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E-MAIL! Make use of your technology fee and e-mail your comments to GCKVIEWS@SC.EDU. Write one, write all! Monday. January 25. 1999 Hit? Serring the Carolina C EDITORIA Sara Ladenheim Rob Gioielli, Vi Kevin Langston, Ass is Emily Streyer, Assisti Jennifer Stanley, Sped Highscl* athletes fi After the suecess of drug testing | HHHHJmI at three upstate Statewide i high schools, all drug testing South Carolina bighxhot athletes might soon ? be tested for mari- HV juana and cocaine, r? ?. ^ , a measure sup- Testing stud ported by coaches fordrugs and parents. Be- everyone in cause the program of W< is inexpensive, funding is a minor issue, but its legality has come under fire. Under the proposed plan, no athrlete will be tested without parental consent forms, which aren't required if the test is random. Coaches point out that by implementing a drug-testing system, the athletes will have a reasonable excuse to stay clean. Furthermore, students aren't forced to play sports. If they choose to do so, they should abide by the school's drug-testing policy. It should be no surprise or issue if their coaches see fit to test them for drugs. If students oppose the Georgia r help in D Sharon Lively was driving drunk HHRJaai with a revoked li- Georgia a censeonthewrong reJliset0 cc side of 1-20 near J Graniteville when she collided with BHpTTTTIT another car, killing the man and two Georgia small children extraditeth aboard. instead of St This should be a routinep) an open-and-shut _ case of DUI, but Lively is the daughter of a Georgia state employee and a legal resident of our neighboring state. It still should be an open-andshut case of DUI, but after she was treated for broken limbs at a Georgia hospital, South Carolina authorities have had difficulty keeping up with her. South Carolina law enforcement officers would like to charge her with three counts of felony drunk driving, but Georgia authorities won't release her to this state. Lively was released from the hospital to a Richmond County (Ga.) jail, where authorities initially wouldn't even admit she was there. She was released on bail and sent to a Georgia psychiatric hospital. South Carolina authorities again weren't notified, although Georgia claims this isn't so. fife Tire (Si Vjf Si'n iiifi the Carolina Com The Gamecock is ihe student newspaper of The I diversity Friday during the (all and spring semesters and live limes during I periods Opinions expressed in Hie Gamecock are those ol ihe edi 11k- Hoard of Student Publications and Gxmnunkaik*ts is the pu iIk- newspapers parent organization. The Gamecock Sara Ladenheim litlilor in Cbk-J Emily Slrcyei Rob Gioielli Vieii/xiinls l-dilor Kevin Langsl Kenley Young Aeus Editor Rachel Helwi Brad Walters A cms Editor Clayton Kale Nathan Brown S/xnls l-dilor Brock Vergak F.rin Reed Eeniun-s l-dilor Charlie Walla Rob Lindscy ledllin-s Editor Katy Evans Sean Rayford I'holo HtlUor Dcncshia Gr: Matt Ryan Onlinehliinr Ashton JuneKristin Freeslate Co/iy IM-sl-Chk-J Ann Marie M Todd Money Cnjn litlilor Jennifer Stan RelK-cca Cronican (,--jn litlilor Student Media Ellen Parsons Din-dor of Sherry F. Ho Sllldi-lll Medio Lee Phipps Aili\-rtisiiij( Manof-er Carolyn Grifl Susan King Cn-ttliee Din-dor Erik Collins Jeff Ste-nslanc , imccock ommunity since 1908 L BOARD , Editor in Chief ewpoints Editor tant Viewpoints Editor int Viewpoints Editor al Projects Coordinator x)ls test m* drugs drug test, they can liSHBHI simply not play for mndatory the school. r among all As athletes, stu)/athletes. dents represent their fellow classmates, teachers, , 'p 1 ^ administrators, ent athletes boosters and com' benefits munity. They a number should try to pre ays. sent tnemseives in ? the best possible manner. If an athlete under the influence of drugs were to have an accident during a game, the high school could be held responsible. Schools protect themselves against liability charges by testing student athletes. A statewide drug-testing program would be a huge advancement for South Carolina. It's refreshing to see a program like this pushed for enactment in South Carolina. By offering counsel ing rather than harsh punishment, I this program can prove to