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.opinion Drunk dri Court's si Yesterday's U.S. deserves applause. Ti tention to the nation' and the situation is w attention. In a 7-2 decision, t refusal to take a sobr could be used as ev driving-under-the-infli goes against many sU jurors to know that a take a sobriety test. "The situation und with tragic frequency < Justice Sandra Day ( nage caused by c documented." O'Connor speaks t accidents are the caus year, according to nati Twenty-five thousf tention. If the new 1 Hriuprc \i;hn nanco fho vaA A ? V/A KJ ??nv V14V4UV U1V welcome, and states si But the Supreme Cc on another level. It is a get tough with drunk number of alcohol-rek past time to get tough. Congratulations to giving jurors the ab PuiHonno in o HI TT_r v/ * AVIVtlW AAA U Ay KJ JL JL should help communic matter of national se people annually would If they were able to s, Martin Lu vi s UE5CI VtJo Legislation has agaii U.S. House of Represei Dr. Martin Luther Kir thday, Jan. 15, a nation Although the bill is House members and controversial piece of 1< Two of South ( congressmen, Thomas and FlnvH rvf l ? J v? lur^/vliW v/l Jl argument against the fc They say King's meaningless to peopl there are no blacks. This must have com takers all over the coui Bureau report says tl state. Beyond the absurdit sad that people such miss the point so totall human rights ? not ji respected by people of It is only fitting that J ^1 ucsci ves in inishonored with the likes < Abraham Lincoln. r???Gcirr Kdit Kich< Copy Desk Chief AnnApplega Asst. Chief James Sokolows News Kditor Chris Hand Asst. News Kditor Susan G. Hat Asst. News Kdit. Rachel Waterhou j Knt. Kditor John Vaughi Asst. Kilt. Kditor Jim Van Arsdv Sports Kditor Johnny iio# Asst. Sports Kditor . Dennis Switz Opinion 1'age Kditor ... Leslie Ka Newsroom 777-711 Business Office 777 381 The Gamecock welcomes letters editorials must l>e typewritten, trip letters should be no longer than limited to one newsworthy subject and guest editorials MUST be sij number, mailing address, class ! Pseudonyms are unacceptable, but request if the circumstances warrai We reserve the right to edit guest Address letters and columns to: A, USC, Columbia, S.C 29208. . , , ... ?????M vers need trong stand Supreme Court decision he court is turning its ats drunk ririvincr nrnhlpm ell worth the high court's ;he court said a person's iety, or Breathalyzer, test idence against him in a lence case. The ruling ite laws that did not allow defendant had refused to erlying this case...occurs on our nation's highways," 3'Connor said. "The carIrunk drivers is wellhe truth. Alcohol-related e of at least 25,000 deaths a ional figures. md deaths deserve ataw will help convict the im ? and it should ? it is lould willingly enforce it. >urt decision is significant i sign ot a national trend to drivers, and based on the ited accidents yearly, it is the Supreme Court for ility to consider all the elated trial. The ruling ate that drunk driving is a >piirifu ? at loact O* AAA uv ivuoi ^U)UUV certainly agree. ay so. ther King holiday i been introduced into the itatives to commemorate ig Jr. by making his biral holiday. being co-sponsored by 90 27 senators, it is still a egislation. Carolina's Republican > Hartnett of Charleston ^exington, have a unique ill. birthday would be e in those states where ie as a surprise to census itry, since the 1980 Census lere are blacks in every y of their statement, it is as Hartnett and Spence v. King was an artivict fro* ^ O ?-- AVI ist black rights, and he is all races. he be given the place he so ; country's history and be. of George Washington and tecock 1 or-in-( hief ar(l Meyers to Wir<? * ? ' ' i.esne forasii ki Photo Editor Andy Putnam al Asst. Photo Kdit.. Capers Hammond ad (irad. Assl Wanda M. /file se (Jeneral Manager RonEmler an Adviser Mark Ethridge, Jr. ile Ad Manager Linda S. Haines tfs Business Manager . . . Jean Hatchell er Production Mgr MarkMcEwan i tz Kl Advertising 777-4249 Production 777-2833 and guest editorials. All letters and guest le spaced on a 65 space-line i ovru nuius unu CUIUM lillS SflOUKl IH? no longer than four typed pages letters gned with the writer's name, telephone standing or faculty position and major the writer's name may he withheld upon nt. editorials and letters. Opinion Page Editor, Gamecock, Drawer L: I'M IHIFRmatia^ I >-Wk> mum xwwwwwv: .s Jetters SG efforts 'lii Editor: i The Gamecock staff editorial on < Feb. 21 is a disgrace to journalistic j profession. They talked of the small \ turnout at last year's election when it i was, in fact, the largest student l turnout in the history of the school i with over 4,200 votes cast in the i primary election. If this was not bad enough, they went on to criticize ( Student Government's effectiveness \ 41 A " ? * "* wueii mey aciuany Know very little \ about it. They cited the attendance ? policy as an example of Student ? Government's so-called inef- I fectiveness. This example illustrates j their ignorance even further. Student t Government has conducted a petition, i introduced a proposal to the ap- r propriate student-faculty committee g and will report to the Faculty Senate c on the attendance policy. So little does ? the Gamecock know about university policies and procedures that they j think such revisions would pass the \ Faculty Senate while they are ? discussing faculty and programming t cutbacks. i In terms of the parking situation , there is only so much that students j can do. We cannot create land for , parking or money for its purchase, but we can and have pointed out . perimeter parking possibilities and j other suggestions to the proper ( SG provides ser Editor: Every year the Gamecock decides to writ article about how Student Government didri do that. Every year, the same storyline changed (to protect the innocent). In my university, I have never seen this question feel it is my dutv to ask it so all thp chiHont the situation. What has the Gamecock done? All the Ga is criticize all the organizations on campi ever credit anyone. The Gamecock love Greeks, Student Government and other o never to look in the mirror. Maybe it Gamecock to step back and evaluate itself. Everyone takes Student Government f< never realize all the services Student Gove To keep the readers' interest, I will just me services orovidpd that m . ui V nut IVI1U W 11 IU III how about all the students who go to the discount movie tickets from Student Goveri regular price. This project has reached students. We sell bus tickets for 20 percei This also affects more than 5,000 students. The office is constantly filled with people about where a certain place is or how do I this done ? another service. This year, we SAGA office in ours in order to make it mo the student so he does not have to walk all t Street. These are just a couple of service taken for granted. Of course we carry on s tions that people think we do. We pass bills pprtoin A ? 