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Kurt and Felicia will do a duet together for a special column on race relations. Page 2 tto(5a Serving the Carolina Cor EDITORIAL Adam Snyder, Amy Shannon, 1 Kurt Johnson, Assistt Harpootli; recognize On March 4, USC student Justin Porter died Dick Harp from a group A andot streptococcus bac- , teria. Now, the baveigna coroner is investi- Gawiecock 3 gating whether he for inforn contracted the in- ^H__TTri fection from a fight IKUiiiJ with another USC puMic 0fftc student, Caldwell ? ( Johnatoi. recognize! Subpoenas were issued last week calling for testimony from witnesses of the incident. As this story broke, Johnston's attorney, Dick Harpootlian, spoke to The State but refbsed to comment to The Gamecock. Even though The Gamecock staff is comprised of students who are fnnnrf fa lnom n mo ot-\/4 mifo rvf* blJUlg IAJ XCCU XI bliu JLllO CUiU W Li. I/O U1 journalism, this paper still has the capability of writing and running professional stories that are of importance to the USC and surrounding communities. The Gamecock would greatly appreciate that those with information on any newsworthy story would come forward so that all sides can be fairly represented. No trial fo a horrible On Wednesday, "-]-70:11 U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Judge Wright Wright threw out for throw, Paula Johes' sexu- r , al-misconduct law- J suit against Presi- Clinton are C dent Clinton. - outrage Wright decided that Clinton's conduct could not be Wright's ruli) considered illegal , sexual harassment OVertU for three main reasons: Clinton only behaved that way one time, Jones i. J C. 1 * U 1 A was not iireu irom uerjuu, ana sne did not need psychiatric help after it happened. Wright's decision is an outrage. Any incident involving sexual harassment is illegal. There are no exceptions. For Wright to distinguish between a legal form of sexual harassment and its illegal counterpart is absolutely shameful and intolerable. Wright believes that since the encounter only happened once, it's really no big deal and it justifies a dismissal of the trial. What is she thinking? She is setting a precedent which will permit a superior to sexually proposition his or her employee without fear of any legal recourse from the employee. As long as it happens only one time, it's okay by the law. Furthermore, whether Jones kept her job or sought psychiatric counsel after the event does not qualify as reasonable grounds to throw Wi the ?ii ~ VJT Sening the Carolina Comr The Gamecock is the student newspaper of The University t Friday during the fall and spring semesters and five times during thi periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock am those of the edito The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the pul is the newspaper 's parent organization. ins uamecucK Adam Snydar Editor in Chief Rosalind Harmj Amy Shannon Viewpoints Editor Sara Ladanhelm Kurt Johnson A . Car a Pellatt Hews Editors Carrie McCulloi Jennifer Stanley Features Editor Kristin Freestat Achlm Hunt Nathan Brown Bryan Johnston Sports Editors Sean Rayfonj Susan Meyers Photo Editor jorj 0 Hara Brian Rlsh Online Editor ?rjn Ree(j Chris Dixon Copy Desk Chief Connie Karickhi Student Media JuHe Baker Sherry F. Holmt Susan Barrett Alicia Dickson Carolyn OrifHn Judson Drennan Creative Services Jim Green Ellen Parsons Director of Student Media Mlchele Dames j Advertising yanager Co(/(n< I 1 mecotk nmunity since 1908 LBOARD Editor in Chief Viewpoints Editor int Viewpoints Editor 1 J in must students In fact, it is of UiiHHI great surprise that xx)tlian Mr. Harpootlian hers would not speak to , j* this paper on a matter that is explicitly ? requests 0f interest to the CarWtion. olina Community. Mr. Harpootlian must reLiakJHI member that he has ials must not only one Job but two in this state?atJuaents. , ,, j ? torney and head of the South Carolina Democratic Party. In attempting to rebuild the Democratic Party, Mr. Harpootlian should not be alienating a large cross-section of society such as the Carolina student body. But we hope that Mr. Har pootlian, as well as other members of this community, will be more helpful in the future in assisting The Gamecock to report the news more accurately and more fully. This newspaper and, more importantly, the students of this university, deserve some respect. And we expect that community leaders give