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i:\itd Serving US PKmo Hivavi Stephanie Sonnenfi Editor! Lucy Arnold, Achim Hunt, Bryan Johnsto Jennifer Stanle use Housi rapidly ap If you're living on campus, look around your room. By now, you're probably pretty comfy in your digs. Your poster-sale posters are stuck up on the walls with two-sided tape. You and your roommate don't have matching bedspreads, but that doesn't matter because your carpet clashes with both of them. Your little refrigerator is empty and your laundry bag is overflowing with an assortment of socks and shirts. This is your home. Soon?very soon?you're going to have to pack up and move out. But, before you gather your boxes and clean out under your beds, you have to choose a new place to live. Look at the calender on your wall and you'll see that it's time for USC Housing Sign Up. Ah, what an utterly joyous time for USC students. Hopefully this year's sign up process will be better than last year's, which was confusing simply because, who knew where to live? Maxcy was closed and some Tbwers were torn down. You had to sign up for a lottety slot with the hope you would be one of the lucky S.C. kind should gc The S.C. Legislature voted against full-day kindergarten Tuesdav. But, don't despair, the House is pushing for a plan to allot $30 million for daylong classes for 5-year-olds, according to an article in The State. Part of the problem is that many districts in South Carolina don't have room for expansion. Some districts said they don't even have money for a full-day kindergarten program. This is truly a shame. When is S.C. going to clean up it's act when it comes to education? Kindergarten is one of the most formative school years a child experiences. If daylong kindergarten was enacted, think of the possibilities. Student Media Russell Hous< Chris Dixon New8; ' Editor in Chief Advertisin. Stephanie FAX: 7 Sonnenfeld I Viewnoints Editor Achlm Hunt Karen Layne Bi7m Jennifer Stanley ,Johl"Vm I News Editors Sp*"*3 Editors John Lyons Mark Hopkins |/fn Copy Desk Chief MePherson NJJfJ 1?,?rPe Features Editors Photo Editor The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the Uni\ Wednesday, and Friday during the Fall and Spring seme periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the ed Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communication Student Media is its parent organization. The Gamecock will try to print all letters recei include full name, professional title or year ant delivered by the author to The Gamecock newsr reserves the right to edit all letter for style, poss withheld for any circumstance. 1 Jamecock C Since 1908 tditor in Lniet eld, Viewpoints Editor al Board n, Karen Layne, John Lyons, Ben Muldrow, sy, Nikki Thorpe. ing sign ups proaching students allowed to live on campus. This year, it's different. Maxc/s back and there's the new South Quad area, which should allot for more living choices. rm. - tt tv i j_ ine nousrng jjeparaneni seems to have invested a lot of time and energy in promoting dorm living. Commercials pop up all the time on Gamecock Cable Vision. Ppsters promoting oncampus living are all over the place. There's no way you can possibly avoid the clues that housing sign up is rapidly approaching. There's even a contest going on to win the room of your choice. The housing folks are taking this year's sign up seriously. Basically, the gist is if you're planning on living on campus, be aware that your sign up time is rapidly approaching. Don't miss out on your chance to pick where you live and who you live with. After all, life is full of complex decisions. Make it simple. Remember your housing sign-up date. ergarten > all day There could be so many tasks accomplished in daylong kindergarten . There could be more instruction in both academic and social activities. Unfortunately, day-long kindergarten and other assorted education improvements will take a while to be implemented in South Carolina. Ifs sad to think that money has such a control over the art of education in South Carolina. But, unless there's more money, not much can really be done. It's common Iri^AtirlA/lrfn U ATIT 'POT* KAIM luiuwicugc iiuvv iai ucxiiixu the state's education statistics compare to the rest of the nation. When will we be inspired to improve our education system? When Mississippi passes us in the rankings, : use Colombia, SC 29208 (77-7726 Jeff Nicholson g: 777-4249 Asst. Photo 77-6482 Synder Office Manager Ben Mnldrow J"?" Jeflfers Graphics Editor Cartoonist fuaJ La Rocque Melissa Sellers Asst. Viewpoints Online Editor Hegfaina Green Laora Day Asst. News Creative Director Jessica Nash Erik Collins AsstFeatures Faculty Advisor rersity of South Carotins and is published on Monday, sters. with the exception of university holidays and exams ilors or the author and not those of the University of South is the Publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of ved. Letters should be 200-250 words and must i major if a student. Letters must be personally oom in Russell House room 333. The Gamecock ible libel or space limitations. Names will not be VIEW TO* ' The perception < M You'd mi e may be seeing a sharp BAfl fall in the price of lambchops sometime soon. After all, well have all the lamb we can eat. This is, of course, all about the new lamb cloning going on in Great Britain. They didn't want to stop with just cloning viruses and amoeba. That was just too easy. Why bother with frogs or turtles when you could make a lamb? They did this because they believe the world will be better if there are more lambs. Shari Lewis's Lambchop is a real asset to society. She taught me how to turn an ordinary handkerchief into bunny rabbit ears. Also, lambs