The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, April 14, 1982, Page Page 9, Image 9
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TO THE EDITOR
I have followed with growing
concern the events that have
taken place regarding Bob
Jones University and the
President of this institution.
This "man of God" has
recently made some very
inflammatory remarks
when the tax exempt status
of this institution has come
under governmental fire. I
for one was not aware that
church oriented schools
were tax exempt. Is Erskine
College (Associate Reformed
Presbyterian), Baptist
College (Baptist), Columbia
Women's College
(Methodist), or Furman
University (Baptist)? These
are all institutions of higher
learning who offer
educational emphasis on
Bible studies, if our own
illustrious president were to
represent USC in the same
fashion, would the students
revolt and commandeer
control of their public
image? There has been
much rhetoric concerning
"brainwashing" by so called
Fir
TO THE EDITOR
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ternational Harvester, Morr
announces the results of the <
Pedestrian Kill.
Tuesday evening marked tl
As you remember, scoring
students- 5 points, Clemson
points, USC staff membersUSC
professors or graduate s
bonus points were also awa
point (they're easy to hit),
personel-100 points, and prej
Two hundred score cards
several hundred others wer
uicoc uiivcid in up tdi uo
will be recorded without an of
Third place went to Billy ,
Georgia, with 805 points. Gat
would have scored more poinl
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udents Ha\
"religious" groups
represented in the
Gamecock and in the
national news media. Could
"brainwashing" be the case
involving our own SGA and
the Gamecock? Here is an
example of how students
have absolutely no control
over their educational environment
nor any input
whatsoever into
decisions made by our Board
of Trustees concerning our
everyday campus life. In
truth, the SGA and the
Gamecock are a bunch of
children at play. What
shocks and angers me is that
the money that I am forced
to fork over under the title of
so called "activities fees" is
spent on the support of
powerless representative
student organizations that
supposedly benefit the
siuaeni Doay. it they are
helping me so much, why
has my tuition been raised at
the beginning of every
semester since I have
returned to school? The
money that supports these
st Annual I
Lincil in conjunction with Inis'
Garage and Skoal proudly
opening neai 01 me nrsi annual
ic end of the first two-day heat,
is as follows: ordinary USC
students- 10 points, jocks- 15
20 points, bicyclists- 25 points,
assistants-50 points; additional
irded: handicapped students- 1
meterniaids/other uniformed
spies are worth 10 points each.
> were issued to drivers, but
e seen participating. We urge
immediately - sorry, no points
ficial score card.
Joe Gatlin, a native of Macon,
lin, in his 4-wheel drive pick-up
ts had he not been so selective in
TASY, TATTOO,,, ARSEf
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"student" organizations
(SGA, Gamecock) should
instead be spent on improving
the quality of the
education offered by USC
rather than wastina mnn<w
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office space, time and the
student's energies. Also, the
editors and leaders of these
organizations are being paid
salaries? Whose idea
was that?
If these
students a e being paid for
their work then they must be
answerable to the people
who pay these salaries;
namely the students. If our
monev is beine snent on
useless other than titular
extravagances, then our
educational costs are in need
of serious reform.
We are products of the
"baby boom" and have been
called the "me" generation.
We rest comfortably on the
laurels of our parents and
mistakenly expect our lives
to have the same selfservrng
qualities after we
grauuate. I myself am guilty
^edestrian 1
his targets.
Second place was awarded
driver. Carlson edged out G
crumpling a bicycle ridden b
this week was captured by ar
card with an "X") Clemson s
1100. He was sporting a famih
Many other entries were r
with the turnout thus far. T1
Monday and Tuesday and pr
the week. Score cards may b<
Information Desk.
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rol
of rolling along and allowing
others to make my decisions
for me. Have I not been
brainwashed by a society
that has had television,
social security and welfare
for most of my life? As is
evident by President Jones'
statements, life itself boils
down to economics. There is
nothing left that is sacred. If
we as a group are to unite,
are we going to ally our
seives in me common cause
of our education and the
education of our children?
Apparently our Board of
Trustees and the ruling class
do not have our (the
student's) best interest at
heart. It is time for the
students to have more say in
how their money is spent, i
and for students to unite in
* U ^ ~ ? I!*...
LIIC udust ui quality
education. My hand is
raised. Is yours?