us that respect, especially a leader such as Mr. Harpootlian who relies partially'on the votes of students for his job. >r Jones decision ori55jF | out this case. These two factors have noth's reasons ing to do with the unYIQ out derlying question . . whether Clinton comagains mitted the crime of absolutely sexual harassment. OUS. The essence of this case centers around the validity of Jones' should s,exual hArasTent ? j claim, not her job per ^ lormance or 11 she was allowed to continue working. "This is not one of those exceptional cases in which a single incident of sexual harassment" was "severe or physically threatening," Wright wrote in her 39-page conclusion. Wright is out of her mind. Does sexual harassment have to be "severe or physically threatening" to be acknowledged and punishable under the law? Does a person have to physically and mentally suffer before his or her employer can be stopped? The implications are horrible and disgusting. Wright's finding is a sad statement of her view of the relationship between a boss with his or her employee. Wright's decision also seriously compromises what the sexual harassment laws were meant to do. Wright should be relieved of her duties as a U.S. District Judge. Her ruling must be appealed and overturned. 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M *VV ture on the perennially volatile topic 1 to a largely appreciative audience i Thursday, April 2 in the Russell House i Ballroom. Dr. Berg's lecture swelled to the j climaxing conjecture that the story | ^pnfltnr rlpfpnrfc ! functions of SG To the Editor: ( Aldous Huxley once said, Tacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." It seems that most people lately speaking of Student Government | activities have never heard this quote. 4 There are quite a few realities of Student Government either misunderstood or ignored all together. Please ( allow me, as a second term Senator, to * explain a few things. 1 I know Student Government has < very little power. The administration i gives a sandbox for elected officials i to play in. One cannot expect earth- 1 shattering legislation to come from stu- \ uuest ^oiummst | ] I am going to discuss 1997's most j important book, The Fourth Turning," by William Strauss and Neil Howe?especially since it offers a potential frame of reference for future 1 columns. Strauss and Howe are known for previous writings on Generation X. 1 According to The Fourth Turning," ^ U.S. history has gone through a progression of cycles, each cycle having four stages called turnings. A cycle lasts roughly the length of a long human life span. Turnings last from 15 to 20 years (sometimes less). Divisions are generational, and depend on the differences in how generations grow up. Some were overprotected. Others were left to flounder. Transitions from one turning to the next are sometimes gradual and other times marked by nasty jolts. The first turning in any cycle is a High; the second, an Awakening; the ( third, an Unraveling; and the fourth, 1 a. Crisis. Highs are characterized by strong institutions and public optimism; they are also periods of confor- ] mity. Awakenings bring about ideal- 1 ism, deep searching and passionate j probing of institutions and values, but r they retain optimism. Unravelings see ' weakened institutions, do-your-own- ( Professo I amy McCORMICK I ( Guest Columnist The notion that God's only son ^ came to this planet to offer his ' life as a sacrifice for the sins of 1 the world, and that God could not for- i give us without that having happened, 1 and that we are saved by believing this < story is simply incredible. Taken metaphorically, this story can be very s powerful. But taken literally, it is a pro- 1 found obstacle to accepting the Chris- ( tian message. { from "Meeting Jesus Again for j the First Time" by Dr. Marcus J. Borg , As sweet as azaleas come newly in 1 springtime has been Dr. Marcus J. 1 Berg's revisionaiy commentary on the ' death and resurrection of Jesus to many contemporary Christians. Dr. Borg, * Hundere Distinguished Professor of s Religion and Culture at Oregon State i I Tnivoraifv rtalivorprl a mmnpl liner Ipt. f OINT5 rock f r ? < v* *1 lot resuscitation; nevertheless, the nainline Christian understanding of "esurrection has included resuscita;ion. In an effort to illuminate the constraints incurred by such an understanding, Dr. Borg highlighted the difference between