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EDITORIAL BOARD
Sara Ladenheim, Editor in Chief
Rob Gioielli, Viewpoints Editor
Kevin Langston, Assistant Viewpoints Editor
Emily Streyer, Assistant Viewpoints Editor
Jennifer Stanley, Special Projects Coordinator
Dreams of money
destroy team unity
Trends in sports ^the athletes can
are as inconsistent HHHBiMiaSHHHi continue with their
as trends in fash- Athletes are forgoing lives and still manion.
As oflate, leav- their full college careers a&e t0 overcome
imAC?vleg? f?r to go professional. their upbringings.
NBA has dominat- Many college
ed the NCAA has- basketball players
ketball scene. rr .. ^ come from disadUntil
Wednes- If athletes aretl t vantaged backday,
Duke Univer- dedicated to their grounds. They play
sity players had al- teams or schools, they ball on the blackways
managed to shouldn't play. top and chain-net
win games and ? ? courts of the inner
graduate with cities and try to use
highly prestigious degrees, few their skills to lift them and their
exceptions barred. Elton Brand, families-out of poverty,
a sophomore with more player-of- While the millions awarded as
the-year awards than can be list- signing bonuses in the NBA are
ed here, decided there was noth- important, being educated leads
ing short of the elusive NCAA to success in the long run. Thouchampionship
that he had left to sands of student-athletes graduplay
for. Weighing the possibili- ate each year, many without NBAty
of an injury over a high draft style opportunities. These athletes
pick, he decided to leave Duke, do manage to make successes of
With the blessing of coach Mike themselves. Most female studentKrzyzewski,
Brand started a trend athletes gain their degrees and
at a university that once pledged are successful simply because the
on the cover of Parade magazine option of professional sports isn't
that athletes are students,-too. out there.
The student in student-athlete The money is important, but
is not what it used to be. Now, with more important than that is the
schools like Duke encouraging the fact that student-athletes have
team stars to leave before their a responsibility in college to
education is complete, the pur- gain the education that is being
pose of going to college in the first provided for them at no cost Some
place is questionable. Why are players^foqsledge to come baofe,
athletes bothering to attempt de- but many who exit early never regrees
if they are only going to leave turn, setting a negative example
for economic reasons before their for kids who look up to them. If
education is complete? The argu- there is no desire in a student-athment
that injuries end careers and lete to receive an education, then
lives is moot. With an education, it should not be provided tor tree.
USC should extend
date for drop/add
Two meetings of n~???^ backtrack so latea
Tuesday-Thurs- comers can catch
day course are usu- The time limit for up to the rest of the
ally not enough for adding or dropping c^ass- But separatmost
students to de- classes ing the add and
cide if a course will ' drop dates would
give them what mean that stuthey
want, and true A dents waiting for
flaws in a course are ? needed to ciasses couldn't get
usually not appar- discern whether the into them if stuent
for several class is right. dents in those
weeks. classes had liberal
Five days in three MWF class- time frames in which to drop them,
es and two TTh classes is, how- The registration rules are necever,
the amount of time USC stu- essarily stringent to prevent peo
dents have to make up their minds pie from manipulating the system,
about.their academic commitments But this small percentage of
for the following 15 weeks. Other people is keeping the rest of us
schools have at least three meet- from getting the full benefit
ings of each class, and some schools from our years here,
have a luxurious three weeks to But this is an institute of learndrop
a class without record of it ing, and it should serve those who
on a transcript. are interested in learning above
Most professors don't care all else,
when a student drops a course, We applaud the administrabut
they do care when students tion for addressing the problem
add them. More than four days in- and hope a solution can be found,
to their courses and they have to
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Editor's Note: This is the first in the series
of articles dedicated to the fact that
Rob will finally be graduating.
' at the end of
ROB GIOIELLI a life expericolumnist
ence like col?i
lege, it's always
good to
be able to find connections between the
different parts of your life.
