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Hey kids, be on the look out for new columnist Ryan Vescio, as well as another thought-provoking editorial. I UtC Sewing the Carolina EDITORI Jennifer Stank Kurt Johnson, Rob Gioelli, Assish Kathleen McCorn KEQZQS2S Post-tenui could use Job security is important to all people. We all like Professors i to know that, some have to how, some way post-tenu that paycheck will keep rolling in to finance our Der sonal needs. However, in qrder to Stricterpu keep our job, we and stuck have to keep doing need to h our jobs and doing them in a productive manner. Tenure for a professor here at the university means just that, they have a job as long as that professor wants one. It also gives the professor some "hand" in the university. It is a rather prestigious thing. Last May, at the General Faculty Meeting, the group implemented post-tenure review for the professors at the university who have received the honor of tenure. This review will be conducted eveiy six months and will determine if a tenured professor needs to improve performance. However, those professors who are not be "up to par," may not suffer any extreme punishments, such as having their tenure revoked. "The process is ultimately divorced from any question of whether or not a professor will have his tenure revoked," Eldon Wedlock, faculty senate chair, said in an article printed Monday in The Gamecock. Here is an interesting point. Even though the professor may not be doing the job expected from a professor with tenure, it does not actually mean that privilege will be taken away from the professor. This is quite strange. If you do not drive a car properly, or "up to par," you are considered a very dangerous threat, and your privilege of driving can easily be taken from you. It is the same for stu dents, if we do not keep up with our studies or do what the professors expect of us, our privilege of coming to university can just as easily be revoked. The idea of tenure is commendable. It is something for a professor to strive for and hope to achieve. Yet, it should be someServing the Carolina Cot The Gamecock is the student newspaper of The Univers Friday during the fall and spring semesters and five times durin periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the i The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the is the newspaper's parent organization. The Gamecock Jennifer Stanley Editor in Chief Hob Undsey Sara Ladenheim Managing Editor Jessica Ban Kurt Johnson Viewpoints Editor Jackie Post Josh Lotion News Editors Todd Money Erin Reed Rosalind Ha Kristin Freestate Features Editor Bryan Johnston Editorial Assistant Rob Gioelll Nathan Brown Sports Editors Brad Walter Nlkkl Thorpe Photo Editors Kenley Your Sean Rayford Ruth Nettle Brian Rtsh Online Editor Denlsha Gra Student Media Ellen Parsons Director of Erik Collins Student Media Jeff Stensla Lee Phlpps Advertising Manager Sherry F. Holmes Classified Ad Manager Carolyn Griffin Business Manager Jim Green Creative Director i ? ' Slttfn' around your dorm roo Bunch reruns? Do somethlr views. Inform your peers. Join Hie Gamecock. Come i p.m. Monday In Russell Hour Make your mama proud. The Gamecock. 1 1 tamccock Community since 1908 AL BOARD :y, Editor in Chief Viewpoints Editor ant Viewpoints Editor lick, Editorial Writer rp fpvipw L ^ JL ^ AV T a review |wj?bh] thing that has to be kept up with. Once vith tenure given tenure, a probavea fessor should not re review ^ien s^ac^ ^ cause he or she knows that nothing rjmr-n^ will be done if they continue to slack off. nishments Tenure is somemt say-so thing that continueadded. a^y needs to be earned. And to be earned, the professor in question has to go through a departmental committee. Their decision has to be approved by the chair of the department. They base their decision on the professor's teaching, scholarship and research, and service. But another rising inquiry comes within this procedure. Only faculty members at or above the rank of the professor who seeks tenure are allowed to make the decision to grant tenure. Shouldn't student voices also be heard in this matter? The same should be true with the post-tenure review process. Students should have some say. "The faculty has always been evaluated by department chairs and deans and administrators," Wedlock said in the same article. "What this does is add an element of peer review into that process." That's great and all, but the addition of student review would make it an all-around, all-voices heard, kind of process. The student voice would add a unique stance and viewpoint in the review process. We are the ones who are learning from the professor. If that professor is too caught up the other aspects of his or her work (the research, writing books or papers, etc.) and neglects their teaching, then it is the students who are suffering. And then we have no say in changing the professors performance. Yes, the post-tenure review is a worthy program to have, but if some simple changes could be made, the program would be a lot stronger and more precise. imccocf! ? mmunity since 190H HMBniHflEBillBliHI jty of South Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and ig the summer with the exception of university holidays and exam iditors or author and not those of The University of South