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Fred and Kevin will be back to hriffhten vonr da\ and share their insights. Page 4 tw Serving Ibe Carol EDITC Adam Sny< Amy Shannc Kurt Johnson, A NFL will off-field If s about time ^ somebody did IH4 something. The Na- Too m tional Football , t . , i ^ commit t League started off a campaign to be au)c "victim friendly" by amending an al- HKU ready implement- A newp edoff-fieU violent pohcy. It will be affective July 1. anc This policy states that any NFL player or e] ployee that is charged with soi form of violent act or criminal 1 havior must undergo clinical ev, uataon and/or counseling. If that p son refuses to partake in th required activity, fines and sc pensions will be handed out. Cc viction or admission of guilt pu the athlete into deep trouble wi NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabi who will take punitive actions. The original policy took effe last summer, but was limited to ju counseling. This policy takes the NFL hig er than any other professional spoi organization in dealing with at lete-criminals. Tagliabue denit however, that such action hi anything to do with the recent L trell Sprewell incident, in which ] choked his coach. Excludin from Sco California's I Supreme Court ruled unanimously A COl Monday that the aUomtt Boy Scouts can exclude boys who are exc homosexuals or and atheists. The Boy Scouts claim that homo- jfoe g0y sexuality is banned r: 1 in a clause of the accePta Scout oath. Mem- want to bers must vow to be "morally straight," and homosexuality goes against the traditional moral values, the Be Scouts said. This ruling allows the Boy Seoul to kick out twol6-year-old membe] who have refused to admit to a b lief in God. Also upheld by the coil was a rejection of a homosexual application to become a Scout leade What kind of example is the Be Scouts organization setting for th Boy Scouts themselves? Young boj are being shown that discrimim tion of homosexuals and atheists i fair and legal. Has the civil rights movemer sat stagnant for the past decade? C course not. But state Supreme Coui rulings like this one are bound t set the movement back more tha just a couple years. It is absolutely unacceptable tha an organization such as the Bo Scouts discriminate in any way. Thi tk<E <1 otrmnx ion ^uruunu The Gamecock is the student newspaper of The ilnh Friday during the fall and spring semesters and five times di periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of tl The Board of Student Publications and Communications is is the newspaper's parent organization. m The Gamecock Adam Snyder Editor in Chief Roeallnd Amy Shannon Viewpoints Editor Sara Ladanhalm Hurt John Cara Peilatt News Editors Carrie Mc Jennifer Stanley Features Editor Krlatln Fn Achim Hunt Nathan B Bryan Johnston Sports Editors Sean Ray Susan Meyers Photo Editor Tgfi Q Hg Brian Rlsh Online Editor Chris Dixon Copy Desk Chief Connie Ki Student Media Julie Baker Sherry F. Susan Barrett Alicia Dickson Carolyn G Judaon Drennan Creative Services Jim Greer Ellen Parsons Director of Student Media Mlchele I Lee Phlpps Advertising Manager ?Wfc Cgm t \ 5amecodt I ina Community since 1908 RIAL BOARD ier, Editor in Chief >n, Viewpoints Editor ssistant Viewpoints Editor punish violence ??Well, it should! MiiLUidHHI Athletes just like any athletes Sprewell have gotten zrimes and get off way too easily. , ? These actions perry With it. formed by any other person or performed in any other public olicy punishes Place ^ punishable more severely |?y Prirson or , ? heavy fines. But no, t equally. these highly paid> highly egoed sports m- celebs obviously feel that they are ? ne a "step above the law." ie-. With recent events, such as al- Sprewell, football's Michael living's ._ sr- night of cocaine and prostitution ?r tis and baseball's Wil Coldero's beatis ing of his wife, athletes know they >n- can get away with things, its Their conscious tells them they /" th should not commit these acts, but I le, then they refer back to these events and they figure "why not?" cite set Though this is a big step forward, acc ist it's not enough. The athlete's bei know that even if they get caught, ;h- the maximum punishment they will [p -ts get is a suspension and/or inconh sequential fine, is, Everybody deserves and is entias tied equality under the law, even a- when it is broken. However, it is a he known fact that money talks and bull shit walks. g gay boys | uts wrong * I organization is one [ ai' that is supposed to irt ruling embrace boys from wjt *e Boy Scouts different walks of life knc , / and teach them leadJudegays ership_ responsibiu. ? atheists. ty, honor and volun- g teerism. Are they I L&USiiflHI saying that homosexScouts should uals 811(1 atheists a ny boys who T! participate. qualities? f All Boy Scouts woul pledge to be "morally I ir straight" upon becoming members. first )y Supposedly being a homosexual or ? an atheist is in conflict with thenIs oath. The phrase "morally straight" rs can be interpreted in several ? e- ways, but apparently the Boy Scouts I rt feel that it means members must be 's heterosexual. The worst part of this r. interpretation is that the court >y agreed, which is completely unbeie hevable and quite pitiable. rs Why is "straight" even included i- in the oath? Do little boys under- ? is stand what connotation the word ^ has when they vow to become Boy it Scouts? They probably don't. A find] )f phrase such as "morally upstand- gettii "t ing" would suffice much better. to as 0 But it doesn't matter because the Bars n ruling has been made. And now they from will learn by example that discrim- least it ination is just another part of being V y a Boy Scout. sick c 5 toar mmColu iamecotk H| 1 Community since 1908 ___ 'ersity of South Carolina and Is published Monday, Wednesday and iring the summer with the exception of university holidays and exam le editors or author and not those of The University of South Carolina, the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of Student Media mmmmm Po All numbers area code 803 V"1 i ( The Gamecock 111*. Harvey Public Relations Coordinator Editor 777-3914 ^ son Asst.Viewpoints Editor ? _ .. . .... Viewpoints 777-7726 U Cullough Asst. News Editor eeatate Asst. 