Director Jessica Nash J.T. Wagenhei Asat. Features Ait Director Brian Johnston Mark Hopkin Dwnvne Graduate Assistan McLemo" M-rilynEd Asst. Sports _ _ Taylor Keith Boudreaux Marwmg wnector Circulation Manager Erik Collins Jason Jeffers Fscu"y Advisor Daniel Brown Cartoonists Letters Policy Tbe Gamecock will try to print all letters recei' Letters should be 200-250 words and must include name, professional title or year and major if a stud Letters must be personally delivered by the autho The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 321 VDEWPQ] t f4 QlWC THe 6flri?Coac_ "Here at City Year, I Tjuan I Clinton's attack o I John Frick I advertise norn L?have a readers! Tii'iimim 15%. Big Brother Bill strikes again! In those th College Students take note: advertisements Hide your pipes, throw away white letterin your lighters and guard your thwart the "yo\ rolling paper. Bill Clinton and the Federal colorful cartoo Government are coming after your ? this seems rid TOBACCO??? more. All you Surelv. this is a mistake. With illegal to do without e drug use doubling during the Clinton specific tobacc presidency, he can't possibly be going that will proba after tobacco with all his might. No, but it could bre sorry folks, I double checked and was and teams, right the first time, it is an all out war The problei on tobacco. Everyone pull up a chair however mang] and get comfortable; demagoguery 101 in the details a is in session and Professor Clinton has general appro; begun his lesson. problem of sm< In case you hadn't heard, the Did any on President last week announced new Washington eve regulations on where and how tobacco to think of the companies can advertise. The specifics youth begin usi are disturbing when you consider just see a cartoon i how far-reaching they are. Thelongarm watch a Vir of government continues to grow. Tournament on The new regulations are aimed at that they musl reducing usage among minors. The rules Nine times now say that tobacco companies can only around outsid Cal Ripken Jr. a I Fred Leach I Cal Ripken Jr L ? wfwwi pj m Imagine w TBULlUUyfl 2,131 consecut he Democratic National wasonlyonek Convention got underway in that had perfet Chicago on Monday. Most peop Two weeks ago, the perfectattenc Republicans held their Convention in those special fe ! San Diego. Now everybody knows that with such a wo the conventions are where the parties Persistenc pick their nominee for President of the are all essentis United States. Bob Dole was the such agoal, as Republican's choice and Bill Clinton will in choosing a | J be the choice of the Democratic party, are plainly pn As I was watching the convention, His persistenc however, a question popped into my play through mind. Who out there has the helped to keej characteristics of a good President? If one wen I pondered this question and quickly describe Ripke thought of a person whom I feel represents loyal. Loyalty everything that is right with America: to find in this Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles, world of sport For those of you who may not know In this w< m anything about Cal Ripken, he is the players changi IS short stop for the Orioles, who, a year as Bill Clintc i ago, set the record for most consecutive issues, it is re rds games played, breaking the record held Cal Ripken wh by Lou Gehrig. manifested i Now I know that Cal may not have organization: any experience in politics, since he has not to mentic been playing baseball all his life, but in the country spite of that, I have thought of several franchise plai reasons why he would be a good President These are First of all, lets lode at Ripken's streak teams throuj ** He started it in the early eighties and upon wl tw. and he finally broke the mark in around, in as r10 September of 1995. When the original between, bu Iron Man. Lou Gehrig, set his mark in shoulders abo [NTS m feel like some of the things I do make a dl 3ogan, USC graduate student and City Year program director n tobacco is election aally in magazines that their friends offers them a cigarette, or hp by minors of less than throwing the baseball around at practice when they're offered a chew. Most of at have more that 15%, the time if s not even a "peer pressure" i can only be in black and situation. g- a move designed to Curiosity, coupled with the effects of lthful" tendency to notice seeing tobacco being used by the two ins and pictures. While groups most influential on teens (those iculous enough, there's being entertainment and sports NASCAR fans will have personalities), are the ingredients which )rld of free agency, ana game, missing Daumg pracuce. ing teams almost as much As I was standing in line, I heard th< m changes his stance on humble man say that he didn' freshing to see a guy like understand why folks were making sue! 10 stands first mi his beliefs, a fuss over him. Perhaps it is because n loyalty to the Orioles of the things that I have mentioned, 01 and the city of Baltimore, perhaps it is because he is a hero, m his many fans all over America is sorely lacking in heroes . Ripken is known as a these days, role models which our childrei fer. can emulate. But it is comforting t< i the guys who stick with know that there are still folks like Ca jh the good and the bad, Ripken out there. People who overcomi 10m the teams are built adversity, who possess