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I TIP VL Jem Nik Marcus Amaker, Sarah Efird, Academics Congratulations, you' excepted to USC. Don't wor the cost. You play football * pick up the tab. Oh, you can't graduate fi school. Are academics hol( back? Well then, go to prep s a year, so the NCAA will let and we'll be waiting for you e In last year's football rea pool, USC acquired Brian highly sought after wide recei Darlington. His football accol longer than the average resi in-all a pretty impressive pa bring into USC. But there is a proble package isn't complete. Scot qualify academically to be He may not even qualify to ? high school. Academic qualification di< slow the ink of the pen tha Scott to USC. It may be that Scott is he the pros. USC may just be stop on his road to glory. Thi if obtained, would know dou some of its light on USC, 1 worth the compromise? Student Media Rom Jennifer Stanley Editor in Chief Mkki Thorpe ] Viewpoints Editor Photo Editor Rosalind Harvey News Editor Marcos Amaker Features Editor Dwayne McLemore Sports Editor The Gamecock is the student newi South Carolina and ia published Mon during the fall and spring semesters i summer with the exception of univert ods. Opinions expressed in The Gamec author and not those of The Universil The Board of Student Publication! publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of Student Medit The Gamecock will try to prim all letter 250 words and must include full name, proft student. Letters must be personally delivers newsroom in Russell House room 333. The Gamecock reserves the right to editi space limitations. Names will not be withhe lie 0amecock Serving (JSC Since 1908 lifer Stanley, Editor in Chief Id Thorpe, Viewpoints Editor Editorial Board Rosalind Harvey, Bryan Johnston, Dwayne McLei I S % * ' \ II 1 vs. athletics...aga ve been Did you lose track? Don't ry about what compromise we're speak md we'll It is the compromise of acaden knowledge and of learning, omhigh We are part (fan institution ling you main purpose should be teachii ehool for the integrity of academics you play We are not saying that foot textyear. not a learning experienc ruitment understand that football (and Scott, a sports for that matter) offer a di iver from kind of knowledge, maybe ades run something you can't learn i ime.All- classroom and that is one of i ckage to of the many reasons for sports: IpvpI m. The Another good reason for sp t doesn't the collegiate level (especially fo at USC. is the money it brings schools t ;raduate build all of their programs. i Dame, who Scott turned dowi int even prime example of what football i t signed can do for a school. With all of this in mind, U aded for an academic institution shot a quick careful of what the comprom is glory, the quest for athletic glory bt shine administration should remembe but is it USC was founded in 1804 wi football team. ell House USC Colombia, SC 292< Ben Pillow Elizabeth Weill Copy Desk Chief Creative Servict Crlsten Richardson Jim Green Asst News Editor - Creative Direct< Ann' Shannon Carolyn Grill AsstFeatures Editor Business Manag Sarah Eflrd Ellen Parson On-line Director of Student Donnle Baker Erik Collini Matt Alsnp Faculty Adviso I 3 pa per of The University of VTSIMIIHI day, Wednesday and Friday and five times during the rity holidays and exam peri- The Gameca ock are those of the editors or Editor (803) 77' ty of South Carolina. _ i and Communications is the '' ETC. 77' i is its parent organization. Viewpoints 77 jmifUUWUll Sports 77 s received Letters should be 200- On-Line 77' ^siooal title or year and major if a d by the author to The Gamecock Advertising 77' ill letter for style, possible libel or Classifieds 77 Id for any circumstance. pu ^ EWP< *p*poe.Lv Berent nthe gfflSM ts one "We need to focui at any jrtsat otball) ohelp IT becomi noney seas HQQQQQQI lid be [^^^^pnlnmnW ise in . Our These are the expe: sr that student moving from beir ith no on his parents to becoi supporting adult. And the first thing I h "Why didn't someone tell i this would be?" I feel ch? been led to believe it wou )8 find a place to live, easy