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EDITORS
Sara Ladenhein
Rob Gioielli, V
Kevin Langston, Assii
Emily Streyer, Assist
Jennifer Stanley, Spec
USC shoul
24-hr. dini
Collie students ?^
have many un- HBHHLki
orthodox habits. AnaU-ni^
Going to bed at un- facility th
usual hours is one
of them, and eatmg ^
late at night is an
other. Whatever ac- ,
tivities USC stu- Theresa a
dents participate in % Ul
until the early Marriot
hours of the morn- provide t).
ing are shadowed,
however, by the lack of an on-cam
pus 24-hour food venue.
USC students express an interest
in this on a daily basis. Ask
any of the local takeout services
to name their busiest hours during
exam time, weekends or special
events, and undoubtedly those
hours fall beyond the traditional
9 p.m. closing of the Grand Marketplace
and midnight closing of
Chick-Fil-A.
Many other universities that
the USC administration often compares
us with have 24-hour food
places with availability for their
students to pay with their university
meal plans or cash cards.
UNC-Chapel Hill, Emory University
and the University of VirWeather
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auimi
The Great Bliz- r?????
zard of 1999 has
come and gone. And Wediiesc
although it wasn't
with us long, it
showed yet another BTfTT-J'?
weakness at this
university. Weadm
While many
schools in the area studeni
closed and others, delayin
like Midlands Tech i
and Benedict College,
delayed classes, USC chose
to hold classes. We applaud the
administration for not canceling
all classes, but we also question
its dedication to off-campus stu
dents by not delaying the earlymorning
classes.
USC spokesman Russ McKinney
said getting to class should
be easy for about 9,000 students
? the 6,000 who live on campus
and the 3,000 off-campus students
who can walk to school easily. Considering
about 26,000 students attend
USC, that leaves more than
50 percent of them who might
have trouble getting to class.
By 7 a.m. Wednesday, there
were about 30 accidents in the Columbia
area. By Wednesday
evening, there were 250 throughout
the upstate and Columbia, and
one was fatal.
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at can be Students with such
meal plans. ?PPortumty.
Many schools alH
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ply t0VcampuPs
niverstty or eateries. If a 24
t should hour venue is not
ieservice. what use has in
1 mind, another solution
is to invite off-campus eateries
that have a lot of their business
based on USC students to
allow those students to use their
cash cards to order food in the
aforementioned after-hours.
By limiting the hours of oncampus
establishments to before
the midnight hour, USC is
losing out on an opportunity to
make money and keep students
safe inside their dorm rooms.
Satisfied students perform better
in the classroom. Having a 24hour
eating establishment at USC
is something our student body
wants. Looking at the quality of
the other universities that offer
24-hour services to their students
proves this point.
efuddks
[iistration
USC placed
WmgKm. commuting stub's
freak dents in danger by
wfau torcing them to
drive on the interstate
to school.
We imagine many
mistration students were late
isiderate to to class because of
ts by not traffic, icy roads
o classes. and accidents.
When commuters
did get to
USC, they found the Shuttlecock
to be delayed until at least
two hours after the first students
arrived on campus. It's ironic that
USC deemed the roads too dangerous,
or maybe just too much of
a liability, to run the shuttle, yet
saw no problem with putting commuting
students on the roads.
We hope the administration
will encourage professors to give
students who were late to class
the benefit of the doubt by letting
them make up exams or not be
counted absent or tardy.
And, although we appreciate
the administration remaining ra
o
tional while the rest of Columbia
went into crisis mode, we hope
next time it will consider the danger
of putting students on the
roads with the rest of snow-crazed
Columbia.
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The mockery that politics has become
is no more evident than in
the rumors that Hillarv Clinton
(or Hillary
known after
EMILY STREYER Hthis
columnist possibility is
merely a rumor,
it has managed to sustain itself in
the press for an impressive amount of
time. Few rumors with no real substantiation
manage this feat. And sometimes,
when a rumor is repeated enough,
it becomes true. (Remember how many
couples were created in high school as
a result of gossipy whispers and nosy
glances? Sometimes cause and effect
are interchangeable.)
I was surprised, in fact, to learn of
her running for a New York seat.
"What?" I thought. "She doesn't live
there!" Our Congress comprises men
Stereotyp
A couple of weeks ago, I was watching
an MTV program that examined
the murder of Matthew
Shepard.
? Occasionally,
the voice
of our gen^eration
airs
programs
that examine
social isfect
young
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' .. ' that's what
ROB GIOIELLI was done
columnist here
The program
covered the facts of the Shepard
killing and its aftermath. A discussion
on homosexuality, prejudice, hate crimes
and hate-crime legislation followed. To
explore these issues, MTV brought together
groups of students from four different
universities, one of which was
the College of Charleston.
