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Servii Edi Chris Db Adam Sny< Nikki LaRoci Stephanie Sonnenfel Diversity i motto of I There's a good idea Mu brewing in the USC student senate, and if it works, it will HLUJ be even better. A ? At this Af; week's meet- P' ing, the stu- mu dent senate f>assed a resoution calling for the senators to support multicultun events. According to the bil each senator vwll have to al tend one event sponsored b or recognized by a multi cultural event, one time eac semester. So sounds like anothe meaningless bill? It's not. It purpose is actually wel thought out. i m ^rv 1 ivicuonai Vista Mickey- I^BTTT D's, the good- BU old Golden n Arches of our 5year-old birthday parties. wyvri Ronald and company, rep- wresented by the Greenville Re- chains gional Office, open, wants to be- . come a new neighbor and rub elbows with other establishments in the Vista. Tkn /*nmnomr io lrvrvlr-in iiiu wiii^aiiy AO ivwiuiij to build, according to Th State, aan understated bricl building" sans the arches ani Elayground on the traffic eavy corner of Gervais ani Huger Street. The Vista renovation ha been promising, but there' still many an open lot and de teriorated building that couli be renovated and opened fo business. There's still unde veloped economic profit lay ing in wait. That a nations chain like McDonald's is in terested in the Vista show businesses believe in am trust this economic potential However, Columbia ha so few historic areas, it wouli Student Media Russell He Chria Dixon 9ua Editor in Chief P Adam Snyder Doi Managing Editor Grx Nikki LaRocque Stephai Viewpoints Editor Ant V Rosalind Harvey Kriste News Editor Ca Sara Ladenheim Asst. News Editor, Design To Marcus Amaker *** Amy Shannon B: Features Editors Oi , Achim Hunt Ju Bryan Johnston CI Sports Editors Cat Ben Pillow Jei Copy Desk Chief Crea The Gamecock is the student cock are those newspaper of The University rf South and not thoa Carolina and is published Monday, South Carolii Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semesters and five times ?oa during the summer with the excep- t|Dn8 ^ C?n tion of university holidays and exam lisher of The < PeriodB The Depi Opinions expressed in The Game- dia is its pare The Gamecock will try to print The Gamecoc all lettera received. Letters should be House room 3 200-250 words and must include full 7^ Qan name, professional title or year and to edit all lett major if a student. Letters must be bel or space L personally delivered by the author to not be withhe * Bamecock ig use Since 1908 torial Board con, Editor in Chief ier, Managing Editor que, Viewpoints Editor d, Assistant Viewpoints Editor now official JSC Senate Basically, Iticultural the sen?^e R.,, wants its Mitt members to inttm teract with othUyUiliSilfl er students Ma to romote ness. Iticultural Senator Kathy Von areness. Nostrand of the Journalism school has the il k right idea about this program; It is part of a senator's re-" [ sponsibility to make an effort ? to understand the people they y are representing. i- Hopefully, this program h will gain the support necessary to grow into a success,r ful endeavor. After all, how >s can this program not thrive ii on a campus as diverse as use? ds covets corner be a shame to SkiaiiHI so soon deTie Vista stroy the growing, struggling his _____ tunc amuiaiice of the area . , with a mainunstream stream fast should not food restauIn this his- nt Ijj*? Mc" Donald s, no "ic area matter how non-tradition ally they build their restaurant. g The city of Columbia e should hold out for a better, k more unique business to take d over the corner. : There are enough restau^ rants and bistros, but what about a drive-through/eat-in s coffee shop? Those needing a s quick bite to eat could drive i- through and grab their coffee d and bagel, while those needr ing time to sit and relax and !- enjoy the historic atmosphere nf Tnp Visfji miilH pflt.insirlp J To make the coffee shop even i- more unique, it could perhaps s combine itself with another i service, such as a newspaper [. and magazine shop, much as s Goatfeathers and Intermezrj zo have successfully done. um USC Columbia, SC 29208 tan Meyers Ellen Parsons hoto Editor Interim Director mie Baker of Student Media iphics Editor Lee Phipps lie Sonnenfeld Advertising Manager 'kwpoints Editor Sherry F. 