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Surely you guys felt the ex- It kind of reminded me of the movie rnent and tension I felt with all the All the President's Men, which was an usations and complaints that were account of the little-known Watergate tig strewn about for about the past Scandal, during the Garfield adminthree istration. The movie focused on the .~i weeks, two reporters who broke the case, Bob Hell, yeah, "hey I look like Robert Radford" WoodI was upset ward and Carl "Rainman" Berstein. P M too that Ti- Anyway, it was cool to see what they Bf ?t-r M t a n i c went through and how they overcame sir passed the odds to show the injustices in the | >1 J \ fj Star Wars political system. I think it also showed /' JiM -r.: "L 11 ? I- / as the a" Dustin Hoffinan's butt, in case anyone Jt time movie is really interested. ^ J money Anyway, that's what these past I Wb*. maker, couple of weeks have felt like for me. urt JOHNSON when The Gamecock newsroom had been ?? everybody going crazy trying to find out who >sL eupo nts knows full did what, who fired who, what was bewell that if ing done about it and exactly what the r Wars initially came out when tick- hell Student Government was, since rices were this high, there would nobody had ever heard about it or what 10 freakin' way anybody would be they did. In the first couple of articles, - to catch it. we thought they were some kind of But then there was this other thing bean worshippers, but we eventually h Student Government and not found out they are the governing body wing how to open a door or some- here on campus. Still, nobody really 1 1 ?_! _1 _ - joocl menus equa ; happened to me twice. One would shit began. She didn't have a car. I did. think that I would have learned She didn't have a job. I did. She didn't rom my mistake the first time.One buy groceries. I did. She couldn't pay Id be wrong. the rent. I did. had two best friends. I met my Now to be fair. I must share the one on my first day at the new el- fact that she did eventually get her act ementary together. She got a job at a local groschool eery store, she began feeding herself, ufre ^ and eventually she did pay me back i]U^ the money I had spent on bills. ISP ill1 ^ The semester ended. Summer beWRw gan. We went to Toogies for dinner one If ? l i 11 ^d she asked me if one of her { > r> ... friends could move in with us for the 1J G D D 1 6 ?. . , _ _ N u t t v summer- Now, the girl she was speakAAh Bars (and jngofU not someone I get along with. orange REALLY don t like her. My roomiicia BROWN juice) for niate knew this, so she wasn't surprised ohimnist breakfast, when I said heU no. I couldn't Anyway, she let the girl move in c my classroom by myself and I was anyway. Pouring salt into my wound, tig scared. This girl came up to me s^e t?ld me that the girl would not I 1_ IP T -1 T J.1 XT i_.i kn nOTnnrr 1 /Q kiif i*fniil/l kn rtntr 1_ K II X was OJtay. 1 inrew up Uliy ^ Fay*"6 icui, uul wuuiu uc yay- r. at her feet. We were best friends ing 1/2 her rent, while I would still f then on. Until last summer at be responsible for my 1/2.1 told her L that if they wanted to live together that I /e were both going to USC and much, they would be doing so alone, s )f living on-campus. We moved in- I was moving out. ii lice, yet cheap apartment in West She got pissed. Wrote me this hor- s mbia. Things went great for a rible note about me being a back- (i i. Nobody to get on our nerves. No stabbing bitch, not to mention that I t ;o watch over us. Then the real wag ungrateful and selfish. I TheGamecoc *1 | | *| ' m | | I H >1 I 111 ' a student. Hand wr elude the author's I _ held for any circum i\\A Hn (1938), Pius condemned anti-Semitism a Ulil U-LF an(j deciare(i that "Spiritually, we L s share for Jews 1Chistif?s|arefiemitea/ , , ? The Nazis, m fact, were displeased d ie editor: with the election of Pius; the Berlin- f( n March 23, an editorial appeared er Morganpost (1939) editorialized, t] us XII's "silence" and "inaction" "the election of Cardinal Pacelli [Pius] v ig the Holocaust, accompanied by is not accepted with favor in Germany d McCormick column on the dif- because he was always opposed to ^ ig beliefs of Catholics and Nazism." Pius' Christmas message of sstants. Because of shoddy re- 1942 condemning Nazism was viewed 0 h, both pieces cry out to the heav- by a Gestapo report as a plea "on be- ? ir a response. half of the Jews." 11 he Vatican report did not call Pope If this is too little evidence, more 0 XII to account for a simple rea- can be furnished on behalf of Pius. Dr. c *ius did more than any other world Joseph Nathan, of the Hebrew Com- t] :r to speak out on behalf of the mission, praised Pius in 1945 for his n , and to aid and ^ssist them. In work on behalf of Europe's Jews, ^e- u ncyclical Summi Pontificatus spected