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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.
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ing sign ups
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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.
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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.
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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
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the state's education statistics
compare to the rest of the
nation.
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to improve our education
system? When Mississippi
passes us in the rankings,
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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
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interests of all university students. Mr. h
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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,
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