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Editorial Borkowski To Remain We're not exactly sure what compelled USC Provost Frank Borkowski to remain with the university instead of continuing on the list of favored candidates for the West Virginia University presidency, but whatever did it, we're grateful he's decided to stay. Keports from WVU indicated that Borkowski and WVU Law School Dean E. Gordon Gee were the leading candidates for the job. Without adding to the already fueling cnAPiilatinn Rrtrlrnvuct i miirlo it r?l no > PriHau affprnnnn ijpVVUAU UVt AkVITUIkl II?U\4V ? V VI VV4& A K IVtU J 141 VV1 tlV/Vll that there's a lot of future in staying at USC. THE PROVOST'S decision should tell Carolina three important things: First, higher education administrators at other good institutions are seeking whom they believe are quality USC officials (i.e. Borkowski, President Holderman, College of Science and Mathematics Dean Jim Durie. etc.) Second, these people are turning down quality positions at other universities to stay here. For example, Borkowski's elevation from USC provost to WVU president must have been as difficult a decision as one has to make within a professional career. The provost grew up in West Virginia and obtained his doctorate at WVU. He understands WVU's Droblems and asoirations. He could have easily improved that institution. ! Finally, our administrators turning down other possible offers should make its impact on USC students who are unsatisfied with this university. Why would people who are concerned about their careers as much as anybody thpir namps off lists where advancement is verv possible unless they thought this college was going to get even better? WE'RE NOT talking about the money. Salaries are about the same wherever one goes in higher education. We're not speaking of increased power or titles. USC has had all the administrative reorganization it's likely to see for awhilp What is pviHpnf is that FlSr* is fast hwnminfl a blend of homogeneous personalities and talents whose goals are to make this state institution an improved university. We don't need to make any changes for at least the next two years because during that period of time, USC will pithpr haup nrnvpH itc r>anahilifioc r\r at looet lu> nn i(c v?vf av,a ? T ^ vr ? vvi * W> vuj/Mvuivivtj V/i UV 1VUOV UV- V/II I to steady way to finally establishing itself as a superior bastion of education in the United States. It would be almost impossible to replace someone of Frank Borkowski's skills. He is even-tempered, extremely intelligent and such a fair administrator that faculty deans saw fit to give him a standing ovation at a recent retreat. It's always been said that you can't appreciate what you've got until it's not there anymore. Perhaps now we'll all appreciate what and who we've got. Ir*i a iv rr m r*\r\ ur.ri.xvjL JCJ University of South Carolina. Columhia, S.C. Founded 1908 Newsroom: 777-7181 Advertising: 777-4249 Business Office: 777-3888 Production: 777-28J3 Mark Platte Editor Jill Hancock Copy Desk Chief ' "cy Helms Spom Editor David Corvette News tditor J' Cortoett Asst. Sports Editor Tom Coyne Asst. News tditor Mike fisher Graphics tditor Don Weatherbce Editorial Page Pditor J >rrry Brewer General Manager Mike Komatowski f ntertainmc-nt Editor linda Haines Advertising Manager |ohn Vaughan Asst. t nt Editor Mark Mcf wan Production Manager Mark [th ridge )r Adviser l?nHatchel Business Manager t 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, if signed, of the writer and, if unsigned, of the editor. The Gamecock welcomes letters and columns. All letters and column! must be typewritten, triple spaced on a 65 space line. Letters should be no longer than >90 words, and columns should be limited to one newsworthy subject no longer than four typed p*gev Letters and columns mutl be signed with the writer's correct name, telephone number, mailing address, dass standing or faculty position and major. Pseudonyms are unacceptable, but the writer's name may be withheld on letter, upon request, H the circumstances warrant it. We reserve the right to edit columns and letters for space and style, and we reserve the right to reject any column for any reason. Address letter* and columns to: fditorial Page Editor, Gamecock, Drawer A, USC, Columbia, S.C. 2920?. \ w ^ %?M