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Farewell dear friends. Viewpoints wishes you happy holidays and we promise to make you even madder next semester. Hit 0J Serving the Carolina Cam EDITORIAL Jennifer Stanley, Sara Ladenheim, A Rob Gioielli, Vie\ Kurt Johnson, Assista) Kathleen McCormlcl Hohzreturi after week ( Santa Claus is Mnjni coming, but no one is preoccupied with The new coa worrying about be- fighting Ga mg naugniy ngni JOOtbaU t now - Lou Holtz is ^ coming to town. The rumors . ntf.. have been flying s great i faster than our hauelxmHoh willingness to for- the SpeClll got about that Scott guy, but now they're null and void, n It's official: Holtz is a Gamecock, n When the rumors that Holtz ti was coming to Carolina first start- v ed, many people thought it was b simply wishful thinking. t Yet, the rumors kept circu- h lating and teased us with the thought of a legendary coach like G Holtz coming to a legendarily b mediocre team like the Game- o cocks. The newspapers and news- I casts offered us the "what ife" and ti supplied us with Holtz's uninfor- U mative and obsure quotes on the ri matter. ti The mere thought of Holtz in garnet and black gave Gamecock tl fans a chill down the spine. But fc . iL 1 i 1. .1 as tne rumors Kept spreading, ti pretty soon, Gamecock fens would b This semes us ups and As students 11 flock to Five Points to celebrate the end semi of classes, they are in reuie probably not look- HBTTfrYTrTT ing back on the semester with fond- Too often the ness. overshao USC's attempt the posit to retain black fee ulty members moved up on the priority list af- ai ter professor Aretha Pigford re- to signed her position. That incident te proved that racial issues have not or improved during the past semester. w Safety is a concern, as always, th Despite the fact that a car was be burned in Blossom Street Garage, CI new safety measures have yet to to be implemented. Student Gov- ne ernment sponsored a safety walk, Ix but it's up to the administration ry to respond to more concerns. We hate to end on a negative th note, especially since there have pi been some really positive things w< going on this semester, too. foi Carolina Productions has made a comeback by bringing various U! bands and speakers, like Spike Lee, to campus. Homecoming was th a tremendous success. Not only foi did tickets to many of its events ev sell out, but the committee seemed m< ffe Hit? Strung tbt Carolina Commum The Gamecock u the audert newspaper of The Univenriy oI So a Pndsy during the bl and tpring scmeuen and five turn during the aui periods Opvaona opined in The Gamecock arc thoae of the editors of The Board of Student Puhkcadons and Coamunicriiona is the psisiishe the newipspeTs parent organization The Gamecock Juinlfci Stanley Editor in Chief Jackie Poston Sara Ladenhekn Managing Editor Todd Money Rob Gtotdli Viewpoints Editor Rosalind Harvey Erin Reed News Editor KrWn Frees tace Features Editor Kurt Johnson Att Bryan Johnston Editorial Assistant Brad Wahera Nathan Brown Sport s Editor Kenley Young Nikki Thorpe PboloEdilon Ruth Netties Sean Rayford DeneshU Graham Man Ryan Onhnt Editor Kelly Maguire Rob Lindaey Copy Editors Kathleen McCorm Jessica Barfidd Kevin Langston Student Media Ellen Parsons Dirtclor of Erik Collins Student Media Jeff Stenaland C Lee Ptiipps Advertising Manager Susan Barrett Sherry Holmes Classified Manager Kalhy Van Noatrai Carolyn Griffin Business Manager Daniel Brawn Susan King Creative Director Julie Baker _ r mecock munity since 1908 BOARD Editor in Chief Managing Editor wpoints Editor it Viewpoints Editor k, Editorial Writer is to USC rf rumors i not have accpeted any one else but chofour Holtz. Now that mecock we've got him, earn there should be dancing in the QQfll streets. L u ? So, what can we _ expect with Holtz to after all at the helm? Well, J ation. fan participation, even though it has Lever dwindled through the aediocre year, should go through be roof Having a master recruiter irho's a proven winner should help r~ ring the football program out of he mediocrity, and hopefully, ato the spotlight. This could be a new era for ramecock football. Holtz's name rings instant respect for his oaching ability and playing style, t excites fans to fully devoting bemselves to cheering for the jam. It offers a more compelling Bason to leave Tally-Ho and ac- , rally go to the game. L As our stomachs settle from le excitement, we can only look ^ >rward to next season and hope n( le man lives up to his impecca- m le reputation. - w in ter gave ;; downs ; di . P< to get a large Pi amount of support al ^er outside the Caroli- ca W. na community. mjraH Also, other stu- j dent organizations " Tiegatwe are sponsoring ^ lows more activities and bp co-programming 1 these events, which increases relations nong groups. Groups will come gether again before the semesr ends at Sunday's tree-lighting i the Horseshoe. There's still another thing e need to be proud of. Even lough Clemson beat us in footill, we reclaimed the Carolinaiemson Blood Battle trophy. Not mention that it looks like our ;xt head football coach will be >u Holtz. That's another victo- F , seeing that Clemson only got c what's his name? Tommy some- LI ing? With Holtz heading our je ogram, perhaps next fall t\ >n't give us such miserable clips a: r the scrapbook. And, as SG would remind us, P1 3C now has Second Serving. ^ These are many more positive a| ings happening at USC. Unrtunately, sometimes these ^ ents are overshadowed by the m >re negative ones. ia crack bbm : ty since 1906 uth Carolina and ia publidted Monday, Wednesday and ana with the exception of univenity holidays and exam author and not those of The Univenity of South Carolina r of The Gamecock The Department of Student Media is ^ All area codes are 803 Editor 777-3914 M Public Relations gched9sc edu Director V.ewpoints 777-7726 -. tVmvpant, EdUor gckviewt9sc.edu Ant News Editors News 777-7726 gcknews9sc.edu m Encore Edito: Etc. 777-3913 Asst Futures Editor gcketc9sc edu Ant. 