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E-MAIL! Remember, we have an email address, so don't hesitate to write us. It's GCKVIEWS@SC.EDU. Write one, write all! Wednesday, February 17, 19 Hie? Serving the Carolina C FnrrnPTA Sara Ladenheim Rob Gioielli, Vi Kevin Langston, Assis Emily Streyer, Assistt Jennifer Stanley, Sped Students undermi The scandals in rTTr this memorable HBHUl year of Student Thursday Government start- Governmen ed last year with Jamel Franklin, the Elections Commission and this newspaper. { . They ended last semester with the to make a i off-campus indis cretions of former Cabinet member Blakely Hallman and Treasurer Susanne Newman. In between, a few initiatives actually got off the ground. But this time of year gives the student body a chance for renewal and hope that in the next year, we can learn from our mistakes while building upon our accomplishments. For the past two weeks, all SG candidates have been working i i i i ; j-U .f?_ iiai u, aiiu we auuiiie wieni IUI their efforts. By taking the risk of running for office, they've shown they actually care about the future of the Carolina community. But the result of their hard work is in your hands tomorrow ? if you decide to show up to vote. Lewinksy never-end The Senate had I ^?. its chance to take II HUhU TMinvfltTA A nf 1 AM I C/VM/tf/l jjumuvc a^nun irsc ovnwtc against the presi- jssue a dent, lb pass a cen- President sure sternly(or playfully it doesn't I matter) saying Clinton has done censur something wrong contradict would directly con- impeachn tradict the votes taken last week on the articles of impeachment. It was not the Senate's job to decide whether Clinton should be removed from office. The House decided that his crimes were worthy of impeachment. The Senate's purpose, at wnich it failed, was to decide not yes or no with respect to removal from office, but guilty or not guilty with respect to the crimes for which the president was tried. They voted not guilty. Through the impeachment and trial process, the Constitution allows for the punishment of presidents who betray their countries in ways great or small. It does not allow for scoldings when or if this method fails. A censure at this stage serves only political purposes. It would TThr fftrii V^gyrjgT X^ilKr \L/UI ~ tS Serving the Carolina Com The Gamecock is the student newspaper of The University Friday during the fall and spring semesters and five times during t periods Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of die edi The Hoard of Student Publications and Communications is the pul the newspaper's patent organization. The Gamecock Sara Ladenhelm lidilor in Chief Emily Streyei Rob Giolelli Vieujxiinls lidilor Kevin Langst Kenley Young Meus lidilor Rachel Helw Brad Walters Meus lidilor Clayton Kale Nathan Brown S/xirls lidilor Brock Vergal Erin Reed I'ealnres lidilor Charlie Walk Rob Llndsey I'ealnres lidilor Katy Evans Sean Rayford Ittnlo lidilor Deneshia Gri Matt Ryan Online hltior Ashtonjune Kristin Freestate Cn/ty Iksh Chief Ann Marie M Todd Money f.o/n hitter Jennifer Stan Rebecca Cronican Cnfiy hitler Student Media Ellen Parsons Director of Jason Curry Student Media Kathy VanNo Lee PhJpps Advertising Manager Sherry Holm' Susan King Creatitv Director Carolyn Grlf Susan Barrett Cn-atiee Serines Erik Collins Daniel Brown Creatine Services Jeff Stenslani 1 99 MMCOCk ommunity since 1908 L BOARD , Editor in Chief ewpoints Editor tant Viewpoints Editor mt Viewpoints Editor al Projects Coordinator ipathy nesSG nvngl In the past few years, around 10 '5 Student percent of our stu<t Elections, dent body has done just that in SGelections. I Considering that all it takes to & y vote is turning up ur chance at the polling staiifference. tion with your ID, that's pretty pathetic. Despite the criticisms that appear on this very page, SG works hard to get things done. But as a group that only represents 10 percent of the overall student population, they have a hard time get ting the administration to listen to them. Only if a significant number of students vote tomorrow will SG ever get enough respect to give us a real voice. The Gamecock refuses to endorse candidates, but we strongly support voting. Last month, 750 of you proved us wrong by honoring Martin Luther King Jr. with an entire day of service. Now, we hope 26,000 of you can do the same Thursday by A _ 1 _J. 1A i_ laKingjusi iu minutes 01 your time to show up and vote. scandal ling mess soothe the conftJtafli sciences of those 's choice to who voted not ure against while k*10 Clinton. ing he did it, and it wouldn t provide even a hollow or ,j paltry satisfaction e would for those whose thepntirp ??4.~? 4. Tr* " ~ vuics vvcic nut lent trial. enough to merit ac tion. Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Tfex., killed Dianne Feinstein's, D-Calif., censure resolution on the floor through procedural means, and Senate Republicans, finding censure a political cover for Democrats, have threatened to do it again if such a resolution resurfaces in the coming weeks. Normally, we regard filibustering as a petty abuse of parliamentary procedure, but if it strikes dead for good this creature that refuses to die, so be it. -No one person is to blame for this mess that has ensconced the country for more than a year. No one person started it, but many people could have ended it. It must end now. It is time. It's over, senators. Let it lie. mecock ragga munity since 190M I of Souih Carolina and is published Monday. Wednesday and he summer wiili the exception of university holidays and exam tors or author and not those of The University o! 