Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Quote of the Day ‘Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway.’ Elbert Hubbard Wednesday, June 6,2001 (5am eco ck , Serving the Carolina Community since 1908 - Editorial Board Mackenzie Clements, Editor in Chief Ann Marie Miani, Viewpoints Editor David Cloninger, Sports Editor Cristy Infinger, News Editor Rick Johnston, Asst. Sports Editor Problems still exist with Palms' decision We were pleased to find out that President John Palms decided against running for the U.S. Senate. He’ll be at USC to continue with the goals he’s set during his tenure. However, there are still some problems surrounding Palms and his temporary dive into the political scene. Because he declared himself a Democrat during the process of arriving at his decision, how will this affect USC’s ability to secure funds from the State Legislature? The question begs: how do the state’s Republicans feel about having the state’s flagship educational institution under the leadership of a declared Democrat? Also, how does this affect private fundraising, considering it’s a pretty safe bet that a lot of “big money” donors probably have some political affiliation? Palms also left a lot of people wondering about the future of the uni versity for months on end. In fact, he didn’t give his final decision until well after students had left for the summer. While the event was a big deal within the borders of the state of South Carolina, many out-of-state students were left in the lurch as far as what was happening at their school. We hope the damage done to the reputation of both Palms and the university aren’t totally irreparable. Palms hopefully will be able to put this behind him in order to ensure the success of the bicentennial celebration, lead USC through the potential budget crisis and take USC to new levels of prosperity by continuing his quest to become a member of the American Association of Universities. About Us The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published Monday. Wednesday and Friday dunng the fal and spring semesters and eight times during the summer with the exception of university holidays and exam periods. Opinions expressed in The Gamecock are those of the editors or author and not those of the University of South Carolina. The Board of Student Publications and Communications is the publisher of The Gamecock. The Department of Student Media is the newspaper's parent organization. The Gamecock is supported in part by student activities fees. One free copy per reader. Additional copies may be purchased for one dollar each from the Department of Student Media. ADDRESS The Gamecock 1400 Greene Street Columbia, SC 29208 Offices on third floor of the Russell House. Student Media Area code 803 Advertising 777-3888 Classified 777-1184 Fax 777-6482 Office 777-3888 Gamecock 80^777-7726 Editor in Chief gamecockeditor@hotmail.com News gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Viewpoints gamecockvievpoints@hotmail.com Spotlight gamecockspotlight@hotmail.com Sports gamecocksports@hotmail.com Online www.dailygamecock.com The Gamecock 'IjillHHHHHBBHHH Betsy Baugh Community Affairs JiaU Page Designer Student Media Erik Collins Faculty Adviser Elen Parsons Director of Student Media Susan King Creative Director Todd Hooks Creative cervices Sarah Sims Advertising Manager Maegen Thornton Advertising Sales Carolyn Griffin Business Manager Sherry Holmes Classified Manager College Press Exchange Chuck is a real American, so he says Chuck is a good American, a real American. He’ll tell you so. Brock Vergakis *s former editor in chief of The Gamecock and is contributing as a guest columnist. He can be reached at gamecockviewpoints @ hotmail.com. However, Chuck doesn’t consider South Carolinians or anybody else east of the Appalachians to be real Americans. And Chuck knows what a real American is because he’s from North Dakota. He’s from the heartland of America where real Americans live, work and go to school. Trust me, he’ll tell you so. Sure, all you liberal arts majors might think you know a thing or two about history, but you really don’t. I know because Chuck told me. Chuck earned his degree in history from a good American school — the University of Minnesota. While there, he refused to read the campus newspaper because it had columnists he deemed too liberal. And good Americans always choose to read as many opinions as possible that they already agree with. And if there aren’t enough conservative columnists in a newspaper, then it obviously has no value, even as a carrier of non-biased news articles. I never thought this was true before, but Chuck told me so. While I talked to him at a cafe in Warsaw, Poland, he told me a lot of other things, too. He told me how he felt sorry for my friend Amy because she had a Jewish heritage. He told me the Jews need to quit whining about the Holocaust. So what if six million Jews were systematically exterminated, their remains used for fertilizer, their hair for textiles and their children for sickening experiments? It’s not like bad things haven’t happened to other people. He’ll tell you so. War’s a bitch, but bad things happen in every war. You don’t hear Chuck whining about serving in Vietnam, and that was horrible. But remember, he’s a real American. An “And after my friend left, he told me how his daughter was going to get a good education, unlike my friend, who obviously had a needless obsession with facts. More than anything else he said, this frightened me. ” educated American. Unlike me and my friend, who just graduated with a degree in history from the College of St. Elizabeth in New Jersey, Chuck knows his history. You see, our conversation with Chuck Chuck seepages