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4 TSfflfl Serving USl Stephanie Sonnenfe Chris Dixon Vi Ed It oris Angle Campbell, Martha Hotop, Achi Adam Snyder, Jennifer Stanley, Sara Sve O P I N Family values r to include varit For the past 50 y e a r s, , Americans have believed a real Family valu family should be Apply tO 171 one with a just the '50. mother and the nuclea father who are happily married, and about three to five adorable, obedient children. This is the concept of the nuclear family. Unfortunately, we have learned over the pa3t 50 odd years since then that often men and women don't stay together, children aren't always the bundles of joy they are supposed to be, and sometimes, it's a man and a man or a woman and a woman who will raise a child. The term family and the concept of family values should extend to any relationship where there is a loving, caring and nurturing group of people who provide all those qualities for each other and their children. Advocates of the nuclear family argue that although these other types of families might exist, the nuclear family should be the ideal, the standard. Many right-leaning, familyvalues advocates say within Vista construct will be worth ti Columbia is a city with a H^HLUAia mission. The capital Renovatic city has been Columbia's v bustling lately are well wc with demolition inconven crews and construction workers. While some citizens see the construction as inconvenient and the cause of traffic jams, we think it will be worth all the trouble in the end. The newly renovated vista area will be particularly good for students who like to shop and go out to eat and drink. It will also provide students a plethora of job opportunities when new businesses open in the area. The city of Columbia has made a major investment out of renovating the vista area. According to a report in The State, the city paid $3 million for the Central Correctional Institution property and is depending on it to breathe new Hie into downtown Columbia. The City Council also used $1.5 million from its Tax Increment Fund to help pay for engineering and design on the nsatcocfts Stephanie Angje Sonnenfeid Campbell Editor in Chief Lisa Chris Dixon Noworatzky Viewpoint! Editor _ .. M.^.ho.OV Adam Snyder Robert Walton News Editors E<Jjlor Jennifer Stanley Brian Features Editor Graphics Editor . Achim Hunt Jason Jeffers Sports Editor Daniel Brown Cece von Kolmtz cartoonists Special Projects The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the I 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. I Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the n editors or author and not those of the University of l South Carolina 1 The Board of Student Publications and Communications 1 is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of s Student Media is its parent organization. b VI fcodi r : Since 1908 M Id, tditor in eniet \ ewpoints Editor il Board ^ m Hunt, Lisa Noworatzky, Brian Rish, ^ :dberg, Cece von Kolnitz, Robert Walton 1 r n ION s s f leed updating ity of families ppnppHj the concept is the III inherent ideal of the nuclear es should family. ore than This concept of s ideal of the family is r family. completely impractical \ in this day and ' age. ^ We have learned men and j women do get divorces, and, often times, there are children part of j that divorce. > Often times, it's just better 2 for the family in general if the ti parents are separated. Secondly, family values should apply to these non-traditional families. UJffjJl What are the advocates of the LfafcAi nuclear family saying when they tell a ten-year-old boy he is not in a real family because he lives with his father and only sees his mother on weekends? Life is not perfect. And as | a society, we should be more accenting of things in this world that are good, even if they don't fit the traditional mind-set. 1 There is too much hate and violence in this world to prohibit a loving family It is just because there is one parent The in it. P^P1^ someth little pc a B Bee ion annoying, ss: menta rouble in end rr We our clai wwmjgjjm project. den t w While Columbia will Sla< >ns in never be able to ista area compete with cities But ~>rth the like New York, Los evening ience. Angeles or semi-cc Washington, D.C., slacker it's about time we Per caught up with And other metropolitan areas in the due, yo South. Southern cities such as Atlanta, \\tj Miami and Charlotte are booming VvC with industry and culture. Best of all, they are helping break stereotypes about the South being | Si stuck in the past. Now it's Columbia's turn to make it's foray into the future. I lov Our capital city is undergoing a cheap, rather inconvenient and sometimes Sen annnvinp fapp lift, ri^ht now hut amazir well all be better off in the end. keen a* The city's renovations will bring car and more tourists and people from the m t ^ suburbs into Columbia to spend M money. Businesses will flourish for on| and new jobs will be created. many y Columbia's growth will benefit for all of us, so put up with the fine jew inconveniences ? they are only Wal temporary. It's als< studenl 777-7726 IMiii ising: 777-1184 777-6482 ATI d u n- Us Chris Carro" KOD triolein Directc* of Suite* Media Asst. Viewpoints Laura Day To the ( Jessica Nash Geative Director Asst. Features J.T. 