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Samecock use Since 1908 n, Editor in Chief nfeld, Viewpoints Editor irial Board ston, Karen Layne, John Lyons, Ben Muldrow, nley, Nikki Thorpe. p includes ?< Serving Chris Dixo Stephanie Sonne Edito Lucy Arnold, Achim Hunt, Bryan Johm Jennifer Stai Growing u] 1 accepting j Who says collie kids aren mature and responsible adults A group of students a University of Wisconsin Madison has taken a giganti leap into the stream o f adulthood. They decided t sue their school. How mucl more adult can you get tha that? It seems these students ai highly upset because thei individual student activity fee of about $331.50 are going t political and issue-oriente student organizations. nrn 1 3?j_ j; j L mese SLuutaius uiu uui wia to financially suppor ^ organizations with which the were not affiliated. Ifs not lib the money was going to Sata Worshippers International c the Students for Chil Pornography Association. Or of the groups protested again was a pro-environmer organization. 0 Evidently these Wisconsii Madison students don't wai their fellow students to woi for clean air, land, and wate All they wanted was the: $331.50 back. 1 Young res freedom < Think back to when yoi ^ were in elementary school an< what you liked to read for fun Chances are, you weren' reading Charles Dickens o TTTM1 11 William r auamer. No, you were probabl] reading books like Sweet Valle; High, The Hardy Boys, Choos Your Own Adventure, Nanc] Drew and a variety of Jud; Blume novels. Sure, these books weren' always the most intellectuall; stimulating books, but yoi enjoyed reading them. The] gave you a break from thi required reading in Language Arts. Simply put, they weri fun to read. Try and remember how yoi would have felt if you weren' allowed to read these book! ^ because they didn't garner an] educational merit whatsoevei A New York Times articli reports that many schoo libraries across America ar< starting to crackdown on book like the highly-popula Goosebumps series. % Student Media Russell Hoi Chris Dixon New: Editor in Chief Adverti: Stephanie FAX Sonnenfeld Viewpoints Editor Achim Hunt l amp Brvan Jennifer Stanley Johnston News Editors Sports Editors Lucy Arnold Mark Hopkla John Lyons "Mow \ Features Editors Nlkkl Thorpe Photo Editor The Gamecock it the student newspaper of the I Wednesday, and Friday during the Fall and Spring s periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of th Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communicr Student Media is its parent organization. ihbbbb The Gamecock will try to print all letters re include full name, professional title or year delivered by the author to The Gamecock net reserves the right to edit all letter for style, p ^ withheld for any circumstance. HCIltllJ ICCS t Whafs really scary is that ? a federal judge told them, "Hey, t it's more important for you to - have enough money to buy c two CDs than for another f student to express their beliefs o and to strive to see those beliefs h enacted. Of course you'll get n the money back." How nice to know we have such true adults e showing us how to act r maturely. These Wisconsin-Madison students need to grow up. A University education does not k stop at the books. It also ,t prepares us for the "real world" In the adult world for which * we are preparing, we must n pay taxes. Some of the money )r may go to something we believe d in. Some of it may go to ie programs we hate. But we cant say, "Oh, excuse me Uncle L t Sam, I don't approve. Give me my money back." i- It doesn't work like that, it Get used to having to support k programs not tailored to your ;r. i/Cioi/c. ir Grow up, suck it up, and pay your fees. iders need ?f choice i This series contains 54 thrilli themed books and has a .. 75,000-member fan club, t Goosebumps are sold in 20 r languages and have a hit TV show on Fox. y Opponents of the books say Y that these works really don't e contain any educational value. Y They say books like Y Goosebumps contain satanic symbols, promote disrespect t for adults and encourage kids Y to imagine disfigured bodies x and monsters. Y This isn't the first complaint b adolescent books have ever b encountered. The Hardy Boys b and Nancy Drew have been criticized for not Drovidiner i moral lessons, according to t some librarians. 3 It's funny how people are 7 always saying kids need to *. read more for fun. It seems the s very same people are always 1 complaining about what the 3 kids are reading. 3 Censorship lie this makes r illiteracy seem all the more appealing. use * USC Colombia, SC 29208 s: 777-7726 Adam Snyder sing: 777-4249 Office Manager 777-6482 J"?n Jefrer8 , Cartoonist Ben Muldrow Melissa Sellers Graphics Editor Online Editor Mltld La Rocqne Marilyn Asst. Viewpoints Edwards Taylor u Reginna Green Marketing Director Asst News Erik Collins Jessies Nash J Asst.Features "| Jeff Nicholson Asst. Photo University of South Carolina and ii published on Monday, emesters, with the exception of university holidays and exams e editors or the author and not those of the University of South ttions is the Publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of ceived. Letters should be 200-250 words and must and major if a student. Letters must be personally vsroom in Russell House room 333. The Gamecock ossible libel or space limitations. Names will not be lr VIEW jwwtr, IP A> r i wl 1 You must car< Denise Wellm Campus i Tn ancient times, news an infnrmatinn w a I sometimes communicate by beating sticks on hollov trees. This information traveled a the speed of sound, but with somewhat limited range. Native Americans would us smoke signals, communicatin thoughts and ideas instantly, bu again with a somewhat limited rang Early settler days in Americ featured the Pony Express, then th telegraph, followed by the telephon and radio and television. Nowadays e-mail has become a popular mod for sending