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-opinion Senate f: blue laws The state Senate ha changes in the state's A 1 - mat prohibit the Sunc Similar legislation is ir This is a temporary problem. It's as effecti with an eyedropper. Sen. Hey ward McD 4'It's like we're openii steam kettle. We won'! next few years to n passes." But those next few quickly. A permanent j The Legislature shoul laws altogether. The blue laws issue i religious one, and, i regulated bv thp cnvprr _ ^ O" This country's traditi and state has been in< evidenced by the blue 1; agree there should be a state to protect basic when it comes down t< practice, it suddenly government should lea individual. This was t stitution was written. We need to decide religious freedom or i i ? i ' * - ctnu live Dy tnat aecision Conserval lessen OP OPEC's power hi weakened in the past f< States takes the right could cease to exist. The key to effectively OPEC is conservation indue its power wane, < can send OPEC into obli The Western wor decreased its dependen 1973 Arab oil embargo sources of oil created a ? The decrease in derr prices. As consumers see the in their heating bills, ( fuel will likely rise. Thi m 1 K1 in 1 puunt mubi uuware inG ] Energy consumers m gluttonous days of the flowed as freely as wate Going back to this tyj in conditions similar to 1 days. Conservation and the sources, however, will decline of OPEC as a m scene. I ?Gome Kditor ! Richard Copy Desk Chief . ,4nn Applegate Asst. Chief James Sokolowski News Kditor Chris Handal Asst. News Kditor Susan Hand Asst. News Kdit. Rachel Waterhouse Knt. Kditor John Vaughan Asst. Knt. Kditor . Jim Van Arsdale Sports Kditor Johnny Hoggs Asst. Sports Kditor . Dennis Switrer Opinion l'aj<e Kditor. . Leslie Katz Newsroom 777 7181 /Justness UJJtce 777 388H The Gamecock welcomes letters anc editorials must be typewritten, triple s Letters should be no longer than 30C limited to one newsworthy subject no and guest editorials MUST be signet number, mailing address, class star Pseudonyms are unacceptable, but th( request if the circumstances warrant We reserve the right to edit Kuest edil Address letters and columns to: Opi A. USC. Columbia, $ C 2920H I alls short, ; must go s passed a bill calling for blue laws, relaxing rules lay sale of certain items. 1 the House. r solution to a permanent ve as trying to stop a flood >onald, D-Richland, said, ig up a safety valve on a t be under pressure in the lake changes if the bill years will come all too solution is what is needed, d eradicate Sunday blue is not a social issue but a is such, should not be lment. onal separation of church consistent in the past as aws issue. People seem to separation of church and religious freedoms, but d putting the theory into . becomes difficult. The ve religious issues to the I ;he idea when the Coni what it is we want ? 'engious government ? i. ion helps < EC power ; as been considerably * ew months. If the United s course of action, OPEC l eliminating the power of 4 . Conservation is what md conservation is what vion. Id has considerably E( ce on OPEC oil since the 2s . Conservation and new WJ ^1 i ^iui on tne oil market. let land triggered lower oil pa results at the pump and "S iemand for the cheaper s is where the American an pitfalls. ust avoid a return to the 1960s, when oil and gas be r. lh >e of life-style will result le; those of the pre-embargo he p3 i search for new energy ^ result in the continuing ea ajor player on the world ^ zcock 1 j III-*. HUM Meyers HI Wire Kditor Leslie Potash Photo Kditor Michael Becker Asst. Photo Kdit Ruth Schooler 31 (irad. Asst Wanda M. Hite d? General Manager RonF.mler Q( Adviser Mark FAhridge, Jr. pj( Ad Manager Linda S. Haines .. Husiness Manager . . Jean Hatchell Production Mgr Mark McEwan th 9' Advertising 42*9 \in riuuuiuun III iO.IJ ca J guest editorials All letters and guest jyj paced on a 65 space line , I words and guest editorials should be longer than four typed pages. Letters Sti rf with the writer's name, telephone iding or faculty position and major > writer's name may be withheld upon gjj orirtls and letters nion Page Editor. Gamecock. Drawer c LETS? JKfl i m Jim JJTO! J " -letters Prayer amen iditor: In a time of economic hardship it is quite easy to understand why our U.S. n - . - - congress might overlook many social issues. One issue, however, that I believe deserves particular attention is the proposed voluntary school prayer amendment. I am not alone in my support of this imendment, which was instituted by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C. Other iupporters of the Helms Voluntary 3rayer Amendment Prayer AmenIment include President Ronald ?f?QCfon Cnn" ? rr" ucita. ouuiii inurmond, RI.C., John East, R-N.C. and Paul ,axalt, R-Nev., and a majority of