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Showering a special woman with gifts is naturally OK Even though this year's Valentine's Day is history, choosing right gifts for a woman is something a man has to do on a continual basis. This can be both financially and creatively challenging. However, this isn't all. In today's po litically correct American society, the new ways women interpret gifts should be considered, too. First, men, be very careful about giving flowers to your sweetheart, as a prominent feminist scholar Andrea Dworkin strongly advises women ? oops, should I have said, "womyn"? ? against receiving flowers. In "Letters from a War Zone," Dworkin says, "The traditional flowers of courtship are the Search foi | mage is eveiytmng. Anare AgasI si said this in a Canon camera Xcommercial a few years ago. Although the statement has no relevance I ?~l to a camera and say and Kevin Langston think con. CQfamni5f tributes to it. It is our animalistic instinct to fall into categories and groups. We strive m lean onto the "rieht" bandwaeon so our images can be preserved under the social eye. Sometimes we can be misled by false prophets and must try to amend our foolishness by quickly jumping from a sinking ship onto a band2 II li J I J I I J w Students critical of SG, elections To the Editor: It's that time of year again when Student Government candidates come to meetings of seemingly every organization we are in. They come in and launch into a three-to five-minute speech about the multitude of glorious reforms they're going to bring to our campus. Whatever. These speeches are hollow, unrealistic and basically self-promot point imecock / ^mKKmmCSssar "Tnn me s Day traditional flowers of the grave, delivered to the victim before the kill. The cadaver is dressed up and made up and laid down and ritually violated and consecrated to an eternity of being used." Scary, huh? Especially if you thought giving flowers to women was cool and classy. Candy? Well, sounds tasty. However, Sue Rosenberg Zalk, Hunter ColIpctp spyiipI Viarassmpnt pvnprt rpminds women that such gifts as boxes of chocolate candy, offered by humans who were accidentally born with elongated genitals, might well be "a vehicle for rendering women submissive, dependent and obliged." I never thought Godiva could communicate such a powerful message that had nothing to do with "I love you." CaTefully chosen and stylish lingerie for your sweetie might also seem to be a perfect sexy gift. Well, maybe not. Jane Rule, author of "The Hot-Eyed Moderate," comes up with an interesting suggestion for men who find lingerie appealing: "If men are turned on by all that awful underwear, then they should have been wearing it all along." So your loved one might not just turn down your glamorous gift, she also might ask you to wear it. I don't know about you, but I'm not a big fan of cross-dressing. A candle lit dinner may be considered a good way for you to demonstrate to your sweetheart your affection. Well, University of Colorado professor Alison Jagger reasons that a man who treats 1* J r muiviuua wagon. Life is a series of bandwagons, and we are constantly making decisions as to which groups we should associate with. More and more, marketing is taking advantage of our awareness of the "correct" image and trying to sell the image to us. If you aren't seen in the right clothes, listening to the right mu? ? 1? -1 ? J? ? ?nnn 'i sic, Willie ui ivuig uic i kxii , yvu ai^ii t given a second look. We want this second look and will strive to get it. An alternative that has grown increasingly popular in recent years is the concept of anti-image. People now like to zag rather than zig. For some, the cool thing is buying clothes that make you look like you have very little money. One particular store in Five Points caters to this frame of thinking. The clothes in the store give an impression that one might have only paid $10 for a pair of previously worn jeans. In reality, however, the items in the store are quite expensive. How ironic is it to pay so much to look like you have so little? I Letters to tlx* editor or guest columns arc columns should he* an opinion piece of major, if a student. Handwritten submissii telephone number for confirmation. The I Photos are required for guest columnist an ing gibberish. They make promises they cannot keep. We have been here for three campaigns, and we haven't seen one notable reform by any candidate at amy level actually implemented past the campaign speech. Oh sure, there have been some additions in certain areas, but not improvements to existing programs. Remember last year's campaign promises of e-mail reforms? It's programs like these that need the most work, not senate resolutions concerning the crossword in The Gamecock. Speaking of which, we commend the paper for it;; several past articles QUOT "Sc thing: weird O < Ry with unus "Who knew that offer dinner could be equal hooker?'1 his date to a candlelight dinner is, more < often than not, offering to exchange an ; economic reward for sexual favors, and ] thus categorizes such dinners as are | you ready? prostitution. Live and learn. < Who knew that offering your darling a dinner could be equal