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Editor Right c is miss Motorists driving in tJ campus should read the la any crosswalk at any time I The Right of Way mean wheels, that a person wa! strips of white paint (you v, didn't you?) has priority along the street and seeing let them go by. No ifs, ands, or buts. fortunately, it works in the< Try crossing Sumter S i Towers dorms and its a vn quicK or tne aeaa. you an only don't stop ? they d hesitate. That section of the strec ahead, wonder how many i for all the time I've been n< student, old lady, professoi riding who-cares-for-anyor Students are just as r sometning nappens to pc Suddenly they become po\ they were walking and jus are barreling down on now Even worse than Sum crossing at Assembly Stre< there is an island in the nn ever be able to get to their < traffic literally whizzes up the opposite direction it tr petition when it passes the Street. The on1" way to croi at the downsuurs plaza, t importantly, create a falsi it. Even then the chances c having to actually run are i The problem is not just but all around the campus northern California, wher flabbergasted at the al pedestrians. California ha not an iota stricter, but the Right now several thin] should be writing tickets f crosswalks to run for it, drive carefully or slow pedestrian traffic. Second, there are aire Assembly and Devine strc reach the Coliseum. Why and regular pedestrian tn Why aren't those lights m like they have in many citi< A small box with a but sidewalk. When someone v the button and it changes tl can cross. Its simple, its ea All of these things can j important is when you c crossing the street ? stop? two or three tons of metal thin layer of skin. If people expect drivers ? ii. n die in iiit; uuaawdih, 11 pedestrians not to be in 1 variation of Russian roult fair game. All it takes is one person hopefully, others will also has the right of way ? alw? A little courtesy can go j it a much pleasanter place Qsmecock" i . Newsroom 7 77 7 181 I Business Office 7 77 3888 | Stephen Rid. fell f ' Brum Melton . Copy Dusk i I C ' i !)<:(. k ? rlnonal Page E ' dttf News tKevin Johnson Asst. News E Leesa Bainbridge Ent. E Ward Bord?*ri Asst Ent F Mike Chibbaio Spofts E Michelle Burrhette Assi Sport Sole reproduction rights granto contained heiein may not he reprod Opinions expressed in the Game unsigned, of the editorial p<i{|0 editc Letters r!?? Gamecock welcomes letters typewritten. tnplo spaced on a 65 s tetters should be no longer than 2 newsworthy swb|nct no longer than signed with thfl writer's correct n<i standing or (acuity position and r Wilm s nat' may b?* withheld o wa'i.-n'.t I 'csriv 'lie iii.m !<> edit ro! i' i vi! [he ri )ht to rejet t any Colum tiMn'ss letter'i and ( oli/mns to E ' . iiiir? r 1,1 S <. S9208 IQI )f way ;ing le streets surrounding the USC w. It states that any pedestrian in has the right of way. is, for all morons behind steering Iking in the^treet between those 'ondered what they were there for, to that space. Anv cars comins a person there has got to stop and The cars have got to stop. Un Dry only. treet at the crosswalk near the rid illustration of the phrase ? the i either one or the other. Cars nol lon't slow down, they don't ever it seems to attract only full speec students I can scare, lets make uf rvrv^l.. cciiiy i un uvcr, su many punus pel r, and burn rubber high-living low ie-else drivers. nuch to blame as non-students >ople who get behind the wheel ver mad, forget the moments age t as vulnerable as the person the> ter Street is the double edged et to get to the Coliseum. (Luckil) liddle of the road or no one would classes or a basketball game). The the hilUfrom BlossomStreet and ir ies to qualify for a downhill com j light on top of the hill at Greene ss the road safely is to have a drinfc o get your courage up and, more 2 sense of immunity, and to go foi if making across the street withoul negligible. on Sumter and Assembly streets area. A recent visitor to USC froir e generally the cars do stop, was ititude motorists have towardj s the same law as South Carolina difference is that it works. gs can be done. First, the police or drivers who force people in th< and tickets for drivers who don'i down through areas of heavj ady stoplights at the corner o! jets where students try to cross t( aren't they working? Not enough affic, the police no doubt will say ade to work on a demand system es across the country. ton is mounted on a pole on the vants to cross the street they press he light from green to red and thej isy and its safe. and should be done. But the mosl lrive your car and see someone and let them go on first. You've gol protecting you, all they've got is s to run them over even when the) len they will. If drivers expecl he street except when playing s itte, then they will consider thenr to start the process and gradually begin thinking that the pedestriar jys. a long way in this world, and mak< to be. :oundod 1 908 Aoverttsincj: 777 4?49 Production 7 ' <iitor Richard Meyers Asst Chief John Parnell Graph. .< unui v.yiincift invert Wiro tditor ditor Jeanne- Ralston features Editor iditor Jean '>tchell oess Manager ditor Jerry Brewer . teral Manager ditor Anthony Gray Adveipsing Manager ditor William Tinsley Pioduction Manager sEd. Mark Ethridge Jr Adviser d to ihe Associated Press All other material uced without the permission of the editor cock are those, if signed, of the writer. and. it & Columns and columns. All letters and columns must be pace line 100 words and columns should be limited to one 'out typed pages Letters and columns must bo ime, telephone number, mailing address, class naior Pseudonyms are unacceptable but the n letters, upon request, if the circumstances umns and leif'is 'nr si. ti e an.I siv'r i"d vve it for v mason ilHod.il f.