From C of C, it focused on two members
of the group: a black ex-Marine
who was openly gay and a white
male, who can best be classified as a
Editorial board
fails on Univ. 101
To the Editor:
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A^asxweeKs uur upmion regaraing
the University 101 program was
atrocious. As a former student in one
of the classes ? and as a Peer Leader
last semester?I can attest to the sound
theory and practices behind this innovative
program.
The grade I earned in University
101 was not an easy A. As part of the
course, I performed serious research,
helped out with an ambitious service
project and wrote numerous reflective
papers on the myriad topics our class
discussed. The class I helped teach was
similarly rigorous; indeed, my frequent
point
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Clinton' nc
and women who are supposed to rep- ~
resent the concerns of the states that
elected them. Hillary Clinton would be
using the state as a means to a title. ^
That's not the way it's supposed to work.
There's no legal barrier to her *
running, of course; she maintains a residence
in Manhattan and apparently
spends the requisite amount of time per w
year (if there is one) in the state. And, e
as voters go, the fact that she doesn't v
know anything about what New York- h
ers need from Congress today will serve n
as no barrier ? charisma, brand loyalty
and sound bite have long been the a
primary criteria for the election of politi- I
cians on all levels. Statesmen no longer d
exist. si
I have not seated myself at my com- t(
puter for the purpose of Hillary-bash- h
ing. That arena is quite full. I respect ei
her achievements, such as they are. She oi
came from an era where women hav- w
ing ambitions was a new idea, and she n
was one of many trailblazers for today's women,
who now graduate from college ti
to find at least as many choices els men. Wnmpn
mv acp nwp a lnt tn wnmpn ff
Hillary's age. I don't consider her the ic
heroine of Modern Woman, however, u
She rode to power on her husband's li
coattails. There's a point to be made, of si
course, for breadwinning and a strong s<
es come ir
traditional conservative. The black guy
explained what it was like tp be black oi
and gay in South Carolina, and the con- tl
servative male expressed his disap- ti
proval of homosexuality on moral
grounds. P*
In addition to the depiction of the ^
classic stereotypes of the conservative
Southern white and liberal black, what
struck me most about this part of the a1
program was the camera work during C(
the interview. The white male was wear- tl
ing a denim shirt with a Confederate ty
flag embroidered on the breast pocket.
While he was talking, the camera ai
zoomed in on this small Confederate ci
flae.
I doubt he asked them to focus in *5
on it. It was quite obvious MTV was f1
trying to make a not-so-subtle point: Je
"Hey, America, look at this homopho- ^
bic, prejudiced Southerner. He's so backward,
he still wears the Confederate ,
flag!"
This is the image many Americans 0I
outside the South hold about the white hi
Southerners: They're backward and big- al
oted, speak with a country twang, m
and spout religious moralism. tl
I Letters to the editor or guest columns are wel
columns should he an opinion piece of about
if a student. Handwritten submissions must be
number for confirmation. The Gamecock rest
required for guest columnist and can be provii
concern was that we were being too it
hard on our students. U
In the course, many topics are ad- to
dressed that students simply don't have tii
the chance to discuss in other courses, pi
We spent more than one class last se- pi
mester heatedly debating the case of th
David Cash. Students held forth on is- fii
sues ranging from drug legalization ti<
to the Confederate flag above the State- m
house. And numerous speakers helped in
us start conversations on sexuality, the be
appreciation of diversity and the value ioi
of community service. ia
According to The Gamecock, the pro- ar
gram "looks good in theory," but "in
practice... leaves much to be desired." se
If the editorial board had bothered to fe
research the program it chose to bash, m
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Our Congress comprise
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roman behind every successful man, t
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UUbOl^Uillg Ul UUllt UXJUU^UC x.
