The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, March 24, 1980, Page Page 5, Image 5
?Guest Column
Security of integrity
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By Kovin R. Landry
journalism junior
It is the intention of this writer for this column to be a positive, constructive
critique of something of importance to every living person. It
concerns the evidence of the need for the security of individual integrity.
This originally began as a commentary in relation to a meeting of
concerned people examining the problems and inadequacies of campus
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more basic approach had to be made because the initial article was an
unnecessarily wordy and vague as was the discussion at that meeting.
I say this because approximately 90 percent of the discussion consisted
of the effects of the security problem. Only the remainder took in
consideration the causes, i.e. the sensational narratives of criminal
activities took precedence over factors of the need for individual
responsibility on the part of everyone: security personnel, students and
administrators.
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microcosm of the world and its conditions and the factors within people
who cause them.
Whether you are dealing with problems of campus security, public
health, occupational hazards, government bureaucracy, whatever,
there are two basic considerations we must take as individuals to be
. sure of the personal integrity + the willingness to give of ourselves +
required fpr true security. Let us begin, then, with ourselves.
First, we must recognize (after abandoning pride) our lack of
credibility with ourselves and one another, an effect or response to our
parents varying degrees of lack of integrity.
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for their love, their giving of self. And they are blinded as we have been
to the self and its capacity for giving. We are each somewhat inhibited
against expressing compassion ad tenderness, but we cannot blame our
parents entirely even though we may have grown up with their cynical
wisdom, their observations of life that reflect no genuine anticipation of
improvement.
Each of us has the capacity of choosing to see things differently, with
the hope our parents did not dare express for fear of rejection as a result
of their own experiences, their own attempts to make the world of their
children a better one.
* Our contempt for their cynicism is a farce, however, if we, in the
same disposition of malice they shared, proverbalize the oath, Til
never be like my parents were."
Ours must be a statement motivated by true concern not just for
ourselves but expressing a real hope for our parents and our neighbors
in this world, a concern warranting a change of heart, an emptying of
pride, and a fearless love without guilt for former shortcomings.
Many people will not accept or admit to what is depicted above owing
to oride and an unwillingness to acknowledge a need for imorovement.
These havegrown complacent, hardhearted in their inherited cynicism.
Yet there is hope for these as well.
The second point of consideration is, contrary to popular belief,
Paradise is lost and cannot be recreated apart from God and His
original design for it, who is our hope in the face of that otherwise
cynical observation.
However, we cannot deny that we have grown up conditioned to expect
that if something doesn't resemble Paradise there is the warranted
right to complain. And yet even as we complain we anticipate no improvement
as our complaints are rooted not in hope but in cynicism.
UNLESS EVERY MAN on earth obtains hope for the world he cannot
expect the return of Paradise and will not see it again until hereafter.
We must realize that the frustrations we encounter in life are due to
unrealistic anticipations of having some limited concept of Paradise
become a reality for us.
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To the Kdilor:
We are writing in response to the
new policies recently established
for the USC convenience store.
First we'd like to point out a few
examples of how the "new" convenience
store is attempting to
become prof itable:
1) The manager who has
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replaced uie siuueius, mattci* mu
Scrooge look friendly. Also, the
lines are unbelievable. They
probably coil around the store at
least twice. He's definitely trying
for a Guiness Book record as the
slowest cashier.
2) The hours are like passing
through a small town + you blind
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unfair an
by student
To the Editor:
j I can't believe this group "Sti
ment" is really serious. It is ol
f existed, since the voter results
Barbara Derrick were not comjx
more varied if the slanderous arl
. run-off elections in the Ga mecock
I nuw can aiuaems lor a r air a
t best candidate to win, be so bigotc
because of their association witl
j Greek, but neither am I so narr
I just because of who they are. I si
> 1 are right and do not support them
! The major complaint of the gro
\ candidates went to the fraterniti
vote for their candidates. How car
; Didn't the other candidates ca
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presidential candidates,
f What is this group afraid of a
, Greeks come into power they will
, requiring all students to wear h
nities? v; .
' The gon-Greeks now in officc
1 jugating the Greeks, or anyone
1 interest group," and neither woul
r of the Independents.
| So, "Students for a Fair Student
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your eyes and it's past. Cutting the
hours could have been a good idea,
however USC should have kept the
student lifestyle in mind. Most
students don't go out until 9:00 and
may stop by for beer or wine.
Others are studying and may want
a snack. :*) We can understand a
slight price hike for profit but when
you've recently purchased a bag of
popcorn for 65 cents at Food town
and then are told the same size and
brand is $1.20 at the convenience
store, you know something's
wrong. The frustrating part is you
have to be told, and only after
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prices should be clearly written on
all items.
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d 'bigoted'
organization
iidents for a Fair Student Govern
bvious that a 'Greek slate* never
for Tony Turner, Jeff Floyd and
arable (and would have been even
tides had not appeared prior to the
.which claims to be unbiased). I
tudent Government," who want the
id as to immediately rule out people
l the Greeks? And no, I am not a
ow-minded as to support someone
upport the Greeks when I feel they
when I feel they are wrong.
up is that two friends of the 'Greek*
ies encouraging their members to
i this be interpreted as unfair?
mpaign heavily in areas they felt
seems to be the policy followed by I
nyway? Do they think that if the
pass laws enslaving Independents,
:ods and pay tribute to the frater'
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( have done nothing toward subelse
not from their own "special
d the Greeks infrinop nn tho riohtc
* , .* i 1 i - . Government."
if you are so deeply
mny gripes, why didn't you run for
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convenient
We don't see how unfriendly
service, short hours ajvd^high
prices can l>e contributing to a
profit. What we do see are the
enraged students going elsewhere
for their purchases. Thp >convenience
store hgis ceased to lx? a
convenience for us.
We. who live in South Htiilding,
would rather w;ilk to the 7-11 whf?re
we get friendly 24-hour .service,
hiked but reasonable prices, and
probably make it there and back in
less time.
Name withheld upon request
Bicyclist
possesses
power
To the Kditor:
I'm mean. I'm tough. I weigh in
at 150 lbs. My bike at 30. I get my
kicks running over people.
Why, just the other day, I bopped
a fat lady. The kick she gave me
threw me into the reflecting pond.
It bent my front rim and broke five
spokes too.
Oh, I'm mean. I hate marine
science freshmen and marketing
sophomores, in particular. Oh! I
think I'll put razor blades on my
hubs. Like The Scythians, ya'
know? Then I'll go get me some
nudibranchs. Beats wrecking
Camaros anyday.
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I feel so powerful on my bike it's
incredible. Except for dead
animals and joggers, I'm king of
the road. Why, I've filled more
lungs with ribs, broken more
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more toes, and shattered more
Jewels than Henry Ford ever did.
Oh! but that's not funny.
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