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* Servin | Edit Adam Snyder, Nikki LaRoa Stephanie Sonnenfel< | OP Question with fee It's likely the University of Wisconsin may have Stl to alter their allotment of student 9 1 fees to their stu-1 dent organizations. Students StucL who disapprove of an organization s J philosophy may T7101 be allowed to pe- thro tition to remove their monetary support. Can such a thing happen a use? A T _ w in a way, it already has. Stu dents do have a say in where ou money goes?it's called studen Senate. The Finance Committe specifically has the job of alio eating our collective student feei money to various student orga nizations. They are our repre sentatives, and we have chosei them to act for us. If you feel this doesn't allov g you enough personal choice, ther do one of two things. Either rui for Senate and try to get on the Finance Committee, or become more vocal. Write to your repre sentatives. Let them know yoi disagree with a certain allotmenl to whatever organization it is yoi; have a problem with. Or, maybe you think an or^ ^ ganization deserves more monMattel gi\ new face, For 38 years, UQlQ g Barbie's image has " been defined by Bar her overly volup- ma tuous chest, her disproportional HT[IT?T hips and her long legs. Thanks to a It's a* breast reduction and some doll like liposuction, Barbie will have a new look. She's g trading in her " blonde locks for long brown hair, a wider waist, slimmer hips and even a smaller chest. For years, feminists have demanded the alteration of Barbie's looks, claiming she's unnatural and not a realistic role models for 1 j f l.'iii. : li iiui ucs ui lime, impieaaiuiiauie fans. Mattel, the maker of Barbie, says the new look isn't a re0 suit of the argument. Rather, Student Media Russell Hous Adam Snyder Susan Interim Editor in Chief PhoU Nikkl LaRocque Donni Viewpoints Editor Graphi Rosalind Harvey Stephanie News Editor Asst View/ 1 Sara Ladenheim Kristin H ^ i News Editor, Design Car a Marcus Amaker ^C1 Amy Shannon Tori I reaiures traitors asst. rru Achim Hunt Briai Bryan Johnston On-lin Sports Editors Julie Ben Pillow Chrii Copy Desk Chief Casey Chris Dixon Jessar Copy Editor Creative ^ The Gamecock is the student cock are those of th P newspaper ofThe University of South and not those of' Carolina and is published Monday, South Carolina Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semesters and five times The Board of during the summer with the excep- t'ons end Commun tion of university holidays and exam lisher ofThe Gami Perioda- The Departm Opinions expressed in The Game- dia is its parent or The Gamecock will try to print The Gamecock ne< all letters received. Letters should be House room 333. 200-260 words and must include full The Gamecocl name, professional title or year and to edit all letter foi major if a student. Letters must be bel or space limits personally delivered by the author to not be withheld for Samccock g use Since 1908 tonal Board Interim Editor in Chief pie, Viewpoints Editor i, Assistant Viewpoints Editor arises allotment ey. Start a petition, then give it identfees to the student Senate. Voice your opinion the same way you would " with the state or ents have a federal governhere their ley goes through the mail. Ugh SG. And if more students tell their senators how they wish their student ,t fees to be spent, the student body will be helping to empower the h Senate. If administrators know r we are behind our Senate in this t aspect, they may give more 3 weight to what Student GovernI ment has to say in other areas. 3 Our student fees are like our - income taxes. Yes, it's our mon ey we sadly see leaving our pock1 ets, but we give up rights and claims to it. We can't tell Strom j Thurmond to give our taxes to j mothers on welfare, but withhold x funds for teachers. It just doesn't j work that way. But, the more peo; pie voice their opinion, the ' more the people in power may be , wining to nsten. t Our student fees act in the i same way. Consider this as yet another wonderful lesson in how the "real world" works. res Barbie torso they say she's got a new look bebie gets a cause the times hpnvpr are changing, as are the tastes and trends of buyers. Whatever the DOUt time! reason, it's nice to see that whenever you turn down the Barbie dominated, putrid pink colored aisle in toy stores or WalMarts across the world, youH be able to find a Barbie who isn't a smaller, plastic version of Pamela Anderson. Now, you'll be able to find Barbie's in different colors, clothes and, thankfully, shapes. It may not seem like life altering news, but it really could have a positive, reassuring impact on the lives of so many impressionable little girls. m U8C Columbia, SC 29208 Meyers Ellen Parsons i Editor Interim Director e Baker of Student Media a Editor Lee Phipps Sonnenfeld Advertising Manager Mints Editor Sherry F. Holmes Lichardson Classified Ad Manager Pellatt Carolyn Griffin vs Editors Business Manager [FHara Jim Green oto Editor Creative Director i Rish Mlchele Dames i Editor Creative Services gajtpr Graduate Assistant i Culp Erik Collins Decker Faculty Advisor \ Hager ? ?_____ Services The Gamecock Editor (803) 777-3914 le editors or author News (803) 777-7726 The University of ETC. (803) 777-3913 irahons L the pub- Viewpoints (803) 777-7726 scock Sports (803) 777-7182 ent of Student Meganization. Online (803) 777-3913 - -?