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Some students lament
about the lack of intellectual
atmosphere on USC's
campus. Tbo much focus on
sports, too many TAs acting
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as proiessors, ana a general
student apathy towards
# political causes are all
common complaints among
the "intelligencia" of USC.
These students often look
longingly to "forward
thinking" universities, like
Berkeley.
A taste of the finest in
the intellectual culture will
come to USC Feb. 24,
mostly as part of the
Freshmen Year Reading
0 Experience.
They will also provide
relief to the knowledgethirsty
in this community,
Sandra Gilbert and
Susan Gubar, two of the
leading feminist theorists
and critics of our time and
both professors of English,
will provide the lecture foi
* this year's Freshmen Yeai
Reading Experience. Both
will give their critics and
understandings of the
portrayal of women in Jane
Eyre.
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to mess with nature?
3 When we see our own
ir clones walking down the
3 street, that's when.
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Something scary anc
revolutionary happened ir
# Britain recently.
According to a New York
Times article, scientists
report they've cloned ar
adult mammal for the first
time. An embryologist at
the Roslin Institute ir
Edinburgh, Scotland createc
a lamb using DNA from e
- male adult sheep.
Researchers say the
cloning will help in the
research of genetic diseases
They also said it could helj
in the replication of animal?
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which are strong producer!
of good meat, milk or wool
for example.
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sound like a good idea 01
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the mouth of a seasonee
scientist. But, it's really j
bit frightening as well.
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Here's a chance for all to
expand minds.
If challenging thesis is
one's cup of tea, Gilbert and
Gubar will amply supply.
Now we'll see if these
knowledge-thirsty Carolina
students sincerely want to
learn new thoughts and
ideas, or if they will expound
on theories only to sit home
and watch TV when our
! guest speakers are here.
So often students
bemoan circumstance.
l When given the opportunity
, to correct, even just for a
i short while, said
; circumstances, they sit still
and wait for others to take
i the initiative.
And even if some will
attend these lectures, others
1 still will not go because they
i figure the ones attending
i will be enough to make a
I crowd.
, We've got a symbiotic
relationship. USC needs a
good turnout so the
t university doesn't look bad,
I the speakers want a crowd
; so they don't feel bad, and
i you, intelligencia, want to
learn. Right?
c cloning
dangerous
l naturally produced. Is this
l an abuse of our power of
humans? Yes, it is.
Aiding in reproduction
' with artificial insemination
t or fertility drugs should
really be the farthest we go
t in the reproduction process,
I with the exception of natural
i conception.
Fooling with nature is
* something that could
' backfire on us as quickly
^ as it could benefit us.
Yes, it's great these
. Scottish scientists were able
3 to literally create this lamb,
, but in the long run what
good will it do us?
f It's scary to think that
1 humans have the ability to
J alter nature. When will we
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Sororities:
When I first came to USC,
I told myself I would take
a look at the Greek
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generalizations about it. Well,
eventually I did both.
For the past year I have seen
Greeks as rich kids who have to use
their daddy's money to buy their
friends. All they care about is clothes,
beer and social status.
But recently I have come to a
realization. I think I want to join a
sorority.
Now these organizations receive
a lot of bashing on this campus, and
gotten their fair share from this
newspaper. But, I think a lot of people
have underestimated the bonds of
sisterhood.
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To the editor:
Student Government makes a
big deal about their working to serve
the needs of the student body. The
most important function Student
Government serves is to allocate our
student activities fees. If the budget
appeals process is how Student
Government thinks that is working
to serve our interests, then Student
Government is a bigger sham than
I thought.
My organization , as has many
on our campus, have had their
budgets cut severely. Our budget
allocation was reduced by 50 percent
from last year and we only received
10 percent of what we asked for. I
was under the impression that we
were to present our case to the
Finance Committee in order to justify
why we requested the amount of
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Think about it. Spending all that
time together with the same group
of girls. You get to know each other
intimately. You know each others
secrets and fears, passions and
fantasies. I just love the idea.
I have never really been that
close to a group of girls in my life.
My only sister is considerably younger
than me and we can't really bond.
She doesn't really understand things
since she is so much younger than
lam.
I just see this whole sorority
concept as another one of the great
opportunities that Carolina has
offered me. A lot of schools talk about
iment budget a
money tnat we aid. instead, 1 was
forced to wait an hour after my
supposed "scheduled" time to be
lectured on how little time the
committee had and how much money
my club had in our account. I was
told we had a certain amount of
money, and the figure was an amount
I had never heard before. We have
never received an accurate account
sheet from Student Government. I
was peppered with questions about
how my organization planned on
spending the rest of our carry-over
money. Our budget (what I
mistakenly thought was the purpose
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I was under the impression that I
would be allowed to discuss our
reasoning for budget.
The committee was very hostile
and adversarial toward me and my
fellow members. When one of the
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getting rid of Greek organizations ]
because they cause more division
on campus. But I don't think this is i
true.
There really is only one problem
here. Fm a guy.
Now most people would say that's
why they have fraternities. But I
don't want to join a fraternity. They
do nothing for me. But for reasons
stated above, the concept of joining
a sorority sounds great.
In today's equal opportunity
society, you think it wouldn't be a
problem if I wanted to join a sorority.
But now, these groups are still
bastions of all female membership.
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should be barred from joining a group
just because of their possessions or
lack of certain body parts and
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committee members would ask a
question, there seemed to be no
appeal in the process. We were told
why we received the amount for our
allocation. The mind of the committee
seemed to have been already made
up. All we had to do was show up
and hear their reasoning. They
seemed disinterested in anything I
or my fellow club members had to
say.
We were also lectured on the need
to conserve money and cut allocations
from student groups. However,
Student Government's budget has
not been cut. My organization does
not have an office, graduate assistants
and work studies, a secretary, a
copier, computers or stipends for
officers. If Student Government
wants to save money, they should
look to themselves first before they
cut other organizations . I would like
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The thing is that this certain
social problem cannot be chalked
up to being just a part of the
conservative South. It's like this all
over the country. Universities
everywhere have segregated Greek
organizations. And the thing is, no
one is speaking up.
But I want to start the protest.
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i want to make a ainerence. i lhuik
this could be the great civil rights
movement of our generation. It's
time for men's rights when it comes
to joining women's organizations.
Hopefully by the time my children
go to college, my sons will have a
choice as to the greek organization
they want to join. But as for now I
guess all I can do is dream about
living in South Tower.
ir, unjustified
for Student Government to submit
a budget to me and my fellow student
organization presidents for review
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$81,000.1 would like to know what
fundraisers Student Government
have planned for next year. I feel
honored that I helped stroke the egos
of some very "important" people. If
Student Government is so important
and makes such a difference, maybe
they can explain why barely 10
percent of the student body will vote
for them. Most students see in
Student Government what I saw
last night ? a sham.
Brian Gambrell,
President
Round Table Gaming Society
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