Carolina. ! publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of Student Media All area codes are 803 Copy Editors EdjtQr 777-3914 feW Viewpoints 777-7726 rvey Public Relations News 777-7726 Director Asst.Viewpoints Editor Etc. 777-3913 s Asst. News Editor ,g Sports 777-7182 I Encore Editor _ iham Asst. Features Editor ne 777-2833 Faculty Advisor Student Media nd Graduate Assistant Advertising 777-3888 Classified 777-1184 Fax 777-6482 Office 777-3888 m? Watched too many Brady ig meaningful. Express your o our interest meeting at 7 e 203. Take our word. V Wasting ti Good-bye." I hate it, that soft, friendly, Hal-evoking "good-bye" * from AOL. I heard it just now, as I stepped into the LI McCORMICK WlU, y?u ?: ? count up the hours of your life that have been wasted by computers so you can empathize with me? We can have a remote support group of sorts. I'll give you some starting points to jog your memory. Think of the last time you went to the grocery, and the cashier scratched her head waiting for one of those keymaster people to come do their thing so she can ring up your (by then melted) food. Or, even worse, recall your last trip to Wal-mart, which is never complete without three calls to customer service. Americans This column marks the first of a series which will explore my observations of Americans abroad. Upon leaving the United States for the first time in September of 1996, to study in England for I two semes ters, I also embarked f ^ upon a perWkm sonal mini - crusade to B change the way a hand\ rl^^H fill of people Bhhkl LdIHII viewed EMILY STREYER Americans. columnist My rea soningwas that, through positive interaction with me, people from other countries might think, Emily's a neat person; maybe there are more Americans like her, and thus revise their opinions of Americans in general. It meant being pleasant even when I didn't feel like it, honing my conversational skills, making more of an effort to see things someone else's way, and growing a longer fuse, because I Sorority rush trashes Horseshoe To the editor: It has come to my attention that some of the very same people who advocate school spirit and philanthropy here at USC do not apply these convictions to their own actions on school property. Sunday afternoon I walked onto the Horseshoe and was sickened at the sight of one of this school's most beloved landmarks. Drink containers, half-eaten lunches in Styrofoam containers, and (Other such trash littered the ? kJ L. me too ea My last experience was so ridicu- * lous I still can't believe it happened. I was happily writing my check (time required: twenty seconds) when the cashier jumped in: "Oh! You don't have to do that! I'll print it for you!" I don't know what possessed me, but I handed it over. Fifteen minutes later, I was still standing in line, my check was stuck in some machine, and the other customers were looking at me like I'd shat ' on their shoes. All to avoid twenty ' seconds of writing. Only after the req- 1 uisite three visits from customer ser- ' vice did I escape. Now, recall with me the last time * you called "information" to get a phone number. Did you get the number you needed? Of course not. Then you would- * n't have had to call them back thrice, t paying each time. i Two of the last three times I've used the service, I've gotten the wrong num- t ber. The computer I spoke to gave me numbers for either the wrong people or c the right people at the wrong locale. ^ I've figured out how to get the correct c number out of them, however (just in c case you were hoping to get something r useful out of this column). ? Simply keep mum when it asks ^ for name and city, and a human will need to bru knew any confrontation would not be seen as being between me and another person, but between an American and another person. No matter how personal the circumstances may be, while abroad one always has the additional baggage of representing his or her country. I realized that no matter how a ball is thrown, there's more than one way to catch it and more than one thing to do with it after ifs caught It permanently changed g the way I deal with people. After six months, however, I spent g a day with other American exchange students and was shocked to learn that c they found the British to be cold, in- 0 hospitable, and American-hating. This t view directly opposed my impression of my hosts. I then realized that these stu- c dents had made no effort, after living } in Britain for two trimesters, to inte- t STate themselves into this culture As T a result, their hosts didn't think much v of them either?a reflection on all of us. p While discussing my distress at this i discovery, an English friend finally o broke the truth to me: other Europeans i saw me as exceptional. Emily's a neat a person-if it weren't for the accent you'd a never guess she's American. o J P J I 111 & Hand written m plume number. Tlx Ci brick walkways, the grass and the Max- 1 cy monument. Who is responsible for e this mess? The sorority sisters celebrating the end of rush week. c Don't get me wrong, these girls de- n serve every commendation for their ded- s ication to the various causes they sup- c port throughout the year. In addition, v I think the historic Horseshoe is a great p place to hold one of their end of rush events. What bothers me is that they s could