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Editoi Swap __ TO SQVi Don't sell that English : you might be, no matter 1 need to buy, you and othe you wait to sell your text government sponsored bo< The student governmei students save monev on t exchange can only work participate in it. The bool wait for long-term rather t You can sell your books then have to buy your bo< price. Or you can hold Kf*no\r rtrtf r*r*nrn mnwAir f* UJ1 vui\, gCl lliui t UlUIICjr 1V and buy your books for les; Students are continually books, and now is the ti doesn't seem right, studer to pay less than the purch< around the next semester i past, because students ne books, they went ahead a now there wasn't an altern away with buying books at The book exchange is i middlemen. Students will to the students that nee< mutually beneficial to the ni 1 11 *? ? xt- i aiuaenis semng ineir dooi buying their books will sav Now that there is an alt work. Save your books, an Carlen < sways t The USC board of trus power Jim Car1 en has w tracts as athleiic direct< meeting Friday. The board's ridiculous r athletic director from 198 as head football coach fr it can be pushed aroun in executive session. Aftei trustees would comment a reached. The only public discus board Chairman R. Mc statement at the end of the glowing remarks about U work toward improving th applauded Carlen's wor image through athletics. Carlen lobbied hard wit cording to a source close t need to because the boar( willing to stick their he problems inherent with tl appeasing Carlen. The trustees couldn't ha carlen can t do the best po he has to spend time on t speaking engagements as really wanted to impro\ would have put two differe By failing to split the jc have shown they they art tactics. They have beei , u ? ...u:..i, i Id, WUIUII Ild? UU1ICT to make this irrational an< gamecock ? Newsroom 777 7 181 Business Office 777 3888 Stephen Rit Bruin Melton Copy Desk Mark Platte News Kevin Johnson . Asst News Jeannu: Ralston. Editorial Page Leesa Bainbridcje Ent Ward Borden Asst Ent Mike Chibharo Sports Michelle Burchette Asst Spo I pttpr Sole reproduction rights grai contained herein may not be re| Opinions expressed in the Ga unsigned, o< the editor orthee The Gamecock welcomes lei l>e typewritten, triple spaced 01 Letters should be no longer i to one newsworthy subject i rnlumns must be sioned with mailing address, class standinc unacceptable, hut the writer's il the circumstances warrant it We reserve the right to edit < reserve tho right to reject any C( Addrss letters and columns I USC. Columbia, S.C. 29208 ? books s mntipu 101 book yet. No matter how broke low many Christmas presents you r USC students will be better off if books next January in the student k exchange. it is making a real effort to help he high cost of education. But the if a large majority of students < exchange will require students to hat short-term rewards. now, get less than you paid for it, Dks next semester at a marked-up onto your books over Christmas >r them when you return to school s than you'd pay at the bookstore, complaining about the high cost of me to do something about it. It its say, for the bookstore to be able ase price for a book when they turn and sell the book for a profit. In the eded money and didn't need their nd sold them to the stores. Until lative, and the bookstores could get a cheap rate. in alternative that eliminates the I be able to sell their books directly j them at a price that will be students ? not to the bookstore, ts will make money, and students e money. ernative to the bookstore; make it dsave money. oiinhr^ria rustees >tees showed everyone how much hen they voted to extend his con>r and head football coach at its nove to extend Carien's contract as 2 to 1986 and to extend his contract om 1985 to 1986 shows how easily d. Both of the decisions were made r they were announced, none of the ibout the decisions or how they were sion of the decisions came when irkley Dennis read a prepared i meeting. The statement contained fSC President James Holderman's e university's academic image and k in improving the university's h at least one board member, aco the situation. He probably didn't i members are so foolish they are ads in the sand and ignore the he situation they have created by ve even thought about the fact that ssible job as athletic director when he road recruiting players and at head football coach. If the board re USC's athletic department, it int men in these positions. )bs between two men, the trustees ; weak and susceptible to pressure i swept into a wave of Carlen i their senses and has allowed them i most foolish decision. Founded 1 908 Advertising 777 4249 Production 777 2833 Ideil Editor Chief Richard Meyers Asst Sports Ed Editor John Parnell Graphics Editor Editor Cylinda Calvert Wire Editor Editor Jerry Brewer Genera! 