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ft 9 ” “I’ve met all kinds of students v OnlinG. POII Rio have taken his course*;, and Should South Carolina extend they tell me he[s a great teacher.” the LIFE Scholarship to five AN DREW SORENSEN years? use president on the reputation^ WWW dailveamecock com R£TIRING PROFESSOR AND DEAN www.aauygamecocR..com. undergraduate affairs don greiner Results published online. «' In.our.opinion Board must reflect USC When South Carolina’s House of Representatives voted last week to oust the only elected female on USC’s Board of Trustees, it placed partisan politics above the need for diverse representation in the body that makes decisions that effect students everyday lives. Because Board members do not have to have administrative experience, but instead have the long term vested interests of the university in mind, there is no excuse that there is now only a single black and a single fe’male member. In a state that is nearly one now the sole lemale representative on the board, she is a gubernatorial appointment and not a member elected by the legislature. Theoretically, the legislature gives legitimacy to the Board of Trustees’ decisions, since they are a democratically elected body However, the homogeneous makeup of the board proves that there must be a radical change if faculty members, staff and students can place their confidence in the decisions it issues. Changes in the Board of Trustees will, by virtue of the process in the legislature, take a long time to ^ occur. But this does not free our elected representatives from the responsibility of pursuing an agenda of equality. South Carolina has a history of struggling with ensuring that vast segments of the population have a voice in the process. It is therefore unfortunate that the legislature voted Helen Harvey out of her post on the Board, and replaced her with William Jones, who has ties to House Speaker David Wilkins. Sadly, this mirrors the situation among officeholders at a local and state level, which are not representative of the state’s diversity. third black, and a university with more female students than male, to have a board that is so unrepresentative is an insult to students who enroll here. Although Darla Moore is V The loss of a female member of the Board of Trustees to _ political pressure 9 reinforces the need for diversity in state and local leadership. SOUND OFF Create message boards at iwww.dallygamecock.com or send letters to the editor to gamecockoplnlons@gwm.sc.edu Gamecock. Corrections If you see an error in today’s paper, we want to know. E-mail us at gamecockopinions@gwm.sc.edu. AboutThe.Gameeock Editor In Chief Adam Beam • Copy Desk Chief Gabrielle Sinclair Design Director Shawn Rourk Asst. Design Director Staci Jordan News Editor Michael LaForgia Asst. News Editor Alexis Stratton Viewpoints Editor Patrick Augustine The Mix Editor Meg Moore Asst. 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TO PLACE AN AD The Gamecock 11400 Greene St. Columbia, S.C. 29208 Advertising: 777-3888 * Classified: 777-1184 Fax: 777-6482 f smeGooy wants ^ r To 6m* \ lufo on ^'liV [vhtN A NO WH£R£ 0O T«£Y j want Y VO OMO 0(2 Tt/*& w 1 (5 6W6V, The PiAC£ | To IS ivSioe tub 1 U*s. «» M2tT££- 5AX5 E YovIl ee abl£ To coNtjecr I \The dots ano Be Tde^e[ - CARTOON COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS Tricks for summer-time fun It’s time to write something fitting and fulfilling. It’s time for me to sum up all that I’ve learned this year and leave you, gracious readers, with words of wisdom which will carry you through your summer spent working at Sonic and the Kwik-E-Mart. That’s not normally GRAHAM what I do, but CULBERTSON I’m going to Third-year . a» « !>«*• &S Here are just a few things to remember as you spend your summer pining for the good ole US of C. ♦ Home’s Not so Bad: If you go back home for the summer, and you really hate it, remem ber that this is one of the last chances you’ll ever get to stay at home. Your parents are suc cessful, established members of the community, and so they have much more money than you do. Make sure you’re nice to them, so you can take advan tage of free food, free living space, free gas, free movies and anything else which a “Yes sir, I’ll take the trash out right away, sir” can get you. After you graduate, you’ll actually have to work for stufflike that. ♦A Job is a Job is a Job, un less it sucks: If you are working this summer (which you should be, you scum of the earth, “I’m so rich I go to USC for the expe rience” Mount Pleasant resi dent) remember that any job which pays you is a job worth