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Equal And La TO THE EDITOR I am tired of misinformed people claiming the Israeli Jews, and Jews around the world, use the Nazi genocide as an excuse for their claim to the land of Israel and its maintenance. The Nazi genocide and the countless other policies of oppression are not excuses for the Jews. The Jews only ro/>l i Q lonrl urKinK uroc fVinirc in fKo fircf rvlonn f olrnn ivvuuMivu tuiiu wai5v.ii wao invito in viiv mot patv, tciiwn away from them by brutal force. Today, Israel stands as an affirmation that the Jewish people will forever be free from racial bigotry that exists throughout the world. Those who oppose Israel want to return the area to status quo before 1948, and even 1967, when the Jews were treated as secondclass citizens and forbidden to worship at the Holy sites. Remember Israel is open to all religious denominations, a far cry from other countries in the region such as Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Some claim to be anti-Zionist, but not anti-Semetic. It is literally impossible to distinguish one trom the other, despite attempts. One claiming to be anti-Zionist is cleverly reaffirming that he is indeed anti-Semetic. However, anti-Zionist has a much more subtle tone to it, doesn't it? Zionism is a world movement to reaffirm the rights of Jews to an independent homeland in Palestine. It was and still is the Zionist dream that Jews around the world can live in peace and identify with a sovereign Jewish State. Those who claim to be anti-Zionist would deny this right to Jews. These people Lezlie Wallace ^jRPpy I Editorial Page Editor " In our society, timing is important. A lot of things have greater impact if presented at the right time. Many times, we have no control over this awesome force ? fate determines the precise moment something will occur. Songs are good examples of the relevance of timing. Have you ever noticed how you always hear songs which tie in with your present situation or current mood? It never fails. Some sample situations with accompanying songs are: A rainy Monday (Rainy Days and Mondays) Winning a competition (We Are The Champions) Losing a competition (Better Luck Next Time) Returning from a trip and lost (Take the Long Way Home) Your roommate wants to go running, but you don't (Rocky) You're trying to get out of something by lying (Why Do PeoDle Lie) You're from the North and are engaged in a North-South Debate (NY State of Mind) You're from the South and are engaged in a North-South Debate (The South'sGonna Dolt Again) You have a leaky faucet and no one to fix it (Handy Man) You're all alone on a Saturday night (Seventeen) You and your boy/girl friend get back together (Reunited) nr fl ot'cr!ntrWii?iU Ar?rl i/i vju^i j uiin nuu uvt vty / You and your boy/girl friend break up (Wasted Time) Remembering old friends (The Way We Were) Some aren't the only things which seem to hit certain nerves at certain times.,Think about commercials. You have just began a diet. You have to do it this time ? summer is coming and you refuse to put on that swimsuit until you lose that extra weight you gained over the winter. You're starving. You want to get your mind off of food. So, you go turn on the television. You see cake commercials, chocolate chip cookie commercials (the ones with hot, meltine cookies coming out of the oven). McDonald's com mercials,.... THE PRESIDENT TOODOSK.. M sting Peace equate Zionism with racism, world imperialism, money lenders, media barrons, and all the other familiar antiSemetic stereotypes. Anti-Zionists wish to dissolve the Jewish State, and return all of the post-WWII Jewish immigrants to Europe or the repressive Arab States. Israel acts only in self-defense. This past summer, the FL.U, egged on by their Syrian, Saudi Arabian and Soviet allies, began to indiscriminantly shell defenseless Israeli settlements in the northern Galilee. Did the world expect Israel to sit idly by while its countryside was being decimated? Israel's reaction was quick and appropriate. Innocent people are always killed in war, Mr. Richardson. Just ask the families in countless Israeli kibbutzim and towns, the victims of PLO shellings. While it is true the Israelis bombed the PLO headquarters and other strategic sites in the center of densely populated areas. They use the innocent as a shield. Why don't people condemn this? x nave ucvcicu uvciscaa diiu lajftcti iu uiciiiy Jicupie cilbU, and I see what is happening. There can never be peace as long as the PLO trains small children that violence is the only answer to the problem. Others simply fail to understand or attempt to learn of the Israeli point of view which prevents equal and lasting peace, i """ NORMAN MARK RAPOPORT Law School Student Another situation. You are sitting at home watching television with someone you had just gone out with for the first time. You're both intently watching the screen in front of you, when Cathy Rigby comes on to tell about her "maxi pads," or a commercial boasting a cure for "jock itch" comes on. Have you ever noticed tnat when you nave a lot to things to do, there are a lot of things you want to do ? and the two never relate. But when you have free time, you can never think of anything to do. When you have some money, you never see anything you want to buy. When you are broke, you think of many things you want and/or need ? if you had the money. I When you don't have any homework, everyone else does, j You want to got out, but no one else can. Then when you have a test or project due, no one else does, everyone else goes out and has a good time while you're at home studying. When you are not on a diet, you're never hungry, and can never think of anything you want to eat. But go on a diet, you develop cravings that continue until you get off of