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j Editoni I Satur 1 Tote A noble intention but unfair. I That's the way we describe I something that's occuring H which both students ?r?H ? -..v- auvuivjt alike despise: Saturday classes. Beginning this summer, students were practically hoodwinked into taking classes two Saturdays during the first summer session. It's not that the information wasn't printed. I The front page of the class schedule says that, at the left hand middle of the page in small type. In fact, the registrar's office was kind enough to put an asterisk by the information. f flHK pgiBPy ^ 9 Saturday classes keep Now that the smoke is begin ng to clear from the Israeli ^mbing of Iraq's nuclear reacjwr, it seems appropriate that GAME ; University of South Cirolir Founded I 777-4249 Production: 777-2833 'Utte Editor A (irven Copy Desk Chief J [I B. Wejtherbee Newt Editor A el Ronntowski. . . Entertainment Editor J Helms Sports Editor L arnell Photo Editor ft yaw*"1* reproduction lights Runted to the A 1 herein may not be reproduced tvKhou ; Jk Opinion. npmMd in the G*m*cock arc of WnrJ ?' *dhor. *.V ^plhc Gamecock welcomes letters and col typewritten, triple spaced on a 65 space line. letters should be no longer than 300 word ^Sku/cu/<>Hhv iiihwrt no lortser than four tvi anned with the writer's correct name, tel '^'Standing or faculty position and major. Pseuc QUmf may be withheld on letters, upon requ We reserve }{ie right to edit columns and l< Wf right to reject any column for any reason 9H Address letters and columns to: fditorial fc 1 MBB c lQOtUl day CI II my ur Let's admit it. Students are not interested in reading every last syllable of a classs schedule. They are only interested in finding out when their classes meet and according to the inside schedule, where students look to pick out course numbers o~i? * t?im tmn? umes, mere is no mention of Saturday classes. So the situation was and is like this: some faculty members are giving special quizzes and tests to make sure students attend Saturday classes while others don't require that students attend and in fact, admit to the students that IL-'' >'1 ?iMP^ this young lady busy. I The I examined closely. While the the significance of this act be United Nation's Security Council debates whether COCK 14, Columbia, S.C. I wo Newsroom: 777-7181 i Business Office: 777-3888 Akhael Gooding Editorial Page Editor erry Brewer General Manager Aarfc McEwan Production Managerl ean Hatched Business Manager! inda Haines Advertising Manager! Aari Ethridge )r Adviser! >s?ociated Press. All other material con- tj t the permission of the editor. ij Hihu M -J A- ?? umns. AM letter* and columns mutl be If, and columns should be limited to one >ed pages. Letters and columns must be ephone number, mailing address, class lonyms are unacceptable, but the writer's est, if the circumstances warrant it. ettert for space and style, and we reserve - f-tmecock, Drawer ' JSC k lasses ITMII* MRS they'd rather not be in class themselves. Now this foolish measure has some fine intentions. To make the schedule better for teachers to gain certification for advancing their careers is one of the best reasons to push the schedule back and start classes at a later date. But USC professors have the ability to compensate for the time, making every class minute more accountable to themselves and the students. Too many times, precious minutes of class time are wasted because of poorplanning professors. One logins to think that the registrar's office was indeed thinking of a cause which would help education in this state but they seem to be doing it by only looking at one side of the issue. How can Saturday classes be nolfl wrVwin KntK o4 ..v.v. ?? IIVII uutll OtUUCIlia ClIIU faculty oppose the measure? This was something not only done in complete secrecy but without much foresight. Certainly students will be forced to attend the class or miss needed material and more than likely will not put up much of an argument to the measure. But it is another in the line of gross infringements of student First V v w rHolo Israel's action was right or wrong, a major point has been lost beneath the deluge of analysis and condemnations. The simple fact is, a very dangerous precedent has been set. It is much easier to take an extremely unpopular action after someone else has done it before, than it is to be the one to lake such an action first. Although Prime Minister Begin's judgement was wise enough to call for the attack before the plant was operational, will the next nation who feels threatened by a neighbor with the /?ononitu t /\ Ki?!N ujr uuiiii nucurar weapons Ik? as responsible when they are forced to make a similar decision. There are currently al>out 240 nuclear reactors operational or nearly operational throutfh-out the world, everyone of which is capable of producing bomb grade material. Kvery nation that own* such rauilitfes also has enemies, none of which are particularly thrilled with the idea of having a nuclear device exploded within their own territorial boundaries. Would it not now be just as easy for a country to carry out a similar ?tt.r on an operational react would provide inaur*t such a country would on1 ' A _ T W t^ cn, <v What did you exp? Mi rights. The student senate was WMmM not consulted, the student body gy was not consulted