The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 06, 1998, Page 2, Image 2
New columnist Henry
Thompson shares his
Valentine woes.
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Adam Snydei
Amy Shannon,
Kurt Johnson, Assi
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Just throw those
newspapers in the
trash. The Univer- USC deci
sity has recently de- *up rpr.
cided to stop the recycling
of
newspapers on campus.
A main reason HHKiSil
for this deals with USC fl
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of) being brought
in by recycling news- progran
papers. what i
The University
has also decided to terminate the
recycling of shredded papers from
various offices. However, the Recycling
Office is trying to make a newspaper
drop-off available in the Bates
parking lot on Whaley Street.
Unfortunately, that is not
enough. Surely, environmental
enthusiasts will be more than
happy to go all the way over there,
lugging with them bundles of newspapers.
But the common student, who's
not into recycling as a passion,
will find that hike a big inconvenience,
considering he was used to
a bin being in a bathroom or somewhere
closer to their residences.
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ou it is uiuurtuiiate mat uot
has decided to get rid of the campus-wide
program. With the program,
it made things much easier
for the common person to say, "hey,
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Last week the ttT"
Citadel's Sumerall HHuUmL
Guards, an elite Fitness req,
guard unit dis- dropped
banded after being
told physical fitness giuira
requirements for
the group would KyLU
be lowered. Guard Strenuous
members are upset training
because the new romnin r
standards will allow remmnc
anyone to take part
in the unit, thus
weakening the Guards' prestige.
Citadel President John Grinalds
said he ordered less strenuous fitness
criteria because he wants more
emphasis placed on drill precision,
not rigorous training exercises.
Grinalds should not have lessened
fitness requisites for membership
in the Guards. If he prefers
their drill performance to be more
exact, then he should have raised
the standards of their drill training
instead of reducing the required fitness
levels. There is no sound reason
why he couldn't have demanded
better proficiency in performance
without changing other regulations.
Grinalds wants the Summerall
Guards to be more like a tough military
drill team. There's nothing
wrong with that. The illogical action
here is the lowering of fitness
requirements.
Terminating the intensive physical
tests for joining the guard takes
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he dumps
instead of throwing it
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to toss cycle it."
tcUngof Face it, not everyone
is going to devote
KLpers. their lives to recycling
for the sake of saving
JlLUkJHHI our planet. It is defi\eeds
to nitely a worthy and esp
rpnvrhna sential cause in which
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ranaao should do what we
s right can.
With the elimination
of this program, USC is taking
away the opportunity for everyone
to do their part.
A mainritv nf students and far
ulty will now resort to simply dumping
newspapers in the garbage,
which will inevitably end up in a
landfill or a sea gull's stomach. Valuable
paper is being wasted at the
expense of saving money.
* Laura Pergolizzi, environmea-;
tal program manager, said it best
when she said in an article in The
Gamecock "Recycling isn't a breakeven
operation. That's not what recycling
is about. It's not about money.
It's about doing the right thing."
USC needs to reconsider their
reasoning, planning and executioning
of this move. While they're
at it, they need to reconsider what
priority matters the most: making
money or making our planet a better
place to live?
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fair order
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UwUHHI unit is all about. If a
uirements cadet desires to be a
for elite part-of the group, he
or she knows what
w will be asked of him or
her. A higher level of
physical fitness will be
' physical expected. This extra
should physical training is a
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if /^i j component of* the drill
l Guards. unitH
Surviving through any
intense ordeal with other people at
one's side creates an intangible
yet invaluable bond between those
people. This same type of relationship
exists as an integral part of not
only the Sumerall Guards, but
any athletic team that practices hard
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Why is Grinalds trying to take
this away?
Throughout our country, standards
are being lowered. These
decreased expectations are weakening
not only the military, but also
our educational system, businesses,
and moral perspectives. This
cannot continue. Americans must
always strive for the best.
Grinalds should not have lowered
standards in exchange for better
drill performance. He should
have demanded both. With a 66year
tradition of honor and prestige
behind them, the Sumerall Guards
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On Mondays and Wednesdays, I
have the day off and I make a
little extra money by substituting
around the local schools. Except
for having to get up at 6 a.m.,
ifs a pretty good job because I enjoy
hanging
out with
Sing someone
close to
their age be
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Columnist the regular
subs I used
to have, and they were usually worse
than the teacher, thinking they had to
be mean and strict in order to get us
to do our work. I decided not to be like
that. I would be firm and try to get
them to do their busy work, but I would
attempt to make the class enjoyable.