leave it in such a state of elisor- t der. b To top it all off, the newly in- t stalled larger-sized trash cans on the e 'shoe had enough capacity to contain the trash they left scattered eveiywhere. s A? c >OINT? f 1 "Kim no ' _r > / WTO THINK RmoREsew woulpn't even E HIS JKKEI ?FF IN "THIS sy with coj "Will you count up the that have been wasted you can empathize wit] have a remote support eventually answer. Even then, however, they'll switch you back to the auto- us mated system. So demand that they pr stay on the line until you're sure it's the jus right number, and you'll likely get what in] pou're after. wl Okay, are we counting time wast- pli ed as we go along? I'd say so far we've sig *ot a good hour over the course of a a \ nonth of occasional visits to retail es- ty i ablishments, and forty extra min- vei ites waiting for a human voice on the pri )hone. And these are pretty conserva- wa ive estimates. wi] Another time waster is the use of a acl :omputer, by your physician, to record mur symptoms and get suggestions for e-r liagnoses. My doctor has been using paj >ne of these programs for several years ed iow, and every time I go in, he says, sm As soon as I get the hang of this pro- we jram, it's going to save me a lot of time." sh up on he "I noted that American; loud, stupid, obnoxious ly, badly-dressed and o Now, everyone knows you shouldn't udge a nation by one citizen, but, this wa ummer, I had a prime seat for view- ?h ng countless Americans as the world ees us: I worked in a Hard Rock Cafe. wg Immediately, one can draw a telling R onclusion from the fact that hundreds r< if thousands of American tourists come s1 o Paris to eat American food. my Unfortunately, it gets worse. Pre- the ious few asked if the staff spoke Eng- the ish, and less than one a day had othered to leam the question in French geij )aily I dealt with countless customers p0, yho were irritated that we stated our -n rices in francs instead of dollars; who ittered not so much as "hello," "please" ir "thank-vou." (the heieht of rudeness an< q France), but instead, "I want that" ind "Give me that"; and who complained ^s ibout how difficult it was to find someme who spoke good English. ei<! vill iry lo print all Idlers received. Letters should be 250-300 words and must in us< he pcrsunolly delivered by the author to The Gamecock newsroom in Russr amecock reserves the right to edit all letter for style, possible libel or space lim "here is no excuse; it's wrong and it's wa mbarrassing. aw It is important to realize that the of t ommunity uses the Horseshoe just as ers ouch as the students. What impres- ser ion does the trashed appearance of the enter of the historic campus give to All isitors from the community or to sci< irospective students? pre The school has worked too hard and the pent too much money on beautificaion plans for our bicentennial cele- lea iration to have it's own students ruin wh JSC's reputation as one of the prettir state universities in the South. Ka What example does this behavior Inl et for the freshman and the other newomers to the School? Surely we don't is the kind of person that matter what you throw : her, she stays strong." sanne Newman, Student Government Treasurer SW ran, mputers hours of your life by computers so Ix me? We can group of sorts." Perhaps the main time waster for college students is the Internetophile ofessor. When I came into the room st now, I was checking on some print% for a class. I've got this professor 10 has decided to run his class (com2te with all readings, dates for as[nments, and overhead pictures) from veb site. With pages that take twenminutes to load. And of course they're ry colorful, so they take as long to nt. And of course one must sit and it for all of this to take place, or one 1 be kicked off AOL, with that stoml-turning "Good-bye." So long, now, I've got to go check my nail for the sixth time today. As a rting thought, consider the time wastthere. We'd never trot out to our ;i 1 1?wt u m-iiiou uvjaco evei.y iieui-iiuui, wuuiu ? jspitality s in general are ?, and, additionalver-weight." Once, and thankfully only once, I s asked if we took "regular money." e referred to US currency. In fairness I note that as a staff formed unpleasant views of Italians, azilians, and Germans as well, but tate, and more emphatically due to r own sensitivity to the issue, that se nationalities are nowhere resented i way Americans are. I finally came to disassociate myf from those who held the same pass*t as I, and I noted that Americans general are loud, stupid, obnoxs, and, additionally, badly-dressed i over-weight. Americans are not good guests, and shouldn't be that way. Comments welcome at esstreyi>mindspring.com elude hill name, professional title or year and major if a student. ;11 House room 333. E-mail letters must include the author's teleitations Names will riot be withheld for any circumstance. nt these people to think they can get ay with trashing this and other parts his campus. The USC grounds-keep> are not your personal cleaning vice! The problem is not just the Greeks, organizations should be more conmtious of what they're doing to school iperty when they use the campus for sir events. Show pride in your school... or at ist keep it nice for the rest of us o will be here for a few years! ren Cochran ?rnational Studies Senior