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ltod Servini ? Edit Adam Snyder, Nikki LaRocq Stephanie Sonnenfeld I ripi Vrl Team, n focus of Wften someone is holding out a great, big, fat Fogle ^ lollipop in front of fa ESP1 your sweet-tooth friendly mouth, VJT|r| ifs kind of hard to say "no." Cool\ Especially if lectec that "lollipop" / involves national, Overly hve, televised ex- Ve? posure of one's SEC-champion basketball team. Head Coach Eddie Fogle: has made it well known he'i not fond of ESPN's "Midnigh Madness" ? after all, it did cu a crucial day out of practice. However, Fogler allowet USC's team to participate in th< honor, because it is an honor h be one of four college's previewed Fogler knew this was mon of a thank you to last year's fani Shock tre rparhpc r\ x vuvitva VJ Although death is a scary thing, it's also a "See definite thing, and the state Proba- " tion and Patrol VrrTFW Department is taking advantage Some of these two at- L l tributes. shock CO Recently, the department has ^ . Knmin a nrnrrrom w^vui u ugi oiu in Charleston called "Scared Stiff," aimed at keeping first offenders who violate parole from returning to prison. The program, which was featured in Sunday's State newspaper, operates by taking these offenders on tours of the Charleston County morgue, where they view autopsies and listen to experts who deal with death. Susan Chewning, the Charleston County Corner, claims that those offenders who fail to turn their lifestyles around can die in one of three ways: by drug overdose, a drug deal gone bad or from years of drug abuse. Basically, "Scared Stiff depends on shock to successfully implement its message of 0 cleaning up or checking out. Student Media Russell Houi Adam Snyder Susan Interim Editor in Chief Phot Nik Id LaRocque DonnJ Viewpoints Editor Graph. Rosalind Harvey Stephanie News Editor Asst. View Sara Ladenheim Kristen 1 News Editor, Design Car a Marcus Amaker '^ssf ^e Amy Shannon Nate Features Editors Asst. 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Letters must be personal- bel or space limit ly delivered by the author to The Game- not be withheld fo A 5amecock r USC Since 1908 orial Board Interim Editor in Chief ^ ue, Viewpoints Editor I, Assistant Viewpoints Editor ^ UNION | ot ESPN 1 Fogler than anything else. r's reaction And even V'Madness' though he and 9 USC's men's has- *9 TTjWUM ketball team Dar ticipated, Fogler , calm, COL- didn't turn around I and not and be&in to i brown-nose the impressed. seemingly all. y nice. powerful ESPN. He responded to the attention WB not by salivating r all over the place, but by brush9 ing the media blitz off, as if we t receive such all the time, acting t with decency and composure. It shows great character to 1 not become overwhelmed by such 9 attention, to not get crazy over it 3 and lose perspective. Fogler has kept the team, 3 not ESPN, as his No. 1 priority, s which is very refreshing. |||^ :atment gygy -g The '11C11UU 3 ace, mil] It's a morbid pay tactic, but one ish ired Stiff" that is necessaiy to ^ 10mm to influence those S0IE ? who need it the er t OJLMMM most- thri Today's youth pub 'times only cannot be repri- it te in reach of- or taught grai j simply with class- The iaers room iessons< ^ A policeman the coming to a class- side room to show slides of a prison outor tell tales of arrest do not im- ther pact students who sometimes see thai worse in their own backyards. jn t Spokesmen affiliated with are the program note that parents rea< and ministers have called to sign der' up their own children in hopes You that some troubled youths can die: see the error ot their ways. A few years ago, programs like these may have been con- -w- ? sidered unorthodox or even un- 1?1 necessary, but with the advent JL J of increased teenage criminals, "Scared Stiff seems to be one of the best mediums around. Not only does this program teach a lesson, it also offers '? participants a message: Life is short, and things you do can make I tui it even shorter. lowe evei turr Nov ie USC Columbia, SC 29208 C6nt ' neig i Meyers Ellen Parsons nanl j Editor Interim Director ,, , le Baker ?f Student Media that ics Editor Lee Phipps ther Sonnenfeld Advertising Manager 9;30 points Editor Sherry F. Holmes yard iichardson Classified Ad Manager y Pellatt Carolyn Griffin ws Editors Business Manager g. Brown Jim Green i j orts Editor Creative Director 10 01 0*Hara Michele Dames WOll oto Editor Creative Services fronl Baker Graduate Assistant Som s Culp Erik Collins Decker Faculty Advisor Sinii 1 tHager ferre ? 