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Democratic split u~i n li: limps nepuuiiuans To those who have been keeping up with the current quest for a Democratic presidential candidate, it came as no surprise when the Rev. Jesse Jackson announced his intentions to enter the race. He is the eighth candidate to announce a bid for the party's presidential nomination. This is significant not only because Jackson is black, but also because he probably will drain black support from the candidacies of former Vice President Walter Mondale and Sen. John Glenn, DOhio. Jackson is not the first black candidate to run for president. Rep. Shirley Chisolm made history in 1972 by not only being a female candidate, but also for being black. Jackson, however, has the distinct honor of being the first black candidate who actually has a winning chance. Why? Jackson is a very well known figure. Throughout the 1960s and '70s, he gained recognition as a civil rights activist and a vocal religious leader. His decision to announce his candidacy after six months of public appearances was a well-planned political maneuver. During that time, he worked his way across the country in voter registration drives, church rallies and campaign appearances in attempts to increase the ranks of registered black voters to 13 million from 10 million and help put other blacks in office. His labors have been quite successful and the only obstacle to a productive candidacy is the fact many elected black officials like Coretta King, widow of Martin Luther King, and Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, have been publicly criticizing him. Such infighting often hurts a candidate as can be seen by Chisolm's campaign effort, which faltered ? _ r Ai_ _ in the first round ot primaries as a resuir 01 me failure of other black leaders to rally support around her. Such a situation doesn't seem to be phasing Jackson. "Blacks, women, Hispanics and Jews had to start from further back . . he has said. The Republican Party certainly is happy about Jackson's announcement because it puts one more feather in President Ronald Reagan's cap for reelection. Now that the Democratic Party is further divided, the chances for the incumbent president's re-election is vastly increased. Besides, Reagan doesn't need the black vote. With the apparent acceptance of his performance in Grenada and Beirut, he could probably hand the black vote over on a silver platter to Jackson and > 111 nrttno nr\ chinino 31J11 VWI1IV up Gomccoc k Editor in Chief Johnny Boggs Copy Desk Chief Curt Cottle Copy Editor Mark Armstrong News Editor Chris Handal Copy Editor Beverly Simmons Asst. News Editor David Hill Copy Editor Leigh Jones Opinion Page Editor . Ellen McCarthy Copy Editor Alan Seim Ent. Editor Julie Jameson Copy Editor Mark Farmer Asst. Ent. Editor Joan Kirchner Sports Editor Jeff Rogers General Manager Ron Ernler Asst. 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' Address letters and columns to: Opinion Page Editor, Gamecock, Drawer A, USC, Columbia, S.C. 29208. """Lett Housing out for student: To the Editor: 5 Of all the idiotic things I have witnessed in my 4'/2 years at t USC, another topper has just hit me from USC's wonderful housing department. < It seems after paying $25 to apply for graduation in 1 December (another outrageously inflated and unjustified charge), the bimbos in housing need graduating seniors to fill out a request to get a refund on their housing deposits. If you don't fill out their bureaucratic cards by Nov. 1, they will hold you to their neat little Dinaing contracts anu klx-|j your housing deposit for the spring semester. Now for $25 I would think the caring people in Petigru could share their "graduating students" information with you loving people in housing. By the mere punch of a button on your computer terminal, for which our tuition and tax dollars have paid, a lot of valuable time could be saved. I've always been amazed at the way you people bend over backwards to be so congenial and helpful to students. (And if Student responds to le To the Editor: much more destructi I wish to take this opportunity to the Japanese bombii respond to Arthur Williams' Oct. 28 attacked would not t letter proposing nuclear war as a solu- from today's bon tion to the international problems of improve. the United States. Japan survived its < Philosophy and morality aside, the got massive outside use of nuclear weapons is a drastic the United States. V measure not feasible as a method of able to implement th foreign policy. The United States is not program now becau.< the only nuclear power as it was in proDaoiy oe irying u 1945. Retaliation would certainly en- retaliatory attack ag sue if we bombed the nations mention- second, we would fc ed, especially Cuba or El Salvador. and surely could not Would we then be teaching ourselves a trol over the injured lesson? Do you really thinl . The nuclear weapons of today are aid from us after ' Student says logo turkey of a design To the Editor: A few weeks ago, I clipped from The State the proposed new USC logo and put it on my bulletin board. I thought it ??roc- iinlir ihpn nnrl I think it'^ 11(f|v now wua U51; mvii, * - -ov It looks like a turkey the day before Thanksgiving. Maybe it's because I'm a little old fashioned and traditional, but I much prefer the present logo than the proposed one. The existing logo shows a beautiful, detailed Gamecock with its true colors of garnet and black. The new turkey design would better be suited for a hockey team, not for a university. I take great pride in this university and its athletic program, and have always stood behind the decisions of the officials. USC is known as the "Home of the Fighting Gamecocks." Why should we degrade ourselves by changing the logo from something nationally recognized to something tacky? It just does not make sense to me. Paula Sullivan Journalism junior g AVMliW'. A \P\<3 $' money, senior says /ou believe that, I've got some beach front property in Idaho o sell you.) Listen guys, if you charge about $900 per semester for a Jouble-oecupancy, unairconditioned, radiator-heated, carpetless, drafty, roach-infested dorm room built in 1939 and can't fill your vacancies, don't try to trick us into paying for them. God help the students who miss your magical Nov. \ deadline, and find their deposits turned into pumpkins, property of housing. What will they think of next? Pay toilets for each dorm room. I'd like to request that you, Mr. Treasurer, and your fundroicArc hIaqcp hnlrl an\/ Future* mail 11 tiiialif wu n t t r\ cpnH m P I ?I.1VI .1 piV-UJV 1 IV/1U UU_7 1 UIU1 V 1IIU1I / WW 1111^,111 ?? Mill I V .j v i I V4 <11V pertaining to donations to this institution. (After more than $12,000, they still want more?) Not to say that USC as a whole hasn't benefited me in some ways, but the bureaucracy should try to help the struggling student, not hinder him. David Cauthen Journalism senior ittpr fnr mmlear use P ?. t. ?jr B VB mm V W m ve than those of their society? The Soviet Union would ngs. The nations naturally be the savior. >e able to recover I fail to see any economic advantage lbs, much less the United States would receive by rebuilding a "nuked" nation. We [lamage because it would spend millions of dollars just on aid, mainly from the basic cleanup and repair, if the Ve would not be land is even inhabitable. It would be e same successful decades before any economic gains ;c first, we would were realized. i recover from the These are just some basic arguments ainst us, and / or against the use of nuclear weapons as a ie global outcasts method of foreign policy. As I see it, exercise any con- there are no practical or economic adnations. vantages in such use. k they would want Denise Taylor we've just ruined International studies sophomore I sim I v * tc?83 fh? O'Undo S?nlmei f Id Neovspip*' Syndicate " YEAH, ME.TOO... MAYBE IT*> WE. RDST-WflT S^MDROME *