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‘I think that the proposal that we’ve given to faculty senate has a
lot more merit than some of the proposals in the past.’
Heather Hornick, SG Academic Affairs director, on drop/add date proposal
Page 4 _ Monday, March 5,2001
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Faculty senate should act
on drop date extension
It’s unfortunate Student Government President Jotaka Eaddy’s
greatest proposal, to extend the drop date, won’t happen dur
ing her term.
The faculty senate committee is holding up the extension of
five days before receiving a “W.” The Committee on Standards
and Petitions has had the proposal for two weeks.
This isn’t a hard proposal to pass. SG Academic Affairs Direc
tor Heather Homick said many of the faculty she’s talked to sup
port it, and students are overwhelmingly behind the proposal.
The number of students who signed petitions supporting the
change is almost three times the number of students who voted in
the SG elections.
There’s no reason not to pass the proposal and pass it soon.
The proposal won’t be approved until April, and it isn’t known
whether it can be implemented for the fall semester.
This behavior is expected from student senate, not faculty
senate. Obviously, vague faculty goals are more important to the
senate than passing a proposal that will make a meaningful differ
ence in the lives of students.
USC football players should be
punished, behave like adults
Reportedly, members of the Gamecock football team were
involved in a fight at Jungle Jim’s last Thursday. If the alle
gations are correct, then the members of the team who
were involved in the fight should be very ashamed of themselves.
Not only are the members of the football team representatives of
this university, but they are also supposed to be adults. And,
therefore, they should act like it.
No matter how drunk you are, that’s not a valid excuse for
getting into a fight with someone, particularly when you’re a
member of the football team and you’re supposed to be a shining
example to the rest of the student body. Also, just because you’re
a football player, that doesn’t make you Billy Badass and allow
you to pick fights with anybody you want.
From witness reports, the fight broke out when a football
player bought a fraternity brother’s girlfriend a drink. How silly
is that? Are we in middle school?
These football players should be punished by the Athletics
Department for fighting in a bar at Five Points.
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Letters
Gamecock’s issue
should not be SG
To the Editor.
Government isn’t meant to be
faultless: it’s made up of people. I’d like
to ask The Gamecock if they’ve done
everything they are capable of in their job?
Student Government IS ludicrous to
most students, but is it the people in
student government who make it so? I
guarantee that if different students were
officials, they would not stop your
criticism.
SG is the largest organization on
campus. Its membership is made up of
every single student in the university. SG
officials don’t have any real power. They
aren’t bribed or lobbied to change their
vote; no one cares if the president vetoes
a bill.
The real question isn’t whether
students are really represented by officials.
From what I have observed, no one cares
what the officials do unless it’s something
ludicrous to gossip about and read in
Viewpoints.
What does SG do for the university?
How does it make our education a better
experience? What role do you play in
making someone else’s education a better
experience?
I don’t understand why students are
reading about frivolous SG gossip when
they are misinformed about issues that
actually will affect them. I have overheard
three different students talking about
tuition increases due to 15 percent bud
get cuts. Our tuition will not be raised, and
the budget cut amount is not finalized.
This means two things. First, laige
budget cuts may not mean you pay
more, but they could be devastating to
USC. Second, the budget cuts are not
finalized. That means we still have a chance
to stop them.
Maybe The Gamecock should look
into these headliners. It is a lot easier to
be, as Spiro Agnew said of the press,
“nattering nabobs of negativism” than to
take action and make a difference.
Kathleen Young
Second-year Student
College of Engineering
Member of Nithya Bala’s campaign staff
Gamecock hardly
source for serious
issues, student says
To the Editor
Kudos to The Gamecock, sole defender
of the free world (“Senators have problem
with First Amendment,” March 2). They
are tree advocates of the First Amendment,
ensuring that this widely ignored part of
our Constitution remains intact.
The Gamecock, being so widely
respected and read, should tackle even big
ger issues: world hunger, AIDS, the
decrepit condition of humanity.
I suggest that the next staff editorial
be an endorsement of good weather.
Surely, weather cycles would come to their
senses and stop this pesky rain, snow and
wind that callously force university
students to buy coats, long-sleeved shirts
and pants.
The Gamecock valiantly draws the
line between good and evil. It alone can
protect the integrity of this country.
