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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
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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.
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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^
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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
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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.
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