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IN OUR OPINION
More options
for mealtime
With a love for Lou Holtz and a hatred for Clemson,
being a USC student means appreciating healthy
competition. Next fall, USC Dining Services will also
learn to deal with healthy competition — the Five
Points Meal Plan.
The plan allows students or their parents to put
money into a debit account and purchase food with a
“meal” card at a variety of restaurants near campus.
The Five Points Meal Plan might prove to be an
ideal option for many students, especially those who
live off campus or aren’t satisfied
Five Points VS. with on-campus options.
the Grand And it’s something for Sodexho
Marketplace: to take into serious consideration
May the best as it bids for next year’s on
meal plan win. campus dining contract. This
alternate meal plan should
encourage Dining Services to work harder at
providing eating options suitable for all students.
On-campus food should be comparable with much
loved Five Points favorites, such as Yesterday’s and
Adriana’s Gelataria.
We’d also like to see a better variety of dining
facilities on campus. Who is actually satisifed with
the options in the Carolina Mall?
We believe the Five Points Meal Plan and USC
Dining Services can co-exist. We hope they’ll challenge
each other to keep the students’ best interests in mind.
May the best meal plan win.
Winners and Sinners
FOOTBALL Five players drafted by NFL; four
more sign contracts. Clint Mathis and Josh
Wolff will also play World Cup “football” this
summer.
GOVERNOR’S SCHOOL Science and Math
program roommates both ace SATs. Their pet
Siamese fighting fish scores a 980 and will
attend Clemson.
CLEMSON Zero players, including former
Heisman candidate Woody Dantzler, are
drafted, whereas fierce Humanitarian Bowl
competitor, Boise State, has two draftees.
Clemson is subsequently teased twice in same
“Winners and Sinners.”
JOHN MONTGOMERY School of Law dean
allegedly attempted to pursuade professors not
to testify against $25,000 per year donor. Might
have also advised Derek Watson not to inhale.
MONTICELLO Thomas Jefferson’s heirs
begrudgingly allow Hemings family members
to be buried — separate but equal — on estate.
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Thefuture whoops a llama’s ass
JASON HARMON
GAMECOCKVIEWPOINTS@HOTMAIL.COM
You don’t have to be
a fake Jamaican to see
what tomorrow holds.
As we prepare to graduate
and see how poorly college life
has prepared us for the real
world, or a reasonable
simulation, it’s time again for
one of those marvelous year
end columns.
Considering that the only
other major work I’ve had
published here was the lead
story in last year’s parody issue
(voted best issue ever by people
who never read The
Gamecock), I wondered how
much I had today. But it isn’t
every day you’re given an open
forum, and I’m sure the next
one Will be a long time coming.
As the great prophet Criswell
once said, “We are all
interested in the future, for that
is where you and I are going to
spend the rest of our lives.” Of
course, he also said Des Moines
would turn into a “homosexual
city” and that Denver would be
turned into congealed jelly via
your typical mysterious force
from outer space.
And while I have no ability to
see the future, except that
Clemson will always suck, that
can’t stop me from just making
up stuff. Therefore, through the
power of a rubber chicken, rich
sawmill gravy, secret voodoo
spices™ and a signed photo of
Bob Barker, here’s your “Guide
to Tomorrow” (expires April 23).
♦ After years of waiting, the
College of Journalism and Mass
Communications will finally
move to a new location.
Unfortunately, it will be in the
basement of the new arena.
♦ Boiling Springs, S.C., will
become a thriving metropolis
after naming the main road Phil
Petty Boulevard after its local
hero. It will eventually swallow
up my neighboring hometown
of New Prospect, where dozens
will weep for the lost past when
a stoplight is installed.
♦ The Gamecock will be able
to endorse candidates without
starting a campus-wide
controversy. (Sorry, this
actually happens in a parallel
universe where Jimmy “ J. J.”
Walker becomes president.)
♦ A Cryogenically frozen
Hulk Hogan will return in 2078
and become the 187-time World
Champion.
♦ Strom Thurmond will die.
(This one’s a bit fuzzy, folks.)
♦ Student Government will
pass a resolution calling for a
massive construction project
after running out of walls to
paint.
♦ In a final effort to beautify
the campus, all parking will be
eliminated. Students will park
in Irmo and ride mules down
1-26. Trustees will be carried in
sedan chairs down Main Street.
♦ Clemson will suck. (It
deserves repeating.)
♦ The major networks will
tone down their coverage of the
Robert Blake murder trial when
they realize no one in the key
youth demographics knows
who the hell Blake is.
♦ Future Gamecock farewell
columns will be measured
using the Jason Harmon
Memorial Self-Indulgotron
(patent pending).
Doesn’t the future look like
fun? It does to me, but I think I
inhaled a few too many secret
voodoo spices™. That would
explain the visions of
journalism professors singing a
heartbreaking rendition of
“Someday My Dean Will Come”
at graduation.
Remember, the future is
yours to harness. That is,
unless you’re carrying a trustee
to work.
Harmon is a fourth-year print
journalism student. He began
working at The Gamecock in the
first semester of his junior year
and has been a copy editor, wire
editor and staff jester.
IN YOUR OPINION
Article was biased
toward Israelis
Last Wednesday’s front
page article “Powell pushes
Israel to withdraw” totally
ignores the horrific atrocities
that Israeli troops are
continuing to inflict on
Palestinian civilians within
refugee camps.
News reports confirmed
that Israeli soldiers have
massacred hundreds of
civilians, many of whom are
children, within these camps.
