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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
Any other alternative is un
acceptaDie.
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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 |
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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"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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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