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Editorial
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Without money to grease the ever-winding cogs of the
media, the business would grind to a halt while the broadcast
word and televised event evaporated ? leaving only printed
fossils to fade and flake away.
Journalism is a free enterprise which attracts and refines
individual skills thus perpetuating the media within the free
state. It's a business in which competition necessitates accuracy
and depth in reporting.
On the USC campus, the Gamecock is the students'
newspaper. We also need to attract individuals whose
skills wilf improve your paper.
RECENTLY, however, Student Government reduced our
chances of bringing fresh talent to the newsroom. But before
we yield to the designs of outsiders who intentionally or
unintentionally apply financial pressure, we will exhaust all
possibilities of independant survival.
The Gamecock, although by no means in serious financial
trouble,is faced with a situation grave enough to adversely
affect the quality of material printed on our pages. We are
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Needs Alun
When USC president Holderman sigi^d Oct. 14 the Student
Government allocations bill, the Gamecock newspaper
realized its on-campus fight to pay reporters and
photographers was over.
"Othpp chiHpnfc in nthpr nroani7atinna Hnn'f 0ot r??ir! W'iv
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should they?" That was the argument put forth by Student
Senate Finance Committee members and the argument that
most likely ran through Holderman's mind when he O.K.'d
Gamecock allocations.
The problem is not that we didn't get enougn money: me
Gamecock was allocated $56,768. But we were refused money
to pay reporters and photographers. Instead, the Senate
Finance Committee saw fit to direct about $20,000 of the total
allocation towards purchasing and installing three video
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will allow us to type a story directly into a computerized
printer, thereby saving time and money (by eliminating two
state-paid production jobs).
Yet, because of Student Government's good ? though
misguided ? intention, the Gamecock is forced to slow its
progress. Although experience is an excellent incentive for
journalism majors and those who wish to write and shoot
pictures, it is unrealistic to believe students will work long
hours with no pay.
Letters To 1
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TO THE EDITOR: some conflict.
T. .. . , . .. . A nuclear weapon, such as
I m rather shocked that a th neutron ^0mb, is
senior at the University ripsicnftH tn ki? on ? ^nr(
(Jami Lee Thorstenson, ~ nAil~a
Letters, October 19) could massive scale. The radiat or
; . vv . of the neutron bomb or the
seriously assert that an f ? t f the ?jroshima
atomic weapon "serves the styie or the fusion bombs will
same purpose'as any army in*vitably spread over a
P wide area, indiscriminatelj
killing and maiming
A handgun is designed to soldiers, civilians, friends
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(or perhaps a half-dozen) on everyone, the unwilling as
a battlefield, where the well as the willing,
combatants have willingly
joined the battle to settle THjE NEUTRON bomb
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TO THE EDITOR: students have been unfairly
assessed as to their ability tc
comprenena tne Engiisn
Foreign students are language.
subjected to many kinds of
pressure when they come to
study in the U.S. Among ... .
other things they have to CONSIDER this: In om
acclimatize themselves to ld-ter e*aminatior.
the American environment. Jore'8n students were askec
Indeed many foreign to explain why they lack th?
students undergo what is ?b,l,ty to w,nte. *eU
commonly described as American standards. Ir
"culture shock" while in anotheI' 3,uftlon, stu,d t;
their initial period of ad- were asked to write a lette.
justment. Most of them to their minister of educatior
come out of the experience convincing him to either
none the worse and Continue c?ntlnue w,th ?J? restricted
their education successfully. admissions policy or tc
J change it to an open ad
missions policy like that oi
Quite apart from the ^e Unitwi States. Still ir
euphoria and excitement of another question foreigr
livina in a foroifin lonrl onmn
...? w.v?B.. .?..u ouiuc students were required tc
students nonetheless suffer write an essay advising their
some kind of indignation and own presidents about the
compulsion in trying to suit
themselves to their new dangers and benefits oi
abode. One of the un- using nuclear as an alter
fortunate misgivings foreign native power source; the
students have is in the premise being that foreigi
English program. This is one students' nations art
area in which I feel foreign dependent on other nation;
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Although the Gamecock's editors and assistant editors
receive stipends ? set salaries ? we have also always
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$2.50 per picture. We always managed without three VDT's.
However, we are not allowed in any way to transfer the
allotted funds to reporters and photographers.
The Gamecock in its allocations fight tried the various
campus channels searching for a solution to our problem. As
it has happened so oftrn in the past, we found closed doors
and closed minds. The staff at one point voted to strike. The
strike motion was defeated twenty-one to six. fl
Now we can only hope to procure the funds we need from
off-campus sources. In this editorial, the Gamecock staff
openly requests financial aid from concerned USC alumni. It
is hoped this plea for help from a crippled institution will not
be confused with the ravings of dissatisfied students.
With the money needed to pay reporters and photographers
the quality of the paper will not suffer and this student
newspaper can once again wash its hands of the mess caused
by ignorant interlopers.
THE GAMECOCK EDITORIAL STAFF
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utens World Safety
they say, is designed for a writers, for example Nigel
conflict in Europe. Even Calder *n Nuclear Nighti
most military analysts arc? ^ava^flble at the
s doubt i whether a nuclear Russell House bookstore),
fc PAnflipt pnulH Kp 44ron- tl3V0 Observed ttlHt the ^
I tained" in that continent, survivors would envy the
: Even a "limited" nuclear vicf!,ms:?
war? to use the covern- I" illustrate the dif
I ment's euphemism? would ference between nuclear
k result in death and disease bombs and handguns this
' on a scale unimagined in way: If Reagan and
\ human history. Hospitals Brezhnev face off with .45s,
, would either be destroyed or *he worst result is two dead
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J jured. Water and food nukes, the planet is dead.
supplies would dwindle. DAN GOLDBERG (
Communications would be Visiting Assistant Professor
uncertain. Quite a few Mathematics Department
Often Patronized
for their power needs. thoughtful question could ^
i have been presented. 1
, All of the aforementioned remember when I was in my
questions contain the im- home country questions such
plications that foreign as: "What do vou think could
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siuaenis are aeiinitely done to improve inlacking
in the ability to write ternational relations?" or
5 well; that the open ad- "how would you go about
i missions policy as practiced alleviating food hunger?"
I in the U.S. is better than the were given which appeared
s restricted admissions policy more imaginative and
f and that nuclear power is the stimulating to me.
i onlv alternative nnwpr
> source available to the home And why should we narrow H
country of foreign students. I the choice for foreign
i would be extremely naive to students? Not only do they
believe that these are true have to deal with special sets
I much less than an attempt to of problems (from the food
> impose upon the students' they eat to the clothes they
ability or capacity to make wear to their interaction
further analytical among Americans) they now
i judgements about those have to contend themselves
i questions and their implied with the idea that they are
> or attached meanings. inferior vis-a-vis the kinds of
essay questions which they
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f pointed that such questions
. can be thrusted upon the ONNIBRAHIM
; students without so much as Journalism Graduate
i attempting to qualify such
? phrases as "American
j standards". I believe a more letters" continued on page 9