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Friday, Octobf IS, 1996 "ISffll Sordino II Stephanie Sonnen Chris Dixon, ' Edit Of Angie Campbell, Martha Hot op, Ac Adam Snyder, Jennifer Stanley, Sara S 1 OPlf Students shou in decision im As any of you who have classes AbmmbI in the Coliseum know, the tunnel Students which connects need to be the Coliseum to when in the Law School decisions isn't exactly the prettiest thing in the world. It's actucally quite ugly and has a decent amount of graffiti in it. It's not exactly as pretty as the Horseshoe. So, m an effort to make this tunnel look nicer, and to make it something students would want to look at, university officials turned the design and repainting over to Student Government. Student Senate has already enacted legislation forming a committee to what the design will be. They are already planning on having a contest between certain student organizations on what the design or mural will be like. This is good because the nnimrirciffT 10 firvnlltT mirmrv uiu vcj-aity la minuy giving otuvJCiilc some say in what happens to their school. We are students here and we pay tuition and other fees to go here. We are essentially the clients of this university. But rarely do we get to have a direct say in Abortion prate a woman's rig) The u.s. ^nfifnTTT Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday by Abortion \ anti-abortion need to qui protesters who ivomen o said the First abortion Amendment gives them the ? right to confront pregnant women outside of abortion clinics to try to convince them not to have an abortion. The protesters object to "speechfree zones" outside of abortion clinics and a ruling by a federal judge in New York which would force protesters to stay at least 15 feet away from abortion clinic staff and patients. "Speech-free zones" and 15foot separations are needed because abortion protesters infringe on a woman's right to have a safe and legal abortion when they block the entrance to an abortion clinic. Abortion protesters also infringe on a woman's right to a sale and legal abortion when they verbally and physically assault women outside of abortion clinics in a "lRn#rnrfe = Stephanie Angie Sonnenfeld Campbell Editor in Chief Lisa Chris Dixon Noworatzky Viewpoint Editor Sara Svedberg Martha Hotop Copy Desk Adam Snyder Robert Walton News Editors photo Editor Jennifer Stanley Brian Rish Features Editor Graphics Editor Achim Hunt Jason jeffers Sports eaiot Daniel Brown Cece von Kolmtz cartoonist Special Projects 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 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 Irak 'SC Since 1908 feld, Editor in Chief Viewpoints Editor lal Board him Hunt, Lisa Noworatzky, Brian Rish, vedberg, Cece von Kolnitz, Robert Walton till: JKIH UdBHHHBBi it 0 N Id be involved iking at USC PPIMPBM* anything that . ever goes on here. concerns Sure> there>s addressed Student iportant Government and are made. other such outlets for ? students to voice their opinions, but most of the time they are just basic lobbying groups. When it comes to general university policy and improvements, the senate usually only has the power to make suggestions to President Palms and the Board of Trustees. The newest higher education funding plan for South Carolina says the university should be run like a business. This would enable USC to receive more funds from the state based on the performance of its students. Well, the university should start making business like decisions similar to the ones the state is making. We are paying students of the university, and they should have to answer to us sometimes. By answering to the state government the university is answering to the taxpayers. \ But since we pay too, they should start listening to us more. sters violate it to choose VWVHFigM violent attempt to convince them not to have an protesters abortion. t accosting Abortion utside of protesters are clinics. completely hypocritical. While they don't hesitate to accuse a woman of cold-blooded murder if she aborts her pregnancy, they see nothing wrong with verbally and physically accosting women outside abortion clinics. The U.S. Supreme Court gave women the right to have safe and legal abortions, and the Court's decision should be respected. The decision to have an abortion is personal and extremely difficult. A woman who decides to abort her pregnancy doesn't need the added stress of verbal and physical attacks from complete strangers. Abortion protesters have every right to express themselves. They do not, however, have the right to verbally or physically abuse innocent women. I C I vs: 777-7726 vertising: 777-1184 X: 777-6482 Keith Boudreaux Rob Gioiclli Director of Studea Media As?t. Viewpoints Laura Day Dipka Bhambhani Creative Director Jessica Nash J.T. Wagenheim Asst. Features Art Director Bryan Johnston Mark Hopkins Dwavne Graduate Assistant McLemore Mari,yn ^wards Asst. Sports Taylor Nikld Thorpe Mailing Director Asst. Photo Erik Collins Ben Muldrow Faculty Advisor Asst. Graphics I I The Gamecock will try to prim 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 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. VTEWF I ( ? | TUt "Th( America fai Lucy ^rno'c* ~| As we approach Thanksgiving (okay, * so I'm stretching it), my mind turns to Aii* nilmnm