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L Edit or i ' Saturi tot? A noble intention but unfair. That's the way we describe something that's occuring which both students and faculty 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. 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. Saturday classes keep Is Inn .in AM Now that the smoke is beginning to clear from the Israeli bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor, it seems appropriate that r???? GAME University of South Caroli I Founded Advertising: 777-4249 Production: 777-2833 MarfcPUtlc Idilor Anne Kirven Coov [)?l< ( Kief Donald B. Weatlierbee New* Editor k Michael Komilowstii. . . Entertainment Editor P Tracy H elrr,, Sports Editor I John Parne* Photo Editor I Sole reproduction rights granted to the tained herein may not be reproduced witho Opinion* mmtitd in tfc* Camecock . -t tinned, oi the editor, The Gamecock welcomes letters and cc typewritten, triple spaced on a 65 space line letters should be no longer than 300 wor i newsworthy subject no longer than four t) signed with the writer's correct name, t? standing or (acuity portion and major. Pseu name may be withheld on letters, upon reqi W# rflffVP rfir rWKl lA rnlnm?? ataJ I I th* rf(iht to reject any column for any rtMO< Addmt k4l*n and toltimn* Jo: Editorial I C0himbU,5.C.2920?. a I Hmannm nEH JB&&b n m 1 Vft flv HE ? lllw III V VI 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 m/mf on/1 o/uwvw^iti/v #/\ lll^VV Hliu WVA/V/1 UII1|^ W U1C III* side schedule, where students look to pick out course numbers and class times, there 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 'rjfljlS 1 this young lady busy. I The I luclea examined closely. While the the significance of this act be United Nation's Security Council debates whether 1GOCK na, Columbia, S.C. 1908 Newsroom: 777-7181 Business Office: 777-3888 Michael Gooding Editorial Page Editor Jerry Brewer General Manager Marti Mcf wan Production Manager lean Hatched Business Manager Linda Haines Advertising Manager Mark ithridge |r Adviser Associated Pres.*. AM other material con ul the pftmhuon of the editor. t rtiOM, M tinned, of tW wHOc and, H urv lumm. AH letter* and columns mutt be df, and column* should be limited to one <ped page*, letter* and column* mutt be lephone number, mailing addre**, class donytm are unacceptable, but the writer'* iiett, K the drcuimtance* warrant it letter* for space and ityit, and we reserve I r"?r??ecocV, Dt?w*r ' *C k lasses rfair 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 npftfooanra hova thn akilitv in |/?VAVWVIU IIMVV VtIV UUI1I VJ W 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. 1 One begins to think that the 1 I registrar's office was indeed l 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 , held when both students and faculty oppose the measure? This was something not only done in complete secrecy but iI * u e :-Li ! wiLiiuuL iuucii luresigni. 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 ir Hoioi Israel's action was right or wrong, a major point has been lost beneath the deluge of analysis and condemnations. The I 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 take 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 capacity to build nuclear weapons be as responsible when they arc forced to make a similar decision. There are currently about 240 nuclear reactors operational or nearly operational through-out the world, everyone of which is capable of producing bomb grade material. Every nation thflt. nwnA utmh alan 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 Qttr '* on an operational reacH. would provide insur?t such a country would Q1|V * " P* 4 ? LmiSSSS . rfB'Si. fea" _s rr What did you expec III, rights. The student senate was Hn m lot consulted, the student body \ vas not consulted and probably ,he faculty was not told about wm am :he change until classes were lust about, ready to begin. VI Just when are the people who run this university or have any position of power or influence S?oing to take into consideration 'r\ 5 ^ that students are not just provided for the rules that ^ M administrators make? They are supporting this university with t their tuition monev. USC should be thankful for the peo- ' pie who attend this university. ? c. ^ .1 Michae Student input, that s the important thing. Not just one or This past two students on a faculty com- ^ ^ t Qf mitte but everyone. It's called a raping. Our c democracy. fashion that A 14 year were sunni Af BfWi surrounding 4 W B IIBE dismisssed ; H vgff R 1111 strange feel being had d __ wuu ul.tin uril eh n made up of 1 uutlST thislctn,e It wfts at about twenl attack? Is it more equitable to his friend hi destroy a reactor in another very brief p country, even if it means that the water se thousands may die from the were accom effects, just as loner as the at- had run doi tacking nation remains safe? down-strear who were or The most disturbing aspect forateleph< of this event does not lie in the is when the event itself, but instead, lies in sort of conc< the over thirty years of history here, and sti that has brought us to such precarious place in time. In None of tl order to create what military of any kind experts call a stable balance of nightmare a power between the Soviet time washec Union nml thp 3tntna larorp awn u that will ensure everyone's two hours 1 safety, governments have bystanderei created a technology that has out of necet now gotten out of hand, and can telephone, v, no longer be adequately water's surf regulated through peaceful means. In order to provide what There is o the power companies and oil was a fisht monopolies call safe, econ- weather. As omical, and cheap energy for was fishing ours and future generations, more intere maniacal industry has been would not e created, with no concern for responded v anything but a marketplace that is ignorant enough to ac- After sue cept such a useless and danger- people becai ous teehnolmrv Siirh a amYiHal exceDt a th direction must be immediately Have we, a reversed, because if it is not, the selfish lives future will not be one filled involved in with peace and security, but we mawill be filled with the instant species witl of noKlnur desin. has become Hm "'I * ?? "Ps>fck. <^uix t or\ So* + urda muvn feDo< JW^v' -..vWv " ?"I / Gooding/EdiU week-end, some close frier the city and enjoy a Satu lay began like any other da; left us all dumbfounded ar old boy drowned at the spc ng ourselves on the rock this particular tratredv we ind forgotten. The reason ing inside was not only du ied right under our feet, bi nessed by us that afterno< >eople who no longer care a briefly relate what happens out seven p.m., when a y ;y yards away began hollei id gone under the water bi ause of about fifteen secor arching in the vicinity of wl panied by no more than al vn from further up the ri n, feeling for the boy with i i the shoreline to help in ar me and call a rescue squad, second tragedy took place. irned manner, these people >od there. ?ose standing idly by offer* I; they only stood silent, s we realized that the swif 1 the body down river, rap re had to cover. In the end ater by the rescue squad itfer to assist, but by the d isity was forced to abandc hile his companion was dyi ice. ne man who struck me as ] rman, casting his lure a I waded downstream and , I pleaded with him to he a ted in catching fish thar ven answer me as I asked rith another cast of his line h an experience, we all wc ne so conditioned to death i Qrroinof iVinit* mtm 1tf< icav wwu nil 8 a people, moved so far that it has become taboo t someone else's life? The ar r never arrive at them, but 1 the ability to reason and an assumption that we ha> ? EV>ay| =?~l I TP y iviornti\g: Snm If Core Vxr'^' V/^'-VvV' '^KHH^'' ^ iBIhBMET trial Page Editor ids and I decided to escape irday afternoon out at the / at the river, hut ended in a id confused. >t directly behind where we s, and the circumstances re such that they cannot be we were left with such a le to the fact that a human ut because another tragedy >n; the tragedy of a society bout one another. To clarif\ id. oung teen-ager swimming ring for help, claiming that it had not surfaced. After ids, the five of us went int here the boy went down. W> bout four other people wh< iver to help. As we wade? our feet, we yelled to other ly way they could, either g> or join us in the water. Th Instead of reacting in soir s just stood there, and stoo si suggestions or assistan Ti)e scene soon became t current could have by th idly expanding the a!rea< , the body was found abe that was called, not by rowning boy's fridend, w iL . 1. 1 in me searcn ana run t< ing somewhere beneath t particularly nauseating. ) nd also enjoying the fir reached the point where 1 lp uh, but no, he was mui i saving someone's life. H for his assistance hut. onlv ndered, have the American md destruction that nothing 5 can move them to action? into ourselves and our own x> allow ourselves to become iswer's are not easy to find, t to call ourselves a superior I express emotion, suddenly re to re-evaluate.