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E-MAIL! Have an opinion? Type it out and click "send." E-mail us at GCKVIEWS@SC.EDU. Do it today. Monday, February 15, 1999 TThKR wi 'V ^ Serving Ibe Carolina EDITOR11 Sara Ladcnhein Rob Gioielli, V Kevin Langston, Assi Emily Streyer, Ass is Jennifer Stanley, Spec Housing i fix heat p Since the early fall, Housing has HHHLLl tried to stay on top Fluct of the unseasonable temperati heat and the con- problem stant changes in the temperature by H adjusting the heat c , and air according- otuaetus ly because some importar residence halls are worry at incapable of pro- room ten viding both heat and air at once to the rooms. However, with so many students and so many variances of the temperature, the likelihood of pleasing everybody is minute. However, the temperature problem has not been adequately addressed. Some students find the heat on when the daytime highs are in the 80s. In Capstone, some students have resorted to ripping out window guards to get some relief. The oldest residence halls need to be revamped in order to effectively meet the needs of the students living within their walls. The millennium is upon us, and to not have individual heating and Both side give in M Peace in the Middle East is de- HHHUta pendent on com- Oslo dea promise. Israeli ek With the five- ntihro year Oslo Peace Ac- FF cords deadline for JBKTTnjT H Israeli withdrawal _ r , from the West Bank and Gaza de- throughou layed from May 4 East 1YIUS until the May 17 Is- compromi raeli elections, old issues are once again threatening the fragile peace of the region. Many people wonder what the big deal is. They ask why the Palestinians and Israelis can't compromise and get along. The long-standing issue of Israel's failure to bar settlers from encroaching on West Bank territory meant for the new Palestinian state has Dlaerued the Deace process for years. Unfortunately, under the rightwing leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu, peace is second to holding the leader's fragile coalition together within the Knesset, Israel's parliament. Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat, with his constant back-and-forth talk about declaring Palestinian statehood May 4, has also hindered the process. m ?it6; ~ Serving tlx- Carolina Ct The Gamecock is ihe student newspaper of The L'niven Friday during the fall and spring semesters and five times durir periods Opinions expressed in Ihe Gamecock are those of the The Board of Student PuNications and Communications is the lite newspaper's parent organization. The Gamecock Sara Ladenheim lidilor in Chief Emily Stre Rob Gioielli Vieujniinls lirlilor Kevin Lan; Kenley Young A'eus editor Rachel He Brad Walters A'otfS editor Clayton K; Nathan Brown S/xirh editor Brock Ver) Erin Reed Ix-atines editor Charlie W: Rob Llndsey l-eatun-s editor Katy Evan: Sean Rayford I'hoto liilitor Deneshia i Matt Ryan Online editor Ashtonju Kristin Freestate Co/n lied' Chief Ann Marie Todd Money Copy editor Jennifer St Rebecca Cronican Ofry l-jlilor Student Media Ellen Parsons Din-dor of Jason Curi Student Media Kathy Van Lee Phipps Adiertising Manager Sherry Ho Susan King Cn-atitv Director Carolyn G Susan Barrett Cn-aliiv Seri nes Erik Colllr Daniel Brown Creatine Sen ices Jeff Stensl; 1 amccocb Community since 1908 VL BOARD n, Editor in Chief ^ieupoints Editor stant Vieivpoints Editor tnnt Vieinhnints Editor ial Projects Coordinator needs to iroblem air in the rooms of llBH these residence uating halls is ridiculous. ures create Students in dorms. shouldn't need to worry about the mrrrxr^m i Unof m fViAif fAAm 111 A neat in tiicii luuni. , Their main concern have more should be their it things to studies. If Housbout than ing's goal is to pronperature. mote academic suc ? cess, every effort should be made to take the students' minds off their rooms' being uncomfortable havens for studying. One approach to the problem is to have a more effective means of communication, especially in the large residence halls, to address immediate needs of students, such as heating and air conditioning. With the Residence Hall Association pushing for more stu dents to choose on-campus living, it should prove to current, as well as prospective, students that Housing can provide a comfortable setting in which learning can occur. s must iddle East ZZZZj^^jjTl With the death UULilfll of King Hussein, dline and the Middle East xtions are was *n ^he sP?t~ arhino light for something g- other then Israeli Palestinian con. flict. His funeral aaersnrp highlighted the ret the Middle spect people have t support a for someone who se for peace, had moved on from ? his past actions to become a leader in the compromise movement. Hussein fought Israel bitterly during his early days on the throne, but, realizing the interests of Jordan, bp decided Deace was the onlv wav to lead his nation into the 21st century. Palestinian and Israeli leaders have each sought ways to find a peaceable solution on the issue of settlements on the West Bank and in Gaza. The missing link is the lack of a coalition that establishes a firm agreement on whether settlers will be allowed to build on these areas. It's enough already with the back-and-forth accusations and reactions between Arafat and Netanyahu. The Middle East needs to learn a lesson in compromise. 