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TOU < Chris Adam Nikki La Stephanie Sonne Lack of reason Their classrooms are missing old-fashioned necessities such as maps and chalk. VJT They've got leaky roofs, wobbling desks and ^ chalkboards that refuse to be writ- S11UI ten on by what little chalk there is. No, this isn't the local public elementary s or your old high school. It' of our publicly supported s: schools, Winthrop Univei According to Tuesday' tion of The State, students so fed up with conditions held a 15-minute protest 01 the College of Arts and Scii before taking four memb< the state legislature on a tx campus buildings: Sen. Hayes, R-York and Reps. Kirsh, D-York, Becky Meac R-York and Gary Simrill, RThe protest was organize junior H.D. Hatched. Students believe scht ficials are more concerned landscaping than the^ with building conditions an not willing to listen to sti concerns.' School administrator new windows in Kinard R renovated auditorium, a seminar room and a new ference room as contrary to student beliefs. While it's impressive Winthrop has partially renc some key buildings, stu< don't learn from looking ou windows. What is the point oi frivolities if the basic sup are not being distributed? Part of the problem, j as chalkboards and maps that on a college campus, i rooms are not used by a s professor each day, and t fore the possessions of that are not guarded by the p: anr as fhpv nrp in hicrh si uv'l "*VJ ' O" The professor's dom an office, not their rented Student Media Ruseel Chris Dixon Editor in Chief Adam Snyder Managing Editor Nikld LaRocque Si Viewpoints Editor Rosalind Harvey 1 News Editor Sara Ladenheim News Editor, Design Marcus Amaker Amy Shannon Features Editors Ac him Hunt Bryan Johnston Sports Editors Ben Pillow Copy Desk Chief The Gamecock is the student cock ai newspaper of The University of South and ni Carolina and is published Monday, South Wednesday and Friday during tlie fall and spring semesters and five times during the summer with the excep- hons a tion of university holidays and exam lisher periods. ^ Opinions expressed in The Game- diaisi The Gamecock will try to print The G all letters received. Letters should be House 200-250 words and must include full T name, professional title or year and to edit major if a student. Letters must be bel or personally delivered by the author to not be 4 : Gamecock Serving USC Since 1908 Editorial Board } Dixon, Editor in Chief Snyder, Managing Editor Rocque, Viewpoints Editor snfeld, Assistant Viewpoints Editor IPINION essentials for protes room. I no wonder th Wihtfirop is no one then P^estS ina'ke sure I IJ "H J ITTmTB desks are usal ? ? USC has s USC and ilar, yet oppos nthrop share problems. liar renovating , Many si L 7 dents can tes problems t-0 profess( searching fori 1 or 1U minutes apieceofchal] school a dry-erase marker in ordei s one write notes, ister- Gambrell Hall does not r rsity. essarily sport the latest ma s edi- (Has anyone ever taken W< were ern Civilization only to disco they the Soviet Union still exists i itside Germany is still divided into E ences and West?) jrs of However, the two camj ? problems are not exactly ide Wes cail. ham* Winthrop students wish' York! money went into landscap i(j and more into renovations. But as we skirt dirt p: and mud puddles, round ch link fences and tiy to drown ' a r e the noise of construction dui ^ lecture, USC students may v ident ^be opposite. And while Winthrop e s cite bave leaky roofs, we have a n e n ly renovated residence hall sp t ngW ing Old Faithful's distant cou r con- There never is enough n proof ey for all the things that nee be built, installed, finished, st , f ed, run, stopped, renovatei Jatod refurbished, lents Winthrop and USC stud< t new have both evidently seen t But when it is being de : new ed how much money goes wh iplies common sense has to rule. As nice as extra touches as far it is important to make sure i i - 1_ i. go, IS Dasic, simpie esstmuais t class- nearly all universities are single on, not just USC and Winthi here- are in proper and outstand room working order, rofes- Then move on to the i chool. windows, the new residence 1: ain is and the new landscaping. 