the Student says iitor: I am writing in response to Brian Divert issue of the Gamecock. My first point, anted to get an illogical and confusing ic tter. Regarding sin you say, "God lov hough he hates their sins). These so-ca irt of everyone and are as normal as the >. It is normal that people make mistakes id are changing constantly. God gave us the freedom of action regs id evils that occur. If this were not true ive created us differently and free from al tlieve in made us indenenrtent nf him on /n lives as we think best. No one is e cause God has no direct control over ho 'es and, therefore, doesn't rule us like pi ad a life that is perfectly ideal in his eye* t accepts us as whole beings, not indiv irticular "sins." Concerning homosexuality, if God is this ing that you represent, then I am surj ger to try to persuade people to condu ISC president i student's praise ditor: This past Sunday night I was walking out id I noticed a flyer from one of the Stu mdidates posted on the bulletin board. 1 n not a Holderman clone." The flyer wen 'rogatory things about both the pres overnment and the president of our i olderman. I didn't think much about it e student one of the chronic apathetic stu< A few minutes later, I noticed Holderm< e Horseshoe toward his office. That got n 30 p.m. on Sunday, and there was Hoi 3rk. What it must be like to have a life su in start as early as 7 a.m. or before and i idnight, at the end of the last receptic ?ligated to put in an appearance. It m amina to get through the week. Then he sees things like that flyer or he. Iking or reads a negative editorial in ticerely doubt he is out to get the studen ne we gave him the thanks he so ri 1 ] k , dment draw: Am?_:?l ? miiciiuitii peopie. That's right ? recent polls taken throughout the country clearly indicate a majority of Americans want voluntary school prayer. Gabriel Brinsky published an article in 1982 that revealed about 80 percent of the population favored school prayer. It is hard to imagine that the U.S. Supreme Court made school prayer unconstitutional in 1962. I thought the United States was a nation under God. Apparently, the Supreme Court did not think so. Reagan's proposed school prayer amendment reads as follows: "Nothing in this Constitution shall be ; opinion not ferently than what > letter in the Feb. fashion. Like God, 3 Rrion if* * 10 umi yuu oeings and not v/ant lea across in your consider to be sir res all his people everyone. lied "sins" are a Homosexuality is i ;ir physical make- make if that person I , learn new things identity. If they are i concerned with the irdless of the sins threaten them with i then God would as saying they will nc 11 sin. The God you You say there is go d free to lead our free. What if they an ixempt from sins to be "set free?" Thi w we conduct our you were actually Gc lppets, making us is when people degr >. Because of this, themselves. If I w< iduals minus our 1 ..UI.Illll.Jf, mindedness, which, I accepting, loving wised you are so ct their lives diflets I f of my dorm room, ident Government rhe flyer read, "I t on to say several ;ident of Student iniversity, James ? just considered S-^ Jents. r% wK l in walking across IJh* le thinking. It was >fw * /HlAA i* Iderman going to ch as his! His day Vf^"l riot end until after ff p |1 1 >n at which he is fg ..J ust take a lot of J - LJ^jS^' ars some students the Gamecock. I ts, so maybe it is chly deserves. "SfcNPWG* TWO Richard Hamilton nr.n. k r- k #-> Journalism senior A m * * ?support construed to prohibit individual or pronn nrauor in nnWi/. ~~1~?i~ ? 0 ?r ujvt *a* {JUU1H. acuwiM UI' other public institutions. No person shall be required by the United States or by any state to participate in prayer." This sounds fair to me because it forces absolutely no one to pray. Why not allow students across America ?? time to give thanks for all the things the Lord has so graciously provided for them with voluntary daily prayer? Christopher Sanders Journalism sophomore God's law J they wish, and in a certain, narrow I fou should accept individuals as whole to hastily point out certain qualities you iful, because they are inevitable in not a sin, but a free choice that one can feels comfortable and satisfied with that lot hurting others, then you shouldn't be ir lifestyle and shouldn't condemn or ridiculous and degrading remarks such ^ >t be "delivered." ? >od news that Jesus can set homosexuals e happy with themselves and don't want e sin is your imposing your beliefs as if ?d, which you have no right to do. The sin ade others and make them feel less of 3re you, I would start preaching acawareness, understanding and open'm sorry to say, is something you lack. Amy Greene Psychology sophomore * ? ?i LOAN DEPI *ki\ '&uxac?t?J KIP^ TO COLLE&E HAS REALLY ilN& EXPERIENCE FORME."