Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

Quote of the Day ‘Obviously, the Gamecocks are smarter than their Clemson counterparts, who think that anyone is go ing to put up with a 40 percent increase. ’ Dr. Clay Nichols, Father of USC student Wednesday, June 27,2001 %\\ e (Bamccock 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 Price excellent choice for journalism dean We at The Gamecock wish to offer a hearty and heartfelt con gratulations to Henry Price of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications for being named interim dean. The college has been searching for a replacement dean ever since Judy VanSlyke Turk resigned last year, finding a temporary replacement in Ronald Farrar. Farrar proved a worthy and capable interim dean, but when he announced he would be retiring at the end of the summer, the college was once again forced to search for a replacement. The students and faculty of the J-school need not worry. The next choice for dean was never more than a few steps down the hall. Price, known as a driven, brilliant professor to colleagues and a holy terror to undergraduates, is the ideal man for the job. Staff members of The Gamecock fondly recall their days under Price's tutelage, when Price would introduce himself on the first day of his beginning copy editing course with the now-famous quote, "I don'tgive a damn about your self-esteem." Yes, he seemed rough. Yes, those three months were quite possibly the hardest a student would ever have to live through. But we learned under Price. He taught us the basics of copy editing, drilling them into our heads so severely we were left no choice but to learn them. When we survived his class, we were automatically looked on with respect and admiration from other students. But beyond more than 30 years of teaching experience, Price has been president of Faculty Senate and associate dean of undergraduate studies for the College of Journalism and Mass Communications. Price is the perfect choice for dean. As his students, we knew all along he was at the top. About Us The Gamecock is the student newspaper of the University of South Carolina and is published Monday. Wednesday and Friday during the fall 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 803-777-7726 Editor in Chief gamecockeditor@hotmail.com News gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Viewpoints gamecockviewpoints@hotmail.com Spotlight gamecockspotlight@hotmail.com Sports gamecocksports@hotmail.com Online www.dailygamecock.com The Gamecock Betsy Baugh Community Affairs Jia LI Page Designer Student Media Erik Collins Sarah Sims Faculty Adviser Advertising Manager Ellen Parsons Maegen Thornton Director of Advertising Sales Student Media Carolyn Griffin Susan King Business Manager Creative Director _ ,, , Sherry Holmes Todd Hooks Classified Manager Creative Sendees College Press Exchange DUBYA CMW THE EUROPEANS... - ~\ jtesK%gMK>.jhiM m>x > YML! SUB>Tl€... HE SEEMS TO feE. SIGNALING HlS STANCE. ON m POLLUTANTS, c TSfe Mary Jane: Canada s new cash crop, eh Canadians are stupid. I know this isn’t a new concept, but our neighbors to the North I > i Ann Marie Miani is Viewpoints editor and can be reached at gamecockviewpoints ©hotmail.com. keep proving they’re lacking in mental capacity, eh. I came to this realization Sunday afternoon, while watching MSNBC’s “Pot Wars: Canada’s New Cash Crop.” In this report, it Became obvious that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have no idea how to deal with marijuana growers and traffickers, eh. The report profiled the growing of B.C. bud, a high-grade form of marijuana, in British Columbia and what the Mounties are trying to do to deal with it. This marijuana is making it’s way into the United States, selling for up to $70 an ounce, eh. There are several thousand “grow houses” in British Columbia where hundreds of plants are grown and then sold in Canada and the United States, eh. Some of the growers run several houses and make several thousands of dollars a week and more than $1 billion in profits per year in British Columbia alone, eh. Canada is known for its lenient drug laws. But now, the Mounties are being pressured by their own government and the United States to become harsher in their drug laws, eh. The drug enforcement division of the Mounties defiantly needs some help when it comes to raiding and arresting the people in these houses, eh. They seem to have the raiding part down; it’s the arresting part they need to work on, eh. Here is the situation, eh: The Mounties find out where the grow houses are, stake them out and make the raid, eh. They remove all the marijuana from the house in garbage bags and burn it (yeah, I bet they “burn” it) and put a sign outside the house they raided, eh. “It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if no arrests are made, then problems won’t only continue, but will also get worse. If the Canadians want to stop the “pot problem,’’ then they have to start cracking down, and that means arresting the growers, eh” That’s it. The people who are running the houses are taken away in handcuffs, but aren’t arrested, eh. One of the Mounties said they Canada see page 5