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E-MAIL! Good old-fashioned debate. Great modern technology. E-mail us: GCKVIEWS@SC.EDU. .Use your technology fee. Friday, March 26, 1999 Gamecock Sen'ing the Carolina Community since 1908 EDITORIAL BOARD Sara Ladenheim, Editor in Chie RoK \fioi nfar\ivitc KsJitrw x%v/n/ v?iv/ivixi, r Kevin Langston, Assistant Viewpoints Emily Streyer, Assistant Viewpoints 1 Jennifer Stanley, Special Projects Coor SG officers sh( set sights on fi Our new stu- c dent senate and ex- n ecutive officers Wednesday's Student h were sworn in Government f( Wednesday. In a inauguration. 1 ceremony that gave ? t our new president, p vice president and CCV7, A, , . i< treasurer an op- WUh the campaigns c portunity to give over, our new officers n their inaugural need to focus on their s speeches, those in newjobs. attendance were s given their first \ taste of the year of Student Gov- long-term goals' ernment. pact do you expc Several pleasantries were ex- university? We changed, and each executive staff hard for us ? tl member thanked all who helped we trust you to them get where they are. These It's your tim personal anecdotes were an ef- before the seme fective and touching addition to as much from t the ceremony, but something was officers as possit _1 i.L.1 1 laciuiig. umt yuu nave \ Not one officer mentioned their SG members. I goals as leaders of the student tary procedure body. It still seemed as if each one important youi was still trying to win his or her everyday runni respective campaign race. There sity. Be the bes were several mentions of how be, not just for hard-working and dedicated each but for the aspii officer would be for the student might want to f body, but no particular goals were day. mentioned. You have a 1 Their names are now on the ty now, and you SG office door. We elected these under the eye of people, and we're assuming our Show the studer interests will be looked after. Our the right people Bombings a pat in U.S. foreign p Upon hearing ~~? that the United HHHQiot States had begun qut mH^ary action in 0 bombing against Yugoslavia. t: Milosevics forces m ? n Yugoslavia, many p Americans were n just dumbfounded. in tu We've been in the n ill 1/liVs UUJ U ? leading up to the at- Balkansforfour years, I tacks, there were so the bombings v continual reports shouldn't be a surprise. 5 about how talks fi had stalled and the b United States, as a part of NATO, Gulf War has 1: might have to use force. decade-long coir According to President Clin- ing Saddam H ton, the government took action Once the Uni to protect ethnic Albanians and to take action in prevent the region from explod- are on that our ing into a full-scale war. main there inde But even with this explana- started when \ tion, many of us are still asking to that country what the vital American interests our disgraceful are that we're risking the lives until 1975. of our soldiers for. When we as i In a certain sense, though, it's question our gov kind of pointless to be asking this policy, we need t question now. Four years ago, we start taking i when we sent peacekeeping troops region because to Bosnia, we made a commitment mitment is madi to that region. stop. Bc6amccodt ^5" Serving tlx- Carolina Community since 1908 Hie Gamecock is the student newspaper of The University ol South Carolina and is publi Friday during the fall and spring semesters and live times during the summer with the exception periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the editors or author and not those of The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the publisher ol The Gamecock. The ilkxv The Gamecock Sara Ladenheim Editor in Chief Emily Streyer Asst. Vieufxnnls ^ Rob Giolelli Vieupoints Editor Kevin Langston Editors Kenley Young Neu-s Editor Rachel Helwlg Asst. Sens Editors Brad Walters News Editor Clayton Kale Brock Vergakls Sports Editor Michael Strickland Asst. Sports Edit'."S . Charlie Wallace Sports Editor Jared Kelowitz l-eatuns Editor Asi, Ewt.tns iUU??s , Rob Undsey Eeatun-s Editor I Sean Rayford Ehoto Editor '^nes a (,r3llam Matt Ryan Online Editor Ashtonjune Asst . Photo Edilm , Kristin Freestate Copy- Desk Chief Ann Marlc Mlanl Todd Money Copy Editor Jennifer Stanley Special ISojccts ( Rebecca Cronlcan Copy Editor Coordinator Student Media Ellen Parsons Din-dor of Jason Curry Cn-ative Services Student Media Kathy VanNostrandOva//!