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Sen'ing tbe Carolina Community since 1908
EDITORIAL BOARD
Sara Ladenheim, Editor in Chief
Rob Gioielli, Viewpoints Editor
ivcvm Ldii^iuii, s\ssisiuru v urwy virus nuuvr
Emily Streyer, Assistant Vieupoints Editor
Jennifer Stanley, Special Projects Coordinator
Baseball in Cub;
good for freedo
Major-league the farm
baseball took a ma- tern, Cu
jor step in thawing Baltimore Orioles triple-A
out the last of the pfayfag in Cuban Tl]e Sug
most frozen Cold prhadition oame mled'Fr
War links in the expedition game. ^1^
Western world Sun- JMpTIT-l^ "hip" clul
day, when the Bal- , ? ,,, , Mafia \
timore Orioles be- Baseball could be the therent
came.the first team bey to thawing USA- itself on
to play on Fidel Cas- Cuba Cold War once he]
tro's turf since 1959. relations. Spanish
Baseball is con- ? tadores
sidered to be the and the
great American pasttime. Since nist Party ended the
its post-Civil War inception, it has for Cuban baseball. 1
managed to enthrall millions, slogans once proclai
What many Americans are un- promise of playing in
aware of is the popularity of the Leagues," now adorning
sport beyond the boundaries of the of the 50-year old Esta
United States. During our years noamericano, the stadii
of neo-colonial rule, we managed vana, are "Socialist Cub
to addict many Latin American and "Sports for the Peo
and Caribbean nations to the thrill Considering the nun
of the game. major-leaguers who ha1
Cuba is no exception to this ed from the island in rec
rule; Cuban baseball dates back (Orlando Hernandez,
to the days of the construction of donez), the presence ol
the Panama Canal. Cuba was seen nism has not quashed tl
as a spring training paradise, and abilities of Cuban
Many teams, including the Los ers. More games like th
Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets tween the Orioles and
and Boston Red Sox, traveled to all-star team could pos
the island and played in exhibi- ther a link between free
tion games. In the earliest days of baseball.
SAT champs dor
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encourage otnet
Look out, Math- by watc
letes, here come the 9 HJUmnHHHI smart cl
SAT champs. To The latest high school up a Se
"improve SAT championship is based morning
scores" and "focus on the SAT. tle w"!
greater attention on gies and J
the importance of H|HTnT3^r2QTT^7QH[|| geomet
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es," the College campaign for college Furthen
Board (the compa- preparation is really lege isn't
ny owning the rights fust about money. one. Wh
to the test) has de- benefits
veloped a shorter, two-hour ver- campaign? (Other than,
sion of the SAT for the purposes the College Board, whic
of competition among high school its revenue.) Certainly, hi
standardized-test lovers. students should be ma<
High schools across the nation, of their options, but mal
each placed in one of four divisions fun out of the SAT seems
based on enrollment, prepared ing it a bit far. This elitii
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take the test last week, and the now ? society needs p:
ecstatic winners were recently an- auto mechanics, cons
nounced. This is supposed to en- workers and scores of o
courage the academically disin- pie with skills different
clined? The College Board is rivative-taking and the
preaching to the choir; the kids -ing.
interested in taking the SAT for The College Board's
fun are going to do well on the re- of a competitive SAT (as
al one anyway. admissions aren't corn
We have news for high schools enough for some) is noth
and the (College Board: The kids than a way to increasi
it's trying to reach, the ones try- while inflating honor s
ing to decide whether college is egos. Give us a break,
for them, will not be persuaded
TEhr (Bamecnck |BB
Sewing the Carolina Community since 1908
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ballplay- GUERMAN ABAEV sweep- law;
le one be- columnist stakes. erm
a Cuban Lm^=IZZ^lJ But the Cha
sibly fur- flexibility of was
idom and the American legal system requires in- er fo
novation. And it's not uncommon that casti
new ideas come from truth-searching wroi
^ minds of the young. So it's no surprise er C
that certain creative students at the Ent<
Southern Methodist University in Texas r\
filed a precedent case last week. ma i
1^, The students are seeking dam- won
ages from the school for a computer cent
course that was "too hard." According one 1
to their attorney, they were told that if of tl
hing the "they could point and click, they could Not
ique give handle the course. In fact, you needed ing,
11 u r d a y more prerequisites than that." puz:
tn wrp?.