and probably the faculty was not told about mm j the change until classes were Hig just al>out ready to begin. WM Just when are the people who ""'"ffilfi run this university or have any IH)sition of DOWer or inf1n#?nnr> B going to take into consideration SfeflRBB that students are not just ? provided for the rules that ^ \ administrators make? They are supporting this university with their tuition money. USC : should be thankful for the peopie who attend this university. " Student input, that's the important thing. Not just one or two students on a faculty com- ^eat ( mitte but everyone. It's called a raping Ou democracy. fashion ^ A A 14 ye; j | j were sun r MM H III dismissse< ? mm on ? mm mm strange i< being had m was also \ AA||| made up o CflUST *:r about twe attack? Is it more equitable to his friend destroy a reactor in another very brief country, even if it means that the water thousands may die from the were acco effects ilist. AS lrmrr aa n? VmrJ nin ^ 1 ^ " ft ww vuv. at" ,iw* tu" u tacking nation remains safe? down-stre who were The most disturbing aspect foratelep of this event does not lie in the >8 when th event itself, but instead, lies in sort of cor the over thirty years of history here, and 5 that has brought us to such precarious place in time. In None of order to create what military of any kii experts call a stable balance of nightmare power between the Soviet time wash Union and the United States large area that will ensure everyone's two hours safety, governments have bystander created a technology that has out of nec now gotten out of hand, and can telephone, no longer he adequately water's su regulated through peaceful means. In order to provide what There ii the power companies and oil was a fis monopolies call safe, econ- weather, omical, and cheap energy for waR f??hi aurm and future (feneration*, mat* int. maniacal fnduntry has b?en would no created, with nn mnmnm anything but a marketplace that is ignorant enough to ac- After a cept such a useless and danger- people be< ous technology. Such a suicidal except a direction must be immediately Have we, reversed, because if it is not, the selfish liv future will not be one filled involved i with peace and security, but ann we ^ will be filled with the instant, species w n/f nrlrar destn. haabecor ronsm NO I imnwt I Ijf -S3* JT c t oh S a t u r bndei Ve Do IB ,ft. Lj **?w i I x*. y: rel Gooding/Ed 3t week-end, some close fi )f the city and enjoy a S r day began like any other at left us all dumbfoundec ir old boy drowned at the ning ourselves on the r ng this particular tragedy 1 and forgotten. The rea ieling inside was not only died right under our feet witnessed by us that after f people who no longer car e briefly relate what happ about seven p.m., when nty yards away began ho had gone under the watei pause of about fifteen se searching in the vicinity ol mpanied by no more thar own from further up th< am, feeling for the boy wi on the shoreline to help in hone and call a rescue squj w ? J A. J A * ? c awonu irageay cook pia< cerned manner, these pec itood there. those standing idly by off id; they only stood siler as we realized that the s> ed the body down river, i we had to cover. In the e lator In) <Viu nnoKiin or?> MJ tut iccn-uv olJU eager to assist, but by th essity was forced to aba while his companion was rface. ^ one man who struck me iherman, casting his lui As 1 waded downstream t\iV 1 nlnor(iw) ttriiU k??M 4 >hi **ivu iiiiii v ?re?ted in Mtdiiiif fish t ?v?n mmmwmr n>? 1 with another cMt of hia uch an experience, we all ?me so conditioned to de? threat against their own as a people, moved so f es that it has become tab n someone else's life? Thi lay never arrive at them, ith the ability to reason [\c an assumption that we ~ 7 c" mix / TURPAY! I day rviorn i ng: ring If Care SBRflDRft: itorial Page Editor rinnHu on^ I ^r\*~*A Uliu JL UCVIUUU tU iaturday afternoon out at the day at the river, hut ended in a 1 and confused. spot directly behind where we ocks, and the circumstances were such that they cannot be son we were left with such a due to the fact that a human but because another tragedy n nnn tVir> trn rrr> rl nf o ?*w?*| vi?v vi M^v vt j v/i a ouv. il t j e about one another. To clarif. ened. a young teen-ager swimmmj llering for help, claiming thai but had not surfaced. After conds, the five of us went int f where the boy went down. W 1 about four other people wh< 3 river to help. As we wade< th our feet, we yelled to other anv WAV thov (?nnlH " ?-J '?J J vvUm,nu.cl id, or join us in the water. Th :e. Instead of reacting in son iple just stood there, and stoc ered suggestions or assistan it. The scene soon became viit current could have by th apidly expanding the alrea< nd, the l>ody was found abe ad that was called, not by e drowning boy's fridend, w nHnn tVin owwi ??? * * uvtti VII auu i Ull U dying somewhere beneath t as particularly nauseating. \ e and w\?o enjoying the fii and reached the point where x. o help us, but no, he wa? mui than Mvincr orimmm,? iil?. H. ImmI for hf?~?MNCiet*#oe, tout only lino. ! wondered, have the American ith and destruction that nothing life can move them to action? ar into ourselves and our own oo to allow ourselves to become ? answer's are not easy to find, but to call ourselves a superior mill OAJMffW flilUllVHI, auuucIIIJ have to re-evaluate.