Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I oe oamecocR r. Serving USC Since 1908 Editorial Board Chris Dixon, Editor in Chief Jennifer Stanley, Managing Editor Nikki LaRocque, Viewpoints Editor Stephanie Sonnenfeld, Assistant Viewpoints Ed '' Phone problems to red tape aggra1 Being a AioaVfMAn in rrU laflb I I DH fid? U I 9^91 11COA11X1CU ID L'JUgil enough. < You have to No rings for long learn so many new distance Calls ] f things in a matter of i days. Buildings must H1BITO U M [|\1 be found, textbooks bought, the meal Red tape should ! plan system decoded, not get in the Way 1 and an alcohol limit 7 ~ . ,L . 1 found. (Some offixingthlS { students never do minute problem \ get around to this 1 last one. Most of 1 them don't stay students long.) smilingly sorry-i The last thing any student needs, help-you-face. I especially a freshmen, is another Let's cut the r hassle. don't have an ej Would you consider a phone not problem will ine ringing when a long-distance caller it onto someone calls a hassle? Maybe some wouldn't, it is impossible, after all a cushion from the parental Could somec unit is always appreciated. But when fix a problem, wi best friend from high school calls to red tape? tell you of the massive party she's There is a n\ having in Athens, and you never get that will report* the invite because the phone never someone who car rang, well, then we enter into hassle phone epidemic. ? ^ territory. we suggest a lot T^l *1 r lorida wins suil tobacco compani We all know the TBTTTi ITI1M f scene ? you can see l&UlJOftJLlBMMi it at any concert or ? in any mnTl or in any ^ tate SUltS Of school parking lot: tobaCCO industry underage smoking. Heck, many of us probably have participated in this PulllTlg ritual of sorts. For advertising will some reason or ,7 another, teenagers ^ leSSOR 0 get a thrill off underage smoking smoking. Maybe they think it makes them look older; maybe they think it's the fashionable trains." thing to do; maybe they see mom Wow. That's and dad doing it and think it's ok. Essentially Who really knows the cause of problem with 1 underage smoking in the U.S.? yes, may lay w Well, actually, the U.S. advertising. J Government feels that it knows the The Marlboro 1 cause of it, and it's citing the So smoking is W advertisements cigarette companies But, a big pre plaster all over the place. smoking also li In fact Monday, U.S. cigarette parents smoke i companies agreed to pay the state A big problem 1 of Florida $11.3 billion over the next children see oth< quarter of the century. According and think that i to an article from the Los Angeles And, it does Times, the money is compensation smoking educati "for money Florida spent treating come into vogue 1 1 J _ ?i' 1 rn? a _ sick smoKers ana pumuve aamages ruminating ( for the industry's allegedly fraudulent isn't necessary, conduct." a positive thing. % Cigarette companies pledged to isn't going to stt remove all billboards advertising look at underag Student Media Russell House * USC * Colui Chris Dixon Photo Editor Editor in Chief Donnle Baker Jennifer Stanley Graphics Editor Managing Editor Brian Rlsh Mkkl La Rocqne Online Editor Viewpoints Editor Stephanie ^ Rosalind Harvey Sonnenfeld News Editor .Asst Viewpoints Editor * Marcus Amaker Kris ten Richardson Adam Snyder Cara PeUatt Features Ed,tors Asst. News Editors Achim Hunt Amy Shannon Bryan Johnston Asst. Featuress Editor g ? rtS ?t0" Torl O'Hara C Ben Pillow Asst. Photo Editor Copy Desk Chef Jessan Hager Susan Meyers Donnle Baker The Gamecock is the student newspaper of The University of South Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semesters and five times during the summer with the exception of university holidays and exam periods. Edi Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the editors or author and not those of The University of South Net Carolina. __ The Board of Student Publications and Communications is "1' the publisher of The Gamecock. y *e. The Department of Student Media is its parent organization. Spo ?nl MMniuif"' Adve The Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be 200-250 words and must include full name, professional title or year and major if a student. Letters must be personally delivered by the author to Fai The Gamecock newsroom in Russell House room 333. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letter for style, possible Cei libel or space limitations. Names will not be withheld for any circumI T i i YIEWI itor ^ lead 1 i ration \ All right, so the ~ phone doesnt woifc Mum Y\ WL Call up r^^LHWr maintenance and W \ itH get fixed, right? VH Or was that Housing? Or Computer Services? Sometimes it feels as if the run-around each department gives you is enough to make one hurl the innocent phone at some adult's dear-but-we-can't- fl'TTf fflT ed tape. People who asy way to solve a Ther ivitably try to pass else, or simply say g >ne, just this once, ithout sporting the ?1 11 , unber one can call ^ITlclll lOWIl idly connect you to i fix the non-ringing tut in the meantime, of e-mail. Sunday was a particularly lovely - fY* jr\ y? day, and Sunday morning was the