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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
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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.
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impressed. seemingly all.
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t receive such all the time, acting
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tactic, but one ish
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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.
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necessary, but with the advent JL J
of increased teenage criminals,
"Scared Stiff seems to be one of
the best mediums around.
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teach a lesson, it also offers '?
participants a message: Life is
short, and things you do can make I tui
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Where does all the money go that enough t
pay into tne tecnnoiogy tee account.' is open, o
state of our campus computer labs that the
orrible. 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
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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
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. 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.