communication. Why, then, do people still insis on using the outmoded, outdatei form of communication known a the postal service? On the surface (and, in fact, ii every town, village and swamp Media leai uV few months ago when I found out that Food Lioi beat out ABC in that bi| scandalous trial, I let out a litera whoop of joy. Not because I love Food Lion Frankly I don't even like Food Lion I was a big fan of Food Land. But itfi about time the media learned thi lesson that they can't do whatevei the hell they please. They cannot, in short, write thei own news. In case you've found a pleasantly cool and media-free cave to live in not a bad choice of habitat by th< way, the ABC-Food Lion deal had t< do with ABC 'infiltrating'' Food Lioi and showing on television all the bac stuff Food Lion does to food. "Infiltrating" the high-tech work of Food Lion employees apparently involved lying on a job application ABC reporters had to lie to get hire< ft POINTS mj! (t(t 5 about making USC students t an , chairman of the selection comm r nail: A catal M ARK PI HAS ? ^ have ever called home) mail delivery c v is usually quite efficient. It takes * two or three days to get a handa written message sealed with a little touch of love (or whatever else you * e choose to call those drops of saliva.) ? This is not the case on campus. 1 * If I had a nickel for every time I got ~ a call from home and my mom or t a dad (friend, neighbor, loved one, ? e former babysitter, insert your favorite e pen-pal here) verbally accosted me 5' about why I had Med to thank them | e for a package or write back for a f letter I hadn't yet received... well, I s * would still be a poor college student ? who owes housing and has Que Zero 3 as to how to pay back those loans... J But the point is, it takes up to a 1 a week or more to get a letter from 1 home. My family would be better off 1 rns needed 1< | LUCY ARNOLD | 1 i WKKBESB3SMMM t 1 j by Food Lion? If I remember correctly, I there was a scrawny, stringy-haired nerd in my high school geography class who managed to work at Food l. Lion and he didn't seem to have any 3 life goals beyond earning enough b money to buy Clearasil. How hard r can it be? ABC made allegations that Food r Lion was bleaching meat and other bad things, too. And you know what? V It's possible that it's all true. , But what I want to know is why 5 Food Lion? 3 I have been in plenty of grocery s 1 stores in my time, and I am beyond ? 1 certain that meat-bleaching and other nasty-sounding processes go on in 1 * many, many stores. Why did ABC f decide to pick on Food Lion? t u Well, Fll tell you why Food Lion * was chosen. Frod Lion is not c 1 W(M[ w A) : ?<c?n ? the very best pla :o learn. ____________ ittee for the Outstanding Fresh ) tonic Poir J tending me an e-mail (of course, if t weren't for the fact that they still :an't figure out how to work the uiswering machine I gave them for Christmas in 1985.) My frustration with campus mail s a cross I have borne in silence lo his long fieshman year, but recently ! have become disgruntled with USCs jostal disservice. My brother, knowing how I love ;he game of baseball, gave me a lubscription to Baseball Weekly for Christmas this year. I was a happy camper, now I get o follow the season into baseball's irst labor-happy year since 1902 (I ihould check that date, but it just tounds right). I wish these subscriptions could ust be paid in coupons that I could edeem to get the newspaper when t arrives on store shelves (and the lewspaper box 50 feet from my isson from inionized. If there is anything liberals (read: he media) hate, it is lack of control. Jnions are another method liberals ise to control regular people, and it nakes them mad when they can't lo that. Well, all that is beside the point, ind whether or not Food Lion ever rets any actual money from the court ase, it was definitely a philosophical rictory. The thing that floored me was hat after the verdict, ABC didn't ww its head and say Fm sorry (like inybody expected that) and ABC lidn't just move on and take it like i woman (that is with integrity and strength, instead of like a man with aggression and anger). ABC did ANOTHER Primetime live about Food Lion case. Honestly, I thought I was going ethrow up. They sat there and said they didn't lo anything wron^. They told us how ifp ce it can be for iman Advocate Award f Express? mailbox) on Tuesday. When I do actually receive it in my campus mailbox, it is usually on Thursday, mostly on Wednesday, and never on Tuesday. Last week's edition is still MIA. The Russell House employees are very polite to me when I ask them for it, never seeming to mind it when they have to break off from their lunch (or card game, or idle gossip) to tell me they either haven't received it yet or just haven't had the time to put it in my box. I suppose I should be happy (the University is letting us use its mailboxes for petty things like personal communications), yet I long for the clip-clop call of a Pony Express courier, watching him drunkenly dismount his tired stallion and apologetically hand me my mail three days quicker than the USC postal service ever could. Food Lion honest and brave they are. How hard it is to be journalist in the world today. In other words, they duped the American public. Don't be fooled. If you engage in any kind of activity they don't like, they'll come after you, too.You've seen the way the media is constantly labeling everyone a right-wing extremist. You own a gun? Extremist. You think abortion is morally (Don't read legally here! Thafs different!) wrong? You're a crazy conservative. You think the government is a mess? You're not just right-wing, you're a real nut! The media attempts every day to sway the way you think about the world in favor of their own liberal agenda. If you let them do it, that's your beeswax. As Fve heard plenty of people say, "Diane Sawyer has such an honest face."