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5 1'ted Serving US Chris Dixon, Stephanie Sonnenf Editor] ) Achim Hunt, Bryan Johnston, Karen Layne, Jennifer Stank Interest < > cloud dist USC's student population is large, in comparison to the other colleges in South n l n..i ?. j_t Carolina, JDUI, its nut mat big. This is why we often find the same group of students occupying the different leadership positions on * campus, anywhere from Student Government to Greek Council to Student Media. Thking over the leadership roles of different organizations usually isn't a problem. Students do a comendable job in keeping interests separate. Yet there are certain situations in which, for the best interests of all, a 1 separation of powers is warranted. It is best to avoid conflict of interest by simply not positioning oneself in such a situation. Bookstoi is studen Look around campus these days and you'll see a lot of people walking around with USC Bookstore bags. An average stranger to the USC campus probably wouldn't think this is strange. After all, this is a college campus, one would expect students to shop at the bookstore, right? Well, here at USC, it is a bit strange seeing as the bookstore's prices are so outrageous we can only afford to shop there with our coveted bonus bucks or when we have to buy books for the semester. Isn't it funny now, that the current bookstore is clearing house to make room for new management and that everything is 40 percent off, students are actually buying stuff in bulk from the store? Maybe this should be a message to the new managers of the bookstore: Price your items reasonably. Sounds strange, huh? But, its a good concept We're going to buy stuff from the bookstores at USC, that's not the issue. But, we don't have to buy everything there. We can buy our notebooks and other supplies at WalMart or any office supply store for half the price of the BIB Student Media Russell Hons Chris Dixon News: Editor in Chief Advertisii Stephanie FAX: Sonnenfeld Viewpoints Editor Achim Hunt Karen Lame Bryan Jennifer Stanley Johnston News Editors j Sports Editors John Lyons Mark Hopkins Kelly Ben Pillow McPherson &jitors Features Editors Thorpe Photo Editor The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the Uni Wednesday, and Friday during the Fall and Spring sen periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the e Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communicatio Student Media is its parent organization. brushes The Gamecock will try to print all letters rece include full name, professional title or year ar delivered by the author to The Gamecock news reserves the right to edit all letter for style, pos withheld for any circumstance. fomecock >C Since 1908 Editor in Chief eld, Viewpoints Editor al Board , John Lyons, Kelly McPherson, Ben Muldrow, jy, Nikki Thorpe. conflicts ribution Kim Baxter, President of AAAS and Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, removed herself from the hearings of AAAS when they came to ask for their portion of the student fee activity and did not vote on AAAS's budget. Baxter had the good judgment to realize the favorable budget AAAS received from the Finance Committee would have looked bad, had she been residing. Why, however, was another AAAS member put in charge? And why did out-going Vice-President Franklin, a member of AAAS, appoint Baxter as Chairperson of the Finance Committee in the first place? It was not a smart move to put someone in such a situation in the first place. e's loss ts' gain University Bookstore. Greeting cards, USC athletic wear and magazines are also available for purchase elsewhere. Basically, the campus bookstore is necessary for two things: text books and convenient Derishables (i.e. coke, candy and chips) ? maybe stamps, if you're willing to add a third factor. Sure, we'd love to be able to buy more USC sweatshirts and such, butwhen a sweatshirt is at the going price of say, $40, it's a bit difficult to scrounge up the cash when you have to pay a phone bill or a tuition bill. But, many thanks should go out to the University Bookstore for their awesome sale. Now we can afford to indulge in purchasing items other than that Physics book or an occasional pack of gum. And, we bet that the bookstore's making an incredible profit these days. This sale is basically a free for all. The only things we're concerned with now are: When does the sale end and when the new bookstore i * ?ii comes into power, do we still get our 50 percent buy back deal? ifllllHW ie USC Columbia, SC 29208 777-7726 j Adam Synder iff 7774249 Office Manager 777-6482 Jason JefTers Cartoonist Ben Mnldrow Melissa Sellers Graphics Editor Online Editor Nflda La Rocque Laura Day Assl Viewpoints Creative Director Reginna Green Marilyn Asst. News Edwards Taylor Jessica Nash Marketing Director Asst.Features Erik Collins JefT Nicholson Faculty Advisor Asst. Photo iverxity of South Carolina and is published on Monday, icsters, with the exception of university holidays and exams ditors or the author and not those of the University of South (IK it thr Publisher of T>w? Tk- Pi??