- Student Media ..room m Russell Advertising (803)777-1184 Classifieds (803) 777-1184 [ reserves the right r style, possible li- Fax (803) 777-6482 itions. Names will any circumstance. Office (803) 777-3888 i VIEWPC FSHnHrTKHVH "Our goal is to t USC Head Soccei Zipsheet meg Columnist I and bas It seems that the United States dim always has to be the peace keeper, I mean, just look at the remarkable peace mgu keeping we did during Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Liechtenstein and the Middle East. And now, we must again deal ^hoj with Saddam "Bob" Hussein. In case you don't know what's go- ^ei ing on, let me explain. Hussein is not * allowing Americans to be a part of the smc United Nations committee that inspects nuclear weapons. He says he will shoot down any American plane 1 he believes may be a threat to the Iraqi wa^ people, and worse yet, he has made ?Ptl threats of taking CNBC off the air here ^ea in the States, which would make its viewer, a Randolph Emmerson of m a Nowhere, Idaho (pop. 13.5) very an- ^3 gry. These threats of taking CN- Proc BC off-air (as well as the not letting 001111 Americans do inspections thingy and ^ blowing up planes idea) have made the CUP president of the United States very perturbed, and I should know because ing1 we alternate doing each others laun- dowi dry every Saturday. for s< This week was my turn, so he came down and the subject came up. It turns out that Mr. Perot has heard we c of CNBC and Emmerson happens to imm be his long-lost-brother's-maid's-shoe then repairer's-veterinarian's-illegitimate son. Funny how that all works out. Anyway, I was folding the president's undies when we started talk- ense ing. Me: "What do you think we should ^err do, sir?" p^, President Perot: "I think we should immediately drop a 100,000- ]augj Faculty fee To the editor, Assis In response to Scott Winter's re- Colle view of the Nov. 10th Blues Traveler Mid performance, it's noteworthy that , there's no mention this was a twin-bill 0 led off by Jonny Lang, a 16-year-old performer described by Rolling Stone erans as "a blond, beautiful, precocious phe- ly ha nom" having the potential to "be a pride crossover blues rocker on the level of no kn the Fabulous Thunderbirds." gover We were dismayed at this over- ^11 sight in the review given Lang's rising ?u^.,a national attention, including an arti- 1111 cle in People describing his recent open- I ing act status for Aerosmith and B.B. Navy King. Iam1 r u ? ac ?:?serve xjciiig IUIC tiiiuugii a tu-iiuiiuic ? set of tunes including the title track 0UI from his gold CD Lie to Me. Late- ( comers, including the reviewer, missed serve a wonderful opportunity to hear this unint extremely talented young performer Even who will, no doubt, become a blues pow- befor< erhouse in the future. of An Given Lang*s abundance of nat- * ural talent, it's particularly unfortu- ^ .*7. nate he was overlooked in favor of a more mainstream band who, although talented, did not outshine Jonny Lang, fn, .! Dr. Toni Cascio <W^ Dr. Jan Ligon warti] )INTS "What do you m? >e in the NCAA tournamei Coach Mark Berson, on ? people fa-ton nuclear bomb on Bob's house kill everything, including amoeand leeches, in a 7,000-mile ra3." Me: "I was talking about the skid ks in your undies." President Perot: "Oh.. .just give se to me." Since the topic of Iraq came up i, we started talking about that, ked him out of dropping the bomb, e I have quite an impressive colion of leeches coming over from ( K/1q/1 ar\ nU/\iiU iiviuu, CFV XIV UUV1UCU lit OllUUiU OC11U nilitary units over to Iraq. This 1 a little better than the previous 1 on, but I still disagreed with the . I asked if he really wanted to risk < lives of thousands of young men j conflict that could be settled peace- ] f. He said, "Yes." I then proudly \ laimed I would love to serve my < itry from a little cabin in the Yukon s ont of a nice, warm fire and big 1 of cocoa. So, after talking him out of start- i World War VII, he finally broke \ a and asked my advice. I thought t ame time, while I pressed his socks i shoelaces. Then it hit me. c Me: "Mr. President, I know how < an get Iraq to surrender almost ? ediately if you send troops over 1 b." i President Perot: "How?" Me: "It involves changing the mil's entire wardrobe to a uniformed \ mble." 1 r Le Prez: "What is it? Do you want ^ l all to dress like the guy from n igy?" i, Me: "No, no. They would just n ti, and they would certainly kill v :1s Lang ] i.-i. TT C - i" UUlt JTIUiCSSUI S 0 ge of Social Work r Ishipman speaks out ? e editor, li Whomever wrote this article (Vet- tl i Day editorial, Nov. 12) obvious- ^ s no clue what it means to have t< in your country. He/she also has E owledge of what they speak. Our q nment has made decisions that . lade our military look like the fall ^ t times. That was not our great T iry leaders' faults. have been in the United States r< for approximately 10 years now. 1 /ery proud of every person I have ii d with and am even more proud y military's past. al jreat men have died trying to preyour right to be free to write your d ;elligent opinion in this paper, n back to the Revolutionary War, ai i there was a true United States e1 lerica, brave men fought so you ir have to. How dare you ridicule si egrade the men who leave their ei les and their children behind to y< peace keepers, war deterrents, ai f need be, killers to