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Founded 1908
Fletcher Johnson, Acting Editor
Jerry Brewer, General Mane
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Jean Hatchell. Business Mar
Mark McEwan, Production Mai
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before and I'm sure it will be raised
again. Does one have to be concerned
with only gay rights, the
Arab-Israeli conflict or the neverending
battles of the war between
the states (sometimes referred to
as the war of Northern Aggression)
to write a letter to the editorial
page of the Gamecock?
The answer is no, but it couldn't
hurt. After all, these big three are
the burning issues of the day - the
most decidedly important burning
issues that are forever in the hearts
and minds of the USC student body.
Who cares if the country goes down
the tubes? Does it matter that the
people of El Salvador are removing
each other from the face of the
earth on a daily basis? Does it
matter that we, the taxpayers of
the United States, are sending
supplies there to support a portion
of the slaughter? Who cares if the
students of this hallowed institution
feel they should have the right to
subjectively evaluate their in
siructors, and the instructors fee]
they should have the right to
subjectively evaluate their
students?
Who cares that the USC Board of
Trustees has frittered away a lot of
money by using a total lack of
forethought in their hiring and
firing oolicies? Doss it mattpr that
education is constantly slipping in
the eyes of many as being the
primary concern at this institution?
Does it really matter that the
most common response form our
state legislature to USC student
lobbying efforts is a smile, a nod
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a note three days later saying, in
effect, "Thank you for stopping by,
but you see, I'm too busy worrying
about how I'm going to keep my
April Foo
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unleashes a tirade of profanity 01
any Gumecock staff member or th<
U.S. Postal Service is deluged wit]
letters dripping with acid com
ments let the record be set straight
Today's issue of the Gamecock
April 1, 1982, was written an
produced in the spirit of thi
hallowed day, April Fool's Day. A
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>**? * ^ Johnny Boggs, Sports Editor
John Vaughan, Entertainment Editor
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in Chief Mike Fisher, Graphics Editor
lg?f Lezlie Wallace, Editorial Page Editor
Patty McCarthy, Aast. News Editor
ianager Buddy Horres, Asst. Sports Editor |
lager Chris Hughes, Intramurals Editor
Mark Ethridge Jr., Adviser
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office here, my apartment in
Columbia, my underground
parking spacg and *, my., specialmade
license tags to really care
whether you, the student, have any
worthwhile concerns."
Is it really of any importance
that South Carolina is continuing to
serve as a garbage dump for the.
world's supply of nuclear waste?
The question has been raised
"does the student of today have any
convictions, any causes, any ideas
that he really believes in?
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convinced the only cause worth
fighting for is a marketable degree
in business, or computer science,
or engineering, or nursing where
he can enter the marketplace of the
world, try to earn a decent living
and survive before those terminal
crazies in control lose control and
put a permanent halt to the quiet
evolution of mankind. The belief in
any other idea is held as totally
ludicrous.
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i\io, you don't have to be concerned
only with gay rights, the
Arab-Israeli conflict or the war
between the states, but it helps. If
we could just get a letter from a
bisexual with one Arab parent and
one Israeli parent who was born
right smack dab on the MasonDixon
Line and had converted at an
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cany age irom me jewisn taitn to
that of the Shiite Moslems and
believed that Horry County should
secede from the U.S. and establish
itself as an independent state
aligned with the Palestinian interests
and the capitol should be
Aynor, S.C. we'd surely give it first
rate coverage. We might even send
a reporter to Aynor to see what all
the rucus was about.
Keep those letters coming, and
don't feel bad if you have concerns
other than the Big 3, we might
puDiisn your letter anyway.
I's Edition
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sounds serious, don't worry about
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connotes fear, which is something I do not kno\
But I have heard things. Things that coul<
journalism. I have heard the Gamecock will
have heard that I will not be asked to clear the
I want you to know I am on to your little gam
me so far (I am referring to the Mar. 25 edit
before yor knew that you would. And though I j
will write about my lecture. I've figured it ou
and how the crowd reacts.
As you can see, I am one step ahead of you. S
a little bit.
You see, I know you at the Gamecock are Co
assassinate me tonight.
It was simply a matter of logic. I heard ab<
prediction for the winner of the Best Film Os(
all liked it. But you slipped up when you pri
wanted to "see Reds win." Communists!
And finally, I heard Photo Editor Mike Fish
other day (I bet you never knew I had your ol
Thursday night?" I even know who you i
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Gamecock photographer.
Paranoid? I don't think so. Maybe a little cai
You won't get away with it. I'll kill that little
lens cover.
Ewing Admi
TO THE EDITOR
I just want to write in to your papaer and I
about me and my school, Georgetown Univers
and saying that they don't feel the same way as
Since we didn't beet Norf Carolina the other
decided to stay a Hoya (whatsa Hoya?) but wi
ABN, NBA yea, the NBA next season because I
I liked yo' column, man, but, I hate to say, yo
foot tall. The job I got demands no attenda
whatever that means.
You said that I would porfess to get an ejuca
I'm jus' like any other jock in a big sport. I com
to know how to sign your name to an NBA conl
can't read the little lawyer talk at the bottom.
Anyway, you were right. John Thomspson is j
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wen, i guess mat is about it. I like your colurr
Oh, one more thing. What is calculus?
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Paranoid?
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v the meaning of. So I am not paranoid,
i only stem from the dark underbelly of
be reporting about my lecture tonight. I
article before publication.
e. I have seen what you have written about
torial). I knew you would write that even
am certainly not worried, I know what you
t. You will report some of the things I say
>o I am not worried. Or paranoid. Not even
mmunists. And I know you are planning to
)ut the Gamecock's general consensus
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ire sending. A freshman named Capers
will attend under the guise of being a
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G. GORDON LIDDY
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want to thank Mike Lough for his writing
ity. I imagine you'll get people righting in
you do, but dont worry. Your right.
night, (they play good ball, man) I have
ill go to the world of the, uh, NAB, XX er,
won't be here. Since we lost.
u did f? up a couple times. I'm only seven
nee. They told me to be their in spirit,
shun. Hell no. What I want to do that for?
te to play ball. Like you said, you only gots
Lract. But 1 gotta get me an agent cause I
;*reat x I like him alot..
i and keep up the good work.
PATRICK EWING
Georgetown Shotblockin' Major
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