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a A iwnF.nr XJLJLVXXJ W V Founded 1908 Mark Platte, Editor-in-t Jerry Brewer, General M O Linda S. Haines, Advertisir Jean Hatchell, Business A Mark McEwan, Production J Unive Defa \ 1 nr>\7 pnrvn riAnt fVi" ?V1J own nu w , uic uiilVCl Sllj South Carolina will be in the ne again. It will have nothing to do with I efforts to link USC with forei universities. The news won't that the University has receive< large grant or that one of c professors has been given award for a published book article. It will not highlight t 1 1 A ? ? accompnsnments 01 one of c 26,000 students. No, this University will be in t limelight with the revelations th former women's basketball coa Pam Parsons was fired for havi a lesbian affair with a player. People all over this country v* be picking up a copy of this weel Sports Illustrated and readi about how the University of Soi Carolina hired a coach questionable morals and th forced h?r to rpsitfn -0... They will read how Parsons a former assistant coach Kar Brown wrote term papers f players; how at least one play was given money to buy drugs; a of all kinds of recruiting violation For a University that suffers pnmnor?icAn tin v v/111 jyni jouii w nil UU1C1& Ub ijlZit; the south, this kind of attention the kiss of death. For sports fa who have never heard of USC, will give them a negative fii impression. For parents students who thought twice ab( attending this college, it will e barrass; it will disgrace. Chris Vlahoplus, senior v presiaeni ror university relatio denies the quote in the spo magazine that attributes him w saying, "At first she denied beinj lesbian and having an affair witl player, then she finally admitl it." That quote just didn t van out of thin air. If Vlahopius did say it, someone else who is ir position to know the situation did USC has been overwhelmed Sports Illustrated. It let this spo magazine do harm to 1 _p u I Tom Coyne. News Edi J UK David Talley. Sports E John Vaughan. Enterlair Beth Sundrla, Copy Desl Chief Mike Fisher, Graphics I Pattv McCarthy, Asst. N anager Johnny Boggs. Asst. Spo Ig Manager Mike Lough. Intramural Fletcher Johnson, Gradu Aanager Mark Ethridge Jr., Adv Manager rsity Of TYl Oil d ^ "ir ? iiiauuii of University in the worst \* ws slipped and told all. Fro players on the team to th the administration, everyone ign blame. be university of South Cc 1 a does not enjoy the reputat >ur being "the Harvard of the S an It does not roll of f the tongu same breath as the Univer: "e North Carolina or the Univer >ur Virginia. Although it is w quite hard to achieve the pi I1C and accomplishments o ia^ aforementioned schools, it d< understand that the i n? Illustrated story negates m that hard work already. ill c?s Before the Pam Parsons ng was dragged out into the p ith eye, everyone who needed tc 0? what happened already en Those who didn't need to found out anyway. nd Now that the informat en public, those who regarded I or backward will also associate er being immoral and indecenl nd when USC has firmll v r?r?n s. some people that this is a by university, it will also hf in convince some people that \ is not a bunch of strange char ns who condone the wrongness it whole Parsons situation. rs^ We are damn proud c University. It has given >u^ education. We have spent m" times here and have lived a < part of our lives at this insti ice \A/ hon urp cfv*urlii?it o \xn IT >IVil TT V WVIVIW i-V 9 VT * ns' inevitably be asked from wh we complete out studies an< we say the University of ?a Carolina, we will e a acknowledgement and respe te It's time for all of us t< ion together and overcome sickening silhouette of two i 1 a coaches. We continue to ir and advance even under by circumstances knowing th r^s f uture has a long way to go, i he USC. Edilor :r \\ m fi M A1ACHEM.,.VD0 CAM QU01 BUT YOU SQ^r CAiNY ANI Lette 'ay-" Sports E m the * e USC yq THE editor is to Help! Please rescue us USC "writing" in Sports Editor David irolina inn of e P*cture accompanying T; ion oi a sjuy grjn on his face. a OUth." concerning NCAA probation (Jf e in the seated behind a grammar book oi iity of jyjr Tally, the following is a pai ,nu.. sily