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fhr Serv Ed Chris Di Adam Sn] Nikki LaRcx Stephanie Sonnenfe T-shirt is for 2 brt We know America's judiciary system is a rr joke, but even this a wouldn't pass in a P& court of law. Scenario: lit- hh tie girl, innocently strapped into a carnival ride, tneilC , ready for a fun, Utterly summery kind of lemonade time. Result: breaks both her legs. A * USC's idea of saying sorr] Here's a T-shirt, sugar. So ry 'bout that little spill you tool Yeah, shove a T-shirt into th kid's hands. That'll stop he from ciying and her parents froi suing. Great thinking there. In a court of law, her parenl would've received $3.2 million fir punitive damages and loss of peat of mind, or something like tha Instead, she gets a T-shir Maybe, though, it was a good on< not the cheap kind that studen Oregon f lawful eu Lawful eu- HfFT: thanasia is one MMbUii step closer to exis- Doct tence because of the Supreme ^ Court's decision VSTTTl not to hear the first challenge to Peoi Oregon's Death , ,/ 4Q) With Dignity Act, hxive th according to an ar- choose i tide in Wednes- ^ day's edition of The State. Doctor-assisted suicide, or euthanasia, is illegal in all 50 states. The law still has not been ratified by Oregon voters. They can choose whethei or not to keep the act. #The Supreme Court has sei a precedent with their decision Perhaps, because of their decision other states will be encouraged tc create similar acts. Don't look tc South Carolina to lead. Though separation of church and state legally exists, our policies are influenced by Christian beliefs, one of which is a respect for life. Legal euthanasia seems highly unlikely for this state. ^ But, for other regions of the country, this could have a strong n Student Media Russell Hon Chris Dixon Susa Editor in Chief Phc Adam Snyder Dom Managing Editor Grap Nikkl LaRocque Stephanl Viewpoints Editor Asst Wei ^1 Rosalind Harvey Kristen News Editor Cari Sara Ladenheim News Editor, Design Tori Marcus Am alter ^ Amy Shannon Brii f eatures Editors Un h Achim Hunt Juli Bryan Johnston Chr Sports Editors Case; Ben Pillow Je"J Copy Desk Chief Creatu The Gamecock is the student cock are those of newspaper of The University of South and not those o Carolina and is published Monday, South Carolina. 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Maybe it was a vv^TTTTTm nice, arm and neck banded one in ( from the UniversC sympa- g^y Bookstore, gesture WCLS you know with inadequate. garnet and black and a little cute Cocky on it. We hope the parents do not take this olive branch of a T-shirt 9 as the end but the beginning. USC J' should be more actively involved r- in Megan McConnell's rehabilitalr *-J J J' ' uun. Ana, aepenaing on ner parte ents, they may be forced to through !r a lawsuit. n Legally, USC may not be in yB* trouble. The university is not the l^/l f*'|j a owner or operator of the afore- ^ XJ r mentioned fair piece. Suchopere ations generally have liability int. surance. t. Yet, the giving of the Tshirt was petty. Broken legs are Cc it worth more than that. "Memory is li Hemingway, A )rOOOSCS I met my ] ^ and first boyfri thanasia family ? a ra graphically se ====-1 . , , T . gone out for pa I PactL paving Barnes and N the right to die rnall with Mon or assisted 'he way one cited torn to th licide chooses is a basic Shaw ranch v "?? "dreamboat in Though nght-to- rived shatterj lifers argue its family particip Ok should unmoral, we believe being forced ? riUgnt to t0 jjve ou^ one's 3 dignified life while mentaleath. ly unstable, having no control over M bowel move- ft ments, or other physical actions is not exactly dig[ nified, and in losing that dignity, t one loses part of one's humanity. If one wishes to live out their I lives naturally, then they should In my brief t have that right. But if someone actress, I leara else wants to avoid pain and hu- one's hands loc miliation, then they should be able portant to convi i to choose to do that as well. very difficult. > Doctor-assisted suicide, like It therefore i other life issues, boils down to one comfortable whe i word ? choice. We find it highly cific for my hanc ironic that many right-to-lifers al- I folded laundr i so support less federal govern- curlers out of m ment, for they want said govern- Twizzlers. ment out of their lives. Yet, for T ., f , ,, , 1 once wen some reason, they feel compelled Twizzlers at a to make decisions regarding life hearsal. I was so issues for others. sacrifice to make business," a selfsounds simpler to do the hands from isa USC Columbia, SC 29208 but ^ao helps d ? 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Names sna|MH|^^Hi ->r any circumstance. Office (803) 777-3888 EWPOIN :a, i'0 lov? to, 9y-r it. u MOON T0N16HT AN7 j KtfOI/ HOW Pfcftf L TS IP I PONT CHAIN Hi' f' 600P?. _ 1 "*/( "Fraternities do not have the alcohol and campi The Atlanta Journal a nories come UGUUJHH My sister, Megan, ws ilumnist rassed when Mom grilled he: 1 house they were going to ke hunger" ? Ernest movies. There better not t i Moveable Feast Be home at 10:30 p.m. I sli momentary nostalgia, only t ened to reality, thankful th< L5-year-old sister's new were over. She was so lit iend this weekend. was go much more matu m. Saturday and I was age. lg a part ol a nuclear j was thankfili for not re treat in these geo- spend three hours brushin parating 1990s- We d ^ up> to worry at ncakes at breakfast, to paying for dinner and whal oble with Dad, to the wken ^ Can^y pulls ir 1.1 was ready and ex- at the end ofthe ^ emim^mtiialiatthe 80me Harris Teeter ice ere Jen the 16-year-old end of the d with bo his Moms Camry ar- i-il , v * ? more like happmess now. ng the dreams of full ation. Then came the next day of deja vu. I was excited riving great pleasure fro rette smokin