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Page 3 *1 tM3 Serving the Carolina EDITOR Adam Snyde Amy Shannon Kurt Johnson, Ass # BySjESEfiS Tier UJV> aiim student 1 President Palms announced Monday HHHAm 0) morning that USC MLKDay would allow stu- Jnnjj } dents to miss classes next spring in favor of doing ^ volunteer work or community service. Finnllv The announcement ITiauy, was madp at the tra- ClLlOW St ditional university honor M breakfast which ^ honors Martin ? A. T iifUno Vi-nr, T. uumci mug, 01. | King should be remembered for his crusade for racia equality, an issue that still plaguei our society even after his assassina tion 30 years ago. A distinguished or ator, King reached thousands witl his message of racial harmony. He was an extraordinary hu manitarian who tirelessly champi oned the cause of equal rights fo African-Americans. King envisioned a world when everyone was free of his or he racial prejudices: an ambition whicl every person should be currently pin ailing Why, then, has USC thus far Me to acknowledge the MLK holiday wit] cancelled classes and an opportunit; to honor King? Study ab: ^ continue With the mhpjt attack of the 13 HHbuL W college students in Tragedy it Guatemala this may dri\ past weekend, , many questions uurvuu have risen about the safety and HHKLia merit of the Despite i overseas study event> P"fT-^e13 students, who . , were from St. should ? Marys College, in St. Mary's City, Maryland, were robbed of their money and five women were rape< by a gang of local hoodlums. Four suspects are in custody at the moment and a task force is searching for three more. So, just how safe are these trips? Accurate records of foreign attacks on students have not been kept, though a plan is currently 0 under restoration to do so. While the whole idea of the study abroad program will probably be re evaluated nation wiae, it is important to remember what tremendous good it does. One single incident should not determine the future of a truly phenomenal and possibly once-ina-lifetime experience. Though the administration at the school sure! 0 did what it could to take the prop* Serving the Carolini The Gamecock is the student newspaper of The Uni Friday during the fall and spring semesters and five times d periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those oft The Board of Student Publications and Communications is is the newspaper's parent organization. The Gamecock Adam Snydar Editor in Chief Roaallnd iBk Amy Shannon Viewpoints Editor Kurt Johi Sara Ladanhalm Carta M Cara Pellatt News Editors Kristin Ft Jennifer Stanley Features Editor Hathan I Achim Hunt . Bryan Johnston Sports Editors 1 Susan Meyers Photo Editor Tori 0 H' Brian Irish Online Editor conn/eA Chris Dixon Copy Desk Chief Student Media JuHe Baker Carolyn l Susan Barrett a Allele Dickson Creative Services Ellen Parsons Interim Director Michelle of Student Media . ?.i ^ Erik Coll bee Phlpps Advertising Manager Sherry F. Holmes Classified Ad Manager anradt : Community since 1908 IAL BOARD r, Editor in Chief i, Viewpoints Editor istant Viewpoints Editor mt'w rr VS MLR loliday FHpnMHM USC scheduled a hUaUilflHH regular day of classes ignored too and activities even jjon though most of the ' country shut down Monday. Federal offlees,banks,schools, and post offices were use will Monday morning \udents to the student body was LK with a told use would recogv nff nize MLK Day in the ^ spring of 1999. Why didn't USC celebrate the holiday this year? 1 Well, it was simply too much red tape. 3 Too much red tape to honor one of - the greatest African-American equal - rights pacifists who ever graced our l country. What does that say about our university? At least we do have a day of ob servance for King set aside next spring, r Students are encouraged to volunteer and try to give something to the come munity through service programs as r King himself would have advocated, ti Kudos to student government - for their steady campaigning in favor of campus-wide recognition of such [1 an imnortant dav. ti King's message should not be y forgotten just because of a holiday in his name. Everyone should work towards equal rights. iuau mini : strong precautions from UiiilHI anything bad I Guatemala happening, there 'je off study reaUy is nothing that ti let anyone can do from ' hopefuls. diverting from bad luck. Nothing is 100 kiUUiJiH percent fool proof or the terrible reliable. No matter the Study how safe we think r we are, something program piin a]wavs go wroner. continue. If the good that has happened due to study abroad programs were weighed against I the bad, it's clear that the good surpasses the bad. Though, certainly, remorse and sorrow goes out to the victims and their relatives, this should not discourage anyone from partaking in the program or prompt any universities to shut their programs down. The benefits of going to a I different country, with a different language, different culture, different food, different people, different ways of living, and different points of view, is surely an experience that opens the mind and the heart. Students should not be bottled and confined to iust one culture. That may lead to y monotonous thinking and points of ;r view. feimccoct! S31M i Community since 1908 HBainaUbkAaBiMM versify of South Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and bring the summer with the exception