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Che (gamecock Experiment CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 I write about the lack of activism on this campus ... nothing. I write about parking on campus ... minimal response. But I say one word about Canadians and the letters pour in. I say the Catholic Church needs to adopt a point system so people know *how to get into heaven, and I get letters from priests. I swear you people wouldn’t know satire if it came up and bit you on the nose. And besides, it isn t like 1 slurred you people, anyway. My Canadian roommate even thought it was funny. At least she knows how to laugh at herself and the stereotypes about her people. I would just like to thank all of you who participated in this little experiment. I have conclusively proven that people at this university aren’t only humorless, but apathetic and bordering on lifeless. My advice to you all is to get a sense of humor and laugh at yourself once and a while. Because if you can’t laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at? I-1---!------—! ! Check out the best site on the Internet — www.dailygamecock.com Letters New York resident sees national problem with tuition increases To the Editor: I never attended USC. I never even attended school in South Carolina. But the national problem of higher and high er tuition has its poster child right here in South Carolina, and it is getting to a point, if that point hasn’t already been reached, that in order to get an ed ucation, lower and middle (and even some upper) class kids will either have to go to community college (which re ally is a good idea, but most do NOT want to go that route for some rea son), or go into such deep debt that it will financially ruin them for at least a decade. To increase tuition ten percent here, and nearly fifty percent at Clemson, WILL have disastrous consequences, and honestly, I know most of you will probably whine and say you’ll be poor for the rest of your life, but not fight it. If you do NOT protest...I don’t care what the excuse is...you are doing you and your fellow students a disservice. Just think...the past few years have been the best for higher education in decades, and STILL tuition increased on average higher than inflation. This is going to be a BAD year. And believe me...it is only going to get worse as the years go by. In ten years, I guarantee you that the country's econ omy will begin to suffer because of high student loan debt. Only YOU, the cur rent college generation, can fight this, and tell the people who went to college 30-50 years ago that times have changed, and that things are going to get worse before they get better...if it ever does get better. Thank you. Mark Yorsaner New Hyde Park, NY resident Columnist very wrong ‘aboot’ Canadians To the Editor: I’m going to tell you a story my (Canadian) father told me. When God made Canada, he called an angel into the room. “I’ve just cre ated the most wonderful place,” said God. “It’s got beautiful scenery, the peo ple are smart, they all have health care, and the standard of living is high.” “You can’t give one country every thing, God!” said the angel. “I haven’t.” replied God. “I’ve set them atop a country filled with the most arrogant, self-centered, violent, and ig norant people I’ve made so far.” That’s funny, right? What’s even funnier is that Ann Marie Miani wrote a column calling Canadians stupid in which she misused both “it’s” and “de fiantly.” Ironically enough, it was placed next to the editorial staff’s paean to the journalism school’s copy editing pro fessor. Doesn’t look like his class re ally worked for you folks. Funniest of all, however, is that the column called Canadians stupid for not arresting marijuana growers. I suspect the reason that growers in Canada are usually punished with a fine rather than a jail sentence is that Canadians are clever enough to realize that it makes little to no sense to clog the courts and jails with people whose crimes are es sentially victimless. Perhaps they learned that from watching the failures of the American war on drugs. Incidentally, if it weren’t for Amer ican stoners, Canadians wouldn’t have nearly the incentive to grow cannabis .that they do now — 90% of the marijuana grown up there finds its way into bongs south of the border. Per haps the 10% left over goes to people who are dying of AIDS and cancer and who use it for pain relief — that’s ac ceptable up there, see. Canada is a country where a far smaller percentage of people live in poverty that in the U.S. Compared to America, it’s a country where the life expectancy is longer, the infant mor tality rate is lower, the standard of liv ing is higher, the crime rate is lower, and where people who aren’t affluent still have access to health care. You tell me which country has stupider residents. Before I get accused of being hu morless, I do recognize that the column was intended to be at least partially satir ical. However, mixing a news report you caught one afternoon with cliched bleat ing culled from “Strange Brew” does n’t make for amusing reading. This col umn read like the rehashed braying of a half-wit anxiously and proudly demon strating her inability to write anything original or insightful — a nice little pic ture of the typical ugly American, in other words. Michael McLellan Submission Poucy Letters to the editor or guest columns are welcome from aB members of the Carolina community. Letters should be 250*300 words. Guest columns should be an opinion piece of about 600 words. Both must include name, phone number, professional title or year and major if a student Handwritten submissions must be personalty delivered to Russell House room 333. E-mail submissions must include telephone number for confirmation and should be e-mailed to gamecockviewpoints@hotmail.com. Though The Gamecock reserves the right to edit for Ifeei, style and space, letters to the editor will be published as is. Spelling, grammar and other mistakes will not be edited. Oily two letters to the ecfctor per student will be printed in a semester or Airing the summer. Staff columns take priority over guest columns, unless the guest columnist offers expense on a subject or if the subject's relevance is limited by time. Anonymous letters will not be published. Guest columns and letters may be submitted by e-mail to gamecockviewpojnts@hotmaB.com. Call (803) 777-7725 for more information. 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