Holocaust scholars (whd are o ictims." Emilio Zolli, the chief rabbi of Rome, fas so grateful to Pius that when he onverted to Catholicism, he took the ontiffs name. This does not even take ito account the hundreds of linear feet f documentation housed at the Vatian, the World Jewish Congress and tie American Jewish Committee which ecord the efforts of the Catholic Church nder Pope Pius' direction on behalf f the Jews. "I see ^ ?? ) ( tidal re1 has heard about them or knows if they really do anything. Well, once their status was established and we found out what they do and who does what, we started to report what was going on. And some serious stuff was going on. Here's the lnwdowrv The SG President (who is elected by students who do not vote) was caught "doing something" with an intern during election day. However, nobody turned out to vote, so nobody actually "saw" anything. However, the president took pictures, which wasn't a real smart thing to do, and somehow they got out. Anyway, the Elections Commission (a fancy name for the People Who Do Nothing Committee) decided to do something and ask the president for his resignation, even though he would be out of office in two weeks, for (and I quote) "not equally representing the entire Student Body by 'doing something' with only this one intern, when representatives from all walks of student life should have also had 'something done' to them." .1 bad roc "Best friends make li They don't respeci roommate is a goc stranger when; )h yeah, I previously went to the landord and told her that there was an unvelcome visitor living with me. She dcked our guest out for trespassing. Jut this girl kept coming over anyway. Cventually she and her friend moved tut. She left me with her long distance >hone calls, the cable bill, and the elecricity bill from when they kept the air onditioning running constantly. I lived alone for a while after that. Jut remember that I said that this had cappened to me before. My other best riend and I moved into a townhouse n my hometown before I came back to JSC. I was takinff a vear off to save ome money, etc. This bitch went freakng psycho. She told me one night that he was moving in with her boyfriend that she had known three weeks), and hat I had to find another roommate, had a fiill-time job working from midk will try to print all letters received. Letters should be 250-300 wo itten letters must be personally delivered by the author to The Garr 'elephone number. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all lette stance. lso Jewish), Jeno Levai and Puctas -apide, gave high marks for the poniffs efforts. On the death of Pius, Gola Meir, paid him the tribute, "...When jarful martyrdom came to our people, hp voire of the Pone was rai sed for its us getting better and better very time we tee up." Kristi Coggins, JSC Ladies Golf Coach Wednesday, March 25,1998 ,5 zollege press EXCHANGE sealed Well, the President subsequently C. J 4/L; ? C 1 4.u_ T71 x^iuacu una itquest, ouu intu uie Diw tions Commission for (and I quote) "Actually doing something, when in Article 1, Sentence 3 of the Elections Commission Handbook states 'Any member of this commission solemnly swears not to do anything while on this commission.' This Commission had no authority to do what they did, so there...nanni, nanni, booboo." Then, all of a sudden, the President was going to have impeachment charges brought against him, and a trial was going to be held. But the Student Government couldn't figure out how to open the door to their meeting room, which hasn't been used yet this year, so they said "screw it, let's forget the whole thing. South Park is r> on. Well, there you are, democracy at its finest. Well, it was exciting and suspenseful while it lasted and truly, I think we all witnessed some kind of history here. Unless they raise ticket prices to $20 each, ain't nobody gonna catch that ship. )mmates lorrible roommates, t you. My current >d one. She was a she moved in." night until 8 a.m., I waited tables on the weekends from 5p.m. til almost midnight, and I went to school halftime. I didn't have time to sleep, much less time to find a new roommate. She didn't care. One night I came home from school and there was no furniture, she even took all the dishes. I was left with EVERY BILL. I went to my landlord. Because I couldn't pay the whole rent, he evicted me. Best friends make horrible roommates. They don't respect you. My current roommate is a good one. She was a stranger when she moved in. The girl that she reDlaced and I are pooH friends again. Although our friendship won't be the same as before, she explained some things to me that I didn't know about. The other girl that left me stranded wrote me a letter asking me to forgive her. I still hate her. rds and must include full name, professional title or year and major if tecock newsroom in Russell House room 333. E-mail letters must inr for style, possible libel or space limitations. Names will not be withWhich brings me to Ms. McCormick. The Catholic Church does not preach a gospel of works, but one of grace. The chief difference between Protestants and Catholics is whether grace merely shields the believer from God's judgment (the Protestant view), or so infuses the believer as to justify the believer, and sanctify him and his works in the life of grace described by St. Paul in Chapter 8 of Romans. The question is not works vs. faith, but what limitations if any, are to be placed upon God's grace by man's depravity. John F. Devanny, Jr., Graduate Student, History