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Office (803) 777-3888 VIEWI KNOWN IN 8 ALL OVER TH( FENRSOIAE tAEET THE L W I "] USC Head Co Take com | Faculty Viewpoint 1 I hear complaints that college students aren't consistent. Faculty anc staff colleagues observe, good-naturedly, that students are unpredictable and worse, too often unreliable. So the criticism goes, and maybe it sticks. For young people, under relentless pressure to establish maturity sufficient to deal successfully with a complicated world, often do appear inconsistent or frivolous. But there's another angle. This is western civilization, and this is America, where we prize the opportunity to realize a unique, unrepeatable self. In our creed, the self is not exactly given. It is to be forged, to be earned, and to be negotiated over time. We have the luxury of means and leisure to pursue this all-absorbing task. As a teacher, I do not expect young people to be consistent in how they present themselves to me or to their peers. Young people I have known as students over the years have grown in expected ways while they were here at USC. Others have done surprising turns and Include n( | Columnist "x | Fm standing at Starbucks waiting Fav mir 1 o??rro T-Ir*7a!nnf aonruiAAinA ivsi rnj iaig& iicutuiiiuv ut^|/uvv<iiiu. The grayness outside only seems poetic for the way this week has gone. The attempt to outwit my day runner has been in vain. This little black book is the predator, I'm its prey. But for now, during this five minutes of a Thursday morning, I just want to experience peace for just one minute. The afternoon's meeting, trip to the library, meeting again, will just have to wait. I am drifting in and out of this manic state, in dire need of caffeine. The seats in the GMP are almost all filled, People are laughing and eating theii main dish and two sides, their grilled sandwiches and even their burritos. I wonder what they are talking about. J imagine most are younger - there aren't many faces I know well. I wonder what is going through their heads if this is their first semester at Carolina. I think about the new friendships forming over mushy raspberry cobbler right at that second. I wish for a moment I could be them. "Have y you been to any 0 use events _L besides C football games "P this semesQ ter?" Compiled by Tori OUara roiNTS ASKCTBAll ARENAS : C OMTKY... A :XUA\- PfctDATOR... ir?A i ^ MC\KlC C~r n ^ ''LVVLo I ) SOY... [ looked for his birthday in their prest ach Brad Scott on the size of MI Stat* iplete freed reverses of personality. Some seem to have re-invented themselves astonishingly overnight. A stable identity is not that easy I to acquire. We may want to try sever( al different identities in succession in [ order to find the one that fits. And we do. We dream, we fantasize, we role s P^y. True, we have to take care of business as we go. But, the personal drama L of our travel from provisional self to provisional self during these years is preemptive. It keeps our attention. As an educator farther along the path, I ! expect to give support to this experi1 mentation when I see it in my students. When I see teaching as play-acting and the classroom as a sleeping hive ready to come awake with the buzz of cross-communicating improvisations, > I see learning and teaching in terms of ! varying, constructed roles. The profession srtiiflllv finrniirotrAS pYnorimpnfn tion. So does learning itself, whether r formal or informal, as a vehicle for human development. What is the age at which we need to consolidate the gains and decide to be the person we've become? It will differ from individual to individ1 ual. )thingness ti A smile forms somewhere beneath the dark circles of perpetualness. Why am I filling every minute of the day, virr tually eliminating the time to just ^e"? I am a big believer in signs - watching for and acting on clues. And I have been getting the signs that my calendar has become too important on a daily basis.Case in point: Sunday night, I nearly gave up my tickets to see the Indigo Girls, my all time favorites. And this week, I almost passed up a night at , Monterrey's. I know I am not alone. Most of my friends are equally, if not more, busy. That still doesn't help when I walk away c i.i : ur >4. T l lrom uiew, saving, 1 can i, 1 nave iu ? ." If s weird. I know all that stuff about time management and prioritizing and taking time to do just nothing. As I have written time and time again, 1 I know that the most important lessons I've learned in college have happened outside the classroom, during late night laundry talks and failing miserably. Out of all people, I used to always be i the spontaneous one. Then why do I see myself in 10 years telling my kids that I can't go - to their school play because I have a s meeting, that I will make it up to them later? My parents came this weekend "Yes, soccer games, basketball, swim meets." Jill Stuerke Freshmen Chemical Engineering ^8 ...MftRV fl i guide, and it said Jan. 5, 6 and 7. e offensive starter 6'8" 351 pound om to disc Of course young people have li- s cense to imitate, to impersonate and to ] plagiarize selves. They need this license. 