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EDITORIAL BOARD
EDITOR
■ Adam Beam
DESIGN DIRECTOR COPY DESK CHIEF
David Stagg Gabrielle Sinclair
NEWS EDITOR VIEWPOINTS EDITOR
Michael LaForgia Wes Wolfe
THE MIX EDITOR SENIOR WRITER
Meg Moore Kevin Fellner
IN OUR OPINION
Explore alternative
to course packets
When students start buying books, they usually budget
for textbooks and study guides and pray they can get
away with paying less than $300. But about the first or
second week of class, students are hit with a surprise
attack: course packets. These silent killers range anywhere
^l^om 30 to 300 pages, and prices can approach triple dig
*ws. They’re full of documents, journal articles and book
excerpts that professors expect students to read for class.
Students are already paying
Professors Hundreds of dollars for required
should make use textbooks; they shouldn’t be
Of Blackboard to required to pay for snippets
ease students’ from other books that are rarely
financial burden. used. Professors have access to
Blackboard, an online forum for
students to talk to their professors. But most professors
don’t use this service.
Professors should consider posting these articles on
Blackboard so students could have the option of printing
jThem out or just reading them off of their computer
"Lcreen. We understand that some students don’t have
printers and don’t like the idea of reading a 30-page arti
cle from a computer, so we are not advocating eliminat
ing course packets.
(Jne additional issue, though, is that usually professors
would make copies of what they want to pass out to the
class or have their student assistant perform that needed
task. If using university copiers completes this task, the
professor isn’t laying out any money, and neither is the
student. It isn’t right for professors to ask students to pay
out so much money just to save time.
If students want to pay $90 to have a physical course
packet, that’s fine. But it’s also fine if students want to
read articles off of Blackboard or receive the handouts in
||' ass and save their money for buying football tickets
\rom scalpers in front of Williams-Brice Stadium. We
should have this option.
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SPORTS EDITOR
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■ '
To love GameDay is to know it
■ Your complete guide
to the ESPN college
football show is here
So it has come to this. Yes, just a
few short years after the painful 54
17 drubbing USC’s football team
suffered at the hands of Rex
Grossman and his merry band of
reptiles (not to mention the even
more painful sight of Lee Corso
wearing an Albert the Alligator
mascot head), College GameDay is
returning to the fair environs of
Columbia this Saturday. I thought
I’d take the time to introduce you,
the non-football fanatic, to the
world of College GameDay.
For starters, College GameDay is
a traveling ESPN show that
broadcasts from the site of the
biggest college game each week.
This week, thanks to Notre Dame’s
loss, our match-up against Georgia
is that game. So, this Friday and
Saturday, the GameDay crew will
be on hand to whip the USC crowd
into a frenzy before donning
various UGA-themed materials and
predicting a 54-17 victory for the
bulldog boys. Who are these men
who hold such power over the
hearts of college football fans? I’ll
tell you.
The GameDay Crew (not
including countless techs,
cameramen, a teleprompter, and
Home Depot employees) is made
up of three men, each with their
own distinct
personality
(sorta). Kirk
Herbstreit, a
former
quarterback, is
The Blond
Pretty One.
Every week,
GRAHAM b 1 o n d i e
CULBERTSON disappoints
thousands of
FOURTH-YEAR autograph
ENGLISH , 6 /
STUDENT seekers when
he tells them
he doesn’t sign
body parts or
panties. Nevertheless, countless
panties are thrown on stage at him
every week, and I expect that he
takes some of them home. Probably
the pink ones.
Kirk’s foil and partner in crime is
Lee Corso, The Old Guy Who Must
Know What He Is Talking About
Because He’s Old. Mr. Corso
makes amusing predictions, dons
mascot heads, would probably sign
panties but is never asked to, and is
by far my favorite member of the
crew. His catchphrase is “Not so
fast, my friend,” which he utters
whenever Kirk is talking faster than
his geriatric ears can hear. Even
though he will probably pick the
Georgettes to win the game, he has
written in the past that, “[Lou
Holtz] is one of the few coaches I
ever felt seriously outcoached me.”
