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_"T~: QpinroN^ OSCAR ? second t 'Tis the season to be ning on registering foi Cnonti n** /a ?->-> ?> * * 4 iiwen o^muivi wumpui Once again this "ini ing has only resultec students it encount registration was dest before OSCAR. First, in order to n must make an appo: discuss the courses av; quirements in the foil period was to occur Thanksgiving holiday The paradox is thi days before the mastei to the university. Such but it hurt the student meet with his adviser. After a student com his respective dean ar pointment card, whic and time to meet OS< period of advisement computer registration dent missed his sched was required to call I printed on the card to This is the start of telephone number wa; dreds of students who O r* f rw /-* n r? The concepts behinc implementation of the; ble lies. We are dealin system in which man Thus the likelihood c high. The shut down student the greatest c cess. Long lines oftc iseum, where students until the computers a Once in the Coliseur boards, where the stud are still open for regis scanner and endures a to Hicrr?vf?r cmn r?f f were actually filled. T be repeated. Such was common 1 as up to date as they s\ dent who registered fc learned the sad truth ! Though this is only been utilized, it has al registration period foi Though a few fort blems in obtaining th jority of the student there are many rou smoothed. ?-?Gar ' * 7 I Copy Ocsk Chief Curt News Editor Chris / A ?? ii ^ H55i. mews coiiur ua\ Opinion Pago Editor. Ellen Met Entain. Editor Leslie D Sports Editor Jeff f Asst. Sports Editor Andrew Wire Editor Kevin Si Photo Editor Mary Ann Asst. Photo Editor Joe Ja Graphics Editor Beth Ha Copy Editor Mark Arm. 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However, because the extended beyond the date began, often times the stululed appointment time and :he given telephone number reschedule the time, the headache as only one > expected to serve the hurfneeded to use it to make new i OSCAR are sound, but the se concepts is where the troug with a very large computei y other sources are tapped if the rnmnntpr overload i< of the computer caused th( lelay in the registration pro ;n formed around the Col ; sometimes waited for hour: ime back into use. n, there's the mad rush to th( ent finds which of his classes tration. 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Letters and guest le writer's name, telephone number, mailing ad sition and major. Pseudonyms are unacceptable, iheld upon request if the circumstances warrant. ist editorials and letters. Opinion Page Editor, Gamecock, Drawer A, USC, /^NTarevtBi\ I tJNTONe b^YS... \ \ "mese ifictvjre oasses are I eerrvNGTcc r yjcrcwpepl^y/ , rrr*7 ki? ! %F ^ ; vf_^S?"P ' ) V V, ?V< > % Student says : l o the bditor: Recently, there appeared on this page a letter by Brad Weller in which he discussed the necessity of repealing the Blue Laws. Weller, like most of the J politicians currently holding statewide office, believes that we ought to repeal the Blue Laws in the interest of progress. 1 have always dislike the flogging of s dead horses, and as a result I will not * go into the various practical reasons for maintaining these laws. Such reasons are valid in themselves, but are usually set forth by those with nagging consciences and yet who also have a fear of being branded impractical or - ideological. Our nation and its Con Peace movem (Editor's note: The author is a secoth medical school.) By Ken Strauss The deployment of cruise missiles, v in nurope, is one more ominous sign i American foreign policy and of the w s by "Cowboy" Ronald Reagan of the S of the countries of the world have so ritory and affairs of their own countri At the risk of sounding alarmistic, 1 ment, which horrifies and outrages e peans, may be one of the dark turns i e The missiles themselves are a tec those who are able to ignore their a\ below enemy radar, follow the contoui ^ drop their warheads within a few 1 targets. But there's where their inh undetectable missile is unquestionably is of absolutely no value in an all-out enemy radar. j THEIR DEPLOYMENT, we are tc . , fhp intA "cprtniic" ormr , _ wv>v?> 'liivy .jv.1 iv/lio Ullin livguilf r I ing their own SS-20s pointed at Europ I any guide, this move will only pror r I deploy better missiles with more nume f | warheads. 7 The Europeans have not forgotter ? history powerful nations who have almost always eventually found occa: paranoia and short-sightedness tend t j portion to might. 