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Che 0ami Serving USC Since 1 Editorial Boai Chris Dixon, Editor Nikki LaRocque, Viewp Stephanie Sonnenfeld, Assistant I ^^^^(XPINK Illogical pla gips Homec Turn to pages 52 ^H"BTnHT?H] and 53 of your HiwUnL Mortar Board. TTiis ? is when use's Homecoming annual Homecoming OR fall bre Week commences, October 6 through October 12. A ,, , It's a week full Another cU of activities that should have celebrate USC via chosen its current and past students. Homecoming is perhaps the most exciting event of the M semester, and the football game, USC which is held on Saturday, October thes 11, is one game thafs literally packed to at with droves of students. 1 But this year, there's a tragic beer flaw to the entire scene: Some The: Homecoming events take place during fbHov the same weekend that also is home Yes, to fall break. Obviously, the football the c schedule didn't necessarily allot a wou] variety of days for the Homecoming in th celebration to fall on. the 1 How many students will attend \ Homecoming celebrations during then fall break? celel Tabloid buy< blame for D The days ot nnTUnTITI yellow journalism have long been the m, ? . haunt of every The Princei newspaper. No Wales' dec respectable journalist wants to hear that till phrase applied to their work. While a The publu journalist does not willingness t( mind causing tabloids SDU controversy, no one " creates wars paparazz nowadays. No one respectable. Tabloids, however, don't mind creating babies or to bom ofBigfoot or an alien's marriage T to Elvis. Even worse, some tabloids to sti skip the outrageous fiction and go micro straight for celebrities. behir A superstar can't sneeze without Pi some trashy tabloid headline the n screaming, "So and so will DIE of royal disease, hospital spokesperson says." was j America's hunger for news of to hei their favorite laiger-than-life figures W is insane. Our appetites help fuel mour the onslaught of the invasion of have nriiromr fVin n< pivavj. uiv |A Because someone can handle a of Pr basketball with the grace of a mone ballerina makes the American public T1 think all rights to privacy are null photc and void. It's our right to know been everything about everyone, our right these Student Media * Russell House * US( Chris Dixon Susan Meyers Editor in Chief Photo Editor Jennifer Stanley Donnie Baker Managing Editor Graphics Editor Nikki LaRocque Stephanie Sonneni Viewpoints Editor .4m/. Viewpoints Edit ' Rosalind Harvey Kristen Richards< News Editor Cara PeUat Marcus Amaker Asst. 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The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letter for style, ^ libel or space limitations. Naiwrs will not be withheld for any , stance. VII Ecock I 908 d in Chief, ointo Editor : Viewpoints Editor )N lining ^ oming QTflH It doesn't make I Ufli sense to have 1 r falls Homecoming I 1' activities the same J CLR weekend as Fall Break. I m|y First, it's just I , stupid, and secondly, ^ it's not fair. been Students in ... 1*%. organizations such as Carolina li n . _ j x? _i_ _ rroaucuons wont frz a o a Hard to plot Ho me earning activates for other " students. What good would e activities be without students tend them? [Tie following week would have "This was i a good week for Homecoming. re's a home football game that ving Saturday against Vanderbilt the week would be altered with iccurrence of fall break, but there Id still be enough days reserved I } e week that could accommodate "|^"| IT homecoming celebration. JL JL JLJIj Vhat good is a homecoming if b aren't any students around to irate it? BKWWt|igmj I Asst. View f A I started thinl L>-"- O 1/Vr column last week 1 | It was going t 1'o |->l pqlU tractor-trailer rigs S vJ \ i/Xl. too many accidei these days. Tha By Saturday mm| to knowledge. sources to support UH It is this self- readv to write the r righteous conceit But, of course, Of that helped cause had changed to Pi \th Princess Diana's Although (obvi death. People all friend or family i over the world loved Diana's, I was sti f her too much. We my column in hon ? S were too willing to Her death wa? 0 buy snap up any article me ?naturally. I r about die Princess, to seeing pictures too eager to watch and on the news 1 'I over her every she'd go away. Ce move, whether it be omnipresent and s from a health spa vanish. to India to a cruise I was young wl London. the scene, but I rei be general public's morbid desire march down the iidy Princess Di under a hot predicted wedde scope helped fuel the economics Charles, id tabloids. She was almos rincess Diana was hounded by life, in fact, she w ledia as soon as she joined the had the look of mj family. It never ceased and Cinderella doll: ca lossibly a contributing factor r death. Tiile people around the world - 1 # / n