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! Editor
I Student
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One of the biggest challenge
Senate will have to fac<
organizations who are unh
t received from the'Finance Coi
About 34 organizations requ
Committee and got nothing. IV
additional funding through th<
The problem is that both 5
John Boswell and Vice Pres
anything about the appeals pr
to find out what the process w
in office.
AS PRESIDENT of the 5
responsible for leading the di
appeals. When a Gamecock r
appeals process, she said the {
there was no "down-set patter
If Gault rc
Government Codifications, si
appeals to the senate are hand
| It is absolutely appalling tc
leaders on campus know so lil
After all, funding for student (
issues Student Government fa
It is time for students to d(
what is going on at USC.
representatives accountable
should be fulfilling, Student <
nnrmco
GAULT AND Boswell cla
get into the full swing of serv
no excuse. They were elected
about doing that job, they woi
entails and set out to fulfill the
Gymaria
prograrr
To the Kditor:
USC has suddenly
become a bad sport in its
choice of priorities. This
can be especially seen in
its attitude towards
women's sports...especially
gymnastics.
I After writing a letter to
i President Holderman
about the conditions of
the USC gymnastics
program, I received a
most discouraging letter
describing the shortage of
budget funds for the
sport. I have also been
told by high school
coaches that the high
school gymnastics
programs have been cut
due to the immense
danger of the sport.
In the latest issue of the
Gamecock I was shocked
to See? that USC n;iiH
$754,149 for a bubble over
the soccer field. Think of
how many potential star
gymnasts could have
used that money to
promote their fastgrowing,
popular sport.
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leaders
confused
is the new Student Government
J is appeals from student
appy with the funding they
mmittee this year.
ested tunding from the Finance
lost of these groups will request
? appeals process.
Student Government President
ident Glory Gault don't know
ocess and have made no moves
ill entail during their first week
Jtudent Senate, Gault will be
scussion and debate on budget
eporter asked Gault about the
>rocess was new and added that
n" used to handle appeals.
?ad Chapter 700 of the Student
he would find out how funding
lied. i
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Ltle about their responsibilities,
irganizations is one of the main
ces each year.
?mand that their leaders know
If students don't hold their
for actions and duties thev
Government is serving no i
im they haven't had time to
ing as campus leaders. That is
to do a job. If they are serious
jld find out what the job
ir duties.
sts need
i funds
Do the college administrators
realize how
many years of training it
takes for a gymnast to j
develop skills and how
short a time she has to
enjoy her sport? Most of
the excellent gymnasts
are but in their teens, so
many college girls want
to enjoy the sport as long
as they can.
As for danger, how
many football players get
hurt in just one game?
PLENTY! If a gymnast is
well trained, she knows t
the correct maneuvers 111
which to fall safely from
equipment without injury
Speaking from ex
penence, anyone can kick
a ball around (under a
$754,149 bubble), but it
takes a lot more courage
and determination to
develop a gymnast.
Speak out, students,
against this outrage!!!
.Judy Jackson
Junior
Brooklyn-Cayoe High
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To the Editor:
A common misconception of
not only conveys knowledge th
it too, through research. It is
view, for students to attend i
from a c /liege, whose profe
seriously, but research less so
be at "the forefront" or "froi
"cutting edge," or whatever m
From this it of course foll<
professor disseminates his hai
Unfair tc
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in El Sal
To the Editor:
What encourage ! me to
write this letter was Mr.
David Healy's letter,
"Communism the real
danger." I'd only like to
make three comments about
that letter.
It seemed that Mr. Healy
was very concerned about
the violation of human rights
in Russia and Cuba. He
mentioned that "with
Communism you have no
human rights at all." Two
questions came to my mind
when I read that letter. First
of all. would you, Mr. Healy.
have felt the same way about
Christianity if you were
living HI int* warn Ages:
As you know, what the
Churches did to the people
was not really what Jesus
Christ believed in. So, you
wouldn't, I hope, blame
Christianity itself but the
Churches. Now, do you think
that it is right to blame
Communism for the human
rights violation in Russia or
in Cuba? Or is that really
what Marx had in mind? I
just hope that you, who think
that Ms. Crolley "doesn't
know a thing about Communism,"
knew enough
about it before writing those
words!
MR. IIEALY is worried
about El Salvador becoming
a Communist country. And
this is why he supports the
millions of dollars of
economic and military aids
to the Salvadoran govern
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ch is ran
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a university is that its faculty ]
irough teaching, but discovers i
therefore a privilege, on this ]
i university, as distinguished \
ssors perhaps take teaching j
i. Students at a university can <
itier" of knowledge, or at its
etaphor seems apt.
jws that a proper university '
*d-won knowledge through the l
) blame |
list party i
vador !
ment. But don't you, Mr *
Healy, and your "elected
government," who are (
concerned about human '
rights think that other people (
have the right to choose their s
own government?