I have found that many of the students
see me as an adviser of sorts, someone
who has recently been down the same
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Revising
After seeing the modem and poorly
revised Great Expectations,
I decided two things: First of
all, when making improvements to a
body of work, one must be careful to
preserve its
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fleeted on
how impor&
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ffli revise,
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classroom.
Although I commented on the
movie in Wednesday's edition, I'd like
to take a more practical approach to
the business of revising.
I'm a movie enthusiast. I don't immediately
turn my nose at a classic
* novel or classic movie after if s been
redone.
It's difficult to do, but certainly no
body of work is perfect. Long after the
author has rested in his or her grave,
his or her universal themes can be
adapted and expounded upon to fit contemporary
life. "Revisors" are brave
USC recycling needs
to expand horizons
To the editor,
The fact that the university has
been forced to cut down on recycling
newspapers seems to indicate apathy
on the part of students and faculty.
However, I'm not willing to accept
this. No one wants to be a part of an
apathetic university, so I'm going to
attribute the reduction of the recycling
program to lack of knowledge.
It must be that the students and
faculty at USC don't realize the recycling
program is ultimately at the mer<
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to whom they can ask questions and
get answers free of parental biases.
Perhaps my favorite part of subbing,
however, is visiting my old stomping
grounds. I see teachers that I used
to have, classrooms I used to occupy
and playgrounds I used to play on,
alone or with a couple of friends. My
attempt to fit in socially fell far short
of permeating the popular clique
that even back then was starting to
develop. I see many kids in situations
that are similar to mine. Shy, fright- t
ened children whose shyness breeds >
loneliness. ?
I met one such fellow just the oth- i
er day when I was subbing for a mu- i
sic teacher at an elementary srhonl. t
Anthony seemed conspicuously dif- 1
ferent from the other kids who walked
into the portable with youthful exu- c
berance. s
Some classes are harder than oth- f
ers to control, and this one seemed bent f
on destroying this flimsy portable
through their jumping up and down s
and rough-housing. r
Anthony sat alone in his chair near a
my desk studying the definitions of t
arpeggio and andante. He asked me v
to help him figure out what a key sig- t
nature was and I did my best, ex- h
plaining the keys of F and G. s
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people, undertaking daunting tasks
and nsKing tne criticism ot nteraiists
and tradition-bound believers.
The courage to revise a movie is
similar to the feelings one experiences
when revising any kind of work,
even for the classroom. How challenging
it seems to part with material,
especially in which we believe our
ideas are enlightening and concise.
I think we often forget how many v
revisions go into creating a great work, h
how much effort is exerted on behalf
of an influential writer or artist. It's p
this humbleness that we, as students, s
should undertake in our academic g
work. i*
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1 also am slowly evolving into an u
enthusiast of revising writing. Revising
isn't a unique concept. The word 11
has been written on the board time 8
and time again. Believing and acting
on this crucial procedure of composing ^
is a completely different story.
I've slowly given up the resistance ^
to revising after learning words don't
always work right, and ideas aren't al- v
ways brilliant on their first trip out of a
my mind and on to the paper. s
I admit to spending a significant t]
amount of time in college handing in
papers whose ink had dried only min- v
utes before. My revising ended with ii
proofreading one rough draft, but there d
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held tor any circum:
cy of administrators who care about fr
nothing but numbers. Since Resource k
Conservation Programs isn't giving
them the numbers they like, then if s C1
up to us. We must make these administrators
understand the students c<
and faculty at USC want a recycling
program because of the importance of
our recycling to generations to come. ^
Not only do we want the program, ^
we demand one.
We demand a program that in- n
eludes not only aluminum cans, mixed n
paper and newspaper, but also plastic n
and glass. Below is a list of the actions p
that members of the USC communi- n
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lessons
"I have found that man
as an adviser of sort
they can ask question
of parent
At one point during the turmoil
hat ensues when 5th graders are left
vith a substitute who is too much of a
lofty to yell at small children, Antholy
looked at me and said, "I'm sorry
ny class is being so bad." I told him
hat I was grateful for his good belavior.