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Sure, the infant archer has served as the subject of poignant portraits, eloquent odes and silver-tongued Presidents I remember learning about President's Day at Mauldin Elementary School in Greenville. My first-grade class would cele~~~ brate the achievements of our nation's most Parking permits not worth much To the Editor: Though I finish my degree this semester, even if I was returning next year, this would be that last time I purchased a permit from Parking Services. This is because I am seldom able to park in any of the student parking lots I paid for if I arrive later than around 9 a.m. (except Fridays, when apparently no one holds classes anymore). revered presidents, and Lincoln, patriotic COREY FORD songs and columnist watching television programs about the two leaders. Certainly, I welcomed the federal holiday because it meant we students had the day off. Unfortunately, the impeachment trial of President Clinton, and his acquittal, will overshadow this year's Presidents Day. While a thankful majority of Americans praises the Senate for closing the Monica ordeal, it is hoped that Republicans will get the message to cease the politics of self-destruction. Vpc ttip nrPciHpnt HiH rnmmit n primp against his family, but the sex scandal did not rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors, even if he was tried for perjury and obstruction of justice. Unlike Reagan, Clinton did not sell arms for hostages. point imecock r?Awxv24 tsoivjt 'Kill HI sn?d D?(5K elds a me; invocations throughout the years. But ' let's face it: Cupid is, after all, an assassin by trade. The winged sniper obviously is a native South Carolinian, for he was taught . to hunt at the tender age of 3. Whose bright idea was it to arm a naked baby cherub with a lethal weapon, anyway? (I'm looking in the National Rifle Association's general direction.) And, worse yet, there's no defense for that half-pint's barrage. He dispenses punishment like it's Pez candy, and no : Ti> i. 1:1 : ~i ... unu ib immune. it b nut iiku uiiiui^uiipuA, you don't get just one bad case of love. Hell, a Cupid wound doesn't even warrant a week out of school. Cupid's brand of guerrilla warfare isn't confined to Valentine's Day, either. The target practice lasts all year round, and it's open season for all mammals. Blitzkreigs and execution-style hits are reserved for February. Once you've been struck by one of Cupid's poisoned projectiles, the venom begins coursing through your veins at an alarming rate. Your face contorts into a goofy grimace, and your inhibitions vanish. As resolve replaces reason, you find yourself making absurd, Day remin Despite defending the president and being a yellow dog Democrat, I struggle to support him. Sure, Bill Clinton is a much better alternative to George Bush or Bob Dole, and Clinton has been the only president to address the concerns of average working Americans since Jimmy Carter. Yet when the president has had the opportunity to lead a meaningful debate on race or devise legislation aimed at preserving our natural environment, he has failed to make a positive difference. Bill Clinton seems concerned only about his legacy in the history books. Certainly, President Clinton's legacy will not surpass those of the two American giants I learned about at Mauldin Elementary. Both Washington and Lincoln endured two of the country's greatest conflicts. One sought to create a nation, and the other sought to save a nation. Although America's reverence of Presidents Washington and Lincoln overlooks the realities of their short comings (Washington owned slaves; Lincoln's true beliefs on slavery are debatable), their leadership did forge the destiny of this nation. Washington formed the presidency into an honorable institution. His evenhanded manner provided the stable environment needed for the new democracy to exist. Washington's leadership presented the one element that unified the country throughout the political turmoil following the Revolution. As psuHmlsMons lor col length. o | 1 J L 777-7726. k A ^ The student. H Ikt. The Gamecock res What irks me is that this morning, as I write, a full third of one of these lots was barricaded off, with warning signs all over the place threatening towing for any student parking there. I wonder what cozy deal the powers that be at the university and the circus people arranged. Neither seems to have any qualms about inconveniencing students who have to park half a mile away, wherever they can, and wonder whether their car will still be there and in one piece when they get back. (This is particularly bad for women students who, if they have late classes, have to QUOTI "It w; Decerr S . ^ v7r^rDii!j J LpLT\Uq m-spiritec "Whose bright idea ws naked baby cherub wi weapon, anyway?" impetuous protestations and pursuing c your own ruin with a member of the op- s posite sex. And it never ends well. History has taught us that much. Romeo and Juliet, Rhett and Scarlett, Sonny and Cher, even Bill and Monica... what's the common thread among all these famous couples? Simple: None of them lasted. Cupid, I think, understands this, and that means that, in addition to being a gun-for-hire with poor