I have done my part, engaging fellow
students in debate about The Gamecock.
Sure, they always walk away. Most
people would argue that this is due to
indifference or boredom. But I see the
real reason: they walk away because they
fear the radical notions of 77ie Gamecock,
the guardian of life, liberty, and the
American way.
Nirav Mehta
Fourth-year Student
College of Liberal Arts
USC fans don’t want
Fogler any more
To the Editor
I would like to agree with Craig Smith’s
letter from Friday. Fogler needs to move
on.
When I came to USC three years
ago from Nevada, I was excited to see the
NCAA tournament team in action.
Sadly, after three disappointing years of
basketball, Fogler needs to accept
responsibility for the mediocre play on the
court.
I believe that we have the players to
compete out there, but they are not being
utilized well. Has anyone seen our offense?
Is it a wonder that when only one or two
people actually move around that it is hard
to score?
At the Tennessee game last Tuesday, I
heard someone behind me telling
Tennessee fans to go home because the
game’s over, but there was one minute left.
I thought, he hasn’t been to one of our
games before. The program and the uni
versity needs someone to energize the
school and the community — i.e. Lou
Holtz (can he coach b-ball too?)
Has anyone else noticed the attendance
at our games? If we can only fill half the
seats of our 12,000-seat arena, then how
are we going to fill the new 19,000-seat
arena?
Our Athletics Director, Mike McGee,
needs to bite the bullet and relieve Fogler
of his coaching duties, buy him out of his
contract and start searching for a
replacement. Maybe he should give
Pitino a call before he commits to UNLV
or get Cremens out of retirement.
Fcgler,go back to UNC. We don’t want
you here anymore!
Burton Hilton
Third-year Student
Darla Moore School of Business
Gamecock is risking
libel, humiliation
To the Editor
In the past weeks I have found myself
agreeing with The Gamecock endorsing
candidates for SG, not necessarily with
their choices, but with their right to make
such endorsements.
I was somewhat disturbed, since I
generally dislike any and every opinion
The Gamecock chooses to make. On
Friday, March 2, there was a happy return
to normalcy by way of the editorial
opinion, as it became clear that the
malicious advertisements on Monday and
Wednesday concerning Norm Jones had
originated from The Gamecock staff.
Those at The Gamecock purport to have
been informed by “sources” that Norm
was responsible for the heinous crime of
trashing 1,000 copies of the Gamecock.
Who are these sources? Are they reliable?
The Gamecock's readers have been given
no way to tell if it really was Norm who
was responsible. I feel that he was not,
having known him personally for some
time, but I fear that a majority of those
who read Friday’s opinion will take this
opinion as fact. Claims such as these c t’t
reasonably be made with no support. If
there really is evidence, show it to us!
Let’s assume, for the sake of
argument, that Norm was in fact
responsible for the destruction of the
papers. How does it follow that he should
resign or be fired? The Gamecock has
stated often that it is not controlled by SG,
but do they realize that SG is not controlled
by The Gamecock? I believe President
Jotaka Eaddy was wise to discount such
nonsense, and 1 hope the rest of The Game
cock’s readership will do likewise.
Wally Altman
Third-year Student
College of Science and Mathmatics
Not a crime to trash
school newspaper
To the Editor
For about one week now, The
Gamecock has launched an attack on Mr.
Norm Jones, alleging that he has violated
tenets of the First Amendment, should
resign from his position as SG’s Attorney
General and should submit a letter of
apology to The Gamecock. These
statements are being made because the
editors of The Gamecock believe Mr. Jones
is responsible for throwing about 1,000
Gamecock newspapers in the trash.
Mr. Jones does NOT owe The
Gamecock ANYTHING. As The
Gamecock has been quick to point out,
SG does not control what it prints.
Similarly, The Gamecock does not
control SG. Therefore, The Gamecock
can ask for Mr. Jones’ resignation until its
ink runs out, and he still doesn’t have to
honor that request.
“But he did something wrong,” you
might say at this point. My answer is, “No,
he didn’t.”
