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Monday, March 16,1998
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Adam Snyder.
Amy Shannon,
Kurt Johnson, Assis
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For the second
year in a row the HHuUiii
Gamecocks have
been knocked out ,, ,
of the NCAA Tour- tbe mtlom
% nament by a lower will to
seeded team. How ______
could this happen?
Shouldn't Carolina .
have been ready ^eam
and learned a les- develop int
son from last year? jjec
USC should
have learned, but
the team didn't.
The team foiled to recognize that
something essential was missing,
f This was a big problem.
TVio nrnWom fViflf rancori Par
olina's loss to Coppin State repeated
itself throughout the season. So
it shouldn't be a surprise that USC
lost to Richmond. In fact, the loss
was inevitable. But what was the
problem?
The problem with USC basketball
is that the team lacks heart and
intensity. It's something that has
plagued the Gamecocks all season.
a When USC upset Kentucky in
Rupp Arena last year, Carolina
reached an emotional high. Since
then the Gamecocks have been passionless.
The first sign of this calamity
was the loss to Marathon Oil in an
exhibition game. This embarrassment
was followed with four close
wins against teams who should have
been easy-going for Carolina: apiti0
fill 11-point win over Belmont, then
a one-point victory over Virginia
Jocassee <
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A Last fall, South I
w Carolina bought HHHUUUAii
32,000 acres of Jo- "Jhe DN
cassee Gorges
property from
Duke Energy Cor- manageme
poration. In May, theJocasse
the Department of
Natural Resources
will be put in _
charge of most of DNR tn\
the land. the area, nc
A week, the # ^ a huntt
DNR is expected to
announce its man
agement plan for
the Jocassee Gorges tract. The DNR
has two main choices. The land can
" either be kept as a Wildlife Management
Area, or hunting ground,
or it can be maintained as a Heritage
Trust to preserve rare native
species of plants and animals.
The DNR should manage the Jocassee
Gorges as a Heritage Trust
0 because there is less of a chance for
clear cutting of the forest to occur
as well as preservation of wildlife.
If the DNR maintains the area
as a hunting ground, tree logging is
likely to take place because the
DNR's track record shows that it
has already earned millions of dollars
from commercially selling timber
logged from other hunting
grounds, according to an article in
The State.
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rt to win
??Tech, a five-point win
luUHHi over S.C. State and a
tball lacks 10 P0"1* ^ly over
j Towson.
lasm and ?wait; some say,
1 win. "USC had a good sea_____
son. They fought back
to grab big wins
_ ? . against UGA twice,
needs to UF> Cincinnati and
ensityand Ole Miss in the SEC
irt. Tournament."
Yes, it's true that
Carolina climbed back
to get these wins, but USC should
have never been in the hole in the
first place. It was this lack of enthusiasm
that caused the early
deficits. USC was lucky to get these
wins, and eventually the luck ran
out, most obviously against the Vols
and Richmond.
Now with the season over, Carolina
needs to regroup and get back
that intensity and spirit the team
possessed last year when it beat
Kentucky twice.
If the Gamecocks don't regain
this fervor and vitality, be prepared
for another good season, not an excellent
one but a decent one like this
year's, and many more embarrass
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count next season.
While Tony Kitchings, Damien
Kinloch and Aaron Lucas will bring
a lot of talent to the next year's team,
let's hope they bring intensity and
a will to win. The team doesn't lack
talent, just heart, and this makes it
a second-rate team.
Gorges
ee cutting
But if the area beLuiiflHIl
comes part of the HerR
must itage Trust program,
i a land
is placed on consernt
plan jor vation and preservaie
Gorges. tion of the natural
wilderness. Timber
cutting is allowed on
Heritage Trust land,
UStpreserve but stricter regula
)t designate tions must be folng
ground. low?d> ^
Sportsmen s
groups want the Jocassee
Gorges to be a
hunting ground. Since the area has
always been hunted and logged, they
feel things should stay that way.
But just because that's the
way the land has been taken care
of in the past doesn't mean that's
the best plan for now and in the future.
The Jocassee Gorges is some of
the most beautiful and uncontaminated
wilderness in the entire state
of South Carolina. To let it remain
as a hunting ground, and logging
area is throwing away an opportunity
to preserve some of the state's
wild beauty.
