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I , I the" Sen E< Chris E Adam Sn NikkiLaRt Sfpnhnnip Snnnpnf ) ' ? Burst pij new Ma: So it seems Maxcy is knee | deep in water for the second time this semester. According to reports, more pipes have busted in the recent- show ly refurbished j freshman honors dorm, ruin- GWOli ing everything from books to | carpet, both of __A 1- i 1 J o wmcn cost lots 01 money replace. It is a bit discouraging see that all the money pump into this facility still can't p: tect everything. Part of t problem with pipes busting c be attributed to the rush j done on Maxcy. Although t refurbishing process w . lengthy, it was rushed towa w the end of the summer to m< Maxcyk opening date. Perha construction should have pi attention to issues such as t pipes prior to project finalij tion. Perfection isn't somethi easily achieved, and it can't expected to happen in eve dorm on every campus. Ho Leaguers Southerr They aren't KTi ^ racists. And they ^HUl W aren't rednecks. ^ They are .1 white, middle- 1 class gentlemen, rTfr lazily smoking cigars on Seabrook Island during the summer and planning the next secession.At least, this is the image ^ they believe they P portray. According to an article Sunday's edition of The Stal The League of the South is 01 of many neo-Confederate grout This one was co-founded 1 USC's own history professor, ti John C. Calhoun scholar Cly< Wilson. These men want to preser Southern culture. Some want ^ go so far as to secede from tl United States again. Tbo many questions and d bates surround neo-Confede Student Media Ruseeil H Chris Dixon St Editor in Chief Adam Snyder D< Managing Editor C Nikki LaRocque Stephi Viewpoints Editor Asst. 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Letters should be House room 200-250 words and must include lull The Qa name, professional title or year and to edit all le major if a student. letters must be bel or space personally delivered by the author to : not be withh 0amecock ring USC Since 1908 iitonal Board lixon, Editor in Chief yder, Managing Editor >cque, Viewpoints Editor eia, assistant viewpoints JC,aitor I ii w Si %& S 'Si pe drowns Key image ever, problems on a larger scale, Maxcy involving electricity, pipes and ViAofin rr/oAnlin rr 11^ CI 1/1J Ig/ systems, can be avoided enough onstruction to prevent a stuId have been dent's room and , their personal ' properly to possessions from dproblems. being ruined. If problems are happening in a facility like to Maxcy, whose construction was heavily monitored, what can to we expect from other campus ,0^ dorms in the future? ro- Will South Quad fall he prey to blackouts? Will Sims an oe infected by mildew? Or will ob Preston burn down because of he its unusually high heat temas peratures in the winter? ^ It's tough to find perfection 2et in construction, but at least LP? some problems can be stopped ^ before they are started. The ae residents who are paying to 'a~ stay in dorms don't deserve tenement-like conditions. nrr n n it . i nopemiiy, preventing ao^ mestic disasters such as these ry won't become a mere pipe w" dream. fantasize i dream 1^61 ate S1011?8 to C011" JUmmBH cisely address in <e league of ie oOUtn legal to secede? Is Nathaniel Bedford Forest a TTT7 . hero in their Whatever eyes? We say "whatever." These men are on the way out. It is our generation that is coming into powin er. It is our generation that, no ;G) matter how much some may love their Southern past, would nev)S er allow secession or any kind 3y of regression. Let them talk. j^e They will do no harm. ie If it makes them happy to swelter in the Seabrook sun and ve fantasize about a return to some sort of glory, let them. We know ie better. And whoever has Clyde Wile_ son for a professor, tell him that T. in your next class, please. ouse (JSC Columbia, SC 29208 isan Meyers Ellen Parsons Photo Editor Interim Director >nnie Baker of Student Media 'raphes Editor Lee Phipps anie Sonnenfeld Advertising Manager Viewpoints Editor Sherry F. Holmes en Richardson Classified Ad Manager ara Pellatt Carolyn Griffin News Editors Business Manager 'ori O'Hara Jim Green St. Photo Editor Creative Director Irian Rish Michelle Dames In-line Editor Creative Services , _ . Graduate Assistant ulie Baker 'hris Culp Erik Collins tsey Decker Faculty Advisor man Hager Mutative Services The Gamecock Editor (803) 777-3914 leofthe editors or author News (803) 777-7726 se of The University of ina. ETC. (803) 777-3913 (80317777726 'Gamecock' Sports (803) 777-7182 partment of Student Me ent organization. Online (803) 777-3913 Student Media . D ii Advertising (803) 777-1184 >ck newsroom in Russell 6 1 ' 333' Classifieds (803) 777-1184 mecock reserves the right tter for style, possible li- Fax (803)777-6482 limitations. Names will eld for any circumstance. Office (803) 777-3888 VIEWPC I?