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Adam Snyc
Nikki Laf
Stephanie Sonnen
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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
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First lac
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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.
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'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. !
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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."
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'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
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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,
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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. >