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Friday, Sfrtnibf 27,1996 "ISaffll Serving VSC Stephanie Sonnenfel Chris Dixon, Vi< Edttorla Martha Hotop, Achim Hunt Jennifer Stanley. Lisa Noworatzkv. o p i r Student senate s on worthwhile le Well, we all have to hand it to Sen. Brian Menees. He Menees'p> should just quit student se school now and ^ ^ fr*itJol go into comedy. f t They'd probably * take him right now at the Improv in Chicago because he definitely has a talent for this type of stuff. He actually got up in front of iL . ll .1.. J L A- I me me smaeni senate ana proposed that senators should have "pahs," such as free parting and discounted meals. The concept that our student senators should get privileges that any normal student doesn't have is hilarious. Think about it. It has to be a joke. Why would someone be serious about this. It's obviously a piece oflegislation that will never get passed, and if it does get passed, it would be a travesty. Why, in a rational and sine universe, would any student accept the concept that any other student shmilH ppf thpsp kind of dividends just fbr having this kind of poeaticn? They're just student senators at the University of South Carolina. Not members of the Board of Trustees, or the US Congress. These groups are the ones that have real power, thus they are given real privilege. We have the highest amount of respect for student senators and believe that they do try to make things better for us at USC, but any student senator will admit their true power is limited. Harassment ai thrown around Accusations mhvvt| of sexual ^g|UaUa harassment got out of hand this AcCUSiYlQ C\ week when six six year-o y e a r - o 1 d sexual he Johnathan yr fi/dii Prevette of North Carolina was said to have sexually harassed a six year-old girl by kissing her on the cheek. Prevette said he kissed the girl because they were friends, and she asked him to. First of all, six year-old children don't know anything about sex. How could an innocent child sexually harass another child when he doesn't even know what 25affanft| Stephanie I Cece von i Somcnfeld Koinitz Editor io Chief Special Projects Chris Dixon Lisa Viewpoints Editor Noworatzky Martha Hotop Copy Desk Adam Snyder Robert Walton News Editors Photo Editor Jennifer Stanley Brian Rish Features Editor Graphics Editor Achim Hunt Rob Gioielli Sports Editor 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 those of the editors or author and not those of the University of CmiIK Psrnlins >Tbe Board of Saider* Publication , and Communications Ha the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of Student Media is its parent organization. 1 fc -L task Since 1906 d, Editor in Chief ;wpoints Editor I Board , Brian Rish, Adam Snyder, Cece von Kolnitz, Robert Walton, HON ihould focus gislative issues Often times, they are just the voice of roposal for grievances to tiate perks members of the bus waste Administration, who then make the real decisions. People run for senate for a variety of reasons, but in truth it should only be for one reason - because thev want to serve the students of USC; they want to help make this University better. We are giving them the power as a body to voice our concerns, not to give themselves free parking. Sen. Menees, if what you did was a joke, it was a very good one. But if you are serious with this legislation, we must condemn you for your shortsightedness and for wasting the senate's time. There are a lot of people at USC who have little respect for the senate. You could be trying to prove them wrong by spending your time on issues that actually matter and can help the rest of the student body. Instead, you are putting your efforts into a trivial bill that benefits only select members of this University. Maybe someday, when this University is perfect and there is nothing else to change, this would be worth bringing up; but right now this is just an exercise in frivolity and idiocy. When you have some worthwhile legislation, Sen. Menees, give us a call. ccusations I too easily "I sex is? Secondly, there is enough in innocent violence in the Id child of world. When irassment young children culous. show affection for one another they should be praised, not punished. It is better for children to kiss each other on the cheek than to pull each other's hair and punch each other. The only lessen Prevette learned by being punished is that showing affection is bad. It is unfortunate that an innately good child is being told at such an impressionable age not to love. rs: 777-7726 ertising: 777-1184 [: 777-6482 Kcith Boudreaux ManHMinill Circulation Manager Chris Carroll Dipka Bhambhani Diroor of sudt* Media Jessica Nash Laura Day Am. Features Creative Director Bryan Johnston J.T. Wagenheim