we dress to the specificat certain group, arrange ou I spikes, curls or afros, and { career as a high school pierce the same parts that oi ted the art of making do. k natural is very im- We're concerned with c incing acting, but also because of what psychologist "imaginary audience." That is, always made me more people ere looking at us all n I had something spe- when in reality they have bet Is to do. As Aunt Eller, to do. Therefore, we worry at y. As Terry, I pulled we look like? an<* we devel y hair. As Willie, I ate business for the theater that's We display all sorts of t through two bags of habits for the benefit of others particularly long re- at our cuticles, crack our k ' ill. But, it was a small chew our nails and sometime for what we call "stage ond bury our hands in our pa explanatory term that clutch our purses and books than it is. The key is our keys about just to be doi I that not only keeps thing. And then, of course, hanging awkwardly, us engage in a nasty habit tl evelop the character, us yellow and makes us smel it engage in character gently even ^ stage, though. We are ^le ^ looking at us i image in real life as to Pve them 311 eyeM)f us it's conscious ? Smoking provides all stage business for us to do, no ijpP rganiza- "No, because I don't ion or a religion for moralib cult?" Walter Short Senior History KHSMHHMjBHIHDIMilHHHiriittliBMBBiH rs ' -A problem. American society has a love affair with the is drinking is simply a reflection." ind Constitution Editorial on college drinking A ^ ^ m. in 31 different is embar- her to see him at his place of employ- manager, r on whose ment, Baskin Robbins. I interrogat- me on m; to watch ed his little ice cream scooping self to "Summer >e alcohol, no avail ? "What do you want to be me in thi ipped into when you grow up? Is there room for doing the o be awak- growth in the Baskin Robbins fami- our love i jse rituals ly, maybe management?" butter p< 'tie and I Megan looked up hum her cook- The re at her je d0Ugh ice cream, shot me a look and action of said, "Erin, what were you doing when any time having to you were 16? Where were you work- member, g my hair ing?" I had blocked a significant ex- when you >out who's perience from my mind. It all came morning. ; will hap- back in a frozen whirl as I drifted off. at lunch, \ tto the dri- I saw myself as my sister and as her two hours tit. Eating boyfriend. When I was his age, I spent can be the am at the a summer working at the Carvel. ory can b yfriend is j was a star employee at the tial, but f Carvel, decorating "Whaley the Whale" lean day, the ice cream cakes and messing up memory b about de- serving soft ice cream. I had a brief, boyfriend m taking seemingly torrid affair with the ice cream g not rebellious ions of a tion endless conversations. When we've ucts. As it r hair in rim out of small talk and can't think more likel generally of anything interesting to say, we say, Kids are s ir friends "Man, I gotta have a cigarette," or, they're tol "Oh my God, I can't drink a beer with- age projeci iur image out a cigarette. Let's go outside." 0ne of reh _~11 TIT 1- * " ^ kou uie we ass. interesting strangers ror This , we think a light in the hopes of getting an in- over f the time, traduction. The most dramatic smok- jsn-t a^ov ter things ing topic is quitting, of course, and pro- man smok rcutwhat vides fodder for years of repetitive d00rwavfi op stage conversations. I really should quit, Fm nhwint/r 3 real life, trying to quit, I did quit but... etc. ' nervous Fascinating stuff to those of those of * wou i. We pick 118 wh? wonder, "Why in the world did ou^ sm?l nuckles, y?u ever start?" some seek is give up To answer this popular question fec^sheepi ikets. We with my stage business theory, I must lt- ' and toss ask another. What specific image is it ers on (s ng some- that smokers are trying to project? y?u aren ^ some of What does puffing on a cigarette tell teresting. I lat turns us about someone's character? cliche of th 1 and fie- An article in The State last week thinks eve we think gave me what might ^ the best an. wants to b. we want swer available, even if it's a little Qanng " y( sketchy. The article regarded a study Your kinds of done to see if identification laws were impressed t to men- keeping kids from getting tobacco prod- stop blowii need "No, because I am an "No. 11 f." atheist." find Dan Edge I Sophomore Philosophy Fres >i bottle, flavors , one year my senior. He took y first date and constituted love *92." Mom interrogated it Mom way and now I was same thing to my sister and nelted faster than a scoop of lean on a hot Florida day. need for memories and the remembering can strike at i. When one chooses to reit can be like a good dinner, 're not hungry until the next Or it can be like Chinese food vhen you're left craving more 3 later. The trap of memory ! lack of fulfillment. Or meme momentary and substanilling. Like ice cream, le back from my walk down me and smiled at Megan and L I remembered how sweet is. >, passe turns out, kids may be even y to smoke if it's forbidden, moking specifically because d not to. Therefore, the imted when we smoke must be ellion. theme of rebellion carries idulthood as well. Smoking red in many places, so huestacks defiantly huddle in i, trying their best to as>assers-by. Id like to point something ters, in the hopes I can make ers of the rebellious image sh ?everyone else is doing ;re are thousands of smokcampus. When you smoke, doing anything new or innstead, you're becoming the e insecure young adult, who ryone is looking at her, and e seen as "cool." It isn't very ? ?> 11 fx X xl ju re au in u togemer guys: imaginary audience is not . In fact, we all wish you'd ng smoke in our faces. laven't had time to i a church yet." Latisha Green hmen Broadcast