1 The issue riveting the entire peace the same as that debated in the trenc ' > The Western Front;" it is one of th< tions: "What right have generals and i 1 On what grounds can they justify kil suited, unconsenting and unheede children/ This points up one of the moral pra< in the Americans. We search desperate to transplant into a dying baby while build weapons designed ultimately, r< Ji tionalize them, to kill every baby in t J? -v?rf *o?o6"? 8 { bp ~' <7 ? -^onnnnp^i rtjf 4 " e ' V ; - " .?c> <*"><* Blue Laws are stitution have a strong orientation toward a philosophy that upholds such ideals as freedom, equality, justice and truth. But these ideals were themselves based upon Christianity, in general, and the Bible, in particular. Our political system, as aennea in tne constitution, springs from a biblical, Christian mentality. To set aside a day in honor of the God who provided our fathers with such ideals is a practical statement of reverence for our God and those ideals. To do away with such a day would be a public affirmation that we no longer have faith in our reverence for our God. nnl1 Ain flioivm ceii ban uiaann & d year student in (JSC's fhich began this month of the militarization of REGAN INSIS1 'holesale abandonment Soviet world domii notion that the citizens too much credit ivereignty over the ter- economy or a Th ies. Polish labor union [ think that this deploy- Germany, a Japan the majority of Euro- I would not like in human history. Reaean would. I' hnological marvel, for America and have vful menaing. They fly any political stripe " of hills and valleys and s'an domination is lundred yards of their validity as the old lerent danger lies. An to justify Vietnam a first-strike missile. It Furthermore, ju t exchange to fly below America.s wamin, judges actions rath )ld, is designed to scare But all of that as ating aimed at dismantl- arms race? The nu e; but if past actions are that we should not npt them to build and to get us out. rous and more powerful THE REAL hop . , , ment ? one that ? lat throughout their reaches as much in massed wpannnc ha\/p 1a ,1 _ ,?u uues inio our ci sion to use them, since Western Europe, c o increase in exact pro- compassing young ings such unbearal movement in Europe is leadership o :hes of "All's Quiet on disarmament, on t s ultimate human ques- Some will say t politicians to make war? move the Soviet lling millions of uncon- military force woi :d men, women and they look at Gha Military force do Joxes the Europeans see courage and willpc ly nationwide for a liver If it did, we wc allowing our military to would have lost V jgardless of how we ra- believe, if the spir he Soviet Union. across the Iron Cu I 1 I lISTAPli/N ^ /vyAJTfT^flHH^ I HHHl "a m ^ p^.. *&{ W '' // #, ft ^ - . ^ " U. l/^c" w ! progressive I hold then that Weller was mistaken; it would not be a progressive step io do away with the Blue Laws. It would be a regression, a public retreat, if you will, from those eminently progressive ideals upon which our nation is based. In short, I agree that the laws are idiosyncratic and ought to be reviewed with an attitude of common sense. But they should not be repealed altogether. All good things come from God, and as a Christian nation, part of our iconography ought to be a weekly holiday in his honor. Steve Slimp English junior nuclear world lest editorial rs that the only alternative is capitulation to lation. Aren't we giving the Russians a little here? They can't dominate their own ird World country like Afghanistan r?r a . What chance do they stand aganist a West , a Brazil or a United States? : to live under communism any more than ve lived under rightest regimes in Latin had enough of wretched dictatorships of But for me the theory of inevitable Rusi if we don't race to rearm holds as much "domino" theory of Southeast Asia, used ist as good an argument can be made for I world domination as the Soviets, if one ler than rhetoric. ide. What can we do to stop this quickening clear freeze may be a first step, but it seems trust the leaders who got us into this mess >e I believe lies in a worldwide peace movecrosses political and national boundaries, to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union as ountry and, like the current movement in llfs flt'rosc PnnCAri/!l?ii;o anH liUnrol "" - vuw waauvi TUiirv UI1U UUV/1 C*1 IIIIV/?">, til" and old, labor and professionals, and brble political, economic and social pressure f our countries that their only alternative is >oth and all sides. his is a pipe dream and that nothing can masses ? and besides if something did, lid crush them. To them I would suggest ndi and Christ and Martin Luther King. >es not win in struggles against human >wer. mid have won in Vietnam and the British ^orld War II. There is great hope then, I it of the European movement spreads east irtain and west across the Atlantic.