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Kurt and Felicia will be here to give you their views ! of things. Page 2 tto(5an Serving the Carolina Comm EDITORIAL Adam Snyder, E Amy Shannon, Vu Kurt Johnson, Assistar Beautificat just for sp A $25 million ? - gift was presented HIHiUMiiAi to USC's school of In the few day business Friday. Moore's vis\ USC's College of campuswas, Business Adnun- r istration has been beaut renamed the Dar- H^TTinT la Moore School of Business after The campus the donor, a 1975 look this gooc political science time. graduate of USC. The money was officially donated h during a ceremony outside the H. e William Close building. t Fortunately, the weather was I gorgeous, and our campus looked t just beautiful. The horseshoe was immaculate. Flower beds were new- s ly planted with colorful pansies, and a all the dead brown leaves were h blown away by the leaf blowers, g Outside the B A building anoth- p er transformation occurred. The cement was cleaned by water blasters, p more new plants were put in the t previously empty flower boxes, and a the place had a shiny, clean look e about it. r All this campus beautifying was i completed within the few days c prior to Moore's visit. The entire campus was tidied up in an attempt t to look nice for Moore and the cer- t emony. And it did look great, no v question about it. / But if that much beautification a can be accomplished in less than a Kids killin; quite a pre For the love of ?gH-y God, what is wrong HHUUmbU with kids these Juveniles killi days? Now more becor) than ever, that fyPmumt nrn question needs to Jreciuent OCCl be asked. In past ^^^frrffrrr decades, that ques- HBiiiiU tion was asked of A push tOU the free-loving hip- stronger, bette pies of the 1960s and the poofy- J haired punk rock ers of the 1980s. But now we have ii the mass-murdering middle school- a ers. i This, of course, is in reference to recent events in which kids have y taken guns to school and mowed o down students and teachers. The t most recent occurred last week in Arkansas, when 11 and 13 year-old t kids opened fire on a mass of stu- g dents at school after a fire alarm I had been pulled. Another occurred r earlier in Kentucky, when a 15 year- i: old kid opened fire on a group of stu- 1< dents praying around a flag pole, i] In six months, there have been t three mass shootings by juveniles, p In 1996, almost 3,000juveniles were v arrested for murder or manslaueh ter. Though experts agree this is not v a trend of sorts, they feel that the r more often it happens, the more like- i ly it will occur again and again. Hfi ?ie(5an " VJT Serving the Carolina Comm The Gamecock is the student newspaper of The University of Friday during the fall arid spring semesters and five times during the periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the editor} The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the publ is the newspaper's parent organisation. TIm Qamecock Adam Snyder Editor in Chief Rosalind Harvey Amy Shannon Viewpoints Editor Sara Ladonhoim *urt John*on Care Pedatt News Editors Carrie McCullout Jennifer Stanley Features Editor Kristin Freeatata Achlm Hunt Nathan Brown Bryan Johnston Sports Editors ^ay1otrl Susan Meyers Photo Editor Tori 0 Hare Brian Riah Online Editor ?/fn fjgod Chria Dixon Copy Desk Chief Connie Kartckho Student Media Julie Baker Sherry F. Holmet Suaan Barrett fff!" "fS^*00 ? Carolyn Griffin Judaon Drennan Creative Services ... _ , Jim Green Ellen Paiaona Director of Student Media Mlchele Damea Lee Phlppa Advertising Manager ^ ? i /lEWP< The Gameccx * A ?T rack unity since 1908 BOARD ditor in Chief ?wpoints Editor it Viewpoints Editor ion not ecialday week, why is the campus in such a state of S prior to disrepair for the rest it the ?f the semester? In leaned stead of only a couple of days to spruce up IJiea. the campus, there is plenty of time during the semester to get should ^ h looking good. i all the There is no reason why the landscaping around the BAbuildng should have been left to shriv1 and die. The cement was allowed o become brown and crusty. The 1A building should have been atended to months before. yji course, ivioure is a special peron to whom everyone is grateful, ind the campus had to look nice for ier. But the campus should