having, unless you really don’t like it. If you don’t like your job, but you can’t imagine working any where else (believe me, Barnes and Noble is never hiring. Try Starbucks, you corporate whore), your best course of ac tion is to fake an injury and get worker’s comp. Don’t get greedy; just ask your employer’s insurer to pay for lost wages and a couple hundred bucks for emo tional damages suffered when you lost your hand to the ICEE machine. (Note: You can make a lot more money if you actually lose your hand to the ICEE ma chine, but then you won’t have a hand anymore. You have to de cide if that’s worth it to you.) ♦Why Walk When You Can Pollute: At USC, or any school, there’s lots of walking involved; walking to class, walking back to class, walking to the Russell House, walking from shuttle stop to shuttle stop wondering why we wasted GPS systems on buses which we suspect to not even exist. At home, in Suburbanland, don’t walk anywhere. You’ve got a car, and it’s parked right outside of your house, so drive. Drive to the grocery store, drive to work, walk your dog with your car, drive separately from all your friends. Just drive. You did your eco-duty by living in an urban area with your car 1.7 miles away for the last nine months. This summer, con tribute to global warming. Who knows, we might even end up making those frigid Yankee cities tolerable (Note: This col umn advocates global warming if and only if it will flood New York. Otherwise, it’s just hot). So, wisdom imparted, anoth er year over ... I guess my job here is done. I’ll see you kids next year, same Cock time, same Cock place. Unless I’m fired over the summer. Peace out Gamecocks, and remember, don’t wear sunscreen. Cancer’s not that bad. In.your.opinion Advertising shows skewed perspective I am writing in response to the pro-life “advertising sup plement” titled “It’s My Life... And Hers Too!” included with Wednesday’s edition of The Gamecock. I certainly did not appreci ate the way in which The Gamecock sanctioned a single side of a particularly contro versial political and religious issue. I understand that the agency, the Human Life Alliance, paid for the advertis ing insert, but I find the unde niable relationship between the pro-life argument and conser vative religious concerns quite disturbing. A number of topics discussed in the insert contained mislead ing statistics and lacked ade quate arguments. Presenting in formation in this way is decep tive and could result in an oth erwise uninformed reader draw ing inaccurate conclusions based on One-sided evidence. I believe that a person can only reach a decision once he or she has accessed an unbiased source of information. By in cluding “It’s My Life” in a uni versity publication, The Gamecock placed its unofficial “stamp of approval” on the ideas conveyed within the in sert and thereby compromised its position as an unbiased me dia source. I hope that The Gamecock will amend this situ ation, perhaps by pursuing a feature discussing the pro choice argument, or with an ar ticle that addresses both sides of this heated issue. I hope that the editors will take greater con sideration when approving the contents of paid advertisements in the future. RACHEL BOWMAN FIRST-YEAR BIOLOGY STUDENT Holt misses point in Pledge column In his recent column (“Majority supports Pledge in schools,” April 19), Ryan Holt wrote an irresponsible piece that misrepresents both Michael Newdow and the separation of church and state. In misrepresenting Mr. Newdow, Mr. Holt makes a num ber of unsubstantiated claims. Mr. Holt says several times that Mr. Newdow is filing his Pledge lawsuit because he doesn’t want his daughter to hear the God filled Pledge. Mr. Newdow filed his Pledge case because he felt it violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment and simply wanted to restore the Pledge to its original wording (which con tained no reference to God). As Mr. Newdow has stated many times in public, he merely wants to get government out of the God business. This point about removing God from public life is important be cause it seems to be the central problem Mr. Holt is trying to ad dress. Unfortunately, this un founded belief stems from a mis understanding of church-state re lations. Allow me to educate: It is separation of church and state, not separation of church and pub lic life. The government does not equal public life, and vice versa. Nothing Mr. Newdow or believ ers in church-state separation are doing removes God from your home, your church or private business (all three of which rep resent the “public life” Mr. Holt is referring