Dwayne AnDitectoc McLemore Mark Hopkins Asst. Sports Graduate Assistant Nikki Thorpe Marilyn Edwards Asst. Photo Taylor Jason Jeffers Mukdi,? Direc,?' Darnel Brown Erik Co,,ins Cartoonists Ficu"y Advisor 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 Russell House room ttt The G&necock reserves the right to edit all letters for style, posable libel or space limitations. Names will not be withheld under any circumstances. VIEWP T KWP-ll fjlj j i i "All of a sudden, 1 Macarena f I've been troubled recently by a k; disturbing trend in youth today, di Ifs a problem that seems to pwvade ni the culture of our young people. An addictive, degrading epidemic, h You, too, may have seen others partaking P of or, goodness forbid, partaken yourself d of this indelicate fruit. I can hardly bear d to say it: the Macarena. e} Just in case you've been living in a re box, or at least in a place with no radio, bl (they've even played this one on the ai country stations and once on Public Radio w ?Fm just joking! The guys who work on PR do actually live in boxes), the fr Macarena is a dance performed to the P song of the same name. cc More often than not, I see people a actually engaging in the Macarena ei in public. SomeoneH be talking sedately, then, Wham!, she's shaking her bootie cl like she sat in rabbit doo-doo. k Even more amazing is the fact a: that some people can actually remember Y all the movements ? in the correct order! G I know it goes something like cross your shoulders, cross your hips, Simon n Bigotry, intolei Niklu la Rocque | 1! A lthough I grew up and live in o / \ the conservative South, I C / 1 honestly, some would say r "^naively, believed I'd never n hear the word "nigger^ or "queer"out of I any enlightened individual's mouth, p These pieces of trash were reserved for g backwards rednecks who still think v higher education means the fourth grade, a I am very, veiy aware of the fact that I there are numerous racists and intolerants, but I always believed they p were smart enough to keep their crass y opinions to themselves, having realized ^ this is not the day and age when members v of the KKK and the neo-Nazi party are ? welcome to the dinner tables of middleclass America. Since this is a university, I expected the students here to be enlightened in the ways of civilization and propriety. At the very least, they have to be smart enough to read the Carolinian Creed and sign their name to the bottom of it. Last time I checked, that meant one agrees to adhere to a certain code of honor, dignity and respect. About a week ago I was awakened to the fact that this PINTS \ \ \ ELdrriESERTLWEDItPOU he student senate is going to be C Brian Menees, senator, on the proposal for studi 'ollows long li lys touch your toes, but I'll be darned ThBIl COmeS I can remember it. Not that I'd want Wprp thev tr ?! (Yeah, I know you're sneering, You dance now yqu Want to, so don't even try to a Dance eny it!', but I don't care 'cuz I can still loonwalk, and YOU can't do that.) missed by a s Speaking of moonwalking, whatever a aance a^?ut appened to the good ole' days when kosher ones. ?ple used to engage in good, wholesome 91" incing? There was head-banging, break- rain-a * 0 ancing and dirty dancing. Dances ^ay rain dan reryone could relate to. Hey, if you can't running arour slate to head-banging, don't blame me, shouting ame yourself for not being able to er\joy we've been ge i old-fashioned lip gashing or broken Maybe, in rist. elections, Ma< And break-dancing. That was real "Hey, mud-rak in. Fun because if you couldn't actually 'message. You srform the dances, that was okay. You tune on the n >uld just watch another sucker make on Clinton's caj fool of himself in front of a group of a Dole campa ithusiastic on-lookers. back. It prot Ah, yes. Dirty dancing was the real message The i assic stuff. I mean, you didn't have to to make news now all these special moves or do Or were t nything in order to excel at the dance. Most Deode w ou just did really nasty stuff to a beat, homemade m bod, clean fun. for. But I wor Then comes along this Macarena appreciate t] onsense. What is a Macarena anyway? shaking dano /ere they trying to say Macaroon and until I saw a I ranee, discriminate 3 not necessarily the case. brain-cells-a And when I say awakened, I mean after him wit ist that. I was sleeping with the window "I'm going to 1 pen, and a noise, not of the traffic from . Hmm, lovely Jreene Street, but of a fellow student, So my fri eally bothered me that night, to put it So he is horn aildly. that give rar I am only putting it mildly because harass him? tersonal restraint will not allow me to Many pec ;o off the deep end and recount exactly is wrong bee /hat I wished to do with a very tender original stat irea of his