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Jennifer Stanley, Editor in Chief
Sara Ladenheim, Managing Editor
Rob Gioielli, Viewpoints Editor
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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.
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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
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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
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all I want to
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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
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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
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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.
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offenses. If we know s<
something bad or stupj
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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.
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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.
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lauled off for lesser
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id, we should be
I think we should be hauled off for
lesser offenses. If we know someone is
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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.
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