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4 THE GAMECOCK ♦ Friday, January 23, 2004 ■ —h-m m ✓"—vi “If is like a game. We imitate Online.Poil 1 1 1 f I \ t \ I r I 1 ( 'i tile babies, and the babies imitate Should USC retire former I IJ 1 \ / I_fg I \ ' I ' us ” basketball player BJ McKie’s I I | , * / ■ / I I g I i KATHERINE DAVIS ior.ou, ■ ■ l ml ml ■ ■ m « I L 1 graduate student IN music about the new jeisey. ■ ■ A W W ■ \ W ' M Iff MUSIC PLAY CLASS AT THE CHILDREN'gpjSIC wwW.dailygamecock.com m - M A 1 f m _ l_ 1 m r\ / development center. Results published on Fridays. -— - ————— In.Our.Opinion Slow search hinders USC USC’s hiring of Burnele Powell as dean of the law school is good news considering that the school was without a leader for almost two years. However, it also highlights the problem that USC faces in attracting deans. Searches are underway for a provost as well as deans for the pharmacy school, the yet-to-be-formed college of arts and sciences and the Arnold School of Public Health. Dean searches are taking entirely too long, as evidenced by a survey of faculty members who identified the process as their number one concern. A lack of consistent The length of leadership is a serious dean searches problem for existing for major colleges departments and schools as Cripples the vision they grapple with the effects ^ a^ , of budget cuts, and even more has for USC’s , , ’ . ... . so for new departments like progress the College of Arts and Sciences. USC President Andrew Sorensen has proposed many sweeping changes and improvements to USC’s organizational structure. But for the ideas to be effective, they must be supported by strong personalities committed to innovation. This is impossible if dean searches follow the trend seen in the law school committee’s slothful approach to the process. Granted, it is important to be methodical to ensure candidates have quality experience, but the systematic nature of the problem suggests that another approach should be pursued. In any large organization, be it federal government or a state university, one of the biggest hurdles to timely responses is the institutionalized bureaucracy that prevents the use of new solutions to old problems. For Sorensen’s vision of a better university to come to life, he and the administration must find ways to hasten the search process for administrators. Gamecock.Corrections ' In Wednesday's The Mix, the Manifest graphic should have been credited to Mary Pinckney Waters and Shawn Rourk. In Wednesday's corrections, Lucas Black's name was misspelled. The Gamecock regrets the errors. If you see an error in today’s paper, we want to know. E-mail us at gamecockopinions@gwm.sc.edu. AboutJhe.Gamecock Editor in Chief Adam Beam Copy Desk Chief Gabrielle Sinclair. Design Director Shawn Rourk News Editor Michael LaForgia Asst. News Editor Alexis Stratton Viewpoints Editor Patrick Augustine The Mix Editor Meg MooFe Sports Editor Wes Wolfe Asst. 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TO PLACE AN AD The Gamecock Advertising: 777-3888 1400 Greene St. ( Classified: 777-1184 Columbia, S.C. 29208 Fax: 777-6482 NKZK To HOST PA v\o TALKSHowAS A IWZZal ypuK 15 yO'j'PZr LI STP^lN^ To At pf^AN/K^ u/VTH YovP S&HJ pA!2- AN? jb f2v/5H UmOAv^H \NrtH > YWf2- ttp-^ CARTOON COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS Capitol claps to Bush beat The Capitol. President George W. Bush enters through the back door of the House chamber. Smiling and shaking hands, he has forgone the customary solid colored red or blue tie in favor of one with a pic ture of comic strip character Dilbert. Bush approaches the podium, takes his place and begins his State of the Union ad dress. DAVID STAGG BUSH: Third-year GOOOOOD media arts MORNING student VIETNAM! Silence. BUSH: Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, distinguished guests, fellow citizens, my milkman, the gardener, Col. Mustard and Mrs. Peacock: Americans are proving once again to be the hardest working people in the world. The American economy is growing stronger. The tax relief you passed is working. Applause from the Republican Party, approximately half of the crowd, while approximately one third of the Democratic party can be seen playing its Game Boy Advances. Cut to shot of secretary of commerce in a hidden bunker in the Andes Mountains. Cut to shot of secretary of Game Boy Advances in crowd, ironically seen playing Atari. BUSH: Tonight, members of Congress can take pride in great works of compassion and reform that skeptics had thought impos sible. You are giving our senior citizens prescription drug cover age under Medicare. Standing applause. However, as Vice President Dick Cheney sits down, a loud noise can be heard. Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert has placed a whoopee cushion in his chair. More ap plause. BUSH: Our greatest responsi bility is the active— Presidential hopeful Howard Dean blatantly interrupts Bush by throwing open the back doors. DEAN: Mer mer blah squiggle California! New Mexico! British Columbia! Istanbul, Turkey! The louder I yell, the more my face be comes a dark shade of cherry red! After this statement, Dean runs his body through the back wall of the House, costing tax payers approximately one year of Dean's gubernatorial salary. Standing ovation. BUSH: The United States and our allies are determined: We refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger. Applause. Cut to shot of Senator-ette Hillary Clinton. Her thoughts become audible. CLINTON: God, I've got a huge Overbite. More applause. BUSH: Since we last met— Applause. BUSH: —in this chamber — More applause, this time only from the Republicans, as the Democrats swear it's not a "cham ber” they're in, per se, but rather a large room. BUSH: — combat forces of the —More applause. This time, how ever, it comes from both parties be cause New England Patriots quar terback Tom Brady has just suc cessfully defeated first lady Laura Bush at paper football in the grand stand. BUSH: All right. I can handle Iraq. I can handle being com pared to Hitler by political Web sites. But this applause thing is getting out—Just then, a faint noise can be heard. It gets louder as Bush continues his line but soon overwhelms the speech, and Bush is forced to stop. CELL PHONE: Beep beep, bee dle beedle beep beep. COLIN POWELL: Sorry, that's me. In Your Opinion University calendar undermines Easter As I entered my classes this spring semester, I was told by my professors that students no