integrity, loyalt) ense. They are few and far and when are called upon to be a here it they stand head and acoept it with grace and a humble attitude ve those whose aim is onlv A Ripken presidency would be nice vents or teams named tor lead many times to tneir lnmai :o products. It's a move experimentation, bly not break any hearts, The approach places the responsibility ak some banks of drivers of minor tobacco use on everyone but the minors themselves and their parents, n with these regulations, If the president was truly concerned led they may seem, is not about this problem, he would do to nd specifics. It lies in the underage tobacco buyers what is now ach taken to solving the done to underage alcohol buyers, iking by minors. A harsh position you say? Don't think e of those technocrats in for one minute that Clinton's team of r stop, for even a moment, spin doctors couldn't sell this to the most common way that American people if they wanted to. A ing tobacco? People don't concern about drunk driving and it's camel in a magazine or deadly effects was a spark that led to ginia Slims Tennis the drinking age being enforced as television and then decide strongly as it is. t now smoke. . With thousands upon thousands of out of ten they are sitting smoking related deaths each year, I know e at a party when one of the same people who convinced Americans good candidate f< Are kindness and being humble hat it must take to play necessary traits in a leader? I think that ive games. I believe there it is. I was in Fort Lauderdale this past id in my high school class spring break, and I went to a spring :t attendance for 12 years, training exhibition game between the le certainly do not have Orioles and the Braves, lance at their work, and These spring training games are w that have been endowed typically the times when eager fans flock rk ethic are to be admired, to the ballpark, hoping to get closer to :e, courage and integrity their heroes than they normally would, d ingredients in achieving Most players typically interact with the i they should be essential crowd more than during a season, signing *ood leader. These traits autographs and taking pictures, esent in Cal Ripken Jr. However, I have been to games before, e and courage helped him and there the superstars don't even sign pain, and his integrity autographs. Such was the case in Ft ) an eye on the goal. Lauderdale when a particular firsl 5 asked to use one word to baseman, whose first name we share n, one might use the word walked right by a six or several year olc is unfortunately veiy hard child asking very politely for an autograph i world, especially in the In his kindness, Cal Ripken signec s. autographs for about an hour before the 3 i j~o$r\ wwrev ] To swell j ROSES 1 ifference." -year politics that Republicans were going to starve their school children and their grandparents could easily lead a campaign to squelch under age use. But they won't, because this issue is typical of Bill Clinton's philosophy. I find it very interesting that-the president just happens to address this issue as presidential rival Boh Dole hammers away at the Clinton drug rtoord. If s very easy logic to follow. While Dole attacks the drug record, Clinton grabs a similar issue which is easy to demonize,and does so, shifting the focus of the arguments and getting some good press to boot. It's another straw man set up to absorb the political fire while the president reloads. The answer to the problem of youth tobacco use lies not in Washington, or even Columbia. It lies in the homes and the heads of those minors who choose to do so. The fact that even a believer in big government like President Clinton would not take real steps to address this problem is a sad testament which speaks volumes about what leadership means to him. If s politics above principle, and symbolism over substance. or president Saturday, Aug. 24th, so he is now officially old enough be president.) But as nice as it would be, I really don't think that Cal would be willing to give up playing ! ball, not to mention his consecutive game streak, to be president. (I sure as heck ! would rather play ball than be president!) However, there is a man who possesses the attributes that would make a Ripken-like president This man is Bob s Dole. ; Bob Dole is a man who was bom into poverty, but who rose out of it through persistence and hard work. He is a man wVia onoumrarl Kio /*r\nntrv,a aqI 1 wViart I "liW UIIOTTC/J VU 1X10 VWUllVl J W villi ?? llwll she needed him. He is a man who chaiTged ; a machine gun nest in World War II, , almost dying in order to save his I comrades. He was nearly paralyzed and was never expected to walk again. 1 But,again, through endurance and ; fortitude, he overcame that obstacle. His opponent is a man who, when the country ; called on him, dodged the draft, and t protested against the country in the i Soviet Union. ; Bob Dole has stood firm in his beliefs r while also accepting the differing views of others. He has been loyal to his country, 3 to his party, and to his wife, i How this country can even consider o electing Bill Clinton to a second term is J beyond me. America is like a ship caught e in a whirlpool with Bill Clinton at the \ helm. i, Bob Dole would provide us with the j. moral leadership necessary to be i. president. He woulu steer us in the right