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"Rebel" states throughout my lifetime, my first reaction was a feeling of , being slapped in the face by j a Northerner who was j totally unfamiliar with Southern pride. ( The case this person puts forth is weak. He twists I historical facts, throws in . irrelevant statements and Blacks di Rogers s To the Editor: Black peers, where were Carolina's first Heisman 1 Columbia Monday night? Whe outcries of pride from YOU 1 port? Although it was exhilaratii acknowledging George's triui greater to see at least as ma show or party would have drav Blacks, you've shown us tha Queen, but you could not shov I At ...I 1 J I-? - ? I uroiner wnu was uone nis jou i Black peers, are you prou< wish him well? We do! Were y George, we love you! J Football si funny, em To the Editor: I have just finished watching the most delightful thirty minutes of television of my life. I am writing to the Gamecock in hopes that whoever was responsible for the show will read this. The show I am referring to is Inside Carolina Football. Rhonda Christian, in an attempt to interview Carolina's excellent placekicker, Eddie Leopard, provided TV viewers with thirty minutes of hilarious entertainment. By the time poor Rhonda _ had survived several wammmmmm ERE IS N< Letters tc m+o r\rtr% v displays a total misconception of the meaning behind the Confederate flag. This person bases his argument on the fact that he believes that the Confederate flag undermines the integrity of the South Carolina government and the respectability of the hhrk nnmmiinitv vnt ho never comes out and says how the flag does this. He goes on to say that the reason for the Civil War was slavery. It was not! If this person win reread nis history, slavery did not idn't give upport you when George Rogers, [Yophy winner, returned to re was the unified support and when George reached the airlg to see thousands of people uph, it would have been even iny blacks out there as a steo vn on the same night. it you can elect a Homecoming v up to support George, a damn well. i of George? We are! Do you ou there? We were! Kosaiyn a. fuller. Junior Sandra M. Jones, Junior Denine N. Ward, Junior anifer R. Younians, Sophomore how is barrassing minutes of shuffling through notes in embarrassing silence, I was convinced that I had never laughed harder. But that was child's play compared to the tears ol lailOhtpr I priori uihon clir A ?VVI ?? IV-11 k)IIL asked an off-camera worker how much time she had left only to find out the show was only two-thirds of the wa> over. Far from condemning tht segment, I suggest the> i show it in the afternoor along with the othei comedies. Robert Mitchel Fergusor ! Institutional Administrate 1 v a A r % r j tov^nrt. * d the Editor ? Ak?M IU1 dlUfCf j become a major issue until after the war started. Lincoln, the "devoted servant^" did not ao anytmng 01 great consequence (except make stirring speeches) until tlie middle of the war when he put forth the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln's election and death are, rii iff... KAIJI?V it i viwaiu ivyw; IOOUC t/^1115 considered. Thfe author uses them as emotional side tracks. The South was not UCICllUin^ LI1C 11 loll III IIUK 1 U4 slavery in the Civil War, as this person would have one believe, the South was defending it's agriculturally based way of life. The industrial North had passed many high tariffs to protect its budding industry. These tariffs were harsh on the South, but the South could not do anything. In a firm Show otf of Greek To the Editor: Issue after issue, the Gam editorials and letters about tl sorority members. (Of course member of the more than 3-1 campus is exactly the same, bu the press.) We've read that th< they ALL spill drinks on peopl they are most happy when they intramural football games. W possible to ignore it, how they c floats at Homecoming, banner like Tiger Burn. It is stran philanthropies never make the for that matter. Where was Kappa Gamma presented a ch dollars to the American Diabet of the other pledge classes charity? Of course, Sigma Nu tention because of their proje from Columbia to Clemson, 1 k statewide event that gave the C I am not saying that there ; fraternities and sororities. No J they do is justifiable. But there organization, and it is not rigli Kvr turn />?? m/J uj vwu ui uiicv iiiciuucid, diiu *' system by one or two fratern these groups,and the Gameco \ this. Next time a sorority ha visitors to present them with a hope the Gamecock won't be to i i I ' BMMMBMPMMW?BBMaiP? > i^eo o^rnecocK &Ip% m J r^\ in f ) symbol stranglehold of Northern tariffs, Southern trade with Europe began to die, and with trade went the economy. The South had to fight to survive. As you can see, the flag of tkn 2? t ? uic vuiucuci tscy id uui a symbol of slavery or a dissolved institution. The ) flag is not what undermines governmental integrity, respectability of a community or the unity of the United States. The flag of the Confederacy, in the hearts of many Southerners, is a symbol of devotion and \iri 11 i n rt nc c ^ Aln fnr VTIlllllgllVOO IU U1C IU1 W1ICXV one believes in, including freedom and unity in America. This is the true meaning of the Confederate flag, and it is a symbol to be proud of, not ashamed of. Dawn Morgan Computer Science ier side 5y^Lt;iii ecock has printed articles, lose big bad fraternity and it does seem odd that every \ fraternal organizations on it I suppose that is freedom of iy are all alcoholics and how e at football games and how ?? I A -1- .1 can ueai eacn omer up during re never read, unless it imontribute to school spirit with s at games or "silly" things ige how their donations 4o front page ? or the back page the Gamecock when KaDDa leek for nearly one thousand ;es Association? Or when any sponsored fund-raisers for fraternity received some atct of running the game ball ?ut it was hard to ignore a ancer Society $3,400. i are no obnoxious people in ? : ti L i am i raying mai everyuiiiig are obnoxious people in every it to judge an entire fraternity it is not right to judge a whole ities. There is another side to cfe is being unfair not to show s a reception for out-of-state sizable donation for charity, I k> "busy" to cover it. Janet Edens Freshman