1 They need it in order to become the per- j sonality and gain the character they i will eventually need to live with. Soci- i ety rewards those who know who < they are, but it takes work to get it right. In the work of becoming ourselves, i we cannot worry overmuch about the ] appearance of dishonesty. Change may ] startle friends or teachers or parents. ] But we should remember that, at least , in youth, the person is a fluid concept, a chameleon entity, and to appear sometimes as [an] unpredictable unit. The self is not fixed until we fix it ( for the duration. And even then it re- , mains at risk of at least subtle change. Here's an analogy. Marriage was once considered a lock. No longer?di- . vorce is a thinkable solution. Wed- , ding oneself too early to an identity too rigid may prove as unhappy as wed- , ding oneself to a spouse before ready for such a commitment. Young people need permission to change the self and j to keep changing it, to the extent pos- i sible and permissible, until they can t achieve a winner. i A sense of theater is saving grace. 1 It saves us from taking ourselves too 1 1 J.* me in necu and were upset when I told them how i I just don't have the time anymore to ] do simple things (ie: laundry, go to the grocery store). Then, my dad ^ whipped out his computer-printed list of what we would get accomplished dur- | ing their visit. ^ I'm not saying it's my parents' i "fault" I load myself down too much. I s think they are the greatest parents and i did the best job anyone could do in rais- j ing the three of us. I wouldn't want them ; to do a thing differently {.except take me to a different orthodontist who < wouldn't keep those braces on for what ? seemed like an eternity). ^ One of my professors discusses this fre- ^ quently - how it's so important to re- j ceive attention and stimulation at an early age and how that makes all the < difference in determining a person's life. , I wonder how to find the balance be- ^ tween encouraging children and pres- j suring them. I look at the people around me who fill their lives with "musts" and see some frustrated individuals, myself included. ! Someone told me once that I "think ' too much." It would have been hurtful in a strange way if the word "ignorant" did not flash across my mind. The hurt- * fill point came in the fact that there was "Yes, a leadership conference." Sandy DeVeaux Senior Biology It i|1BERT/ 59 Robert Hicks :over self 3eriously. Theater people, actors, love playing roles, on stage and off. Sometimes they do nothing else, but thaf s an extreme. A philosophical sense of theater enables personal growth and then a healthier, more durable self once astablished. W.H. Auden threw off some of the wiser lines in English poetry in verses hnnnrincr tVie ViirtVi r?f a oViilH .ToVin Rettger, to friends of his. In "Many Happy Returns" he offered the newborn :hild this advice: "So I wish you first a/Sense of theater, only/Those who love illusion/And know it will go far/Otherwise we spend aur/Lives in a confusion/Of what we say and do with/Who we really are." Before they turn the corner, at whatever age that may be, while the apprenticeship lasts, until, reaching responsible adulthood, young people should be encouraged to try on as many roles or selves as may help. Editor's Note: Dr. Lewis is the first *uest of the new Faculty Viewpoints feature. He is a professor of religious stud es and a principal of freston tiesiiential College. c schedule something to what he was saying - that [ make issues out of non-issues. I was glad that I decided to go to ;he Indigo Girls concert Sunday night. [ must have been temporarily insane ;o think anything could come before ;his show that I can only equate to a -eligious experience. Although I was stressing about a paper during the openng act, my crammed confusion all went iway when I heard the words I know ire true. Two songs did it for me: "Least Complicated" and "Closer To Fine." How do I expect to start clean-slated/ ;he hardest to learn is the least complicated" and "The less I seek my source Yir anmo rlofinifiwa/ Pl/\a/M? T r?m Ta " VI vvuiv UVUIUUTQ V1UOCI i CUU XV/ X' U1C. \nd that was it - that was the answer. For a moment, I was happy. For i moment I vowed to remind myself not :o just throw out the calendar, but to nclude some nothingness time in there ust like work time. Ifs amazing that I can't just get a simple cappuccino without analyzing jvery second of it. Upon that thought I vas handed the tall cup. I drank the coffee, warm and strong. It was good. "No, because I've only been here a semester." Nitin Lalwanl Grad Student Business Ad.