As a freshman, I was very inexperiene'edr
I wasn't schooled in the ways
of the world, and I didn't have much
money. I also wasn't 21. All these factors
led me to cheap beer.
Of course, I really didn't know any
better. It was the first time I had been
away from home. The concept of "beer"
in itself was fascinating. I didn't mind
Medical r<
It's quite an achievement that women
manage to live longer than men, for
as far as medical "science" is con,
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EMILY STREYER" T^both
columnist the students
: and the
studied. Until recently, the norm in
medical schools wasn't simply to teach
students about the human body; it was
to teach them about the body of a 70kilogram
male.
I set "science" in quotes not to disrespect
the discipline, but to emphasize
that not only was it not a science until
recently, but that the basis of scientific
study, the scientific method, was disregarded
when it came to the inclusion
of women, who make up half the population.
The medical profession, nearly as
old as humanity itself, has only become
a science within the past 100 years. Before
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To the Editor:
As a very religious person, I found
Kevin Langston's column Wednesday
very offensive. I understand "that he
wrote the column with a tongue-in-cheek
tone, but I didn't find it very humorous.
It was too close to sacrilege, in my opinion.
Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
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on of beei
that it tasted like frozen antelope urine. '
But getting hold of it was also a problem.
When you gave $10 to the guys
down the hall who knew someone with
a car whose roommate had a fake,
you took their word wnen tne can said
"Milwaukees Best."
Near the end of my first year, I had
a few more connections, and I grew my j
beard out. So I "stepped up" to Icehouse {
and Rolling Rock, until I heard my dad
wondering why Rolling Rock had all of
a sudden become a popular beer. It was 'c
the "Beast" of his college days.
As a sophomore, I acquired my first *
fake ID so I went out to drink occasionally
and could buy at places with a i
decent selection. I entered my "poser" j
beer stage. I experimented with the ]
likes of Samuel Adams and Pete's j
Wicked Ale, trying to show I had bet- j
ter taste, and was all of a sudden too good
for Natty and Buddy Light.
This was the low point of my college ,
career. Freshman year I could plead ignorance,
but sophomore year I tried *
to be something I wasn't. A shameful |
time. 1
My awakening ? my education ? f
came the next year, when I studied in <
^search be
work. Louis Pasteur, for example, '
was laughed at when he came up
with the idea 01 sterilizing meaicai instruments.
The idea of germs them- <
selves was only reluctantly accepted at
the time. The American Medical As- '
sociation started as a way to keep physicians
with different ideas out of work,
thus establishing "traditional" medicine,
even though the Harvard-educated
white men of medicine knew no more (
than "alternative" practitioners at the
time.
But around the turn of the century,
the practice of medicine became a
science. Strides in health care became
possible largely because (doctors began
to scrupulously apply the scientific
method to their practices. And everyone,
men and women of all races, benefited
from the new approach to healing.
In this country, white men benefited
more than anyone.
Suppose we have a bushel of tomatoes.
Let's say about half of this consists
of Roma tomatoes, and the other
half is cherry tomatoes. A farmer examines
the bushels. The Roma tomatoes
are bigger than the cherry ones.
They have a different shape and a different
taste, as well. They respond
differently to different soils, climates
and fertilizer.
If you're a farmer of Roma tomatoes,
you'll probably think the cherry
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tomatoes are exuuc anu cuiioiuei uie
Roma ones to be "normal."
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columns should bo an opinion piece of abo
if a student. Handwritten submissions must
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.... He
died so that we might have eternal
life. He taught the teachings of God.
Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior,
and it is a disgrace for him to compared
with the likes of Kurt Cobain, and although
Mr. Langston might think otherwise,
Jesus is still around and a part
of all of our lives today.
Kurt Cobain, on the other hand, destroyed
his life by leading a harmful
lifestyle. He fit the usual rock-star
stereotype of "sex, drugs and rock 'n'
roll." He did not die for the noble cause
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'The concept of 'beer' in itself was fascinatino
T didn't mind that it tasted like
frozen antelope urine."
