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HThe 0amecocl Serving USC Since 1908 Editorial Board Chris Dixon, Editor in Ch Adam Snyder, Managing E Nikki LaRocque, Viewpoints! Stephanie Sonnenfeld, Assistant Viev Competent knc of Internet nec Full-fledged Internet access was ^ only made avail- The Internet able to USC students and teachers a few years ago. VflTTYVnJlTTTVrtfl Now, virtually every department P ?,COoro' WFT at USC has its own in,/600U,? place on the world- sites force Studeilti wide web, thanks fo learn about the to the university s , homepage. Many internet USC students also have been able to create their own pag6S- Bytheti Students aren't the only ones use 1 taking rapid advantage of the web. equipped w Many USC professors have begun collegiate ed operating their own websites for go ^ classes and students to access. These edge of moc websites offer professors a chance ogy Profeg to post their class syllabuses and on other assignments pertinent to a to ensure ft particular class or research inter- _ . est Theedui fessors havi By setting up websites, profes- ieg9 mucj1 sors are forcing students to famil- flue'nce of iarize themselves with the web. students nt Many students at USC who may about losin not really understand or actually have to do i use the Internet. Although this fessor's wet seems almost incomprehensible ? fits. Proposition 2< implications i? One would l^HVITSTITTTfll think the end of afwouid've occurred Proposition 209 in the conservative v South first, not in ^ free-thinking California. But as that The Supreme state likes to be Court shouldn't have ignored this first state to end important ISSU6 affirmative action with their Propo sition 209. It went into official effect this past week. v No matter what one's stance on il Liberties affirmative action (special benefits al Organiza given to minorities and women), all to. So inste could agree it's a mayor issue in our more impoi country. It seems the Supreme Court than wheth disagrees. women are | According to an article published to Friday by The State, the Supreme resu^t "e'orE Court decided not to interfere with meQtthe proceedings of Proposition 209. The Sup r urtnermore, tftere was no expia- dent, ana nation, no reasoning behind the de- statement i cision. firmative a< The lack of communication sim- 'he imP?rt) ply diminishes the importance of ^he fo Student Media Russell House USC C Chris Dixon Ben Pillow Editor in Chief Copy Desk Chief Adam Snyder Susan Meyers Managing Editor Photo Editor Nikki LaRocque Donnie Baker ^ Viewpoints Editor Graphics Editor Rosalind Harvey Stephanie Sonnenfeld News Editor Asst. Viewpoints Editor Sara Ladenheim Kristen Richardson News Editor, Design Cara Fellatt Marcus Amaker Asst. News Editors Amy Shannon Tori OUara Features Editors Asst. Photo Editor Achim Hunt Brian Rish Bryan Johnston On line Editor Sports Editors The Gamecock is the student cock are thoee of the editors or author newspaper ofThe University of South and not those of The University of Carolina and is published Monday, South Carolina. ^ Wednesday and ftiday during the fall and spring semesters and five times The of Student Publicaduring the summer with the excep- hons and Communications is the pubtion of university holidays and exam ^her of The Gamecock, periods. The Department of Student MeOpinions expressed in Hie Game- dia ia its parent organization. Hie Gamecock will try to print thor to The Gamecock newsroom in all letters received. Letters should Russe11 House room 333 be 200-250 words and must include The Gamecock reserves the , . . right to edit all letter for style, posfull name, professional title or year T\ ... . .... r sible libel or space limitations. V and mqjor if a student Letters must Names will not be withheld for any be personally delivered by the au- circumstance. VIEW! 1 l|f| II let c: ditor Qb Editor ^ ^points Editor ? o wledge essary r, amount of stu- L^TIf dents who use Internet facilities \ throughout the 5 C. I campus computer ? I labs ? it's true. 4 f J It's an uncon- J i tested fact that the \ f *** ' Internet will be an ? / "**"s integral part of the ^ / modern-day work- / place. If students J >1.1 1 l.~ JUUI1 I 1U1UW I1UW LU ' use the web, they fnnwnrmwiwii will lose out. me a student graduates hey should not only be Tne first ballg; ith a strong traditional lucation, they should alwith a working knowllern computer technolsors posting webpages net is just another way A _ _, lis process. ? rational benefits of pro ing web pages are end like the power and inthe web itself. Plus, ?w can never complain ig a syllabus. All they I s access it on their pro- Charlie Paige was a little down ) page. Benefits, bene- his luck when I met him this summ "Ain't been no decent crabbing shrimping at all 'round here," he told _ as we stood at the end of a rickety II pier that stretched out over a tidal cn If near Beaufort. The saltwater that meander 1 through the marsh usually brought i rtl ^ || bounty of blue crabs and shrimp com in the shallows to feed, but just like tide, Charlie's luck in catching any \ ebbing. 