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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, March 24, 1999 tk(5anrai(l! , Serving the Carolina Community since 1908 EDITORIAL BOARD Sara Ladenheim, Editor in Ch Rob Gioielli, Viewpoints Editc Kevin Langston, Assistant Viewpoint Emily Streyer, Assistant Viewpoints Jennifer Stanley, Special Projects Coc Legislature's p for money dul We've all probably heard about Congress and Pres- The State Legislature ident Clinton feud- ^plans to Spend 1 n g ?" h? \v t(? money it might not get. spend the federal J ? budget surplus. H But some interest- ... , ^ , , ing things are go- HamnS a totfeO' ing on in our state be great, but the state Legislature as they shouldn t count on plan out South that income yet. Carolina's budget for next year and further into the future. So it is simpl; The Legislature is already the Legislatu planning to use $300 million in source of func video gambling revenue for next a lottery syst year's budget. But it's also mak- worked out, a ing plans for the future uses of lot- have to be up ? ...? u?..? A tciy iiiuiiey. mat id, ii we nave a we nave any e lottery. ey it will brinj Many have seen the election This early e of Gov. Hodges as the mandate for existent lot a lottery. But even though it is al- points to our si most definitely part of South Car- pendence on 1 olina's future, the earliest it would as a solution U start is 2001. education pro Appropriating the money be- All money; fore it actually comes in is how ity to fund pre government works. From Con- It will take th gress all the way down to our own teachers, stud student senate's Finance Com- cerned South mittee, decisions are made on bud- tually improv gets long before the coffers are full. Assembly's plan power from set The state General Assembly has another bright idea. South Carolina No, not the extra General Assembly may funding higher ed- freeze fees and tuition. ucation so desper- J J ately needs, but freezing tuition and .,.x fees & The new responsibility The bill would ^ l?? much of a take the power to hassle for USC and the raise tuition away General Assembly. from state-sup ported colleges' trustees and give it to the Gener- now, if Caro al Assembly. wants more fi The goal of the bill is to light- tition the Boar en the financial burden ? South activity fee ir Carolina has the second-highest passes, the pi tuition rates in the nation ? for na Productions students and their families. viser, would hi If it passes, our Board of entire Genera Trustees won't be able to raise tu- The Generc ition the usual yearly 2 to 3 per- be debating 1; cent, which is used to upgrade mestic violenc* technology, fund student programs paign finance and repair old buildings. tening to the p] One expense USC won't have administrators the ability to cover is faculty rais- College of Ch; es. While many students might public college question the need to pay profes- between. And snrs mnrp it's imnprative to kepn Roard of Trust* professors and have appealing will be tied. Sc salaries to recruit new faculty, government. fffe Wc Gamecock Serving the Carolina Community since 1908 The Gamecock is the student newspaper of The University of South Carolina and is pi Friday during the fall and spring semesters and five limes during the summer with the excepti periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the editors or author and not those The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the publisher ot The Gamecock. T the newspaper's parent organization. The Gamecock Sara Ladenhelm Editor in Chief Emily Streyer Asst. Vieupoinls Rob Gloielll Vieupoinls Editor Kevin Langston Editors Kenley Young News Editor Rachel Helwig Asst. Sous Editors Brad Walters News Editor Clayton Kale Brock Vergakls Sports Editor Michael Strickland Assl Spins Editors Charlie Wallace Sports Editor Jared Kelowit2 Features E-ditor ^ M?ns Editors Rob Undsey Features Editor ' _ . SeanRayford Photo Editor ^"eshia Graham Man Ryan Online Editor Ashtonjune Asst. I%oto Editors Kristin Freestate Copy Desk Chief Ann Marie Mlani Todd Money Copy Editor Jennifer Stanley Special Projects Rebecca Cronican Copy Editor Coordinator Student Media Ellen Parsons Director of Jason Curry Creative Services Student Media Kathy VanNostrandOr a/iiv Services Lee Phlpps Advertising Manager Sherry Holmes Classified Manager Susan King Creative Din-dor Carolyn Griffin liusitiess Manager Susan Barren Cn-alive Sendees Erik Collins Faculty Advisor Daniel Brown Cn-atiiK- Seajces Jeff Stensland Graduate Assistant Viewf The Game