<Jitoi liaii'ecoi k Di.mvi'i A USC. ; ^ V( & ; JNO S , To the Editor: i The editorial on > Supreme Court's refusa 5 hear the case concert federal funding of abort was disturbing. You s ; ported the federal fun( ; with three main argumer t Al. _ i - A f mai 11 is our resj sibility to help them f ) that it is to our benefi i pay for them i *that it is their righl have an abortion. Starting from the botU > you say "you can not ' terfere with another's ri to decide for or against t abortion for themselves. I alcn foal tKof tmn tvinn nnt uaov ILVI UiUl J UU 11 Idjr 1 IWi I Trash, Where | To the Ei. i It has bt ,me apparen ! ^ ^ * u ~ * -J..-: - - a nit* iu<ti uuriiig i academic year it is creasingly difficult to obi a copy of the Gamecock. r _ A. 1 * i am a siuueni who ma every attempt to keep formed about issues ; events on and off campu find it virtually impossibl do this without being abl< get a copy of the Gamecc L \ Letters to tf iOUILlUIl able to coerce money from fulfill the me thru taxes to pay for amou 1 to their abortions. spenc ling You say "they can not and given ions should not be expected to famil sup- pay," so why should I, who annu; iing worked for my money, be twice its: expected to pay. Wh You go on to say it is to our high ] x)n- benefit to fund the abortions peopl since we don't need an un- that t wanted child on our welfare spec A. A _ TA U 1 * 1 i to xuna. ii wuuiu ue more aci- aoori vantageous to us, since you medi< are talking in purely end t to economic terms, to bure eliminate the welfare roles minis 3m, and invest the money in progr in- business, giving jobs for the stayir ght poor. Wh} an Oh, but you say we have a direct " I "responsibility" to help the you tl t be poor. I sav we have alreadv caDab , trash even m HHHL: trash a corner s are Gamec which is in mv exnterlerfc** 1 i hrfit n??i t to unobtaiitalbe' toward Me ?rt<5' Itucfen his of the day . My work schedule spoken in- does not permit me to attend pressei :ain classes until late afternoon lack o on Mondays and Wed- your n kes nesdays. Therefore, it would many in- be my assumption that 1 greatlj and would be able to find at least masse s. I one copy for myself. It is e to 1 am not asking in this Game< p to letter for a private sub- cataly: )ck, scription to the Gamecock news i REHEMBE WHEN Yt & AT rut I of row THERE'S AtWAYS; yoluno pon You iii le editor funds ed this burden. If the they ne nt of money HEW tax lev Is on welfare were much, g 10 me zd minion poor, a be done y of four would have an them t *1 income of $14,000, percent the level of poverty. so they y don't they enjoy this fortable evel of living? Because by us. e like the editor insist It ma he money should go for short ru ial purposes like favor ions, food stamps, financia u/nlforn oi n Vaii U1V4, T? V-I1UI V/, UIV-. I uu guvn III! up with big it's rouj aucracies ad- that is tering thousands of should ams and poor people subsidie ig poor. when 25 i not give the money your inc ly to the poor? Don't think yoi link they are the most le of deciding what /wueie Editor: really tired of hearing excuses garage sanitation problems. I workers save the rainy days to but it has been a long dry spell in n most people, beer cans, empty cc nnoy me ? but I can take that. It and unidentifiable things that ; of the stairwells that bother me! pile stayed in the same place last j *d away. How much do we have to ndleton Street garage is spotless and administrators parking in I . It smacks to me of pure disorimi: same service that Pendleton Stree inswer to this dilemna is that we ! irbage to school and work with us >f the place. May this would Doi that I don't think anyone of real in ce. (Name * ;ocks? ther are P0v^ral other affect th< ts to wnom 1 have at the . Thev too havo pv i concern over the operate \ f available copies of of total rc ewspaper. 1, as well as other students, would cri ' appreciate a larger (Editor irculation. Gamecot my opinion that the numerou: ock should act as a the distri >t of information of are doing is well as events that thesituat ft, W'Rt I Rope, K hrUy jSiarK^i!^ ^ Johnson^ ed? If their income el is less than so ive them money and with it. Don't give oo much, say 60 of the poverty level, don't get too combeing taken care of y seem cruel in the n but you do on one a by making them Uy dependent on the lent. If you thinks *h going to a school half as cheap as it be because of tax s, try to get ahead percent, or more, of r\rr\c? rtA?ic f a v ac 1 U1I1V gVA^O IV lOACa. 1 ur tune will change. Pat Fray ph ysics grad about the Blossom am told that the work on Blossom lore than one way. ntainers and paper 's the piles of feces, are lying in every fear until it literally take? I am told that ? maybe we need the Blossom Street nation that we den t t ear app cptc should all bring our ? it can't hurt the nt out the problem nportance ever sees vithheld by request) J life of the student University. That cannot properly vithout the benefits 'adership Lisa J a rin initial justice senior 's Note: Th<> has received s complaints atx>ut but ion problem. 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