QnAflofftro onrl iViair rrvim UU1 ^liglliU autcoiuio U11U bll^ll glliU decision to cross the sea in search of a new plaoe to be close-minded. And I think about it and realize, Hey, we're related to English people." I mean it seems kind of odd. If it's true that English people are related to us, why don't we say a-lu-min-i-um? In fact that particular example furthers my personal opinion that we are better than English people. Lets face it, aluminum has four syllables, not five, so we're right and you're wrong! Speaking of pro-nun-ci-a-ti-on (thats the British Adding Extra Syllables Rule), what about advertisement? There's nothing wrong with the regular old way we Americans say it, but those pesky English people just have to do everything different. Ad-VER-tiz-ment. But they have us on la-bor-a-try. Stupid old lab or la-bra-to-ry just doesn't measure up. But there is one area they will never beat us in and that is television. When I was in England earlier this year, I saw one good TV show. It was Seinfeld. The BBC that we watched was boring Protesting an | Nikki La Rocque | I am in awe of the '60s. My parents were pretty normal then (not now, of course), unlike some of my friends' parents who were hippies and protested and went to Woodstock and partook in other amusements that probably should not be discussed in this public forum. But my Hawk mother did have one protest story from her college years. When she went to take her final senior exams, she couldn't because the Black Panthers had overtaken some of the college's administrative buildings. As I find myself coming of age in the contented "90s, I feel as if I have missed out on the "fun" of the '60s. How come I didn't get to go to jail? How come my guy friends didn't get to burn a draft card? Why couldn't I have put flowers into the barrels of guns during protest marches? C Research has i To the Editor I am writing in response to your article in the October 11th issue of The Gamecock, "Professors' Research Impacts Classroom." It was stated in this article that "research is the most important thing that helps a professor become a good teacher." I findthis statementto be unequivocally false and quite puzzling. Qualities that help make an effective or "good" teacher are creativity, enthusiasm, flexibility, a sense of humor, the ability to communicate with others, organization, being respectful to others feelings, OENTJ tlVlTUE RBHc AS FALUN4 CLN'T GET ui y BR ^ gECl'NE- oF Wg sy have been instrumental our great fans In South Mike McGee, Gamecock Athletics director, r better pla when it wasn't downright annoying. There was this one show called "That's Nuts!" or something similar that really took the cake. It had various segments about a lost dog returning home (Impossible!) and a guy who made home movies (Crazy stuff, man!). Basically America's Funniest Home Videos is more nuts! And their dramas. Unfortunately, I'm no expert because I saw no more than thirty seconds of any show, but from what I could see there's lots of whiny, diy, talking parts with little blowing up of anything. Which brings me to British comedy, which is impossibly intertwined with the British sense of humor. (Insert long sigh here). There are no "Simpsons," no "Roseanne." In fact there's not much that's funny at all. If you've ever seen Mr. Bean, you'll know what I'm talking about. But even though, or perhaps because, there's nothing funny on British television, the behavior of British people more than makes up for the lack of humor. My first lesson in London was "don't get in anybody's way." At the rail station I guess I was walking just a little too slow for the taste of the eighty-two-yearold lady behind me because she plowed me down. I am not hyperbolizing. The woman opportunity Why don't the Black Panthers come and overtake Preston? Or better yet, Marriott? My life sucks. However, the spirit of the '60s was rekindled for an hour last night, for myself and a dozen other USC students. I, roll the drums please, was in a .. .PROTEST! Newt Gingrich came to WilliamsBrice Stadium Wednesday night to raise money for the Republican Party. Some of us nasty little Democrats didn't like that idea too much, so an anti-rally was staged on the opposite side of the street. Okay, so maybe 1 didn't get dragged away by police officers, and they didn't spray tear gas all over the place, but the USC police did come by and tell us to stay on the curb or else "you might get hit by a semi!" So maybe there weren't veterans of past wars calling us filthy names, but they did chant "Yankees go home," which infuriated me because I'M FROM CHARLESTON! nothing to do : dedication and the knowledge of the subject material. A professors research will help make them more knowledgeable, however if this knowledge can not be communicated in a organized, creative and enthusiastic manner, then it is all for naught Research is not what makes good teachers, good teaching is an art, and it is "made" through practice. Effective teachers, whether at the elementary, secondary or post-secondary level, need to have a knowledge base of the subject material. However, this knowledge base does not need to be gained through doing research. * Te \ STeRM C?V>UZAT?O In providing entertainment i Carolina and beyond." on USC alumni who are NASCAR leaders. ce to live th pushed