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... as toward ac The degree of a Carolina under worth as much as the same degre university. Although faculty, administrati students nrohahlv Hisaorpo u/i statement, the USC Faculty Senate truth. Earlier this month the senat rejected a proposal to deny credit ai fail standard of grading to all cours< and lower. These courses are gener nature; meant for the student wh sufficiently prepared by secondai perform college-level work. So students are graduated from but some have remedial hours. It university is ripping tnese stude making them take a complete course load of college-level work. II degree from this university means different things. The first type of degree means th completed the required college-leve degree; the second means that , completed remedial courses an courses necessary to obtain a degre< Although the student taking reme< On i letters j The Gamecock welcomes letters from its readers. 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Credit should r e unanimously a grade should nd apply a pass- would permit the is numbered 100 pass, and a "D" ally remedial in formance in any 0 has not been y education to There is nothi they are an in curricula, for if the university, trained in secont is sad that the have the opportu nts off by not ? but not for thr* undergraduate USC Provost ; is tragic that a speech to the ge not one, but two "For students p< the view that at a student has should be adopt 1 courses for the concept of the u a student has students." We' d those other prostituted, and1 i. ... as Carolin dial courses will excellence . . . To the Editor: In response to the letter writtei by Mitch Jenkinson, it is obviou from your ignorant reply, Mitch that you really don't understam the issue or believe that all me are equal in worth and dignity. W are not asking for an Ebony revie\ in the Gamecock, just bette coverage of the ideas and function we pursue. All persons are not create* equal? I'll overlook the good ol< patriotism too, but it's still obviou: to me that all persons are equal b; virtue of humanity (God create< all persons equal). I don't thinl that you understand the full exten of the word equality. Surely all o us do not possess the same talents However, as a taxpayer in th< [ vjompcw vm" Sooth CA^puKI/s rtftwe LoWe Uft-e*F*sepiiNcY IN MATio r~, I, -? - .. JgSsSafeffo&jfc "vW,,( ?I>??I>?K>?)I 11 ?rrrrrvr'? wwwwjjot Kfigg6?6lEg ,iiV>V>Vtty." ^muUW^YlitV; noves 'ellence... ly one or two of these courses at the leprived of a full college education, r degree-earner cannot hold his i esteem when he knows that others legrees by taking some remedial lot be granted for these courses, but be given. The pass-fail standard se students earning a "D" grade to is hardly proof of competent percourse, let alone a remedial one. ng wrong with remedial courses; valuable part of the university's students have not been adequately iary education, they should at least inity to obtain these skills in college ee credit hours. Francis Borkowski said in his neral faculty on Sept. 6, 1978, that x>rly prepared for university work, lower standards of performance ed is at once a prostitution of the iniversity uud a cruel hoax on the ve been hoaxed; we've been we're not happy. a makes its way toward academic Reader say, s i ignorant of e e state of South Carolina, I refuse to v fund activities where members of r my race are excluded because of s bigoted reasons. It is also ridiculous to assume that Blacks i should be happy to watch or d participate in a tournament at a s country club where they cannot y I become members. Perhaps your i next justification will be that there t jare no Black golfers in t Orangeburg. Maybe the real f concern is the fear that Blacks may be about to invade the last e strong holds of "White ST > ' w|S 'How do you i having a By Ellen Goodman Ths Boston Globs , BOSTON ? Somebody asked the question. Somebody always asks the question. It sits so near the suriace 01 our tnougnts tnat tne slightest extra heat sends it percolating into the air. "How do you manage work despite having a child?" Despite. The word casually slipped in among the other nouns and verbs, subtly added, as if it were just another conjunction, no more loaded than an "and." Yet, suddenly, I had a vision of a million small "despites," lying in cribs that blocked some highway to achievement, like those metal barrels on the highways. I pictured a million school-age "despites," innocently tripping their mothers on their way to work. And it made me recoil. "Despite" the woman's benign tone of voice, I realized that I'd finally had it with The Question. In the past few years we have managed to oversell the burdens and undersell the pleasures of ? T 1 -V _ s jemmnson quality issue Superiority" and about to tread on "hallowed whiteground." Well, I'm afraid that those Blacks that White Americans thought it had trained to* be not seen and not heard are being seen and heard tllVtA??A 1?AI I l/\r*n4 ^ ^ ^ yy ni,t c juu icaai wdiu u? iu ut;. You said and I quote, "As a white I don't think my rights should be infringed upon just so blacks can get ahead. That goes both ways. As a Black I don't think my rights i should be infringed upon to keep ' me from getting ahead. After the first racist crack you trfe AUTRAT FftepCMICWrt THEY CAT -- J '***% 11^ # 'v'' A^ork despite l child?' child-raising. Now we are also overselling the "despites" and underselling the "because ofs." People may no longer automatically assume that working mothers are bad for their children. But they do automatically assnmp thnt children are bad for their mother's work. I am aware, of course, of the extra pressure children bring to our lives in terms of time and energy. There is an inherent conflict between workaholicism and a rich family life. Moreover, we have rotten support-systems for working mothers ? impossible service industries, impoverished day care. You can read all about it in the diaries of a million angry working mothers. Yet maybe it's time people began to talk about how children have also been good for their work. I remember going back to my ...u? " " ? - juu wucii my own small "despite" was an infant. Suddenly I was no longer, in some recess of my mind, working "until" I had a child. See Good men, page 15 made in your letter, I thought, well, "What else can he say?" Was I in for a surprise! Who are you to say that White students, left out in I A1 I**'- * me cuiu are ueuer quaimea wnen fall comes around? What makes you think so? What makes you think? Where did you get your facts from conccrning Blacks competing in special programs for scholarships to avoid the competition of as you say and I quote . . better qualified white students." It is obvious that you are of the opinion that whites are superior to Blacks, as "standards have to be lowered" for Blacks and they have to "compete only with themselves" for scholarships. You should have been a contemporary See Equality, page 15 f WELCOME I TO I BARNWELL i *&rmica&, fficjhaA &OU0LJ r * VS- , -JJ wLll 1.