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By Ellen Good
I've grown weary of read
worker family as some sort <
Cuisinart for every room and
February.
I've even grown weary
economists exercise their s<
public by worrying about wh
are responsible for a growing f
and the poor.
It seems to me that there is
updated version of Blame the
on. Long accused of every soc
delinquency to male impotent
held responsible for the <
America. And never mind tl
structure kept her at the bottoi
The New Elite is in large pa
by people who do not know the
gross income and net incom
who tend to overlook such lc
graduated income tax and the
to mention child care and infla
Few of the working couple:
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mortgage payments to be eli
work for solvency, security <
that order). The motivatio
husbands and wives is very mi
But even those couples wh<
jointly members of the woi
class don't deserve to be singh
true that highly paid people
other more often whether they
ministrators, corporate exe<
People have, I suppose, ust
group lines of one sort or anotl
But previously women
irrelevant in terms of the e
democratically unpaid, and <
to the family checking accoun
Now, however, we are wai
like Lester Thurow in pu
capitalistic than The Wall Str
males who earn high incom
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fair and liberated world, the
will make the distribution
unequal."
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Inan It is true that a<
man's could furl
ing about the two- Xet * ^'n<* m^se'
)f New Elite with a th?f.e arguments
I a cruise for every kU!i ? ?V
had her first bit*
of hearing some coincidence thai
jcial conscience in totaling as high ,
ether these couples P '51?'?' "h,le 1
;ap between the rich mn? J50-00? '? c?'
As a whole v>
a rather subtle and centive individu
Working Wife going a a f?st*
:ial ill from juvenile w.e res?nt) the m
j *. t__. _ class, but on the
;e, sue 15 now oemg .
;lass structure of nation in wh ch t
.at this same class Poor shouldn t ga
t. lo these 200 years. 1 m a.fra,ld thal
J convenient scape
rt a fantasy created our class issues. ]
! difference between ticular, people ai
e. They are people supporting the id
sveling facts as the male) can freely
marriage tax ? not If it sounds cor
tion. ter all, we are c
s I know raise polo family incomes,
v college tuition or idea of family
tist activities. They redistribution of'
and self-esteem (in about jobs, but rr
n to work among couples than supi
ich the same. The so-called I
> are genuinely and target. It distra<
king upper middle the real Elite, ai
3d out for blame. It's the worst econon
tend to marry each Still I have a fe
r are government ad- Wifo cramo ;c?*t ,
::utives or lawyers. the past. There a
tally married along too much fami
ier. developed some
were conveniently They are not abc
conomy. They were what John Kenm
equally "worthless" social virtue."
This time the p
-ned by economists aren't going to b<
blications no less ployment of wor
eet Journal that "If may force us all
es are married to ambivalence. Mi
comes in a perfectly New Elite,
women's liberation
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Me
dding a woman's high income to a
ther solidify the class structure,
f suspicious of the undertones ol
. It seems to find the working wife
Is of capitalism when she's jusl
e of the fruit. I don't think it's a
t the family with two incomes
as $50,000 is considered a serious
the family with one worker earisidered
a success story.
re seem to value economic inal
achievement, upward mobilit>
We envy and respect (more than
embers of the work-their-way-up
other hand we have a vision of a
;he gap between the rich and the
pe at us.
t the working couple is the latesl
jgoat for our ambivalence about
By blaming working wives in par
*e free to lament inequality while
ea that an individual (at least the
rise to riches.
nplicated and conflicted, it is. Afoncerned
about the inequality oi
but more uncomfortable with the
income ceilings or a radical
wealth. We are genuinely worried
tore likely to criticize two-worker
jort full employment.
^ew Elite is, I'm afraid, an eas>
:ts attention from the Old Elite
nd attracts the anger of those ir
lie stress.
eling that the Blame-the-Workinggoing
to play as well as it has ir
re too many working couples and
ly need. Women have finally
resistance to the sirens of guilt
ut to return home in the name ol
eth Galbraith called "convenient
>roblems of the economic system
? hidden by manipulating the em
nen, and these working couples
to look long and hard at our owr
aybe in that sense they are the
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r To the Editor:
I am distressed and disappointed
L that I was misquoted in terms of
t both substance and context in the
; Nov. 3 Gamecock. The editors and
I were not even discussing the band
and the Clemson tickets. The band
has been a tremendous aid to me
on a number of projects during the
1 years I have been at Carolina.
1 The editors and I were
discussing ttie seat location of the
band for home games and what I
actually said was, "To say we can
do without the band is bullshit,
however, I don't think they should
be sitting in Section 41 at the top."
My reason for this position is
because the band comes and goes
at odd times during the games.
Weekly I receive complaints from
students wno can t see tne game
because of band traffic in the
; stands.
: Tiller qu
To the Editor:
| This comment is directed to Joe
r Tiller, chairman of the Student
Senate Athletic Committee and his
[ reference to the band in the front
t page article in the Nov. 3
Gamecock. His quote was "The
i only thing we could do without is
that band bullshit."
1 First of all, let me ask him if he
has ever watched the band during
a half time show. If he has, then
he'd realize that the shows are
often more entertaining than the
game. When the spirit is low in the
stands it is the band that sparks it
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of context
Band Director Jim Copenhaver
has expressed concern over the
foot traffic near the band's seating
to John Moore who is coach
Carlen's business manager, and
Mr. Copenhaver told me that
during the Georgia game some
band members actually couldn't
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It is unfortunate that this
miscommunication occurred, but I
want everyone in the band to know
that I am fully supportive of the
Carolina band and its many activities
that add vitality, spirit, and
fellowship to the Carolina Com
muniiy.
Joe Tiller
Senate Athletic Committee
chairman
Editor's note: Mr. Tiller was not misquoted.
He said "The only thing we could do without
is that band bullshit," discussed in the context
he describes above. The Gamecock took
notes, Mr. Tiller did not.
estioned
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up agaiii^ me uanu imppvus IU oe
the biggest fan of the football team.
Second, how much time does Joe
Tiller put in the Student Government?
The band practices every
Tuesday - Thursday from 5 to 7
p.m., every other Friday from 5 to
7 p.m. and spends the whole
Saturday getting ready and performing
the pregame and halftime
shows. That averages 15 to 20 hours
a week over the season, not including
whole weekends on away
games and the 60 to 70 hours a
week the band staff puts in.
I Is that as much time as some of
See Band, page 18
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