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lat way. a s people go through life, the ones wari
nore, col- f\ wh0 will truly live are the indi- Whi
for every- XA-viduals able to approach their 1
lo really ( i lives with mat
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by ' > face a perlumbers,
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truction JEFF LARSEN throughout thr^
ther peo- guest columnist his or her
from de- life, the on- ^ *
isis-writ- . !y way to muc
keep trudging on is with the perspec- * T
hawkine tive that all that happens in this short r
,i term form of existence is a joke.
l co ege For people to become over-emotional
i p e 1111 v e or greyly upset by the cruel tricks their Peol
mg more ]jves pjay on them is a clear indica- wa&
e profits tion that they are letting the bad things ^d
itudents' in life take precedence over all the beau- tice(
tiful and joyous things in life. Laugh- door
ter (maybe only for a few seconds) can had
make everything go away. Laughter glar
a can cut through, redefine and some- brea
times save a seemingly hopeless situ- teri
ation in a person's life. like.
I will forever remember the first I
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Wednesday and mgnt i got DacK to L/Oiumoia to Degin wors
JnhjiiIctota mY final semester here as a college stu- less,
Student Media is dent this spring. It was a long and past
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urbs of Philadelphia, and my receipt of food
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nd that the school counter-sue the 'ThC JUflgC
lents for being stupid, which, to me, -.
arsh and untrue. The kids seem to <U*C prCQlC
to be pretty smart since they did . i ? ?
lage to get into school. In fact, what HOl DC Dial
y did sounds pretty smart: Once
re in school, don't worry about parg
all the time. By the time of finals h Manatee c ;
a good a lawyer and you re OK! , , ,
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There are more examples. I never ?T , ,, ,, . ,
lui-j i-i.f i Ui. 1 don t think w
lybeheved weather forecasters, but ? .
,, , T, . X. .rT sunng, a sheriffs
r. s whprp I m wrrmcn Rppaiiap it
every time they got a prediction he press,
ng would be a good chance to call a Hmmm, if wei
yer. The family of a drowned fish- there, I would not
lan in Florida sued the Weather spokesman also said 1
nnel for failing to report that a storm meet with state and
coming. The judge ruled that weath- to determine how to
irecasts are predictions and broad- force the law. He me
srs should not be blamed if they are might seek a volunt*
lg. Oh well, I guess that the Weath- to see if it holds up ir
hannel should be considered "For tng to be surprised
jrtainment Purposes Only." with Pamela Anders
rhere's another huge legal dilem- derson to appear, re
in Florida. One county has barred than 75 percent,
ten from exposing more than 75 per- Also, how dare t]
of their breasts in public and every- such a sexist law in
from showing more than two-thirds cal correctness and ge
leir buttocks. This is outrageous! law clearly says tha
only does this make life pretty bor- restricted from airi
it puts law enforcement officers in How unfair! What
dement. Now, sheriffs deputies .breasts, like Fabio? I
le best way to<
i to retiring to my estate on 1014 ~
iley Street "I'm living
rhe house I shared with two room- . ?
es was across from General Jack JVISt 3S iUp
and Grease Service and the for- Urfnf-n _
Citgo (now Texaco) at Whaley and DClOrC lilC
;mbly streets. My roommates and
ew when we decided to rent the
se for our upcoming senior year that My roommate be
house was in a particularly shifty ine-berserk while I c
rhborhood, where the bums and and why this happ
eless people of Columbia ruled the would be covered u:
ounding abandoned structures and home insurance (w
ehouses. However, the house on did not find reason i
iley Street was a perfect place to and cursing the worli
w keg parties, and the bums and was doing.