That, plus his hilarious sayings and
antics, makes him worth two pretty
blonde ex-quarterbacks.
Rounding out the GameDay
triumvirate is That Other Guy.
He’s not blonde, he’s not old, and I
think I even spotted him in Athens
covering water polo. I looked up his
name on the College GameDay
website and it’s Chris Fowler,
whoever that is. Anyway, he seems
nice, but that’s about all I can tell
you. At least he has more
personality than Rex Grossman.
Finally, and most importantly,
you should remember that when
these guys do GameDay, they
usually talk about the local
nightlife. If I were you, I would
start cruising the bars down in Five
Points starting Friday night, and
you just might get to buy a pint at
Delaney’s for one of the two most
popular men in college football,
and that other guy. That way
they’ll have to give you a shout out
on Saturday morning, right before
they pick UGA over the Cocksters,
63-17.
Well, now you know everything
you need to know about College
GameDay, the hosts, and where to
find them. Just don’t look for
them after the game, because after
we beat the bully-dogs from down
south, they’ll hightail it out of
town from the shame of not
picking an upset. Otherwise, we’ll
have to make sure that Corso ends
up with a Cocky head on before
the celebration ends.
IN YOUR OPINION
Blackout for game
only helps Bulldogs
I appreciate the efforts you
are making at encouraging
enthusiasm and spirit at football
games. Congratulations to the
Gamecocks for their win on
Saturday over a good Vanderbilt
team.
I noticed that the Student
Gamecock Club (“ESPN to
broadcast from stadium,”
Wednesday) is encouraging all
fans to wear black to games that
start after 5 p.m. While it is
important to build spirit, I don’t
believe this is a good idea. One
of the last times we had one of
these “blackouts” happened to
be the last time GameDay came
to town, the 2001 Florida game.
The Gators scored freely against
us, and I remember Florida
coach Steve Spurrier
commenting after the game that
his receivers were thrilled with
the black background our fans
provided. It made it very easy for
them to pick up the ball. In his
post-game interview on ESPN,
he thanked us all for helping
them by wearing black.
I expect this Saturday will
feature similar offense to that
awful night. We are more
ground oriented, Georgia will be
more pass oriented, though not
to the extent Florida was under
Spurrier. I think wearing black
provides an advantage to our
opponent under these
circumstances. Hopefully, the
5:35 p.m. kickoff will help
some, as the 2001 Florida kick
off was 7:35 p.m. or 8:05 p.m.
and, being later in the year, it
was dark.
Please keep this in mind when
scheduling future “blackouts.”
As long as we feature a
predominantly run attack, we
would be better served by
encouraging our fans to wear a
variety of garnet, black and
white.
CHIP MORGAN
Chemical engineering, ‘85
Infantile Wallace
talks about nothing
This letter is in response to
Joel Wallace’s column (“Carolina
aside, I’m ready for football,”
Wednesday). His column jumps
around more than a child with
attention deficit disorder. He hits
on five different subjects and
doesn’t provide insight to any of
them. He disproved his own
point on the Patriots before he
even made it. They aren’t going
to be a formidable team this year,
but “their coach is a genius” and
“their quarterback always finds a
way to win,” not to mention the
rrancmse running oacK tney
added in the offseason. Major
League Baseball hasn’t had a
repeat champion in the last three
years, whereas, in that same time
span, the Patriots have won two
out of three Super Bowls.
Baseball is headed into another
exciting postseason.
At the beginning of the
column when he wrote, “It’s
totally appropriate that I talk
about something else entirely,”
he meant he would talk about
absolutely nothing. If he ever
figures out if he’s glad the
preseason is over, please let me
know.
B.C. NEWTON
Third-year management
student
Patrick’s liberalism
ignores real truths
In response to Kim Patrick’s
column (“Bush has been
consistently wrong, Wednesday) I
find myself enraged by the
hackneyed untruths that have
emerged by a smug group of liberals
bent on winning the presidency.