your diet. You're a very healthy person, and haven't been sick all year. The first dav of Soring Break vou develoo the flu. It lasts a week. Or, you go to a sunny resort area for vacation. They get the first rain they had in 50 years. Then there are the situations which we can control ? the timing we use to our advantage, purposely. If you want to see someone on the way to class, you time it to where you are certain to pass him/her. Then again, if you Hnn't u/arit to sw? snmpnnp vnn timp vnnr wnllr arpnrHim?lv ~? " " -? J J v,x'v'v" """ov If you have an argument with someone, then you time your next discussion at a time when their defenses will be down ? when they least expect it, like 2:00 a.m. Or else you time your arrival right after the flowers you sent arrive. You can also find out when something good happens to the person you are .arguing with, and present yourself to him immediately following this. Timing is important in our lives. It is one of those things we don't think about, or realize, but it is always there. T Vtmrn r? Irvi nf oin/linnrf a rl/\ knf T'm rtai n rt nnf i nofno r\ T i iici v c a iui ui oiuuj 1115 iv uu, uui a iu ?vsiii? uuv iuoitciu. k was going to practice self-discipline, and stay in, but a song on the radio just changed my mind. "Only The Good Die Young." iMiSk. ,?AND fhSl congress DISPOSES MIKE LOUGH Nobody asked me, but. . . Mondays should be outlawed. I lose a lot of respect for people who have to smoke. Pretty girls with good tans that wear white shorts have always driven me crazy. l Mate to weightlift because there are always muscie-bounc goons in there who stare at you like "What are you doing in here?" Obviously, I'm in there to build some muscles, you goon, hopefully not in the brain like most of them. I'm sick and tired of all female athletes being labeled "lezbos" because of one or two instances. Idealistic, shy, romanticists have no place in this world land will be walked on forever because of shyness. I've got the footprints to prove it. All awards shows should dispose of the tedious routines and show more film clips. . Anybody whose acceptance speech at an awards show is) longer than 30 seconds should be gonged. I never have film in my camera when something b'f happens and it would make a great pic for the Gamecock. I still dislike the designated hitter rule in baseball and s??e uu l easuu wny piiuners siiouion i oe aDie 10 ai leasi nil meir weight. j Golf is like an ugly kid: it's a sport (child) only a golfer (mother) could love. Anybody who says "The only thing I know" is telling the, truth. Although I could never live in the city, "New York, New York" by Frank Sinatra is one of the top songs ever made. The Baltimore Orioles is my kind of baseball team: successful and scrappy. The New York Yankees should be taken away from George: Steinbrenner. Anybody who makes over $100,000 after taxes should be force to give five percent to charitv. If someone told me to name 45 states, I probably wouldn't1 name Wyoming, Iowa, Montana, Idaho and one of the Dakota because you never hear any news out of those states. The South Carolina General Assembly makes up one of the most self centered political groups in the nation. ' SolBlatt, Sr. is not my idol. The Board of Trustees should be disbanded and the governing board should be made up of faculty representatives from every school along with three students. - Graduate students should not teach freshmen, especially in I English. I Students with grads as instructors should be consulted before their grade is final because grad students think the pupils should be as smart as they are. We're not. I hope a lot of people read Lezlie Wallace's column on maturity and thought about it. It hits home for a lot of people. The L.A. Dodgers should've told Fernando Valenzuela to go back to Mexico and its crappy water when he asked for that much money. Of all the books I've read, I think I like "Nice Guys Finish Last" by Leo Durocher the most. j Lefty Driesell is a very overrated college basketball coach. Bill Foster is not. T qlnnrf iiritli o iA/>lrc om ortoivicf iA/>lr 1 * I UIVIl^ TTIV*I U 1V?T JWI\0, Ulll UgUlHOt JWIV UWI IIZO kA^VaUO^ X . it detracts greatly from college life, and 2. I'd like to eat real food down here once in a while, too. Someday, college will have an honest to goodness purpose for everybody who attends. The fire department arrives at a fire drill in 1 1/2 minutes but gets to a fire in 6, especially when a college is involved. I love dogs and, 1. don't like people who put down those who treat a dog as a family member, and 2. feel anybody cought treating any animal cruelly should have the same thing done J to them. Twenty cents to mail a letter from, say, Columbia to New York isn't too bad. It's only a penny per day before it arrives. Senile nuns make classes very interesting. Any math course is useless after eighth grade. Mike Royko of the Chicago Sun Times is the best journalist I've ever read and he's not even a sportswriter. I could eat french fries and drink Coke forever. McDonald's is the best fast food restaurant around. I hat to go to a fast food place with someone who used to work there and then listen to them explain what goes into the food and how they found mice near the box of french fries. Colleges caught cheating by the NCAA should be fined $250,000, the coach fired, and the players involved suspended. I haven't been to the third floor RH bathroom for anv reason in a loooong time and have no intention to do so in the future. I consider myself openminded, but I'd aim in the hole too if I caught somebody watching me. The sound of an alarm clock in the morning is the most dispicable thing I've ever heard. 11 don't like women who swear in public or say f-- at all. The biggest mistake I've made in college yet was taking self-paced astronomy.