the late Princess, we hardly I ? ^1 _ J. the right to shout and accuse I J 111 iparazzi of killing her. If photos incess Di didn't bring in any sy, paparazzi wouldn't exist. be Dublic can not curse the igraphers. After all, who has C0lt buying the tabloids that run pictures? The public. Fm not perfect. There are flaws j Fm mortal. |f|Tg For example, HIHHBI smile. All I can do ] Columbia, SC 29208 just look at any pict Ellen Parsons smirk is cloned in < Interim Director of Also, I tend to r Student Media Social situations (si reId cJ,T?GdZ"c,or ^pagirl-instea tor Lee Phipps ^ ^hat S up?" I on Advertising Manager eh?" It's quite embi Carolyn Grifiin And probably tl rs Business Manager peasantry is my ] Michelle Dames "tighty-whiteys" i Graduate Assistant dominated Society. 1 Sherry F. Holmes Comfortable. Clatsifird \d Manager But the best pal Lnk Coiling i 1 j. 1 .1 Faculty Advisor <lulrks don * " sense of humor whe aity wmmmmmmm pictures or laug] IwliljSiHiin another rejection. mcT The Gamecock I never complai Editor (803) 777-3914 an attitude probler News 777-7726 However, as Tv m is etc. 777-3913 campus, I've foun< Viewpoints 777-7726 don't share my sen a" ? ???? seems that every Sports 777-7182 . . ? J ? . complains over the Mn me 717-3913 ^ makes me sick. Advertising 777-1184 I Can't Stand pe Cla8sifieds 777-1184 They're so annoyin uthor to Fax 777-6482 Let me cite som possible Central Office 777-3888 I was standing : circum' I the other day. It wa when breakfast is r SWPOINTS ^V/HOOPJY- PA/SY. , ~? rzdJi si ,'s c*Y0or& awa cost h 114* 1 T 1 a gut cnecK tor us early on. 1 Know we are a Kim Hudson, USC volleyball coacl icess Di revere smiling. And, she had the dresses of my Barbie doll, literally never wearing an pomu Editor | outfittwice ring about this week's Like millions, she had me transfixed. Princess Diana looked to be living 0 be about those big, the perfect life. Her husband was adoring 1 that are the cause of she had some of the most beautiful its on the interstate children in the world. She lived in t was on Thursday. Buckingham Palace, and basically, the , I had found a few world was hers to have. I wanted to ; my opinion and was grow up and b6 her. Could one chose to ! column on Monday, hve a better life than that of a princess? j by Sunday, my topic Soon enough, I realized that perhaps j rincess Diana. her life wasn't that easy, this coming to ] ously) I wasn't a close light with her divorce, suicide attempts < member of Princess and battle with an eating disorder. The < 11 compelled to write bizarre love affair between Charles and or of her. Camilla was even more of a blow for me ] i a numbing shock to to comprehend. Why would Charles { suppose I was so used want to leave beautiful Diana for, well, j of her in magazines Camilla? 1 hat I never thought Diana bounced back from the worst ilebrities like her are of all her problems to live a life I thought t ppm lilrp thevll nwer suited her: She was savin? the world t and charming its people. t tien Diana burst onto Some royals tend to dedicate t nember watching her themselves to pet projects that really f isle to her wrongly have no viable impact on modern day \ d bliss with Prince life (ie. Prince Charles with his wateroolor paintings; Princess Anne with her horses; s 3t like a doll come to Prince Edward with whatever he does), i as in my mind. She but Diana slightly tailored that image. ( r Madame Alexander Her active participation in raising c lm, regal and always money for AIDS charities was really ( ference key to li I'm standing in line for pancakes, when fVin ^Oif Innlro mmr of fkn linn onrl antra ULXV VI1V1 VTW CAW UiV XU1V/ CUXU oajOj "t""81 "We're closed." By the reaction of the crowd, you , , _ would have thought he said, "Take off 1116 your clothes." People were sucking their .. , teeth, whispering profanes under their real y on avea breath and planning which ocean shore is smirk, promise, ^ ^ ^ ^ wasb Up on I began ure I have. The same . . rt bed Sveryphoto. g?H^just bemuse he's got a chef tot aumble m important 0I1) ^ ^ ap^ and jg standing behind ich as trying to pick a jg flipping pancakes for those ^ d of clearly saying, wb0 were in line earlier, and has a really, mutter, "Hey, whuz really big spatula, and you're really, arrassing). really hungry, and even though this is le biggest sign of my the line for breakfast, it doesn't mean P lankering to wear be has to serve you and make you ^ n this boxer-short- breakfast!" I wanted to shout. But, I c 7m sorry, I find them didn't because I thought this little outburst would have compromised my spot in w rt is that these petty bne. a r me. I have a good Still, I was in awe of these people. I w in it comes to looking can't believe that people think everything P tiing at myself after is set up to serve them. Don't they realize a that