They have bulldozed
Palestinian homes with
people still inside them. Israel
has restricted rescue services
to the camps, leading to the
deaths of Palestinians who
could have survived with
medical treatment. Why are
Palestinians the only ones
asked to stop violence, while
Israel is passively asked “to
withdraw”?
i ne Associated rress
article in The Gamecock
quotes from Tuesday’s
episode of PBS’s “News Hour
with Jim Lehrer.” I watched
this program on Tuesday, and
it showed footage of a refugee
camp in shambles after Israeli
incursions and of streets filled
with the rotting bodies of
Palestinian civilians.
Why didn’t the article
mention the hundreds of
Palestinian civilians killed by
Israeli troops? Aren’t their
lives of any value?
SHEIMA SALAM
TH!RD-Y!i\lt INTERDISCIPLINARY
STUDIES .frUDENT
Columnist should
see broader view
This letter is in response to
Ann Marie Miani’s column in
Friday’s paper. For Miani to
be a fourth-year print
journalism student, she has
no tact or skill in writing.
For her solutions for the
problems in the Catholic
Church: Modernized celibacy
won’t help the children who
are being molested and
exploited by Catholic priests.
People aren’t turned into
pedophiles overnight because
they aren’t engaging in a
normal relationship with a
member of the opposite sex.
They aren’t taking out on
young children their
frustrations about not having
sex. Priests could have sex
with nuns and leave children
alone. Obviously, these men
were sick when they entered
the priesthood.
Ahniit hnr iHoac ahflllt
slavery reparations, I’m an
African-American, and I don’t
want any reparations because
my great-grandparents and
their mothers and fathers
were slaves. But don’t
compare the labor of
European and Asian
immigrants to the trials and
tribulations of slavery. I don’t
recall Rockefeller cracking
any whips or branding any
immigrant for working in his
sweat shops. However,
immigrants should also be
given an apology because they
were degraded, just like the
slaves who were sold and
traded like they were cars.
I have no comment for her
opinions about Student
Government because they
deserve none.
For her last opinion: If you
aren’t an expert, don’t comment
on the subject matter. You don’t
know what the people in Israel
have been going through with
this war over a piece of land.
Americans really didn’t know
what it was like to have a sense
of pride and protection for our
DroDertv until Sept. 11.
Now, if someone took over
your home, would you not fight
for it? Or would you just say, “I’ll
go and buy another one”? Some
things aren’t that easy, and, if it
was, there would be perfect
harmony in the United States.
Finally, Miani shouldn’t
compare the trial and
tribulations of what is really
going on in the world to going to
see Paul McCartney. She needs
to do more research and get a
broad standpoint before she
comments on things. At least
Miani should see some of the
things that she is writing about
from another person’s
standpoint. Otherwise, articles
like this just take up valuable
space on the page.
But I guess that when you
live in the world and haven’t ,
been through a drastic
situation, you obviously don’t
know anything about how the
world really works.
CALVIN J. GERALD
FOURTH-YEAR ADMINISTRATIVE
INFORMATION MANAOEMENT STUDENT
♦ LETTERS, SEE PAGE 7
My college
days are
numbered
TAYLOR
MARSHALL-GREEN
GAMECOCKVIEWPOINTS@HOTMAIL.COM
My one biggest regret is
taking only seven years
to earn my degree.
“Well, it’s over now, yet lean
see somehow. When it’s all gone
wrong, it’s hard to be so strong.
We pay our debt sometime. ”
- ALICE IN CHAINS, over now
My days are numbered here.
My nights are numbered. My
classes are numbered.
I’ve been a college student for
seven years. Well, that’s not
altogether true. I’ve taken my
months off, gotten back into
college, quit, re-entered, slowed
down and sped up.
Now, after four majors, a
certain amount of required
credits, a couple extra ceramics
classes and some shitty class
called “University Something
or-other,” I’m wearing a
borrowed cap and gown this
May and receiving a hard
earned degree.
It wasn’t long ago that I got
juiced by doing a metal show on
WUSC, late at night.
That radio station we have
here did as much for me as any
class I’ve taken, A lot of nights,
it put me in the booth cutting
albums of Napalm Death,
instead of some bathroom in
Five Points cutting rails of coke.
Ah, the music scene in this
town. Besides a bunch of self
serving dolts who think to cut a
major record deal you have to
trash the rest of the city’s talent,
this place has a ton of potential.
Yet, this town is impotent when
it comes to people attending
shows.
JCjAcUiipie. wain iu
go to see Martian Death Lyric?”
“Nah, I’ve got a headache. You
go on without me, I’m gonna sit at
home and watch ‘Boy Meets World.’”
Get up! Go out and watch the
bands! Band members practice
in sheds that they pay for
monthly because they want you
to come out and hear their
music, not their parents.
I’ve done some awful things to
my body after live shows in this
armpit of the Bible Belt that we
call Cola-town — from getting my
head bashed in by beerbottles, to
getting beat down by a slew of
frat boys in the back parking lot
of Pavlov’s, to drinking bong
water in Bates House after
seasoning it with vanilla extract.
Hell, I’ve even slept in the briars
outside of the Blatt P.E. Center
because I fell from the train I was
hitching a ride home on (it was
easier to just lay in the thorny
patch than to raise myself from
it, hammered).
I don’t condone or advise
these activities. In fact, I
mention them as a tool to show
you how stupid you could be.
Don’t be me. I was a misguided
fool who was theoretical in
thought and even less consistent
in actions that served me in and
out of the classroom.
Yes, folks, the world calls, and
I must be the seven-year
graduate to answer the call in the
most kiss-ass voice I can muster.
Because it was more than one >
professor who told me that, to get
by in life, you’d better be
prepared to smell the scrotum.
And because of their insistence
on this principle, I’m at peace
with this “certainty” in life.
One thing I truly regret is
taking only seven years to finish
college—this football team we
have is going to win a national
title in a few years. My twin
brother has always made me
aware of this difference between
us. He went to the University of
♦ MARSHALL-GREEN, SEE PAGE t