defend our c( h include your) way of life. at "here have been people killed in ^c me. I don't know of a war that no mmmmm aan 'No thanks?!"' it on Monday, period. Win, thj Sunday's game against Charle could st< us for looking so stupid. I want them pi to dress like the Zipsheet people, in th those nitrous, faded yellow shirts!" d< The president was puzzled over this for some time, considering that he didn't know who the Zipsheet if people were. I went on to explain that tl: they were people who pass out coupon w books here on campus, called Zipsheets, cc and they wore these hideously ugly, lr yellow shirts and hats. tii The president, however, was still w confused and asked why this would fo immediately make Iraq surrender to w as. I began to explain what these people meant to us college students. Now, we've all seen these people, tj stationed at every corner of campus, ca hrusting those darn things in our face, [t doesn't matter if you've thrown one away earlier, there will always be an- ^ ather yellow book of coupons being ~ shoved your way each time you walk 'w ay. su Obviously, this is a big inconvelience for us college students because 1"1 ve have to reach out our hands, grasp ^ ;he paper, take the paper to our side ind then walk with it until we find the a ' :losest trash can. For those people who W{ ictually keep the sheets, they have to [o an extra step by opening their book it \ sags and putting it in there ? man, yo t's just such a burdensome task to par- to ake in. coi . Some people are so bad (includ- pr< ng myself), that they take totally dif- thi erent routes to avoid these people, no 7,( natter how far off track or how much pk ime it may take, just so they will fin ot have to feel guilty about completely Ca pioring the existence of another hu- wo lan being. Because, realistically, that's fur /hat we do. We just go by as if that off ^ LCI I OUl U1 4 ne was killed in. So, yes, history does epeat itself, but don't blame the men for nd women who fight. Those brave, an reat men and women who fight be- mo eve in our country. They believe in pe< tie government that gave the orders, cia laybe you should believe in something pie x). lai lean Oliver ym of c fficer candidate, U.S. Navy lilitary defends rights o the editor, the I found your editorial opinion mo sgarding Veterans Day in the Nov. vet 2 issue of The Gamecock to be both the lsulting and rather nauseating. Did oul our editorial staff really think wit bout what was written? tra be Evidently, not one of you, Mr. Snyer, Ms. La Rocque, Ms. Sonnenfeld, or the rest of the staff, has had any sol ssociation with the U.S. military or bla /en has had a close familv memher on ivolved with the armed services. I y?u irely believe that if one of your par- Un its had served during the conflicts tin )u mention, or even in a non-combat life rea, they would reinstate long lost to 1 jrporal punishment and slap you Da :ross the face if they read your ediirial. Bio it's our goal." ston Southern. >p war erson was not standing there and tat yellow book was not being shoved )wn our throats. It's kind of sad, rely That's what I think will happen we send our troops over to Iraq in lose shirts and hats, accompanied ith millions of Zipsheets that were illected from USC trash cans. The aqi army will totally pay no attenon to us and leave us alone. They ould not dare follow attack orders r fear of winning and having to deal ith all those stacks of Zipsheets. Iraqi leader: "Attack!" Iraqi soldier: "No way, man! ieyVe got Zipsheets! I don't feel like rrying those around!" Iraqi leader: "Those diabolical nericans! So clever. Run away! We'll ; them deal with those cursed things raves a white flag to acknowledge rrender)!" Well, after telling this to the present, he rubbed his chin for a while fnre trvincr nn Viia nrpeooH alinoloww i wouldn't do it because it would be lot more fun to drop the bomb and itch everybody scream in horror. So, after hearing that, I thought vould behoove me to share this with u all so you would know that I tried stop a world disaster and so you old take the proper precautions to atect your pet amoebas and leeches at may be in the general vicinity of )00 radical miles around Iraq. Oh, jase, don't worry about me, I'll be te. I just bought a plane ticket to nada, a little log cabin, a lot of fireod, and a crap-load of cocoa. Have i in the desert, and try to pick one for me! ? review Veterans Day is not solely a day one to be "filled with nationalism d patriotism" as you say. It is re a day, just one day out of365, for jple like you to show some appretion and thankfulness to those peo, both volunteered and drafted, who d their lives on the line to protect it unmatchable rights, including, ?urse, your right to print such filth. America has learned from its past, 1 in doing so has acknowledged that ;re have been incorrect government tives at times. But for you to attack erans who have sworn to uphold ! orders from those above them is ; of line. People who did not agree h U.S. political ideology, on the conry, are the ones whom you should lambasting. In closing, let me say you have abutely no right in choosing to me the individual veterans for "blood our hands." How dare you commit irself to having blood on your hands! til you volunteer and make the ullate pledge that you will give your for your country, no blood deserves )e on your hands! rin L. Passer lior 'logy 1