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We say hello to you! Also, we say for you to e-mail us your complaints, praise, or desire for Rob G. at GCKVIEWS@SC.EDU. hm Serving tbe Carolina EDITORL Jennifer Stanle Sara Ladenheim Rob Gioielli, 1 Kurt Johnson, Assii Kathleen McCorn SGneedsi its worth I It's been an in- njejjjj*77 teresting semester for Student Gov- SG fails ernment and The job doi Gamecock. Various internal issues and inci- _____ dents have created H what we would consider a "healthy" re- & lationship between try toe the media .and gov- consensu ernment. We're the ? watchdogs, so they don't like us that much. Last week was no different, as SG Treasurer Susanne Newman and Cabinet Community Service Chair Blakely Hallman were subpoenaed before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a fact-finding session. Sen. Jonathan Sharpe and Judiciary Committee Chairman Julie Atkinson denied a Gamecock reporter access to the meeting, despite the fact that this is illegal. They claimed that SG codes and the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act permitted them to deny the media entry to this meeting. They primarily cited the Freedom of Information Act, which states that meetings can be closed if they deal with hiring, firing and compensation of employees. Although Newman is compensat ed with a stipend, both Hallman and Newman are not employees of the university. They are appointed and elected government officials.. The act also permits closed meetings if the student status of any individual is being debated. But the committee was not discussing anything to do with Hallman's or Newman's student status, only their positions in Student Government. Although the act permits closing a meeting that involves investigations of criminal allegations, this would also not apply because the committee was not investigating the allegations with the intentions of issuing dis upuiuiiy aiuuiis. The Gamecock made numerous objections to SG's refusal to allow our reporter in the meeting. They were all subsequently denied and were not even noted in the minutes of the meeting. Our job at The Gamecock is to inform the Carolina community about what's happening. Of course, one of the main organizations we cover is SG. Students have every right to know what their elected officials are doing. That was our intention from the beginning of this whole incident. We have been covering the matter involving Hallman and Newman since the beginning and have a duty to follow up on that coverage. It seems SG is not as interested in keeping students informed. Hit? Serving the Carolina C The Gamecock is the student newspaper of The Unive Friday during the fall and spring semesters and five times duri periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the The Board of Student Publications and Communications is tht the newspaper's parent organization. The Gamecock Jennifer Stanley Editor in Chief Jackie Po! Sara Ladenhelm Managing Editor Todd Mor Rob Glolelll Viewpoints Editor Rosalind 1 Erin Reed /Verts Eilitor Kristin Freestate Features Editor Kurt John Bryan Johnston Editorial Assistant Brad Walt Nathan Brown Sjxtrls Eilitor Kenley Y< Nikki Thorpe Ebola Editors Ruth Nettl Sean Rayford Deneshia Matt Ryan Online Editor Kelly Ma| Rob Llndscy Copy Fdilnrs Kathleen Jessica Barfleld Kevin Lai Student Media EUen Parsons Director of Erik Colli Student Metlia Jeff Stens Lee Phipps Athertisiug Manager Susan Bai Sherry Holmes ClassifierI Manager Kathy Va Carolyn Griffin business Manager Daniel Br Susan King Cream e Director Julie Baki \ iamccock Community since 1908 \L BOARD y, Editor in Chief l, Managing Editor Viewpoints Editor ;tant Viewpoints Editor lick, Editorial Writer to evaluate to USC nrr-MHM| And from what we saw last Monto get the day, it seems like %e due to they were, actively problems. trying to keep 77* Gamecock, and TTmr^T^^B fhiic afiirJonto nut m V1AUU UVUUV/lXVUj UUI/ of important prockering and ceedings. ometoa The constant is on issues. complaint we get from members of SG is that we are out to get them, that we have a vendetta. This could not be any further from the truth. |H It's just that when they refuse us access to meetings the press has a right to attend, we have a duty to assert those rights. That's Thail. what the media does in a democ- I ^rst 1 racy. -I-spre< It wouldn't be so serious if this i u were just an isolated incident where a few people made some mistakes interpreting the law. But it follows a string of episodes involving SG, where the only time there is controversy or anything M newsworthy, it involves some kind of internal problem. jSm* The only bills Senate passes of any significance are ones re- Hl. lated to internal matters. And even GUER with those, they can never actu- coium ally agree to anything. Certain student body presi- away, dents and their cabinets have been Exa able to get some good programs come th passed, but the mockery of rep- edly? Ai resentative democracy that is Sen- This is ate seems to hold them back. orientec Now, we are not ones to com- a v151011 plain without solutions, so here the e are our ideas for SG. First, they could forget about internal debates and unite on 1S aTgP0( I ha"1 some issues. If they quit all the ^ jgt fighting and agreed on something, j bnJWS( maybe they could actually get es j got something done. complet Now, numerous past