ui aoout your column of the 28th, lis Orking 1)You speak of the "15 curren 'estlge the institutions currently on prob f the NCAA penalties, are they going X5S not "academies" or just plain 4<scho< Sports 2)The phrase "no post-season < uch of you can properly build a sentei i favnrita noniltn " 1 ? ? v? iiv pvuaiijr... V Ci y H WK Will . saga 3)Arkansas State University i > cxgc* article never seemed to be quite s ublic's i know 4)It is not a good idea to use t rhetorical question, such as "W1 knew. them?" As one of your reader know distressed that you thought I h regulations fairly. . . nonoHiflc orn n - 1// vv iivii p^nuiuvo Ui C cliav/tcu you spelled the word twice. JoL as j it with Mr* Talley, these and other si . ^ you have written this semester. L. l\IOW parently the problem is more per vinced ln recent years, I have had the Class sports editors like Mike Hunt, B ive to writing suffers miserably by conr ve are several other people on campus acters qualified for your job (random dr, Of this Compared to. sav. the Polish s occupy an important position, Mr f ... as well as the newspaper and the >1 IniS y0U represent, and on behalf of i US an sportswriting in the Gamecock, t good Coliseum for a few v/riting lesson: crucial Or finds somebody else for the j itution. i will ere did ^ South GAMECOCK expect ct. Sole rep oduction rights granted to lh< Press. 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Letters and co be sinned with the writer's correct nam (SfRoimwiKi HE* BOMWWALK f ;rs To The Editorditor Corr sports fans from the tortur ITalley's column. alley's column shows him s? fter reading his first few cc m. 28), I am convinced that r a sports almanac. rtial list of things which were ted in the order in which they t institutions" on NCAA prot ation, or are they currently ir to be demoted from being "i :>ls"? competition" is not an indepe ice, as in "no post-season c rd. s on probation, not the Univ iure of that fact, first saying o he second person pronoun fo ly even have these rules if y s, Mr. Talley, when you a: lad been derelict in "my" c against someone, they are i milar errors have appeared At first, I thought you might manent than that. pleasure of reading the worl irett Friedlander and Steve IDarison: so misomhlv in for . , ? ?, in iav i who are just as bewilderet awing?). ituation, this issue is of no g] . Talley, one which represent: journalism school in particul; all USC sports fans with an i I hope the newspaper staf s. ob. Advertising: 777 4249 Ne business Office 777 38H8 I'ro p Associated number, mailing at i may not be position and major. itor. the writer's name ire those, if request, if the circurr *ditor. We reserve the rij jolumns. All space and style, and triple-spaced column for any reaso Address letters anc words, ami Gamecock, Drawer / hy subject no "Gamecock" i. iumnsMUSf tMc University of So ic. telephone from student activity. wmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmm IAMENT AU, WJ WANT, I W B^RK PLACE.., I ? s| ected I e 01 being exposed to the j sated behind a typewriter 1 lumns, especially the one 3 1 . Talley should instead be incorrect and/or awkward appeared: >ation. I am confused: are ! istituti'ons? As part of their 1 institutions" to hwino 00*7 t au; , ndent clausc around which ompetition seems to be a ? rersity of Arkansas. Your ne thing and then another. rm when asking a written ou aren't going to enforce sked this question, I felt iuties of enforcing NCAA assessed, not accessed, as 0 throughout every column just be in a slump, but ap< of some good Gamecock Riddell. Mr. Talley, your :t, that I have spoken with i as I am as to how you ~ .1 reat significance. But you 5 the University in general ar. On behalf of the people nterest in reading quality f sends you down to the KICK MOIIN Law Student $ wsroom : 777 7181 duct ion: 777 2833 {dress, class standing or faculty Pseudonyms arc unacceptable, but may be withheld on letter, upon istances warrant it. i;ht to edit columns and letters for we reserve the right to reject any n. I columns to: Editorial Page Editor, V. USC, Columbia, SC. 29208. s a licensed student organization of nth Carolina and receives funding fees.