Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I mhHPPVffillVVRVRff MM 'w\\ iiiiiiflMiiiiMiaM Serving Ui Chris Dixon, c*.?u?c r JlCpilillllC OUI1IICI11 Editor! Lucy Arnold, Achim Hunt, Bryan Johnstc Jennifer Stanl< [) New Intern ! resembles )\ Ifen years ago, high school students sweated getting into an undergraduate program. Nowadays, high school seniors could nap their way through the SATs and still somehow make it into an accredited % college. We are part of the time when getting into a university, Ivy league withheld, is easy, especially compared to the gnashing of teeth our parents went through. This time, the wailing and nail-biting is reserved for graduate, law and medical school. With undergraduate degrees being an all-too common occurrence, Master's | or Do'ctorate's are necessary to be competitive in today's job market. One part of admissions to graduate school seems to be the trickiest, especially to those considering themselves humanities-impaired. Students applying to grad school know the essay is a way to prove ^ necessary language and communication skills. If an applicant cannot clearly express herself in written form, an application's potential for acceptance is diminished. The pressure of needing a K well-written essay has become so great it has allowed a new business to spring up on the Web. IvyEssays helps to relieve Internet pi > touchy sub It appears USC graduate Donna Rice Hughes really knows how to make an impact. After having an affair with Sen. Gary Hart that helped -J end his presidential campaign 10 years ago, Rice is now a leader in the anti-porn group Enough Is Enough, based in Fairfax, VA. How appropiate. The mother of two stepchildren apparently feels she and other parents across the nation need some help parenting. The Internet has arnnired I too many red-light districts for her, and others', taste. Enough Is Enough is designed to help lobby for the passing of such legislature that would censor the distrubtion of pornography on the Internet Parents like Rice are scared their children will come across pornography while using the Internet. Student Media Russell Houi Chris Dixon News: Editor in Chief Advertisi Stephanie FAX: Sonnenfeld i Viewpoints Editor Actum Hunt Karen Lnyne _ ;? Jennifer Stanley J?hMt?n News Editors SP?rts Ed,tors f Lacy Arnold "?Pkini John Lyons Features Editors Copy Ed,tors Nikld Thorpe Photo Editor The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the U Wednesday, and Friday during the Fall and Spring se periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communical Student Media is its parent organization. The Gamecock will try to print all letters ret * include full name, professional title or year i " delivered by the author to The Gamecock nev reserves the right to edit all letter for style, p< withheld for any circumstance. 1 >amecock IC Since 1908 Editor in Chief eld, Viewpoints Editor lal Board m, Karen Layne, John Lyons, Ben Muldrow, sy, Nikki Thorpe. tet service plagiarism the pressure by offering a selection of essays to different graduate, law and medical schools, for a minimal fee, of course, to essay-anxious applicants. The intention is to give applicants a guide as to what kind of writing is accepted by some of the top graduate schools in t.ho nation The reality is students are going to plagiarize.We know that somewhere out there in Cyberspace, some idiot is going to click a mouse, sign an agreement not to plagiarize, and then send in an already accepted essay to another school under her/his name. These people are moronic. If caught plagiarizing, this action could do some serious damage to a student's reputation in the academic world. Forget about trying to apply to another school. If Smith University in preppy New England throws out an application due to plagiarism, rest assured Jones University in California will hear of it and throw out the same applicant. IvyEssays has a good intention, but the reality is their business makes plagiarizing all too easy. Hopefully, the majority of students will act responsibly and use the service correctly. For the others who don't, we laugh at your folly. ornography ject for all Can these parents not control their own children? Do they need the help of the federal government to do something that should come quite naturally? It's very easy. Tfell your kids that certain sites are off-limits, and that's that. But taking indecent pictures off the Internet is not going to keep children innocent forever. There things out there, very real dangers?they're called drugs, guns and sexual molestation. If Rice and her counterparts wish to truly help the nation's children, their efforts are needed for for more serious issues than whether or not pronorgraphy is allowed on the Internet. Focus on life-threatening