England for the year. Here, I learned So now, when I feel like a beer or
;he difference between ale, lager, stout 12,1 just go to the Pantry and reach for
md bitter. I drank real beer out of re- the $6 12-pack of Busch Light. Sure, it
il pint glasses. It was served slightly tastes like water, and you can drink six
)elow room temperature, so you could i*1 about a half an hour. But I have no
ictually taste it. money, and it s beer.
When I came back last summer, I 1 am comfortable in my decision,
ealized that most beers here are just S?me bl*r P088? 1 knowLchas'lae "V
>ale imitations of what you can get in chfe ,?f beerI ^ S1P thelr K^13"8
i. r , , and ask how I can drink something so
Europe. Except for some good imports, , , , n lT, , , ,
? XTr j r. j ox tasteless. But I know what good beer
ike Bass, Newcastle and Red Stnpe, ; and j a]s0 know that Kmians js
he only way to find a decent beer is brewed in Colorado by Coors.
igarching for a decent microbrew. After a four.year odyssey> cheap
But of course, now that I know what beer has welcomed me back with open
rind of beer I like, what kind of beer I arms Maybe someday I'll be rich, and
actually like, I've run into a small prob- \<\\ be able to afford that keg of Bass. j
em: I can't actually afford it. Greene's But until then, give me a cold can of
s supposed to be the "discount" liquor Busch Light, and I'm the happiest man
store, but a six-pack of anything decent in the world.
:osts $6, $7 or even $8.
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"The medical profession, nearly as old
as humanity itself, has only become a
science within the past 100 years."
But if you're a scientist, you should to require severe treatment, which could v
realize that perhaps you can't decide have been avoided had doctors simply
one kind of tomato is more normal than listened to them,
another, especially when that kind of The good news is that the medical
tomato fills up half of your bushel. But community has realized that women
men were arbitrarily chosen as the stan- (and non-Caucasian races) don't condard,
and this, over the years, has cost form to a standard of "normal" that was
women comfort and years of their lives, ill-defined in the first place. Earlier in
The exclusion of women from this decade, for example, The NationIT
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medical studies that could have saved ^ institutes ui neaiin emoarKea on a
their lives is not the only injustice; fre- long-term, $625 million study of womquently,
problems predominant in s health, encompassing all ethniciwomen
were simply dismissed. Med- ^es socioeconomic strata. It s not
ical students were actually taught that a study o women s diseases, such as
women who had frequent, grueling breast cance.ror "^teopotosis (although
headaches were probably rich, bored ar? not mune to these), but a
and had nothing better to do than both- ^ "J 1 s health - die diseases
er important male doctors about it. affaf bumans- but ?** women
Only recently have female and male meI\,
~ J , , , , i I his study demonstrates one promismigraine
sufferers begun to be taken ingfactnotj4taboutthemediilcom.
seriously. Until the late 1980s, women J about our society: We are
w o went throug menopause in lncreasingly less afraid of our differ30s
and s?ueht mJed,cal advlce ences. Each such step taken by any inwere
too often dismissed as being up- stjtute is a step taken toward the
set at the idea of menstruation stop- raising of a generation in which only
ping. (Only a man could come up with prejudice isn't "normal."
that one.) Their cancer, it it were caught
in time, was usually caught so late as
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of saving the souls of billions of people. Lord and Savior, who I have dedicated
He died because he could not stand the my life to, to some dead rock star who
hurtful, meaningless lifestyle that he was addicted to cocaine, I tend to get
was leading and took his own life. So- a little offended. I am continually
ciety then turned him into some sort of amazed at the amount of garbage such
a hero or martyr. That's what's wrong as this that The Gamecock prints, and
with our society. We are turning frankly sometimes it makes me
scoundrels into heroes. Kurt Cobain ashamed of my school,
was elevated to a status he didn't deserve.
Jason Cromer
Kurt Cobain led a sad, tragic life Computer Science Freshman
with relatively little to show for it. So
as you can see, when you compare my