the two terms.He iefined resurrection as an "assump;ion of a different kind of existence" ind resuscitation as a "resumption of i previous existence." A resuscitation of Jesus would unify the resumption of the bodily form ;hat characterized him prior to his The Gamect 11 ill] a student .Hand \ elude the H held for any circu lents. That's not our job, either. Our ob is to effect the quality of life of the student body for the better. The administration doesn't really :are if you cannot find a parking spot it 9 a.m., really need to use the library ifter midnight, or if you could really jo for a chicken sandwich after ECON 224. We do have student activism. Granted, guys are not storming the lean's office and girls are not burning iheir bras, but it's activism nonetheess. I'm not entirely certain what one jxpects when one cries out for more ictivism, but if one desires better eximples of what SG has done besides iringing Chic-Fil-A here, one d|?es not rave to look very far. esuiiue! thing individualism and national drift as the old order decays. Optimism is replaced by pessimism or superficial giddiness. Crises are periods of upheaval when new institutions and values replace the old. The country is transformed in ways no one could have predicted. A new High begins. History does conform to this thesis to a startling degree. The period from World War n up to the Kennedy assassination was a High. When JFK was shot, it changed the country's mood in a way that was fundamental and irreversible. We sought various forms af enlightenment during the 1960s, and passionately resisted the undealared war in Vietnam. The Reagan pears seemed about to recapture the aid conformity, but that train was ierailed on a skyrocketing national lebt and the coming of the Culture Wars. Our present Unraveling has ieepened during the Clinton years, inrl wp arp wpII nn rmr wav tn t.hp npvt. Crisis which according to Strauss and Howe will begin not long after 2000. If we compare this decade to the 1920s, the similarities are surprising. During the 1920s there was massive ;echnological change which often put seople out of work, just like today, rhere was the mindless music of the 'jazz age"?today we have the Spice Dirls. Nihilistic philosophies and litr argues )f the bodily resurrection of Christ is me of a number of resurrection stories that constitute a developing Christian tradition. As such, belief in the bodily resurrection pales to a shade of irrelevance as participation in an experiential relationship with God brightens the foreground of a mature Christian jxistence. A defense of such claims, as with my New Testament scholarship, clearly involves a careful study of the )riginal Greek text. The Greek word mastasis has traditionally been transnfpri hv ephnlnra na rpanrrpptinn nnrl ^ ~Fo Kt^vou 1 -sasmp1? s PAIR.OP wSSbS... ry 2vefc think about r-j a future, iw the wa? ^rr ?fl co 2? tlocf f 3 jl "The point is, we've been also, the cycles of histor we ought to dig our way and start preparing for erary movements abounded. This pe- < riod spawned Fitzgerald's "The Great ] Gatsby" and Hemingway's "The Sun i Also Rises." Today we have postmod- ? ernist literary theory. Last but not ( least, the economists behaved like cow- \ boys at a rodeo. Sound familiar? , That Unraveling ended with the i Crash of 1929, which the federal goverament mismanaged into the Great j Depression ? certainly a Crisis by any- j one's standard. One of the outgrowths of this Crisis was the Social Security ^ system, unheard of before. An earlier Unraveling during the ( 1850s saw fights between Northerners and Southerners on the floors of Congress. It ended when the Civil War J broke out, another Crisis which A changed the country. I If we view the 1990s as part of an 1 Unraveling, we have at our disposal a \ possible explanation of Bill Clinton's dalliance with a woman not much old- 1 on resu] death, but Dr. Bor^s forceful reasoning asserts that a resurrection does not require a resuscitation. Had the authors of the New Testament wished to stress the literal physical revivification of Christ's body, they could have done so with more certain language. Moreover, Dr. Borg points to the i New Testament writings as evidence < of the developing tradition of which i the story of the resurrection of Jesus i is a developing part. The resurrection ?. story of earliest record, composed circa 51 C.E., is found in I Corinthians, chapter 