look [reat all year, not just when imlortant people come to USC. We students are important peo>le, too. After all, we're the reason his university exists. We deserve l clean campus just like anybody ilse. Even Parents' Weekend doesn't eceive such an all-out effort to clean ip campus, although it's a pretty lose second. This campus should look as specacular as it looked for Moore all the ime. As the state's flagship uniersity, it should be no other way. Anything less than the best is unicceptable. g kids >biem So what could be UflHH the root of this probng each lem? Television is allitlQ a ways a convenient suspect, but it goes tnence- deeper than that. Family life, or the JiHHi lack thereof, has a lot vards to do with such tfamily events, but video j j games are equally thought to, at least, suggest such behav3r. And surely a combination of the tbove might push children to comnit such acts. How to solve this problem? Easy, ou can't. Violent acts are going to ccur, but, hopefully, there are ways o make such killings less frequent. Getting rid of the television and he video games is not the way to ;o. It has to start with the family, 'arents have got to become more psnnnsihlp and mnrp flrt.ivp for and n their children's lives. Kids not earning what's right or wrong, havng abusive parents, or not getting he love and support they need from larents are likely to end up on the mmg side of the tracks. A push for stronger family ties yould benefit society as a whole and elinquish such activities from readly occurring. rack m unity since 1908 South Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and summer with the exception of university holidays and exam i or author and not those of The University of South Carolina, isher of The Gamecock. The Department of Student Media All numbers area code 803 The Gamecock Public Relations Coordinator Editor 777-3914 it. Viewpoints Editor . CM Viewpoints 777-7726 (h Asst. News Editor ' Asst. Features Editor News 777-7726 Asst. Sports Editor Asst. Photo Editor Etc. 777-3913 4ssf. Online Editor Sports 777-7182 tf Copy Editors Online 777-2833 ' c"*lS?i *>?*>-Buslms Manager Mmme Creative Director Classifieds 777-1184 Creative Services _ 777-6482 Graduate Asst. Fax Faculty Advisor offjce 7773888 ? 1 Vat I ^T'v I iv^ryoup V & ?& Teaching In a departure from strictly reli- rel gious themes this week, Id like to W1 use my column as a pulpit from ths which to proclaim the virtues of a ca- tin reer in teaching. fin Wait! Don't stop reading! I know ati what you sp< Bare think- hei ing: Teach- fig] thankless ne< job. There kir chance of gg remunera- wh tinn. little W1P': iill prestige is anf kiki MCCORMICK associated P Columnist with the calling, you to don't think you'll be able to make a dif- pn ference anyway because of all the bu- y01 reaucracy in education; besides, your gm adviser laughed at you when you men- ^ tioned you might be thinking about teaching. gir I admit, the first charge stands. ^ Teachers are not paid enough. Some say this is because teaching is tradi- , tionally women's work, and society is Sex-craze rewing these guys definitely did not I w jp me from taking myself serious- on whi is a student," she assures us. ulty m As a professor, her sex life only im- hers. I ived. Female students could not wait tinguis The Gamecock 1 I | I 1 a student. Hand written lette etude the author's telephone held for any circumstance. elming amounts of racism and sex- Sht l in this "Land of Equality." These is so pi a prejudices, particularly racism, cause s m from the ignorance and the pow- before i af the majority. eptituc Oh, by the way, while I'm writing No1 ignorance, someone needs to tell disadv i. Streyer that Thurgood Marshall mental not Clarence Thomas ?was the first ever, u ick Supreme Court Justice. This can fai numental error shows the stupid- candid that Ms. Streyer displays in the rest sity or ler column. action t Steven YATES , she Guest Columnist 'n j Can a feminist be accused of sex- C01 ual harassment? Ask Jane Gal- J?? lop, for years now a "feminist .1 theorist" at the University of Wiscon- 1 sin, Milwaukee. She's written a scholarly tome on the subject called "Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment". "Although I no longer actually have "oc sex with students," writes