problems, not pictures on the Internet. And if all else fails, remember?shut it down. nmiwina ie USC Columbia, SC 29208 777-7726 Adam Synder ng: 777-4249 Office Manager 777-6482 Jason Jeffem Cartoonist Ben Muldrow Melissa Sellers Graphics Editor Online Editor MkidLa Roeqne Lanra Day Asst. Viewpoints Creative Director Reginna Green Erik Collins Asst. News Faculty Advisor Jessica Nash Marilyn AsstFeaturea Edwards Taylor Jeff Nicholson Marketing Director Asst. Photo niversity of South Carolina and is published on Monday, mesters, with the exception of university holidays and exams editors or the author and not those of the University of South ions is the Publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of :eived. Letters should be 200-250 words and must and major if a student. Letters must be personally rsroom in Russel^House room 333. The Gamecock >ssible libel or space limitations. Names will not be VIEWJ SIGNE PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEW Philadelphia USA /^msT ( -fee UfJp?cPf \_ ftloTb. The last thing ai Gamecoc Dnspired by Jimmy Bufifett, I took off to Key West for Spring Break to get out of Columbia for a while and relax in the Caribbean sun. Key West is known for it's laid back, fun loving atmosphere, and I figured that there was no better place to go to forget about school for a while. Key West is a place that any one can go and be themselves. Prejudice is not welcome because everyone is embraced by the town and people are able to put away their differences for a while. For the biggest priority in the Conch Republic is having fun. I came from the northern mainland to forget about classes and assignments that I have not yet started. But when I got to Key West, I was not able to forget about school because it seemed like the University of South Carolina had launched a full-fledged invasion of the Conch Republic. Practically everywhere I looked, I saw USC hats or shirts. Many o! Singleton n I throughout this 21-yeai ^^9 struggle called life, I havt seen and done man] things, not all of them good. With age, I have learned whon and whom not to trust and I begai to become more realistic about thii thing called life. For the last few years, I have mad) random comments about the work that could only come from the sicl mind of this columnist. One of my friends back homi called it Singletonian philosophy The moniker has stuck ever since Since then I have numbered ead of the tenets of Singletoniai philosophy, which is a combinatioi of cynicism, stoicism, and just plai] cuiimiuii sense, xicic uuw uca ici of the thoughts that my sick mini could create over the years. Singletonian philosophy #1: Th contents of this line of thinking ma be offensive to the politically correci Reader discretion is advised. Singletonian philosophy #2 Everyone has an ulterior motive fc everything; no one does anythin out of the gentle goodness of thei hearts. If someone gives you a piec of gum, <>can it for cyanide. Singletonian philosophy #<?: ] you are walking down Ocean JOINTS 'S ^ ' wouia warn 10 ao 1 Helen Lee, managing edit r k basketbc | FRED LEACH | the people who were wearing USC attire were not even students. It seems as though many people from across the country has jumped on our bandwagon. There were many actual students down there however, and we seemed to share a special fellowship that I have never experienced before. In the Margaritaville Cafe, Hard Rock Cafe, Sloppy Joe's, and down at Mallory Square, I met USC students whom I have never met before. We all felt like bad-asses walking around down there. We owe this to our basketball team of course, who has given us a season of excitement that USC hasn't known in nearly a quarter of a century. I was a Gamecock fan long before I began attending school here. L I never thought that I would see the 1 day when I would feel like a big shot wearing Gamecock clothing. I have 1 always been proud to be a fen. There is a great proliferation of Packers i nvrkl nine r L tAJiiailli3 I SHaWiS SilVfttBlfllv ?| i Boulevard in Myrtle Beach and you 1 see a beautiful female, chances are good that she is probably underage. 1 Singletonicm philosophy #4: Tupac 1 Shakur and Christopher Wallace 3 (a.k.a, the Notorious B.I.G) are working as gas station attendants 3 at the same truck stop that James Dean and Kurt Cobain work as c mechanics and Marilyn Monroe labors as a cashier. By the way, Elvis owns 3 the place. Singletonian philosophy #5: Southern hospitality is an oxymoron. 