>le of the surrounding area never I kept telling my
tied to mind us or bother us that the destruction to oi
h. things happen all the
Jntil the night my roommate and m?st of the time to
;urned from Christmas vacation. na^ than me. And
liscovered then how desperate some everything I had ow
)le are. After Darkine the station South Carolina was
on in the back yard of the house ,f?, , , ,
r * Life had dealt me.
grabbing some of our bags, we no- ^ ., f
, . i i l i The author of m
1 upon trying to unlock our back . ., . ,
,, iii. ii to write m more drair
that there was no lock where a lock ., . , , w
been before. We realized that a bury
had occuired in our house over Pcnnsylvania to
k, and we had no idea before en- x ever done anything
ng what the house would look 0neelse?No,buttha
from having bad thii
t was trashed. At least 10 times What I could hav
;e than any damage from the count- ment was decide tha
mindless hquor and keg parties of fair an(j unjUst to i
semesters. Our clothes, gone. Our foun(i the humor ii
usion and VCR, gone. CDs, booze, someone else's life su<
and computer ? all gone, and to than mine that that ]
insult to injury, the criminals had what I had.
iff a fire extinguisher in our house Months have pass
ve an extra layer of filth and hu- in, and almost everyt
ition to our misfortune. We did not en from me has been
i own a fire extinguisher. head and three teer
Letters to the editor or guest columns are welcome from all mcnihc
columns should foe an opinion piece of alxiut 6(X)-700 words Both n
if a student. Handwritten submissions must foe personally delivered t
numlier for confirmation. The Gamecock reserves the right to edit
required for guest columnist and can lie provided foy the sufomitter.G
tention? You must be mad t
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QUOTE, UNQUOTE
"We know this is history. This is
a once-in-a-lifetime thing."
Scott Ka m ten iecki,
Baltimore Orioles pitcher
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American way
i ruled that weather forecasts
tions and broadcasters should
tned if they are wrong."
ire wondering how to expose their breasts all they want?
ompliance. And all this in the time of the exciting
re 11 be tape-mea- victory in the history of the feminist
, spokesman told movement: the introduction of a female
re a police officer urinal Dutch bathroom maker
; be so sure. The Sphinx!
Jiat deputies would It's good that the law, hypotheti[
county attorneys cally, can help anybody in just about
' interpret and en- any situation. For instance, best actress
mtioned that they nominee Fernanda Montenegro wasn't
jer to test the law , , , , , ,,
, T, . very happy when she heard that
i court. I m not goif
they negotiate Gwyneth Paltrow got the Golden Man.
on's agent for An- She later said, "It's easy to understand
;ady to bear more the reason that she won. She had the
most possibilities within the industry
bey come up with for being young, pretty and blond."
this time ofpoliti- This is pretty unfair, Fernanda!
;nder fairness! The ,, . , .
t only women are Gwyneth 18 80 damn ^ of 1**** at"
ng their breasts! tractive and a good actress, too! So what
about men with are you waiting for? Sue the lucky
low come they get Blondie, fast!
deal with life
somewhere better, and I'm
py if not happier than I was
burglary."
gan to go Wolver- been convicted for the burglaiy, and the
:ontemplated how house on Whaley Street stands uninened.
I figured I habited. Fm living somewhere better,
nder my parents' and I'm just as happy if not happier
hich I was), so I than I was before the burglary,
n yelling, ranting I believe the reason lies in my
i as my roommate ability to handle all aspects of life with
a comedic approach. When my roomself
as I surveyed mate wondered why the bums did not
it house that bad steal his Hawaiian shirts, I replied,
time in this world, "Even the poor and ruined have some
people less fortu- sense of fashion."
as I realized that So when you think life is a poop
ned down here in sandwich and you just keep taking a
gone, I could only bite out of it every day, step back and
he dealer named examine your life with the belief that
none of this really matters. Laugh and
y life had decided have a blast with your life. Don't let
1a by having every- things like the fact that you will only
le after getting a receive $2 for the books you paid $200
g a long drive from for get you down. Or that your girlfriend
th Carolina. Have has been accessed more than an
really bad to any- ATM. If you can't find a job after colt
does not save me lege, who cares?
igs happen to me. Don't spend time complaining about
e done at that mo- how hard life is and how no one unt
life had been un- derstands your struggle. Just believe
ne, but instead I that things in this world always have
1 the notion that a way of working out. Life has a way of
deed so much more making people believe that the worst
person had to take will never pass. The truth is that the
best is almost always yet to come, and
ed since the break- those who have the ability to find comhing
that was tak- edy in tragedy already know this. He
replaced. A crack- who laughs, lasts,
l-age punks have
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