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Chris
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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
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no wonder th
Wihtfirop is no one then
P^estS ina'ke sure I
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proof ey for all the things that nee
be built, installed, finished, st
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Jatod refurbished,
lents Winthrop and USC stud<
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iplies common sense has to rule.
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that makes me pis
lack of respect Fve i
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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
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obstacles they face 1
The demonstratioi
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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
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hurt.
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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(
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Yof SKAU BE Cf\L
FRENCH 6^FF(
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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
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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.