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Abortion final TO THE EDITOR:. I have followed with great inter est, your extensive coverage of the ABORTION ISSUE. I do not under stand your defensive attitude regarding this issue. If all is well it would seem a bit silly to feel that a letter in reply to "I had and abor tion, and I'm glad" should need answering. If abortion is right and there is no guilt attached, then why the big defense. Would you feel the necessity to defend an article enti tled "I had a tonsilectomy and rm glad" Defend it ??? you probably would not even print it no less give it front page coverage. It would seem then, that perhaps there is some question as to the morality of ABORTION. I would like to address myself to this question. I am sure that you will agree that what is in the womb from the moment of conception is a "living thing." The problem then is Is this "living thing" within the mother's womb Human or not. I would like to quote from Dr. J. C. Willkes "Handbook on Abortion" At conception: Human life begin s ...At that moment a new human being exists...totally different from the body of either the mother or father (different chromosomal To thE This is the last semester. At this support which is that you have fou vertising to the s University of Sou! As we prepare that your nolidal year will be a proi We hope to be ho you. ---VOicE makeup) human??? 46 chromo sones alive, capable of replacing his own dying cells and needing only food and time to grow into an adult human. 18 days: the human heart begins to beat. Six weeks: quickening occurs .. that is movement begins, hum n brain activity can be recoraed on the electro encephalogram. Eight weeks: he or she will grab an instrument placed in his palm and hold on..he swims freely in the aminotic fluid with a natural swim mers stroke. An electro cardiogram can be done. I would also like to quote from the "EDUCATOR" Sept. 1970. A Scientific study of 3,5000 cases of rape treated in hospitals in the Min neapolis, St. Paul area revealed zero cases of pregnancy. This study took place over a ten year period. So much for the abortion because of rape enthusiasts. I plead with young men and women who will have to make this decision now and in the future. Please get the facts...don't listen to heresay or opinions. Look at the fac ts...and draw logical conclusions. If you do this at least you have tried to do whpt is right. You are not. tak ing charge of your own body when you have an abortion you are con Adve, edition of the GAMECI time we would like to th ;o necessary for this pub rid the GAMECOCK a go ome 25,000 students and th Carolina. For exams and the holiday Vs are happy and safe, a Fitable one in many ways. aring from you in Januar Respectfully yours, ARTHUR A. C. PAUL P/ BROOKS RO of-the p demning another human being. The constitution of the United States guarantees the right to life liberty and the persuit of happiness. The inheritance rights of the unborn are carefully guarded by our courts.....even if you are not sure that this "living thing" is human can you afford to take the chance. If it is (and I believe it is) think....you will carry with you the guilt of infanticide for the rest of your life. One mistake is not rectified by another more horrend ous one. K. L. POOLE XMAS Cheer TO THE EDITOR: My name is Phil Elliott and I am at present serving time in the Ohio Pentitentiary system at London, Ohio. I am doing fairly well except that I have no one with which to cor respond. As you may guess, it is quite lonely for me here. I was hop ing that perhaps you could print my letter in your newspaper in the hope that someone might wish to write to me. You would be doing me a great favor and you have my heart felt thanks. My address is; Phil Elliott 134730 Box 69 London, Ohio 43140 IL~ ELLI e 'tisers CK for the fall ank you for your lication. We hope ad media for ad employees of the r seasons, we hope nd that the coming y. Again, we thank FRANK, Advertising Mgr. ITITUCCI, Salesmaam jj.jRS. Salesmana eo ple The Slip TO PRESIDENT JONES I hesitate to use the title Doctor, because I am indeed baffled at your numerous areas of expertise. I was informed that you received your academic training in engineering. However, I did not know that the engineering curriculum provided you with degrees in sociology, behavioral psychology, genetics, biology, economics, psychiatry, and cultural anthropology. If indeed these degrees were not conferred upon you in the "Cockpit," I would like to know what prompted your statement that "the reasons blacks score compara tively lower include 'economic, sul tural and genetic disadvantages.' He explained saying that the