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% Se ^ Se I Adam Snyc Nikki Laf Stephanie Sonnen * Garage ] are cost Parking, parking, parking. It's a complaint in constant ro- IH tation at USC. rpi ^ If it's not the fees we pay to park, it's the entire lack of parking altogether. Every so of ten, our parking pravers are answered, 1 and we are granted a COS new garage such as the ^ Bull Street parking facility. As far as parking _ garages go, it's a beautiful facility. If s new, safe and cli which you value if you have e parked in the dank and dirty E som Garage. It also is high tech quiring parkers to use a little c to raise a gate to enter the gar; But there's a big problem bi ing on Bull Street, and it's gettii little expensive. The gate tha raised every time a resgistered tron of the garage enters ke % breaking?38 times since the r , die of August. Every time this gate is brol it costs USC $200, and it costs A M First lac * her ind< Britain b? had Princess Diana to love, to adore and pet, and then Jh weep over when she died. She was 'P the People's Princess. America has Af the official Most cri Powerful Bitch in fjr the World. We V gripe about her, ^ conservatives lambaste her, and women shake their heads o\ her husbands supposed ant ^ ("Why can't she control him' 'P She dared to propos< sweeping health care reform a got strung out to diy by the pn for taking too much contr She dares to remind t public she had a life before s was a "Clinton," when she liv as a "Rodham." She has "imaginary friend" in the c ceased Eleanor Roosevelt, w was also a woman very mu ^ before her time. Hillary Rodham Clintor probably as hated in the U.S. Student Media Russell I Adam Snyder i Interim Editor in Chief Nikki LaRocque I Viewpoints Editor A Rosalind Harvey Step! 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Rinre 196R F L Iditorial Board ler, Interim Editor in Chief tocque, Viewpoints Editor feld, Assistant Viewpoints Editor pranksters | ing drivers ! o ? tO dents at least ? / VTrrzmrmmm twice that amount j| I UMBiiaSHi in aggravation. ^ f Bull Street While the gate | A. Garaep lays broken, stu- ? dents have diffi 1i l i.L_ . O ill.w i.TrTTTiTT^B cuiqrenteringuie MlMial garage and Decays , sionally lose their A] l ranks are key to the garage. 'ting US Tnor The broken gate han they're is generally the mnrih result of a prank, wurun. USC officials said. Eventually, this pjvoni prank will end up ean, not just costing patrons of the garage iver but all students who pay to park at (los- USC, maybe even all the students. >re" Spokesmen say that these re:ard pairs will have to be financed by stuaSe dents and will result in either high ew er parking costs or an increase in tig a tuition. it is The answer to the problem is Pa" simple: Whoever is breaking the ma eP9 chine as a joke needs to stop. M It's immature, stupid, not even M~ ^ remotely funny and costing a lot cen> more than it's worth. It costs more stu" than it's worth. ! Assi USCi l g times, I wc ly shows f^;h: ^ fn ancu/or ^pendence **? night. I hat the entire i 'ITT'gTJT'TrjMBI ~ Princess Di human coi JUhBJhUmi^HI was loved in In fac the U.K. Yet had was th< e First Lady somehow, she Every so oi managed to tailing wa do as much ronment,I as, if not andseewh more, than friends on ter years of someone the Rules. Iticism, she public Itwa; lallv comes adored-De" something iauy tomes spite an un. USA gur{ to her OWn. sympathetic rials in pas public, at attention t best, Clinton T ,er has been a re- f. ,er , , , . . . , the patien ics al trooper, striving to change fact,theyr P) women s and children s lives in j a our country and abroad. We've nd S bss think women belong barefoot m V ? ol. the kitchen, or a raving mad fern- turebut ui he inist, one must admire, howev^g er grudgingly, the strength and reci perseverance Clinton has shown. an She has always kept her w tt le. cool, never personally attacking V h0 the ones who personally attacked JL %A pV, her in public. She has tried to change what she saw as needing improvement. gg No one can fault that. I thii |cC]|Tf|ff||l real contr ?oum U8C Columbia, SC 29208 body else wanted a Susan Meyers Ellen Parsons Photo Editor Interim Director The 1 >onnle Baker of Student Media -g me? Graphic Editor Lee Phipp. hanie Sonnenfeld Advertising Manager cl' t Viewpoints Editor Sherry F. Holmes South, its stin Richardson Classified Ad Manager Opposed t Cara Pellatt Carolyn Griffln rflrium s*r st. News Editors Business Manager Tori CHara Jim Green I, ap Ust. 