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Monday, November 11, 1996 I Serving USC Since ^P' Stephanie Sonnenfeld, E< Chris Dixon, Viewpo Editorial Bo; Angie Campbell, Martha Hotop, Achim Hu Adam Snyder, Jennifer Stanley, Sara Svedberj m Advisement too for students to t Twice a year, hmmm students are asked to go see 0 one of the Students need professors in advisement se their department and ask pU and get advised. of questio These are the only mandatory times that a student must go see their advisor, ad1 or any advisor at all for that to ] matter. Some students blow it off, ha1 savine that it's actually pretty pre pointless, and their advisor doesn't wh help them anyway. First, advisement is very pri important. It's a time where a sty student can sit down and get advice on their courses for next cla semester, on their major and their lor college career in general. They have this opportunity to inf sit down and put some focus into ex] 0 their life here at Carolina. The key to advisement that kn many students here atUSC don't qu realize is you can't just go in and kn sit down with your advisor and ai.ii iiiii n i say ten me wnat to taxe. Des We go to a big state university Yoi with a wealth of opportunities, but because we are so big, the pr Ut average student can't wait for ad ^ someone to lead them through their four years here, to show them op] what to take every semester, to yoi tell them what career to have. th< If you do that, you'll be one of thi those statistics, someone with a college degree, but no job. pa; A student has to show we Veterans overioi service should t Tbday we are hm|ib| 0 supposed to celebrate Veterans Day, Veterans de but in reality, respect for fa very few people far an unappr will actually country acknowledge this much overlooked holiday. Aside from the Gulf War, most an people in our age group have not a v been involved in a war. g Even though we may never at ^ have to fight in a war, we cannot ha1 forget the brave men and women who risked their lives for their wa country. the It takes an innately brave individual to go to war and fight ari for a country that does not always An show its appreciation. Remember the Vietnam War? to{ When our troops returned 0 home from Vietnam, they were not | treated like garbage and outsiders, mi; nBaitaickSI wirminn'tf'ilfflllHIhri'WIhiiiB Stephanie Angie j / | Sonnenfeld Campbell Editor in Chief Ljsa t J Chris Dixon Noworatzky Viewpoints Editor _ c Br \,t _,l u . Sara Svedberg Martha Hotop Copy Desk Adam Snyder Robert Wa|t0n News Editors Photo Editor Jemnfer Stanley Brian Rish Is Features Editor Graphics Editor Asch,n,Hunt Jason Jeffers B Sports Editor * . ._ Cece von Kolnitr Darnel Brown Special Projects Cartoonists The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published Monday, H Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semesters, with the exception of university holidays and The exam periods. g . Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the name H ?I editors or author and not those of the University of Lette I South Carolina. The ( The Board of Student Publications and Communications The t is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of style. Student -Media is its parent organization. ' be w'i 1 ck 1908 iitor in Chief ints Editor nt, Lisa Noworatzky, Brian Rish, ?, Cece von Kolnitz, Robert Walton O N important ake lightly initiative here. iUflHI They have to be informed about to take their major and riously their interests, enty and know what ns. their options are. Most professors have a lot of students to rise, and they don't have time IoqH a ebirlpnt arrmnH LVUU U WWV?V?V**W VU VVUAU. When you go into advisement, ve questions ready to ask your )fessor. Have a rough idea of lat you want to take. Ask your advisor about certain ofessors and their teaching rles. Ask them what value a certain iss might have for you in the ig run. They have awealthof ormation, but they cannot be Dected to read your mind. And sometimes they may not ow the answers to all your estions. But chances are they ow the person that can. This University has one of the >t career centers in the country. 11 pay for it, use it. We have an office just for preofessional students to get vised. Use that. Their are just too many portunities here at Carolina. If I have a problem or need advice, ire is probably someone here it is paid to help you. Go out and find them. You are ying to be here, you might as II get your money's worth. iked group, le respected The way we MLflH treated the troops was serve unexcusable. %hting We should show . . . A 1. _ __ A ... . _ A eciatwe me uimosi , respect to our veterans. How many of us would go to unfamiliar country to fight in /ar? War should certainly be avoided all costs, but sometimes we ve to fight for what is right. While you may disagree with r, don't take out your anger on i troops. The president and Congress b the ones responsible for lerica going to war. Troops are only following orders insure freedom. Veterans deserve admiration, ; disrespect. Let's keep that in nd on Veterans Day. i 7-7726 ng: 777-1184 7-6482 Chris Carroll Rob Gioielll Director of Student Media Asst. Viewpoints Laura Day lessica Nash Creative Director ^Features J.T. Wagenheim yan Johnston Art Director Dwayne Mark Hopkins McLemore Graduate Assistant Asst. Sports Marilyn Edwards [ikki Thorpe Taylor Assr Photo Advertising Director en iv.u.arow Erik Co|,ins Asst. Graphics Faculty Advisor Gamecock will try to print all letters received, rs should be 200-250 words and must include full , professional title or year and major if a student, rs must be personally delivered by the author to 'iamecock newsroom in Russell House room 333. Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letters for possible^ libel or space limitations. Names will not thheld uri^r any circumstances. /am "There's lots Education 1 | Cece von Kolnitz Our President must think he's leading a nation full of zombies. He thinks advertisements control us, that young people start smoking and drinking because they see people do it on TV commercials. It's time for President Clinton to turn off his television set and come back to reality. The banning of cigarette and alcohol ads isn't going to stop kids from drinking until they're left shaking on a cold bathroom floor. The ban isn't going to stop 13-yearolds from filling their lungs with cancercausing smoke. It won't stop high school Confederate Shawn Singleton The effects of last week's shooting at a local nightclub in Pelion have been felt all across the state. When I later found out that the assailants were members of the Ku Klux Klan, and they had attended a proConfederate flag rally a day before the shooting, I was infuriated. It's not surprising that the S.C. Council of Conservative Citizens (the group that staged the rally) disavows the shootings. Isn't it rather obvious, however, what the message is? Conservatism at its verv best. South Carolina has had more negativi Multicultural^ To the editor, The Office of Multicultural Studen Affairs would like to respond to Johr Prick's column "Multiculturalism serve to separate people," which appeared ii the Oct. 23 edition of The Gamecock Opposite to what one may think multiculturalism does not strive ti "accentuate every possible different among people, and use these difference to define them," but the idea emphasize respect and understanding of thosi differences that make us unique. Each individual on our campus is different. No two people are exactly th< same. Multiculturalism is not "breaking people up into neat little groups," but i is respecting the differences betweer cultures and giving students th< opportunity to feel empowered abou their heritage. Multiculturalism does not "demanc that everyone accept everything abou everybody," but it encourages communication and education aboui differences that will then lead to a high? level of understanding and respect o our differences. The goal is not to separate anc distinguish, but to understand and respec the differences that make us a uniqui community. In 1992, "Population Today" statec xhnt; .aI PLANMiMG, ? of confusion that could bo * Virginia Funk, senior and p< Ley to ending 1 drink fests, drunk drivers or teen-age i smokers who light up in the bathroom i at lunch time. < Older brothers and sisters will still buy their underage siblings beer for the ; next party and middle school kids will < still buy and smoke several packs a day. { But I guess as long as it looks like i Jie's trying to solve a problem, the 1 c j ? ? eneuuveness ui a prupuseu suiuiion doesn't concern Clinton. 1 And maybe there are no 100 percent } effective solutions. It could be that ' smoking and drinking are two parts of 1 American life which kids must face at some point during their childhood and 1 teen-age years. j When it comes down to real life ] situations, it's always going to be an flag a symbol c 1 negative press over the last two years : than Newt Gingrich, and almost all of it has had to do with race. 1 The Susan Smith tragedy, the i incident involving the state trooper on i 1-95 and the ongoing Confederate flag dilemma have all made national 1 headlines, and no forums that Gov. i Beasley can hold will take away from s the fact that this state has major problems. i As an African-American, the Confederate flag really disheartens me. i Every time I drive or walk by the 1 Statehouse, I, along with many others < of my race, feel a sense of disgust because : it is sending us the message that no 1 matter what advances we have made 3 second-class citizens. im opportunity 1 that by the ye^r 2040, the population of African-Americans will increase by 50 t percent; Asian and Pacific Islander i Americans by 400 percent; Hispanics by s 200 percent; and European Americans 1 by less than 13 percent. These demographic shifts will have > a profound effect on the cultural diversity 3 of the United States. Caucasians will not be the majority, 3 as statistics state, the minority will be 3 the majority population. Unfortunately, 3 many people fear change. wny would we tear change or 5 difference? Because we are not educated. Being educated about words such as multiculturalism, stereotyping, diversity, ^ prejudice, discrimination, sexism and classism might