15. The letter attributed to Paul delineates the resurrection story as a series of visionary experiences? Christ \yas "seen" by Cephas, by the Eleven and by more than five hundred individuals at one time. Importantly, "Paul" concludes the list with an account of his own legendary resurrection that occurred on the road to Damascus. Few Christians would dispute that Paul experienced a vision of Christ and did not encounter his physical form. By association, the literal nature of the other accounts in the list can clearly be called into question. xk will trv to orint all letters received. Letters should be 250-300 words vhtten letters must be personally delivered by the author to The Gameci s telephone number. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit all letter fc mstance. Senator Mike Moore has worked < diligently over the last year to estab- j lish a Safe Ride Program that should . be in place next fall. A new project , spearheaded by Vice President Chris ^ Dorsel will donate excess food to homeless shelters around Columbia. Let's 1 not forget that for the first time, you will get Martin Luther King Day off to celebrate as you wish, thanks to for- i mer President Jamel Franklin. So, 1 we're increasing awareness, helping . others, and honoring our historic lead- j ers. That's activism. By far, our most important function is setting the budget for organizations. Who keeps any one group from | grabbing too much of the pie? We do. How did you find out that onl)f$3.50 of your activity fee actually goes to stu ESSEBH 1 "The first half was a non-eventful offensive performance." otball Coach Brad Scott Monday, April 6, 1998 ? liege press EXCHANGE uture % i this way before. But y are moving. Maybe r out of complacency the coming Crisis." jr than his daughter and perjuring ^ limself about it and also the collective fawn of a public now accustomed to J_1 * 1_ *_J l J * l _i i. jcanuai in nign places ana cynical aooui )ur fearless leaders. We are torn between conflicting impulses: of feminism, at its best the product of an \wakening mentality, and indiffermce to matters of principle which is ypical of an Unraveling. Thus our amlivalence and confusion. Surely, the ? nan did something wrong, and stupid jo boot. But who cares? Isn't the econjmy booming? The point is, we've been this way lefore. But also, the cycles of history ire moving. Maybe we ought to dig our vay out of our complacency and start ireparing for the coming Crisis, some;hing "The Fourth Turning" maintains ve can do if we begin now. If we do nothing, the "millennium jug" will be the least of our worries. rrection Moreover, the gospel accounts of ;he resurrection grow increasingly nore detailed as time passes between die death of Christ and the authorship ^ jf the narrative. Mark, the earliest ^P gospel, composed approximately in 65 3.E., notes the empty tomb but does lot detail any appearance stories, lohn, authored nearly 50 years later, mentions the empty tomb as well as ippearance stories in Galilee and Jerusalem. Dr. Borg noted the increasing physcal detail of the New Testament accounts as representative of a basic human tendency, "we metaphorize our ^ listory and then we literalize our ^P metaphors." With language heady for ts simple honesty, Dr. Borg clarified lis statement, "The disciples experienced something powerful when Jesus J A a. ii was aiuuiiu. ruber ne uicu, uie caj^rience continued and they called it Jems." To have recorded the experience iising the metaphorical terms of a resurrection is a testimony to its power, 10 perceive the resurrection merely in ?rms of a literal resuscitation is a tes;imony to our weakness. and must include full name, professionaTiitle or year and major if xk newsroom in Russell House room 333. E-mail letters must inir style, possible libel or space limitations. Names will not be withlent organizations? We told you. SG is responsible for the ban on political and religious groups getting funding. Granted, a voucher system would be fairer, but our hands our tied on the matter. 4} I believe if our armchair critics derated as much energy to activism themselves as to complaints of our ineptitude, things might get done a lot easier and faster. I know there will always be detractors to SG s power and usefullness, and to them I can only quote Thomas Jefferson: "The Government is best which governs least." W ? Jamie Jeffords Political Science, Junior