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You can write us letters at: "This is one piece of the GCKVIEWS ?SC.EDU \ / educational program that is of It works. We promise. % /_________ __ , tremendous value to you. It will Remember to include your \I |L|\V/ljf ll [\ I I CJ change your life if you let it." V ic W r wllN 1 o "* "s&sttszr" tChe(5amecock Serving the Carolina Community since 1908 EDITORIAL BOARD Jennifer Stanley, Editor in Chief Sara Ladenheim, Managing Editor Rob Gioielli, Viewpoints Editor Kurt Johnson, Assistant Viewpoints Editor Kathleen McCormick, Editorial Writer Scandal finds its way into history We've been read- signed before it all ing American his- HHUmUSHHHI happened, tory all our lives. History is occurring This is only the The different wars, right before our eyes. third time in slavery, the Great American history Depression, presi- that the thought of dential assassina- HKtiiJiMajftMMyHi impeachment has tions -they've all ne public needs to pay been taken serfbeen tattooed into * w r / ously. And this our minds. attention to the events. time ft>s President But rarely does Clinton's name L there come a time making the books. when we live history; when we Clinton's possible reasons for know that this moment in time being impeached are "high crimes will go down forever, and that and misdemeanors." Essentially, years from now people will be Congress is trying to decide if the learning the names and events president abused his power and that occurred today. if there was a breach in his duties Well, history is now. as president. During the past few months, These charges, of course, go the public has been blitzkrieged way beyond the affair with Monwith the presidential scandal. And ica Lewinsky. They include posduring the whole process, talks of sible cover-ups and enforced lying impeachment have boiled hotter on the part of the president, and hotter. We, as a nation, are posing seWell, as of press time on Tues- rious questions about what we day, the vote to begin impeach- consider the 'private' lives of our ment proceedings (that is, the vote public officials, to vote on impeachment) is sched- These proceedings are of great uled for Thursday by the full historical significance. We, as a House. public, need to pay close attention As you may recall from your to what is going on. history textbook, no president has Even though we may be tired ever been removed from office, and of hearing the sensationalism and ^ only one president, Andrew John- lurid details of the scandal, it's im- ( son (1865-1868), has ever gone portant we play an active part in * through impeachment proceed- these proceedings, because what 1 ings. He escaped impeachment by we do today affects the future. i a single vote. What we do today will remain, One other, President Richard as a guide, a reference, to those in * Nixon (1968-1975), was told that the future who look to the past for ] if impeachment proceedings start- inspiration, ed, he would be impeached. He reTTST's fiinrlino mav distract from learning At first, it with their probsounds like good lems. news. USC has re- USC's personal success Students come ceived $92 million may be interfering with to this university 1 in research funding teaching ability. to learn. Larger * this year, putting classes with distant r us closer to the professors are not goals President The university needs to as conducive to Palms has set for ivorry more about the learning as are making us a top- miaHtvofeducation its smaller classes notch research uni- ? J 1 eaucanon tts with professors versity. We are cur- students are getting. who are available. rently designated a ? When professors "Research II" aren't being presschool, while most members of the sured to produce constantly, they American Association of Univer- can more easily devote themselves sities (to which we aspire) are "Re- to teaching, search I." We may be looking at a situaBut there is something rot- tion where a degree we get from ten here. While we like the idea USC gets us more respect because ( of improving USC's reputation, our university is more prestigious, ( we worry about what is sacrificed, but in reality, that degree means ( Deans are setting goals for pro- less because we haven't been i fessors to publish more and sub- taught well. i mit more proposals. We are hoping the adminis Obviously, this takes time. It tration of this university will ad- 1 takes time that could be spent dress this possibility even as it ] teaching and helping students out pushes towards AAU status. ffe (Die Gamecock eaaaa Sen itlg the Carolina Community since I'JOH The (iamecock is die student newspaper of The I niveisity of Sooth Carolina and is published Monday. Wednesday and I---: u - ?-11 1 .rc irul fivf rimes (lllrinu rhf cnmm?r ?K.. . .nU-.Ttirv IvUirhvS rlivl exrim riliuy UUIIlip UIC lail dlHJ >jfiiii# r? .v. n.ui Uiv \.avv|aiini VI iMU'vi.nty periods. (>]unions expressed in The Gamecock are diose of die editor* (* author and n<t those' of The I diversity of SiHtdi Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communications is die publisher of Hie Gamecock Hit- Department of Student Media is die newspaper's |iarent cxgani/ation. 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Holmes Classified Jeff Stensland Grudtuite Assistant < Jff'ito 777-1888 ?? ' ^ONTHEIW W \mim W ft W FlUG Family rei Woo-ha! It's the fall season, so you know what that means... No, it's not the imperialistic takeover of union time! a family KURT JOHNSON that recolumnist unites once ^ a year (hence the vord "gubernatorial"), have recently mdured the arduous and wrenching idult ritual of the reuniting of relatives ociF nrnAlrnn/^ T miicF ontr T V> otrn aot wccacuu, anu x must aaj, x nave 10 idea how I lived to tell the tale. This is not to say I don't love my iamily, because I don't. It's just that, vhen you're there and you're saying dii" to people who keep saying, "Oh, I lan't believe how big you are! I renember when you were still wetting die bed! Gee, that must have been four ^ears ago now," it gets kind of munlane. Morality & My husband related to me what I lope was a whopper the other day. Lis;ening to NPR, he heard about a study someone did on parking lot courtesy I that tells me all I want to MH mmM know about I the state of EL w# J9 our collective BB?P$ ^n|^l QP5lTf*hPT*Q KIKI McCORMICK