decrease fear and increase understanding. We are fearful because we don't understand, we are scared to ask j questions and leam about someone who t is different from ourselves. It is easy to 5 go through life without taking the time t to walk in someone else's shoes. r it is time to understand that being f empowered about culture does not mean that one is stereotyping, but that he or 1 she is appreciating his or her own culture, t as well as other cultures. a Tobi Kinsell l Graduate Student > W 0? ivoided If students did the 3er advisor, on advisement * teen smokin ndividual's decision. The only way to nfluence that decision is through jducation, and even that may not work, i I remember having to attend assemblies in high school where a police officer toting a prqjector-o'-horrors would >ive a one-hour presentation of full color, ilcohol-related accident slides. Some rids snickered. Others got real serious. The shows may have been effective "or a few hours, maybe even days. But ^ou couldn't ever imagine anyone saying, That slide show really got to me. I don't :hink 111 ever drink again." I propose taking kids on educational ield trips. First, we'd visit an Oncology loor at a local hospital and talk to patients dying of lung cancer. Then we'd stop by the School of )f racism in S( second-class citizens. many wnite people nave tola me tne flag symbolizes their heritage, a remembrance of a war to defend states' rights. News flash: the war has been over for 131 years. Germany doesn't fly their swastika anymore, so why does this state have to fly their "swastika?" Last week's shooting is just another reason to lower the flag permanently. The flag today seems to represent a covert, deep-seeded hatred toward African-Americans and )ther minorities. The citizens of this 3tate say they want to move forward, Dut their actions have been the opposite. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once everywhere." br education 2 MDA Lock-Up should have been covered in student newspaper To the editor, On Oct. 30, Kappa Alpha Order and Chi Omega Sorority held the annual Muscular Dystrophy Jail-A-Thon, and despite numerous phone calls, a press release and major campus-wide publicity, I was amazed and disappointed that The Gamecock failed to cover the event. The MDA Lock-Up was a huge success as we arrested students, faculty and administrators, raising over $2,700 for a good cause. It would have been a great photo opportunity, and I feel the event was worthy of a front-page article. Of course, I am aware that it does not matter what I feel should be in The Gamecock, but it is the responsibility of the staff and reporters who, by failing to report on our event, ultimately let down Kappa Alpha and Chi Omega, the student body and the MDA. WIS TV, WLTX TV-19 and even two student T.V. crews reported on the MDA Lock-Up. For the past seven years, The Gamecock has printed a front-page story covering our project the day before it 3_ Hl. ?ir homework." Lg, drinking Medicine and look at the plasticized livers of alcoholics. That evening, to top off the tour, we'd visit a college party where the vomit abounds (Watch your step kids!). I don't mean to make fun of a serious problem. But I am making fun of a silly solution. Kids and teen-agers aren't zombies. . They're real people. Instead of attacking a pointless area, Clinton needs to spend more time worrying about education. He has the power to help teach kids how to protect themselves, to know what unhealthy behavior is. But short of traveling around the country slapping cigarettes and bottles out of kids' mouths, lending more support to education is all he can do. )uth Carolina justice everywhere." We as a state must not let this injustice go unpunished. We must start living in the present, not in the past. This is 1996, not 1896, and the days of Plessy v. Ferguson and slave codes are over. Gov. Beasley and the rest of the Conservatives need to understand that real change has to be made to alleviate this problem. Face-saving forums and committees aren't going to work. While lowering the flag isn't going to solve all of our problems, it can act as a catalyst for some actual civil rights advances. Are you listening, Gov. Beasley? I didn't think so. ibout diversity was to take place, and then printed a front-page picture of bur "jailbirds" the day after the event. Too many people put too much time into this event for it to simply be ignored by our student newspaper. Kappa Alpha and Chi Omega raised 10 times the amount of money we raised last year. We broke our previous fund-raising record set three years ago by more than $1,000. It was discouraging and insulting when we failed to receive coverage and commendation for our hard work and dedication to people who suffer from Neuromuscular Disease. I have heard complaints that there is "no news around this campus." However, a great opportunity to cover good news was missed when our event was ignored. I know it is not easy to put out an issue of The Gamecock. I am just sorry that no one listened or cared about or efforts for "Jerry's Kids." Peter Siachos KA Philanthropy Chair SG Treasurer ;