If Salvadorans want to '
have a Communist regime,
then let them have it! Your
government has no right to
stop the people by helping
the unpopular government.
Why do you only see, or want
to see, the Russian government's
violation of human
rights, but not the American
Kovernineni s : wny (ion t
you blame your own
government for giving arms
to Israil, Egypt, or South
African racist regime?
Maybe Mr Healy thinks
that we, the believers,
should fight against atheism 1
and stop its spreading. True!
But why support the despotic f
regimes instead of the
people? Why support the 1
Shah instead of supporting
ana neiping me Iranian
Muslims? Don't you think
that the believers can fight
the atheists better than the
unbelievers?
I hope Mr. Healy knows J
that by supporting and
following the government,
he will be responsible as well
for what will happen in the t
future. And finally I want d
him to know that he cannot k
justify his government's t
actions by complaining c
about the human rights a
violation in Russia!
Mohsen Mohammad!
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sly proj
publication of articles. One wl
presumably not learning muc
nspiring he might be as a teach
Hence, the cherished "list <
jniversity teacher assiduous
particularly when questions
salary increase are impending.
This idea of a university ma;
the sciences are concerned, foi
thing as knowledge to be dis
though the bulk of it may
lumanities? Among various ir
Turner thesis, or alleged disco
poem "Patterson," or of the p<
Shakespeare's sonnet cycle.
Chekhov, or imaginative hist
?oing to count as knowledge, v
nere hokum?
THE ANSWER is, of course,
lokum, very little is genuine kn
At the "forefront" of what "c
mrselves0 At the forefront of
uid it is a dull edge indeed. So
lever, sometimes amusiti
lomelimes the fruit of much
arely) it is profound. Most ofi
lardly ever knowledge, even in
It is the pure quantity of pu
mittee convoked to considei
tenure is likely to he sitting
spread the candidate's publica
read, except in a perfunctory u
likely to be deadly boring. Mi
ask a few questions of any exp
try to form an impression of Go
Someone will say that a phile
is in poor position to point a fii
finger is pointed first at acai
hoard a philosophical lecture hi
another continent and genera
argued that it a given man is
exists something called "his
lenied this.
NOW OIU lOl SI V. no quest
or there is nothing to kno\s it i
>f expression.
Another well known philosopl
Jefend, among others ot sinni
'the actual world is iactually>,
vorld is actual in thp artnal wnr
Still another has twice visite<
entertaining view that non-ex
ifter all. "There are lots of the
ine that always evokes merrim
I note these fairly characl
ernporary academic philosoph
[rive home the point that the
nowledge, or even of wisdon
roversy, for those who can mak
onfirmation. The publication o
i lot of ink, but no "frontier" of j
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L/i puiyuv.aiiv;ii^ LIUH I*V C1 \
Iv compiles and augmei ts.
of his promotion, tenure or
y have some validity so iar as
r in that realm there is such a
covered and published even
l>e trivial But what of the
imputations of prejudice n the
veries of onamatopoeia :n the
ossible authorial meanings of
or a novel interpretation ot
orical explanations, what is
/hat as ideology, and what as
thai while rather little :s pure
owledge, either.
utting edge,"' then, do we find
sheer volume of publication,
metiines what is published is
ig. sometimes insightful,
research, sometimes very
ten it is just trivial And it is
the broadest sense
iblication that counts A com
* someone's appointment to
around a table on which are
tions. Rarely are they actually
ay Mercifully so. for thev are
pmbers thumb through them,
ert who might be present, and
<1 knows what.
>sophy professor > which I am >
lger. and 1 agree. Indeed, my
demic philosophy 1 recent 1\
pre in which the sjx'akt i trom
lly considered distinguished,
six feet tall, then there ,iIm>
being six feet tail 'ther>
ion ot knowledge arise- ? :
s only ;i matter of ma: 'nodes
tier came here not loni: ago to
ar kind, the proposition that
actual if and only if the actual
Id "
i this campus to put forth his
istent objects are quite real
m," he is fond of saying ? a
ent.
teristic expressions of con
y not to ridicule them, but to
y are hardly expressions of
n. They are subject to con
;e sense of them, but hardly to
?f such material disseminates
anything is thus illuminated.
Richard Taylor
University of Rochester