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FAVTt ^ WHO WE I f f * \ ACflML WA/A ! s ' ^ A THEt T AMP Pf Out" O V^jjams Vs 1UL "Certainly we are a ickers' laid 1 Lucy Arnold I Pun an < hea i so good to be slack, ire's just something that slack t lave over the rest of us, and that ma1 ing is happiness, with maybe a ;ace of mind thrown in. w^? ause of my long association with ^ -types, I kind of know what the with them. I mean, I know the maj ility. But despite this long wjt tion, not a bit of it has rubbed off d0je the all have a few of these guys in est? sses, dorms, or circle of friends, 1 re? Then why don't we see the S(m: ages? :kers don't worry. It's the night Yoi nidterms, and the slacker hasn't pot. a moment more than you have, livii while you waste a pleasant winter mal pulling your hair out over abstract mtinuous algebraic planes, the ant enjoys a brewsky. son haps with a good book. pap I the day before you big paper is in h iu're at the library, frantically il-Mart an ide; tephanie Sonnenfeld I ! H ,iii,m,| . |mi m MMf P>a( affc Bur re Wal-Mart. Ifs convenient. Ifs org Ifs cool. Ifs Discount City, iously, Wal-Mart is completely ^00] ig. If s the only place I've ever ^ )le to get the oil changed in my a bc 1 been able to purchase produce ame visit. , i, I emphasize again, it is so cheap, be l friends bought a nice lamp there ong $15. Another friend has bought Up i loliday decorations at Wal-Mart abl< than $20. You can even purchase Sou relry at Wal-Mart. of $ l-Mart is a shopper's paradise, mai 3 an oasis of value for a college t on a budget. a U my deserves r editor and disc dd like to respond to the editorial exual misconduct in the Army. ruir as completely misleading and thai pectful. The Army has never pre1 ed sexual misconduct. As you ctly stated, the soldiers, better sold is Drill Instructors, are not officers; a n c re NCOs, which stands for pur imissioned officers. re is a great distinction between pro >, as any veteran will attest to. the :harges will not only cause their Iocs istructor status to be removed, the ir careers in the military are over, law 3ENTS the CAST Feme OLD LAI lets CorJVenfATioH 0 0. Every semester, I have to buy new ks for class. And, every semester, I inue to wish Wal-Mart could operate lokstore for USC. What a fantasy. Just imagine, our books would actually easonably priced. If a book was inally $50, and it was used and beat when you bought it, you might be ; to buy the book for, oh, say $25. nds reasonable, unlike paying upwaitls 49.95 for a three-year-old, raggy 'keting textbook. Plus, if Wal-Mart owned and operated SC bookstore, we'd never run out of espect despite l they will receive a dishonorable haige from the military if convicted. A dishonorable discharge will also i their civilian life since it will fnllnw t person for the rest of his or her life, venting easy future employment. All of which is fully deserved. These iers lives are over due to their actions, 1 they will receive just and due lishment by the military. The Uniform Code of Military Justice vides strict measures in cases like se. Soldiers are held accountable to tl, state and federal laws, as well as UCMJ. The enforcement of these s are more measures, as you put it, : *00K mc SACK TMenf 5AIMEP SO r*UCM fl-dlP f THAT ThifJO, I Trio' <sOH^A PIE. ..THIS CWICKEN& O, fioOP, AinV tr? Jl < banged-up team right no Steve Spurrier, head co back attitud< iching keys, making up stuff about obscure British poet you've never rd of. Milton or Wordsworth or some 2r such nonsense. Where's the slacker? Why, hanging a . . PC _ . 1 /? ITT - 1 at a conee snop, 01 course; naxuna :ada. Election day comes, and, no matter it party you choose to enjoy making of, you sit on the edge of your chair. You watch from the moment the ior stations start calling elections h 0% reporting to the moment the ;ful presidential hopefuls start making ir "I'm just a sucker with no selfiem" speeches. The slacker's attitude? Well, at least leone really bad didn't win. And he voted for Jeny Garcia anyway, i can't lose with a 300 pound dead smoker on your side. (Or a 200 pound lg pot-sucker-but-not-inhaler for that tter.) You woriy about tests, papers, friends 1 the mess in your kitchen. He letimes ponders drug tests, rolling ers, Phish-heads, and the mold garden lis kitchen sink. It's a different world out there for al place