to). Government must remain neu tral with respect to religion be cause it represents a diverse col lection of religious doctrines (in cluding atheists like Mr. Newdow). Something tells me that if Mr. Newdow were fighting to have “one nation under Allah” removed from the Pledge, Mr. Holt wouldn’t be saying Mr. Newdow’s trying to remove God from public life. SCOTT CURRIER SECOND-YEAR POLITICAL SCIENCE STUDENT 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. Saying goodbye is never painless “The discipline of a daily dead line; the agony of debate between 'fact and humor; the disappoint ment of a headline; a story that just didn’t come out right; the ful fillment of a job well done—this is The Gamecock.” □ There is a plaque outside - our newsroom door with these wards in it. . They serve as a reminder of what working at a student BmiRK newspaper is KUUKK Hke an(j why Second-year you g0 through journalism *he ups and student down I have been doing journal ism professionally for almost sev en years. I have had somethin® of a nice career so far, meeting presi dents, basketball legends and some of my own journalism idols. It has offered me a very unique perspective on the ways of the world; one that I wouldn’t change in a heartbeat. It has also taught me some very important lessons _ ±__l_i_ ai au caiij oiagtz-. No situation is ever perfect. However, when you truly love to do whatever it is you do, any problem seems small compared with the result of your work. Journalism, and The Gamecock is no exception. No true journal ist has a glamorous job, and they certainly don’t do it for the mon ey. They do it because they love what they do. “To its staff, it becomes a member of the family — a child to be tended and loved.” The major impact and appre ciation for your work comes much later down the line. It is when you realize that everything that you report on, everything you design, every opinion that you put onto this 21-by-11.5-inch piece of newspaper is history’s first draft. You realize that ev erything you do in the newspa per — good, bad or else — gets a handy little call number and tag and is preserved for generations to come in the South Caroliniana Library. The work on the student-run newspaper staff is often never business-like. That’s the beauty of working on a student-run newspaper staff. You are always told to strive for a business ap proach to the newspaper, to the newsroom, and so on. You rarely achieve it, but that’s the beauty in it all. To be able to tell jokes, ditch the suit and tie, and be young and open-minded enough to not just get along with your co workers, but to have them as your closest circle of friends. No matter what, though, this is still a newspaper. And no matter how hard you try, things don’t al ways turn out the way you want them to. It’s inherent with any newspaper that you work at. And through extenuating circum stances, I will not be able to return to the staff next year, effectively ending all of the previously men tioned experiences. Journalism is a cutthroat business, some times. It’s something I have been all too aware of in my time work ing in the field. Nonetheless, the experiences are still there. The enjoyment that no matter how many times you watch the sun come up as you are trying to finish an edi tion, you were doing it with your friends. At the end of the day, you curse it, you hate it, you cannot stand being in the third floor of the Russell House another wak ing moment, but still you love it. This is The Gamecock. College.Quote.Board DAILY TARGUM ^*B^m!TijSR|l:SIVERSITV “As apart of an effort to explore its history, the University of Alabama apologized this week to the descendants of those slaves ^BSK owned by its faculty members. Faculty members overwhelmingly approved of the apology, calling it an important symbol of the strides the university is making in an effort to embrace diversity. The University of Alabama has historically had a poor record of racial equality but this and the erection of a marker to commemorate slaves buried on campus are steps in the right direction.” THE NEWS RECORD UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI “The CEO of McDonald’s, Jim Cantalupo, died on Monday. In a world where heart disease and obesity are leading health concerns it is ironic that the CEO of a major fast-food chain dies of heart failure. The thing is, people are quick to blame fast-food for poor health and obesity, but they ignore that there are more and more healthy op tions everywhere. The idea of fast food is convenience—it is not to of fer gluttonous meals designed to tip your scales. ” , COURTESY OF U-WtRE