1 If you dont agree, refer to Singtetonian 1 philosophy #2. Singletonian philosophy #6: The 1 definition of a nice guy: A man who ^ is sweet, kind, caring, considerate, and therefore, undesirable as a mate. Singletonian philosophy #7: The e definition of a fraternity guy: See y "alcoholic." Singletonian philosophy #8: The t definition of a sorority girl: See ': "materialistic" and "loose." Also, refer ,r back to #6. S Sinrtlofnninn r\hilncnnh\> HQ' This r is the tenet that I live the most by. e It is better to be cynical and surprised than it is to bet>ptimistic and disappointed. This tenet works best ^ ft t worked hard throi s blow it all away. or of IvyEssays on its value ill sweeps fans now and everywhere you go, you can see people wearing things that show their support for the Super Bowl champions. But each die-hard Packer fan had a truly special feeling when their team won it all, the same feeling that all the loyal Gamecock fans have now. One night when I was down there, I took a sunset cruise on a huge catamaran called the Sebago. It was $22.00 for the two-hour cruise and all the beer you could drink. It just so happened that about half the people on board this particular cruise were from Carolina. As the evening drew on, and the beer flowed freely, we began to do the "Game Cocks" cheer. Bystanders who were not fans joined in with us, even the Captain and crew joined in. Pretty soon the whole boat was rocking to the cheers. Everyone had become a Gamecock fen except a Gator fen who responded to our cheers with, "Who gives a ? ?s..t?" His jealousy was drowned out by our reveby. When we started heading back to the harbor, we all )ersonal p] when I go to Five Points, women stand me up, the computer that I am working on crashes, and the Gamecocks choke in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Singletonian philosophy # 10: The world wants to share in your success, but no one wants to help you get there. Enough said. Singletonian philosophy #11: Feminism is a movement that was created so that unattractive women can gain a place in society. Singletonian philosophy #12: The best way to clear a swimming pool is to go to the edge and yell, "Greg Louganis." Singletonian philosophy #13: Speaking of water, this tenet will attempt to explain why my fellow African-Americans have an aversion to it. We actually liked water, until they put us on those damned ships. Singletonian philosophy #14: The definition of conservatism: See Ku KluxKlan. Singletonian philosophy #15: Some of the things that AfricanAmericans will not do: surfing, bungee jumping, flying the Confederate flag, and serving as conservative justices on the Supreme Court. Singletonian philosophy #16: Why is it that women wear short, tight skirts and shorts, then complain when a man whistles or compliments igh high school the Keys started singing the fight song. That cruise was one of the neatest things that I have ever experienced. I wished that Lariy, Melvin, BJ and all the rest of the guys could have been there to see this. I was in Daytona Beach on the way home when I heard on the radio about our loss to.Coppin State. It was a bitter ending to this dream season, but the ending should give way to the memory of the fantastic season that we had. After the dismal 5-5 start, our team went on to have one of their greatest seasons ever. The night of Feb. 4 will live forever in the memory of all Gamecock fans as the city of Columbia celebrated the overtime victory over Kentucky. I played in the pep band that helped greet the victorious Gamecocks at the airport after their victory at Kentucky. On the way out, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbourne thanked me for playing and supporting the team. I would like to thank Nate, Larry and the rest of the team for giving all USC fans such a wonderful season and something to cheer about. hilosophy them on their choice in clothing? What the hell are they expecting when they go out dressed like that? Singletonian philosophy #17: Why do men find lesbianism sexy? This seems to be a double standard to me for I think it all sucks, but that's my gender, I guess. Last but not least, there is one more tenet of Singletonian philosophy that I live by just as much as #9, and that is number 25. Money makes the world go around. People will kill, steal, sell their bodies, as well as their souls for it. An unattractive man cannot get a beautiful woman without it. A nnmmnn nprann cannot pet justice in a court of law without it. Marriages break up because of it. "Love" doesn't pay bills; money does. Money is power and power is money. Everyone has a price. Anyone who says they aren't for sale just hasn't been offered enough. These are opinions based on what I have seen and experienced in my short lifetime. I could be wrong but nothing has happened as of yet to prove me wrong. I choose to call it common sense -based reality, with a sick, humorous twist. If you find yourself agreeing with my mode of thinking, seek . [JD^UlUl^iUU tuuiifitciiilg uiuiicuiai^ij or go to the nearest liquor store.