athletes that drug abuse should be looked upon as a solvable problem, not a sin. efases to Ulcase Georgia authorities have demonstrated an arroWerate in ?an^> antagonistic j\j ? ^ disregard for our cast. state's interest in mrnmM this case. They claim they will give should out any needed ink,offender formation if the onewalling state would bother rosecution. t0 send over an officer. The Highway Patrol claims to have done so, to no avail. Who-said-what aside, Georgia since 1 ()0'S yjjUUHilWfilBfiBiHi of South Carolina and is published Monday. Wednesday and he summer w ith tlx* exception of university holidays and exam tors or author and not those of The I'niversity of South Carolina. Wisher of "Hie Gamecock. Tlie Department of Student Media is All area codes are 80.4 Assf I'ieufxtinls on luiiiors Editor 777-49M ig AW Xllly l-Mnn, klM@sc c<Ji< Viewpoints 777-7726 Js AW y .tkruti sQscv,!u icc News 777-7726 Asst. Features hhinrs knewsQsi edit iham i:tc. 777-y) 14 Asst. I'Into lulilors ttiketcQsc.edu iani Spoils 777-7182 ley S/kxmI I'rtijixls ,iiiks/><>ns<($sc.C(Jn (.oorrfiiHiU# Online 4 777-284.4 Advertising 777-4888 lines Classified Classified 777-1181 Manager rin business Manager l ax 777-6482 /amity Advisor , , , ? , , Office 777-4888 J (,radnale Assistant X law enforcement officers have been anything but cooperative in this case. Is Lively being unfairly sheltered because she's the daughter of a Georgia state employee? We wonder why Georgia seems to think that South Carolina can effectively build a case in a situation where authorities can't keep track of the offender. Georgia should rescind the bond and extradite her to this state, where she can be detained until her trial. Everything needed for a prosecution is here: witnesses, victims' family members, the responding officers and paramedics. Justice suffers when au4-U rr?/-.rrr. V,!o ^ v. liiui intra gcugi cipm^ paitiality ahead of established legal protocol. Track ifflfflai View The Gc ^ U.&.C. I SuUMKtR * J Southern T"'m surp a rmrnher nf npnnlp likp mp 1 coming to Columbia for whatever reason can use my advice for wise time man?11 agement of their stay in * *0 advice is: wP:^i months of GUERMAN ABAEV to New York columnist and D.C. left -ZZZTZZZZZIZIIIIIZJ me with a painful realization: I don't belong here. First of all, I don't believe in God. And this is a very wrong thing to say in the Bible Belt. I'm sure tomorrow my editors will be swimming in the letters of anger and desperation as well as those from people who will either call me a servant of Satan or pray for me to "see the light." Please don't pray for me. Some people back in Russia tried to make me believe in Communism. Trust me, they tried really hard. They made Feminist gi My first brush with feminism was in my freshman year, while sitting in my cluttered dorm room. Surrounded k ^ ^ ^ hood.' JENNIFER STANLEY ?T?m _nt columnist getting married until I'm at least 30," one said. "A guy's never going to tell me what to do. I'll wear the pants in our relationship," another said. On the television, Oprah's guest was urging women to reclaim their individuality from their captor, the man. All the while I sat back, clinging to my idea of the perfect family, the one that rarely exists anymore. Dad goes tn wnrk Mnm talrps flip IriHs tn snpppr practice, piano lessons and slumber parties. Although this life of a housewife wasn't the life I envisioned, I still didn't consider myself a feminist. Senator defends closed meeting To the Editor: In the article "Gamecock staff ranks top stories of 1998," which appeared in the Jan. 11 issue oiThe Gamecock, you listed as the No. 3 story the matter of the Judiciary Committee voting twice on the matter of whether impeachment charges should be considered against both Blakely Hallman and Susanne Newman. However, in my opinion, you are not completely or accurately representing the matter. The article seems to give the impression that because The Gamecock point imecock -7 LECTURE V I me join the Young Communist League and everything. They never made me believe in Communism, but they made me feel a disgust I will carry for the rest of my life. And believe it or not, Americans from Pastor Moon's Unification 1 Church came to Russia