are symbols of innocence, so they remind us about being sweet and nice. Lambs are cute, cuddly and, particularly in certain spicy Indian dishes, delicious. But there are those of you who just can't stop criticizing this newest feat of science. Apparently you won't be happy unless every scientist in the world is sitting on his or her duf? not doing oniTfl>mrr wimot*1roV\1n /Tintr flio?lra cuijrwmig i cuicu ivaux^ \xxtjr, uiaiuus to the United States grant system, many of them are!). Here they are SG did fine job i To the editor a I In response to Wayne Ridgeway Jr.'s a letter of Feb. 28, the Bisexual, Gay and e Lesbian Association is more than justified p in requesting and receiving funds from p Student Government. c QTl Viqq q roarvM-idiKil lH/ +n nmtort fVio r UV4 1K41J U i VJ W vyvww WAV JM interests of all university students. Mr. h Ridgeway's aggressively moralistic p homophobia is irrelevant to both BGLA's h (MINTS ^ikk?k vc 4r^ vmi LP A LtlUl AO MU Lvf J VW NAACP, would si atthew Richardson, SG Senate V. ike a beai LUCY ARNOLD | coming up with scientific advances in your favor, and they are totally unappreciated. i Not only will there be lambs in , abundance, but there is the possibility , of cloning other things. Oh yeah, you say, somebody , hasn't seen "Jurassic Park" a million times. 1 Well, you're wrong, because Fve j seen "Jurassic Park" seven million j times (and that part when the girl , almost falls through the floor still , scares me). And I don't mean cloning ] dinosaurs. It might be neat to clone j mosquitos. I wonder what it would < be like to live in a world dominated ] by the those little bugs. Oh wait, i scratch that. < Or how about cats and dogs? We j could have gangs of them roaming ] the streets searching for the means i for survival. Never mind. We could clone locusts. I like the 1 little exoskeletons they leave behind. ' And it would be interesting to see l what they do when they get into groups. Forget that one, too. < Did I already do dinosaurs? in distributing B ctivities, and to any other student group, ac lis personal opinion about certain sexual se cts makes no difference to BGLA's to xistence. BGLA's functions are to to iromote a safe environment in which or eople (regardless of sexual orientation) an coexist without animosity and to B< rovide social support for members of a ro ainority which has, after all, been th ersecuted and excluded throughout the bi listory of the West. The association's se FEEL THE y/ FREEM/ foRCE f rf ' US HE'LI 1 BE CAR \ * i % . If she had not be ie be up there? )r on NAACP president Gretchen itiful cloi No, actually I mean cloning < human beings. < This could be great for us! There < are so many things this could do for people. First of all, we could eliminate (or at least greatly reduce the number i of) stupid people. We could just clone i smart people. We could have a whole country of little Einsteins and Stephen Hawkings. Teaching would no longer oe the most drudge-filled profession imaginable. Discipline would be 1 automatic. After all, their little minds 1 vould just be open to the possibility 1 }f learning, not to the possibility of 1 forming the perfect paper airplane, i Maybe all these smart people around would mean the end of stupid i drivers. (The turn signal is that little i [ever somewhere around the steering 1 ivheeL) And imagine the strides that i :ould be made in the fast food industry! Assuming someone could I 1 _11 i.1 J 1 A persuaae au uiose smart people to i work in fast food restaurants. ] Then we eliminate ugly people. 1 We'll just clone Sandra Bullock and rom Cruise. This would be good : because then things would be fair. Everybody knows that bosses < discriminate on the basis of looks. And the entertainment industry GLA funds desj tivities do not "promote" any particular to xual behavior, as Mr. Ridgeway seems b think, but rather strive to promote fa lerance between people of differing st ientations. t! I was personally very glad to see n GLA on the Student Organization's B ster when I came to USC last fall. In ie face of so many people who are as R goted and hateful as Mr. Ridgeway F ems to be, BGLA provided me a place K I I I I ?T OME OF | . ALWAYS TH VADER. en president of Durrah ?. le, baby certainly doesn't provide equal employment. Come on, how else did Cindy Crawford get a movie deal? And well be very careful when we clone that we only clone whole, healthy people. Nobody who's deaf, or blind, or suffers any other kind of impairment will be cloned. This will be good for our children. Well just have smart, beautiful, healthy people everywhere. It'll be idyllic. Of course, neither you or I will be involved. You know that little birthmark on your arm? You won't be cloned. A B- in physics? I don't think so. And you can forget it, you're lot pretty enough. But you know, when I think about it, that birthmark on my arm makes me me. A physical deformity perhaps, r?i-?4" ann T 1>atta aavma fa i/lnnfiAr na jut uiic x nave turne tu iuciitiijr ao a part of myself. I look like myself, not like you ^enough with the "Amen, brothers" already!). And I am good at analyzing literature, not at balancing chemical formulas. That's me. "They knew that they could do it, so they didn't stop to think about whether they should." - Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park Somebody send that movie over to Britain ? fast. 1 nTrv rlinflATini A** nit; uioociioiun i feel I was actually accepted as a human ang, with dignity. The university does ir too little to reach out to its minority ;udents, who quite often get left out in le cold. If there is any complaint to be tade about SG's allocation of funds to GLA, it is that it was too small. obert Davis reshman, [istory