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However, since I knew so litt >out Tim Moultrie, I was hesitant ist my vote for what might have bet Space stat By the time you are reading th the Space Shuttle Endeavor * most likely be orbiting the Ear Unlike t' last shutl WmL m i s s i o m which ju liSi seemed prove th old peop can go in space, th one will foe the new i tOB GIOIELU ternation olumnist space static This pr set, which is a joint undertaking b veen Russia, Japan, the United Stat nd several other European countries, is the first ne roject for the U.S. space program sin le first shuttle launch almost 20 yea 50. It will take six years, 34 shutt dssions and at least $40 billion to cor lete the project. It will be the secor uman occupied space station in h ian history. The other was the Rus n Mir. The space station project is comir ider heavy fire here in America. Cri s say not only is it a waste of mone it it really has no purpose. If we a >ing to spend money on space pr r .1 t * ** lotnernooa, college juals a tough time the editor: We are writing in response to a recen umn by Kiki McCormick in Tin mecock. It is not necessarily so easj lave a child while attending college i is lucky to have a mother who waf ling to give up her full-time job t( p take care of her daughter's child ;ryone does not have the luxury ol point: sa.uts.moM, BIMflK,QKSfal?R? ernes, ma of W ffiftKW parties soi i ^ the greatest of three evils for all I or er anyone else knew, ag Besides, the staleness in our politre ical system is perpetuated by people n. who think they're supporting a greater 3 y good by supporting a party even while ng disagreeing with the candidate ? or alor lowing knowledge of a party platform e- to substitute for knowledge of the r- candidate. The efficiency of a democto racy depends on an informed voting iv- public. t. A woman told me during the 1996 r, presidential campaign that she didn't or like Clinton but that she was voting for as him because she wanted Gore in the r e White House in 2000. Her car was covn, ered with bumper stickers which ex!S clusively supported the Democratic Parre ty. e- This is why we have bad apples in ey Washington. And pretty soon they're n- all bad apples. is The strength of a political party should come from the quality of its cann_ didates. One strong candidate can do d" wonders to revive a party. The success N~ of the Reagan-Bush years allowed lesser Republicans to gain power and get ie fat off the achievements of their fellow P" statesmen. A similar phenomenon ocin curred with the conservative Tory Par 1C ty in Britain, and the liberal Labor Parto ty had a dramatic comeback in 1997 as !n a result. Changes of power are essenion gives ch jg grams, they should be ones that will rjjj send a man to Mars or colonize the moon Uj ... something more worthwhile than a h e hunk of metal going around in circles, tig Well, the space station does have n practical uses. It offers us a permanent s t platform to conduct research in space, % t o which greatly expands our capabilities, at since the shuttle limits research to a 1 e period of two weeks at the most. And to if we were ever to send people to Mars i s or colonize the moon, this platform ofus fers us the chance to study the longig term effects of weightlessness on the n- human body. al The fact is that there are simply >n. some things that cannot be simulated o- on Earth. The guidebook for a mis >e- sion to Mars, it it will ever be written, es will include data and experiences from projects like, w It also must be remembered that ce this is an international space station, rs and any interplanetary missions in the le future will have to be international as n" well. Any one country could never go it alone in an undertaking as phenomeu" nal as colonizing the moon, so this will 1S" also give us a lot of experience in multi-nation space programs in a relatively low-risk situation. But the value of the space program y? goes beyond practicalities. It has many re technical benefits?much of the tech?