* ~e lived. Letters should be 200-250 words and must id major if a student. Letters must be personally room in Russell House room 333. The Gamecock sible libel or space limitations. Names will not be VIEWPO THEffCS AN Don't use credit cards on sale. A Barney Raffield, Giovanni pe W_ _ _ _ .. I NIK1 hen I first heard of Nikki Giovanni, I felt a special closeness to her because of our shared first name, like a crotcl My freshmen year in high school, whowanti we had to compare and contrast an sleeping wil author from another period with a fh?t of youi modem one. I chose Emily Dickinson and vocal i because I already loved her work, opinion, no and Nikki Giovanni, because we disappoint? had the same first name. the great C My 14-yearold mind tripped over insight of 1 her poetry, powerful and ardent and like her ear in your face. I was scared of Nikki to promise. Giovanni. I was scared of being or somethi white. Her poetry was that good, audience af But Nikki Giovanni taught me that Confedera poetry does not have to be written wondered, t by a dead author in order for it to could not v be good She became the first modem but she cov author I read, appreciated, and liked she though So, needless to say, when Ms. She co\ Giovanni came to speak to USC this including th past Monday, the 14 year-old buried and her si beneath all those other layers begged mother, he me to take her. The 19 year-old was verdict of ( curious, too. To actually see Ms. iove for foij Giovanni and hear her speak! Good throughout idea So I and another open-minded, poems, littli free-thinking liberal went to hear faj. ca^s the great Giovanni, because, hey, white mal we're down with black history. g^te Nikki Giovanni proved to be veiy an(j cjap ^ interesting and hilarious, somewhat comments a Go and vote! W| LI ell even though I am a senior at USC, I voted in | my first Student Government election Come on yesterday. can think o Yeah, I know, voter apathy. Hit Governmen me over the head with all the bills then, raise the senate has passed this year, think of Sti Ouch, that's a nasty paper cut. Now I go All I can say is it's a good thing high school voter turnout isn't very good here I say> "You because it takes long enough to stand sentences," ? in line and wait for the polite but the same bj apparently far-sighted (or just tired- on y01"" f&ce of-looking-at-computer-printouts- when I sta sighted) women to find your name sentences, w without all approximately 26,000 dawning thi of you showing up. h* the direct They were having some problems Toyoi I eruess because thev keot not finding Governmen names on the list I was one of them, elected eac and let me tell you this was not some themselves scam to load the ballot boxes because, discuss thii frankly, nobody cares that much. fiU vacant Anyway the net result was I seats, discovered another cause of student I unders apathy. Voting just isn't easy enough. My analog} Yeah, I hear you. If you care Those high i enough, youll go through the trouble, actual need i Aye, there's the rub. I don't care You, my frit enough, and judging from the worse for v number of students I saw walking another v rmfc nf fhprp wi+.Vtnnf vnfincr T am Govemmer not alone in the universe. Sadly, th IMS OTHER ONE I VON'l TALK INS <3E> ? 9^7. - u to purchase shirts or dri nd never use them to flu associate professor of management at Lebano ns love, but i ULAROCQUE I began to da on me. All I ?cats in Washington wer MMmSMimSiM males. She voiced the agony ol iety great-grandmother mother, of how her, and all ] 3 to know who you're greatest fear is that they \ th and asks you right in to bury their child. My owi parents. She was strong has said such to me. Ms. C md voiced exactly her spoke feelingly about her s; more or less. I was a bit for Tupac Shakur's mothe: d over that, for I wanted Joss of the "beautifol boy." ] Jiovanni to give us the me, as I know two mothers \ low to right the world, lost their daughters. Ms. ( ly college works seemed was the most earnest aboi "Can you write a poem think. Yet somehow her sj ng?" one girl from the for mothers with slain c jked, in reference to the stopped at Nicole Brown's te flag, and I silently Perhaps Nicole deservi oo. But no, Ms. Giovanni since she was not a "war rrite a poem against it, Tupac was, but merely a' ild tell us exactly what But this tramp was a mot t ot tne nag. There was no feeling lor the rered several topics, of this mother-daughter cy e death of Tupac Shakur a joy that the innocent wi empathy for Tupac's ' innocent, that the old "law r joy over the innocent South for once did not ap D.J. Simpson, and her black man. But for Nicole ick women. Scattered mother, there was not on< this repertoire