Gallop, "I 0u1 still embrace such relations in princi- ^hi pie." 801 The reason she stopped her amorous activities is because some J*11 weren't exactly consensual, and one in8 student complained to university au- bre thorities. The female student accused Gallop of sexual harassment after re- she ceiving from her a very public kiss at tou a university-sponsored event, the First tur Annual Graduate Student Gay and liti Lesbian Conference. Gallop explains that the kiss was risl an exercise in "lesbian pedagogy: women together tasting from the for- coi bidden tree of knowledge." The stu- me dent's complaint resulted from "psy- tet choanalytic transference" of anger "Sc intended for some authority figure such ke< as her father. ly j The university dismissed the charge. pre liijd'l |!| Jdi lailUilaJlUil Affirmative action necessary even for twi white male reader ^ To the editor: Unfortunately, the debate over af- on r* i n 1 Tlf. rirmative action iorges on, continual- ivia ly rearing its oppressive head into the ? i opinions of our society, as evidenced bla by the column by Emily Streyer. mo The Affirmative Action policy was ity initiated as a reaction to the over- of 1 3INTS :k tfT\" ; saves pe uctant to pay women fair wages, the ex< latever the reason, I can't promise tors ca it the problem will correct itself any- public lesoon. I can, though, with tongue respon mly planted in cheek, promise you fecting icket to heaven if you are willing to the res md your life as a public servant (I a VIP, reby give up pretenses; this is a re- ing a di ion column). After all, "it is easier of peop a camel to go through the eye of a An; idle than for a rich man to enter the sibilitj igdom of God (Matthew 19:24)." So centur I can think of a career in teaching is proh fire insurance; its meager salary to set f II keep you from burning in hell, ties wa rich, according to numerous Bible' will pn 3sages, is what will happen if you follow i md your life pursuing wealth. 8:19), As though threats on your immor- on a sr soul aren't enough to entice you As teach, I now turn to the matter of certifii istige. True, people will tell you that might a can do better, that you are too want t lart to be a teacher, etc. I hope I classes a't have to explain the idiocy of this severa itude. I think the problem is that ment i ice women now have so many op- intellig ns, they feel they should steer clear once y< la/a /vnoa fn xirVatnVa flamr xirom fnrmnrlv unn or die vixco \aj TYiuvii laiejr neiw iwimviij j vu ux lited. Men, either, still aren't in- educal ested for some reason. Whatever disorg d professc Gallop's career path began when i was a graduate student at Cornell he early 1970s, and in her words, ostantly in heat." She had sex with n as often as possible, but someng was missing. Then she attend- ] Em all-female dance, which some of i men tried to crash. She writes, "A large group of us men threw ourselves against the >r. It was a thrill keeping the men jiaye ;...heaping our bodies together in nQ s symbolic enactment of feminist , idarity. And then, after the men ^Ur.. re up, we decided to celebrate our , , .. unph, our women-only space by tak- 1 ; off our shirts and dancing bare- C0"leK) asted." arlyco She writes excitedly of how hard f?*1 } danced "because I so wanted to |\er ch all those breasts," her account ldea 01 ning into a dissertation on the po- was ac cal nature of breasts. self Si Thus, an academic feminist theo- rassm< t to be came of age. Prc Later in her scholarly tome she re- Pl ints how she slept with two male cently mbers of her dissertation commit- univer i, to prove she was their equal, guishe "South C best team them hav Chm Clemson 11 nrti lople fro] mses, the truth is that educa- throug n have a great deal of power; to fill c schools have perhaps the most and "i sibility of any institution for af- grade positive social change. Maybe ence. it of the world won't see you as boy, b< but you will know you are mak- that a ifference in the lives of hundreds Of cou >le. some e yway, there is the remote pos- media j of becoming famous. A first the Mi y Galilean by the name of Jesus ly 2.5; ably the most famous figure ever that i oot on Earth, and one of his ti- the pe( s Teacher. Now, your students Go int )bably never say, "Teacher I will plican