*' Sen-ices Lee Phlpps Adu-rtisirif Manager Sherry Holmes Classified Manafter ( Susan King Cn-ative Din-dor Carolyn Griffin Easiness Manager Susan Barrett Cn-ative Sendees Erik Collins Eaculty Advisor 1 Daniel Brown Cn-ative Senda-s Jeff Stensland Graduate Assistant ( viewp< The Gamecock )uld iture andidates need lot tell us how XXX iard they will work or us. They have ^ > rej"twill he job; we trusted hem when they iromised such ded :ation during the ^ ^ ampaign. Now, we il-^inr loXETC? C V teed to hear a new JL/1 UU MWa peech from them. What are your hort-term goals? A s an editor at The Gamecock, I Crack is coca Vhat are your Z\ am subject to its drug-free work- .tent and moi } What kind of im- -L \ place policy, on which I received are predomi jet to make on this a handout most all res know you'll work I ot*ier ^^^dru, & . Included ca plant-But e. Take the weeks WiffW ,thls srancarriesr ,njc Q_ . i____ BMWBL ^mWEm brochure the other. Th ster send to learn **>?? was some example of 1 he past executive MR J|1 drugeduca- within the 1 )le. It s no new feet MM!! tioninfor-' Anditsinefl reiy little time as mation, in- law .earn parliamen- 'fWlP^ eludingthe tive drue noli . Learn just how basic federal ^edrugpoa r roles are in the KOB GIOIELLI andstateal- when we sat r roies are in tne cotumnist and the bej ngoftheumver- ' drug laws Drugs." As, tofficereyoucan And on these pages, I found a law drug.crackc . e S,U ,en 0 that highlights some of the problem few tion to skyro ing students who know about our criminal justice sys- And accord ill your shoes one tem blame-the-vi. The law's penalty for simple pos- cided the be: luge responsibili- session of cocaine is not more than two problem was will constantly be years and/or not more than a $5,000 deter people the student body. fine. For possession of crack, the penal- Those wl its that they chose ' ty is not less than five years and not crack is a me 1 for the job. less than $5,000. This is state law, and stroys lives federal codes say much the same thing. gut a(j( . c<*aine'to'itsirder5onn'isex- harsh punis ir-| I I tremely expensive. Thus, its users are 0 , , lV'A-tl- mostly white and upper- to middle-class. Sm0^e cra? pared pay th ^ Hatred offepr Our actions over JL~ hese past couple f days are essen- ^"T"the racially motivated murder of And ther ially of that com- I James Byrd Jr. by some Jasper gang Hawke [fitment to keep County, Tex., Confederate dentwhosu eace in the Balka- ? Knights of en this oppor Our continued tiatesisper- people becau ctions against f 1 haps the interviewed' raq go back to ^ somefesu?t would offer men we sent the Jfe not merely the sins and irst troops to de- 0f a break- and homose: end Saudi Ara- - J^HSj downoftol- youwouldkn ia in 1990. The JBH| erance ot he would pr >egun an almost J^H| compassion, was ah mbb imitment to keep- orofavicto- He,perso ussein in check. fofcmLf 17 of racism hatred' ^ ted States decides J=ZZ==. (although it not mean yoi arefinn thendrk 1S those Thats likes _ ^ ' ? things) but, above all, of a simple fail- piercings al presence will re- ure of independent thought. conformist, (finitely. Vietnam White supremacist John William King's al ve sent advisers King received the death sentence for that his hatn in the 1950s, and his role in the murder. Perhaps some from a two-i exit didn't come people are just plain evil, and per- prize citizen haps King is one of them, but, gener- he was possi American citizens flHy speaking, monsters are created, black inmati ernment's foreign not born. saulted by o do so as soon as Kmonsters are not natural, there was, that's n action in a certain ^USf ^ a reas?n for their existence, pie. He hates , nn? fi?t ?ftrn Maybe looking for logic in something one told him , , like this is a mistake - but if there's no People li e, it s very nara to reason, there's nothing to prevent it fringe groups from happening again. they need - s - ever (111 leav LUflHHH columns ASMiMailMiMHiiM B^T? 11 *11] I KfCl i I J k if a studc number The University of South Carolina Depanment ol Student Media is Emxsmsa Sub citV needs to m^c! improve service cy.uniikei* Subway, our! Viewpoints 777-7726 To the Editor: ? in fact, it f>ckt'icifs@sc eciH While many students welcome the parent absen Vw< Kciem-u .v0\c a'du chance to balk regarding the food situ- athetic and s Etc. 777-391 i ation here at USC, I generally have on- and a lack ol gcheic@sc.eci" j