I C? ief i r ts Editor Editor )rdinator lans bious This might seem irresponsible, but the money any certain government depends on comes from taxes and other sources of funding already written into law. Get mcotin a lottery in a couple of years, there's no guarantee of it. ? \ arents and adults are concerned muc y irresponsible for L/ about an increase in youth smok- t0 ^ ire to see this as a jng More and more, cigarettes wari ling. The details of are finding tin& nm cfill fr\ Kq I " 1 tl VP OU1 Otlll IIUVV^ IV kJKs tilt:II way ill ind it will actually to the un- isde and running before Jj derwear I lue how much mon- m drawers of veal< ippropriation of non- . youth.The forr ;tery funds also P58fi| government pers , . j . . , ml A has cracked good tates increasing de- As^W%, down on un- wan :he wagered dollar ^ d e r a g e ingi d all our budget and llm |?B smoking, torn blems. KEVIN LANGSTON and children cool, gives us is the abil- columnist are fapjng you (grams and schools. backondes- ^ e efforts of parents, perate measures to feed their habits. min< ents and other con- First> Congress rubbed out Joe y0Ur Carolinians to ac- Camel. That poor beast was making an ride e education. honest buck showing us all how cool youl smoking can be. Teens saw how cool a as y( camel could look with a cigarette be- an(j . -g tween his fingers. They figured if a beast j |?* | O of burden could look hip holding an "em- ^is U itlJVv physema-rette," they could, too. ^ Even before Joe was kicked out onto the streets, America's parents con- ^ ^ || nt^ spirea to Kill on tne iviariDoro ivian ana re^ make up some lame story about how , he died of lung cancer. Kids were drawn The answer to to his rustic image, certain he was so rising college costs isn't freezing tuition, it's raising state funding. While the General Assembly gives about $6,000 per 5g\qo take student, Georgia ^arKing Ideas garc gives about $9,000. will Up tuition rais< Let's imagine P0"1 what funding To the Editor: Lanj would be like if this Last month, I sounded off (along bill passes Right with others) about the parking situa- sPec lina Productions ?on on this campus After reading Rob J ' inding, it must pe- G'oielhs solut,on' 1 ^1 must sound ^ d of Trustees foran 0 Sli: Get rid of campus park- ther lcrease. it the bill ing altogether; more specifically, get rid resident of Caroli- 0f campus lots and put in intramural t 3, along with his ad- sports fields and parks. Immediate con- a m ave to go before the sequence: Up goes tuition. *s I Assembly. So where do students park? Beyond men II Assembly will not the Coliseum. "Buy the land, tear down even aws to combat do- the warehouses and build parking lots caus i or approving cam- there." Up goes tuition some more. Af- ^acl , rnfUc It'll hp lie. ter all, who does Gioielli think is going leas of students and P^y for att this? The university? Bib ' r ,, Gioielli would put in a shuttle sys- Lriai 5 from Clemson, the tem to students to get back and ^at arleston and every forth to their cars. A lot of shuttles, runand university in ning 0n time. (With Columbia traffic, all the while, the good luck.) Kefs ees' collective hands Up goes tuition still more. Besides, ^eve ) much for effective has he considered that most of his shut- anc* ties would be empty or almost empty rese: late at night? How could anyone in his right mind consider this cost-ef- P1""! fective? ^8t Finally, Gioielli would have students 'ess ^ 1 living on campus park their cars out in the borderline-off-campus boonies and ^iblt jbiished Monday. Wednesday and have to take one of his shuttles to get we a on of university holidays and exam in fVi of lire University of South Carolina. to them. As brilliant ideas gO, thlS One 111111 he Department of Student Media is jg j-jght up there with having my eari ^0r e lobes tattooed. stan All area codes are 803 Columns on drunkenness? Bone- 'ow^ Editor 777-391 t headed schemes like this? This guy is on y gchcd@sc.aiti the viewpoints editor? Give me a break! Viewpoints 777-7726 gckt>iews@sc edu . . ? News 777-7726 Steven Yates gckmics@sc.edu HPRE Graduate Student ^ Etc. 777-3913 that sr Debate misuses toh gumecocksfxirts@bolmall.com , o?.,n, ?? biblical passages ,^d oflif Advertising 777-3888 T To the Editor: A In regards to the column published a^ ^ i ax (,|S2 in Viewpoints March 3,1 feel that I must ^oor OfTice 777-3888 A prOp N c )oints cock liNese we-ouT. I * r~ '" Is = le, coolness from h more a cowboy because he loved , 71 ~ ; ; 11 his lungs with the nurturing I believe DeillS 31th of carbon monoxide. "How