1 the affirmative ac- He spent the week on a shrimp b i tion issue. called the Arabella, it was owned b The civil rights man>a of the Paige family, wh issue is not dead grandfather had once saved Charl: hut it qeems like the Grandfather's life. When he was L Supreme Court off from a local Plant>the captain gi wished it were. Charlie a job working the boat. Even if the justices Each day, after the nets were hau believe the civil in and the catch was sorted, Charlie wo rights movement take home a small amount of seaf< has reached its peek which his wife, Theresa, would cook and is rather pass6, him and their three children. On 1 why didn't they weekends, Charlie would try his li make such a state- hunting, if the season was right, or ment? would go and fish and crab by hims Because they not for recreation, but to provide a m I have the American Civ- f?r his family. Union and the Nationtion of Women to answer ad of saying, "We've got rtant things to consider ler or not minorities and \ A 9 ?iven a break," they chose i issue and wait out the } making an official stateTo the Editor: ireme Court sets a prece- No aspect of the life and purpos< by avoiding making a a uniVersity is more critical than either for or against af- adherence to strict standards of aca rtion, they've diminished mic integrity. As a center of learning i ance of civil rights, and inquiry, a university must expect and r thpm i i.i_ _i. *i. i.._ j i. i r ij . mana mat its stuaenis ana iacuity 1 be able to perform their study, resea and evaluation in an atmosphere of tegrity and honesty. A front-page article in the Sep Columbia, SC 29208 issu? Gamecock discussed penalties that may be imposed upon i Ellen Parsons dents who cheat or otherwise act < Interim Director , ... ?. , . of Student Media honestly in any of their academic w Jim Green while at the university. The cost of be Creative Director caught is very high, and students ( Lee Phipps tainly should be aware of the very i Advertising Manager threat of suspension or expulsion fl Busw^M^er the university. The incentive for stude Micbele Dames to act ^th integrity, however, must cc Graduate Assistant from more than the threat of sanctio Sherry F. Holmes caught. Classified Ad Manager Erik Collins The article quoted a freshman as s Faculty Advisor ing that cheating is a viable, and parently acceptable, option if the lik IIMVIM:! hood ?f getting caught is low. Such attitude of cavalier disrespect sho The Gamecock spark outrage among all of us at the i Editor (803) 777-3914 versity. I expect, however, that oth News (803) 777-7726 come to this school with similar vie 777 ?Q1, Even some who would not themsel ETC. (803)777-3913 ^ may ask why it should matte viewpoints (803) 7777726 them if another person chooses to act Sports (803)777-7182 honestly while at the university. Online (803) 777-3913 As students and faculty, we are at student Media university to discover, study, learn ( Afivav^iaina <*on 77711 disseminate information and ideas. II Advertising ,803, ^ ^ ^ classifieds (803)777-1184 what we are told by others, that edi Fa* (803) 777-6482 tional process becomes a pointless office (803) 777-3888 deavor. Therefore, the institution car expected to take whatever measures POINTS [ TO I percR 1 / "\? \ AT 5 jf^=riJ A 8CTI \ ~ V \ ames are tough ballgames. You just try to get through thei Coach Brad Scott on the Gamecocks narrow victory over ( cnaracters exis The oldest of his three children, Ja| cob, was 13 years old, and he served as ?' the man of the house when his father "I don t think on was out on the boat. Jacob was very and he was r ler. smart, according to his father, and wantor ed to be a doctor. to be sure, me Elisha was an 11-year-old girl who harde] old helped her mother around the house and seh was very "grown up" for her age, Char lie told me. Elisha was very interested , . ed in literature and was particularly fond t tmnk Charlie ca n a of Hemingway. For her 11th birthday se" poor.and "e wasn t. * ing in May, they gave her a copy of "To Have much money, to be sure, bu the and Have Not." 18 often much harder to' vas The youngest was named Issac. Is- money sac, his father explained, was the next Integrity, humility, pe: oat Ken Griffey Jr. love cannot 1)6 h011^ y a ,,mL , . , , , , i, , for these traits in people b J I d be scared to be a baseball when .. . ., c c ,. .os,e he's at the plate," he said. His children ue in e orm o a lg ! were clearly the center of Charlie's life, After a couple of hour " and I understood this as he pulled out ?>? the beach and join ir an empty wallet and showed me their swim. I walked to my tn pictures. the end of the boardwall !,H Their was still nothing in his nets toe pi?. Wheal when he cheeked them, so he told me 1 reahzed d left wal fnr more about his life in the Lowcountiy of watc on ? sV*e 0 Z South Carolina. I felt like I was meet- sw.mming off Uie pier e? Z lag a character from a Conroy novel. He ternoon and so I left them he pointed out an egret surreptitiously stalk- w t wet" elf( ing fish and fiddler crabs, an osprey soar- Just as I turned arou; l6al ing majestically above us searching for Charlie Paige, sprinting aa fish and a school of mullet making their walk with my wallet, wa way towards the open water. in his hand. undermines Unive needed to protect integrity. If we lose the many of us throughout o e of ability to rely upon the honesty of each encounter again and aga its other, we can expect that more time will who know us in college. Ii de- be allocated by the institution to veri- to get a job because somec and tying and ensuring the accuracy of in- the office of a prospective e de- formation that is conveyed, taking valu- you as a person who engi vill able time away from teaching