1 * ' 1 * v.v..ujcci^j, ime laKing orphans to a b? visiting nursing homes at Christmas to spr cheer. We allocate more than $750,000 tc groups (like the Gamecock) so they can pi the students. The main thing at Student Government tt keep tuition low, and we tried to close Gi mmmmxmmmmmmmmmtKammmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmm t'.JlES OUR 51CUSTOMER? DWES US BILLIONS. e behind the s university departments. For the c Gamecock to condemn someone as I impotent, they need not look further t than themselves, but I have not r 1/ritton or* /^n*ir)rk?v* 4- o ??1?VV1> nil U1 HV.ll, V.VIlUCllllllilg U1C1I1 ^ because I am not a journalist and do ii lot know the workings of a t lewspaper. t It is hard to measure Student o jovernment's effectiveness because e ve do not know how much housing s vould have increased had I not made d substantial efforts to convince the 3 administrative department of u nisiness affairs to recommend a 17 e >ercent increase allowing housing to tl )reak-even instead of a 23 percent b ncrease to provide structural fi naintenance funds. I proposed that, d utnough these funds are needed, they ti cannot be imposed on students while it the same time raising tuition! s We could have been a student a government that does one thing a f veek and then writes an editorial to t explain what they did. Had we done r Jiis we would not have had time to s ittend the many, many meetings of r acuity, administrative and student S groups in an effort to more aptly p -espond to student concerns. n When the Student Government a >lanned the rallies (one in front of d Russell House and the other at the Capitol), the Gamecock gave mention vices, Gamecoa what happens ?^ we e an irresponsible proposed plan we had i't do this or didn't problems on this campi with the names project we undertook la four years at this i feel it is hardly wo i asked, but now I listen to 300 students dt s will be aware of of 25,000. Year in and ye services and programs mecock ever does rescue the recognition t lis and has yet to break. Don't you think il s to write about in closing, I would li irganizations, but r.nvpmmpnt ie o ? m rn.rn.rn * V ? V AO U OtVIViCl is time for the this campus. We are tramural/Kecreational 5r granted. They all the other organizati rnment provides, vices like all these othe tntion a few of the programs CPU or the G ie students. First, student newspaper to i movies and buy group's purpose on this nment for half the if a student wants to r more than 15,000 should talk to the group at less than cost, his evaluation. Student enjoy, and no one has th? asking questions T __ _ i/wuuovy lit UllISj I. ICCi go about getting showed its lack of profc have located the retraction of the article, re convenient for not more for the stude he way to College supply services and ans s we do that are body. In the future, stu< ill the other func- ment as a body of peop ; in the senate for solve all the problems I isketball game or help us, we can help you ead some holiday Lastly, I would like to > various student editorial and believes it. -ovide services to Chris at 777-2654, and lei to explain its side of this lough, is we try to reene Street. But ~\ MUkfUt. * J % scenes' >f it within the body of a few articles, lut no major effort was made on ehalf of the Gamecock to give nention to the rallies. The Gamecock taff may claim 'it was not news until t happened,' but I believe that, since he Gamecock receives an allocation aken from student activity fees, they we it to the students to help publicize vents that will benefit the entire tudent body. Since our newspaper id not help us in their Monday, Jan.m 1 issue, Student Government printed ^ fl 1 ' 1 y uiuie nyers ana piacea one under very door on campus in addition to hose that had been posted eforehand. The flyers helped, but a -ont page headline would have rastically increased student parcipation in the rallies. | The majority of the power which tudents can exert lies in their parents ind Carolina alumni. Since our >arents place the legislators in office,# he elected officials will be very esponsive to the comments and uggestions that our parents make. To eally help USC and all of education in louth Carolina, please ask your arents along with any alumni you lay know to contact their legislators nd voice their concerns about the irection of education Ashley B. Abel SG President 0 k doesn't get poor student support. Every ?hio -J 1 mio jrcai iu uu sumeiiung aooui uie js needed student support, but every eked participation. rthwhile for the state Legislature to a rally when they come from a school ar out, Student Government provides that benefit the student, yet nevei# hey deserve. I mean really, give us a - is time we look at this realistically, ke to say two things. First, Student it organization like all the others on the same as the Gamecock, InSports, Carolina Program Union and ons on campus. We try to offer serr groups. I do not agree with all the amecock produce, but I don't use the lir my dissatisfaction. It is not any campus to evaluate the other groups, nake a comment about a group, he , find out all the facts and then make groups are for students to use ancW e right to sav anything different. I the Gamecock staff has once again tssionalism and feel it should print a Student Government does as much if ;nts than most of the groups. They wers; they benefit the whole student ients should look at Student Governle trying to help them out. We can't 3y ourselves, but we can try. If you 1 challenge any student who read the If you think it is true, please contact^ t Student Government have a chance unjust and irresponsible editorial. Christopher Acquaviva SG Treasurer