me to the side. And I soon discovered that this was simply normal behavior. But the line-breaking thing was even more annoying to me. I can only surmise that teachers in English schools don't hype that stay-in-line thing like American teachers, because lines were basically nonexistent in England. Wherever I went, I would stand in line with a discreet American distance between myself and the person in front of me, and invariably, just as I would step up to the counter, some rude person would hop in front of me. At first, I thought it was a fluke, but after the 15th time I realized that I had hit on a national trend. The only good thing I can say about those darn British line-breakers is we Americans don't allow them to come over here and practice their zany cultural differences. On our return flight, there were some Brits on board, and they tried their linecutting tactics in the Detroit airport. But no siree, Americans just don't put up with that horse-puckey. They were written up and sent to the back of the line. But now we come to the area that truly proves that Americans are far superior to the British. Food. ii u vc cvci uucii iv juiigiaiiuj uiui you may have ingested some of that to express pe: c So maybe no one got shot at, but one passing motorist did shoot us the bird. So civil strife was lacking; there was no brother against brother, but there was roommate against roommate. The Democratic Party was extremely happy to see us show up. "Yea! students!" was basically their reaction to our little posse bearing signs like "Our Education is Your Future" and "SOS: Save Our Schools." But students were definitely not the only group involved in the anti-rally. There were people supporting women's rights, people supporting the environment, people who wanted Mr. Beanie back on PBS, senior citizens, veterans, and both white and black people. Some of us were dressed conservatively (i.e. GAP), others wore working clothes, and some of us were running around with long hair, corduroys and tie-dyed T-shirts. These were also the people who were having apparent flashbacks to the '60s, what with their chants of "Hell no, we c c , C ' r c with teachers' ? To think that doing research in a particular area gives you the qualities and abilities to teach is giving yoursell a false sense of what it takes to be a good teacher. Researchers should research and teachers should teach. It is unfortunate that our president is so concerned about gaining entrance into the AAU, an organization where a strong teaching foundation is secondary to a strong research foundation. Students attend colleges to be taught by teachers, but more often than not they are taught by researchers, because research is the primary function of major university's and teaching is not. 3_ H to lan Britain yummy British fare. I'm really sorry. I discovered the best food in London was the Indian and French food because none of it was prepared by British people. My traveling companion and I noted that each and every eating establishment we entered had on the menu something about chili con carne. Now I don't even know what that is, but it doesn't sound particularly appetizing. My innocence on the subject of chili con came came to a rapid and tragic end. I ordered a calzone, which in America is sort of like folded up pizza. Inside the calzone, instead of the expected spaghetti sauce was chili con came and pepperoni. Or as I like to call it, Tuck." So the moral of my story is don't go to England unless you plan to deal with lots of rudeness and indigestion. What all of these facts about Americans as opposed to British people lead me to believe is that we are not really related to them at all. No, Fm afraid those early sailors, the pilgrims, must have been pecked off early by beings from another planet, our true progenitors. Nothing else could explain the bizarre superiority Americans have over the British. Did I just reveal the secret plot of the X-Files? rsonal beliefs won't go" and all. I myself was having flashbacks to high school pep rallies. Not that we were chanting "go Wando, go," but merely because that same rush of partaking in a crowd and supporting something you believe in was coming back to me. I believe in clean air, in television that doesn't have to be censored by parents and actually teaches children something, in protecting a right to a choice, in higher education, in taking care of the people who stood by this country through the worst times: the Depression, World War II, and bell-bottoms. There is merit in standing up for what you believe in. There is credit in saying and doing that publicly, instead of whispering what you think behind closed doors to your friends. No one, Republican, Democrat, Independent, whoever, can argue that. Except maybe my dad His Republican heart nearly had its first attack when he discovered what his little girl had been up to Wednesday night. ibility to teach In a recent educational methods class, I asked my students to write three qualities on the board that make an effective teacher. Research or even knowledge of the subject material was not once written on the board. It seems that the only individuals who feel that doing research will l.elp to make them effective teachers are the researchers themselves. Thomas Rogan PhD Student 'School of Public Health