and erated dishonesty in your a rch research. Finally, we learn at thi in" Moreover, our expectations of each become pharmacists and d other will be diminished, our discover- and engineers, businesi t. 3 ies may be flawed, and our learning will teachers, the be hindered. I trust that none of us re- Would any of us want 3tu- ally wants to live or work or be associ- nnr nrPcrHntinn werp fil lis- ated with a community of people who who cheated their way t ork can muster no greater sense of moral macy school? Would any ling guidance than was indicated by the pub- lives or freedom in the ha :er- lished comments of this one student* qj* who muy h&ve 'eal If the moral incentive to act honest- way through medical or lav om ly is not already developed, perhaps we we trust our children to i !nts should consider some other obvious costs lied to get a degree? Wc ,m? of tolerating academic misconduct. aboard a roller coaster des: n * First, when grades in a class are cal- one w^? cu^ corners to ge culated on a curve, the grade of an hon- gineering school? iay* est student may lower than what's de- The freshman quoted aP" served if another student cheats, so as cock seems to believe t :e"" to receive a false high evaluation of his mistake would be in gettin or her relative performance in the class, attitude is not only arroga ^ Second, a significant part of the val- Cheating is not a victiml ue of a diploma from this university is defrauds all of us who w the message of accomplishment that it study here, and who relj veg conveys to others, such as prospective hdity of the degree that is to employers. If academic dishonesty is tol- Robert M. Wilcox fe. erated, others will eventually become Associate Professor aware that not all who receive the diplo- School of Law ma have in fact engaged in the study and t"e learning that the award of a degree should reflect Students resp f That knowledge, or lack of confidence fnr nwn rhniV ;c^ in the degree, in turn, will devalue eveiy- 1U1 "VV11 en_ one's degree. i be Third, the individual reputations de- Editor, are veloped in this university will follow A recent editorial (Tai drunk dnving, The Gam jl, All tire Got\ W 15 thacc TH6 \ tohis'LL se neae 1 IK," $0 YOU'D J mc CHA*J&? fl MVSTCR! /I ? v ^rj n and find a way to win them." Central Florida t in real life Charlie considered himself poor, lot. He didn't have much money . but what he had is often much r to come by than money." V*im_ uRotf nr nnt fnrcrot thaco hnddv" ho 1U1UV1VU llliii WVWA UVV lUlgVV VtiV0V) WUUUJj *1V le didn't have said with a smile. I thanked him and it what he had wished him luck crabbing and shrimp:ome by than ing. "Oh, well be alright," he said. "The rsonality, and &??d Lord always takes care of us." , I tend to look After he was gone, the cynical and sfore I look for suspicious side of me checked to see if bank account, my money was still there. I had just withI decided to drawn $100 to take to Atlanta the next iv family for a ^ay see Buffett. Not one dol, , , . lar was missing, ick parked at e t at least 200 A C0UPle of S^8 had Just driven up arrived there in an expensive luxury sedan and witlet, keys and nessed the events, pier. I'd gone "Man, you're lucky, I'd have kept irlier that af- the money and ran" one of them said as there so they they walked by me wearing Hilfiger socks. I knew that I was indeed lucky to have nd there was had the privilege of meeting a man like ross the board- Charlie Paige. A man whom, like me, itch and keys would never be caught dead in a pair of Hilfiger socks. ;rsity integrity ur lives as we 1997) illustrates the abdication of per un the people sonal responsibility in our society, nagine failing First, you assert that tailgating is "aline working in most an invitation to drink and drive," mployer knew ^ second) that provision of public transaged in or tol- portation is the solution to the problem. em*C WOr Drunk driving is the direct result of s university to ^ individual's failure to act as a ratiooctors, lawyers naj mature adult. Many of us drink. 3 leaders and Some of us even do so prior to college football games. Most of us do not, as a ; to think that result of such behavior, operate motor lied by people vehicles under the influence of alcohol, hrough phar- Even if your initial assertion were ?* us Put our true, provision of public transportation nds of doctors not the best or only answer. Sooner or cheated their ?n - a e? lai/ci, an ui us nave iu giuw up auu iaee i school. Would the reaj World. In that world, we can't a teacher who reiy on Mom and Dad or the University iuld we climb 0f South Carolina or the government, to 'fth ^me~ so^ve our Pro^ems f?r usDesignated drivers, ride-share pro on, n grams, taxis and not drinking to excess i? t iu the first place are all answers to drunk u ^ driving that we can implement without ig caught. That university assistance, nt, but selfish. _ , . , . ... ess offense. It The key issue here 13 not tailSatm8 orkhere who and drunk driving, but whether or not r upon the va- we're wilIin? to take responsibility for awarded here ourselves. Our knee-jerk reaction to problems, as evidence in this editorial, is to ask someone to do something for us. The American tradition of rugged individualism is rapidly sinking into a sea of whines to surrogate parents. tonsible n. , ur. D Charles H.C. Brown :eS Graduate Student Department of History lgating causes ecock, Sept. 5,