for st Sadly though, it's one of the only :es around USC that students can ird -- besides Five Points and the ger King that stays open until 2 am. I > Fri \J ^ I I a _ f A & Kf* ? I Y ? yC (vv wnr*( ,v " i / ?" MS; */f<HeA(tt7 AT UZAtlfi TM JGHT J a w, more so than any of our ol ach, Florida Gators ^ provides stre the slacker. Life is hassle free. College if s ] is a minor inconvenience on this wild hair trip most people call their twenties. bad What I want to know is why can't I gets be one?!! goin Fve tried. I blew off a paper until the Spa< night before once. I did not sleep a wink ] that night as I wrote, revised, printed, }< revised, reprinted, ran out of printer y0U paper, traveled to the all-night Wal-Mart, f0 j j printed, ran out of ink, well, you know rg where this is going. i Why can't I have the mind of the ( slacker? He would say, "Whats one lousy paper, anyway? I'll do it right after I , finish the mural of Bigfoot playing a , piano in the twilight zone I'm illegally painting on my wall." Why can't I say, "I don't care who , wins come election day. Hie governments not real anyway, man." in " But I care too much. When the grades ove] start coming out on TIPS, I call everyday, long distance or not, to see if any grades J A ? J T Kh4aM rlcivi <xi e i eyui tea. ruiu 1 iislcii until eveiy ^?7? class has been listed, even the ones I Maj haven't taken exams in yet. my If s the sony fate of a chronic worrier. If I think somebody is mad at me, whether thin udents to buy st items. You wouldn't have to wait until ] the middle of the semester to get the bit c book you needed at the beginning of the ] semester. Wal-Mart is always stocked with what you need. Notebooks, binders, pens, tacks and . P! whatever else you need in the route of ln n supplies would be so cheap at a Wal- P61*' Mart-run bookstore. No longer would 1 you have to pay say, $5 for a cardboard sho] binder. In the Wal-Mart world, you'd just pay $1.25. rea? Also, if Wal-Mart owned a bookstore, ^ a majority of products would be made wg j in America, which is always a plus. Honestly, can you imagine paying ' something like $50 for a semester's worth of text books and supplies? ima In a Wal-Mart world, that fantasy would be a reality. you i sexual misconc than any civilian could have ever dreamed not of. Do t Back to the point of accountability, of v you asked the question, "How can we be expected to respect our soldiers and the exp Army with allegations of sexual thei misconduct?" leat First of all, I am outraged by your disrespect for veterans only two days thei after Veterans Day. ser\ Secondly, your hypocrisy knows no wh< bounds. How can you expect the world and to respect Bill Clinton who, as we all know, has sexual misconduct charges St facing him? Des? The key points being, first, he will MIS day, November 15,1996 ^? ? ( !U< 1 } 0 ^7j 11 ^ yrt ' ther teams h iss-free life aiy mom or the girl with the funny who sits on the third row from the i in my English class, my stomach i tied up in knots and I feel like I'm g to explode from self-induced worng mis. ^ ( [ know Fm an extreme case, but you mow what Fm talking about (except fortunate slackers!). I say we all ow their lead and stop being so itable. Why not just let somebody else worry rnce? This year Fm not going to call S at all for grades- Fll just wait until i send me that little sheet. j * rhis year I won't even read th" * 4 spaper and worry about World War This year I will not be concerned if kitchen sink looks like a yak yakked . This year I will obviously be taken r by an alien. But Fm going to try. Maybe, for a start, 111 just enjoy my a irta+ao/4 nf wnrrvmor tVirnnrrK J IIIOIWUU U1 Tf VAUWltgll LUNULA. die. Or maybe aliens will take over body. What do aliens worry about, do you ik? :hool books Perhaps, this fantasy has gotten a >ut of hand, you know. But do you blame me for wishing I d buy my text books and other class alies from a store that doesn't believ| larking up its products at least 5(F :ent from its wholesale price? Maybe I've become conditioned to aping in discount stores. Maybe I've been spoiled at buying products at sonable prices. Who knows. But can you imagine if had a SAMS Wholesale club format a USC bookstore? We'd be buying ks for ECON 224 in bulk. Can you gine owning five ECON textbooks! At least, your professor couldn't say weren't prepared for class. luct charges be prosecuted until his term is ovei ;hese Drill Instructors have the luxury raiting until they retire? No. Secondly, how can our soldiers be ected to up hold a moral fiber when ir Commander in Chief has failed to 1 by example. This is by no means an excuse for ir actions; however, I do believe this 'es as a reality check for many people, ) seem to be swayed by misleading i partially true articles. tven Gardner art Storm Veteran/U.S. Army / Paratrooper Junior