fit- ? . j ? the adults said. What an effec- ^ S<41Cl Hit yt?tT5 way to teach us all that smoking | ^ WOf"S t's not like doctors only recently re- ; id the true harm in smoking. We've vn how dangerous these things are Ceed to smoke the cigarette. Yc nany years. I don't think a single have something to do, and yoi ion thinks smoking cigarettes is look so lame, even if you're simp: for you. It doesn't matter how many ing the lit cigarette to your lips ai lings they put on the packs, smok- ering it as you breathe out th< s still going to be popular. The bot- drous, fiery fumes of nicotin line is that smoking is extremely tobacco. You might have no th( and we all want to be cool. Dig, if running through your head, bi will, the following scene: still look busy. Iou're standing on a street corner, In addition, you look extreme! ling your own business. You have You're a regular James Dean, ste arms folded as you wait for your on the corner telling the world," to come. You're bored to tears, and don't have anything pressing to d know you look like a complete spaz now. Ill just light up a cigaretl du stand there with nothing to do display my extreme coolness no one to talk to. Poor sap. world." 'low consider the same scene, but, See the difference a ciga,ret time, you're a smoker: make for your image? I don't s Tou step to the curb and look for but I see the coolness in smoking ride. Upon realizing you have time do you think children smoke in tl 11, you reach for your pack of ciga- place? It's not because some cam is. You slam the pack against your them to. It's because they think it 1 to pack the tobacco in. Nothing's Parents don't know because th er than a well-packed cigarette, bus left them at the station yea: you're busy as you light and pro- but youngsters are tapped into1 Letters to the editor or guest columns are welcome from all members of the Care columns should be an opinion piece of about 600-700 words. Both must include n if a student'. Handwritten submissions must be personally delivered to Russell Hou number for confirmation. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit for libel, styli required for guest columnist and can be provided by the submitter.Call 777-7726 fc exception to many of the points re- onciling the Christian faith with ling the Bible and Christianity day life and crimes, sd by the writer, Assistant View- And you, sir, are incorrect i its Editor and Columnist Kevin traying the execution of a murdf ?ston. the law of this country as a sim dr. Langston, while I do indeed re- of revenge. Revenge is a very pe t and understand the logic behind matter, and THIS is what the Bib opinions, I very much object to us not to seek. In fact, the Bibb flawed and limited use of my Chris- ally tells us ill Matthew 5:29 to religion and its doctrines to fur- parts of the body (in this, case & your point. that are harmful ?" If your rig While you are correct in recogniz- causes you to sin, tear it out and hat Jesus Christ does indeed teach it away. It's better for you to lo issage of mercy and compassion, it of your members than to havi ?th rude and unseemly of you as a whole body thrown into hell." Ir iber of the media to deride pivotal words, society as a whole is justi ts in the Old Testament simply be- expunging from itself damaging o: ;e you don't agree with one of the mental members, lings therein. In this, I refer specif- Finally, as to your statemer y to your article "We who take the "many of [the Old Testament's] e too seriously should also believe ings were contradicted by th a burning bush spoke to Moses and Christ," I doubt very sincerely th he eventually led an entire civi- could find anyone whose exper ion across the exposed bed of the will show that they've never le Sea ... " For you to debase the be- something that was later conti of others in such a manner is, I be- ed by a better, more relevant te i, very unbecoming of both yourself Many of the teachings of the 01 the organization which you rep- tament were still VERY much en nt. by Christ, and those that were furthermore, it is inappropriate to fied may, I believe, be interpre ui.i u: ?j:rr ? r j /* a kji i uie leacumgs ui jurist as say- umereni siruK.es ior ainereni hat human beings should be spine- Times were much different in ti jellyfish that don't mete out any Testament than they were in C of judgment whatsoever; while the era, but for the most part, the e does indeed say, in essence, that ings of the Old Testament were i re not to seek personal retribution (especially so in the case of the Tei e vein of