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Quote, Unquote S‘1 don’t think I’ve been on any campus where the parking is great.” -Mike McLauchlin, manager, RH Bookstore Page 4 'dtC 031HCCOCk Wednesday, June 14,2000 Whe (Bamcock Serving the Carolina Community since 1Q08 Editorial Board Miranda LaLonde • Editor in Chief Ann Marie Miani • Managing Editor Pete Johnson • Viewpoints Editor John Huiett • News Editor Recording industry right in suing Napster he days of creating your own free, personal Winamp lists might soon be a thing of the past. The record industry, which undoubtedly has an ex treme hatred for Napster, the Web site that allows users to download mu sic files for free, has finally found a way to sue the company. The Recording Industry Association of America and the National Music Publishers Associa tion are arguing that the site is responsible for widespread copyright infringe ment. The two groups say they have no doubt that Napster was designed for the purpose of “facilitating piracy,” but that their lawsuit was not brought about with the goal of shutting the site down. Its intention is to protect copyrights. While many colleges have already banned Napster because of the network traffic problems it causes, and several have done the same because of pressure from the music industry itself, USC still allows its students to use the site. Artists and fans alike are tom on whether to support or oppose Napster. Ac cording to the site’s founders, the company isn’t doing anything illegal, since it only provides a forum for users to supply a product, in this case, music. However, is the music industry expected to sue the fans, the millions of people who use Napster every day? Attempting to do so would be absurd. It’s obvious that the site’s providers are to blame. Napster’s the brothel — if you provide the venue for an illegal activity, you are as much at fault as the people you’re servicing. While there certainly are positives to Napster — little-known bands can get much-needed exposure, and music listeners can get hard-to-find tunes and live versions of songs from their favorite bands for free — music that is copy righted is the property of the artist. When you exploit that copyright, you in fringe upon the rights of the artist. It doesn’t matter how rich or popular the artist is, they’re still losing money. About Us Address The Gamecock 1400 Greene Street Columbia. SC 29208 Offices on third floor of the Russell House. 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The Gamecock s the student newspaper of The University of South Carolina and is published Monday. Wednesday and Friday during the tall and spring semesters and nine times during the summer with the exception of university holidays and exam periods. Opinions expressed n The Gamecock are those of the editors or author and net those of The University of South Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communications s the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of Student Media s the newspaper's parent organization. The Gamecock is supported in part by student activities fees. The Gamecock Miranda Lalonde Jeff Romig Editor in Chief Sports Editor Ann Marie Miani Jacquelyn Poston Managing Editor Copy Desk Chief Features Editor Photo Editor John Huiett Sean Rayford News Editor Photo Editor Pete Johnson Will Gillaspy Viewpoints Editor Online Editor Stuoekt Media Ellen Parsons Jonathan Dunagin Director Graduate Assistant Susan King Todd Hooks Creative Director Creative Services Kenton Watt Brantley Roper Advertising Manager Gina McKelvey Carolyn Griffin Robyn Gombar Business Manager Melissa Millen Sherry Holmes Advertising Staff Classified Manager Erik Collins Faculty Adviser Washington Post 'hey, kips - mm a mi sport?" n^*7 ^i-y^ 1 Vi, Asm | m pm f Jt A H ''HEY—A NATIONAL ELECTION WITH SOME 6UY$ TO CHEER FOR" fm 1%. ~ i National Issues Screw green space, I want some place to park my car Well, they have fi nally done it. As part of the Master Plan, the university has closed the parking lots near the Rus sell House and the Thomas Cooper Library in order to create more green space. I just have one question... What the hell were they think ing? The last time I checked, USC had a major parking problem. So what do the bright, intelligent people who run this university do? They take away valu able parking to put up trees and flowers. Yeah, that’s right - freakin’ trees. Well I don’t know about any of you, but I could care less about trees. 1 want a place to park my car. The university wants to put in green space to beautify our campus. I can un derstand that, but when you have 26,000 students and 12 parking spaces you don’t take them away to put in a maple tree. That is absolutely ridiculous. Besides, this is a city campus. It might not be the largest city in the world, but it is a city nonetheless. USC doesn’t have to have rolling hills and green slabs of grass to be beautiful. We have city parks close to campus that have enough trees and grass. So once this green space is con structed, what are we supposed to do with it? Are we just supposed to sit on the new grass outside the Russell House in 100-degree heat and smell the pretty flowers? We can always have a picnic. Oh wait - we aren’t going to be able to do that since there is nowhere to park to bring a picnic lunch to the green space area. Hey, if you want to have a picnic, I say go to Riverfront Park. There is plen ty of parking and it’s free. USC officials have said there will be plenty of perimeter parking available af ter they take away the Russell House parking lot. OK, let’s think about this for a minute. Where the hell is the perimeter of USC? I have yet to figure that one out. - Just for argument’s sake, let’s just say that this “perimeter" does exist. Wbuld it be decal or metered parking? Most of the perimeter parking already around campus is meter. Now that is something I really can’t fathom. You pay $20 to get a student sticker for your car and then have to pay to park at a meter. Where is the sense in that? For example, last year many of my friends lived in Capstone. ALL the park ing around Capstone is metered parking. Why? I really don’t understand why the Capstone and Columbia Hall parking lots were metered. People got tickets for parking outside of their residences. Does that make any sense? USC has also reminded us of the park ing lots at the Coliseum and said there will a huge parking lot at the new Strom Thurmond Health and Wellness Cen ter. Wfell, let’s just take this piece by piece. First during the fall and spring semesters, the Coliseum parking lot is almost full by 9 a.m. How do I know that, you may ask? Well, I had a 9:30 class at the Coliseum and it took forever to find a Parking seepages Aran Marie Mian! is a Journalism junior and man aging editor. She can be reached at gamecockview points@hotmail. com