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^ ??9 viewpoints Fnrpimi e addtoUf By LLOYD WOODS Associate Editor I IQr chnillH Ko nrnuH r\t Un L~ 1 _ v/uv uiiuuiu wv piuuu u1 ltd ai<6clUlC ternational student population, for the tendance of international students h< represents an acceptance of this university a quality oriented institution of higl education. The majority of the internatioi students here are graduate students and i the creme de la creme of their respect] countries. For these students an educati means more than just a diploma. They < interested in learning; thus they desire attend a school that offers them a challengi learning environment, as does USC. Many of the international students here w return to their home countries may one d hold important government positions, future president or prime minister may be the class of 1978. But even if their futui prove to be not politically oriented, most these students will have some influence their respective countries. Business lead< and educators can be more valuable to country than political leaders. In any eve such leaders will have to deal with the Unit States for some reason or another. Exposi to the various idiosyncrasies of U.S. citizc should help these future leaders with su j?i:? UCttllllgS. The number of international students tending USC has increased almost 500 per c< in the past 10 years. This is due largely in pi to the university's attraction of internatioi students and to the fact that graduates w have returned to their home countries ha praised the university and recommended it others. We do not know which method Y attracted the most students, but we would li to think it was the latter. One phenomenon that has occurred in t past few years may be a result of the creasing numbers of international studen but we have no way of being sure, ternational students latelv tend tn hav#? LtCmdr sink To the Editor: school ? Please permit me to offer discussing the following constructive pieces, Mr criticisms regarding the is unconcc efforts of Mr. Lloyd Woods, usage c an Associate Editor of The language; uamecocK. sentence s The 14 July Gamecock both chc contains two editorials sentences, written by Mr. Woods, one unaware concerning the new medical with the GAMEOC Marguerite Ryan Editor Wayne Brooks Associate Editor ' Collins Walker photography Editor En Bill Fitipatrick Advertising Manager THE GAMECOCK welcomes letters from its readers. Letters s subject and a maximum of 100 words. They must be signed w Pseudonums or other aliases will not be used, but the writer' circumstance* warrant To aulil n? In your mailing address and a telephone number where you can I class standing and ma|or, alto. We reserve the right to edit all to meet our space limitations. Address: Campus Opinion, T USC, Columbia, S C. 2*709. J tudents merged culturally with the gene population or have formed clique! students of the same nationality, in- seem to try to repress cultural at- whereas the latter seem to emph sre Both actions have some merit, as Some nationalities find it adva ier learn so-called "American" wa; ial "so-called" because there really ire thing as an "American" culture, ive forget that people who live in ( ion South America are also Americans ire some students enjoy learning U.J to the other hand, some students ne vantageous to observe U.S. culturt assimilate them into their owr ho Some cultures differ radically fr< lay the U.S. Many students would A picking up any habits which w< in acceptable in their own cultu es ternational student does not hav< of cultures to attend a U.S. school, on As a result of cultural differ jrs among the international students a not seem to be what one cot nt, organized group of students ed ternational students do not neces ire to intermingle with other int ;ns students, though most in the U.S. ich them together. Some internatior are as foreign to each other a at- foreign to other students. T it ? i ? ?nt 111 ine pasi, international studen art to be organized as a group on can ial aspect this proved to be advan ho other USC students. Until the earl} lVe decade international students helf to other students with the cultur ias countries during a week of activ ike appropriately enough, Internati Students were offered the opportu he different foods, to meet different i in- and to get a beter understan ts, ternational students. The reviva In- program would prove to be very I ier all students. s editorials ind the second words. Complet Mr. Steele. In both from his gramma . Woods apparently are his errors oi irned about proper journalism. >f the English The grammati he is cmiltv nf rVAAr 0 j kwi are reaany app structure, including permit me two e? >ppy and run-on the medical scho< and he is either Mr. Woods uses of or unconcerned "non gratis" wh meaning of his not free ? hard) ? intended to say. JT sentence which f \ hL the Steele editorii that Mr. Woods i: distinguish bet singular word "mi its plural form, " as. The errors in construction are 1 lerts^nmenHEditor both efforts. FOl Mr. Woods cit< troversy regardinj feancer research ith fh? writer's true name. ttllS CltfttlOn tO l6 ?r,r.'pT.rr,r ^arve|ous, cond. be reached. Please include Compromise IS letters, not for content, but WOilld hp oiiat/pel he Oamecock, Drawer A. uuiu lie SUggeSl school should rec J research unit? If K ;ral student | 5 wnn oiner lV^V^gVl The former jXy differences, H (J asize them. u ys. We say " hrinn is no such kA] - ***** We tend to I In y _ niM Central and fljll L ( ) 3 y<mr P*K >. Let us say |\ I V^/VW titiwipnt^ 5. ways. On UJ om those of | juld not be j/|/P|gXll ' s iu cnunge U II 1 9- jtt 1/ ences even 1/ II there does f I /I V I l\ ild call an 11 I \ \l 11 here. In- III ill isarily have L I ill ternational I / / \ 1 / tend to link I! 1 . 1 U lal students 1\ Mil (] P is they are its did seem ^ ipus. In one tageous for J jj i part of this >ed acquaint . r ^ es of their /T J*. ..'I'jj ities called, a: \Vj |j!i? onal Week. fejtr , /nfj'1; nity to taste I f .**]&: ' nationalities /"tfag | ding of in- f w 1 of such a j?~- * il beneficial to - ? sorts of compromise might he sur< advocate? His argument that cori the Medical University he, "cannot obviously provide exei aIv annrt numbers of doctors futu tin*} ffiiitQ needed for the state" is not loeic and persuasive; apart from the Lt. B grammatical error, one must Assi Poi prrnrQ question his position from a k logical point of view Two Mm nmnl'fKj "in medical schools require two poli< il editorial supporting infrastructures; lettc nhracn one expanded medical school Liei ich means might easily ^ less ex" Dav , what he pensive and still capable of crit mu. Min-nri churning out the requisite com introduces addition doctors wel ?i indicate As t0 journalistic errors, criti 5 unable to Mr- Woods is ^uilty of m' new ween the substantiated accusation; he colu nnri cites an unnamed source as adm media " reporting that Mr. Steele did perl lntfio' nnH not attend Senate meetings crit manifest in regularly. Surely Mr. Woods erro - Avimni would not believe me if I defe advised him that Mr. Steel* m rt"thp citp'of has attended every Senate defii runit, using meeting since 1950, but he say ad ud to a includes an equally exci ision: that questionable assertation in A the kev " hls 6(11101,181 ?nd \ fhnt pnrh In summation, I respect- the ] PivP h?lf n ful,y submit that Mr- Woods my not what Is eui"y of several ' tary errors, errors which me your tired, >r, your graduate ^ 1 ily are within his ability to ect. One would hope that and his superiors, will rcise themselves to avoid ire mishaps. Cmdr K. J. Davis t. Prof, of Naval Science PE: I have made it a ;y until now not to answer >rs to the editor, but I feel utenant Commander ris's "constructive icism" warrants some iment. I certainly come constructive cism, for I am relatively at writing editorials and mns, and I am the first to lit that I am far from ect, but' when such icism is based upon neous information I must nd myself. y use of "non gratis" was litely wrong. I meant to simply gratis. 1 offer no lse ior mis mistake, former English teacher a teaching assistant in English department read editorials and said there See NOTE, page li