to calling her a . hooker? Well, what to do, my dear fellow hu- 1 man creatures with Y chromosomes? ( How to please a lady without breaking s rules of political correctness? Maybe * humoring a "natural creature" called c "Wild Woman" who lives inside every c daughter of Venus is an answer. This 1 subconscious image was discovered by 1 feminist Wiccan Zsuszanna Emese Bu- I dapest, who also found out, through c painstaking years of self-testing as I p tend to believe, that "Wild Woman" is ? "fond of shopping, because it reminds 'p her of ancient foraging." So grab all your j. plastic and take her shopping! This should be pretty safe unless you take her to Wal-Mart. Whatever you choose to do, man, be sure to treat a woman right, otherwise * something excruciatingly painful can k happen to you when you least expect t *it. "Women's Empowerment in the '90s" 1 self-defense course specialist Paxton 1 Jity bears 1 Whether these nonconformists re- i alize it, they're conforming to somethin cr Th oro io nn in-ihptwppn Tn crn I against the grain is still to take cues from the grain. There never has, nor will there ever be, such a thing as nonconformity. It is a farce. You might be 1 clashing against something, but you're conforming in order to do so. < Individuality is relative. Under the large eye of society, there is no such j thing as an individual. We all borrow from one another, even if it's to go against the ideals of another. It's impossible to believe we can all march to 1 the beat of a different drummer. How 1 many drummers can there be? An anti-image is still an image. Some get their kicks by falling into a mainstream category, while others prefer to criticize that category and go against it in every way. It all comes down to other people's perceptions of us. Many of us are too concerned with what others think rather than what we feel. We sacrifice our personalities so we can easily fit into an welcome from all memlx'rs of the Carolina commi about 600-700 words, both must include name, n ms must be personally delivered to Russell House Gamecock reserves the right to edit for libel, styk d can be provided by the submitter.Call 777-7726 fc on the meager state of Student Gov- i ernment and its lackadaisical ways. 1 Now that we've discussed the sys- f tem, let us now address the candidates. < After last year's stellar display of morals 1 and civic responsibility by SG officials, s we urge students to consider character ] when voting. < Last year's SEC conference is a i shining example of SG "leaders" being unprepared, unprofessional and portraying our Student Government as the group of pseudo-leaders they actually are. In closing, in case you've missed our point and decide to write in and rebut E, UNQUOTE ) we just think of stupid 5 to do, balancing acts and stretches - we nicknamed it 'Ninja Training.'" 'an Harrison, USC men's shot-putter Page 3 % ? c Sip i I 3 ? ' m ffa *E,r I I ual twist ing your darling a I to calling her a ^uigley instructs her students to kick i man in the groin in a proper way. "You lave to get in close," says this men'sp"oins kicking pro, "because it's such a small area." Ouch! Anyway, we should be happy that :here's St. Valentine's Day, in the long nin. Maybe one day there will be Unmmber's Day instead, as suggested by iome gender-fairness activists. This a loliday to be observed July 20 in hon?r of a Portuguese princess, St. Unumber, whose hand was promised by ler father to the king of Sicily. To avoid laving to marry the Sicilian monarch, Jncumber prayed that she could be:ome physically repellent to men. Her irayers were answered, and she grew i beard and mustache overnight. This nfuriated Uncumber's dad, who had ler crucified. So why don t we swap St. Valenine's for a day of a bearded woman? I >et we all are tired of the "puppy love" loliday. Maybe by starting to celebrate >t. Uncumbefs, we'll make a giant step oward the new exciting era of total poitical correctness, when everybody will >e very happy. ittle fruit existing category. Most of us blindly follow the few who are leaders. These "leaders" are the epitomes of the images we're striving for. We take on the personality of the "ideal" person rather than accepting our own. It's easy to tell people to follow their own paths, but there's no such thing. If we all decide to go our own ways, this becomes the popular trend, and the purpose is lost. ^ The only way I can suggest to be completely satisfied, no matter what category you're in, is to take care of your interests first and foremost. This is the most important thing we can do for our images. Be comfortable with who you are, and your image will flourish. People aren't going to like you if you don't like yourself. It isn't a crimp to follow trends, hut. to deny your personality is insane. The best image is one that revolves around your likes and values. mity. Letters should be 250-300 words. Guest hone number, professional title or year and room 333- E-mail submissions must include . and space. Names will never be withheld. >r more information. us, please don't bother. Spend your time working to improve the campus instead. Student Government, while a good con :ept, is currently totally ineffective at [JSC and nothing more than a resume builder, for most candidates. So please, reform the system and elect candidates who really will make a differsnce. Reid Sherard Political science junior Ryan Lindsay Economics junior