sat watching columnist a parking lot and recorded the time it ;ook for cars to back out of their spaces mce their owners got to them. Their lata showed people took longer to pull Jieir cars out if there was someone waiting for the space. What does this say about human oeings? If this report is true, it seems people "have it in" for their fellow man. rhey (notice I didn't say "we" ? I heresy disaffiliate myself from mankind) willfully thwart the efforts of other peoI \ o you ha\ 1 state o I S submit like your wri print it. (not semester). Cal VIORLDl LOW tKUPS. \ ^ . wm w rs njl mi \wt m\MG( inionsnet Well, it was kind of good because I saw a couple of cousins my age whom I have not seen in a long time. I also saw my 90-year-old great-grandfather, who is 90 years old. Bored, along with my cousins, we decided to come up with ways to make this one hellacious shin-dig. These are the essential ingredients we came up with, but you're free to include anything else you may find pertinent to your own reunion: 1) Kegs, 2) family (optional). After 30 minutes of laborious, mindexhausting planning and scheming, plus a lot of chicken and a couple interruptions from grandmom, we decided that the aforementioned ingredients were all we needed at the time to improve our current condition. We cited past experiences in which the "nectar of the pods" and familv were mixed. We came up with this equation, which was verified as accurate by the National Hurricane Center in Miami and the Yale "Tang" Organizing Committee in New Haven: frosty adult beverages plus family minus proper authorities equals a superfluous amount of fun and family bonding. This is now an official theorem or mathematical law or whatever. But yeah, imagine the stories you could tell hould bec< pie, even when it's easier to go about business as usual. While this example is a petty concern, you've got to wonder if this attitude extends into relationships less fleeting. After all, it's easier to be nice when things require little effort; what do we do when it's difficult to give someone a hand.' Sometimes, not much. We've all heard stories of crimes that have taken place while numerous onlookers failed to interfere, even to pick up the telephone and call for help. And recently, we've been appalled at the story of David Cash, who watched his friend molest a 7-year-old girl, who was then killed because Cash didn't bother to intervene. Sure, the Cash case is a little extreme, but his reasoning isn't. He said he didn't feel it was his responsibility to step in and help because it didn't affect him personally; he didn't want to deal with other people's problems. In other words, he just recited modern mores. He showed us what happens when our current "do what's right for re a strong opm: r campus* event? it to our editoi ting {not necess :e: each person : .1 Rob Gioielli < tic T1 | x>\ m *d a little sj "These are the essentia] up with, but you're free else you may find perti reunion: 1) Kegs, 2) far your kids of grand mom taking an 82 second keg stand, or watching your 10year-old cousin call Ralph on the big, white telephone. I remember when I went to Philly one time for my cousin's wedding. At the reception afterwards, there was an open bar. Those two words attract my family faster than a Japanese businessman falling out an 18-story window. Because my family up North, well, thev know how to drink. And bov did we ever (you've got to see the video tapes). My cousin cited another time when he went to a wedding up in Philly, and his family did the same thing. But not my family down here. Maybe it's the conservatism, but there was no alcohol at this last family reunion. So we were subjected to playing badminton and paddle-boating on the lake. >me enforc "I think we should be ] offenses. If we know s< something bad or stupj i required to step in." me" philosophy is tested. He showed us the ftiture. So what can we do to make the psychopathic portion of the population realize and care that they don't live in a vacuum? (By the way, I'm thinking that portion is pretty large, and growing rapidly). Well, it seems we're going to have to ? hold on to your seats ? "legislate morality." (I love it when people say we can't do that, as the evidence is on my side. We do it all the time. It just means we're building a code of conduct for living in our society.) In this particular case, we need laws that institutionalize kindness. You'll remember the last episode of "Seinfeld," where the characters were thrown in jail for "doing nothing" while someone was robbed. Lon about a currei Write up a guest rial board for re^ :arily your opinic is only allowed t1 at 777-7726 for m< >n. le Gamecock.Tak , p , _ I ? or mi view I | ?eo?u \u I | <M mm. I i j^j SOOOOOOO MONt. >icingup L ingredients we came i to include anything nent to your own nily (optional)." Now, I'm not saying that I didn't have a good time, because I didn't, but the fact is it would have been less not fun if I had been able to mumble incoherent phrases to my relatives. Also, with the liquid courage in our veins, we would've been able to make fun of those relatives we really didn't know and just really got 6n our nerves, right in front of them. It wouldn't matter because we wouldn't see them for a year or so and we could plead ignorance. So, the next time you have a family reunion, why not liven it up a little with some golden Kool-Aid, and just have a good ol' time? And make sure to stay away from games like lawn darts and horse shoes, for they might puncture the kegs. :ed law lauled off for lesser )meone is doing id, we should be I think we should be hauled off for lesser offenses. If we know someone is J i.1 1 J __ _x * J aoing someming Daa or siupia, we should be required to step in. We used to have religion to compel us to behave; we need to find a substitution now that higher laws are out of vogue. Anyway, you'll be happy to know there's hope for at least half the population. The same study that showed people dallying when others waited for spaces showed that men tended to move faster if the waiting car was expensive. Apparently, wealth commands respect for men. That kind of thing makes me glad to be a woman; we may be as mean as men, but we're not as shallow. That makes us more redeemable. at national, column and /lew.'If we >n) we might wo columns a ore informae our word. f