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Tenure should be outlawed. It is an antiquated system that
scares off the capable and comforts the lazv. Too often it is an
excuse for an early retirement ? after a five or six year
stretch of hard work ? in which professors merely go about
their duties indifferent to the needs of their students.
Obviously not all professors fit this stereotype, in fact it is a
small handful, but they are there all the same. Tenure abuse
is a temptation that attacks all of them sooner or later like a
fit or the flu, and some never recover.
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safety for research, not to mention freedom from persecution
for random and strange ideas. But the days when the
universities were the bastion for forward thinking intellects
has largely passed ? there are any number of giant corporations
paying handsomely for researchers. And if anyone
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fellow academicians.
There is a way to cure tenuritis ? ban tenure. In its place
have contracts, as some universities are already experimenting
with, in which a professor's contract comes up
for renewal every five or ten years. Perhaps like high school
and elementary teachers the professors could form unions
and negotiate for their rights like any other class of workers.
It almost haDDened at IJSC The South Carolina legislature
allowed professors who were denied tenure the right to appeal
? several did, and were reinstated ? just like any other
state employee. Then the pressure mounted and the lid blew.
The general Assembly reversed itself and said the universities
could set up their own tenure boards and grievance
procedures. The professors won the right to protest their own
dismissals, an imDressive victorv. but tenure remained
Once tenure is granted to a professor they are practically
immune from being fired. It is the academic golden apple
held out like the carrot to the dust-cart horse to keep him
moving along the right path.
Those who got, want to keep, and those who want lick their
chops waiting in line to get. It is a power play that is needless,
useless, demeaning and like a banned movie, totally without
redeeming social value.
Why does it go on? Perhaps in the belief that only under
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try to give those under them responsibility instead of
pressure and watch the results. They may be pleasantly
surprised.
So the system is passed on down the line to the students,
who squirm and twist under the professor's thumb much like
the professor under his department head's watchful eye.
Getting rid of tenure may not alleviate these problems, but
it may resore to professors the sense that they are grown
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been caught with punishment awaiting the day of judgment
? the tenure hearing.
Like other professionals, let professors negotiate their own
contracts and return their dignity. It will result in better
professors and students.
Phew! Somethin'
rotten in RHUU
To breathe or not to breathe. That is the question facing
patrons of the Russell House movie theater. The air is stale.
It does not circulate. The carpets stink and are covered with
stains and spills from past accidents that have left their
(juugciu aromas 10 me meaier.
It's almost futuristic ? the cinema has now evolved into
thesmellies.
Please, whoever is in charge of the theater, spray aerosol
or turn up the air conditioners, or get a couple of the unused
fans dotting the RiikspII Hnnco caniturv
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and point them down the aisles of the theater ? turned on full
blast.
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To the Editor:
This letter is in response to
the vyidespread coverage on
Wednesday, September 3,
concerning mice in the Wade
Hampton Hotel. According
to Willis Bennett (previously
quoted in the Gamecock) the
problem had already been
taken care of before the
reporter contacted him;
however, he was unaware of
that fact. Mr. Bennett appreciated
the fact that Mr.
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problem so quickly, he told
these writers. Mr. Wilson
has also told these writers
that the problem was known
before President Holderman
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I don't understand this book
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three wrong books. It appears
getting my own books. I do
seems childish.
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was notified and that
measures were taken to get
rid of the mice and according
to previously quoted
sources, it had been taken
. care of.
Many residents in the
Hotel have grown to resent
the poor representation
given to our dorm by the
Gamecock writers. Has
anything ever been written
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"other" dormitories or
about the birds flying in and
out of windows in other areas
of campus?
Why is nothing ever
written about the ad
vantages and benefits
connected with living in the
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To the Editor: .
In regard to your article on
John Denver, which ap
pea red in the August 27
issue, I would just like to say
that the only one who is
disillusioned is Mark Platte.
The "writer" (and I use
the term loosely) obviously
did not attend the recent
Denver concert. Platte
claims that "a dejected
Denver is alone" while on
May 18 thousands of people
gathered to see John Denver.
He made Denver out to
be a tired old man who lost
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However, I was at the
concert and the man I saw
was full of vitality and gave
jprese
Hotel, including: plush
carpeting, private baths,
custom wall coverings,
central heat and air,
draperies, a spectacular
view of campus and
downtown ?riH tn ca*r
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nothing about 24 hr visitation
rights and the convenience
of downtown shopping? We,
the writers, feel that because
the mouse problem was
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To the Editor :
I am quite impressed with
school newspaper and think
doing an excellent job. How
disenchanted with your choice
local abortion clinics. I*ack c
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decaying society. It is rather
of unborn children advertised
porium or a motion picture,
the withdrawal of these ads.
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SOLUTION Tt) USC'S
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Su&MITTEP BY USC'S
board OF TKusrees!
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everything he had to make
the evening enjoyable for so
many adoring fans.
I not only enjoyed this
evening, but I also am one of
the millions of fans who has
not "panned" the album
"Autograph."
Platte also seemed to think
we were tired of Denver's
message, which he called
"love, tamily and garden."
All I have to say about this
ludicrous statement is that if
we ever run out of family,
and if we ever run out of
love, there will be nothing
left worth having.
Shannon Lackey
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promptly taken care of by
the Hotel administrators,
and because all the facts of
the story were not told, that
the stance of the Gamecock
towards the Hotel residents,
staff, and mice, needs to be
upgraded.
(Names withheld by
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Wade
Hampton Hotel
Residents
>n ads
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the style and quality of our
mat you and your staff are
'ever, I am also extremely
b to print advertisements for
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e of the symptoms of our
disgusting to see destruction
I as glibly as a fast-food emI
would sincerely appreciate
Lawrence S. Lamb, Jr., H.N.
J Graduate Nursing Program