of university holidays and exam he editors or author and not those of The University of South Carolina. i the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of Student Media All numbers area code 803 Harvey Public Relations Intern ' Editor 777-3914 won A sst.Vew points Editor eClough Asst. News Editor viewpoints 777-7726 reeetate Asst. Features Editor trown Asst. Sports Editor News 777-7726 /ford Asst. Photo Editor ira Asst. Online Editor EtC~ 777 3913 Mckhoff Copy Editors Sp0rtS 777-7182 Online 7772833 Srlttln Business Manager u .. n Creative Director Advertisjng 777-1184 Dame? Creative Services Graduate Asst. Classifieds 777-1184 In, Faculty Advisor Fgx 777 6482 Office 7773888 > The Gan w ** o c> + btairs, ( Some people are so lazy. It just amazes me the complete and utter laziness that resides in some people, which is also mixed with a bitter impatience. People are such rushes these days They can only think of themselves and itt u n f nnr wiiat taii bestbenefil them m time to ap preciate k If 1/ - everything a r o u n c ^ ture, fellov students kurt JOHNSON Asst. Viewpoints ed structior workers with their cracks more than notice able. People need to learn to slow dowr and be aware of their surroundings Life is fast enough as it is and whisk ing your days away only makes things 1 gu uy xoatci. So where am I going with this? Thif observation is quite evident every where, but mostly in college bjuildingi where stairs, elevators, and camels ar< Custom Growing up poor, we didn't g< out to restaurants for dinne like the rest of America. McDonald's or Burger King wai the closest we were able to visit. Mayb I had an ex ~ ~~~ CUSG ' ^ |p and save* ^ ^ money t felicia BROWN that m Columnist server ex pected m to give he more money than what the bill de manded. Ileftheradollarunderneati my Coke glass, hoping she wouldn find it until we had gone far dow the highway. I, similar to most of th _ 1 IT _ i. general puDiic, was ignorant. Then I became a waitress. I've see it all, especially from the people ths walk in and demand the "almight booth." Thev display their ignorance by ai nouncing to the hostess, "Ya'll ain't go Parents spanking children a valid form of discipline To the editor: I am responding to Tanvi Dhere' column concerning corporal punish ment and children. Ms. Dhere state that she does not feel "that corpora punishment is a necessary tool wit] which to instill discipline in a child. She boldly goes on to say "it is a sigi of improper parenting." I completely disagree with her rea sorting and question her ability to mak lecock ^4 I Don't \ CrCMQ T/ - \ Jtt\ \J I' OR WHI" c ^ . / I camels s ; an appropriate means for ascendmj the multiple levels. You see, the peo ! pie who are such hurries and who jus have to get to class on time, walk righ past the elevators and climb the stair to where they have to go. They ar I sooooooooo busy and sooooooooo im i portant that they can't spend the 1 t minutes waiting for and taking the e] evator. That is just despicable. Yeah, yeah, they use excuses sue! 5 as they are using the stairs as a mea of exercise and getting their blood flow ; ing. What a load of dead chickens i ' Hong Kong! I've just read a study i I The Daily Globe which says that wall " ing isn't good for you because you pc 1 too much stress on your appendix. An ? we ail know how important our ap ? pendix is. I'll tell you what. I think thes 1 stair-walkers are really anti-social con 3 munists! They use the stairs be cause they are afraid of human cor 1 tact. Now, any regular person woul love to wait in humongous lines, on! " to cram into one elevator, which has 5 fire hazard of 13, but can comfort ably squeeze 45 in at any given tim< But not those stair-walkers, no! The enjoy getting away from people as fai as they can. As far as the communis remark goes, I have one simple que; er ignora 3 no hoofs open? Is that all the boofs yo r got?" What's the obsession with tv big leather couches with a table wedge s between them? e Ignorance is all over the customei that sit in my section, thinking the ~i 1-1? i?4 4i? ?..i J c. mrctuiy iuiuw wnat uicjr wuuiu mvc u I dinner. I take their drink order an t say, "Would you like a few momen b to look over things while I get yoi ^ drinks?" ^ If s usually the male that says th< 0 already know what they would lik " They say, "Go ahead, honey. You o * der first." She reads for a moment and th( * asks me about the soup of the day. y tell her what she needs to know. Th( she reads the description for our ve e etable pizza out loud. He says, "Sounds good, honey. ^ that what you're getting?" "No, I don't think I want veget n bles today. What are you getting e "I don't know yet. It depends ( what you want. Why don't we sha n something." lt "That sounds good. What do y< v want?" "I don't know." j. Now I'm just a little impatient have to tell them they need time to d cide, and I walk off. -I |1 | I 11 a studer elude tlr ^ held for such a statement regarding parentin T umfo fViio rnonnnon nvnnwnnn A TT A iW UUQ X UU1U CApUi Itilt My parents, much like Ms. Dhere' used the occasional yells and frequei lectures in an attempt to nourish n maturing process. However, this w; s present much more in my adolesce] i- stage then in my, say, five-10 ye? s stage. tl At this younger age I would lisfc h to a lecture and, not being matui " enough or simply not listening, I wou n go out and misbehave