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When flipping through the mail, one sometimes
finds various pieces of propaganda dealing with the
subject of animal rights stuck between the
telephone bill and that letter from Aunt Bertha.
These pamphlets are attention-getters because they
often are splashed with pictures of puppies covered
with electrodes or caeed and muzzled monkies.
Such propaganda usually yields one of two emotions
from the reader. One is disgust at being so
blatantly faced with reality and the other is the feeling
of sheer helplessness. Lately, a furor has been
raised by certain animal-rights groups about the use
of animals in laboratory settings. Their concern lies
in the tact animals are being used tor experimental
purposes by drug companies and medical
researchers.
Ideologically, the use of animals for medical experiments
is wrong. However, one must take into
account the reality of the need for animals in the
laboratory to help maintain the health and welfare
of the people of this country.
Animals have given their lives for such causes as
cancer research, drug research and various
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were worth the thousands of lives that have and will
be saved.
The nobility of the scientist, however, shouldn't
cloud the fact that animals are also being used for
unnecessary experiments. A good example of this
practice was this past month's attempt by the
Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences to shoot anesthetized dogs to educate
students on the treatment of bullet wounds.
Such an incident triggered various humane
societies to attack Congress and resulted in the
shutdown of the program. This is a successful instance
where cruelty to animals was stopped.
However, other terrible experiments arc ucuig
conducted today and should come to a halt becausc
their outcome is already known. For example,
researchers are putting animals in cold
temperatures to calculate the amount of time
before they freeze. Even the least scientific mind
should only have to conduct such an experiment ?
few times to discover the outcome.
Animals are a necessary element in the research
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animals are used for such unnecessary experiments
when the outcome is known ? like shooting dog:
or freezing cats ? they are useless, cruel an<
unnecessary.
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Student criticizi
To the Editor:
Recently, I have read letters written
to you criticizing and supporting the
journalistic qualities of the Gamecock.
I feel I should also point to a few
weaknesses I have noticed. As a rising
journalism major, and having been an
assistant copy editor in high school, I
feel I can objectively criticize your
newspaper.
| To begin, I must say your writers do
seem to gather the facts and report
with accuracy. The structure of the
paper is also one of the best I have
1 seen. However, your editing department
lacks the quality of your
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j To the Editor:
1 would like to comment on "Police ch
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Cher's error, rape, m mt wvi. ~
which described a dispatching mishap and th
of a 31-year-old mentally retarded woman.
To err in the reporting / dispatching p
especially when one considers the possible pi
~ understandably upset caller or even a frigl
It's a rare person who responds perfectly t
* percent of the time.
What is inhuman, and totally unconsc
a caseworker or some other professional
S Regional Retardation Center would place a
Pretty campus m
of pride, student
' To the Editor:
S I wonder how many people remember i
5 cial about the library and how it encour*
i and learn instead of pitching pennies and
don't use the library often enough. H
surroundings.
Every now and then I depart to the bacl
II the fraternity houses and tire up a joint, i i
n these people, but I do find it absurd to hi
e sit down. The back part of the library, in I
r. for class review and talking out relationsh
of the tranquility.
*0 Generalizations about how the glass gc
W If the glass gets cleaned up, it will slowly i
tion works in the same cycle. Nothing cj
,st moralizing about people's behavior, but
the integral component to the solution.
0(1 If one doesn't ever come to the back, t
lacking. The bottom line for those who i
pvprvthine is that this campus is
I of nice amenities to offer students and s
ji The job doesn't fall on the 9-to|
janitorial crew. It's a round-the-clock de
: pride.
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1.95 million, I swear I though it was for
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ss newspaper 1
reporters.
In the Sept. 28 issue of the
Gamecock, a feature story was written
about Dominique Blasingame, who
changed from the position of fullback
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trary to the story, the headline read
"Tight end welcomes opportunity to
change to fullback." This makes me
wonder how much faith the student .
body puts in your newspaper to relay
stories correctly, whether the story is
campus news or involves the world.
I do not blame the reporter for this
mistake because consistency was kept
of Blasingame moving from fullback
ecisions upset
woman in an aparti
ief regrets dispat- of exceptional intel
if the Gamecock, t;0i the dispatche
le subsequent rape tunate incident. Bui
. the call, through wh
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roblems such as an t-on Center) ancj Sj
itened dispatcher. examine their place
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good judgment.
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at the Midlands
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people to read
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Economics junior rIMP A USE.
computer terminals!
for mistakes
to tight end throughout the story. 1
believe this shows a poor job on the
part of the copy editor and the editor
in chief.
Another headline that showed an
editor's obvious relaxation of journalistic
abilities appeared in the Oct. 3
issue. It read "Dorinassociationlobbies
for students." I'm sure many
fcngiisn professors wm lesnry to inc
fact there is no such word. True, we
all make mistakes, but when the student
body relies on these facts, these
mistakes are inexcusable.
Robert Jones Jr.
Journalism freshman
social worker
nent in a high-crime area. Even a woman
lligence would be running a risk in that
r will be the sole scapegoat in this unfort,
if the victim had not been able to place
lose negligence would this rape have occur3
suggest the Midlands Regional RetardaDecifically,
the professionals involved, rement
procedures and this particular case,
important decisions is not exercising very
Connie Warden
Social work graduate assistant
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