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Editorial mm China exchange will enhance I USCfs reputation USC President James Holderman and his entourage just returned from a two-week trip to China and made great progress toward setting up an exchange program between snansi university and Carolina while on the trip. The exchange program has been in the works for quite some time, but Holderman signed the papers and made it official while on tour in China. This exchange agreement is a very prestigious one for Carolina because it is the first exchange program a statesupported university in the United States has ever set up with a provincial university in China. The agreement also helps to enhance USC's growing reputation as an international university. THE PROGRAM WILL start next fall when 20 faculty members and students from Shansi come to Carolina. USC will send 10 faculty members and students to China during the fall to complete the first-year exchange. Visiting USC professors will lecture on English, engineering and the sciences. The Chinese professors at USC will lecture on 1 - w ? ^ 11 4- 1 A w ^uinese language, me arus anu /vsian culture. THE EXCHANGE PROGRAM is a definite plus for USC and helps bring the school recognition as one of the top universities in the South. Even if the recognition isn't quite as much as Carolina will get if George Rogers wins the Heisman Trophy, it helps enhance USC's academic reputation. Tourism program should expand Tourism is one of the largest industries in South Carolina. It employs more than 60,000 people and generates about $2 billion in revenue every year as a result of the large number of tourists who take advantage of South Carolina's beautiful coast line. Because tourism is so important to the state, it only seems fitting that the state university offer a comprehensive program in tourism. THE COLLEGE OF GENERAL Studies now offers a twoyear program in hotel, restaurant and tourism administration, but USC administrators wanted to offer a bachelor of science degree in the field. However, the Commission on Higher Education rejected the proposal for a fouryear program on Thursday because it is studying the possibility of eliminating two-year programs at four-year institutions. The commission said the four-year program in tourism should not be initiated while the two-year program is understudy. The commission's reasoning is off base. There is no reason a four-year program cannot be initiated while the two-year program is under study. If the commission decides the two-year program should be eliminated, that is all the more reason to have a four-year program already established for those who want to major in the field. The commission's vote to stall expansion of the tourism program is a giant step backward. The decision frustrated USC educators, and members of thp indnstrv wprp about the delay in getting the tourism program off the ground. In a show of support for the program, about 25 industry representatives came to the commission meeting to hear the debate on the merits of the program. The industry people want to recruit graduates from South Carolina and give the jobs to the people of this state. But they can't until USC gets a top-caliber program that can give students the professional training they need to get the jobs. It is maddening to think that South Carolina has one of the uiggesi resorts in me unuea slates along its coastline, yet it does not have a four-year program at its state university that can train students for careers in hotel,restaurant and tourism management. gamecock ? Founded 1 908 Newsroom 777 7181 Advertising 777 4249 Business Office 777 3888 Production 777 2833 Stephen Riddel! Editor Brian Melton Copy Desk Chief Richard Meyers . 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Editor Anthony Gray Advertising Managei Ward Borden Asst Ent Editor William Tinsley Production Manager Miko Chibbaro Sports Editor Jean Hatched Business Manager Michelle Burchette Asst Sports Ed Mark Ethudge Jr Adviser Letters & Columns Sole reproduction rights granted to the Associated Press All other material contained herein may not be reproduced without the permission of the editor Opinions expressed in the Gamecock are those, il signed, of the writer and. il unsigned, of the editor or the editorial page editor The Gamecock welcomes letters anti columns All letters and columns must be typewritten, triple-spaced on a 65 space line Letters should be no longer than 300 words, and columns should he limited to one newsworthy subject no longer than four typed pages Letters and columns must be signed with the writer's correct name, telephone number, mailing address, class standing or faculty position and ma|or Pseudonyms are unacceptable, but the writer's name may be withhold on letters, upon request, if tha circumstances warrant it Wo reserve the right to edit columns and letters for space and style, and we reserve the right to reject any column for any reason Addrss letters and columns to: Editorial Page Editor, Gamecock, Drawer A, USC, Columbia, S C. 29208. /what happen! i a dc-lo cra' I SOmETHlNG ? 