vigilantism, it also allows mandments). xtenuating circumstances. For in- Mr. Langston, while I have ce, Romans 12:18 tells us the fol- jection whatsoever to your op ag. "If possible, so far as it depends (regardless of whether or not I < ou, live in peace with all people" with them), I must indeed prote: 0. flagrant misinterpretation a: stress here the phrases "If possi- basement of THE fundamental and "so far as it depends on you." ings of the faith of myself and Bible is not so naive as to suggest less others, people should merely allow things I would very sincerely appi appen in a fatalist philosophy; an apology for the facetious, dei er, it implores us to deal in a civi- ry tone with which you referred i manner with affronts to our way the Bible and the Christian fait e. your oath as a representative of t] have often heard the saying, "Have dia and of the First Amendmer lith in the Lord, but lock your car you will not, regardless of you ." I do believe that this is an ap- opinions, ever again use the teai riate and reasonable way of rec QUOTE, UNQUOTE "Public funding for public education in South Carolina has not kept pace with funding even in Mississippi." William Hubbard, board of trustees chairman Page 3 u 0 5 ? 8 ? 6 o uo ? ! V * o 4 ^ -VSV'W l same drag Leary said it best when > cigarettes take off your t ones anyway." iu now hip and what isnt. They know smok1 don't ing is "rad," and they know the risks ly rais- involved with smoking, id low- Some genius declared that a single 3 won- cigarette will take so many seconds off ie and your life. Basically, this means habit mgnis uai smoKers won t live as long as nonut you smokers. So smokers die young. I believe Denis Leary said it best when he ly cool, said the years cigarettes take off your inding life are the worst ones anyway, so smoke Hey, I 'em if you got 'em Too much of anything 0 right is bad for you. te and Kids, the government might be to the enforcing tougher laws to keep you from smoking, but I say do what you can to te can "feed your rabbit." Hell, Til buy the cigmoke, arettes for you (of course, a 15-per. Why cent handler's fee would be involved in le first the transaction). But it's not like el tells teen-agers turn 18, suddenly realize ,'scool. they can smoke and head down to le cool Circle K and buy a pack of cigarettes, rs ago, Smoking is like any other habit. Peowhat's pie do it because they like it. ilina community. Letters should be 250-300 words. Guest ame, phone number, professional title or year and major, ise room 333- E-mail submissions must include telephone e and space. Names will never be withheld. Photos are >r more information. every- of ANY religion to further a purely secular personal opinion that you foster. is porirer by Curtis Paul Sheidler pie act Computer Science Freshman rsonal - le telis Cypress mulch 'reject hurts wetlands ociety) ;ht eye To the Editor: throw se one It is interesting to note the univer5 your sky's concern for green space andits use 1 other of mulch. The mulch I'm referring to is fied in used throughout campus landscaping rdetri- but is most easily recognized around the Bull Street garage and Russell it that House areas. teach- I'm assuming the mulch is cypress, 0 se of a wetland tree species whose wood prodlatyou uct uses are quite limited. Cypress lumiences ber is of poor quality, and it is rarely lamed used in the paper-making process. In radict- fact, mulch is one of the most common jacher. uses of cypress. Without question, a maId Tes- jority of cypress mulch is the result of dorsed whole-tree chipping from wetland harmodi vests. ted as The question we must ask ourselves folks." is, "Do we want our campus landbe Old scape mulched at the expense of wethrist's land habitat?" Many public agencies teach- prohibit the sale of Cypress Domes based jpheld on the rationale that their value as 1 Com- wildlife habitat exceeds the monetary return from a timber sale. However, no ob- the more economically driven timber inions industries, such as Georgia-Pacific, regconcur ularly harvest these areas to maximize st your profits. Thus, cypress mulch is readily ii *iii i I j i na ae- avaiiaDie ana is relatively inexpensive teach- (further devaluing the wetland), count- If the campus mulch is indeed cypress, and I have a strong feeling it is, eciate then the University's Master Plan may "ogato- not be so green after all. to both h, and Tom Toland be me- Geography Graduate Student it that r own Editor's Note: University Grounds Manchings agement says that no cypress mulch whatsoever is used on campus. , *