The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, March 08, 1982, Page Page 7, Image 7
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TO THE EDITOR Time Magazine
It has come to our at- York Times. In
tention that all the students a television s
working with the South- southwestern ;
western Company do not national tele
norfnrm of Vi o louol hnnpH _ a ..
' * i,,v average siu
for by both the students and Southwestern
the company. Two of these earned over $4 <
have expressed their views, summer.
We urge our fellow students ^y^y do so
to consider the facts and have bad exp^
these sources in forming don't know all
their opinion of the South- what hannonpri
western Company's summer Thomas but
work opportunity. colleee doesn't
Southwestern works with do they? We
more students than any eftmp <stuHpnt<
company in the country, usc before gI
over 4,800 in 1981 from over others stav bul
600 colleges and universities. Does that m<
USC as most major something wr
universities, offers students institution? C
working with Southwestern sources. If y<
as much as six hours credit fjn(j 0ut if a c
in business for their intern : considering
experience. Graduate semester won'
schools and career em- Would you
ployers understand the opinions of tl
benefit of students learning previously fai
to run their own direct sales ?r HrmivH ,
business. would you wai
Over 100 nationally known those who had
companies have expressed \ye appr
interest in hiring students cooperation
for career jobs through the placement C
Southwestern Placement couraging So
Office. Burroughs Cor- seIect studenl
poration, Xerox, Proctor and work an(j aj
Gamble, Upjohn Chemical College of
Company Paine Webber, ministration
Deloitee. Haskins and Sells c.^r
and Times Mirror Cor- p^m.K^
poration are just a few of gave never
these companies. Articles of interview he,
interest about Southwestern camDUS rpon
Company can be found in US fnvolved
News and World Report, developed ^
Ott,l&u.SWWRRVll
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ive On In Peace
and the New than USC, during their s
1978 NBC did undergraduate years. J
rtn/ii n 1 n 14- _ 1 i i ft a * C
rtuuui jtseing law siuaenis, tney s
and said on will appreciate the ex- *
vision, the perience by Garry Norris, ]
i d e n t with second year law student here '
thft ye*r and former USC vice- 1
OOOdunngthe president of Student
Government. Garry sold '
me students Southwestern during
nIeflfe*S i r summer of 1979 and 1980
I16*?6 ?i and earned over $6,000 each
to Kevin and summer. Judge Harry
everyone in phillips, Chief Judge of the
owel either sixth Circuit Court of Apave
eard peais jn Cincinnati, has had
: .eve" leav* a highly successful
aduation and career...a career in which he
: do not excel. ^
,, . IltlS mauc uiaiij vvn
ean there is tributions to society. Just i
ong with the before leaving his last
onsider your meeting as a member of the
3U wanted to judicial Conference of the
ourse you are united States, Judge Phillips
taking next wrote Southwestern
Id be worth it, Chairman Spencer Hays and
ask for the jn the course of his letter
lose who had said: "The Southwestern
led the course Company is providing
^ar f ?r students with summertime
it to hear form opportunities to earn their
ec?iatp thp college expenses ? and at
of the use the, sa e U e t0. get in"
iffiop for on valuable training in
uthwestern to salesmanship, the capacity
to overcome
Iso* Than "the discouragement and the
Rn^inp^s Ad determination never to be a
^ quitter. Southwestern's
t thic training is an effectvive cure
Z ijfor the kind of inferiority
attended an complex from which I sufd
by the USC fered my,book-selling
experiences. SenHoward
Baker, who spoke
^mniiLclhor during the Southwestern
campuses other
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iupport of our program,
>aind that his father-in-law,
:he late Senator Everett
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college and convinced him
that for more than a century In retrospect, I guess I
"the Southwestern Company harder. However, I appre<
has earned a national for the four positions for p
reputation for its fine quality and treasurer plus assorte
work in the publishing field The thing that annoys n
and for its good corporate who lost the election. The
citizenship." taken away from theirs
In August 1981, John because of me.
