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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
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Maxcy involving electricity,
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are on the way
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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
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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
?
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A |* !
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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