and tried to make me find their God. Guess what? It didn't work! I ran away from their maximum-security ^ "seminar" at a secluded resort. No one ^ can make me believe in anything! I tried 1 to believe in something apart from me, and it didn't work. If your faith helps \ you, I'm really happy for you. Faith 1 made people of this country great. How- ' ever, it wasn't always necessarily faith * in God, which many South Carolinians ' find difficult to live with. Go ahead, you t can call me Satan's servant, but I don't * believe in that, either. I just believe in myself. c Another thing I find very disturb- 1 ing is the fakeness of many people. I've * never met as many phonies in my life 1 anywhere as I have in South Carolina. * They go out of their way to be nice to you when they really don't like you. \ They smile at you like crazy, ask for 1 your phone number, promise to call and * never do. I'm nearly used to it. Damn, ^ I don't need that kind of bogus friend- * oals ignore 1 If I became a declared feminist, I * would have to conform to the stereotype. As a feminist, I would have to elope with a banker at city hall sever- al years after my 30th birthday. I could have children, but the nanny would take my 5-year-old daughter to Mommy and Me. And if I were a successfulfeminist, my husband would become a house-husband, and I would wear the pants in our home. I would be the queen of the castle. I would laugh at women who were homeroom mothers and school-dance chaperones. But if feminism stopped where Webster's Dictionary defined it, I would be happy to join the feminist coalition. I wholeheartedly agree with fair employment, fair compensation and social equality for women. But the connotation has extended past these goals. It has now become an "easy" job for a woman to remain in her home with her family. When a woman leaves her job to spend more time with her children during their school years, she is weak. The definition of a true feminist should be a woman who is free and equal and happy. If a woman feels trapped in her marriage, she should have the means to free herself and become happy. Similarly, if a woman feels unhappy missing her child's first step or H Submissions tor colt length. | 1 i! 777-7726. L " A ^ r * The Gamecock will ^1 student I landwrilten letl J her. Ihe Gamecock rest was not there to observe the first meet- i ing, the voting therein was illegal. 1 Quite frankly, the Judiciary Com- 1 mittee has voted on many matters, and i the lack of any Gamecock staff mem- < ber being present does not invalidate i those votes. Furthermore, at the time i of the first vote on this matter, the 1 Judiciary Committee was not aware of 1 all the vagaries of the Freedom of In- c formation Act and believed we acted in good faith. ? I have been previously quoted as \ saying this was a "formal/informal meet- I ing." For the benefit of the student body, i let me place this quote in the proper i context, which has been neglected in i the past. This meeting was a "formal" r s it not fo "I've never met; life anywhere as Carolina." iiness. Fd rather people be hones ;heir feelings toward me if the jive a damn. That would be less ] Frequently, women of Soul Dlina are torn between being an can and being Southern. Many o ike other American women, i sessed with the idea, heavily rei 3y the U.S. media, that all men ontial rapists who will take any jo tarnish women's reputations On the other hand, they'] :razed about getting successful] "ied ASAP, as a good Southe should do. This wonderful comb: nakes many of them neurotic ai need. They were taught this w I tried really_hardto assimila s supposed to be'much more th :ing the books and cramming foi : tried to make friends, pretenc Delieve there's no better place liappine; ;cIf feminism sto Dictionary defin to join the femii crVirtnl nlnv cV>p cVinulr} Vinvp mr that quitting her job is an honor tion. Career moms are also faced difficult decision and a contro debate. Experts are advising th( how to rid America of youth vi saying parents need to impro\ relationships with their childr when women stay home with cl they're viewed as stupid, incapa less than human. So either choic seem wrong. Feminists need to realize 1 home 'moms are capable