The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, November 04, 1981, Page Page 2, Image 2
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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
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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!
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Letters To The E<
Nuclear Peace Will Be
TO THE EDITOR: billions of human beings all Europea
Jami Lee Thorstensen's ?ver the world to the flame porting
letter, "Neutron Bomo; a - for what? 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
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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
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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
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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