If the DNR decides against the
Heritage Trust program for the Jocassee
Gorges, the agency will be
making the absolute wrong choice.
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In my last column, I aired the opinions
of a few Christians who take
the Bible literally. This week, I'd
like to explain my two main objections
to the literal approach.
The first problem I see with literalism
is
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that the
Bf Bible is not
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instance,
|P*I there are
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cies among
Columnist different
Bible writers'
accounts of the same story. Look
at Matthew's Sermon on the Mount,
and compare it to the contexts in which
the same teachings are included in
Luke's gospel. It is clear that one of
the evangelists either doesn't have his
facts straight, or doesn't care about the
incidentals.
I think the latter is true. The evangelists
were not trying to be historiA
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We all know and have been
taught that racism and sexism
are wrong. We shouldn't
judge anyone on race or gender alone
because people are just people inside.
But numbers are neutral, right? If we
can come up with a way to quantify
and maybe
emily STREYER equalitj
Guest Columnist are the ob
jectives ol
affirmative action proponents, who ei
ther support mandating choice in favor
of minorities and women with al
other things ideally equal or attempl
to create diversity or socio-economi<
indices in states where it is illegal t<
discriminate with gender or race, nc
matter how well-intended.
Two Supreme Court judges, San
dra Day-O'Connor and Clarenc<
Thomas, respectively the first female
and black members of the country's
Nothing wrong wit!
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To the editor:
I would like to respond to comment
and articles in the March 4 publica
tion of The Gamecock. First, I thin!
that it is completely asinine and ver
inappropriate for the Elections Com
mittee to ask SG Pres. Jamel Franklii
to resign based on his participation ii
the rally held by concerned member
of Ithe Carolina community. If thi
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ans; they were simply trying, to the
best of their abilities, to relay the teach- i
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mgs 01 oesus 10 me next, generation.
This brings me to my next point,
which is that taking the Bible literally
does not make the study of it any <
richer; in fact, you risk losing meaning.
The risks of literalism are evident
in the Creation debate. Literalists
say that the Genesis account of a
world made in six days is historically
true. Yet, scientists are reasonably certain
that a long, complicated process
(like evolution) went into the development
of life as we know it. It seems
that these two views cannot be reconciled,
but they can in two ways.
The first and most obvious explanation
is that symbols are used in Genesis
to explain how creation really occurred.
For instance, one "day," to God,
might be a certain number of years m
our time. Or the man God calls
Adam might really be the first man
who had evolved into a true Homo sapi'
en, complete with a conscience and
soul.
However, this explanation (like the
strict literal interpretation) begs a question.
Why would God want to do
this? That is, what is the point of telling
tive actior
highest court, are against affirmative
action. A common response of outrage
is to say, "How can these two
lawyers be against affirmative action?
That's how they got their jobs!" Proponents
of affirmative action further
say that no woman or minority should
be opposed to affirmative action because
it especially benefits them.
Clearly and equivocally, we have
made no strides whatsoever toward
racial and gender equality when we
attribute the successes or failures of
individuals to their reproductive organs
or skin color.
The problem with affirmative ac[
tion, especially in academic institu
tions, is that it attempts to objectify
r a subjective quality.
In high school, I was not accepted
t into a particular prestigious university,
while a less qualified but minorityassociated
classmate was. It was frusl
trating, but I understood that many
: prestigious schools place a high val:
ue on diversity, which was something
} I could not offer them, and I should
' have made up for that shortcoming in
other ways. My values were not relevant
in assessing my candidacy for a
[ place in that freshmen class. The adj
missions committee valued other things
and a decision was made.
the Gamec
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elude the author
^ held for any circi
^ rally had been held in order to prevent
money from being taken from the debate
team or any other such organization,
Mr. Franklin would never have
come under such criticism. Instead Mr.
3 Franklin would have been praised for
standing up and defending the rights
t of those having a terrible atrocity done
/ to them. Unfortunately he has come
under heavy criticism for defending
i a population of students whom those
i in power do not agree with, nor have
3 any sympathy for. I believe that if Kim
s Dickerson had participated in any part
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right to
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as exactly how the world began? It t
doesn't really give us any information s
about the nature of God; God could use p
anv motVinH in anv nnmHor nf Hava
Maybe he even used evolution. It
doesn't have much religious significance
either way.