First, despite the presence of
numerous slanderous ads against his char
acter, The Gamecock has provided no
evidence that Mr. Jones actually did trash
issues of The Gamecock. The editors have
merely aiiuueu iu cuiuuymuub buuivres wuu
say Mr. Jones did so. Notice that no one
but the editors knows who these supposed
sources are, and furthermore, how
exactly they know that Mr. Jones is re
sponsible.
Second, assuming that these sources
are reliable (or even existent, for that
matter), Mr. Jones still hasn’t done any
thing wrong. If I take one copy of The
Gamecock and throw it away, then I
haven’t done anything wrong. Similarly,
if I take two and throw them away, no one
asks me to resign from anything. If I take
10 and throw them away, I still don’t have
to answer to anyone. Does one assume that
after a certain number, throwing away
issues of The Gamecock becomes a crime?
If so, how many can I throw away before
I’m thrown behind bars? Throwing
newspapers away is not a crime or
unethical. It is, at worst, wasteful.
Mr. Jones doesn’t need to resign. He
doesn’t need to apologize. He may need
to learn to recycle, but no one has yet even
presented proof to that effect. Instead, I
propose that The Gamecock apologize to
Mr. Jones before he gets smart and begins
contacting lawyers about slander and li
bel.
Richard Joy
Third-year Student
College of Engineering
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Student complaints
Candidate
campaign
immature,
annoying
o v e
over,
drunken
Five Points beggars.
Get out of the way
you beautiful
Z i p s h e e t
uisuiuuiurs. new
pest rode into town
last week. These
annoying creatures
are like exotic bugs
that comes out of a
cocoon,
consistently
pestering those
around it for a week
before dying as
suddenly as it came.
Phil Watson
is a third-year
College of
Journalism and
Mass
Communications
student. Reach
him at
gamecockviewpoints
©hotmail.com.
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about the vermin-people who plagued
campus with Student Government
campaign fliers last week.
I remember walking past the Russell
House one sunny day last week. One of
the candidates (you know who you are)
parked a BMW with balloons and signs |
on it trying to convince us to vote for
her. Just the thought of someone trying
to lure in voters because of a nice car is
enough to make me go ape. But to add
insult to injury, N’ Sync, or some other
flamboyant boy band, was blasting through
the BMW’s speakers. Simply said, it made
me want to take a knife to the car’s tires.
What was this candidate thinking?
What could this person’s logic have been?
“Maybe if I show off a really nice car
and play really detestable music, people
will like me more and vote for me.”
Then, as if being exposed to the
Backstreet Boys wasn’t enough, I was
harassed by some of this candidate’s
friends.
“Have you voted yet?”
NO! And I don’t want a little piece
of paper that has the candidate’s name |
on it! LEAVE ME ALONE!
These people are more aggressive
than a Zipsheet guy, a used car salesman
and Bill Brasky put together.
Want to know what really made
my blood boil?
At least three times in one week, one
of those campaign children slipped pieces
of paper under my door. This is ridiculous.
I only wish I could have been walking
out the door while they were doing it.
There would have been drama.
Putting pieces of paper under doors
is simply rude. No one’s going to vote
for you because you slipped paper under
his or her door. In fact, if you litter my
room with your papers, I hope you lose.
I’m not much for voting in SG
elections. I really don’t care who wins |
or loses. But this time, I voted. It was
after I woke up one morning and saw a
piece of paper that had been put under
my door. At that very moment, I got
online and voted for the guy running
against the candidate who put the paper
under my door.
race u, jvj ciccuuiis aie uuu. n b
basically a platform for overzealous kids
who want a false sense of power.
I even read about an SG member who
threw away a bunch of copies of The
Gamecock the other week. Grow up,
junior. What are you trying to do, have
a miniature scandal? Do you hope you’ll
have to testify before the student senate? |
Do you want your face all over the front
of The GamecocK! I hate to be the one
to break it to you, champ, but SG is just
not that important. Get a life. Find a new
hobby. Quit “playing politician,” because
there are only about nine USC students
who give a rat’s ass about you and your
fake little games.
Do you all think your little friends
passing out propaganda for your
“campaign” impress me? Do you think
you’ll make a better candidate because
you have a nice BMW and a Backstreet
Boys CD?
I’m not impressed. If you want to
play your little politician games and live
on false hopes of one day getting into the
real game, go ahead. Just leave me alone.
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