First off, Patrick’s euro-liberal
propaganda blames America for the
start of terrorism as she states that
our “cultural imperialism” is not
“wanted in all countries.” However,
Middle Eastern unrest has not been
solely from America. Rather, Europe
perpetrated it in its quest for oil
during the Industrial Revolution.
Furthermore, America’s presence in
world affairs has created more help
than harm, including giving billions
to countries for basic infrastructure
and the stop of worldwide diseases.
Ironically, although Patrick does
not “excuse (terrorists’) actions,”
her column belies her own words.
For example, she states that
American soldiers “pledge to cause
damage, to kill or even lay down
their lives tor tneir country, just
because they fight in a recognized
institution, their actions are widely
seen as legitimate.” The comparison
of terrorists and soldiers is
completely unfounded. Terrorists
use draconian tactics of brutality to
coerce governments to grant their
wishes -- I do not think that
American soldiers slaughter
innocent people to achieve their
goals.
Had Patrick paid attention to the
news, instead of the rhetoric that the
Democratic Party spits, perhaps her
views would be different.
RUSSELL FRY
Second-year political science
student
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Nirvana
exists in
waiting
rooms
■ But why do my car
magazines drown their
contents with ads?
Waiting rooms are way better than
newsstands. Not only is there a
plethora of reading material, but
there’s always the anticipation of what
□ lies aneaa - uie
object of the
wait. So it was
with me the
other day as I
awaited my
haircut.
Did I mind
waiting? Heck
no! I had a
whole world to
CHOW explore within
the huge stack
FOURTH-YEAR c . „„
ECONOMICS of g,oss>
STUDENT magazines.
Where else am I
supposed to
learn hot new
make-up tips from the Olsen twins; or
how to please my man from some
obscure, nameless sex goddess? At this
point, 1 noticed a semi-attractive girl
sitting in the waiting room also, and I
didn’t want to risk looking like 1 was
actually interested in pleasing my man
or maintaining my hourglass figure. 1
did what any other self respecting guy
would do in such a situation — I put
on a determined scowl and started
digging through the pile of magazines,
making an extra effort to toss aside
the extra girly looking ones using only
my index finger and thumb — much
like one would toss aside a dirty
diaper.
Just as I began to lose hope, I
stumbled across an anomaly in the
pile. Emblazoned on the cover was a
picture of my ’dream car — a
ridiculously awesome car of
awesomeness -- the 2005 Mercedes
SLR McLaren. I picked up the
magazine in all its glory and held it
aloft. The radiance that emanated
from it instantly vaporized all the girly
magazines, and the aforementioned
semi-attractive girl exploded.
At this point, I could hardly
contain my excitement, and I clumsily
fumbled through the pages looking
for a table of contents to find the
article. Much to my exasperation, the
table of contents was not in the
beginning of the magazine — oh, no —
1 had to flip through the beginning
several times going page by page
through tomes of advertisements just
to find it. Alas, once I found it there
was no mention of my beloved
McLaren on the first page of the table,
so 1 continued to the next only to find
another series of advertisements.
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seven pages of advertisements
separating the two pages of the table
of contents. In all seriousness, what
kind of idiot would design a magazine
like that? I thought about it for a bit,
and realized that all magazines I’ve
ever read were designed in a similar
manner. Isn’t the purpose of the table
of contents to help you find what
you’re looking for? Doesn’t it defeat
the purpose of even having a table of
contents if you’re going to scatter it in
random places throughout the
magazine? Really, people, you have to
be about as smart as a box of rocks to
come up with such an idea.
Yes, I realize that they probably do
it to force the reader to look at
advertisements several times over
while looking for the bloody thing, but
nevertheless, it still makes me want to
set them on fire. They should at least
have the common decency to place a
table of contents in the very beginning
of the magazine to let you know on
what pages you can find the real table
of contents. Unfortunately, I don’t
think its going to happen because
they’re a bunch of dirty communists. I
submit that we should band together
and do society a favor by throwing
eggs .nd scorpions at those jerks. •
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