( r f -? y I l/^> S "It wasn't Freshmer Wanted de; the v Columnist^^^^l perfc their: OK, Fm pissed. j You know, it sounded like a glari: good idea. Let's put a marker-board on the I the outside of our door, so when peo- peopi pie come by or if myself or my room- Mart mate had to leave, notes could be It An left, so everybody knows where every- 0f ^ body is. r In fact, eveiybody thought it was prote a good idea, and consequently did i the same. pus , And you know what? It worked, who r or at least, it did work. pie's ] Then came the day when all the eral-I joy and prosperity came to a crashing, tenai devastating halt. Someone stole the 1 marker perched atop the board. The ^ ^ bast...bad person! It was the darkest ten jg day of my brief college life. Why do people have to do that ] kind of stuff? I mean, does someone re- CQUj^ ally need a marker so bad they have mVen to resort to petty larceny to fixlfill their ?_.*w kleptomania? Well, as I've said, I'm ( very, very angry.In my opinion, this is k mark Florida native To the editor, itage I write in defense of the state that ^"om 1 I call home, Florida. In his column (wide Monday, Christopher R. Reeves ar- Chipj gued the "Sunshine State" is not part W of the South and perhaps never was. teent I will not dispute his overarching the- homei sis, but I would like to clarify that parts tains of Florida, most of the Northern part largej of the state, remain very much a part of Dixie. Instead of the Yankees that / Reeves sees ruling over the state, has r one finds communities not unlike those woult of Georgia. lime p Indeed, the evangelical versions ^ast e' of Christianity one finds in the South on remain an essential part of North Flori- ^ 0 da's political and cultural life. Its dif- I ferent populations and climates make the si it hard to pin down. Certainly it con- publ: tains more evangelical Christians, His- paign panics and retirees than any North- playe ern state. Just as Florida is not a the Ci Southern state, it is not a Northern Gene state either. enouj Having missed this obvious point, withe Mr. Reeves continues to misjudge the te^en state of Florida. Reeves makes serious comm blunders in thinking that Floridians gusto have no respect or understanding of t^1 our past. We have both, Mr. Reeves, aone and we also "recognize our history and ?t. Jo try to live accordingly." An excellent example of this is aS ^ Florida's fascination with Hernando de Soto. Soto arrived in Florida with Floric his band of men in 1539 and fought ^eev tribes of natives throughout the c? modern state. Floridians still argue hke ^ over where he landed, where he went fedm and where he camped. Floridians have ^ime * every reason to celebrate our heritage. ?^na St. Augustine, not Jamestown, was J the first permanent settlement in North that I America. it." P Just like Texas, Florida remains heard very influenced by its Spanish her )INTS ' HONEf... HAVe &V?N Tc V5U^0 (WPKHOM veP v? until our parents started raising hell that anyon i Aimee Ahn, on her Maxcy room being flooded id or alive: in rorst form of crime that can be ed and brought back t irmed on campus. People need Here, the person can markers. They need to leave notes. 1) being whipped un My neighbors have been bur- celery stick, 2) being zed twice, forcing them to form scrambled eggs ser JSC Markers-Watch Society of Market Place durinS e Who Have Been Robbed ofTheir forced to stay an 1 :ers and Are Not Going to Take bathroom, or 4) havir y More Club. Look for it, it's kind fQur kours ?f Milli Vi I Hits. fhis organization was formed to So, as you see, y< ct all those hard-working, note- &et cau?nL ig students who live on this cam- This crime has gi [hey search and destroy all those ganization (its acron> nay endanger the position of peo- BRTMANGTAM) is o markers. Fm the Secretary-Gen- coming parties dedia 'ost-Master-Vice-President-Lieu- horrific and heinous c it-Captain of the club. Under the supervisio My job is to assign punishments shy? ^ think can h< )se caught violating the unwrit- der new adminis tw of disturbing the marker. And questions have come i e me, you don't want to be caught. ^ relayed and ansv i ^ i orin. ?. cerned audience: . m sure you re thinking, What they possibly do to me?" Well, Q* ^id you eat a 1 i the full-fledged consent of the when you were a kid: (rsity, a lot. A) Ha, ha, ha...w Say we find somebody stealing a Q) What happens er. The felon will be apprehend- stolen, what should v comes to the def . Just look at the architecture, tainly not unique to F the Bolles School in Jacksonville ages towns to pieces, h produced a true Southerner in a? fnr mnnnpr* tl >er Jones) to the hotels that Hen- and reality r< ger created at the end of the nine- from one another. He h century. Look at some of the of Florida, just like n s and churches. Our art too main- people in the Southern a Spanish flavor. Where is the to deal with one ano it collection of Dali's in America? whiteg> Hispanics, Ca mPa- tants, Jews and Musli ^nd as for the claim that Florida to live with one anothe: 10 unique food of its own, I The residents of the "J 1 point out the