A little while later, Anthony
ame back to my desk and told me that
lome boy in the class had called him
at. Anthony was not fat, a bit stout
>erhaps, but not fat.
I made the boy tell Anthony he was
orry, at which point Anthony said to
ae, "I wish they'd just quit, I don't need
iny more problems in my life. My faher
doesn't even want to spend time
rith me." I didn't know what to say
o that, so I watched as he returned to
us seat and began studying his muical
terms again.
key to si
"I also am slowly evol
of revising writing. I
concept. The word h
board time ai
wasn't a whole lot of intense editing of
iow the words worked.
It seemed my tendency to revise
ivoted on the importance of the asignment,
particularly its value in the
reater scheme of class grading. I didn't
ush through work or dwell in confience
of a half-thought out paper.
I did revise but not enough. Before
ly revision revelation, editing was
imply about a grade value.
This is a poor statement for an Engish
major and writer. I'm afraid it's
rue for many students, and I'm sure
rofessors and teaching assistants alike
nil back me up here.
And more times than not, when
isiting with a professor to talk about
n unsatisfactory grade, their main
uggestion was not directed toward
lie material but how it was written.
Lesson learned, I've become a conert
to the addicting nature of revislg.
Instead of being proud of my first
"It's a rip-off, just like
everything else here."
Kyle Bridges,
on $.50 stamp machines
Friday, February 6,1998
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MICHELE DAMES
I on life .
y of the students see me
^...someone to whom
s and get answers free
al biases."
I knew what he was going through i
all too well. I suffered through teasing
from my peers for many years until
I secretly feared school, feared the
quiet humiliation that accompanied
shyness and an inability to fit in.
I do not miss elementary school.
One good thing about college is that
for the most part, people leave you
alone and accept differences. But one ,
thing I have noticed during my infre- i
quent journeys into the adult world is
that most of us by now have abandoned
the direct approach , preferring subtle
and covert ways to humiliate someone.
In elementary school, the kids
would not hesitate to laugh at you, but
in this grown-up world, cordial
words and actions seem to mean
very little.
uccess
Iving into an enthusiast
tevising isn't a unique
as been written on the ,
id time again."
pen and admit the work's faults. It
feels so much better to hand in a wellrevised
paper than one untouched by
the hand of the revisor.
One of my writing professors hands
back our weekly stories with no grade.
She purposely omits a grade assignment
and instead includes helpful crit- ^
icism.
Her reason is she doesn't want us
to get our papers back, put them in the
folder and accept the draft as "final."
m i i ii i_l_ . i
one elevates tne worm or a paper above
an initial "A" or "B" for our first drafts
to encourage revising. Our final grade
is assingned to a portfolio of our best
revisions.
Today she brought in a big, red "A"
rubber stamp. She passed it around
and encouraged us all to stamp our papers
with the "A." Suddenly, the
value of the "A" was reduced. The challenge
was to come with the revision of
the words, not the next letter we'd earn.
From revising, we learn.
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necock newsroom in Russell House room 331 E mail letters must iner
for style, possible libel or space limitations. Names will not be with
to see more funding for the program.
You can contact him at 777-7478.
Of course, students and faculty
should continue to participate in the ^
recycling still available on campus.
Aluminum cans and mixed paper are
easy to do, and they can still drop off
their newspapers in the trailer in the
Bates West parking lot. Call Resource
Conservation Programs at 777-8733
for more information on other recyclable
materials.
Thanks in advance for participating.
I know you will. 41
Susanne Kinard
Sophomore, English
raft, I immediately break out the red
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itten letters must be personally delivered by the author to The Gar
elephone lumber. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all lett
stance.
f can take to make their opinions
nown.
By next week, a petition will be emulating
demanding more funding
>r the recycling program. Those con
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si lieu can luuft. iui it 111 tnc luuuiea ui
ie residence halls, outside the Stuent
Government office and in their
nence classes. Simply signing the petion
is an effortless way to show how
nportant recycling is to USC students.
Students also can call John Fian
of the Division of Business and Fiance
and tell him, in a very polite
lanner, that they feel the recycling
rogram is an integral part of waste
lanagement and that they would like
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