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And have you ever tried to let you < implish anything at the library? cursor at There is little evidence of the $1.4 Thai lion, that's right, million, that we money, \ in technology fees each semester ther 8 a. eing put to good use. I dread going puter? Tl Thomas Cooper Library to type dents at lething. Additionally, I would nev- there be hink about trying to surf the net puters to Dugh one of those decrepit com- own a cor srs. When you first log on to them, to think ikes forever just to get to the pro- those at i in screen to select e-mail or Word. j^y < machines are so old that if you mester's int your eyes, you can actually see computer squirrel running on the wheel in- on That compute: Aside from the computers being Because of-date and just a pain in the butt, City, I'm e also is the problem of getting one compute ; actually works. Every time I go and othe here to check my e-mail, there versity d signs plastered over half of them products ling everything from "Out of Or- to have a ' t.n "Tlnn't. Flvpn Rnfhpr Wnafincr priiipnfinr r Time." For some reason, that mid- a lot of co section always seems to be out of brary hoi [alloween v about fou ^Columnis^^^^^l veway-I 1 and it cos Now is the time of year in which his hfe. n into a vigilante. It's almost Hal- Not ien, and pumpkins are being sold proaches, ywhere for the purpose of being porch vig ted into Jack-o'-lanterns. pumpkin, However, it was all too common attemptin n I was younger for me to wake up then . 1 and see the remnants of inno- which, for Jack-o'-lanterns spread about my resembles hborhood. Fortunately, the rem- much car a were never of my pumpkins, but Pum is only because I bothered to take me ever s a off the front porch after about Hallowee p.m. and hide them in my back and I woi 1- innocent Carving a pumpkin was always on bit rating thing for me and my sister ranger ma 3. Together with my father, we the neighl Id spread out newspaper on the ^ dii t porch and design our pumpkins, vived to s etimes, I would want mine to be Ambi >ter looking, but usually, I pre- to catch w d a happy, jovial look for my Jack- would sii item. and lean u Last year, though, tragedy struck. Everyone is only a little after 9 p.m., and I seeking ti t out to check on my Jack-o'- a scarecrc irn. Mine was still there, grinning But < le porch, but my sister's lay in one would |i INTS utck j >me back here to play for the regu so we can kick some ass in he Doach Eddie Fogler, on the import (lputers n< ren ones that don't have signs can be broken. I'm the guy iks he's actually been lucky o get the only computer that "Tt nly to find out after I sit down thing is either off or it won't eyes io anything but move the ound the screen. fs another thing. With all this vhy do I have to come at eim. or 11 p.m. to use a com- ^g0 lere are more than 26,000 stu- g0(Kj com' this University. Why can't handle tl a sufficient amount of com- ^at you facilitate their needs? I don't a{. nputer. And you must be crazy TT f that I'm going to rent one of TT . n ! Kinko's. "mvers' shopping solution is to take the tall se- puters at $1.4million and buy all the J will gi\ s that you can get your hands things ao will roughly come out to 560 0f all, try rs at a price of $2,500 each, you feel t I'm a salesman for Circuit a.m. or 11 aware of how much a good lege com r costs wholesale. Gateway Use the c :r companies that the Uni- leges hav eals with usually sell their science co close to this price in order Gateway captured market and to help for those i. Anyway, 560 computers are in there, mputers. Thomas Cooper Li- them is tt ds about 150 computers in its of cautio: igilante pi . j. 4.1 j _r j_ u pieces at uie enu ui my urihad laxed up in my vigilance, st