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After four years of
undergraduate studies, a
diploma under your belt and
perhaps some time spent in the
workforce, how would living at
in Bates sound to you?
That is precisely the situation
graduate students face at
Carolina.
Some graduate students are
financially secure enough to
continue living in their own
homes. Those with little to no
income cannot live off-campus.
On-campus housing is the only
option.
On-campus housing is
e particularly crucial to foreign
i- students.
But Bates, a freshman dorm,
hardly seems the appropriate
place for actual graduates.
They've done the freshman dorm
thing at 18, when it was crazy
and fun and awesome.
At twenty-something, or even
thirty-something, hall baths just
don't swing it anymore.
Walking through the
Horseshoe to your home sweet
home in Bates must not be
overly-inspiring, either.
USC's graduate program is
not given much attention, save
by our own administration.
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despite the;
Pornographic magazines have
always been controversial, there's
no doubt about that.
Recently they've been in the
limelight for a variety of reasons,
thanks to the recent movie The
People vs. Larry Flynt."
In 1996, something called the
Military Honor and Decency Act
of 1996 came about.
It was a part of the defense
budget bill. Basically, the act
forbid the sale or rental of sexual
material at any military facility.
The act passed without any
debate in the capitol and Clinton
signed it into law in September.
It was supposed to be enacted
in December of 1996.
But Bob Guccione, the
publisher of Penthouse magazine,
said the act violated the right
to free sneech and free
expression.
He's right.
So maybe magazines like
Hustler, Playboy, Playgirl and
Penthouse (among other choice
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It is in the interest of this
university to build the reputation
of its graduate program.
One small way to enhance
the program would be to offer
decent housing.
We're not advocating a
completely new building. We're
aware of the monetary situation
at this university.
However, would it not be
possible to house the graduates
in another building?
Or possibly renovate their
wing of Bates so that it is
apartment-style, or at the very
least, suite-style.
Granted, housing is not the
top priority of students when
they consider universities.
But it is a definite icing on
the cake. And if other
universities are offering up devil's
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though it may be more healthy?
The more students we attract,
the more selective we can be in
quality.
Higher quality students call
for a more challenging program,
more prominent professors, and
all that means more tuition.
So maybe it won't work out
quite that simply, but, hey, better
housing is a good start.
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publications) are not the
purveyors of good taste.
We do not condone the
pictorials in these magazines,
for they are degrading to both
sexes involved in the pictures.
However, these magazines
are entitled to be sold and
produced in the United States
of America, and that includes
everything from military bases
to the local Circle K.
iwidently, b ederal Judge
Shira A. Scheindlin agreed with
Guccione's argument.
Scheindlin ruled Wednesday
the Military Honor and Decency
Act is unconstitutional, according
to the Associated Press.
"Society is better served by
protecting our cherished right
to free speech, even at the cost
of tolerating speech that is
outrageous, offensive and
demeaning," Scheindlin wrote.
Phis, Playboy really does have
good articles. Believe it or not.
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've heard a nasty little
I rumor that parking is the
worst it's ever been at USC
this semester.
As an off-campus student for the
past four years, I'd like to tell you it
isn't true. I'd like to say to all you
young whippersnappers, "Back in
my day there used to be more parking
spaces than there were dusty old
books untouched since 1892 in the
Thomas Cooper Library.
"Why we could pull right into that
lot beside Russell House and park
any time, day or night! And we didnt
even have to leave our hazard lights
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on.
But it would be a he. Parking has
been the same disgusting disaster
since at least 1993.
I have to admit that Fm impressed
with the administration's new parking
plan, however. The Plan: It will be
so much more convenient for everyone
if we just eliminate most of the
parking.
Now that's the kind of caring
attitude to which I feel good donating
my five dollars per parking ticket!
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more than enough of it going around
Columbia this year. I recently went
up to the BellSouth building on Huger
Street to pay my telephone bill where
I encountered a very polite sign:
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closed this BeDSouth payment center.
Please use one of the other payment
centers conveniently located at
addresses other than this one. (Well,
it went something like that.)
I felt like kissing BellSouth (were
it a person and not a corporation)
for making my life so much easier!
So I went to the next payment.
center on the list, the very convenient
parking ticket division of Columbia,
a place where USC students rarely
dare to trod. Conveniently, their
computer system was down, leaving
them unable to process my bill. (I
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encountered city personnel unwilling
to take my money, too).
Fortunately, there was another
payment center conveniently located
ten miles away.
Actually Fm starting to think the
rest of the world is using a dictionary
I don't have and therefore has an
updated definition for convenience
that has emerged since I finished
learning the South Carolina Word
List.
Take convenience stores. I find
it so convenient to go to one of these
stores to buy an item that's not exactly
what I wanted, in a smaller quantity
from what I had in mind and at a
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planned. You can't really get more
convenient than that.
Even more convenient are the
new machines at grocery stores that
take ATM cards. No longer do I need
to waste the minute I was taking to
write my checks. Now I only spend
five minutes answering questions
(English, Spanish, German or Latin?),
punching in secret codes (Was it 007
or 1982?) and waiting for the thing
to process. That is so convenient!
Probably one of the most
convenient things of all for our current
generation of lazy bums is the drivethru.
(Note the spelling-we're
dumbing down American fast food
joints!).
I find it quite convenient to shout
my order continuously at a post
(which incidentally has a greater IQ
than many a brain between those
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something that sounds hke "Please
drive around" in garble-ese.
It's also very convenient to get
home and discover that while you
ordered a cheeseburger and fries,
what you got was a fishwich and
boogers.
I'm just joking, of course; it only
appears to be boogers. It is really the
stuff they scraped off the fry basket
and dumped in a fry box after the
grease had been licked off.
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you may be asking. Obviously, you
say with great wisdom, these things
won't change, that's just the way it
is.
And you're right. But I don't
necessarily want the service to change.
(Although it might be nice to get the
meal i order every now and tnen. j
All I want is a little honesty. I
want USC to send a little flyer out
with next registration packet that
says, "Look, we're not trying to make
things better for you students, we're
trying to make this school look like
a good place for foreign investors to
toss their cash. Live with it."
I want BellSouth to post a sign
that reads: We have closed this site,
not for your convenience, but because
there's a bomb on the ninth floor!
Get out now!
I want convenience stores to
rename themselves Not So Much
Convenience Stores As Small Stores
With Larger Candy Supplies Than
Grocery Stores.
I want ATM machines in grocery
stores to say: This isn't more
convenient than writing a check. But
it saves trees or something.
And I want drive-thru windows
to eliminate the speaker and the
nerd in headphones and replace them
with a sign declaring: Drive around
for a random food grab bag.
Don't even think about asking
for ketchup.
he'll be back next Friday.
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