Brown, presently governor Instead of screaming a
of Kentucky and former don't these people insteac
owner of Kentucky Fried out why I got them?
Chicken, in an interview Most of the votes I got
with the Wall S treet Journal wanting to do away with S
said "the two summers I want an excuse to lose and
spent selling books was the Why didn't they object i
best experience I ever had! appeared? Probably bee
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tie sem nis son iu sen Willi IIICII. DUI nicy nccu u nuw
Southwestern last year and Then a lot of the peopl
he earned over $5,000 and is was using my position to
planning to return to sell one candidate who con
agian in 1982. Wednesday's edition cont
Fellow .students, consider contestants.
the sources. Students from None of the candidates
USC selling 12 weeks last editor wrote a synopsis <
summer averaged earning squawk about some artic
over $4,400 and received six they filed for office week
hours credit. Any questions thank the paper for printi
call 254-6641. When I wrote the colun
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Finance Graduate not include myself in an;
KENT BELLI Student Government, bi
Business Administration election. .
Graduate Student u Thursday night SG of
iofi shaw because of what happen*
Accounting Junior the'?"SU'tS w?"ld be drc
ToivirANNftN that. If each was so
Theatre and Speech Senior wr 8'then whV didn'1 e
JIM HE1D SUpjna|iy the suggestior
Marketing- white" vote and thus tfc
Management Graduate abie to win. Ever since I'
Tirrt|finii ^ m way Greeks and blacks
S tW It ~ that's their business to v
on that as an excuse is i
i At This was an outstan<
|n\ SIN turnout and the closenes
h i HiBL jHj be exciting while the car
tM ineffective. I stand beh
1 ment is useless and shou
not make the runoit, l \
mllim k election process that stu
M i^l|k presidential elections a
Ji "Bllfr. he or s^e *>ain th
' Wl uractofnlnpcc thnt i<: f\tiu
gjfP^f J|?|^ m, & 1 F?r me, this whole a
makes enough sense to i
energy can be placed inl
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should have campaigned a little
nate the total of almost 1,500 votes
resident, vice president, secretary
d senate seats.
le is the attitude of the candidates
y claim it was my votes that were
and thus, they lost the election
bout my part in the election, why
I look at the votes I got and figure
had something to do with student?
itudent Government. But the losers
I so they used me as a scapegoat,
on Wednesday, the day the column
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duae hicj uiuii i ikxu an tAv-uoi.
e involved with the election said 1
further my gains. I don't know of
iplained to the Gamecock after
ained pictures and platforms of the
i objected when our editorial page
)f all the candidates. Nor did they
les we gave to the candidates after
s ago. And of course they wouldn't
ng that information.
in Wednesday, I wrote that I did so
litor-in-chief of the Gamecock. I did
y of the other articles dealing with
it according to some, I ruined the
fice hopefuls were talking lawsuits
id. But, importantly, each admitted
>pped if they won. What kind of logicintent
on thinking what I did was
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l was brought up that I dissected the
le Greek and black candidates were
ve been at USC, I've heard about the
vote in a slate. Perhaps they do and
ote however they choose. But to rely
ridiculous. Candidates should be out
; whether someone is black or white
at reeks of racism and narrower
me, in my opinion, would not have
i candidate. The idea that they would
white" candidate is an outdated and
ding election because of the voter
s of the race. However, elections can
ididates elected can be very dull and
ind my claim that Student Governld
be abolished. By the fact that I did
vouia nope unaer a iair, ueniucraindents
would not vote for me again,
o complained and acted like children
' them), I say only this: you ALONE
actions and the consequences. If you
g others, who will you blame when
>ted for me and hoped for a change, I
[ the 500-plus who voted for me in the
impaigns on that platform next year,
le needed support to eliminate the
lent Government.
impaign has been a learning process
at students can rally for a cause if i'
them. Some will say that the cause o
iiornm?n( ic q nptfatiup unci th;<
to making SG an effective tool.
rnment been given enough time to
has. More than 500 students would
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