JACK E. TURNER
Music Major
Kill
to Davi I Carlson, a yankee MG
atlin in the closing seconds by
y a USL professor. First place,
r un-named (he signed his score
jtudent who earned in excess of
^ combine.
lot far behind. We are pleased
le second heat will be run next
actice will continue throughout
2 picked up at the Russell House
SCOTT P. ELLIS
Marketing Senior
STEVE BORDEN
Marine Science Senior
JIM WISSENBACH
Political Science Junior
TIM MOSER
Computer Science Senior
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Leroy decided the students down on Earth didn't have
enough to worry about. (If yoii're dying to know more about
the angei Leroy, my buddy Jim Poindexter is a personal
friend of his.)
But anyway . . .they decided students needed a few more
things to increase the excitement in their lives. So they
created the Big Three. Not Ford, GM, and Chrysler, Not the
U.S., the U.S.S R., and China, but typewriters, reference
books, and vacuumcleaners.
If you can't type or are wealthy enough to have your own
personal typist then typewriters don't bother ;?,)u. If you
really can't type but wish you could then typewriters can be a
big problem. Typewriters always work well when you have,
all the time in the world to finish a paper. However if you
have a paper due in class at 1? a.m. your typewriter will
| probably breakdown around 9:25. Most typewriters don't fall
apart at once. They tend to develop some minor malfunction.
The only thing to do in that case is to get inside the beast
Once inside the sights can be appalling.
You will probably encounter several pounds of eraser dust,
more than one of the keys will be just before disintegrating
into a shapeless blob, and the ribbon will be torn to shreds.
No big deal you say. I'm not going to be intimidated by a
simple typewriter ribbon, it should be simple just to untangle
that little rascal and get your machine in top-notch shape,
right? Not necessarily. A typewriter ribbon can be the most
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bizarre configurations in the length of time it takes you to
look at the clock and realize your reseach paper is due in 45
minutes.
Before you encountered the typewriter in the construction of
your paper you probably spent several years in the library
one weekend.Many people think of the library here at USC as
a gargantuan house of knowledge where one can peruse the
shelves that contain the knowledge of the ages. This is truly
an idealistic, and sometimes utterly ridiculous point of view.
For lurking somewhere in the library are those nameless
fiends who delight in seeing poor students squirm when they
go through the motions of some serious research only to find
the reference book of their choice not on the shelf. The
problem is not that the book in question has been checked out.
It's a reference book. In black letters stamped somewhere on
the book is the phrase, "NOT FOR CIRCULATION." What
kind of sick mind would want to horde every fourth edition of
Journalism Quarterly from 1959 to the present? It gets worse.
There is a definite oorrplation h#?tu/p?pn fh#? H*??npratinn with
which you need a certain reference work and the chance of it
actually existing. If you absolutely must have it or your
paper will make no sense at all the librarian will tell you that
"we had it once, but if its not on the shelf it probably doesn't
exist in this solar system." Thanks, lady.
After all is said and done and your paper is finally finshed it
takes only one look around to decide that you must either
clean up your apartment or immediately vacate the
premises. Dorm students don't have these worries, but
apartment dwellers have to face the music of cleaning house
every once in a while. One of the necessary tools of cleaning
is a vacuum cleaner. Some vacuum cleaners work all right. I
can never recall my mother having trouble with her vacuum.
However, my present case is different. Landlords being the
gracious souls that they are, mine provided me with a
vacuum cleaner. This machine was surely the product of an
inventor who had led a twisted existence on the planet. It was
a short, round thing about the size of a large pumpkin. It had
three wheels which only helped to make it '..iweildy. Aside
from the fact it had as much suction as your average soda
straw and resembled some Star Wars mechanical mutant,
this machine had a serious internal malfunction.
Instead of sucking up the trash on the floor and discharging
regular air through the little exhaust system I began to
notice a distinct change in the atmosphere. It was like a
foreign presence had seeped under the door or through the
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vacuum cleaner had done with its malfunctioning exhaust
system every crack and crevice of my apartment was invaded
by essence of poodle.
I'm sure when I wake up my typewriter will work, and the
librarian will greet me with a stack of long lost reference
books, and my carpet won't smell like a veterinarian's office,
. . .1 hope.
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