these cooks may have better things ^ n, and I never have to do, like trade recipes, have onion n. cutting contests or find dead rats to put ^ e wandered around in the golosh? The nerve, i many people who But the attitudes are not confined ^ se of indifference. It to the cafeteria. These attitudes show ? one gets mad and up everywhere, especially in dorm lobbies simplest things, and where students have to sign their guests a m- al ople who complain. Fm talking about those people with b g. little badges on their shirts saying, "DA ^ ie examples for you. = God," who think they can just stop and a in line for breakfast ask us to (can you believe this) wait, just s alir^t 10:30 a.m., because the university has some rales ^ lo longer served. So, saying, "D.A.'s have to harass anyone / Mi tflA Ht5T 8A^!M( belter team, and we will prove i t, on the team's defeat by Arizona id the wor "Diana was no saint, ant trying to canonize nei Simply, I was one of the m; nated by her life and r by how she li\ admirable, as was her work with land C nines. She was always tending to those her p [ess fortunate than her, which is was t something we "common" folk sometimes I lon't even do. blam Diana was no saint, and Fm certainly was 1 lot trying to canonize her as one either, becau Simply, I was one of the many who was has it ascinated by her life and more fascinated that t jy how she lived it. speec Thanks to the "paparazzi," I was able Ti ? follow her every move. While in line to so it the grocery store, I could have read I find sabloids showing pictures of Diana in now, he gym working out, or I could have thing bllowed every aspect of her relationship R vith Dodi Fayed. as the Ah, the paparazzi. They were Diana's dowr shadow, encasing her wherever she was diam >r planned to be. They claim they were SI >nly stalking Diana to meet the demands in the )f her public, who wanted to know some jverything about her. that i sappy freshr "/t seems that everyon complains over the simp] makes me sick. I can't s complain. They're s< lat walks through the door, including dead, tarry Manilow." respe< We don't have to time to wait. We Ai ave stuff to do, like watching other me) i eople who know what their doing so funds re can try and mimic them. It takes a poun< )t of time. sound And then, not only do we have to Hugo 'ait, but we have to open our wallets would nd take out our ID cards and close our W 'allets, and then put it back in our you dc ockets, and after doing all this grueling, to shcr gonizing, arduous work, we have to Somel ick up a pen and sign our names. What Ar ind of ludicrous standard is this? are so And, if we ask one silly question like, be pei iVhy do we have to do all this stupid them, rap?" they jump down our throats and If 1 egin to beat us unconscious with the to con piest sign-in" book. Some people. baby i The worst is neighbors. You'd think W< bunch of guys the same age, doing collegi [most the same thing, living in a dorm it!" all, would be cool with "Black Dog" by Ar ed Zeppelin rocking full blast at 3:30 . Ip m. to hav But noooooooo! It's, "Turn that^jff! raised fe're trying to sleep!" or, "John Bonham's Lazy 1 y 11 f "11 it on down the road." Id over 1 I'm certainly not r as one either, any who were fascinore fascinated ed it." ritics say they were intruding on rivacy. They also say the paparazzi ;he cause of Diana's death, really don't know who or what to e in Diana's death. Sure, maybe it the paparazzi, or maybe it was ise tne cnauneur was arunK. itumor ; she wasn't wearing a seat belt and he car was going some unbelievable L here are so many things pointing many different explanations that 1 it hard to pinpoint blame. Right I really don't want to blame one ' or person for Diana's death, ather, I'd prefer to remember her ; young, beautiful bride who walked i the isle in her ivory dress and ond tiara. he was a true fairly tale princess 3 purest sense of the title, and for reason, I know she'll always retain mage ? in her life and in her death. nen life i e gets mad and lest things, and it tand people who o annoying." leave it that way!" I tell ya, no ;t. id then when a person (namely s working on his drumming imentals (this consists of me ling anything that will make a until my sticks look like Hurricane remnants), you'd think people just let you be. rong. People are always like, "If >n't stop that drumming, Fm going ve those sticks up your left nostril!" times they opt for the right, lyway, it's just sad to see people naive. They expect everything to rfect and work out just right for * they don't get their way, they begin iplain and whine and do all that stuff. ill, all I've got to say is, You re in e now, so grow up and deal with lyway, that's it, ut in a work order a long time ago e my bed raised and it hasn't been ( yet, so r? going to go complair^ ilockheads.