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Sports (803) 7 he Department of Student Melts parent organization Online (803) 7 Student Medl; , D ii Advertising (803) 7" amecock newsroom m Russell room 333 Classifieds (803) 7 he Gamecock reserves the right , all letter for style, possible li- Fax (803)7' space limitations. Names will withheld for any circumstance. Office (803)7' I lis ' 't VIE r t>s m ere M B to jj i J lm" ite, Q?QA tutify )rs five r7TT^giTTff!Trr for "T o hp 1UI r to lecips. i use )us' ntiless | Colum ing Okay, it's tim< lies I have been ain months, and I'm al out Ifs not my 8 a.m. cb ing cheeseburgers nor rish markers from my n that makes me pis lack of respect Fve i ; dents, more specifi 6W~ i DUtr Cl3SS' sin. Respect is a vi to cultivate while d ,," Respect, in genera , son's beliefs, thou artj or People like tc and beliefs are imp , effect, if on no one e life. To me, all vie meaningful becaus cid- things, no one reall) ere> or what's going to guess is as good as arc* Getting back the spect, it has been i hat some people here ji mn others. Some exar |"0^' I had to go to 1 ? week for Universil tation, I believe,1 iew ness," or somethin S Anyway, the , with college studt obstacles they face 1 The demonstratioi cohol consumptio whole in the Unitec r Hon ia iger xe8 ager | Viewpoint I thought I got o\ 5g a freshman, es Going home was a of sorts. My first Lai rushed home with a absolutely, positive excitement. To see k Street! The punks o: r7-39i4 marsh, the creek, rm r 7-7726 my family. Definitel r 7-3913 "Don't get so excil prophesied. "Eventi be boring. Fm going 1 r7"7182 "NEVER!" I exc 77-3913 JJQW C0U1(J J ever fjj sea home passe? Im r 7-1184 Yet, over the sen n-1184 far worse has happe 77-6482 2oinS home boring- ^ hurt. 773888 ? Because, you see, I now. I don't know w or how it came abou happy little freshm prospect of Charles as beautiful as I fii proud as I am for gr city hurts me. I think it starte( WPOINTS Yof SKAU BE Cf\L FRENCH 6^FF( S3 honest with you, I thought they had scored, an USC football wide receiver Jermale Kelly, c needs just < It went on to discuss sex and dangers, such as sexual assaults, SI ' and pregnancies. There were even sk 2 to get serious. which were very well-thought-out a here almost two well-executed, performed by four U ready quite pissed, students on these various subjects isses nor the $23.69 speaker concluded the presentati the stealing of my with more talk about sexual assau larker board (yeah, Throughout this exhibition, \ ssed). It's the total audience of freshmen was totally c loticed by USC stu- respectful. Some people were lauj cally, the freshmen ing over some of the skits, people w talking during the speaker's lecti tal and critical tool aud people left, which showed and ealing with people, palled me. 1, deals with a per- These actors had worked for m ghts and feelings, than three weeks on their skits, ? i know their views I'm sure the presentation took Ion ortant and have an than that to coordinate, and a la: ilse, at least in their chunk of the audience just left, ws and beliefs are I don't understand that. I co se in the scheme of understand a couple of people leav r knows whafs right for personal reasons but people le happen. Anybody's ing for what seemed like no reas > mine. at all is ludicrous. to this lack of re- These people obviously did not ny experience that spect the time involved in the mak ist don't care about of this performance, the informat nples are in order, being transferred from the speake: a presentation last ^he audience nor the people who w y 101. The presen- giving the presentation. That's just was "Risque Busi- spicable. g to that effect. The same thing happens in presentation dealt math class. Yes>1 a a math idiot i ;nts and the many am enrolled in Math 111, which m( iirough these years, everyday, a focused on the al- During the lecture, when n by students as a teacher turns her back to write on I States and at USC. board, people will furtively sneak ie loses lov< after my freshman year. I had fins begun to really like USC, and Colum s Edltor | wasn't that bad, and I had made my o rer this when I was family here. Suddenly, in May I foi myself away from school, my U Jways an experience "family" spread through the count ?r Day weekend, I really expensive phone rails or snail n sophomore friend, bang our cmly meansofcommumcat dy quivering with ShoatlnS down the h?U at 3 am- ' Charleston! King much more convenient. n King Street! The ( ******* to W(f ?0Wnt? j i. a at the Visitor s Center, and a few pec ' d?f ?h'3,1(1 from USC were there, and I always 1 y j? 8 a two or three friends from high schi ued, my wise en ^ having decided to stay in Atla aally, this will just Qr Qemson or wherever for the sumn lome. Ah, s? w^j And I spent enough time at the bea laimed, horrified, boating and swimming in the creek t id returning to my I ended up having a rather transcenda possible! summer, nesters, something Then came Fall Break of ned. If only I found sophomore year. I returned home ^t least that doesn t onjy two days. That's all I could tak my younger sister and her new boyfric it hurts to go home Cuddling, cute and sweet and ever hen this happened much in high school love, they made t. One day, I was a want to retch and cry. My sisters w an, giddy with the both juniors in my old high school, dc ton. Now, a junior, and experiencing the same things 11 ud Charleston, as including that first intense, passion owing up there, the dark puppy love. And where was I? male in the picture, and