body using a hot iron, though Well, guess1 may really want to. give you the This guy apparently had a big enough someone and >roblem with one of my friends that he country i s lad to resort to mature namecalling. Constitutio fou can tell we are big college students Nowhere in t /hen "Poopie Head" is replaced with that homose: nigger, faggott, queer." Some peo Just because I am an English major, because the) am compelled to point out to you, Mr. guys hit on Anonymous, if you can even read this, womanhood, hat you were being redundant by the on by some g isage of both "faggott" and "queer." It I don't screan vould be the same as me calling you an queers and I JiAfiA AU IT/M 1 n V?A ' PU nf'n AAII A#1 uiuui uiuiuu, wniui juuai c. iiiats^aiicu I especially appreciate the fact that our term for 1 vhen my friend, in using an awesome a philosophy onflict-manalgement skill (see, those Open-mi eadership conferences really do have a beauty of soci jurpose) left the scene, Mr. I-have-three- about keepir a 3_ on still evident at USC nd-the/re-fighting went appreciating and respecting the beliefs ;h such original threats as of others. tick your nigger-queer ass." Social conservatives have many a thought. high ideal, but when it comes down to end is African-American, it, liberals are one step ahead in the osexual. What right does game of life. We have learned that there idom students to verbally are people in this world who are not the None. 1950s American norm that is still thrown iple believe homosexuality jn our faces We have learned that and ause (here comes another have aiso learned from these "different" ement) "It s in the Bible. people. Many conservatives wish to stick what: a) that still doesn t jn t^e pretend that, right to verbally assault ^^ don't see it, it doesn't exists. Don't M tn#? ultimate law nf nnr ' , t>.,, , . ask,donttell, rightr Wrong, not the Bible, but the -jlor> . . tt m j oi x This random student of USC not only n of the United States. , _ ,. , , , . . J his document does it read hurt my fhend'he hurt ^ own unagecualitv is wrong He publidy showed ^at he has absolutely pie don't like homosexuals n? resPact for bimse|f' for wbo w0?W r don't like it when "weird allow others to haar a blatant dare?ari them." Wow, welcome to of ProPnet>' ^ Moreover, this men. I don't like being hit student has absolutely no respect for the ruys or women period, but Carolinian Creed, which he must have a in their face that they are signed in order to become a student here. 'm going to kick their ass. "I will discourage bigotry, striving to homophobia, class, and is learn from differences in people, ideas the day. Homophobia is not and opinions." Sound familiar to anyone? to be proud of. Evidently not to this guy, who must not nr'edness is. That is the have really signed the Creed. It must ial liberalism. I am talking have been his aiter-ego, Grand Dragon lg true to one's beliefs, yet of the Ku Klux Klan. \ X X iiwspr iod compared to other students." snt senate perks ine of dance fads along this Macarena nonsense. What is a Macarena anyway? ying to say Macaroon and missed by a syllable or two? I could about macaroons. Especially the kosher ones. yllable or two? I could see woman doing the Macarena for all she macaroons. Especially the was worth. So, although I started off by implying s the intent is "Hey, make that the Macarena is a plague upon our u know a sort of present- youth, I guess I was wrong. Ifs hitting ce. With all these people our honored elders as well. Maybe you'll id making strange motions . finally figure out that there's a problem chants, is it any wonder when it happens to YOUR grandparents, tting so much rain? Now, I have a confession to make, light of the current political Once, just once I swear!, I did the arena should be really be Macarena for a teensy-tiny moment. I, in". Ifs a kind of subliminal too, Macarened. So brothers and sisters, can see the results of this those of you out there dancing your little ledia: they found the dirt hearts out, thinking you have only one mpaign adviser and possibly purpose in life, to master the Macarena, ign worker. Nah, I take it know that you have a kindred spirit in >ably isn't a subliminal me. But know also that I have conquered media doesn't need a reason the demon known as Macarena, and 5 out of trash. have walked away a better person. Know hey going for macaroni? that I, too, have been at the mall and ould aeree that Grandma's heard the devilish music flood the food lacaroni is worth dancing court. I, too, have battled the temptation idered if she would really to throw it all away and Macarena right he intention of a bootie- in front of everyone, a in her honor. I wondered You can beat the thing. Once you seventy-five-year young learn to polka!