j vJ V CX brilliant start of that day. Since I'm not a regular churchgoer, * and since I got to sleep early enough I p C Saturday night (or was it Sunday L Vy 0 morning?), I dedded to attack the morning and immerse myself in it In short, I took their uroductsawav a run Sunday morning. form schools and lt wasn t a long jaunt, but one that playgrounds. Plus, winded me, so interpret that at youi all billboards in the leisure. Despite the relatively flat course state have to be mundane route, it so inspired me removed within five ^1 eventually ended up at the Capitol months. And, they Newsstand, where I bought a copy oi have to remove r^ie State. vending machines Walking my apartment from "any place I wandered through the few, but assorted, accessible to patches of space around the Statehouse children and that aren't roped off. Then, I crossed the remove tobacco street and headed home past Trinity advertising in sports Episcopal Church, arenas and on There was a nice looking mac public buses and standing outside the church. I'm assuming he was a greeter, or something of the a puff full sort Since I was in a good mood (a rarity y we beiieve the 801116 n^S^t note), I smiled a little smile inderage smoking at 1dm and clutched my paper. 1th the appealing He looked at me ^ to at W T' [oe Camel's cool. shirt, which blatantly advertised the Vlan is handsome. Peachtree Road Race, an annual race cool too? 111 my hometown of Atlanta on the Fourth iblem with underage of July. I'm real proud ofthe shirt because es in the fact that {t actually proves I ran in the race, and n front of children. that I finished it, and that I managed ies in the fact that to survive it. ?r children smoking n't help that anti- r? O T* p A /| A 'j" on has only recently Udl vULiv L i in schools. ngarette advertising Curbing it could be Underage smoking jp overnight--just I COLMVMIST | e drinking. It's 12:47 a.m. hmmhI You open the door to your hall lobb] and think to yourself what a killer party you've just returned from. As you enter nbifL, SC 29208 a security guard kindly asks to see youi Creative Services room key. Ellen Parsons You are shocked (shocked!) anc Interim Director of appalled! You can't believe this nice Student Media kind person is actually asking you U Creative Doctor (talk about gall) reach into your pocke Lee Phipps ana out your ^ey! idvertising Manager No, that's just tOO much WOrk foi Carolyn Griffin you. Business Manager Rather than doing so, you plead foi Mlchele Dames half an hour that you really live in tha Graduate Assistant dorm and for the guard to just let yoi (herry F. Holmes g0 Up ^ y0ur room. tassified Ad Manager After a court hearing and many non Fa^tyA^r key related comments, you're forced t< show your key. BMBMmHmipmj This is a mockery of a shame, of i B3uHi*ili53i mockery of a shame, of a shame of i The Gamecock shame, of a mockery of a shame, tor (803) 777-3914 Why are we forced to do this? Don1' vs 777-7726 they realize we're just too lazy to read 3 777-3913 in our pockets? I bet you're saying to yourself righi wpomts 777-7726 now that there has to be a better way rts 777-7182 Well, that's where I come in. IVe proposec ine 777-3913 a solution to the people who actually srtising 777-1184 care about stuff (aptly named "Th< ssifieds 777-1184 Board of People Who Care About Stuff') 777 6482 The bill is still in the works, but here1! itral Office 777-3888 how it breaks down. Solution: 'PINTS iRU IT, 601 I SAID BURNT SieNW THIS IS A faU/ IP VP OR. HQ U IPSAN AftXISf... e seems to be more e-mail junkies in the makii rette Barclay, Thomas Cooper Library lab assistant, on in charm works its magi< I"Peachtree Street," he said. 'Yes, sir," I said, beaming at my shirt * I love my hometown and as I mentioned above, I really love that shirt. He opened his mouth to say something else. I thought he was going to say, "What a nice shirt," or "Are you | from Atlanta?" Neither of those two things exited his lips. Rather, he just assumed I was from there, and obviously, he didn't like my'Sack"hesaid rapidly growing cities - CI ?? , i, r i j t n j ? Atlanta. Sometimes it gets Hee-hee, I giggled. I walked off, , . , b ,, i 4 i. mi Si a by more traditional south . clutching The State even more r.. V1 c , . ,6 cities like Savannah, Cha: , possessively. XT ~ , ' "What the hell?" I thought. What N 01"161 3; i does he mean by that? ? Sure Columbia does. I'm sure he was making a poor Gkarda^ anditdoEsn'thaw attempt at a joke there, but still, I (the Street, but it s a strong cit hypersensitive me) was, as always, n%' ni v J offended. Slightly. I like Columbia, and . ^ Columbia because t right now I don't want to go back. lts Mam Street. It has its o r There was a time in my life, like a of beautiful buildmgs. It alsc few weeks ago, when I would have gladly culture, evident in everythi said, "OK, 111 go." large amount of theaters to t But, in all honesty, I like Columbia. ^ museum. ( I was born in the shadow of Atlanta, Another plus to Columbi r a city where you can legally get tattoos, a 811 uanere wj mi umisp > a city with more than one Gap and a city students and families alike. \ where you can buy liquor drinks (sans here, I knew no one in Colu the mini bottles) past 7 pm. in the stores, for my older sister, who grai j When I first ramp to Columbia I was USC in 1992. But, I met p< i homesick, an ailment that occasionally of them Columbia natives. l appears in my life. Yet, despite all of These people were eager > Columbia's quirks, I got used to the city, their home. They took me t I its accent, and its atmosphere. they knew and loved. They 1 Unfortunately, Columbia has the to adopt many of Columbi misfortune of being lodged between two which is something that al attoos creative alter What I'm looking for here is a way students can enter their dorm lobby |fj|| and automatically be recognized as living in that dorm. Though it may add ^^QUKllin a couple of bucks to tuition and may f leave a pretty nasty scar later in life, I find this proposal totally logical. When someone is accepted to the university and given their room 1 assignments, they would also be given ? a bar code, of sorts. 3 So, when the student moves on- _ _ , T t campus and gets everything settled, A iiave ^ Uncle Joe, \ they would go to the Office of Admissions, j*1 Penn8y^'araa w^? doe r where the bar code they were given aa. mor? , would be tattooed across their forehead, oblige as The Tattoo Guy. r The first letter of the bar code would ^ere stall negotiating over tl t be the first letter of the dorm where . wants a six-year deal w 1 they live. The rest of the bar code would mi^10ni ^ the university is c consist of that person's room number a five-year deal worth $7 and a bunch of other numbers (this will Q \What happens after 3 come in handy for guys when trying to certain dorm and enter a stalk a girl, because then we'd know A) Modern technology er 1 where she lives without having to ask remove the tattoo and const i her.) one. Well, not yet, exactly. OK, so now when we enter the dorm happen is that we'll just sere ^ lobby, all we have to do is stand there other tattoo and put a new oi 1 like a cigar-shop Indian while the guard but don't worry, I have my fi runs a laser over the code for verification. Honors College Engineer t No keys, no pockets, no hands in pockets, working on this one. ; no anything. It's that simple. Q) What was that scar * Q & A time. were talking about earlier? f Q) Aren't tattoos illegal in South A) Hmmm, did I say sc ? Ciuuliua? you read me wrong. I prob A ) H m m m , "scare," no, no, I mean "smc 3 uggghh...weLnext..ahem...next question that's it "smooth." You're ju please (snikk). Q) Well, what about t! Q) Who would do the tattoos? tattoo thing again? \ ^ > ' ). to ng than internet." iternet addiction 0 on Atlanta girl larlotte and value Columbia as a surrogate hogie. overlooked Columbia has done this for three j ern tourist generations of my family who attended rleston and USC as out-of-state students. One (my father) visits as often as possible, one i't have its (my sister) who chose to Live here and ; its Bouibcn pursue a career here, and one (me) chose .. TTon 1.1.. rr<?i u?if y ill 1U5 uwii uqv/ pcu uy ucwiuac ui ^uiuinuia iuscu. I do complain about Columbia e it still has sometimes, but when I go home, I miss iwn amount it. In Atlanta, you can't really go out at i has its own night and be as safe as you can in ng from the Columbia. he reputable You cant find places like the Capital City Restaurant in Atlanta, and you a is the open wont find the community as tight as it lanted here, is in Columbia. Vhen I came Even though I plan on heading back mbia except to Georgia after I graduate this spring, duated from I'll always remember Columbia as a jople, many place I called home for four years. So, in response to the remark issued to show me by the long-ago referenced man I o the places encountered Sunday morning, "No, I'm allowed me not going back to Peachtree Street for a's charms, a while. HI settle for Greene Street right lowed me to now." native to keys vho's really A) Well, that's all the time I have js tattooing, for today. Please, if you have any more n happy to questions, hesitate to call me. 1 However, Like I said before, this proposal is le contract, still in the works. I hope you've read forth $12.5 this carefully and understand what I'm oily offering trying to do here for you. This would .3 million, make things so simple, so thoughtless, we leave a Think how cool it would be to walk new one? around with a bar code on your forehead, lables us to Also, it could take the place of our ID xuct a new cards. No more taking them out of What will wallets, putting them back into wallets, itch out the and carrying them around, tie on there, We can go to the cafeteria, the gym, riend in the anywhere our cards are needed and not ing School have to do anything! God, I'm a genius. It's 12:47 a.m. thing you You open the door to your hall lobby and the security guard kindly asks you ar? I think to stand there. A red laser scans your ably wrote head. You hear a beep on the computer. 10th," yeah, "Good night," the guard says with st an idiot, a smirk on his face. "I've got some hat illegal Preparation H in case that hemorrhoid flares up tonight."