orange and key live mostly in harmon; >ie. Where would we be at break- er, the ultimate act c very morning without rich Flori- humans can commit, inge juice? Probably with scurvy Kevin Michael Deri oldsores' MA Candidate aorida entered the Union in 1845, ? , , ?TT. , ame year Texas joined the Re- Department of Histor ic. While few military cam- All music has go s were staged in Florida, the state To the editor, d an important role in feeding Country music is onfederacy during the Civd War j fm rednecks , a]s( iral Lee s army was starved . . , ,'n U x , , music is true to life, to itepttsjESr ie, was a Flondian. The last act ? . J. _ , . music doesn t separate i Confederate government was er musj(, Fm not a ^ along the swampy banks of the ^ Fm e] ,hns River, when the Secrete^ ^ ^ N j h r John C. Breckniridge wrote one dst Fred Leach| ^ ( romotion. . , courtesy to me. Jr. Reeves also misjudges AU.n?r T la's role during Iteonstruction ^ of ^ bjrth ]a(, is maintains that Florida didn t never ha(J m eaf for 0 irpet-bagged, or reconstructed . , , te Southemstote. "Oddly enough, ?*? * J troops left Florida at the same ,e , ride lf Qn they withdrew from South Car- musica| tolerance ft. and Louisiana. find a CD by Lionel f dost insulting is Reeves' claim by Rancid in the same Honda lacks "an enduring spir- never found room for erhaps Mr. Reeves has never 1>m n0, sure jf s| I of one of those hurncanes, cer- Mjndy McCready wc performing sexua* ac ? > THfc^ ? A |* ! \ ^ * e started noticing." fnr a aonnn^ timo larker thieves 0 a special room. A) First, you should yell and curse be* tortured via: for approximately ten minutes before mercifully by a calling our hot-line (1-800-MWSSPforced to eat all WHBRTMANGTAM) to find out there ved in the Grand is absolutely nothing we can do breakfast, 3) be- about it. lour in my hall s q) How many people have been ig to sit through convicted so far? anilli s Greatest ^ Well, let's see, I have to check my fingers...hmmm...uh...roughly zesu don t want to r0 However, we thought we were going to get someone, but they were onot to end. My or- ly putting a new marker on the board. m is MSSPWH- Q) How many members are in the ne of the up and Hub? A) WeU let's see, I have to check n of the univpr- my ^...hmmm, mcludmg me and s redeemed. Un- my tw0 "?ghbors, there are three, itration, certain Well, that's all the time I have. I jp I believe need hope this has encouraged you to take rered for the con- part in hindering this frivolous crime, and I hope it's obstructed any thought lot of paint-chips P60?'6 may have f 3uc,h , an abonunable mfnngement. It really ruins a person's day to have to lug hy? all the way to Wal-Mart to buy new 1 if a marker pets markers, onlv to have them stolen /e do then? again. Sense of his state lorida, that rav- but if you think such an act is not reality, you're mistaken. Don't give hule Southern ide- mans the credit ofnot thinking up such jmain distant off-the-wall ideas, iwever, citizens For some, the rhythmic beat of a lost of the good rap song is easier to listen to than that i states, attempt of a country song. Dare I say, "differther ? blacks, ent strokes for different folks?" itholics, Protes- You did strike a nerve when you ms. We attempt insulted the singing style of Dave Mathr as best we can. ews jn today's music, singing is not sunshine State the most important thing. I cannot y with each oth- imagine any other voice being paired if courtesv that ta A/r-iV. * up wiui una styie ui music. iYiauiews' voice is a key aspect to his sound, ?y as are the voices of the front men of previously mentioned bands. y I was unsure of what you were . getting at by telling us all that your favorite country performer happens to suffer from muscular dystrophy. I al, indeed, not on- so was unclear of your motive when ) agree country you told of his humility. I don't see how the extent that the two are related, and I guess fe. When Dirty we're supposed to take your word on i about getting how humble this performer is. Muse's being true to cular dystrophy, as well as AIDS, are 3pect of country true to life, but so is getting gunned e it from all oth- down by an unknown assailant. You mtry music fan, may claim that Clay Walker's predicanough to respect ment brings him a new view of life. A ope you {Colum- realistic view. I can offer up Michael ;xtend the same Stipe as an example. He is a bisexual atheist. How real is that? up a few miles What it all boils down to, is that :e of Alabama, I music is a form of expression. It has a ountry music. It target audience that can relate to the inguage. I found message it conveys. Rap focuses on the lessage too sim- hard-core life of growing up in urban my diversity of areas. Country focuses on the exact s uncommon to opposite. Life is different for everytichie and a CD body. Music should follow in the same collection. I just manner, country music. Kevin Foster Langston hania Twain or Freshmen iuld sing about Journali8m ts in a theater, i