of be executive bankers or stockbro doctors. However, these moth the beauty in parenthood. A ma stay home with his children w] wife worked, but then the mar be the lucky one. The woman miss the first step and first los At-home moms, the ones w hannv doine that, pain more th would as a highly paid profes linns are welcome from all mcmlx-rs of the ( ilumnisLs can only Ix- printed twice a semcst o print all Idlers Ldlers should Ix- 250-50" words an lers must Ix- personally delivered by the author to tlx rves tlx- right to edit all letter for style libel or space meeting of the Judiciary Comm :hat it was our regular meetinj week, during which we conduc less. This was not a special n convened just for the matter c( ng tiallman and JNewman. tic it was also an "informal" mee :hat it was an informal setting ermine whether or not impea( iharges were even warranted. There was substantial cc imong Student Governmen vhether the actions of Hallim Newman even met the standa mpeachment, and the Judiciar nittee decided the best way to nine this was to talk to both ol fhis was not, at any time, an act QUOTE, UNQUOTE "I would call them [the homeless] less of a problem and more of just a presence." Ernie Ellis, director of Law Enforcement and Safety Page 3 _ 3 c I <3 is a < Z I 1 unrl in r VJJLXV* 111 as many phonies in my ; I have in South t about world than the Palmetto State, comy don't municate with words I don't mean. I painftd. deceived myself by trying to be more ;h Car- like everybody here than my real self. Amer- That didn't work! I'm still not acceptifthem, ed, and I'm sure now that I'll never are ob- be. I want to be myself again, and I don't aforced care about acceptance here anymore, are po- I can almost hear people shouting, chance "Get out of our state!" Well, I was told that after showing my Russian pass re also port to a boozed security guard at [y mar- Pavlov's. Sometimes I wish I could. But rn girl I'm staying here for the school because ination I like the University of South Carolina id two- and I know it will help me to make 'ay. my dreams come true one day? itehere And I'm fllsTrsT.aying trTTfe a reten hit- isolated world of fnany^SSuth Car finals, olinians, where tolerance isrjust a word I that I in a dictionary, is not going to stay this in the way forever. >s of women pped where Wehsfer's ed it, I would be happy list coalition." able ac- non-feminist. I love my aeon "to-be ca reer, but I a Is o -under st an d the iniversial that's more importantthairSBEy careei ; nation I could choose. iolence Should I decide to stay at home, ] re their will do so with confidence that I am noi en. But a failure, but successful at making my lildren self happy. And if I go to work, T will dc ble and s0 wiil1 the confidence that I'm doing e would what's best for myself aQ&Siy peace of mind. e r s1s ee a man'or a child or career foi ? ,, that matter, but I will share tfiy lift with them instead. 1 would Women should realize they don'i ,, have to be greater or better than mer ' ^ ?Uf, to be equal. They just need to be hap 00 ' py. Whether they're happy staying a' 0 are home, in a career of.both, that's ex an they ac^ly how it shouldhe. >sional. ? ? -iLir . Carolina Community. They must be IxdwOcTi 'ariij " WMjbJs in L-r. Please deliver all submissions lo Russell House rtxjni* 555~6r call id nitLsl include full name. phone number professional title or year and nraiur if a : Russell House room 333 E-mail letters must indude the author s telephone nun> Names w ill never be withheld. ittee in peachment hearing, and the Judicial of the ry Committee was concerned both with :t busi- getting to the bottom of the matter and leeting protecting the respective privacy of Hallmcern man and Newman. It was my opinion iwever, at the time, and still is, that there ting in was no room for turning this matter inI to de- to simple sensationalism. At the time :hment of that first meeting, I agreed with man) of those present that it would be in the mcern best interests of all present if it were t as to a meeting closed to the press. The rulin and ing of Attorney General Peter Siachos rds for has not changed this view, y Comdeter Patrick Gearman f them. Student Senator ual im- College of Math and Science