were her pity. There was not e e jokes, and stabs at the acknowledgement that such Washington. The fat, bearing such an agony as e cats in Washington, mother, might even exist, d I couldnt help but grin And Ms. Giovanni lov i agreement over her women. What an encourag bout Newt, but a pattern must be to have someone t Or don't - n< fCY ARNOLD I ?ven we' ^ege graduates will be, will move along in ou gugggggggu the same way we do now. am a liberal arts majo , raise your hand if you interested in things like the f a single way Student Arts Career Workshops ( t affects your life. Okay hear me say I was a senior? your hand if you can writing contests and othei ident Government. artsy stuff, tcha. This is like tutoring Journalism studer seniors on writing, and interested in internships, 1 i must have complete The Gamecock (can't imagi ind they look at me with and other journalism-relate< iffled expressions I see (Workshop: How to Keep a ss (I am psychic). That's Face as You Tell Out-and-( rt telling them about to the Public). You get the ith the realization slowly And as we paddle along, e it we need to head back 0f college, we'll do the sam ion of nouns and verbs. We'll worry about our \ 1 I say, Student companies, our families ai t is a group of students us-related things. And, Ne\ h vear. essentiallv bv +V>a+'a nnt f Vio ommmmonf }, who meet weekly to Not unlike Student Gove lgs such as whether to the U.S. government and Student Government government don't do anyt us. They never do improve ,tand your frustration, dining, nor will they reform i has failed miserably. Unlike Student Govei school students have an these other governmen bo leam about sentences, greater control over our aids, will not be any the Student activity fees are 01 /ear if you never hear up to more than 50 percei /ord about Student earned income is someth Lt. entirely. And what would is is a peek at our future, if We shook loose our votei " ffPMEMBPR * -a a a esses Because mey are id a party. n Valley College, Pa. lot for all ihose fat as Ms. Giovanni to believe in you. e white (But I do. That's my mother.) She returned to this theme again and F being a again during the lecture. * mothers', But what about me, Ms. vill have Giovanni? Could you love me, too? 1 mother That is what I want to know. Your xiovanni words helped my young mind stretch, ympathy helped to understand a time I did r, for the not live through. [t moved But will you love others before vho have me who have not read your work, xiovanni who do not know who you are, nt this, I because they are black women? What nnpathy about me? hildren That is what this lecture came mother, down to, for me. Your love for others, ed to die yes, Ms. Giovanni, I see that plainly, rior," as but could you love me? There was tramp." not one word, kind or heavy, against her, too. white people in general Monday breaking night. Only about the white males rnln nnltr i'n Woo^inrrfnn onrl fVio anlo wiC) UAUJ Ui TTaouuigwa UIJU biiu ouiw TTUIW is found woman mentioned in the lecture rs" of the was a tramp. Silence is damning. >ply to a Omission says more than a speech. Brown's And what I want to know, Ms. 3 drop of Giovanni, is could you love me? ven an i used to dream militant dreams/ of a person, taking/ over america to show/ these Tupac's white folks how it should be... then i awoke and dug/ that if i dreamed es black natural/ dreams of being a natural/ ;ement it woman.. .i would have a revolution, is strong Nikki Giovanni )body cares. that we and headed out to the polls anyway? \r worlds We wouldn't be able to change the Since I people on the ballot, r, I am In this case, I'm not really talking ! Liberal about people running for student did you government. I know some of them -Yikes!), and they seem like nice people r liberal relatively uncorrupted by any political system. If they stay in politics, I fear its are that might change, running Bob Dole and Bill Clinton both ne why) may once have been really great I things, people. 1 hey probably still have Straight their good qualities. (Remember hit Lies Clinton was VERY hospitable to picture. Ms. Jones.) But power corrupts, sven out Once you can have control over other e thing, people, you'll probably take various advantage of it. id other Now that I start thinking about vsflash!, it, the real government should have more in common with our Student amment, Government. Little or no actual the S.C. power involved, but everybody gets hing for to have a lot of fun acting like they campus do. And we could have flat Citizen welfare. Activity Fees instead of a The More nment, You Earn, The More You Pay Tax. ts have So why did I vote today if I know money, it doesn t matter and I have never le thing, voted before anyway? Because if it it of our does turn out those crazy senators ing else have any say whatsoever over the happen, lives of USC students, itH be your apathy asses on the line.