tests measure work and number orienta tion, an area where many blacks are deficient in comparison to whites." (Gamecock, Vol. LXIII, No. 25, Monday, December 4, 1972 Do you attribute Paul Dietzel's failure as a Carolina football coach to "genetic disadvantages?" Your statements are indeed indicative of your shortcomings as the President of this university. I can only receive your statements with much disgust and disagree ment. No only are you not qualified to ascertain the validity of your statements, but blanket statements as those without sufficient profes sional knowledge are unforgiveable and inexcusable. Until you receive a degree in genetics and other related sciences, please remain quiet as you always have. MERIAN P. SMITH 200 Odd TO THE EDITOR: If you are sitting in front of the Russell House and reading this wishing other thoughts, other places and things; or at home break ing your studies - please continue reading - this is for you. Among the 200 odd organizatiois on cam pus there exist one unlike the others; dedicated but not rigid: the University Union, Student Union "the union, u, you, and them. Within its frame of 16 committees it spon sors arts, artistic people, films, nite club acts, trips, dances, bands, con certs, festivals, speakers, lectures, tournaments, camping, people, places and things. It educates, entertains, amuses. It refreshes the weary,adds gaity to the serious, and beauty to the common. Such flow ery words? Perhaps but come and look for yourself room 204-205 Rus sell House. We are ALWAYS open, GAME Editor ....................... Managing Editor ............. Assistant to the Editor ........ News Editor ................. Sports Editor ................ Asst. Sports Editor ............ Advertising Manaer .......... Chief Photographer............ Copy Editors ................ Staff Artist................... Sports News Editor............ Circulation ................... Clasiel Advertising ......... Staff Writers ................. do come and add meaning to your world and friends to your head. ALAN ROSENBLUM Battle of the sexes TO THE EDITOR The Battle of the Sexes is rarely fought more vigorously or won more convincingly than among the wrasse, a type of small, iridescent blue fish that lives in the waters of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. For most of her life, an Australian zoologist reported recently, the female wrasse lives under the con itant domination of the male. He incessantly darts about, threaten ing her and the two to five other females in his harem with displays of aggressiveness that effectively keep them in their assigned regions of the male's territory. Not all the females, however, are equal. They live in a linear hierarchy with the top-ranked female dominating the second ranked and she, in turn, lording it over No. 3, and so on down the line. In this fashion, Dr. D. R. Robertson of the University of Queensland in Brisbane wrote in the journal Sci ence, the family of Labroides dimidiatus lives until the male dies. Suddenly relased from bondage, however, the highest-ranking female undergoes a remarkable behavioral and biological transfor mation. She becomes, in every sense, a male-and immediately turns on her sisters to dominate them. Within hours of the male's demise, the female begins to behave like her deceased mate. Over the next few days, small regions of dor mant testicular tissue within her ovaries begin to develop. After 14 to 18 days, the ovaries have become testes and the new male is able to produce sperm to fertilize the eggs of his mates. The traditional male-dominated wrasse family is, in effect, per petuated by the females. The exact mechanism by which the submissive behavior of the female wrasse suddenly changes and by which ovaries transform into testes is not understood, even though such changes are known in other fish and in some species of worm and frog. It is possible that hormones produced as a result of undergoing stress inhibit "male" behavior in the female wrasse. Dr. Robertson theorized that domina tion by the male actively represses the female's potential for leader ship and that once this domination is removed, the female's natural tendencies come forth. CONSERVATION NEWS ~COCK ...... Charles Fellenbauni .................. Bob Craft ................ Ben Baggott .............. Betty Woodruff ............... Doug WiWiam ................ Steve Parker ................... Art Frak --................ Tom Price ................. Chere Cope Linde Owe.s Pat Tyler ................... Rick Baty .................. BlGrant .............. Patty McQ.ntaa Keith Gressassa .............. 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