rhom one's husband had the power
j fire is not making it on one's own. It's v
ot even playing fair. t
The most intriguing Shakespeare- v
n character for me is Lady Macbeth, c
can't condone her actions, but I can't d
ismiss her, either. On the one hand, I t
ee a woman who protects those close
) her at all costs, who has no uncer- t,
linty about her code of ethics (howev- s
r unique), who justifies herself to no
ne. On the other hand, I see someone I
rhose goals are so focused that it little e
latters what is destroyed in her efforts d
- and she's not a stand-by-your-man t
q>e of woman. A woman like Hillary P
- educated feminist, accomplished pro- a
;ssional, self-reliant individual, opin- I
mated spokeswoman ? doesn't put n
p with a man like Bill ? pathological e
ar, incorrigible adulterer, poll-worlipper
? without quite a few good rea- n
rns, and only the most naive of Clin- t]
i all shap<
I don't consider myself conservative b
religious, so I didn't agree with what p
lis man was saying. But what I no- a
ced more than his religious proselyzing
and homophobia was how a sup- ft
isedly informed and professional media p
itlet like MTV was engaged in cul- t<
iral stereotyping. v
In just 30 seconds, MTV had formed u
definite link between the Confeder- p
te flag and this person's outwardly
mservative views. Was it trying to do t<
lis, or was it simply playing on wide- A
held stereotypes of the South? T
I'd have to agree with the latter; o
riything else would give MTV more si
edit than it deserves.
This just goes to show that stereo- a
ping occurs in all arenas of popular a
llture and that all groups can be sub- fi
ct to it. We tend to think of histori- o
dly oppressed groups, such as African s]
mericans, women and homosexuals,
> the only ones that are subject to these ci
inds of gross generalizations. S
Even though these groups are the fi
les that stereotyping does the most ii
arm to, it's ironic that, in a program tl
tempting to educate people about ho- h
losexuality and hate crimes, some- s<
ling meant to help break down the S]
Iconic from all members of the Carolina commur
600-700 words. Both must include name, phone i
personally delivered to Russell House room 333
rves the right to edit for libel, style and space.
Jed by the submitter.Call 777-7726 for more infon
would learn that students who take p
niversity 101 are much more likely p
graduate in four years. Other sta- fe
sties testifying to the success of this 7
ogram abound. Perhaps the most im- fc
essive fact about the program here is n
lat it serves as a worldwide model for it
rst-year student education. The Namal
Resource Center for the Fresh- ai
an Year Experience and Students g
Transition is one of the university's t]
tst-known programs. It was obnox- tl
as to run such a boneheaded editor- is
1 on the first day of the center's 18th tc
inual national conference. ci
The Gamecock has managed to run H
veral pathetic pieces that disparage
minists this year. Student Governent
began an iMmirable service
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often said that the test of
2 leadership is how one
ponds under adversity."
im Hubbard, Chairman of
the Board of Trustees
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on supporters would imagine that the
nain one could be love or duty.
I began to have more respect for her
vhen she quit trying to please every>ody.
As much as I never thought I
rould say it, I think she can help this
ountry. Her formidable intellect and
[rive can do great things for this counry,
if they are well-directed.
Senate is not the place for her to do
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uern, However, u is not so mucn mat
he isn't qualified to hold a Senate seat
- she's no worse than others who do,
suppose ? but our legislative and excutive
branches are at a point of breakown.
Respect for our battered Constiution
is the only thing that lends the
residency and Congress credibility,
nd new blood is desperately needed,
f it were up to me (and it's lucky for
aost, probably, that it isn't), I'd fire
veryone and start over.
We heed a break from the Clinton
ame in politics. Our country needs
ime to heal.
is, sizes
arriers of oppression tries to accomlish
its goal by constructing more negtive
stereotypes.
As a member of the media, it's hard
>r me to openly condemn MTV for this
ortrayal. Its program had great inrntions,
just like a lot of stuff on tele
lsion. cut the limitations ot the medial
make it hard to accurately
ortray all groups and opinions.
Television programs have to fit a
3pic into an hour or half-hour show,
md they have to make it interesting,
hese are the same limitations placed
n us in the print media, except we are
hort on space rather than time.
But it's still our responsibility to be
s truthful as possible in the portrayls
we make. To me, MTV was not
llfilling this duty when it focused in
n the Confederate flag on that guy's
tiirt.
And not only the media need to be
Dnscious of stereotyping ? we all do.
tereotyping happens every day to difirent
types of groups. Only by realizig
when generalizations occur, and
len fighting against them, can we ever
ope of becoming an open and honest
ociety where all are treated with repect.
lity. Letters should be 250-300 words. Guest
number, professional title or year and major,
E-mail submissions must include telephone
Names will never be withheld. Photos are
mation.
rogram, Second Serving, and our paer
had only complaints. And in my
ivorite example of editorial arrogance,
'he State newspaper was taken to task
ir?brace yourself, here's a major jouralistic
offense ? using large type in
s major headlines.
To this illustrious list, we can now
dd a salvo against the highly prestiious,
nationally recognized Universi(101
program. I shudder in sympaly
for the next victim. If Pepperdine
still interested in hiring sadistic docir's
of spin, it should dispatch a reniter
to the third floor of the Russell
ouse.
Jenny Malizia
Political Science Senior