praise to offer Dining Services. More dirty counter! Sports 777-7182 ,, , , , . ... , f ,, ncksixins@sc.edu so than at many state universities, we etc.), the est: online 777-2833 are offered ample choices in a friendly, to change its courteous and efficient manner. How- The prob \dvertisinn 777-3888 ever, it does appear that one estab- when custon classified 777-1183 lishment has slipped through the cracks: there is somi i-ax 777-6382 Sub City. order, you ai the register 01 Office 777-3888 to 1 Dints [ low country's tine in a cheaper, more po- ~ e addictive form. Its users VrC CfCUtC I111I11J d^p"r4h: crack addicts be . ,, the enemy in on gs are denved from the co- J the white, upper-class ver ouch lighter penalties than Thjs attitudc imp|ies that as is pro a y t e oremost ma^e a conscious decision to t the race and class biases addicted to crack and let it ruin tl American justice system. 0f them and their families. This c ective drug policy. he further from the truth. , and a lot of other ineffec- People use drugs like crack an cies, comes from the 1980s, in to block the pain and sufferin w the emergence of crack ality. These drugs are what A ginning of the "War on Davis, an activist who calls for n i cheap, highly addictive reform of our justice system, ide :aused violence and addic- as "self-medication." For those w icket in poor urban areas. 6688 money and other resources ing to our drug policy's aPy Prozac can treat problen dim philosophy, it was de- fo/100 many Americans, a $10: st possible solution to the often'he ?nl? ch <?10 escaP' , , , ,, poverty, abuse and oppression. ; tougher laws that would m.- 1 >. r . ,, , This explanation isnt meant 1 from using the drug. a n,s c(mtro| oyer to support this argue that her own actions Being a ^ ? an, addictive drug that de- ^.y in no way predisposes somec No one argues with this, ward smoking crack. But in whit 1 that the only solution is die-class America, the world is f ihments to deter people, by green-tinted glasses. Money an i if you want, but be pre- ilege make it hard to understan e consequences. someone would take these ki ing of depende e is a reason: Davis Wolf- in return for the perpetuation a neo-Nazi Wofford stu- groups' doctrines. Should danj pports King and has tak- ideas be repressed? That's a rath* tunity to get himself some gerous idea in itself. Dangerous Jewish people and black should not be repressed. They ! se he was told to. I haven't be rejected. Dangerous ideas i the guy, but I would imag- killed in the same way that th I him, "Why the hate?" he born and cultivated - if people some propaganda listing about them, crimes of Jews, minorities Anyone who has regurgitate* >cuals against society, but ture in a paper because he thoi low, and I would know, and was what the professor wanted t obably know, too, that it embraced feminism because it \ ish. dally hip, voted for Dole becaus* nally, has no basis for such said not to, smoked a cigarette b king in the minority does her parents would freak, loved "! 1 are thinking for yourself. Private Ryan" because Gene Sisk aying everyone with nose it two thumbs up, hated "Savii t Lollapalooza is a non- vate Ryan" because everyone els* it, bought a CD because 93.5 pla ttorneys tried to suggest single once an hour, or exhibited id of black people stemmed of countless other ways depe /ear prison term (what a thought is guilty of the same be of society) during which that led to the stomach-turning bly sexually assaulted by itation by asphalt. (Yes, Jamei ;s. Uh-uh. King wasn't as- Jr. was dragged behind a pickuj anyone, and even if he until his head rolled off.) ot why he hates black peo- We as a society are responsi black people because some- that crime. We can't say, "That's i to hate them. wing group, that's the boonies, ike King are seduced by Texas, that's the South, that's i \ who offer them something ca, where all the racial problems icceptance, support, what- Western world are." (That last 1 e it to the psychologists) - pretty common misconception c the editor or guest columns are welcome from all members of the Care should be an opinion piece of about 600-700 words. Both must include n nt. Handwritten submissions must be personally delivered to Russell Hoi or confirmation. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit for libel, styl :or guest columnist and can be provided by the submitter.Call 777-7726 ft r located in the Carolina to one of the two tracks on which ty is a model of inefficien- wiches are made. Rather than > commercial counterpart, nating the assignments to e< Sub City is hardly fast food distribute the load, it appears the is slow food. With an ap- register operators are only familit tee of management, an ap- the first track. The result is gei sometimes arrogant staff, visible from a distance, with a lo f upkeep (full trash cans, at track one and no one at trac tops and working surfaces, While waiting in line for a sar iblishment might do well to be made, customers get the name to "Sub-Par." drinks from the store's fountai lems begin at the register penser. As evidenced by the wet lers place their orders. If ing of many Sub City customer 3one present to take your machine has problems. I have be re in luck. It is the job of view getting a drink there as a aerator to assign customers with the challenge being to dete QUOTE, UNQUOTE "For 10 years straight, USC's international business program has achieved a level of excellence no university can match." John Palms, university president Page 3 u Jr prejudice num jail time for the cause they are somehow ir 'War on Drugs."' people drugs. That's because those who do take lecome them exist in a world many of us can't le lives even fathom. ouldn't Our drug policy is a child of this kind of ignorance. We create minimum jail d hero- time for the crack addicts because they g of re- afg somehow the enemy in our "War on Angela Drugs." Every war needs an enemy, an lassive entity that the efforts of resistance can ntifies ^ toward. Outwardly, the en1 ther enaes i11 war ^ drug dealers, both is But ^r0m ^8re an<^ a")roa^- ^as rock is S0meh0w ev0^ve<^ ^ea ^ 3 from *s no^ oniy f^e dealers of these drugs, but the addicts, as well. to take F?r the sake of justice and equali his or peilitlues 1UI possession 01 cocaine ninori- crack should be the same. We need me to- t? stop placing all the blame on the ade, mid- diets and examine the conditions that iltered make people do drugs in the first place, d priv- Only then will we start making progress id why toward solving this country's drug probnds of lem. mt thought of the our little American blanket.) That's hujerous manity, folks, and we're heading for dejr dan- volution if we don't start using the cra5 ideas nial capacity that got us to the top of should the food chain. "Because" is important, -an be We're in college, enjoying what is supey are posed to be the most self-absorbed time think ^ our lives, and most of us can't even say why we chose our major, i a lec- There is a bright side to this: If ight it hatred is not inherent ? but learned o hear, ? bigotry can be stopped. v mtv ^ cann?t ^ stopped by laws or rese olutions, but must be stopped by quoecause ^dian minutiae ? millions of everyday saving events hy millions of people who are g1 gave . . conscious of their actions and words, lg x na loved Look outside the box, think outside yed its '30x question everything. Too mnr?vi vionrumc cimnlv kd^ouco tiro q 1 _ IT1 flFly AXXV4V/XX UWUUOV/ ?? \* U1 ndent ^ow ^ *0, "^s a soc^ety? we accept too havior much- That does not imply that we are decap- tolerant, for intolerance is an accepted s Byrd thing, put into practice because we ) truck accepted from those before us that intolerance (or tolerance for the wrong ble for things) was the Way It Was Done, i right- But the generations alive today that's think more and accept less than the \meri- generations alive a century ago ? we 5 of the are getting somewhere. But the means bit is a to get there faster is already available, lutside >lina community. Letters should be 250-300 words. Guest lame, 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 ar more information. i sand- which of the six drink fountains is workalter ing properly. If a customer guesses inlually correctly on the first try, they may wind it most up wearing their choice for the rest of ir with the day. lerally While their product has good taste, ng line Dining Services could go a long way tok two. ward improving the operation of our idwich on-campus sub shop. A good first step -? r> cvft rva i rrVr 4- Van a V? i i?a a arv? aa? a titV* a lrra aiita II DUJL1# llllgllt UC l/U 1111C OUUICU11C W11U [U1UW3 in dis- what they are doing to manage the ; cloth- establishment consistently and effecs, this tively. gun to game, Aaron Hark irmine Computer Science Freshman