and pre- 0f one 0j sent members of SG have said this is close to impossible. No matter how hard they try, it's too tough ^ for a student organization to af- ^^"1 feet change on this campus. ^ ^ If this is really the case, then SG as we know it should be dis^ banded. If the only real purpose of Student Senate is to bicker | among themselves, then get rid -c T" 7" of them all. VV Second, change the office of the yV president to director of student worked services or official student advo- wards \ cate. They could continue the pos- ment. itive programs Kim Dickerson and My other presidents have imple- alive a mented in the past. process Student activity fees would be nobody distributed by an elected com- it fadei mittee of two representatives from blurrec each college, because that's all aligned Student Senate does anyway. as *wa This would give USC the stu- mornini dent government it deserves-one no terr that recognizes its limited pow- wu ers and has no bloated sense of , ,1 self-importance. S?ve1' tint) uii one woi amcrack isatai tsr. iPfPif*OTV|ifP ground (immunity since ,908 iUWiiiliiij eVentU rsity of South Carolina and is published Monday, Wednesday and Hpnlv T ng the summer witli the exception of university holidays and exam QcIUy, I editors or author and nix those of Tile University of Soixh Carolina. tfUsh. : publisher of The Gamecock. 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Well, there's no doubt now man Samer Han that we're mostly for entertainn reaching the some useful informat "best time of cool positions I dug ( ' the year;" It's no Surprise V it's irre- ternships are unpai( v e r s i b 1 e. number of applicanl Fm However, ternships are offeree W ife nm^aWu ciial hut. micrhtv nnnul a good idea Show" in New York, not to hold allowed to work in i Bj your breath, tion departments. I rrrj?r^^ even though terns can also "serve nigt ( Christmas doesn't sound like bi ? ] is just four way, the show recef weeks plications a year and 18 people. And rem ms are in only a week. How compensation. iey always arrive so unexpect- ?The Late Show id I mean completely off-guard! terman," clearly one so tough. However, for career- on the air> aiso 1 and ambitious students with temahi'na Thia Npw \ , exams aren't all to think about makes only 15 of 75 nd of the semester approaches. t0 be a rt of it any deadlines are set at the end Eyen ^ h jtl0 and the beginning of 1999, now to j ^ 1 time to look for an internship, ve done a lot of research already ^ ^rgt uic ten yuu, it is ucvci cnuut<ii. rr ^ i. j .I r ? * u i.- 4. knocking on heav 3d the Internet, but in most cas- . , T , v confusing and verv verv in- mternmS at Places h *information. Then I got hold rthe many books on internships, offer these?). You can editonal, art, mark* immer job sh the people who I the nary. You know, the' 1 picks the cigarette b Then all acquaintances had shoe, the somebodies ' their high-power internships 0f the trash on the 1 and co-ops this summer, I ?j0 Well, they're real 1 for seemingly less-noble re- families dignity vith the USC grounds depart- names . , , , , . As my callouses t job was to keep campus plants c. : A , T i j 4. a. i ii ir- softened. And I real nd not to kill myself in the , , , ,, , . The heat was so unbearable, ter much the si talked about it, and gradually erwise'ttus d in importance as the days From the Marriott d 1 into one another. The labor housing department I into routine, and I whistled House, there are peo ilked to work at seven in the day after day and v g. I sang because I had no tests, the students are con n-papers, no academic duty their needs met. at my shoulders. Don't get so jadi en I traded my bookbag for a dents, as to think tl I received a new perspective of assistant or that bi iversity. After four years here, care about your exis aid think I knew this campus, 0f them have be< r places were given to me almost ty longer than we h IS if I had the magic code. The most these folks s became my handiwork and well.being-an ally my responsibility. Snd- slderin that was the one who picked up your r i , ? j .. >4. 4. t 4. merprofessorslooke And it wasnt just me. I met ? , , , , as I worked to keep ler frets over ?st they affected? Not Hi 's hungry people have hurt the child sick and the old. U1 :he edltor: vember 1997) that al ve remam poised to strike Iraq, ^ the age icial to see the real cruelty and cally malnourished. :e here. At least 1.4 milli : issue is not Saddam Hussein; as a result of food a i unilateral economic sanctions, ages (Reuters 8-10 d since 1990 by the United Na- Iraqis die, 150 of wh [ainst the Iraqi people, the tough- toddlers. That is thi >-y^\ ternship; than "The Intern"However, lent value, but has tiOUS Stlldc ion. Here are some >ut of it... all to think most showbiz in1 and have a huge tCf appfOail i;s. Interesting in I at the controverlar "Howard Stern lations departments. There, interns are positions in product lews and produc- tion and castinS- Nei n production, in- ^ compensation. H as gofers" which n 01"55 ^at ^ next final one for "Baywat. ? oon ably your last chanc ves about 300 ap- . I l * i , i , it quits. Flayboy offer only accepts about M ; I . f , mugs, which you can ember, there s no & _ ' away unprogressive .,, t"\ . j x ?. you get a job at onei WriuaV1.re. tune 500 companies, i of the best of its intemships witl i offers unpaid m- Company can be