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[ Office (803) 777-3888 Wa^ there for i ??????????????J IEWPOINTS ilGNE PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS 'hiladefphia JSA PRUG--FFEE AGE O-f H?iZ. IZ-18*^ mtm mm K 4 "If I catch you breaking the gate, I t of the Derrick Huggins, USC Department of Pai ychic networks 1 past, as well. Dionne Warwick is a stal^?wart when it comes to these commert. Viewpoints Editor | cials, claiming psychics can be your saorettvbhmlace andsome- Wend, and your friends also can pay for X he ?*Z- thf "They're almost like Ouine among all the students. J8 1)081,1 P^tutes. , idealistic and laige question Just ^en 1 bought these things but I think I've got an answer were out of date (aIon8 mth We 1-900, rhif nphvnrV cheap, tawdry sex lines), the Psychic +i vi u iv, M j Network USA appears. The commerflephdosophy began Monday dal3 ^ lace on a low.rent set ^ 1 been studying forajmdterm ^ women. ^ ^ na h "SS other'clad W 8 wrban, sits quietly on dunng ** P *88 the end of the sofa, while the third (a f fVio nnlv Viiimon nnnfonf T i i t* m r\ . v < uuuum x aeaa-ringer ior Tom retry] ngures out e television and the telephone, callers. [ten, in between chapters de- _ , ? . ys to save the failing envi- \e aU ?*** around in this would turn on the television cardboard-looking living room chatting at was going on with my good a nair,ed William. The Tom PetThe Real World and Road %look alike asks William what happened to him when he was seven. r .-I . t .j William, shocked in way-too-obvious diss here that I encountered . TTT. , r ' .. ... ,. called the Psychic Network ^ says he was forced to Uve with his l, I had seen their commer- father at age seven, and only he and his ising, but I never reaUy paid parents knew of 41118 declslono them. In a second commercial, the turban rally don't have the time or la?? sPeaks aad j?,ins "Tom Petty"111 ce to watch these things. In asking a caller ifshes going to get somee actually depressing. ^2 ^ed- ^ caller says she's getting 11 PiL r, / v her car fixed! all seen Esther Rolle (who rida Evans on Good Times) aAre y?u amazed like I am?" the ;r faith in these random psy- sketchy narrator asks with limited and :annot only predict your fu- contrived emotion. Then, this group of iderstand your present and wanna-be infomercial queens discuss, with the same contrived emotion, how nkee offers to u; WrjJOJTJCTTJBBH Charleston. I never heard anything demeaning against Southerners, nor any Columnist | mention of anything that dealt with , . . , . T ,, the Civil War. ok it s about time I tackle a ___ _ , _ , oversy. Get ready, I'm going ^1 J101"*140 I he Confederate flag. Every- f,wJed over 4116 amoml4 of PfP111 wh? has had their say, so I just had no4 f4*? ?yer a 4,184 "W* piece of the action. ?ver ?ne h,undred md fo^ yeare ag?! People refer to me as a Yankee, even Dig controversy over this flag though jokingly, and told me to go back, ining. Southern enthusiasts j ^ not take insult to this. I was just 3 a living reminder of the Old amazed (and still am) by people who traditions and heritage. Those are still holding on to hope that the 'O it believe it's a symbol of South will jrevail. id the ways of slavery. n , , , ,. . ,, . a People who beheve m this flag are parently, am totally and ut- still fighting the Civil War. Get over ised to the flying of this flag it! South Carolina State House. A , ., .. , f , r Anyway, besides its discharge of > a number of reasons The hatred ra/I8m and disre8pect1nt0 ry much a symbol of hatred. ftc d of Columbia mi the 8tate of ,y white hate groups, such as ^ CaroHna time jt blowa ^ and the Neo-Nazis, as an em- ^ wind at ^ c jta, Bujldi aeir hate against what they there j3 critical reason why 1 mnori les. believe this rag should wipe my butt i, yeah, I know, it's not like and be flushed down the toilet. 