The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, March 08, 1982, Page Page 7, Image 7

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To L 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 TD TttE THEWER. \MITH 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 M6AB00T1HfirHRM0BW M6??? -! % I^J) raxoM, ETS I? 8 451D DEVIN H I rfc? COLUMBIA, ilack M | 787-5779 llow' J| 1 Buffet Lunch >ales training because of his MARK PLATTE iupport of our program, >aind that his father-in-law, :he late Senator Everett r\i r?lrr?r\n cnlrl KoaItC 1 11 L/Il IYOV/41 OV/1U WV/VHO laa 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 ** ? 1 4- ?11 ?? n..? u nn..i 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 - ? ?? * if oc Morlr PIqUo nf>t Qc pd J/\ Y L.. LLLIO "" " * *""vi "" 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 - ^^ Hasn't Student Gove GROUP AND COME ssssjthink il he Run Restaurant I f i BE b.c. 292d5 ? i cametdcks $3*25 I] A Hours li| cut>?4_4? uc s< fr? a Mon Sat. 6AM0AM B {fcA^*&OI=^ Sunday 7 AM-2 PM iM&i 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 * l A an Avnuco 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 " r*r\ oViao/^ o nH filn fho :cn,u tanuiuaic gu auv;au uuu mv. mv 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 ACH TOWELS) >t? /%^r U I r THE JEWELRY WAREHOUSE ! 2909 Piatt Springs Rd.. W. Cola. ; 3 102 Broad River Rd.. Cola. \ ; Mon. Sat. 9 til 6 ! "It s more than fu*l ar?olH*f jewelry?lore" ; 1