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? Guei Draft c "m If the instability of the world crisis proportion, inevitable. The beginnir months is a very real ant After reading the artii entitled "Student reacti realized that-student res mixed up. The students seemed t the old '60s throwoacks, i "Army needs a few good Both these attitudes se society. It was interestii that the draft was over justice students. THE INTEGRITY of the tolerance of Russian we crawled out of Vieti emphasis onpolitical facl I c 1 innnrf tKn 41 1 ouppui V 111*.' 1IVA1UU tl proportionate to the faih voter apathy in recent el an outlet for one's feelini suggestions on the selecti Many students mentioi arm of the military. Th before prescribing to the First, which country boycott the upcoming 01 for the 1980 Summer Olyi support the U.S. grain cu would seem highly unlil dodgers. I found the responses fr The thought of a girl ma shoulder brings a sigh of I However, women con selective service progra field. If those 15 people v for field service. The m dependent the military w A REORGANIZATION extremely useful and pro be physically fit for war, intellectual basis, but on too dumb for military ser Military service could elements of our societj element, and the flagrant the unproductive, unwanl Finally, good moneta produce good military of! deaths, and less deaths m With an army compris need good officers just tc other. The gross technol weapons has practically numbers. tuc1 it i iitj HUM I\U;H l l article is as quoted: "I v\ for something I don't kr ever adopts this type of a be in serious jeopardy of remark is a music major Cjarnecc Founded 1 908 Tom Travis Edit Brian Duncan Copy C Mark Platte N< Brett Friedlander Spi Jarnes Rokosny Entertainrr Robert Aruiil Grapl Janet Gibson Editorial P Cylinda Calvert V Honda Temple ton Assistant Nc Steve Riddel! Assistant Spi Jeffrey Charney . Assistant Entertai Carl Babcock Graduate Anthony Gray Advertisin( Bill Outlaw Genera Wiliiam Tinsley Productioi - Mark Ethridge Jr. . . .-# Newsroom: 777-7181 Advertising: 777-42A9 Business Office1 777-3888 Sole reproduction rights grant< Associated Press. All other material herein may not be reprinted wi permission of the editor. Opinions expressed in the Gam those, if signed, of the writer rnd, if of the senior editorial staff. V x st Columi : respond ixed up' By George L. Benson history/political science senior Persian Gulf area continues to r the reinstatement of the select igs of primary induction proced 1 probable possibility. jle in the January 25th issue of I ions mixed to reinstatement of ?ponses were not so much mixed o respond with two predominate such as "Hell no, we won't go." A men" mentality. emed to be a product of a highly p igly predictable that the studeni due and would support it, wen this country has been steadily d intervention in Poland after Wo lam. This decline is partially d tors in military conflict situations lat our failures in foreign polic; ires of our political leaders and lections. With the upcoming gen< gs on the draft and a possible av ive service process have become, led Canada as a possible escape lere are a few things students i "back to Canada movement." was first to support the U.S. iympic games and also offer an mpics? Canada. Which country u t-backs to the Soviets? Right aga cely that they would now supp< om the female students extremel irching off to war with a M-16 sv laughter and a tear of remorse, lid play an important part in m. It takes 15 people to put one /ere iemaie, me more available tore men available for field ser ill be on the draft. 1 of the criteria for military servi< ductive. The military inductees s but equally as mentally fit. Not n a psychological basis. We all kn vice is like being too ugly for mili I be an excellent outlet for the /, such as the unemployable, abusers of the welfare programs ed tumors of our society, iry incentives to college grac ficers. Good military officers woi ean less drafts. ;ed from the bowels of our socic > show them how to put one foot i ogical advances in conventional reduced the foot soldier require! ,OUS, absurd and ludicrous re; 'ant to do my own thing. I'm not tow anything about." If the gen* ttitude toward anything, we, as a becoming obsolete. The student v i uwi j./i iocu . 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Thp. <;4m*ce?k, f ?ColUfnbfo. S C * n *4 56S ^ learning irom m rid War II till r; '] V|.! Jl^PN uc to an over 11 y are directly the success of J ?ral elections, ff j enue for one's 1 * ' available. from the long should realize suggestion to I i alternate site I 1 /as the first to in, Canada. It )rt U.S. draft ly interesting. 1 1 vung over her the military soldier in the men would be 4>/>!