easy, indeed, to support i nil T om n nnllnrrn afn/lnn ag CLLLf X CUU CI tUUCgC OI/UUC11 eager, and hungry one. w hungry.) In I have gotten some t vr get me wrong. I lucked ir f, a house with wonderful r Medio v i j i ? i a somewhat dubious neigi r the major thing this ei teaching me is how hard wmm job and earn money for a i Am The hardest thing ab< ck a self-supporting adult is 7-3914 I have always heard ta] unemployment rate in Soi but I think the employme 7-3913 soar as high as the temp* 7-7726 First of all, my "work 7-7182 doesn't wander very f; 7-3913 performing arts. Don't g 7-4249 ~~ I have worked. There 7-1184 as a clerk for the Theatre and my stint as an Intern in the real world, this di MNTS IFWUCOIUPH&F <E, STAYIN6 OH t POSTOWtl I ' on the positive aspects of friei Robert Deloian, president of Phi I ng self a sell garner interest. And tl employers don't make an I it either. riences of a A* the "do you have a ig dependent doing..." questions star ning a self-' h?05 wearing thin. Your constricting, and there avetoaskis, perspiration working its me how hanl geography of your body.' sated. I have aren't going to get this j Id be easy to that as soon as you wall to find a job, yQur apphcation will di myself. After the trash can along with i t ?a smart, hopeful, hungry applicaj ?n? But the would-be-ei VAjD^cwaiiy kind and human after reaks, don't &ey will call you back. Y ito a room in stomach is ready to aca oommates in anything right now, am lborhood, but begins. Anxiously, you sii cperience is fantasizing about the it is to get a compact discs you will decent living, phone never rings. And )ut becoming (if you are, indeed, luc finding a job. bave a phone), it is onl Ik about the yQur friends calling to ( uth Carolina how some would-be-empl mt rate must tbey would call them ba srature! Late in the game, I " experience y**1 bave to keep going ba ar from the which you filled out a et me wrong f bad heard someone se i is the jaunt 80 much they have to gi Department ^ hadn't tried this tactic et writer, but chance to see it work. T oes not even coming into the restau '-iv?s'n wpsimn meows faCrT- W*? on 9 r^A-gnpgj ldship, leadership, s )elta Theta General Coui f-suffick ie would-be- work (I fi y bones about dishes) on ajob.Iw ny experience her a job, t, your smile can pay h collar becomes I thought is a trickle of meant ? way down the Do y< fou know you means tt ob. You know hours a : out the door, dollars, 1 ift down into discovere all of the other scraping nts. for a pac mployers are middle of all. They say up then i mr crnimhlinp I was doil ;pt just about a job tha I so, the wait here): FI t by the phone only mea clothes and to get a s buy. But the And when it does repeated ky enough to after mu y the voice of like the s ?11 you about a hag, brig oyer told them Only no\ ck. my first j realized that Ijust ck to the place youreallj n application, in this al ty, Bug them probably ve you a job." this predi before I had a up." If ai rhis girl kept adults, rant where I apprecia < mtiKm 6$0M? 'E5U ? HFAKT, aft *<l cholarship, brothe." ncil mt adult nally did find a job?washing /er and over again asking for anted to beg my boss to give "Please, giver her a job! You ter our of my check!" But, then about what $5 an hour really I kept my mouth closed. >u know what it means? It tat after working 20 grueling week, you only have $100 jefore taxes, to show for it. I i this cruel trick of math after ' . up some nickels and dimes k of Basic's. I stopped in the ' the street and wanted to give ind there. And here I thought og something major?scoring t paid (insert flashing lights VE DOLLARS AN HOUR! It nt one thing ? I would have econdjob. so, the whole process was . and a I scored a second job, ch revisiting and, being there . itarved dog I am, asking with Jit smile to talk to the manager v, I don't know if I still have job! I dunno. smile and think, "Hey Quentin, r arent doing so bad. You arent one." And I'm not. There are more people than I know in cament So, to you, I say, Thin lything, we are finally being ^ . And, after this, we all will fci te goal walking shoes.