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Adam Sny<
Nikki LaRoci
Stephanie Sonnenfel
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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.
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ivicuonai
Vista
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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
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Iticultural the sen?^e
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teract with othUyUiliSilfl
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romote ness.
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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
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of the area
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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.
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| 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.