the previ 1 with the summer love of my intense life suddenly shr: t f 1 > ;*V J HONORARY /AEM8E7 d I said, 'Them rascals are going for >n the block Lee Wiggins made in Sat I li'l R-E-S its Ds its, "/m all about respect for i. a everyone could just think, i?n and respect, things wc Its. the lis?h ere of this class, hurrying out the opened ire door. Why come to class if you're goap ing to leave during the lecture? It really goes to taking advantage ore of their newly found rights. They know md nothing is going to happen to them for ?er leaving the class, other than failing r?e the class. People also don't respect their . dorm halls, at least the students on in? my hall don't. I woke up one morning av~ and entered those great community 5?n showers, only to find a trash can slopped over on the floor with its con^ tents scattered into the showers, ing jon It was quite disgusting, and I felt r to very sorry for the person who had to ere clean it up. I'm sure whoever knocked de- over the trash can failed to think of the others who would've been affectmy ed by this shameless action. and T'vo alwavo hppn a rpsnprtfiil npr jets son. I definitely have a profound respect for those who are older, who have the been through it all and who know what the they're talking about. I wouldn't dare out do anything to purposely disdain them. i, good in illy to nothing more important than the bia "high school boyfriend" How petty! But iwn it made me sad to see that part of m> ind life shrink into such a minute, stupid SC perspective. ;ry, This summer was the complete worst lail Somehow, my mother and I managed ion. to avoid getting into major confrontation /as while I was in high school, mainly because I took my anger out on teachers, not her iwn But this summer, Mom and I decided iple with no previous communication oi lad conference on the subject, that it was sol, high time to have those arguments nta necessary for "the baby bird to spreac ler. its wings and fly." Bye-bye Mommy tch, At any rate, summer *97 was rathei hat uncool. atal I discussed all this with one of mj close friends who had just recently movec my back to Charleston from Georgia. W( for spent this Fall Break hanging out at al e of of our favorite spots and trying to figuri aid. this adoration/hatred relationship wi -so- have with Charleston, me Marshal decided it wasn't so mucl ere the family issue or working crappy job: >ing while your other friends have way-coo lad, internships. It's the fact that we havi ate, no life in Charleston. The events tha No made Charleston vibe with color, tha ous turned every Friday and Saturday nigh ank into fun and exploration and sometime ^ \ Vl Mi k of -we sioox. two.' I was a little lost." urday's game i-P-E-C-T myself, others and nature. If have a little common sense tuld be so much better. " Somebody^ loss of respect for me ^ is the worst thing that can happen to me. Luckily, I don't think it has really haDDened before. I'm all about respect for myself, others and nature. If everyone could just think, have a little common sense and respect, things would be so much better. People would be so much better. The world would be so much better. ? But that's up to the individual. They have to realize what they're doing and realize they could do better. They have to attempt to change, which is one of the hardest things to do. At least try (respect, that is). You will be appreciated for it, and more people will like and respect you. A little respect goes a long way in human relations. Thaf s all I have to say about that, ? so I hope you'll take some of the advice and incorporate it in your daily lives. You'll be a happier, wiser and cooler person. ipmofies i drama, was gone. Our childhood, middle ; and high school lives there are very much r over, yet no other type of life has taken I over to replace the former memories with meaningful insight and thought. Charleston, as Marshal put it, is an ' empty shell for us. As lovely, as delicate, 5 as decadent as it is, it's empty within. ! There s no pulse for us. She is dead. What does one do when one's "city ? > of angels" is gone? I have loved Charleston so much. She has turned into a person 5 for me. But that personality is gone. ? Nothing exists there except old memories that somehow do not age well but become wrapped in a queer ache. It's time for me to move on. I know I will always worship that city by the j sea I will always turn my already-snub a nose up at people when they tell me j where they hail from, only to say, "Oh, , well, Tm from Charleston." ? 3 I know eventually I will return to live out my adult life, my "settled down" ! years, and raise children there because s no childhood is quite like the one that 1 takes place along the ocean. But for now, e as I climb to that age, I know I must t leave. Boston, Ireland, Seattle, Gambia, t wherever. t Goodbye, my love. For now.