* nology we have today is a direct reTbeGamecoc ZH 3 II I 111 : ye* aid major if i J thide the author's having a supportive network of a loving husband, family and financial resources to provide a stable life for a child at such a young age. It is hardly an effortless job as Mrs. McCormick proclaims. We t could not fathom the thought of being , married young, raising a child and r pursuing a college degree. Flexibility is not an option; sacrifice is the only option , in this case. ) Mrs. MdCormick does not realize how difficult the rest of her life is going to be. f What if her daughter gets sick and she has a test that cannot be made up, her < "I fe coac ^ ha\ - ) ^ rabSn^V i4?r*n rvf U1 pn 'The strength of a pc should come from tf candidates." tial for cleaning out the bad blood. The platform might have been good, but af- p ter a while, most of the people stand- n ing on it are not. j< One explanation for this is that peo- v pie like slow change. The only way to S achieve this is through enough pendu- ^ lum swinging so that the average po- 9 sition is in the middle. It's the expla- ei nation for why we now have c' si left-of-center politicians implementing right-of-center programs. (Europe is do- -1 ing the same thing currently.) Anoth- ^ er explanation is that people need box- , es in which to put people they don't lrnnw Houinrr nnlifinnl norfioo (omr iuivti . Aiu* nig |/uixuvui ^/ui biwo \ui ail J 1 g stereotype) allows people to make sense ^ of new information. Are parties useful? Must we have w them? Today, only the very rich could h get elected to office without political a parties. This is how it was originally ? fc statesmen were not paid, and only g< the most wealthy could afford not to work for a few years while running the S country. st ance for glo "To me, there has ahi thing more to the spz something majestic a suit of the space program?and space is such an invaluable laboratory for all b types of disciplines. To me, there has s always been something more to man's ^ ? .r ai ? e ca^iui auuii ui space, someimng ma- ^ jestic and courageous. ^ Space really is the last frontier and 0 in many ways the only frontier. We a know almost nothing about what is out e; there and probably never will. But we go anyway because of our curiosity to tl explore and a desire to achieve. " Space offers a glimmer of hope that t( an accomplishment can still have an ^ innate goodness, where everything down e here seems to be a constant catch-22. Our problems are so numerous and so complicated that no end seems to be in je sight, yet we can all marvel at a man s] taking one step thousands of miles away, cc Maybe I hold such hope for this *c space station because I want something & in my lifetime to equal the great feats " that occurred during my parents' life- ^ times. i will try to print all letters. Letters should be 2)0-300 words and must t student Hand written letters mist be personally delivered by die autfa telephone number. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit ail letter fb mother or babysitter is unavailable and g e her husband has to work, what will she M< do? if o Her daughter is only 20-months-old rel now. She may sleep a lot now and may hig not be hard to handle, but once she is of gl 2 school age, her waking hours will Mc dramatically increase. This will most job likely interfere with Mrs. McCormick's for pursuits. But she says, "it's not that it. hard." Her daughter may entertain herself now, but sooner or later little Devin won't Tn want to stay inside. Mrs. McCormick, Ro our opinion is promoting and condoning Lei ;el that God wants me to :h, otherwise he wouldn't e put the desire in me." Lou Holtz 7 ? ^ I 00 f >blems >litical party te quality of its One joke among Libertarians is the ossible call to other politically likelinded folk: "Libertarians, unite!" The >ke is that Libertarians are too indiidualistic to merge into a formal, oranized group. This is one reason rhy a potentially useful and possibly uite-needed third party has yet to merge as an effective force in Ameriin politics ? they lack the desire to tereotype themselves and form a parr which would behave like a normal olitical party which people would nderstand. And people need stereorpes to understand new information. We will have political parties lading to corruption and gridlock un1 people realize they have the ability ?understand the world around them ithout the use of stereotypes. We will ave corruption and gridlock in this rnntry until Americans start thinking ir themselves. In the meantime, we Jt the government we deserve. end comments to The Gamecock or es reyenffminaspnng.com >bal unity /ays been someice program, nd courageous." They grew up when someone oriting the Earth was a feat which inpired worshipful awe. Now shuttle lunches are so routine if s just anothr part of the daily news. Everyone from tieir generation remembers where they icic wiieii x^eii mmsLi uiij^ ursi set iuui n the moon, while I can tell you exctly where I was when the Challenger xploded. The space program in the '60s was le product of the Cold War. We origlally set out to put a man on the moon > prove we could do it for the Russians. : helped unify a divided country, as /eiyone could take pride in the achievelents we made and in the couraeousness of our astronauts. I guess I'm hoping this current proict could do for the world what the old oace program did for our country. It mid give us some faith in our ability i work together, to achieve something reat because we cooperated, not beiuse we competed?a glimmer of hope lat all the conflict we are going through )wn here can be solved. include full name. phone number, professional title or or to the Ruuell House room 333- E-mail letters must in r style, libel or space. Names will never be withheld. tting pregnant at a young age. )therhood is a life long commitment ne should choose to accept it It requires inquishment of personal pursuits, a fh degree of selflessness and is not a imorous, 9-to-5, high paying job. itherhood is one of the most rewarding is a female can have, but don't look any shortcuts or easy ways around jllis Frierson, Psychology Senior bin Washington, Journalism Senior die Fulton, Media Arts Senior