longer get the Monday after Easter off from school. For many students, this is traditionally a time to visit rel atives out of town to celebrate the religious holiday that falls on a Sunday. Instead, we must now rush through plans with aunts, un cles, cousins and grandparents to come home on Easter day. I, for one, always visit my large family in Atlanta, where we traditionally gather on Sunday for church, Easter egg hunts and a family dinner. Now it seems as though Easter is not important enough of a holiday to grant a day off from school. I am very disappointed with the recent priorities of the uni versity. MONICA GILBERT THIRD-YEAR ADVERTISING STUDENT. Teach-in example of open dialogue Last night at A1 Franken's lecture in the Koger Center, the audience was treated to a com bination of humor, accusation and information. During the question and answer period, a few people emerged from the audience to approach the mi crophones, or as Strom might say, “the machines.” These people included ac tivists, Student Government members and one memorable Young Republican who asked Mr. Franken for an opinion about the persecution and marginalization of politically conservative student groups within the university system. He cited the exclusion of mem bers of his club from a Teach In, or free speech forum, held in fall 2002 at Preston College. Exclusion! Excluded? This deserved a response, but not from A1 Franken, who was unaware of the discrimi nation in question but was sure that at least the club was suffi ciently funded, but rather from someone who had been there. The members of Hal French's class on the nonvio lent tactics of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. wanted that Teach-In to allow people to communicate about the U.S. war on terrorism. That day, the principal orga nizers and moderators, my classmates Elizabeth “Puck” Catanese and Joey Oppermann, certainly gave those Young Republicans who attended the chance to speak. But eventually, the Young Republicans began passing the microphone to each other; that is to say, the Young Republican Club members attempted to fili buster this public forum, as though there was some goal at tained by preventing people from openly disagreeing with them. But the goal for us was to edu cate everyone. This goal was the reason why Mr. Oppermann end ed their filibuster. He did, I suppose, exclude pen pie who wouldn't listen or share from monopolizing the time of those who would. But I don't think it was at all based on the fact that these guys were conser vatives. I can't wait for the next teach in. MARIANNE PARRISH FOURTH-YEAR FRENCH STUDENT. The Gamecock is looking for editorial cartoonists. E-mail gamecockopinions @gwm.sc.edu Submission Policy Letters to the editor should be less than 300 words and include name, phone number, professional title or year and major, if a student. E-mail letters to gamecockopinions@gwm.sc.edu. Letters will be edited for space, possible libel and style. Anonymous letters will not be published. Call the newsroom at 777 7726 for more information. College kids need laundry tutorial I have come to the realization that everything you need to know in life you're not going to learn in college. Sure, in our little mi crocosm of society you can read anything from Homer to Douglas Adams, prove mathematically that time travel is possible and even perform intricate tests on the resilience of your liver. But can you sew on a button? The first and only time I took a home economics class was in the sixth-grade. We learned how to cross-stitch and to make green bean casserole (read: every thing comes from a can). An KRISTEN elementary sci GILMORE enc® teacher Second-year ^ught my class theatre how t0 make student doughnuts. That's about it. After living on my own for a while, I've realized that there are a lot of vital life skills I don't have ■ — and college isn't going to teach me any of them. For instance, how many stu dents can honestly say they know how to replace an appli ance plug? I don't mean buying a new Ethernet cable and hearing that satisfying “click” as it secures it self into the back of your Mac, but actually cutting off a spark throwing old toaster plug, strip the plastic and properly reat taching the wires to the prongs of a new one. It's simple maintenance, takes about five minutes and can save your home from fire. But do you know how to do it off the top of your head? How about a task you dread— laundry. Separating lights from darks, using proper washing and drying cycles, detergent, fabric softener, bleach — I have dozens of neighbors who have ruined a favorite white blouse by throw ing their crusty red underwear in with it. My sister has destroyed count less garments of mine from thinking that every load needs a healthy dose of Clorox. Laundry is deceptively simple, but if you aren't sure, it would be a good idea to get that cashmere sweater professionally cleaned. Here's a big one, ladies — auto maintenance. I'm guilty of it as well — I claim I'm too weak to change a tire, and I'm too chick en to replace my own battery. I do know how to add oil and re place belts and hoses, but when it comes to the engine, I fork over the cash to get someone else to look at it. There is money to be saved — or spent on pretty things — by learning to tweak and tune your car yourself, but most of us are up a creek. There are numerous skills typ ical students never learn — ba sic plumbing, household carpen try, cleaning, budgeting, first aid, culinary arts and personal grooming, to name a few. A lucky few were raised to un derstand these and are doing well for themselves, but the rest of us survive off of the GMP and 7 FIXX. I have an idea for a new ap proach to University 101 — how about retitle it, “How to Survive.” Classes could take informative field trips to Laundromats, local garages and soup kitchens while learning the basics of mechanics and CPR in the classroom. No more of that silly “write a fake term paper” drivel. It would be the one collegiate course that would still be useful in ten years. I think it's brilliant. Oniine.Poll Should USC’s law school raise entrance requirements? Yes 74% No 26% Yes, it could give them prestige in the Southeast” SAMIR MASIC FIRST-YEAR FINANCE AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDENT I ‘No,because they are a state institution.” MICHAEL MCGOVERN CONTINUING EDUCATION STUDENT “If I was a law school student I’d go to Charleston.” KIMBERLY CRAWFORD FIRST-YEAR NURSING STUDENT RESULTS FROM WWW-.DAILYGAMECOCK.COM