fou wherever you go," (Matthew sides, but you can touch their lives you gf nailer scale. when for the actual process of being Ba ad to teach: Yes, your adviser At 8 p look at you funny if you say you pert o 0 subject yourself to education tury te 3. I admit, I have almost quit sus Af 1 times. The education depart- giving nakes a sport of insulting the Call 7 fence of its students (and this is inar, s 3u can figure out which classes ions oi e supposed to be taking. The to si aon department is hopelessly kawsu anized.) I actually suffered )r not scl "As a professor, her s improved. Female student to have sex with her back now in the 1990s things j sex with her back in the 1980s, Do w in the 1990s things have the sc] . Students complain of her au- ity. In rianism in the classroom. They my ha ke her innuendoes and blatant matte ns. She tried to organize a schol- cause nference on professor-student the ni 1 surprise! The university turned sexual ra. A revised version of the same to edu 1 "pedagogy and the personal" mind, cepted until a group calling it- partn< ;udents Against Sexual Ha- a real mt protested. ' Th tfessor Gallop is still teaching, world iblishing her theories, and re- wome became the first woman at her a rath sity to hold the title of Distin- they v d Professor. actly i ill not spend time speculating rent si it would happen to a male fac- Gallo] ember who pulled stunts like amine doubt he would be called "dis- enoug ihed" anything. ^ ar. >o print all letters received. Letters should Oe 250-300 words and must rs must be personally delivered by the author to The Gamecock news/ number. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letter for style, pc i models the reason why racism Th evalent in modern society, be- when he, like so many others, speaks pathe thinking about the imbecikc in- such ? les of which she writes. compc iv, as a white male, I stand to be cies. antaged the most by the imple;ions of affirmative action. Howmtil we as a "civilized" society irly choose the most qualified ate for acceptance to a univerjob position, then affirmative is necessary. bhi arolina has the that I have seen e in ten years." zk Kriese, : Tennis Coach onday, March 30,1998 2 press EXCHANGE ? m hell ;h one class in which I was forced >ut a worksheet on "observation" nferenceas though any highmoron doesn't know the differ("You think Danny is a smart icause he is so quiet in class. Is n observation or an inference?") rse, there is the possiDihty that iducation students need such ration. (The GPA requirement for aster of Teaching program is onexpectations are not high.) If s the case, though, are these iple you want teaching your kids? ,o teaching to improve the apt pool! So, there are some down But the upshot of it all is that A it to do something worthwhile ^ you get out of school, tck to religion for next week: ,m. April 2, Marcus Borg, an exn the aforementioned first ceniacher and author of Meeting Je*ain for the First Time, will be ; a lecture. (I don't know where. 774100). He's in the Jesus Semio there should be a host of opina what he has to say. If you wish lare yours, write me at -th@vm.sc.edu. lolarly ex life only 0 s could not wait in the 1980s, but have soured." n't get me wrong. I don't oppose tiolarly study of human sexualHealth Sciences, where I hang t, we look into such things as a A r of course. In part, this is bewe see a serious need to reduce imber of teen pregnancies and ly transmitted diseases. We want icate people with such goals in Unprotected sex with multiple ;rs is dangerous.'Everyone with education knows that, te Jane Gallops of the academic i write about sex not to help n or educate society, but out of er juvenile need to shock. That rin prestigious awards is not exi i i- . iL. a nign commentary on me curtate of academe. What Professor a needs is to have her head exd, and this goes for anyone dumb h to take her seriously as a scholinclude full name, professional title or year and ma/or if oom in Russell House room 333. E-mail letters must inissible libel or space limitations. Names will not be withLe English language fails me ^ I try to describe how absurdly tic it is that we must resort to i detrimental policy in order to nsate for our foolish inadequaJeremy Touzel Mathematical Science Sophomore ia?a