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access was
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and teachers
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at USC has its own in,/600U,?
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wide web, thanks fo learn about the
to the university s ,
homepage. Many internet
USC students also
have been able to
create their own
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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- _ .
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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.
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implications i?
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think the end of afwouid've
occurred Proposition 209
in the conservative
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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
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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.
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penalties that may be imposed upon i
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Interim Director , ... ?. , .
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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
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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
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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^
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.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.
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Charlie considered himself poor,
lot. He didn't have much money .
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r to come by than money."
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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,