aim, he's v a also a sadist. I'll bet he was behind the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, too. And n we're supposed to depend on this twist- ? ed reprobate to steer us into the arms j. of our lovers. Does that make sense to o n aiiyunc; Now that I've presented him in the t proper light, how closely does Cupid re- * g ally resemble that jovial, nude, fatids us of be "Unfortunately, the in President Clinton, and overshadow this year' the only president to be unanimously 1 elected by the Electoral College, Wash- e ington rejected the offer to become king I and shocked the world by yoluntarily ^ abdicating his power after only two f terms.. This precedent lasted volun- r tarily for 140 years. t Furthermore, the leadership of Pres- i ident Lincoln preserved the Union that \ Washington created. Disliked by many s in the North and hated by most in the South, the determined Lincoln ended the bondage of African Americans 1 and sought to unite the nation in- c stead of further dividing it. The sec- i tional wounds would have healed much t more quickly if Lincoln had lived to fin- 1 ish his second term. i Throughout the observances of Pres- i idents Day, the country neglects to } acknowledge perhaps the greatest president in our history. Due to the lead- ( ership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1 the United States leads the Free World c today. Neither Washington nor Lincoln 1 faced the worst economic crisis and in- y ternational conflict in the history of the ( world, which Roosevelt did face. < While many of Roosevelt's programs failed to end the Great Depression, he umns .1 rc welcome Irom all inemlxTs ol ihc Carolina Commi olumnists can only he printed tw ice a semester. Please clelivi to print all letters. Letters sIkrjIcJ he 25tK^*l words and must indude full tiers must Ik- personally delivered by the author to the Russell House nx lives the right to edit all letter for style, lilx-l or space Names will never walk the mile to their cars, some- t times down well past the railroad tracks, ? in the dark.) Please, don't anyone retort that we t should get up earlier or some such. I ( have no classes at the hour of the morn- i ing and hence no reason to get here that ( early ? and I do have obligations re- 1 quiring my personal computer at home, < so I have every reason to be there. Al- 1 so, don't remind me about metered parking. I park in the Coliseum lots on purpose, for the exercise of walking up to campus. I don't mind walking further, but I would occasionally like to be able E, UNQUOTE ! as so hot [in my room] in iber that I had to sit in the bathtub to study." Anne Magaldi, rmer Capstone resident Page 3 -I ! * m * ?? (A 3(0 ? & 111 0 I 3 o o ^ 1 f 1 bow is it to arm a ith a lethal :heeked, well-intentioned 3-year-old leraphim he claims to be? Me, I hate 1 x _ J ?i: i. .1* J nai liuie ueimqueni. ne s empueujuiver after quiver into my liver for the >ast 10 years. I don't know what I did o piss that brat off, but I don't appre:iate being used as Cupid's pincushion, wish someone would give him a taste >f his own medicine. You know, make lim fall for a naked, female cherub. Onv. if I had my wav. she'd be an rchangel, way out of his league. Anyway, I've been hit so many times low that I think I've developed a psyhological dependency for the toxin. Too iad I can't just check in to the Raving tomantics Rehabilitation Center. But tiaybe a little arsenic in your diet every lay keeps the mortician away. If that's he case, I think I just might live forver. tter ones ipeachment trial of I his acquittal, will s Presidents Day." \ nstilled the belief that the federal govirnment can work to help the economy. Uso, out of all the world leaders in Vorld War II, only Roosevelt's vision or the world became reality. Our world epresents the power of democracy, not he vision of empire held by Churchill ind Hirohito or the authoritarianism )romoted by Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. Another statesman would have giv;n the nation a bright future. If Kennedy lad lived, things might be different tolay. Robert Kennedy, not his brother, vould have restored the honor to polices that Watergate shattered. Unlike JFK's time, which discussed serious issues like civil rights and peace, our current politicians bicker about budget surpluses and sex scandal. TT J ?1-1 1 XT 1? ??? upun iiio ueduiueu, i^apuiwii stair id, "They wanted me to be another Washington." As I remember the legacies of these leaders on this Presidents Day, I believe America and even the world could use the leadership of another Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt Dr Robert Kennedy. inily. They must lx- between 630 and 730 words in r all submissions 10 Russell I louse room J5J. or call name, phone number. professional lille or vear and major if a Ml 333- E-mail letters musi include ihe author s telephone numhe withheld n nnrk mv par in nnp nf thp lnts T Vvnicrht i permit for. Perhaps Parking Services should ell us the truth: What they sell stulents every fall are not parking permits, but hunting permits, since they dearly sell far more permits than they lave spaces for. Also, why call it "stulent parking" when what spaces they have aren't really reserved for students? Steven Yates HPRE Graduate Student