my sister's poor pumpkin uj this year. As Halloween ap, I plan to increase my front an ils to ensure the safety of my If I happen to catch anyone g to bash mine, I plan to force i the insides of my pumpkin, those of you who don't know, ? oftnr, ,1 i. /? j as soon ai 3 the result of consuming too _ , , . . , , my pump rot and raisin salad. stedthei pkin bashing has bothered go surprii ince I can remember. Every they just n in high school, my friend time, I g lid join forces in defending mother w pumpkins. We would put kid's cand ick suits, don a black lone and infbri isk and a black cape and roam delinquen jorhoods searching for pump- ple's pum stress. Many pumpkins suree Nov. 1, thanks to us. that I con ish was perhaps the best way ed extra g ould-be pumpkin bashers. I y/e a mply dress in old clothes the p against a pile of pine straw. lieg from who approached our porch ga ^ eats thought that I was just children v ,w' and offer ;very now and then, some- cup. I thin come with malicious intent. W y\ lar season, we need your help re this year." ance of fans' participation during gam )t up to sta ie machines are so old that if y i, you can actually see the squi the wheel inside." for $2,500, you are getting a separate com puter that has speed and can college in ord< ie graphics of the web page At least that', hope no one knows you look ^ ^ ejge - ^ jrtunately, I doubt that the <?mPuter, but ty is going on a Christmas try y?urha11 spree to leave brand new com- " y?u ^ave thn lihrow thio irnor Thiio TirU ? 1.1 - i/ixv> uuiaijr uuo j tax. xxiuo, WUCl/IltJl re you my secret to getting typed or cont comphshed on campus. First high^^, to use the computers when ? * hat no one else would try: 9 01 that HAn L p.m. Secondly, use your col- 8?^ somewh puters. No, not the library, one's guess. I omputer labs most of the col- tape needed t e. I do all of my work at the to fund the T mputer lab. It has plush seats, pr Muslim n and is often not M, except erMuse 10 hours when they put a class ls,useft0> Another great thing about can as* ^onSe lat the printing is free! A word suff the net ii a though: You must have a time. otects chilx enjoyed my role as neighborhc o me, Jack-o'-lanterns represer Ld I'm in favor of holding onto i of childhood as long as I 3 the perpetrators picked up child's candy o tkin, I would jump up and spicable. Whi r candy. Some of them were these villains, sed when I jumped up that child's candy: dropped their candy. One ing their cand rot a call from an angry T . , ho said that I had stole her . ?nj0^ ly. I pretended to be my dad ^ n ned her that her child was a J"8??? t, going around bashing peo- holding onto e1 pkins. as l?n? Reeses' and Bit 0' Honeys defending liscated from that kid tast- sure , som( rQod now the same arniinn cfnal lso would be a defender to dren>s cand { fer kids, keepmg older bulstealing their candy. After * Jus^ caD sir precious loot, the younger to ruin other yould look admiringly at us pumpkins or s us a Reeses' peanut butter there is no e: ik anyone who would steal a things peop worse than d <ur* Oil, 0 ies ndard rou squint your " rrel running on puter account with your iT to gain access to them, s how it is here. Finally, s, and you need to use a ii. . >1 . ti ; mere isn i one avanaoie, Beg, plead or pay moni to. r you do get that paper act your girlfriend from emember that your $50 lillion each semester is ere. Where it goes is anydaybe it pays for all the o post "broken" signs or homas Cooper Computn the fifth floor. I doubt provide computers that r than a year or that can t a reasonable amount of Ihood ? ... ... J . I _ .1 >od vigilante, it childhood, CVCXJf vcougc can." n Halloween night is deenever I caught one of , I would steal back the in addition to confiscat y my role as neighborhood le, Jack-o'-lanterns repiod, and I'm in favor of yery vestige of childhood 1. In a sense, then I was ildhood innocence. I'm } of the kids I helped are i type of bullies who go ling other little chil1 1*1 1--- - liiu UilMllIIg puilipiuilb. t't see why people want folks' night by bashing tealing candy, but then cplanation for a lot of le do that are much estroying a pumpkin.