17ltlePraa?n4s,thef It's about as ugly as J. Edgar luih. OK, let s take a minute Hoover. Really, when I walk around emember the ways of the Old Columbia and look up at the state avery secession and stupid H [ feel tbree different sensations just threw that one in there aj. once ? a sense 0f pride for the Amersouldn t think of another tinng ican a ^ of home for ^ ,ed with s ). Well, actually, Carolina flag, and a sense of earnest I people part would be a post- disgust and rebuke for the other one. syndrome. Let me explain. Whoever made it, which I could care i born in Philadelphia. I lived less about looking up because he or she eight years before moving to means nothing to me, should be dug up ? /4MERJCA o-DoZ ffc?Z4.C vill prosecute you to the full ext law." * 'king on vandalism in Bull Street Gar; inks students "/ was determined psychic nei constant among all populations went to my GINT 567 amazing it is that the two women can awful?" the see into the future. Then, they try and sonal comi lure innocent viewers into calling some narrator is 1-800 number. p When I actually saw these com- a running j mercials in their entirety, I was hypno- recalled al tized. They are so bad. BAD. dealing witl I had to laugh because I wonder ^un ?f thei who are the people that call these things? cheesy. Really, I have faith in magic eight balls, The s tarot cards and Ouija boards, but I also knows aboi consider them recreational fun. age, econor The last time I played Ouija, it said preferenci I'd be pregnant by age 19 and married are en^ert? to a guy who graduated from Dartmouth. I was ( Needless to say, I'm not pregnant, and were a con; I think I only met someone who went to at USC wh< Dartmouth once. Dr. Lublin Every time I turned on the televi- next wee^! sion this weekend, I saw the Psychic ^he ^st. Network USA commercial. Sometimes, Don't, it was on two different stations at the thing. Exp] same time. AHHHHHHH. your essay; Even scarier is the fact that I talked "I'm n to many different people in the last day Friends Ne who have seen this commercial. "Isn't it jsn>t t] se flag as butt P eople who believe in this flag are Civil War. Get over and brought back to life, just so we could Unlike kill him again for creating something collaborates so hideous. perfect union I guess the hanging of the flag in federate flag dilapidated trailer parks by redneck gether in a b losers and in-bred white trash has like it woul< brought about this rather foul inter- erous emani pretation. To me> Let's evaluate its appearance. Its human erroi main colors are red, white, and blue, thing stupi< Now, geez, that sounds familiar. Where believe in. have I heard those colors before? Was jt ren. it the Soviet Union's colors? No, they ,, were orange and purple. What about C?., , the island country of Cyrus? thrnglrketh Well, I don't know for sure, but I ^3 311 ?t think their's is yellow and off-peach. * South unlil No, I got it, they are the colors of the e) on American Flag! Can you say lack of ere- P^e are e' ative mental processes? manacles ** j r u j j j- Wordswortl More evidence of a bad and dis- , , , . graceful imitation ? the pattern. A ^ iem 11 blue "X" in the middle, with white stars eYcan ?in the foreground. White stars on a Anyway blue background? I think you're get- Spend it cai ting the picture. , multitudes, I >3T 65" EVERYlSlNG E13B tent age , profs tworks were a at USC when I class." y said, adding their own pernentary on how terrible the 'sychic Network USA became oke with me and a friend. We [ the commercials we'd seen i the subject and simply made n because they're so damn ad thing is that everyone it these things, despite their nic bracket, sex or television a. Even sadder is that we tined by them. ietermined psychic networks stant among all populations an I went my GINT 567 class, was talking about our tests and told us what not to do on * he said, assume I know anylain everything you write in 3. ot a member of the Psychic itwork," he said. hat amazing? ; wipe still fighting the it! the American flag, which t together to form a more i of craftsmanship, the Con[ formation just clashes toig, ugly mess. It also looks i give off a rather odorifation. this flag is a reminder of rs. It reminds me of everyi and absurd that people linds me of everything ave been right, only someis made everything wrong. Id symbol of the Old South, te today, which is (or should respect and equality. Peoqual. It's the "mind forged (quoted from William 1) that keep people down, iking that there's nothing f, there's my nickel's worth, refully, for it can buy you or it can leave you in debt. >