#.; vice, ine less ~ q :e could prove /Tf 4? JT\ hould not only ** i nentally on an -* ow that being To the Editor: tary service. i undesirable In response to the < the criminal federate flag should b >. Let's induct The people of South to the Barnwell Nuc) luates would seceeded from the nat uld mean less The Civil War was i play factor. The wa sty, we would happened to be with in front of the country which believ warfare and while the other was ar ment to mere Both countries carr country won the war, sponse in the victor, although it nev going to fight When some people eral populace "Southern gentlemen i country, will see a history of a prou vho made this symbol from our past. Northerners may la rebels," but that chan dress, should we all i Dn accept? However, if people ( we should remove nc place where Union tr< rs then go through the st; The Confederate fl, letters from its more. It has no mystic typewritten and We need not change ie and should be a concept Oil the Value O kith the writer's nailing address. ,v , Pseudonyms are Danny Kesler s name may bt> biology freshman stances warrant letters for space Campus Opinion. :j USC. Columbia. iVlTl I YY ? To Editor: eader input into The Confederate flaj i offers a weekly over the State house chambers is not and ne official symbol of the 9 than four typed - . . J , , ... _. typewritten and fOUfjht and lost the Ci ie aii facts must was a flag used by Souf ai page editor anc| by Southern shit ly column for any 21-. *l. .... , easily luciiiny uicm 11 on,en?. style and and ^ of b/u,t. .. th correct name. ^he fl?8 WAS adopl id class standing Confederate Congress i olumn.toGueat flag.. tQ ^ a,on national flag of the O EX/ON CORPORATION ? ??-?* j Let lag sh a 4proi th Carol roud his editorial in Feb. 4's Gameci e put in proper place," we fe< Carolina have a proud histoi ear Plant. In December in ion, soon followed by ten oth not fought "mainly" over si r was fought by two sepa tin each others border. Or ed in a strong centralized i agrarian country with a bel ied symbols of allegience in and the latter gave up gradu er forgot its heritage, see the Confederate flag th " a nH umint inliir\o M V\/hnn % MUM 111II11 JUIU|/0. VT 11V1I V d people. It is nothing more, i lugh and make smug remarl iges little. If they made rem? ~un to the store and buy ne annot accept their past for \ >t only the flag but also the oops hit the capital with car ate and remove all signs of th ag is made up of cloth anc powers, only the powers tha the position of the flag, but f our past for the benefit of 01 Ed Land undeclared junior _ 1 # >oiconcer "The battle f the field of ba ? displayed of battle, and and in its every field ver was the Appomattox. states who There wen vil War. It fighting the < h3rn troops reason is argi >s to more defense of sU i the smoke and social sy: be the mail ted by the historians, as a "battle As a niattei ig with the South were f Mifederacy. coin's you 7w//vk fmycw ^0075e ifgff you 5moulp seejim frwgft's t Tters?? ould sts )er plac I inci vc f< tory T?,h" I am Feb. 4 < Confede [>ck concerning "Con- of the \ el we must respond. student ry ? from Oyster Bay Confedc i860, South Carolina letting I er states. an ari avery, although it did Confedc rate countries which The le was an industrial fighting ndiiuiicti k"vci iiniciii as a ill ief in state's rights. student: ito battle. The former teered ally to the ways of the they bel If He ey think of the KKK, the res ve look at the flag, we friends or nothing less, than a flag.it time to <s about "those damn campai irks about the way we symbols w clothes which they the Jef t hp u vhat it is, then maybe monum ( stars that mark the federat< inon balls. We should Hep. le Civil War. argume 1 thread and nothing fensivei it people give it. South C we should change our people0 jr future. should i people < our anc Chris Loinmen their liv undeclared freshman ved on battl< lag was conceived on Proclama ittle, lived on the field North wer was oroudlv borne on thpnth m from Manassas to The fla, men and e many reasons for cause the Civil War. The main more thai jed by historians. The More Am ivery as an economic War tha stem is not thought to Therefore n reason by many past" shoi honor afl r of fa?t, slaves in the South Car reed in 1863 by LinEmancipation business ccessmsA jg >F THE- / Jtffil f ^shksb ''jmBKKBw hmyg^sfflgig^omv fill ly :e' Students i >lunteered I jr service I Editor: | writing in reply to the J editorial concerning the| ;rate flag. The audacity jniversity whose entire body volunteered for irate service in 1861 their newspaper publish tide denouncing the ;rate flag is appalling. Gamecock should be [ to keep the flag flying ting memorial to those s who in 1861 voluntheir lives for a cause ieved in. p. Kaye Patterson and t of his carpetbagging succeed in removing the will only be a matter of efore they start their ign against other > of the Old South, e.g. ferson Davis Highway, fade Hampton III lent, and the Con? War Memorial. ' Patterson's main ^4 Al fl- ? i- - r in is uit* nag s 01less to many people in arolina. Who are these I personally think we lot let a small group of destroy something that estors fought and gave esfor. ' Wiv?x.;i John W, Rollins Rfielfl tion, while slaves in the e not freed until 1865 and nendment. g is a symbol of brave women who fought for a y believed in, which is n most people do today. means died in the Civil n in World War II. < , this "symbol of the uld remain in its place of tor the American and olinian flags. Darren M. McGehee administration freshman