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Editorial wmi Outlaw tenure Tenure should be outlawed. It is an antiquated system that scares off the capable and comforts the lazy. 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. Originally tenure was to insure economic freedom and Qllfptv fr?r rr>COn rph nnt In montmn f r>nx?n/iiitiy>n v j m. w VWVV4& VII, IlUt VV# UIVUUV/ll & A VV/UU1H 11 Will pCl dCVUlll/ll 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 is to be persecuted for his ideas it will probably come from 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 happened at USC. The South Carolina legislature _ 11 l r i 1 * " ' ' anoweu proiessors wno 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 impressive victory, 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 pressure do Deoole Droduce. Mavbe those in rharfp shnnlri iry 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, wnu aquu in anu iwisi uriuer me proiessor s tnumo mucti 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 men in the business of teaching, and not truants who have 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! SompfhirT DUI T? I iull^ii in rvnuu 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 pungent aromas to the theater. It's almost futuristic ? the cinema has now evolved intr 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 Russell House sanitary engineers' closets and point them down the aisles of the theater ? turned on full blast. Pamecock > Founded 1 908 Newsroom 777 7 1 81 Advertising 777 4249 Business Office; 777-3888 Production 7 77 2833 Stephon Riddell Editor Richard Meyers . Asst Sports Ed Brian Molton Copy Desk Chief Glenn Johanson Graphics Editor Carl Babcock Editorial Page Editor Cylinda Calvert Wire Editor M-uk Platte News Fdito> Jeannie Ralston Features Editor Kevin Johnson Asst. News Editor .Imn Hmcii?ii n.?: ivionager Ronda Templeton Ent. Editor Jerry Brewer General Manager Ward Borden Asst. Ent. Editor Anthony Gray Advertising Managor Mike Chibbaro Sports Editor William Tinsley ... Production Manager Michelle Burchette . . . Asst. Sports Ed. Mark Ethridge Jr Adviser C?ln -I-" A ... 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Address letters and columns to: Editorial Page Editor, Gamecock, Drawe* A, (JSC, , Columbia, S C. 29208. *- " - - ? - - - - f DRWL'J^ mx*4 ?90O ^ ' ? V. A USC STUPE* P/EP Of STARVA WTIH6- IfJ UN? AT W JOHN DEMv!?^ * * ' % v ' 1 ' ^ ^ V f V * N > r\ x \ v^ N . * ..*' \ <*X N < \ _ s ^ _ 1a *V> fk V*,vN> v S - Ji 11 A Better Worl Hote ' To the Editor: This letter is in response t< 1 the widespread coverage or ' Wednesday, September 3 1 concerning mice in the Wad< 1 Hampton Hotel. According to Willis Bennett (previously quoted in the Gamecocfe) th< problem had already beer taken care of before the reporter contacted him however, he was unaware ol that fact. Mr. Bennett ap predated the fact that Mr Wilson alleviated the problem so quickly, he tolc these writers. Mr. Wilsor has also told these writer* that the problem was knowi before President Holder ma i Book re: rnnfi 1 cii 111 M.OU To the Editor: I don't understand this boo line, got only one used book. three wrong books. It appeal getting my own books. I d seems childish. mmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmumammmmmmaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmum-t ?- Believe AT flY * T ton w i = SNACK BAR.! | Lett |B|||,|i||l(l^^ I Am A Fon Of John Denver ?>; ,x\ . ^-> t "v ~~vV *? ' ? >\i ??V v >"s > . r-i\ m\ i vi. ? ' , \ f Ovv.ii^S "<L- V x r^*- a^V> s? ^-, \ *?*N( 1 v ? * -A<<*\ v j,, -^V, ^ ^\i ?V,\. ?.. r * ,sv \- .*>, " ' ? ? i v >? .* <? Vk N'vK r> v.>vtu.v tvsh.icN vj. _ r-.,V VV\^?.i , 1 " x-> " V% j . '. s \. . I'X J ?.v * r-xti ^ ^ N v JJsli*. vx .tVC^SN.,^ ' d w V _ <Lv V . . ; > ^ T~ N-*? v v-N|. > v%? * \VVVt.KO I ?" ? ?. f\ CA >..s.v%v.i,>v v. _ v vV>v ?CS.WlK. <V6fv.W.i^S9k*V><iV I lV l^^ >~^ v ^ v?."Kvk^ c?.o_ (l ^ **& ^?.V?X. V d Through Awor?n*s*^^^: ' \ I C V I misre was notified and that > measures were taken to get h j rid of the mice and ac cording to previously quoted C] I sources, it had been taken C( \ care of. di ' Many residents in the v a Hotel have grown to resent & J the poor representation n, , given to our dorm by the rj ' Gamecock writers. Has 0I anything ever been written V* about the squirrels in ti "other" dormitories or > about the birds flying in and j out of windows in other areas of campus? J Why is nothing evpr * written about the ad1 vantages and benefits * connected with living in the ? serve "23 i V ci k reserve deal. I had to stand in c was missing two books, and had t *s that I would have done better t on't want any more reserves, Dan Grey media arts junior IBMOTnHBraBBHMBMBBMVMHnMM it or Mit rr*1 nmm s ow'SAUKA-CWEMA fi?JSSE(^ /#>S? DlEATKE $r*m" "" I CAFETERIA JjS&wk ;ens breatn John C in conc 'o the Editor: . In regard to your article on ohn Denver, which ap eared in the August 27 ssue, I would just like to say hat the only one who is lisillusioned is Mark Platte. The "writer" (and I use he term loosely) obviously lid not attend the recent )enver concert. Platte laims that "a dejected )enver is alone" while on flay 18 thousands of people [athered to see John Dener. He made Denver out to >e a tired old man who lost ill his fans and livelihood, lowever, 1 was at the oncert and the man I saw vas full of vitality and gave prese otel, including: plush arpeting, private baths, ustom wall coverings, entral heat and air, raperies, a spectacular iew of campus and owntown, and to say othing about 24 hr visitation ghts and the convenience I downtown shopping? We, le writers, feel that because le mouse problem was ^bortic nfft>r?ci ro the Editor: I am quite impressed with chool newspaper and think loing an excellent job. Ho\ lisenchantod with vmir ...v.. J VHV/iV ocal abortion clinics, Lack lignity of human life is 01 lecaying society. It is rather if unborn children advertise K)rium or a motion picture. > " uc wiinurawai 01 meseads. US i ^HJMm * " ? ? AN INMOVATIVE ' SOLUTIOM 7t> USC $ VfWHG PRoOfM SU6MITTTEP BY USC'S I BOARD OF TKllSTeeS ! ess is ?enver :ert 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 fhn /xf tn?l*A uiv. iiiiuiuiia ui mild wiiu nub not "panned" the album "Autograph." Platte also seemed to think we were tired of Denver's message, which he called "love, family and garden." All I have to say about this ludicrous statement is that if lim AirAV* >*nr* " ? ! 1 - - nv tYU 1 Ull OUl U1 litlllliy, and if we ever run out of love, there will be nothing left worth having. Shannon Lackey future US student nted promptly taken rare 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, 1 ? * - - * oum, anu mice, neeas 10 De upgraded. (Names withheld by request) Wade Hampton Hotel Residents >n ads v irfc vc i the style and quality of our mat you and your staff are -vever, I am also extremely le to print advertisements for of concern for the value and ne of the symptoms of our disgusting to see destruction tl as glibly as a fast-food em I would sincerely appreciate Lawrence 8. Lamb, Jr., R.N. IC Graduate Nursing Program