1 Reagan To the Editor: After watching the landslide victory of Reagan, I immediately pulled out my typewriter and prepared myself for four years of letter writing. Though Reagan may prove to be an excellent leader, I feel that the majority who voted for him did so as "the lesser of two evils" and not because of the policies he endorses. Some of his ideas are fresh and reasonable, but quite a few are outdated and I feel are backward. One such policy is his stand on abortion. Reagan has promised to replace four of the Supreme Court Justices with three men and one woman who will make abortions illegal, whiph nlpaspc thrtco "Right-to-Lifers" who are about to kill everyone with their respect for life. Parable < on Electi To the Editor: And so it came to pass th Nineteen Hundred and Eighty < together as one for Election E that was sorely vexed by the lac And the First Candidate spol us, for complexity has descent unto you that, verily, though mighty nation, we must ventu destroy ourselves and all our w< And the Second Candidate wa "What foolishness is this t throughout the land? I say unto are no boundaries. Ten! Twe: does it matter? Yea, even unto come. Gold and spices and che thy ballot for me." And being a proud and arroga unto themselves, "Let us secui and to Hell with anyone else." J ignorance and weak of mind, their scribes and scholars and t Whereupon, they descended Despond, taking their sorely pe ld? oidj . sh or a mm no/ / MM roon S ABOO >" _ettens to t's abort Ever since the beginning of man, society has had to deal with unwanted children in heartless ways. Primitive societies would abandon any deformed (or even healthy children in times of famine) babies in the wilderness to die. For once this society has the technology to prevent pregnancy, and when that fails, to abort the fetus This may not sound too pretty, but it is a heck of a lot better and kinder than past solutions. Millions of women will still have abortions, whether legal or not. If illegal, these women will have to resort to back-alley quacks, or if lucky, expensive but concerned doctors. For public health's sake, abortions should remain legal. Ironically, most of the "Right-To-Lifers" I know are irritated at having to pay :>f greed on Day at in the year of our Lord, \.D., the multitudes did come ay (except that half of them !k of substance). tc unto them, saying, "Woe is ded upon our land. And I say i ours remains a great and re forth with caution, lest we s sorely dismayed, bellowing, hat my opponent blabbers you, there are no limits, there nty! Thirty megatons! What the American Dream will we ap oil will be ours if thou cast mt people, the multitudes said *e for ourselves the Good Life io, l>eing exceedingly rift with th(>V HicrJ'linnrl 1 ? - c v. .vj uiauuiiitu LIIC WUIU5 OI urned their backs on reality, headlong into the Slough of rplexed pundits with them. A.K. Wikrent International Studies Graduate Student IN INTRAMURAL. a?V_L 6AME. IS T TO BE<s?lW. am 1 0* /| &omecod the Editor ion star for the welfare of the unwed mothers and the whole welfare system at large. If these people would like to do something truly Christian, they should begin by adopting some of the "hard to place" children in the orphanages today. And then they* should start protesting for better and more effective birth control Satire ex feelings t To the Editor: This is a response to Mr. Robert Cowart's letter to the editor in the Nov. 5 issue of the Gamecock. First of all, the title of Mr. Gordon's very appropriate satire was not "Jive TalkinV (Do 1 detect a case of stereotyping here?) In faot 1V4r? ... iuvi, 1111 . vjui uuii 3 ifufl did not even have a title. How generous of the Gamecock to donate one. Of course, Brenda Mitchell did not receive fair coverage for her accomplishment. And where in Mr. Gordon's letter does it say that the staff of the Gamecock and whites in general are racists? Shame on you Mr. Cowart. After all, doesn't the Gamecocfe plaster pictures of George Rogers in most of its issues, and don't the fans cheer when ole George runs a touchdown? Of course they do. You, Mr. Cowart, are paranoid. 1 mean really, when I saw some white spectators displaying the confederate flag and shouting snmp l/oru fnmili'i? * j luminal derogatory remarks at AFRO while they played a certain fraternity in intramural football, (a prime example of "illogic and bigotry" if I ever saw one) 1 did not automatically assume that whites, in general, are racists. Many of us realize that Brenda Mitchell was dealt an injustice by the Gamecock as well as by Hm ?I .J k i i i id cruel so that young women would not have to make the painful decision of aborting a future ; child. But a return to antiabortion laws is a giant step I backward for the human race. Laws like this I only chain us to a past of brutality Mary Ake English Senior '.pressed of blacks some of our "intelligent" fellow students, particularly those who saw fit to boo the queen when her name was announced, but let's "let sleeping dogs lie," shall we? Oh, I'm sorry. Let me break it down for you, Mr. Cowart. Mr. Gordon's letter u/nc a \r r?/v?? t Jonathan Swifts' A Modest Proposal. He had no ulterior motive at all; he simply wanted to express the mutual feelings of quite a few people. It was, I assure you, well "preshiated" and certainly very original. Oh yes ? do you realize I Mr. Cowart that if vou wprp among those who brought the Africans over from Africa, you would be quite an old man by now. Shocking, isn't it? Of course, we're all very glad to know that you weren't among those who succeeded in uprooting an entire race of people (what a culture shock) and dragging them to this wonderful land of democracy. Your passengers probably would have become lost at sea with a great captain like you. I'm sure Mr. Gordon, or anyone else, for that matter, K has no intention of emigrating to Africa, so I (JlIOSS u/p'rp inct cfiiflf u/ith each other. Would you consider defraying the charges of a cruise around the world instead? Sheilah Thomas Pre-Law Freshman