The second explanation of the Genesis
story, that it isn't really about creation
at all, makes more sense. It can
be read as an allegory for the way in.
which man separated himself from God
through sin. And this would mean
something; if we know how we separate
ourselves from God, perhaps we
can learn how to repair the rifts we
cause. If we read the story literally,
however, we could miss out on this important
lesson.
In some respects, then, I agree with
Jeremiah Schwartz, who says, "I believe
that it is important to read the
Bible intelligently. That is why God
gave us brains. For example, in
Matthew 5:29 where it says, 'If your
right eye causes you to sin, gouge it
out and throw it away,'
I don't believe that God wants us
to go around mutilating ourselves. We
would then eventually be rendered use- 1
less and could not carry out his work, i
I believe that this verse is talking about 1
1 solution
"Clearly and equivocal!
strides whatsoever 1
gender equality whe
successes or failures oi
reproductive orgar
Another problem, especially in aca- <
demic institutions, is that sometimes ]
to accommodate this desire for diver- <
sity, two sets of standards are applied
to make up for their lack of ability to ,
contribute to the diversity in a com- (
munity. Students who are white or (
male must sometimes have higher ,
quantitative scores to be considered
for an award.
Let me say, also clearly and equivocally,
that we do not raise up individuals
in society by lowering society's
bar.
But attacking the solution is not
the same thing as denying the problem.
But nonetheless, I propose an alternative
to affirmative action. If it is
permissible to say that, as a society,
we value diversity in our academic and 1
professional institutions, then let's be
done with it and declare Potential To
Contribute To Diversity of Society a
valid and acceptable quality for which
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of the rally, instead of working against i
those who organized the rally, she
would have received praise from President
Palms, other students, and the
Elections Commission probably would
have erected a statue in her honor. It
is a shame that when a black man
stands up for something that affects
his people he is criticized, but if a white
person does it they are praised.
Second, I would like to respond to
the "Letter to the Editor" written by
Jamie Jeffords. If Student Government
is here to serve the interest of all stu
:ry student has the
criticize the president
it is warranted."
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hings in our lives that cause us to
tumble, and should, therefore, be dis
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juaeu ui.
If, for example, I end up watching
ny favorite television show on Sunday
nornings instead of going to church,
worshipping God and fellowshipping,
hen I need to separate myself from
hat program.
"The Bible has many parables and
jarallels, and so we have to be careful
>efore we jump to conclusions about
what a scripture may mean. Not all
hings in the Bible are clear, and no
>ne can fully understand everything
hat is written. That is because God's
vays are higher than ours, and we can
lever hope to be at the same intellec;ual
level as God."
Thanks to Mr. Schwartz, and every>ne
else who contributed ideas on this
ssue. Next week, let's discuss another
contentious topic that gets Chris;ians
riled up: faith vs. works. Do
fou simply have to accept Jesus as your
savior to get into heaven? Or can you
jet in if you perform good works, but
ire not a believer? Are both required?
Or should concerns over a ticket to
leaven not be central to belief in the
irst place?) E-mail me at
tawarth@vm.sc.edu.
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Ly, we have made no
toward racial and
n we attribute the
f individuals to their
is or skin color."
lecision makers look, just like a clean
permanent record, a high GPA or a
demonstrated work ethic.
Let's quit pretending. Affirmative
action doesn't make anything fair or
equal. It's a pathetic attempt at covering
discrimination. If we place an
importance on gender or race, lets just
say so. As a student of economics, I am
the hrst to agree that while numbers
do not describe everything, all things
have value. If we value diversity, lef s
just say so and stop trying to be numerical
and objective about it. What I
despise about affirmative action is that
it is a preferential system masquerading
as a fair and objective approach
to the racial-and gender-related
issues in our society.
Let's just stop pretending. The next
step to real change is realizing the true
nature of our actions.
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then why have they done thenvery
best to remove money from one
of the largest student organizations on
campus? Doesn't that hurt the interest
of those students whom they are
supposed to protect?
We should not be surprised by the
recent activities of SG, for these things
are to be expected at a university in
which the library and student union
are named after staunch supporters
of slavery and segregation.
Erica Meeks
journalism, junior