again. Th brought a slap on the behind or, d t- pending on the circumstances, mayl e more. After that, I listened, I learne and I remembered. Wed * * ' C t > y+u KMoVJ.tVERlTHlUG P D BE A BLACK ft ISSUE THESE m * , * COi signs of tl 7 3 I "I think these stair-v I anit-social commui stairs because th 5 of human c ti n tiontoask: in all those Cold War era " r. movies, did you ever see an elevator j n or camel in any of the buildings? I r n didn't think I saw any either, so ha! s I don't see why people would want I Lt to use the stairs anyway. They are d usually located in dank, odoriferous \ environments, are a considerable walk- c ing distance from any classroom, and t 0 IC^UUC Hie pciouii UUillg wit VYtUIUllg ? i_ to exert a certain amount of energy, 3 which makes them tired and, in t 1- turn, can possibly make them fall asleep t d in class. ? y On the other hand, elevators pro- j a vide a secure and entertaining at- ? t- mosphere in which you stand and feel r 3. awkward because there is a really y attractive person next to you and you t jt know you should say "hi," but you just ? ?t can't and then when you get the 1 3- courage to say something, there's a 1 mce upseti iU ,d "They display the ^ announcing to the 1 'I got no hoofs op ^ the hoofs y ir I don't think I was unreasonable. ^ I won't stand beside your table while e' you take five minutes to decide what r" to eat. There are other things I could be doing. Take time to read over the menu. I will answer any questions when I ;n come back with your drinks. You shouldn't need a supervisor. My favorite ignorant people in the food industry are the "eskras." They need water with their Cokes but nev a" er drink it. They need their free refill immediately. >n They need "eskra" honey musre tard for their chicken strips, "eskra" Vofr-Vmn fnr thpir frips "pskra" ranch JU for their salad, "eskra" napkins to be in the middle of the table. For all this "eskra" running, you'd think they would . I leave a better tip for the server, e- The one dollar I find hidden under the Coke glass haunts my memory. I s Gamecock will try to print all letters received. Letters should be 250-300 word. it. Hand written letters must be oersonally delivered by the author to The Garnet e author's telephone number. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letter t any circumstance. g. "I hit you because I love you" is a e. saying and only a ploy to make ma s, tunng young children understand why at their parents spank them, ly Many of my friends were never givas en "spankings" like Ms. Dhere. Unlike at Ms. Dhere they all seem to have a lack ir of respect for authority, a hard time following directions, and seem to have ;n a hard time staying out of trouble, re I think a small percentage of kids Id do have mild mannered tempers and is personalities, and can listen and bee have without being spanked as chilae dren. However, taking this stance as d, a foundation against spanking children is a fallac> Inesday, January 21,1998 F1 ? u Ilege press EXCHANGE ie lazy talkers are really lists! They use ey are afraid ontact." ping" and that person is gone from rour life forever. As far as entertainnent, you get those soft, soothing initrumentals from some of your all time fenny G and Conway Twitty favorites. Stair-walkers are so set in their vays. They represent regression in >ur society. They can't marvel and ake advantage of the new technologies that are inundating us. Just ten rears ago, everyone was using camels ;o get to a higher level. Now, we have hose fabulous elevators that represent advancement in our society. Stairs ust show how things use to be and how some people still don't want advancenent in our everyday lives. Well, that's all Fve got to say about hat. I would love to say more, but I've jot a class to go to, and I don't want to )e late. The elevators are broken, so ['m going to have to use the stair. s server ir ignorance by iostess, 'Ya'll ain't en? Is that all ou got?'" have a few expletives for them as they drive down the highway, and Fm clearirig their table of all the "eskras" they didn't really need. Your friendly, informative servers don't make a lot of money. Most of us make $2.13 per hour plus tips. That means that your 15 percent or more gratuity is greatly appreciated. Don't sit in a restaurant that accepts tips if you don't plan on leaving an adequate one. If you really can't cook for yourself, get your meal to-go. Service for to-go meals is not required and neither is tipping. l ill nut oajfiug ail oci vcia aic cacellent, but if you're having a personal problem with one, talk to the manager or ask for another section. Don't be ignorant in public. s and must include full name, professional title or year and major if .ock newsroom in Russell House room 333. E-mail letters must inor style, possible libel or space limitations. Names will not be withFinally, I feel Ms. Dhere is confused in her thinking that good parenting is the lack of physical punishment. My parents are wonderful parents and I was known to have some marks on my legs now and again. Looking back on it now, as a mature adult, I know it was needed and I'm grateful for it. Spanking can be a "result of impatience" or "improper behavior" but on the whole it can be a very useful tool in raising a well-behaved, "moral" child when used in the right context. Who am I to question that? Mike Kidd Junior, English 4