terrCktT CkNTH ravwrj 5IAMR.. 4^3 I mrh ?S mm., X H . Nixon Pri TO THE EDITOR: Congratulations on the foresightedness of your Thursday (Oct. 8 issue) editorial concerning the DroDOsed Richard Nixon Presidential Library on the Duke University campus. There was not a statement in the entire text of the commentary that is not worthy of consideration on the part of 4* I ma ,1 >oacr! , On the fateful day of Tuesd Sadat's body was riddled wit! quaked, the skies and clo , somber, and even the birds k 1 The bad news spread all indicating that Egypt, and great statesman, an embodii who knew no anger even in th FROM THE brief intervie\ president when he made a fc (Nigeria), I discovered him } integrity. Sadat no doubt v . East peace initiatives, desj: Arab countries. Finally, it 1 President Sadat has left his \ I of time for other world lea , irreparable loss. Rest in pea< I j f I ( I I I m M mam m wcr went .i- je . i" ; ^ ^ I I ? , 8M CZNfi! Sim Letters To 1 esidential any thinking American. The time is long overdue for many pious individuals, including certain politicians, educators, and laypersons, to at least consider the possibility that the only crime of which the former president was guilty was errors in judgment. I firmly believe that in his handling of the Watergate crisis, as botchily as it was carried out, Nixon did at the time s rioiitk ay, Oct. 6,1981, being the day h assassins' bullets, the earth >uds remained gloomy and ept silence in their nests. over the world at 7:30 a.m., the whole world had lost a ment of dignity and sagacity, le face of insults. v I had with the late Egyptian >rief stop over in my country i to be a man of impeccable /as championing the Middle >ite the animosities by other is worthwhile to say that peaceful footsteps on the sand iders to emulate. This is an ce. JUSTINE E. AGUNWAI1 USC College of Journalism. "' # v ^ . nr ocm, ] > 20.. j & I -* I - ^ "he Editor Library G what he believed was in the best interests of the United States. UNFORTUNATELY, not only for the President but the entire nation, he was grossly incorrect, wun mai, an 100 many Americans tended to let Richard Nixon's outstanding accomplishments (some of which were stated in the editorial) be overshadowed by his bungling of Watergate. Cartoon TO THE EDITOR: I am writing about Julie Lee's Anwar Sadat cartoon. I did not understand it. It was too subtle. In the first place, it didn't look anything like Anwar Sadat. It looked sort of like a pigeon, . although I couldn't be sure. It might have been a duck masquerading as a pigeon. Alter all, Halloween is only a couple of weeks away. If it was a duck, though, it had awfully small feet. I might be wrong about this. What I want to know is, why is it crying? Pigeons don't cry, or laugh either. If you got together four hundred pigeons and did the death, scene from Cn mm <> them, not a single one of them would cry. They would just coo a lot, the way pigeons do, and mess up the floor. And they do exactly the same thing if you tell them jokes. Try it sometime. Walk up to the capital tomorrow night and round I Iw/H. WRONG ^ A6AIN?? .it fttk I clfe ' ood Idea 5., I, too, believe that Duke will eventually build the library. And ever the op timisi, 1 also ininK tnat ultimately many of Nixon's most ardent critics will pull their heads out of their behinds and realize what a superior leader this nation had in the five-and-one-half ? $ years between 1969 and 1974. nuw/\nu nuutti^a Graduate Student College of Journalism "Subtle' * 9 \< up a bunch of pigeons. Then S3V "Olfau I'm onino toll ?j ? b?"'6 lv" a pigeon joke now. Are there any pigeons out there?" Then wait a moment, for effect. Then say, "All right, I'm going to tell it real slow." I'll bet you almost anything none of the little boogcrs'll even chuckle. . They won't even get it, most \ of thf?m Thpv'll incl cit thorp <?% J -- J-"- . .? giving you the leery eye. Now, don't get me wrong. I like pigeons, and I certainly wouldn't mind if my sister married one as long as he didn't wear loud clothes in my house. I just don't think they're very intelligent is all. Finally, I'd like to know what the pigeon is holding in it's mouth, and what that is on it's chest. Did it forget to look up when the flock % passed over, or what? I don't understand. Just thought you'd like to know. SHAWN BAKKK English TA