pa. .ork-centered show beer lover At CoorS) 0 apphcants hap- g0 as high as $580 { for no pay at all. there vary from chen ns range from re- lations. The bad news ;t all interns there 20 to 40 interns out ill of pencil- throw- are accepted. Man, th* really love beer. Mi en's door can mean another big name in Ice Playboy or the also offers very attr m you believe they opportunities. And th t work at Playboy s honest about what ki 3ting or public reiows dirtie mght were imagi"not0 "As my call who will take care softened, A itussell House Palives. Friends with how much r. People with last # this univer hickened, my pride lized that no mat- , , , _i- I a.:.fc.l i j j. J.l- i au luiiineiii ueauuiui. J ;udents think oth- , , ,, . . c ,i ery when that happ< ty is run for them. smile at the next , to the Presidents event05ayheytott pie who come here rcgistcr That can t '?rk to make sure perficial, not to ment lfortable and have yoked from a sense * That's not how you ad, my fellow stu- be considerate.' lis administrative someone dumping oreaucrat doesn't tering in your front >tence. The major- ty wouldn't want som m at the universi- junior huffing impai ave, and trust me, ligible detail. Oh, am ally do care about a Ph.D. ever offered amazing fact, con- cause of your humbi if my peers and for- One day this sum d right through me of planting new flo\ our campus envi- It was solitary wort The Gamecock will try to print all letters. Let! year and major If a student Hand written letters n elude the author's telephone number. The Gameci i times. Who have military strike help: ossein. Rather they 10,000 civilians (a "r ren. the weak, the _ The Washington' ^ICEF states (No- further devastating most a million chil- This means more u of five arc chroni- morediscase. on Iraqis have died ^ can we ^ nd medicine short- President Clinton a 98). Every day 250 not use our tax dolla ich are infants and We can tell our sei e issue. How will a sentatives that we o "I recommended to President Palms that we seek new leadership for our football program." r ? Mike McGee, USC Athletic Director * ... I Ml v * X K" ATLfiSsri K I ' coMMiTTEP^OIf J I (jtSHciSMB.... < a job in itself for career-oriented and ambints with a vision, exams aren't ; about as the end of the semesches." "Baywatch" offers ternships are all about, plainly stating ion, post-produc- that all applicants must be at least 21 ther of them offer years old. So if you're lucky to get an owever, there are internship at Miller, next fall, I'd be season e ^ to say: "I know what you did last :h, so this is prob- / - J e before they call summer! S tree l -SIlirtS ana opuita luvcia tall ciijuj uicu aunr use later to scare mers working for a big name, like foot; colleagues once ball's Dallas Cowboys. Positions range of the boring For- from public relations and marketing to the ticket office. Even though there's oors rewing nQ serjous pay there, the positions are adise found for a .... r ' ^ ; , rompomatinr, can NWy competitive. Only 16 people get i week. Positions selected out of 450. The question is listry to public re- whether the interns really do get to talk > is that only about to stars like Troy Aikman or Leon Lett, of 900 applicants The NBA also offers internships, but ose 20 people must you guessed it: there are just way too ller Brewing Co., applicants, the beer industry, T , , active internship ^ my rase' y0UIe gomg40 ie company is very attend 8011001 or dream of si*11^ yQur nd of fun those in- summer watching TV, get active to get your dream summer internship now. r side of USC Louses thickened, my pride nd I realized that no matter the students think otherwise, sity is run for them." t felt like machin- up a song to keep me company. But then ened. I thought I heard someone calling my not to make you name. I looked up to see my old high roundskeeper, or school friend Mr. Resume leaning out ie lady at the cash 0f the air-conditioned window. "Hey >e blisteringly su- Allen," he laughed, "what are you doion rude when proif forced duty. No. oh great We came from thc treat rea peop e. same piace with the same opportuniyou wouldn t want ,. * & * ? , , , ,., ties, and after four years m college, he an ashtray or lit- . , x & ' yard You certain- was mtenung at the president s office, ieone 20 years your while 1 sweP4 dirt outside'1 Paused' tiently over a neg- ^ a Solden understanding broke my i has anyone with discomfort. Though I had not been a you inferiority be- college superstar, and I didn't have the le education? internship that raised eyebrows and mer, I had the task respect, I was learning that people are vers at Osbourne. people, not roles, and that to live in :, so I was making peace is priceless. .as should be 2)0-300 words and must Include full name, phone number, professional title or tust be personally delivered by the author to the Russell House room 333. E-mail letters must Inxk reserves the right to edit all letter for style, libel or space. Names will never be withheld. ' By killing at least of mass destruction" used so cruelly for noderate estimate eight years ? the sanctions. Post, Nov. 16) and cannot let these deaths and sufthe infrastructure. inclean water and ferhig continue. (More information athttpVAeb.net/IAC/.) o? We can call on ind his advisers to ? . _ , T ' BnanCarnes rs on bombing Iraq. nators and repre- Department of Mathematics ppose the "weapon