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Editorial WL i ne uame The recent transition of $1 million from the USC athletic department to the university's general operating budget is good news all around but it surfaces some important questions as to why the money was given and what is the required payoacK. This past summer, USC President James Holderman and Athletic Director Jim Carlen sat down and talked about the financial crunch on operating expenses at the university. Clearly, Holderman was asking Carlen for the money. An arrangement was worked out and the money will be used to help defray the costs of library materials and equipment. Then the jargon started to fill the air. What was the payment to be defined as? A transfer, said Holderman. A tuan, saia marten, ino, an advance payment, accoraing to associate Director of Athletics John Moore. I'm not quite sure, Robert Denton, vice president for finance, said. TO PUT things into perspective, it's important to note where the administration and athletic department stand on the issue. The administration is poor, the athletic Hpnarfmpnt ic rir>Vl tvio oHininicftxitinn hoc rtMinn IIP vittvtii. IU 11V1I. X. 1IV UUlilllUOI't atiV/tl UUO ^1 V VII UO lliv largest overall tuition increase in the Southeast during the past five years, thanks to the economy. The athletic department doesn't feel that strain. It operates in the black so much it can afford an all-weather protective bubble for its athletes. The administration has to ask legislators to push the correct buttons and pump the right hands to squeeze out a few more dollars. The athletic department doesn't solicit greatly. It lets the scholarship donor, the wealthy alumnus, the fan sign the exorbitant check. The administration has to ask the athletic department to help it out. The athletic department would just as soon take its offices as far away as possible and disconnect the telephones that have voices on the other end asking for money. No matter what the transfer, loan or advance payment ultimately will be called, there are clear, unwavering signals 11 idl me diluent uepm intent lb iiauunig over uie 3>i million with a plastic smile. In fact, it's not even pretending to smile at all. It is annoyed that the university president asks it for money. But what other choice does it have? To say no? To answer, "give us time to make up our minds?" To ask the administration to look elsewhere? MAKE NO mistake about it: the administration and athletic department are playing a serious game of oneupmanship. The athletic department is far ahead in this game, in fact. It is they who will call the shots as long as ine administration nas to ask tor money. The advantages of leading in this game are better than all the mjney in the world. The advantages are like owning a can't miss stock. As long as you own it, you've got the security to know it can be cashed in for a king's ransom. But there's no intention to spend; for while it's being held, it can buy you time when times are rough. It can Keep people irom looking over your shoulder when your house is a mess and most importantly, it can always keep you one up. Let's not squabble with jargon, leave that to English teachers. Like a junkie that needs his fix, the dependent ones have come to ask just once more. All is well with the dealer and it seems that the cops are never going to put him in his place. GAMECOCK! University of South Carolina. ( olumhia, S.C. Founded 1908 Newsroom: 777-7181 Advertising: 777-4249 Business Office: 777-3888 f Production: 777-2833 Vtirt PIjtie Iditor IBefh Sundrlj Copy f>esU Chief Tracy Helms Sports Editor David Corvette u?u,. i ju? lim f * - - ~ ..... ! nm. jpont tailur Tom Coyne Asst. 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Buildings Well, seems to necessary weapon" (Oct. 19) m sor7,' bu 1 m nof a, dam" has to be one >f the most 0 sfve Capstone and that s standing stupid and contradictory fmal 'defenses' of that weapon I The neutron bomb is Have ever seen, typical of distinctive in that it not only c 0888 a the mentality of those who killy some of your enemies a .onf, support it. How can you ? on a far larger and more a ?u expect to have allies if you impersonal scale than the .45 Jl? .9?"? threaten to bomb them out of caliber pistol she mentions 1 e a ' existence? What is the use of ? but it also kills countless THE preserving American lands millions of innocent men, thing ab i and property if you wipe out women and children at the that she all Americans? She consigns same time. The average war si English Programs Ne TO THE EDITOR: able to 'Americanise' our portuni particular blend of english. tolerate I refer to the letter It is of no use having foreign a view t \ "Foreign Students Often student instructors with delicate t Patronized" on 10/23/1981. I their particular accent to There ? do agree with most of the teach us American English pnnnJrio ?"O""*"" VV/UIIVI IV points brought forward by which is essential both in country the writer. classroom lectures and off- practise The English programs campus. mission (ENGL 100B, 101B, 102B) despare should be revamped in its THE SECOND point and be adm teaching faculty. We are by no means less important universi here to learn English as is is my opposition to the particuli used by Americans and we writer's view that the political can not afford (and opening admissions policy as almost disillusioned), if the english practised in the U.S. is not academi programs for foreign better than the restricted far mon students were to continue admissions policy of his admitte< being taught by foreign home country. He has been violatior graduate student in- extremely racialists in this rightsar structors. What we want is aspect and the peoples of this The ri qualified American English great land of freedom, the thin language professors who are democracy and equal op long bee . Mi N\E HUNTER CAME WON A ?Y HE RAISED HISTRUSTY AM, BtAM... HE DROPPED IM,RAW... HE60T 5WM.BWM... i iitor * ' i Lifeless Peace n, far from sup- inevitable, and that it can be the bomb as she won. Crap. Wars of this kind think, couldn't give will escalate until every last i if his house is one of us is dead. The only ' $ * after he's lying peace that a weapon of this cause he has been nature establishes is the in the back by his lifelessness of a radioactive lly. I should know, I world and I'm glad I won't . You can forget be around to see it. The only friendly territory" possibility open to us is to sit peration if you talk down and talk. MOST alarming O < I out her argument is SARAH GODLEY seems to think that a Warwick Exchange Student uch as this is 0* ea Kevamping j ties should not not expect citizens of the the existence of such same country be unequally hat would topple the dealt with on racial and racial balance here, ethnic background. are a couple of / ^ ( s (the writer's home * i in particular) that 5 restricted ad- 'T WOULD be beyond the Dolit'v to th(> concern and control of tho of those who will not American people if such a itted (to the local view is expressed in his ties) because their home country. But the exar race has been pression of such a racialistic > ly suppressed. In view in USC causes concern every case their an(| agitation among the f; ic qualifications are entire student |>opulation of i superior than those a^. race? and religious f 1 This is a severe beliefs- * j 1 of basic human id the constitution. se of nationalism in \ world nations has NAME WITH EL I) BY n expected but we do REQUEST